I’m trying to get through Voyager again, and Trek writing really took a nose dive after Deep Space 9. Not that TNG or DS9 were perfect or anything, far from it, but Voyager just doesn’t seem to earn any of its emotional moments like those that made TNG and DS9 great.
It feels like they shot all of season 1 at the same time, and then just shuffled the episode order or something. After the premiere, everyone is slotted neatly in their places. There’s a little bit about Torres having to earn her keep as head engineer, but that’s it. Everyone just automatically accepted Chakotay as first officer. There’s talk of Maquis and Federation conflict in the crew, but we don’t see any.
They seem determined to focus on Neelix and Kess who are quite possibly the blandest pairing ever conceived in Trek. It’s just all so mediocre compared to the last couple of seasons of DS9 which were legitimately great. It’s taking me forever to get through season 1 because I’m just not motivated to watch it at all anymore.
I thought I liked it more than this, but I guess it has been a few years since the last time I watched it.
It has its up and downs. The show goes off the rocker sometimes and that’s somewhat interesting. Over the seasons, they chill out and become more of a straightforward Star Trek, for better or worse
Yeah, I remember the episode where they go faster than warp 10 (an impossibility by Trek’s own lore) and Janeway and Paris “evolve” into lizards that make babies. It’s terrible, but I’m actually kind of looking forward to it to alleviate the boredom.
I’m trying to get through Voyager again, and Trek writing really took a nose dive after Deep Space 9. Not that TNG or DS9 were perfect or anything, far from it, but Voyager just doesn’t seem to earn any of its emotional moments like those that made TNG and DS9 great.
It feels like they shot all of season 1 at the same time, and then just shuffled the episode order or something. After the premiere, everyone is slotted neatly in their places. There’s a little bit about Torres having to earn her keep as head engineer, but that’s it. Everyone just automatically accepted Chakotay as first officer. There’s talk of Maquis and Federation conflict in the crew, but we don’t see any.
They seem determined to focus on Neelix and Kess who are quite possibly the blandest pairing ever conceived in Trek. It’s just all so mediocre compared to the last couple of seasons of DS9 which were legitimately great. It’s taking me forever to get through season 1 because I’m just not motivated to watch it at all anymore.
I thought I liked it more than this, but I guess it has been a few years since the last time I watched it.
It has its up and downs. The show goes off the rocker sometimes and that’s somewhat interesting. Over the seasons, they chill out and become more of a straightforward Star Trek, for better or worse
Yeah, I remember the episode where they go faster than warp 10 (an impossibility by Trek’s own lore) and Janeway and Paris “evolve” into lizards that make babies. It’s terrible, but I’m actually kind of looking forward to it to alleviate the boredom.