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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Voyager should have been 7 years of hell. It should have been Battlestar Galactica, all depleted and with her back broken at the end of it. Stupid syndication made it boring sitcom show where everything reset to perfect condition each episode.
It doesn't have to be the forefront of every episode, but a gradual depletion of the crew and ship should have continued every season as the background arc to their desperate flight back home.
Instead, Voyager was not only in mint-condition every episode, but they usually outclassed every race they encountered technologically and had their way with them so the only threat they could bring back was to heavily overuse the Borg and Species 69 (or whatever it was) to bring in a sense of danger.
Even that was screwed up as those threats were so overpowered that in the in-universe canon of Star Trek, there is no way the Voyager would have survived even a mild encounter with the Borg so they end up buffing Voyager even more and giving them super powers and cheating the premise of the show by letting them use Borg tech to survive and get home. This would be like ants floating on a log learning how to operate an F-22 Raptor and fly around the world.
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Voyager was more hugs then survival. You never got a sense at all that the crew or ship was in danger except for the year in hell. Borg, Janeway does the hip thrust dance over their smoking corpses.
The closest they came was when they came across the other federation ship that had given up their noble ideas to survive and were basically burning aliens as fuel and their ship was kicked to pieces. I wanted that series.
Its the one thing with TNG and Voyage was that you knew that Janeway and Picard never had to be in that situation where they said F the ideals of the Federation, they've never been in this situation. Meanwhile Archer is torturing people and threatening to throw them out the airlock while stranding strangers when they take their warp drive. And Sisko is flat out murdering people or letting Garak do it.
Even in Voyager the worst it got was oh no we're rationing power you only get 20 minutes a day in the holosuite and ice cream costs to much power in the replicator so no ice cream.
Voyager was way to easy for a supposed dire situation.