How do Niners feel about Voyager?

Discussion in 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' started by TheGodBen, Oct 18, 2009.

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How do you feel about Voyager?

  1. I love Voyager, both it and DS9 are excellent

    13 vote(s)
    8.3%
  2. I like Voyager, but I prefer DS9

    56 vote(s)
    35.9%
  3. Voyager was okay, I have no strong feelings

    27 vote(s)
    17.3%
  4. I disliked Voyager, DS9 was the superior show

    43 vote(s)
    27.6%
  5. I loath Voyager, it ruined my life

    10 vote(s)
    6.4%
  6. I'm not a Niner but I want to vote in this poll

    7 vote(s)
    4.5%
  1. Bertie

    Bertie Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt

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    Back in the day, I watched Voyager with a semi-committed group: we pretty much had seen the great majority of Trek episodes/movies made to that point and had dabbled in some of the novels/manuals, but we weren't then going on Usenet and AOL and whatever discussing the show.

    Things we generally didn't like:
    Neelix
    Seska and the Kazon — it is all the rage to praise this on TrekBBS these days (Ooo look! Arcs! Piracy! Character conflict!), but we didn't care as much about "serial television theory"; the actual episodes were kind of mediocre.
    Flying in circles (ala Season 1-2)
    Holodeck episodes
    Harry Kim

    Things we did like:
    Species 8472
    Hirogen
    Borg — Yes, really. Might have been some eyerolling around the "Unimatrix Zero" timeframe but nothing drastic.
    Seven of Nine
    All the Pathfinder/Alpha Quadrant stuff

    Generally, my group was kind of mixed on Voyager for Seasons 1, 2, and part of 3, but liked it from that point on.
     
  2. TheGodBen

    TheGodBen Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    Excellent, I've got the cooler name! :D

    I'd make a dirty comment, but I'm too much of a gentleman. :shifty:

    Warned by the DS9 mod, the Voyager mods and one of them orange dudes. I'm all for free speech but this is a privately owned website and we have to abide by the rules of the owners, to blatantly ignore the rules is just rude. I mean, there's a certain piece of software that I find very useful when browsing the intertubes, but the rules here say that I'm not allowed to talk about it and thus I don't.

    :sigh: If only everyone else on this board was as respectful as I.


    :eek:

    While the length of that thread is impressive, TNZ is far too easy because you're allowed to insult and belittle your opponent if you wish, it takes real stamina to argue against a wall while keeping up the appearance of civility. ;)

    It's probably best if people don't tell me things like that, it causes me to get big-headed and the quality declines as a result of my inflated ego. I thought my efforts in the Enterprise thread had been better recently because I tried to up my game due to all the people criticising my style, but now you gave me that nice compliment and as a result my latest review contains a cheap joke about fingering.

    Why did you have to say nice things about me? :sigh:



    Round 18!

    I don't know why you've been insulting me and dozens of other Niners for as long as I've known you, but you have.

    That statement is so egotistical that even I wouldn't say it. Numerous people in this thread have said what they remember what people were criticising Voyager for when it was on air, but you ignore them and keep on claiming that you remember better.

    Then why aren't I noticing it in Enterprise? I'm a Niner, right, so I must hate Enterprise too, right? So why am I not noticing anywhere near as much technobabble in Enterprise?

    I wish I had a catchphrase. :(

    When only two people even bring it up, it kind of does. For there to be an outcry there needs to be at least 100 or 200 people.

    Except numerous people are saying otherwise. If 99% of people say that there was widespread hatred of Neelix while Voyager was on the air, does you saying otherwise make them a minority?

    2006 or 2007. See, you're not stating opinions about a TV show, you're claiming facts about a group of people. If somebody says that they don't like DS9 I have no problem with that, there's plenty of television out there for people to enjoy, but if somebody claims it is a certifiable fact that Niners are a bunch of fuckards... that's something I have a problem with.

    Is "blowed up real good" a catchphrase or am I not allowed to claim that since it was around before me? :confused:

    Look at the number above. The majority of the Trek fandom does not hate Voyager.
     
  3. mattyhugh

    mattyhugh Commander Red Shirt

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    The Charge of the Light Brigade? :evil:
     
  4. Amaris

    Amaris Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Ah, yes. Well, the insults do start flying around, oh say, page 2, and that's if we're serious. :D


    J.
     
  5. Anwar

    Anwar Admiral Admiral

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    Then you haven't been paying attention.

    You and I both know that's not true ;).

    Because honestly I WAS there, I DID watch the show, and I can HONESTLY say that hardly anyone I watched the show with complained about any of the stuff you say they should have complained about. Most of your complaints are revisionist stuff that didn't start up until a few years ago anyways.

    Double standard.

    On the net, two are enough because it inspires the silent others who otherwise wouldn't have spoken up.

    Only a few, really.

    Not a minority, but I am saying that the Neelix hatred didn't ignite into what it is now until after the show was over for a bit and it became more okay to openly hate VOY in the general Trek fandom.

    Oh yes, it just hates all the characters and all the aliens and all the episodes. That's not hating a show at all!
     
  6. Anwar

    Anwar Admiral Admiral

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    Ugh, look we've gone nuts again and driven this totally off-topic. So let's just call it quits for this topic.
     
  7. CommanderRaytas

    CommanderRaytas DISCO QUEEEEEEN Rear Admiral

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    Like VOY, prefer DS9. That's about it.
     
  8. TheGodBen

    TheGodBen Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    I have been paying attention very closely and your reasoning is beyond absurd. One Niner is very harsh towards Voyager so you blame all of us based on his words, that is not acceptable. A tiny group of Muslims destroyed the twin towers in New York, but that doesn't justify anti-Muslim racism. And that's something which actually happened and which cased the deaths of thousands of people, it wasn't a nerd being critical of a television show on message board.

    Some of them possibly are, yes, but the Neelix one most definitely was not.

    No, on the net two people is still a fringe, like the handful of hardcore TOSers who used to visit the BSG forum while it was still on the air.

    You're an even smaller few. If fact, you're what we call a "one".

    Except they don't, most Niners either like Voyager or think it was okay.

    I won! Fuck yeah!

    [​IMG]
     
  9. RyuRoots

    RyuRoots Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    :guffaw::guffaw::guffaw:

    TheGodBen, this totally just made my day.
     
  10. apenpaap

    apenpaap Commodore Commodore

    So... Are you confirming you will run for American presidency in 2012?
     
  11. TheGodBen

    TheGodBen Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    At this time I am fully focused upon my current role as a small-time Star Trek reviewer, but who knows that the future will hold? America thirsts for change, and we in the Duck and Liberty Party will deliver it, even if I am not the party's candidate in three years time.
     
  12. PSGarak

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    ^^^ :guffaw:

    Awesome.
     
  13. Anwar

    Anwar Admiral Admiral

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    Because you are a Niner and can't take the criticism?

    Seeing how you're general attitude is, you'd have agreed with them anyways which makes it perfectly acceptable.

    Don't bring real people and real deaths into this, it makes you look desperate.

    Yeah it was, the folks I watched VOY with didn't hate him. It only got that way after the show was nearing the end and after it ended.

    Because I'm the one that had the guts to speak up. Ah well whenever anyone here speaks up against the majority this IS how they often get treated.

    Based on what, a poll hardly anyone took seriously to begin with?
    Alright, I WAS just going to leave this. But your Niner arrogance (which I pointed out earlier) pulled me back in.
     
  14. Cygnus

    Cygnus Ensign Newbie

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    Hmm, to be honest, personally, Voyager is my least favourite of all Trek. There are good moments, but it appeals least.
     
  15. Kegg

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    So those of us who either observed an animosity towards Neelix during the show's run (and/or entertained such a hatred) are incorrect?

    This isn't a case of whether or not those who hated them were the majority, it's a case of whether or not what I witnessed actually existed on the scale I witnessed it exist. My basis for saying Trekkies hated Neelix in the late 1990s/early 2000s is exactly the same for me to make the claim they hated Wesley, a more widely observed fandom hatred.

    More pertinently: I've never heard anyone ever say that in the circles they moved in this didn't exist. You're trying to say you've observed and are close enough to the entirety of Trek fandom that this quite literally, spectacularly silent majority exist and have always outnumbered those who hated Neelix, and you are for some reason their sole spokesperson, the only person in the majority of the fandom willing to take this stand - not the stand that you like Neelix (I've seen people say that and I don't abjectly hate him myself, I have a Talaxian avatar for a reason even if it is a tremendously self-deprecating one) - but the stand that the people who dislike him were in the minority when the show was on the air.

    What I'm saying is: You're asking me to swallow a whole lot, not least of which is you have a far more holistic knowledge of the Trek fanbase then anyone else posting here. I'm not claiming to be right or an expert, but hell, I just know what I know and I'd like a more convincing explanation if such a thing is available. How does what I observed - the widespread scorn Neelix had on this BBS and a couple of other Trek sites I lurked at - jive with what you observed, in such a way what you observed constituted a majority of Trekkies and what I did, didn't?

    This is what I'm talking about. TheGodBen can point to a poll as his evidence for this claim. You literally can just point to your word. You may even be right, but he's sure as hell got the better evidence, and that's how the cookie crumbles.
     
  16. Amaris

    Amaris Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Just drop it. The man was making a joke. Either that or take it to PM and quit cluttering up this thread with back and forth sniping. For every post there's something like 10 posts of bickering. It's silly. You know what pulled you back in? YOU pulled you back in. Walk away and leave it alone.

    J.
     
  17. Anwar

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    GhoulBen, because I tried walking away but he decided to be a jerk about it instead of doing the same.
     
  18. Amaris

    Amaris Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    He made a joke, which should be obvious to just about anyone, and no, YOU pulled you back in. He didn't force you to post, he didn't force you to read his posts, you can put him on ignore if he bothers you so much, but just knock this crap off. Take responsibility for your own actions and words, and walk away if it bothers you so much.

    Jesus Christ, you think people had guns to their heads, that this was just the most important drama in the world. Seriously, be an adult and walk away, and do it before a Mod comes in here and decides to make the choice for you. Put each other on ignore if you want, but knock it off.


    J.
     
  19. RyuRoots

    RyuRoots Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    Bah, don't bother. He's on a holy crusade to show the truth of the Niner-haters or some such nonsense. Do what I do and pull up a chair and grab some popcorn. I've learned the futility of trying to speak rationally on this topic.
     
  20. Anwar

    Anwar Admiral Admiral

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    I tried to walk away, he wouldn't let me.

    That's the cowards' way out, the way for someone who gave up on their argument and their beliefs.

    Tried, he wouldn't let me.