Why does everyone hate Voyager?

posted on April 18th, 2010, 3:47 am

at first its just kind of ok but it gets better as it goes along. In my opinion the best episodes are when they go back in time.

posted on April 24th, 2010, 1:56 am

at first its just kind of ok but it gets better as it goes along. In my opinion the best episodes are when they go back in time.

I hope you're not in Starfleet...

posted on April 24th, 2010, 11:53 am

at first its just kind of ok but it gets better as it goes along. In my opinion the best episodes are when they go back in time.

you'll have to be more specific, they do that a lot.

posted on April 25th, 2010, 12:26 am

Well to be honest i pretty much like them all but my favorite is prolly past tense I and II. If you havent seen it watch it, trust me its one of the best episodes.

posted on April 25th, 2010, 1:15 pm

i've seen it too many times actually. it's even running in the background as it type this lol.

posted on April 29th, 2010, 8:20 am

All right, maybe DS9 and Voyager were designed to complement one another.
DS9 was the follow-up TNG quasi-political alpha-Quad sitrep etc.  show, and Voyager was for the exploration junkies to get their fix.  The serial/episodal nature of each even supports this, with DS9 having that "What gonna happen next?"  feeling, while Voyager was more classic trek "On today's show..."  I think each series was there to satisfy different aspects, and that if one of them wasn't there, the other would have suffered.

posted on April 29th, 2010, 8:24 am

Voyager wasn't exactly the worst Trek series made, but I doubt the show would have suffered without it. It was basicaly TNG with a smaller ship.

posted on April 29th, 2010, 8:34 am

Voyager wasn't exactly the worst Trek series made, but I doubt the show would have suffered without it. It was basicaly TNG with a smaller ship.

Exactly.  But, imagine Star Trek WITHOUT a ship.  Any ship.  They wouldn't be able to call it a trek at all.  DS9 would have been renamed=

Star Trek: DS9    Intergalactic Gas Station In The Star Trek Universe: DS9

posted on April 29th, 2010, 8:39 am

Well, they had the Runabouts... then the monsterous supership.

posted on April 30th, 2010, 1:31 am

I'll give up one thing to both series, probably another reason they both ran so long:  They were the only two franchises in existence to not 'rail' the name "Enterprise" to death.  (Voyage home doesn't count because they had the boat in it)

I just want to see another star trek film/show where the ship isn't called *****ING Enterprise!

On another note, niches:

DS9:  Handyman's dream
1st guy:  "My own Space station.  Falling apart?!"
2nd guy:  "You know what that means..."
Together:  "WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIX IT!"
Later...
1st guy:  "My own little spaceship?!  A Prototype?!"
2nd Guy:  "You know what that means..."
Together:  "WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIX IT!"
Even later...
1st guy:  "At War?!  Hundreds of damaged ships?!
2nd guy:  "You know what that means..."
Together:  "WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIX THEM!"

Voyager:  ...
Paramount exec:  "Soo... another ship... exploring... etc...  Is that it?"
Voyager concept artist:  "Ohh, I... uhh... Boobies!"
Paramount exec:  "Pardon Me?"
VCA:  "Yeah!  Boobies!  Space Boobies!"
Paramount exec:  "Here's Money!"

(ST:Enterprise tried the Voyager formula, but forgot to name the ship something other than Enterprise.)

posted on May 16th, 2010, 9:52 pm

There was a show on a few years ago hosted by William Shatner that talked about the success of Star Trek. According to it, before DS9 was being thought up there was some anti-technology sentiment hanging around in the popular culture so they made up the Borg (technology at its worst), and decided to make DS9 about being on a station with completely alien (broken) technology. Actually is kind of nice to see technology having a few bugs in Star Trek (besides the usual monster of the week messing with the computers.) I doubt even 24th century tech would be without problems that need fixing.

posted on May 16th, 2010, 9:57 pm

Not like the lack of bugs were really much of a problem; all we ever usually saw were well-established military designs that would have been well maintained.

DS9's problems were only because Cardie stations are crap.

posted on May 17th, 2010, 9:46 am

love those cardassians and their sense of humor . been watching Voyager, part way through season five and it's been less then a week since the first episode of season one.