an interesting article about the battle to (un)serialize Voyager
Bryan Fuller Describes ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Serialized “Year Of Hell” Season Rejected By Rick Berman
https://trekmovie.com/2020/05/29/bry...y-rick-berman/
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The “Year of Hell” and the behind-the-scenes drama not only to craft episode, but that season, was fascinating because we wanted “Year of Hell” to last the entire season. We wanted to see Voyager get its ass kicked every episode and through that season was going to be marbled the story of Annorax and the time ship that was changing things. So, we would go back to it every once in a while to remind the audience that is the larger story. But [it was rejected] because Deep Space Nine made Rick Berman allergic to serialized storytelling, violently so.
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Berman deserves credit for guiding the TNG era, but the slow decline of the franchise through the late 90's/early 2000's I attribute to him getting too comfortable and lazy.