Endgame? The Best Finale? Thank you for the laugh!
Honestly, I liked a lot of the elements of Endgame, the Future Janeway/Borg Queen faceoff was very well executed, it was fun to se Voyager so easily own the Borg, although that wasn't necessary, and there were some genuinely sweet moments to the episode, one of my favorite trek moments ever is the Doctor calling the Bridge and Tom Paris hearing his baby for the first time.
That being said, there were some big hangups for me. C/7? No, No & No. The thing that made the sudden Worf/Troi thing work for AGT was that it wasn't just the establishment of this new relationship that was going on, it was how it effected other characters. In the future timeline, Troi's death and all of the feelings of regret and lost opportunities seem to have split up the TNG family. Something that Borg attacks, Klingon Civil Wars and Romulan Mind Control never could do. Making it that much more important a story. I liked that we were seeing a softer side of Seven, but she was the same exact character for 4 years then in the finale you change her? That's just poor storytelling if you ask me.
While the final image was of Voayger coming home, it was a bit of a letdown, like the episode was rushing to it's end. Rather than realy tieing up the lingering questions about what would happen to the crew next, the maquis, Seven's place in the universe, they just said, "Set a course for home" and really dealt a poor hand to the longtime fans who not only wanted to see Voyager get home, but to see them get their lives in the alpha quadrant back.
I agree that Future Janeway was not necessary, it could have been accomplished with actual Janeway and Chakotay being the voice of dissent. Those two were at their best when they were in disagreement and they should have brought out the best for the finale. Instead of doing that, they gave Chakotay Seven of Nine.
The whole "You've got to get the crew back now or too many of your crew will die" thing just stunk to me. They had lost plenty of crewmembers up to that point, the only thing that seemed different was that Seven was destined to die and that Tuvok was going to lose his mind. I'm sorry, Seven had her moments but she wasn't worth changing all of history for and Tuvok would be the first to demand of Janeway that she follow the Temporal Prime Directive. Knowing how the change in history could potentially cost more lives in the longun Tuvok would stop Janeway himself.
Like I said, the episode had it's moments, the moral of the above story is, forgetting all of the story issues that I have with it, there was a missing chapter that should have been in the episode out of respect for the fanbase. We didn't want to see them enter Earth orbit, we wanted to see them get all the way home.
Well, they were in and around borg space... makes sense that they would see them from time to time... Altho once they became a pain in the ass, why the queen didn't send an armada to destroy voyager is still beyond me
Oh gods NO, it wasn't!
