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Community => Comics and Other Media => Topic started by: Tenzhi on August 25, 2014, 06:06:12 PM
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A few weeks ago I was put in the mood for a Star Trek series, and TNG, DS9, and the original (including the animated series) were all too prevalent in my mind to sate my appetite. This left me the choice between Voyager and Enterprise. I started and failed to keep watching both series when they came out. I chose to give Voyager another shot simply because of the familiar uniforms.
As I enter season 7 and approach the end, I have to say that the series wasn't quite as awful as it seemed coming fresh from DS9 and TNG. But it's been pretty bad. And it's not just that I feel like I should have kept track of how many episodes were completely pointless because by the end of them they hadn't really happened. Or that there seemed to be an inordinate amount of 'filler' episodes. No, the entire series is bad because of several episodes in season six involving those Borg children. Those are the worst characters I've ever seen in a Star Trek series or movie. They taint the whole series.
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Voyager went off the rails pretty early in its run, and never got back on track. The original over-arching premise of the series was going to be more similar to both DS9 and Babylon 5, in that the environment itself was a character the same way that DS9 and the B5 station and world it orbited contributed directly to the storyline. The USS Voyager was supposed to accumulate damage and become an increasing hodgepodge of federation and alien technologies; thus alternately helping and hindering the equally hodge-podge crew.
This idea was mostly jettisoned by the end of season one and would only rarely be revisited with the various "borrowed alien engine of the week" episodes ad those two times someone stole parts of the ship. Which left numerous plot holes for the writing crew to try to gloss over such as 'where do they keep getting shuttles and warp cores and computer parts from to keep this state of the art federation ship looking pristine?" And yeah, by the time you get to season six and seven with the borg orphans and the holodeck romance novel, the writers had pretty much given their last fuck long ago.
For my money, season 4 of Enterprise offers a far better watching experience. They finally got off of that assinine "temporal cold war" story and started doing what the show was supposed to be about; following the progress of humans form "Earth" to "United Federation of Planets." They also brought in much better writers and directors who had previously worked on ds9 and tng, which certainly helped. Sadly, the damage to the viewership had already been done and no one was tuning in after being subjected to three seasons of vulcan soap operas and "why the hell are there borg and ferengi in the 22 century?!" episodes.
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"Tuvix", the best ST: Voyager episode, better than many of the STNG or even STO episodes.
There was plenty to like about the series but it was muddled up with incongruities for the sake of keeping the veiwer off balance.
Not really a good plan when you are trying to get the audience to care about the characters.
I enjoyed Enterprise far more as it was not weighted down with the typical Star Trek malaise. Which is why it failed, it lacked the Trekiness everyone was expecting. The audience was not prepped for the premise of a proto-Federation getting its start. Unfortunate really.
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"Tuvix", the best ST: Voyager episode, better than many of the STNG or even STO episodes.
There was plenty to like about the series but it was muddled up with incongruities for the sake of keeping the veiwer off balance.
Not really a good plan when you are trying to get the audience to care about the characters.
I enjoyed Enterprise far more as it was not weighted down with the typical Star Trek malaise. Which is why it failed, it lacked the Trekiness everyone was expecting. The audience was not prepped for the premise of a proto-Federation getting its start. Unfortunate really.
Yes. Always made me laugh when people would whine about Archer and crew breaking the Prime Directive. What Prime Directive? The various mistakes made by Archer's crew is where the Prime Directive came from. And let's be honest, the other captains ignored the damn thing themselves when it suited them.
Even though I grew up with TNG, DS9, and VOY, ENT was always my favorite. Yeah, Seasons 1 and 2 are pretty rough. So were Seasons 1 and 2 of every other series too.
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Very odd that this thread would pop up right as I was going back and watching them also. It was the only one of the TV series (not counting the cartoons that I've mentally blocked out) that I was so indifferent about that I've not watched them all.
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Yes. Always made me laugh when people would whine about Archer and crew breaking the Prime Directive. What Prime Directive? The various mistakes made by Archer's crew is where the Prime Directive came from. And let's be honest, the other captains ignored the damn thing themselves when it suited them.
Even though I grew up with TNG, DS9, and VOY, ENT was always my favorite. Yeah, Seasons 1 and 2 are pretty rough. So were Seasons 1 and 2 of every other series too.
I think one of the best things to come out of Voyager was a decent explination of why Kirk was so cavalier about the Prime directive, and why he was allowed to get away with so often. They were out there on their own, communicationwith Star fleet HQ was difficult and took time. Also the Federation was new, not that many ships, and they were at war with two empires. They often shot first and went for their guns more often, because if you didn't shoot first, you very often didn't get a chance to shoot at all.
Which was an attitude I was always disappointed they didn't adopt. A few quantum torpedoes and a bit of bluster would make people like the Kazon think twice before messing with them. The first few encounters, sure be nice. After they prove themselves untrustworthy. The nice "We're explorers... really" goes out the window
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I had hope that they would do a Klingon Empire spin-off.
But frankly, the writers were making klingons a bit sillier with each passing episode they appeared in. I think it was a bet to see how far they could go. And that's why a stand-alone would not have worked. Too much retconing to do. :'(
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My only issues with Voyager were
Jar Jar errrr... Neelix, that Harry Kim never got a promotion and how ridiculous it was that Seven was thrust upon every situation because fanboys thought she was hot.
Of course, it helps that the Borg are my favorite race, and I actually like Janeway as captain. But you folks are right, the show could have been a lot better if those useless filler episodes didn't happen.
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I liked Neelix. But, then, I also liked the oft-reviled Wesley Crusher (up til he became an angry soon-to-be demigod).
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The characters on the show represented popular personas of a bygone era, especially the 50's and 60's:
Janeway=Katherine Hepburn
Chakotay=Jay Silverheels
B'Elanna=Mary Tyler Moore
Tom=James Dean
Doctor=Mr. Wizard/Dr. Kildare
Kim=ANY asian sidekick of any era
Neelix and Tuvok=Laurel and Hardy/Abbott and Costello
Seven of Nine=Gloria Steinem
Kes=Any child star of the era
This gave the characters a framework to develop within.
Fun, if you knew what they were doing.
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I have to agree. I HATED watching Voyager when it started an stopped watching half way thru the first season. I would watch the odd time travel episode over the years as I like those. Plus I have some episodes in those collections - Borg, Q, etc.
Recently I decided to watch them all since I realized I had like 7 years of a Star Trek show I never really watched much.
It was not as awful I as I thought it would be. Yes a lot of times in was preachy and annoying and Janeway's obsession with 7 of 9 was a bit much, but on the whole it was entertaining.
Still the worst of the shows IMO but not horrible.
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I had hope that they would do a Klingon Empire spin-off.
But frankly, the writers were making klingons a bit sillier with each passing episode they appeared in. I think it was a bet to see how far they could go. And that's why a stand-alone would not have worked. Too much retconing to do. :'(
My fear about a Klingon show is based on the way they treated other races. They introduced a race, and changed them over time. By the time DS9 ends, the Ferengi are on their way to becoming Feddies in Ferengi costumes. The Cardassians, who started as formidable opponents, are softened by the introduction of a fifth-column movement. The Borg, another fearsome opponent, are contaminated and changed by the Hugh incident. The DS9 crew actually worked on a mission with a Jem'Hadar team to stop a renegade Jem'Hadar team. A lot of those changes are due to their desire to address social issues (or, as I think of it, "beat the viewer over the head with their viewpoint on social issues"): the Jem'Hadar, Borg and Cardassians because they want to show that "enemies" become less feared when you know them, and the Ferengi because they insist that capitalism is evil and based on greed.
I'm convinced that, if they made a Klingon show, their warrior society and mentality would be softened over time, because war is bad. By the end of the series' run, the Klingon heart as we know it would no longer exist, and they'd no longer be the Klingons that people loved enough to want a series about them. While I, too, would be interested in a Klingon series, I'm afraid of its being ruined by having social activists behind it.
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With Voyager, I had the distinct impression that they saw anything shorter than a seven-season run as an admission of failure to create a good series. They were so determined to get it across that finish line that lots of episodes feel like they "got out and pushed", so to speak, when the show ran out of gas.
And I very much wish that they hadn't replaced Kes with the sexpot Seven of Nine - an obvious ploy to boost ratings by hormonal manipulation. I actually found Kes much more attractive.
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I found Seven to be the better character than Kes. Kes turned out to be just... well, there. Neelix's bestie, and that's about it. Until she returned, that is. THAT was awesome. Fun, the insane bitch come to slaughter you all. Sweet.
Anyway, Seven's de-borgification back to, while not Anna, but more human than Borg, and still work with the ship's crew, that was more fascinating, character-wise.
The biggest 'wut?' about her was the 'romance' between Chakotay and Seven. That was... seriously bad, and obviously forced. Badly done by the writers. The Doc and Seven made more sense to me.
Best character was The Doctor, obviously. But Seven was a good second. And Tom Paris was just fun to watch sometimes.
Well, heck, while I'm at it...
Chakotay - Wasted opportunities, all the time.
Harry Kim - Dude was green, but still got things done... but no promotions!? WTF, Janeway?!
B'Elanna Torres - Good stable character. Yeah, I know, mixed human-Klingon, so fiesty... but Scott-ette did the job.
Neelix - Comedic relief, for the most part... destresser character, mainly, but I liked it when they got serious with his story.
Which brings me to...
Tuvok - Vulcan security officer? Huh? That.. makes sense? K... And what seemed to be the thing was this:
Janeway: "We need to escape/figure out/do something/whatever... suggestions?"
Nobody speaks... then...
Tuvok: "We could demodulate/reinitialize/beam down/try to reason/whatever, as that's the logical course of action, Captain."
NOW someone speaks up...
Other officer: "Or, we could (whatever would be sort of the opposite of what Tuvok says)!"
Janeway: "Oh, that's perfect. We'll do that, what Tuvok didn't say."
Every. Dang. Time.
For a woman and captain who holds Tuvok so close as a friend and co-worker... she doesn't respect him nearly enough.
Of course, the thing Tuvok says would have destroyed the ship, seems, as the episode unfurled, so I guess she knew he's an idiot Vulcan, and humors him because it's cute or something?
I'll never get that.
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I hated Dark Phoenix Kes. And I initially hated Seven for replacing Kes, then I was okay with it, and THEN there were Borg children and the awful Chakotay romance.
But, yeah, throughout it all the Doctor was the best character.
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I liked the Doctor so much because his character developed more dramatically from the first episode to the end.
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Doctor was the Data stand-in for sentient AI.
Neelix and Kes were the outsiders.
B'Ellana and Chakotay were the rebels.
Tuvok was the token Vulcan.
Tom Paris was the dashing rogue. If this was a WWII series he would have been the black market scrounger. Neelix got that job initially but he was better suited as an ambassador for that region.
Harry was the newbie caught between Tom and Janeway for how things should get done.
And Janeway, she was just a stick in the mud. I'm still angry that she didn't declare herself as Titania in the Fair Haven/Spirit Folk episodes. Not like she hadn't played that character before. ;)
You knew Kes was a goner, they made a point that her race was short lived.
7 of 9 was interesting and yes her sprayed on body suit was a draw. She was the emotional "Vulcan". Pragmatic but as her humanity returned she occasionally let her emotions get the better of her.
As for the Janeway/Tuvok interactions. Well it was established that they worked together before. If she always took his opinion and not let others suggest courses of action it could be seen as favoritism and out in the middle of unknown space you need your crew to respect you. Plus Tuvok's suggestions were rarely outside the box.
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After watching the new Cosmos, there really needs to be another Star Trek series. I kept wanting a federation ship to do a fly-by behind Neil Degrasse Tyson.
And before anyone deigns to remind me, yes I'm well aware that Messrs. Seth Green and Brannon Braga were involved in producing the show. Both of whom were very involved in Star Trek in one form or another.
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Just to be a nit-picker...
Seth Green has nothing to do with either Cosmos or Star Trek.
Seth MacFarlane has all of one small bit role to do with Star Trek: Enterprise (http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Seth_MacFarlane (http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Seth_MacFarlane)) in two episodes, although he's said to want to reboot the franchise on TV. (The movies are taking care that doesn't happen just yet, I'd wager.) He is a big fan, of course, of Trek, as well as Star Wars, and is a Sci-Fi fan in general.
He was involved with Cosmos as an executive producer, along with Ann Druyan (Carl Sagan's widow), AND he's a huge science geek, having donated the money to allow the Library of Congress to acquire the papers of Carl Sagan from Ann Druyan, as well as open a wing, named after Seth, Carl and Ann, to hold the display of the collection: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2013/11/12/science-geek-seth-macfarlane-donates-to-carl-sagans-notes-collection/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2013/11/12/science-geek-seth-macfarlane-donates-to-carl-sagans-notes-collection/)
Brannon Braga, of course, is a long time producer of many things, which include, of course, Star Trek in it's various series form on the TV.
And Alan Silvestri, naturally, not only did Cosmos' soundtrack, but also did Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Judge Dredd, T.J. Hooker, Predator, The Avengers, CHiPs, and of course Contact, which more than explains why he was tapped for Cosmos, and why it sounds very similar.
Aand I'm spent for now. :)
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Yes you are absolutely correct and McFarlane is what I meant to say. I was running off little sleep and food when I wrote my post. Still stands that I want a new Trek series on TV and with all the production value that goes into Cosmos. Alas, I'm aware this is just a pipe dream. The Star Trek on the big screen is all the Trek we'll be getting apart from fan-made movies.
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Trek, as a movie franchise, is... disappointing.
There can't be movies that use stories like TNG's Inner Light, Conundrum, Darmok, or Measure of a Man. There can't be movies like TOS's Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, or Plato's Stepchildren, or The Trouble with Tribbles, or even City on the Edge of Forever (my personal favorite TOS, even though they bastardised the original story, it's a hell of a story. Both are.) Among many others in all the series.
I could go on, but you get the point, I'd think. There's no *TREK* in Movie Trek. There can be inklings, true, but the real trek stories, such as The Motion Picture (V'Ger), Final Frontier (What does God need with a Starship?) and even Insurrection (Do we have the right to claim immortality by force?) They didn't do as well as the action packed ones. The Wrath of Khan was probably the best melding of the action and Trek, but the problem is, you can't keep doing that. You've turned it into Star Wars, which isn't what Trek's about.
If it doesn't have a bad ass villain like Khan, Borg Queen, or Nero, or isn't a topical commentary about the collapse of the Soviet Union or the hunting of whales, then the philosophical, thought provoking Trek that I'd rather see, *as well* as the shoot 'em ups, bad villain, and a mix thereto of course... that's where the movies fall short for me.
Trek needs to retire for a bit. Then come back as Star Trek:Excalibur or Star Trek:Discovery or such like that, IMO. Trek is not a movie thing. It's a series thing. You can't grow Trek otherwise.
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Yeah, a lot ofpeople have been calling for star trek on TV again, but paramount really couldn't care less. Sci Fi TV is wildly expensive to produce, and why risk doing that when they can just pump out one mediocre forumula movie every two or three years?
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Yeah, a lot ofpeople have been calling for star trek on TV again, but paramount really couldn't care less. Sci Fi TV is wildly expensive to produce, and why risk doing that when they can just pump out one mediocre forumula movie every two or three years?
Wasn't there a rumor about a new TV series based on the reboot movie?
Anyway what else could they really do? I thought out of all new the series - DS9 was the best overall it terms of story and character development.
Voyager was basically TNG in a different part of space. Plus the one thing that had made it different = having the 'bad guys' join the crew was made pointless when they all became Starfleet anyway -
Enterprise tried but in the end just wasn't popular enough, even though I liked it a lot - especially the last year.
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Wasn't there a rumor about a new TV series based on the reboot movie?
Anyway what else could they really do? I thought out of all new the series - DS9 was the best overall it terms of story and character development.
Voyager was basically TNG in a different part of space. Plus the one thing that had made it different = having the 'bad guys' join the crew was made pointless when they all became Starfleet anyway -
Enterprise tried but in the end just wasn't popular enough, even though I liked it a lot - especially the last year.
If only Enterprise had started out in the first season as it did in the last season it would have had a seven year run.
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Indeed. But having to retro-fit Enterprise in already established universe, and still come up with new stuff to do... difficult. I liked it overall, and S4 was definitely the best.
Just most people had given up at that point in watching it. Shame, really.
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Doesn't help that it was put on some obscure channel either. At least in my area, it was UPN2. If they'd have stuck it on Sci-Fi, I think that would've helped keep it alive a little longer. There's no doubt Season 5 would've been the start of the Earth-Romulan War, which IMO, would've given the Dominion War a run for its money if written well like the books are currently.
houtex, you forgot The Undiscovered Country. I'd say it too had a good mix of action and thought-provoking philosophy.
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Trek, as a movie franchise, is... disappointing.
There can't be movies that use stories like TNG's Inner Light, Conundrum, Darmok, or Measure of a Man. There can't be movies like TOS's Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, or Plato's Stepchildren, or The Trouble with Tribbles, or even City on the Edge of Forever (my personal favorite TOS, even though they bastardised the original story, it's a hell of a story. Both are.) Among many others in all the series.
I could go on, but you get the point, I'd think. There's no *TREK* in Movie Trek. There can be inklings, true, but the real trek stories, such as The Motion Picture (V'Ger), Final Frontier (What does God need with a Starship?) and even Insurrection (Do we have the right to claim immortality by force?) They didn't do as well as the action packed ones. The Wrath of Khan was probably the best melding of the action and Trek, but the problem is, you can't keep doing that. You've turned it into Star Wars, which isn't what Trek's about.
If it doesn't have a bad ass villain like Khan, Borg Queen, or Nero, or isn't a topical commentary about the collapse of the Soviet Union or the hunting of whales, then the philosophical, thought provoking Trek that I'd rather see, *as well* as the shoot 'em ups, bad villain, and a mix thereto of course... that's where the movies fall short for me.
Trek needs to retire for a bit. Then come back as Star Trek:Excalibur or Star Trek:Discovery or such like that, IMO. Trek is not a movie thing. It's a series thing. You can't grow Trek otherwise.
The reason there can't be star trek movies such as the episodes is because they are boring. Look at the first star trek movie it flopped not because it followed Roddenberry's original star trek series it flopped because it was boring.
People now a days don't want to watch peaceful movies they want to see someone get killed in them. Whether you agree or not the reboot movie made more money than the first movie and if I remember correctly the only original movies it did not topic was star trek 2, 4, and 6.
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Doesn't help that it was put on some obscure channel either. At least in my area, it was UPN2. If they'd have stuck it on Sci-Fi, I think that would've helped keep it alive a little longer. There's no doubt Season 5 would've been the start of the Earth-Romulan War, which IMO, would've given the Dominion War a run for its money if written well like the books are currently.
houtex, you forgot The Undiscovered Country. I'd say it too had a good mix of action and thought-provoking philosophy.
I didn't forget. It played on the same thing as the others. Action and topicalness.
I'm not saying it wouldn't have done well if the USSR hadn't collapsed... but...
It was a worthy sendoff for TOS, for sure. Then they had to have freakin' Generations screw it up. PAY THE LIGHT BILLS, Starfleet. Geez.
Although we did get that awesome Stellar Cartography room. That was freakin' sweet.
And they made up for it with First Contact, so there's that.
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I didn't forget. It played on the same thing as the others. Action and topicalness.
I'm not saying it wouldn't have done well if the USSR hadn't collapsed... but...
It was a worthy sendoff for TOS, for sure. Then they had to have freakin' Generations screw it up. PAY THE LIGHT BILLS, Starfleet. Geez.
Although we did get that awesome Stellar Cartography room. That was freakin' sweet.
And they made up for it with First Contact, so there's that.
The older I get, the more mixed feelings I have about First Contact... On the one hand, it had a good mix action and drama that we really haven't gotten since, with every other movie since veering wildly from one extreme to the other (Insurrection was 95 minutes of political statesmanship and joystick grabbing, Nemesis was a bog standard evil twin story with a giant gun and daddy issues, ST was a big chase movie, and ITD was... a love story to fan fiction or something) And the central plot point about the legendary founder of earth's space age being not what he was cracked up to be was great... buuuuuuut it really drove the stake into the borg as a truly "alien" menace who worked, acted, and thought nothing at all like we did. It dumbed them down by giving them a queen and human motives, a ball which Voyager then took and ran with until they'd been driven right into the ground.
eh, just yammering, don't mind me.
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Nope, you nailed that. That just about sums up what I thought of the Borg Queen/Voyager as well. I thought it humanized the Borg and lessened them, to have a sole Queen to rule them all.
It's no longer a *collective* if you've got a ruler. It's a dictatorship/monarchy. What part of 'collective' don't you writers get?!
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Nope, you nailed that. That just about sums up what I thought of the Borg Queen/Voyager as well. I thought it humanized the Borg and lessened them, to have a sole Queen to rule them all.
It's no longer a *collective* if you've got a ruler. It's a dictatorship/monarchy. What part of 'collective' don't you writers get?!
I felt Voyager made the Borg into a joke. I mean the Borg massacred the Federation at Wolf 359 and probably other places, yet one little stupid ship, in BORG SPACE no less, defeated them over and over.
I guess First Contact tried to make them menacing again.
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I guess I'm one of the reasons it stayed on the air for 7 years. I loved it. Voyager is my favorite ST series.
One reason being that the Doctor is my favorite character in that entire universe. I find his story to be fascinating and Robert Picardo was wonderful in the role. His evolution alone was enough to keep me around. "Latent Image" from Season 5 was especially powerful.
Another reason is that Janeway is my favorite Captain. She actually seemed more flawed than the others in that she struggled with her passions a lot. I liked that she was impulsive at times and it cracked me up that she drove the time travel cops crazy. (one of them literally crazy) Also, Kate Mulgrew owned it. I put her acting right up there with Patrick Stewart easily. I remember being enthralled by her acting in an early episode when she had to confront Tuvok about an act of insubordination. I could feel her anger and heartbreak at what she considered to be a betrayal. Very powerful scene in her stateroom.
Next would be the premise. Different than the others. ST and ST:NG were pretty much the same. DS9....meh...never got into that static setting enough to give it much of a chance. ...Voyager...that interested me! Trapped 75 years from Earth with no help? Now that's different!
Also really loved Tuvok. Again the acting of Tim Russ was the main reason. I'm not sure I've ever seen an actor look to be constantly struggling to keep his emotions in check like he did. I knew that Vulcans were suppressing a violent side with Spock...but I could really feel it with Tuvok.
Really liked the 7of9 character for the most part. Disliked her costume, but the character really interested me.
B'Elanna Torres was another favorite. Liked everything about that character plus loved the acting of Roxann Dawson. She got a chance to illustrate exactly what the inner turmoil was about in the first season episode where her human and Klingon sides were separated. Dawson played two dramatically different characters to perfection in that episode.
Chakotay...eh....didn't love him or hate him. At times he interested me and at times I was bored with the "mystical spirit guide" stuff.
Harry Kim was ok too. I got to like him more as the series went on. I was deeply moved by his character in "Timeless" in Season 5.
Didn't like Neelix to be honest. I found him irritating at times. No idea why Kes would be interested in him. I would have put him off the ship if I were the Captain.
Kes really interested me too. I heard that Jennifer Lien had some personal problems which were behind her leaving the show. That's too bad....they didn't really get a chance to tell her story like they planned. A unique race.
Tom Paris....he bored me at first but another one that really grew on me as the show went along.
One of the episodes left me so greatly moved I was stunned. It was "Course: Oblivion" from Season 5. The original crew had been copied the previous season on "Demon" and the copied crew was left behind. Turns out they came to believe they were the original crew and were attempting to get back to earth. We join them without knowing they are the copies and watch as they slowly begin to die. The episode ends as they are desperately trying to leave some trace of their existence behind....even trying to send a message to the original Voyager. But the ship falls apart before they can contact Voyager. Voyager does pick up their last distress signal but only finds debris. Janeway makes a poignant entry which is basically the only record that other crew ever existed. "We received a distress call at 0900 hours...arrived at the vessel's last known coordinates at 2120. The ship was destroyed. Cause unknown. No survivors."
They wanted to be remembered so badly...and that's all they got. Hit me hard.
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Argh... That episode was one of many that just felt like a pointless waste. It had no impact or bearing on anything. They didn't even need to reset the timeline and make it so the events never actually happened to make the events meaningless. It was just a worthless segue like the mirror universe 2 parter for Enterprise. It was not the first time I finished an episode of Voyager and said "what the heck? Why?!" but it did elicit one of the more vehement outbursts.
The only thing that could've made it worse is if they'd said that many of the episodes since the demon planet had actually been following the fake crew.
Just finished Enterprise. The bad Trek wounds are freshly opened, and not even the awesomeness of Jeffrey Combs can completely salve them. The worst part is that after the temporal cold war and Xindi nonsense, the series was looking up. Then it had that mirror universe story - that might not have been bad if it tied in with the regular Enterprise universe, and didn't have a horrible CGI lizard - and that awful TNG holodeck finale. Recalling the worst of Voyager is just salt in the wound.
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Nope, you nailed that. That just about sums up what I thought of the Borg Queen/Voyager as well. I thought it humanized the Borg and lessened them, to have a sole Queen to rule them all.
It's no longer a *collective* if you've got a ruler. It's a dictatorship/monarchy. What part of 'collective' don't you writers get?!
I always assumed that the Borg were much like a colony of ants, with different drones for different kinds of work. The queen was there to keep things going. In that context, I never felt it was out of place - with maybe the exception that the queen was presumably human and ...somewhat oversexed.
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Argh... That episode was one of many that just felt like a pointless waste. It had no impact or bearing on anything.
Exactly why it felt so powerful to me. They wanted so badly to be remembered and for a record of their exploits to exist. In the end, they were a brief log entry that no one would ever look at most likely. Appeals to my nihilistic nature I think.