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I absolutely adored the Doctor in this, he was one of the lynchpins in keeping me watching it season after season. Despite not being able to really accurately tell you why I really liked Janeway as well, she wasn't painted in the same light as Kirk/Picard as a central figure and didn't have the messiah status of Sisko but despite how safe Voyager's passage often was she always came across like she would bust the balls of anyone who got in her way if needed, it's kind of hard to imagine Picard in the same situation.
Agree about the event episodes, they were always enjoyable and it was a bit sad that it never felt like the Borg arc in later years paid off. The third season of Enterprise was the closest we ever got to how Voyager should have panned out.
Side note, but Voyager has my favourite intro credits sequence.
And as for Ensign Kim, it was always true and summed the character up that they killed him off and replaced him with a copy and no-one in the crew cared.
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Janeway bugged me due to the core writing inconsistency around her approach to the prime directive. When very little was at stake, Janeway could easily be talked into breaking the prime directive. Whenever there was an episode where breaking the prime directive might give them a chance to go home, she would get all stubborn about not breaking it. Used to bug the hell out of me.
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Originally posted by Neon Ignition View PostI absolutely adored the Doctor in this, he was one of the lynchpins in keeping me watching it season after season. Despite not being able to really accurately tell you why I really liked Janeway as well, she wasn't painted in the same light as Kirk/Picard as a central figure and didn't have the messiah status of Sisko but despite how safe Voyager's passage often was she always came across like she would bust the balls of anyone who got in her way if needed, it's kind of hard to imagine Picard in the same situation.
Agree about the event episodes, they were always enjoyable and it was a bit sad that it never felt like the Borg arc in later years paid off. The third season of Enterprise was the closest we ever got to how Voyager should have panned out.
Side note, but Voyager has my favourite intro credits sequence.
And as for Ensign Kim, it was always true and summed the character up that they killed him off and replaced him with a copy and no-one in the crew cared.
I remember the Demon episode, and the Course Oblivion one. They felt quite bleak. There wasn’t enough of that. The concept of a crew coming from disparate and conflicting backgrounds, and finding common respect working as a team, is very Star Trek. It’s what the show is built on. I don’t have a problem with it. I do have a problem with that fact they became a cosy little crew far too quickly. Especially early days, the only flies in the ointment were Seska and the odd rebel like Michael Jonas.
Suder was a good creation. Brad Dourif is a solid actor.
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Finding common respect and working as a team is absolutely Star Trek. Doing it in Starfleet uniforms with Starfleet hierarchy and working under Starfleet laws when you have spent the last few years fighting Starfleet and now are all the way across the galaxy where Starfleet has no relevance whatsoever just didn’t ring true to me at any point. It would be like me getting stuck on a boat with a Nazi so I put on a Nazi uniform and start goosestepping all around the boat. It’s a big boat.
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Does that count as Godwin’s Law? It just might do, you know.
I get what you’re saying, but being 70,000 light years away from home isn’t really the same as being on a boat a few thousand miles from home. Also, Starfleet aren’t really seen as the equivalent of Nazis as far as I can remember.
It was a choice: adapt or piss off, and take your chances on your own. Sadly, there wasn’t enough exploration of this dilemma for the Marquis.
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Originally posted by prinnysquad View PostI can’t even remember that. Which episode was that?
I remember the Demon episode, and the Course Oblivion one. They felt quite bleak. There wasn’t enough of that. The concept of a crew coming from disparate and conflicting backgrounds, and finding common respect working as a team, is very Star Trek. It’s what the show is built on. I don’t have a problem with it. I do have a problem with that fact they became a cosy little crew far too quickly. Especially early days, the only flies in the ointment were Seska and the odd rebel like Michael Jonas.
Suder was a good creation. Brad Dourif is a solid actor.
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