Funny or weird observations about Voyager

[Discofan]

Meh. I’m talking about something like stumbling into a SGC in midst of an attack, with two of our heroes walking around, Carter doing her technobabble and Jack being Jack, with everyone frozen including staff blasts in midair.

They did that a second time in TNG actually. You know the episode where Wesley is a jerk... I mean more so than usual. and then he gets to a sweat lodge... At some point everyone is frozen... And the traveler tells him not to bother with these bozos... WE superior beings have bigger fish to fry... and Wesley no longer cares about anyone but himself... I mean more so than usual.

 

[Oddish]

Janeway did indeed die 17 times. In Coda, death finally went to collect her. She told him to go back to hell. Death's left her alone ever since.

 

[at Quark's]

Every time one of the crew says: 'some kind/type/sort of <x>'. Usually adds very little information - either it is a stream of technobabblion particles, or it isn't. There are so many instances of it that you've got to wonder whether it was some kind of internal gag.

This youtube video alone records 393 instances, and I'm not even sure it is exhaustive though it seems intended to be.

 

[Farscape One]

As TNG went on, it got more prominent. My wife and I even played a little game of 'spot the some sort of/kind of' dialogue. Season 7 really went crazy with this quote.

We just finished TNG, and doing the movies now. We'll do VOYAGER soon.

 

[at Quark's]

^Yep, someone did a similar video on TNG and counted 212 instances. Still a lot, but only slightly more than half of the VOY total.

 

[Oddish]

I find it interesting that the Doctor once made a passing remark after stimulating Seven's hair follicles, something about getting a vicarious response from it. What I wonder is... if he was so sensitive about being bald, why didn't he just alter his appearance (or have it done). "Before and After" proves that this is possible, and probably very easy: "Computer, alter EMH's [or Dr. Van Gogh's] parameters as follows: give him a full head of hair." It probably took about 20 seconds.

 

[Finn]

Part of his programming, I guess

 

[Oddish]

Until "Night", Voyager was very stingy with her torpedoes. She only went through 28 of the theoretical supply of 38 in four seasons, before changing everything up. I think she fired 57 photons in the last three seasons.

Funny thing is, "Night" was full of bits with Voyager making preparations for a long sail through the void, and intense boredom during the two months in the dark. It would have been a perfect opportunity for them to show that they had used the time to build new torpedoes, using Seven's Borg technology to bypass their previous technical issues.

That and Chakotay could have finally managed his personnel reviews and kicked up morale by doling out a few extra rank pips, especially to Voyager's long-suffering ensigns (Harry was the most visible, but there were others). Janeway was stingy with promotions, but Janeway was also out of play for two months.

 

[Tracy Trek]

Funny thing is, "Night" was full of bits with Voyager making preparations for a long sail through the void, and intense boredom during the two months in the dark. It would have been a perfect opportunity for them to show that they had used the time to build new torpedoes, using Seven's Borg technology to bypass their previous technical issues.

^This.
All these things that Voyager critics nitpick about could be explained as you have above.

 

[Farscape One]

That episode in particular had scenes that could have added just a few lines of dialogue that do exactly as stated above. Hell, a First Officer's log entry while we see the ship pass through the void would have done the same thing, and taken away absolutely none of the time allotted for the episode.

 

[Oddish]

They just didn't care. Consider...
- The infinite supply of shuttlecraft.
- The bottomless torpedo magazine.
- A model officer not ranking up realistically.

All three could have been resolved in a matter of a 50-second staff meeting scene (I posted the script for it elsewhere), or half of that as "preparation" vignettes in "Night". They just didn't do it, and the only logical explanation is that they thought we were too devoid of gray matter to notice.