Star Trek: Voyager complete

[kane_magus]

It took me about six months but I'm now finished with Voyager.

It got better than the above post may indicate, especially once they (mostly) left the Kazon and Vidiians (all of whom I hated so very, very much, with the exception of Danara Pel) behind after season 2 (although both kept managing to slink back in occasionally, thanks to time travel stories). It still had its ups and downs, with a lot more downs in the later seasons when compared to either TNG or DS9, in my opinion. At least through season 6 anyway. Season 7 was fairly consistently good, though, for the most part. Or, at the very least, I don't recall actively thinking "man, this episode sucks" during season 7 the way I did through the previous seasons, anyway.

The major gripe I had with Voyager was that pretty much all of the original alien species that they introduced as recurring antagonists all sucked, such as the Malon and the Hirogen, along with the aforementioned Kazon and Vidiians (though I liked the Malon and Hirogen a lot more than I did the Kazon or especially the Vidiians). Of the lot, the Hirogen were probably the best. Actually, no, I take that back. Species 8472 was probably the best, mainly because they didn't really appear all that many times in order to wear out their welcome (though the ep where they recreated Earth and Starfleet Command in hologram form was definitely pushing it).

With that said, even the instances of Next Gen aliens got kind of mangled in Voyager, particularly the Borg. Several of the Borg episodes of Voyager weren't really what I consider to be true Borg episodes, though. Usually it was Voyager coming upon former Borg or those who were otherwise disconected from the Collective. (That said, I think Icheb was a fine addition to the cast, and I wish that at least Mezoti had stuck around for longer as well.) Still, even when Voyager encountered the actual Borg, it still wasn't all it could have been, in my opinion. I blame that mostly on First Contact and its introduction of the concept of the Borg Queen, which I dearly hate. The Borg were so much cooler before that movie than after, and as evidence of this I simply present any given episode of Voyager that involved the Borg, because most of these eps tended to focus around the Queen, rather than the Borg as a whole.

Some claim that the Q suffered a similar fate as well, but I don't really agree with that. For what it's worth, I enjoyed all three of the episodes that involved Q, even the later two about his girlfriend/wife/whatever and his son.

The few appearances of the Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians (i.e. pretty much any episode involving Seska, after the "big reveal"), and Ferengi were okay for what they were, I guess, and fairly typical. The Romulans probably got the best treatment out of those.

I did enjoy all of the episodes that featured Reginald Barclay, especially the ones that featured Deanna Troi as well, though she never interacted with the Voyager crew in the same way that Barclay himself did, aside from the Doctor.

And, lastly, I found it somewhat amusing that Naomi Wildman appeared in over twice as many episodes as her mother did. Seriously, there were several episodes where Naomi showed up and Samantha wasn't seen or even mentioned at all.

Now, all that's left before I can say that I have watched all of Star Trek is Enterprise.

Comments

[rabbitucker.livejournal.com]

Ditto on all the Barclay episodes. They were some of my favorites.

I have to say, one of my favorite Q episodes in all of Star Trek was the one with the Q who was trying to commit suicide. Had a very existentialist feel to it. (Plus, I loved the scene with, "Oh, come off it, we've ALL been the scarecrow!")