It's been my experience that he's of the opinion that fans are somehow merciless in their allegedly unwarranted criticism of VOY in situations where they presumably hypocritically condone the same issues in other series.
Well, they are. If TNG Had introduced the 8472 aliens no one would care that there was at least one alien species out there that could fight the Borg.
If DS9 had made the Vidiians into Gamma Quadrant folks ravaged by some GQ virus that made them the way they are, no one would mind them either.
But do this stuff in VOY? Nothing but complaints.
You know, its funny you say this, because the more I rewatch Star Trek series (and mind you, I've seen *ALL* Star Trek series, save TOS and TAS in premier) the series I give the most grief to still remains DS9.
No matter what else you say about DS9, it will ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS have the Babylon 5 comparisons looming over its head, but you get past that and you have a series that messes up details after details after details after details.
Each time I watch re-watch Voyager, a series I thought was pretty bad while it was in premier, I am forced to admit to myself more and more it was some of the best Trek written. Every time I rewatch DS9, I am forced to admit more and more that too much of the series centered around knee-jerk reactions to one up Babylon 5 and the coherence of the series gets called into question practically every other episode.
TNG had some glitches too, but I give that series, fairly, a lot more slack because it needed room to grow and get its footing.
What's DS9's excuse? They objectively gleamed JMS's idea (which, btw, was originally pitched as a Star Trek series) and then made inconsistent references throughout the entire series.
The worst we got from Voyager in this ilk was Tulvok's randomly changing rank of the course of the first few episodes. We didn't even know what O'Brien was till what (full on visually)? Season 5?
