[CaptainCrunch]

I posted it here a long time ago, but the things that bugged me in Voyager weren't around the characters (Though there were some terrible ones, they should have taken Neelix and Naomi and fired them out an airlock). They even had some really good story episodes and arcs, year in hell was a great piece of story telling. Voyager was such a lazy show


1) Near the end of every episode 7 or Janeway came up with this miracle solutions (Inverse Tachyon beams funneled through the main deflector). They managed to build these solutions in ten minutes, they never talked about testing them. Nobody ever said, hey man there's a reason why this miracle Whatchumacallit wasn't build into the ships specs, because it would burn out the power grid or kill half the crew through radiation. Nope instead they pulled a couple of chips and whammo, miracle weapon.


2) The bastardization of the Borg as a convenient plot device. The Borg as an original design were awesome, though the addition of a Queen that acted like a sexily clad self destruct button in Generations was a bad writing choice. A hive mind with the admirable goal of assimilating the galaxy through brutal means to perfect life and remove suffering and starvation was utterly cool. But Voyager not only removed this goal to make the Borg into a band of conquerors but added to the incompetence rules of the whole machine to the point of giving the queen an self destructive ego and very real personality flaws.


3) the crew never really suffered, they always had this brightly lit, warm starship with a pot in every chicken. Their biggest hardship was the rationing of Holodeck time. Because of this and they covered it well in one episode where another Starship was using lifeforms to power their propulsion and power systems. But Voyager never had that quandary. They always looked so comfortable. There was rarely if ever that hard choice of balancing your beliefs and laws against saving lives and getting home. Even at the start when the crew got together and half weren't starfleet, the struggle for power of decision was so soft and un interesting.


4) Going to the above point, Voyager should have been a battered hulk by the time it got home, with ugly welds of other tehnology and scorch marks and systems off line because even though Voyager was trading with other racings, and this drove me crazy, all of their technology, and food was always compatible. And the other thing that drove me crazy was the universal translator being able to translate every language. It should have worked well in their own quadrant, but it should have struggled when they were 70 light years from home or whatever it was.


With the exception of very few cases, they ignored the prime directive whenever it was convenient and there were no repercussions. Nobody important died,. they never ran into power troubles or food shortages, or had system failures or suffered to get home, instead this show was equivalent to the love boat as they explored a new segment in what was basically a luxury cruise ship with the bartender Neelix doling out advice like Ted Lange in the love boat.


At least in Enterprise which wasn't great had one great thing that I really liked. At the start and through the series they struggled with being overwhelmed by the technology of other hostile races. Oh and in a couple of episodes Archer made brutal choices to screw over other races to achieve his goals. (we're taking your hyperdrive, heres some food sorry about adding years to your journey home).


Voyager was the diet tab of Star Trek.