Little things that irk you

[jamestyler]

The shunning of most of Voyager's supporting cast once Seven joined

Thats one of the reasons I gave up on Voyager for a couple of years. It really made me hate the character and Seven still annoys me.

Endgame -- we never saw any scenes on Earth once Voyager arrived

I've always thought a series on Earth would have been a nice add on to Voyager. Ok, so the series logical conclusion was to finish once they were home. But how much better would it have been to have Seven try to integrate into a non-military society? What about the Maquis crew, whats next for them? Plus with all the changes, such as the war and Janeways ex moving on, how would they cope with a whole new society around them?

It would be a completely new format, but one that might have poduced a few interesting personal stories for them.

 

[The Borg Queen]

Not using technology to it's logical capability because it would spoil "the plot". If you find yourself in that situation, then write a different bloody plot!

If you have to ignore your canon technology to make a story, you're an incompetent writer.

Oh wait... that would be more of a "big thing" that irks me.

 

[SPCTRE]

The thing that always bugs me is commbadge usage. It's an easy process. Tap the commbadge and call someone. They'll tap theirs and you have a one to one link. Then each taps to close the channel. Yet smetimes they don't even bother with it and expect the computer, or at times the communicator, to listen in and do all the work for them. It just seems like lazy directing to me.

That and doors that open only when the script tells them to, regardless of how close someone is to them

Oh, oooh, good ones. I guess we could explain both away by very, very sophisticated AI, but as you said, it just reeks of inconsistency and laziness.

 

[JoeZhang]

How nobody has any pockets - I hate that.

Pockets are useful!

 

[Hartzilla2007]

How they tend to use technobable to solve every. damn. problem. And then make it sound like its some simple solution. Hey genius if it was that easy why didn't you think of it haslf an hour a go. Oh and how the Borg can wipe out an entire fleet but they can't seem to handle Voyager. Not t mention that Voyager never runs out of anything until the writers had the bright idea for them to run out of gas even though thats the one thing they shouldn't run out of. Other that that Voyager was an okay show.

 

[Green Shirt]

Something else which always annoyed me: the crew never wore civilian clothes during their off-duty hours. They always seemed to hang out in Ten Forward and the holodeck in their full uniforms.

I dunno, I guess I'm just grouchy today.

Sean

Not as strange as Kirk showing up at a cocktail party at Tom Layton's house wearing his midrift-baring duty uniform.

But that can just be chalked up to not enough money in the budget.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

How nobody has any pockets - I hate that.

Pockets are useful!

That was one thing I did like about Enterprise--the uniforms actually looked like something people might actually WEAR.

 

[Rulius]

Well I hate how stuff never seems to get mentioned again, like the Guardian of Forever, you'd think something that powerful might get a mention again, or the planet killer, surely
somebody would have heard of it later?

 

[The Wormhole]

Why would the planet killer need to be mentioned again since it was destroyed?

 

[Cyke101]

it irked me how "The Voyager" never sounded right when they referred to that ship in S1. Later they just called her 'Voyager' but other ships had the 'the'

The Enterprise
The Defiant

ex: Hurry! We need to get onboard the Defiant!
sounds ok

Hurry! We need to get onboard the Voyager!
sounds awkward. better as
Hurry! We need to get onboard Voyager!

See what I mean?

To piggyback off this post, I understand the need to drop "the" in front of Voyager, sure. But then the writers carried on that tradition with the NX-01 Enterprise, where the ship was constantly referred to without the definite article. It was okay for Voyager, but not for a name as famous as THE Enterprise!

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

To piggyback off this post, I understand the need to drop "the" in front of Voyager, sure. But then the writers carried on that tradition with the NX-01 Enterprise, where the ship was constantly referred to without the definite article. It was okay for Voyager, but not for a name as famous as THE Enterprise!

Fine by me. The NX-01 is just Enterprise, because it will never be THE Enterprise.

 

[Cyke101]

To piggyback off this post, I understand the need to drop "the" in front of Voyager, sure. But then the writers carried on that tradition with the NX-01 Enterprise, where the ship was constantly referred to without the definite article. It was okay for Voyager, but not for a name as famous as THE Enterprise!

Fine by me. The NX-01 is just Enterprise, because it will never be THE Enterprise.

Well, if you put it THAT way...

I wonder, though: for the actual aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, does the Navy and the ship's crew refer to the ship as THE Enterprise? I know it's The Big E, but does it carry over to the full name?

 

[Forbin]

It bugged me that 7 of 9 never wanted to be called by her birth name. I thought she wanted to become human again. All the baby Borg they picked up later got their names back.But Erika? Nooooo! I guess the producers thought it would effect her "product recognition" with the audience.

 

[Claudia]

It bugged me that 7 of 9 never wanted to be called by her birth name. I thought she wanted to become human again. All the baby Borg they picked up later got their names back.But Erika? Nooooo! I guess the producers thought it would effect her "product recognition" with the audience.

Erika? Her name was Anika Hansen - and Seven never exactly *wanted* to become human again. The children still had memories of their lives before being assimilated, so the transition was easier for them. Seven spent practically her whole life as Seven, that's the "name" she identifies with.

 

[LRT]

Well, if you put it THAT way...

I wonder, though: for the actual aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, does the Navy and the ship's crew refer to the ship as THE Enterprise? I know it's The Big E, but does it carry over to the full name?

In the US Navy, ships are usually referred to without any definite article. Typically, naval personnel would say, "I serve aboard Enterprise" or "He is the commander of USS Enterprise." And ships' names are usually italicized when written.

 

[Butters]

"If not for ______________ I would kill you where you stand!"

Bit overused for my liking. It was OK when the Klingon captain said it to Riker, but I have this vision of Riker telling Worf in Ten Forward and Worf reminding himself to use it in conversation.

And Ten Forward was always too empty. Generations addressed that but managed to make it look to small for a realistic crowd.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

On Voyager, the Borg kid Mezoti was said to be Norcadian. Voyager had just visited Norcadia Prime in the previous episode "Tsunkatse," yet after several more episodes Janeway let Mezoti live on the homeworld of the 2 twin Borg kids because she supposedly couldn't locate Mezoti's home. HELLO! You visited her planet the episode before finding her! They should've just said she was some other random alien species, not one that viewers would remember from the week prior.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

It bugged me that 7 of 9 never wanted to be called by her birth name. I thought she wanted to become human again. All the baby Borg they picked up later got their names back.But Erika? Nooooo! I guess the producers thought it would effect her "product recognition" with the audience.

Erika? Her name was Anika Hansen - and Seven never exactly *wanted* to become human again. The children still had memories of their lives before being assimilated, so the transition was easier for them. Seven spent practically her whole life as Seven, that's the "name" she identifies with.

are you sure she was always "Seven" ?? I assumed Borg transferred around and had frequently changing designations.

 

[Rÿcher]

this is "Voyager"
http://www.screensavershot.com/tvmovie2/uss.jpg

this is "the Voyager"
http://moebiusmodels.com/images/Voyager_Model_Kit.jpg

 

[-Brett-]

Little things that irk you

Interchangeable use of "race" and "species".

"This species is extremely violent" sounds like a valid observation.

"This race is extremely violent" sounds like the show is written by a fucking klansman.