Voyager thankfully reaches is nadir in this season, with the straight-up stupid вЂњTuvixвЂќ (#24, in which Tuvok and Neelix are combined via transporter accident) and the profoundly bad вЂњThresholdвЂќ (#15, in which Paris exceeds warp 10 in shuttlecraft, passes through every point in the Universe, evolves into a giant insect and impregnates Janeway вЂ“ and itвЂ™s even more ridiculous than that tight summation makes it sound). However, stuff like вЂњAlliancesвЂќ (#14) pales in comparison to anything involving political machinations on Deep Space Nine. Season 2 вЂ“ In an attempt to up the stakes for the series, much of season 2 is devoted to trying to make the Kezon badasses. Any sort of conflict promised by combining Maquis and Enterprise crews is cleared up by episode #3, for example, and Tom ParisвЂ™s supposed controversial past is hardly an issue by the time the credits roll. Season 1 вЂ“ How can вЂњCaretakerвЂќ be considered by far the weakest of all Star Trek premieres? Because it suffers from all the blah plotlines and meh characters while introducing a handful of dead-end stories and irrelevant background. But I still really enjoy the show obviously and looking to Prodigy even more as more VOY characters hopefully show up on it.Star Trek: Voyager вЂ“ Bests and worsts of seven seasons With VOY it shouldвЂ™ve been a bit more serialized from the start. To be fair TOS and TNG did the same thing a lot of the time, but the format made it a bit easier to justify with those shows. But yes I think a big issue besides just lazy writers was the episodic nature. When VOY does develop a character, its OK, but it just really builds on it.

Its amazing how great it handled not only its main characters but all the side characters. Mostly the first two seasons though and not that many.Д«ut watching DS9 and VOY together for over a month now, itвЂ™s not even close which show has the better character development. Second on that list is TOS (mostly third season which I avoid the most of) and then DS9 which is more crazy since thatвЂ™s the one I rewatched from beginning to end but yeah I apparently skip a lot of those too lol. For someone who has been watching it since it aired and rewatch a lot of it, it was surprising how many I completely forgotten. I just really gotten to appreciate it a lot more for some reason, but as said I always liked it.Д«ut it also turns out to be the show where I forgot a lot of the episodes. It only jumped to number three in the last few years or so. But VOY used to be number four for a looooong time. It was treated too episodically and characters like Neelix suffered for it because the character did have more dramatic episodes and had a much deeper background they only explored rarely.ДS9, TNG and VOY have become my favorite three shows in that order. I canвЂ™t recall a single episode it was ever brought up in any way and it was never used to develop the character. I never remembered the character was actually a soldier who fought in a war for instance which gravely affected him because it ended up as a genocide among his people (Jetrel).Д«ut again the issue with Voyager is that something like that was brought up way back in season 1 and then just dropped again. Until I watched them this year I literally didnвЂ™t remember any of them and it was nice to give Neelix more layers than just the happy-go-lucky cook and morale officer. These are from the first four seasons (which I just finished). They actually gave him quite a few weighty episodes which makes me see Neelix in a different light now.

And because of that, I am watching episodes I literally could not remember because I just kept skipping over them and apparently that seems to include a lot of the Neelix episodes because I am now watching a lot of them I just donвЂ™t remember.ДЄnd one of the things IвЂ™m learning is that Neelix was not always just treated like a quirky comedic side character like Quark usually was.

One of the reasons I wanted to do a grand rewatch of the franchise was to see how different my views of the shows would be when I watched them all as a whole again and not just choose to watch my favorite episodes over and over.

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