This is the Voyager subforum, most people who post here are Voyager fans, most but not all. I for one, am one of them.
Other fans? Do you mean fans of other Trek shows......it's my favourite (but I accept that it has major major flaws) Season two is even better (probably the best season in fact)
True. Hey, when does a person stop being a newbie? To the OP: seasons 4 and 5 will blow your mind! I'm talking full-on brain matter everywhere! Invest in a mop and bucket Oh and buy seasons 3 and 4 together because you will NOT want to wait!
I love season 1. "Caretaker" is the best pilot episode I've ever watched and most of the episodes are great and entertaining. The 5 best episodes are: 1. Caretaker 2. Projections 3. Time And Again 4. Jetrel 5. Ex Post Facto Note that I regard "Projections", "Twisted", "Elogium" and "The 37's" as season 1 episodes due to stardates and the fact that they were produced during season 1 (but in the US aired in season 2). "Emanations" is rather boring and "Elogium" leads actually nowhere. They are the weak episodes in this fantastic season. But season 2 is even better! Season 3 is very good too but not as good as season 1 and 2. A few weak episodes there. I don't care about seasons 4-7.
I am pretty new to star trek and im new on the board but I already had TOS season one and two. and voyager. and all the movies im new I just never really started. watching them.
I liked the pilot. It was the only time the Delta Quadrant really seemed like this exotic, far-off place with Ocampa and the Kazon and all that. After that it very much became just like TNG. I understand space is space no matter where you go but they could have worked more to give the Delta Quadrant its own identity. There were hints of it in season 1/2 like the Viidians and those Robots B'elanna found that were supposed to be much more than they eventually became. But later on it was very ordinary.
One thing unfortunately that Voyager beats the hell out of TNG at is technobabble, they have the most indigestible lines of technobabble I have ever heard and as a trek fan I should be immunized. Sometimes you just want to tell them to shut the hell up.
I don't know of anyone that I'd be willing to meet in real life that watches ST to learn fake science. I mean, they are capable of letting us know that someone is naked without actually showing it (e.g. Tuvok in Waking Moments), why can't they do the same for science? They let us know that they have a solution to their problem du jour, whatever that is, and that's it. They don't need to fake-explain it to us.
^^ Unfortunately, that was typical for Braga and his crew. When they didn't have the skill, imagination or patience to come up with believable solutions for different problems, they "solved" the problem by coming up with technobabble solutions.
They should have taken their cues from someone like Asimov. He was extensive about the things that were actual science (as he knew a lot of it, btw) but quite succinct about the things purely science-fiction-esque. No technobabble in his stories.