Best Voyager Characters

[DAYoung]

They're somewhere between "simplistic, glib and condescending" and "baffling or inhospitable".

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Who, the Nazi's?

Some of them are quite hot.

 

[DAYoung]

That's not a Nazi. That's a 29th century Borg drone.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Wow, those new models are quite swish.

 

[DAYoung]

It takes a thousand nanoprobes just to hold his hair in place.

 

[Ness]

This is sad. Everyone seems to hate Chakotay. I like the guy. Maybe I'm lucky that I'm not hamstrung by the ability to differentiate between good and bad acting

I'm rewatching the series and just finished season 3. Honestly up to this point, Chakotay doesn't seem that bad at all.

 

[Ness]

I enjoy sci-fi so much because i am able to suspend disbelief while watching it... If I picked apart everything in the star trek universe that is unrealistic I'd be here for quite some time. Whats the point of watching if you just analyze what the writers were thinking the entire time?

Voyager can be entertaining, you just have to turn your brain off a lot of time.

 

[MacLeod]

I cant believe people don't like VOY! I love it. The premise is fracking brilliant. I think maybe that's what I enjoyed the most about the franchise. I remember I fell in love with TNG and someone told me about VOY. I remember thinking "OMFG that is the coolest premise for a show ever." and it never wore off. I watched the whole show on netflix (without skipping ahead!) and loved every minute of it.... I know the characters weren't quite as well developed as other franchises but i think the main plot makes up for it.

With all that said, I think 7of9 is awesome, Janeway is a badass, and the doctor is amusing.

Even many of Voyager's detracters agree that it had a great premise. But to myslef it that premise was poorly executed. That isn't to say it was all bad, the EMH was a good character. It had the odd great episode but it could have been so much more.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

This is sad. Everyone seems to hate Chakotay. I like the guy. Maybe I'm lucky that I'm not hamstrung by the ability to differentiate between good and bad acting

I'm rewatching the series and just finished season 3. Honestly up to this point, Chakotay doesn't seem that bad at all.

You two are not alone.

I think season 4 is one of Chakotay's best. I suspect the real life pregnancy of Roxann Dawson freed up even more storylines for him, despite the introduction of Seven that year.

Chakotay is one of my favs... but alas as the years went by his role diminished and the reasons for that would take up another thread.