after how many years, i finally get to see the pilot episod

[Sephiroth]

ok, so i admit to only watching voyager solidly at about season 3 on it's inital run and sporadically on SPIKE, so i never saw the pilot and only bots of the first few seasons. For my birthday recently i got some X-BOX live points, so browsing TV eps i see voyager's first season made it on there, and, only having a few points left, i went for a two-fer and bought the Pilot 2-parter, and i must say WOW, that was a strange way to start things

 

[scotthm]

Sephiroth said:
i must say WOW, that was a strange way to start things

It ended strangely too.

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[kimc]

Re: after how many years, i finally get to see the pilot ep

scotthm said:

Sephiroth said:
i must say WOW, that was a strange way to start things

It ended strangely too.

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It started great but unfortunately ended quite badly.

 

[DarthTom]

Re: after how many years, i finally get to see the pilot ep

kimc said:

It started great but unfortunately ended quite badly.

In comparison to Enterprise and These are the Voyages the Voyager two parter ending was Golden Globe winning television.

 

[kimc]

Re: after how many years, i finally get to see the pilot ep

DarthTom said:

kimc said:

It started great but unfortunately ended quite badly.

In comparison to Enterprise and These are the Voyages the Voyager two parter ending was Golden Globe winning television.

I've heard bad things about Enterprise. Lucky for me I never got into the show. The Voyager ending didn't make me too enthusiastic to begin with but when I realized a few episodes in that the only character I was excited about was Porthos the dog I decided to give it up.

 

[Nebusj]

Sephiroth said:
... i went for a two-fer and bought the Pilot 2-parter, and i must say WOW, that was a strange way to start things

Well, sure; after all, the pilot gives a wholly distorted view of how the series would turn out. If you went by how the pilot set things up, you'd think Voyager would be a string of events where the starship encounters a weird spacetime anomaly, the crew gets stuffed into holodecks from which they can't escape, and then there's sudden harsh battles with hardheaded aliens, ending with a shiny happy ship under Janeway's firm yet coffee-rich command.

 

[UnknownSample]

I'm not sure that first episode was ever presented to network executives as a "pilot"... did they need to do that, anymore?

I just saw it again, and as long as you aren't expecting anything awe-inspiring (science-fiction without a sense of awe or wonder to it is problematic to me), it's a much more solid story than I'd thought. The silly bit is "Banjo Man" and all the folksy Americana.

I remember being very disappointed with the anti-climactic trip across the galaxy. There should have been considerably more of an effect than just a brief flash of light.