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His romance with Jadzia did allow Bashir to stop pining for her and develop as a character but I felt Worf's addition gave the show more of an edge and I really enjoyed watching his character to grow.
 
Just read the Voyager related parts of this Moore interview
http://www.lcarscom.net/rdm1000118.htm

As much as I enjoy Voyager (my fav series next to TNG) I`ve to say that Moore is right in many points. (I`m sad to say this). But I always will love this series with all of it`s problems.
The main reason because I love Voyager so much is the great cast. And I`m glad to read that Moore tells the same.

Moore does have praise for some things about VOYAGER, however.It’s a big, beautiful show that isn’t doing anything with all this beauty. It goes for the actors as well. I’ve maintained from day one that the VOYAGER cast overall was probably the best cast of all of them. You really had a strong group of players that could really take the show someplace. I loved the other two casts that I worked with, but I looked at the VOYAGER cast and thought, ‘These group of players all really like each other, and they are all going to have fun together on the set. They are all willing to try anything that you give to them.’ I found that in the brief time I was working with them, too; they will do anything for you. They work very hard; they take a lot of pride in their craft. Do something with them!
 
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I felt Voyager was just a reboot of TNG in many ways. Had the writers done long arcs like DS9 or even the new BSG that was on Scifi, I think the show could have been awesome. Instead it was just okay. I think there was a lot of missed opportunities. Some of those missed chances were addressed in the printed anthology however. Overall though Voyager to me is okay. I love DS9 and really like TNG and Enterprise, Voyager is a distant third.
 
Voyager is great! Good thing they only made 60 episodes. If they had tried to make, say, 170 of them they would have run out of good ideas and had to resort to lame holodeck stories and absurd premises, like, say, a method of propulsion that could get you home but causes you to then mutate into some lizard or something. Also they would have had to do a lot of stories where characters focus on their core character flaw and learn a lesson which they completely forget by the next episode. They also probably would have resorted to way too many time travel episodes, way too many episodes where the crew almost finds a shortcut home but then loses it because of morality or because it was all a trick or something, and countless TNG cameos.

Good thing they only did 60 so they never ran out of original ideas.

No, there are 172 episodes of Voyager.

Unless... that was sarcasm and it went right over my head LOL. :lol: :lol:
 
Voyager started well and had excellent character dynamics but I felt the Kazon were very one dimensional.

I disagree. I think the Kazon offered a very interesting twist for the crew. Here they are, thrown light years away, surrounded by enemies who have a tiny bit of advanced weaponry and technology, but are mainly a coupe of centuries behind technology wise, unlike in the Alpha Quadrant were all the parties tend to be on equal footing. The Kazon were an interesting mix of the Klingons and Pakleds: intelligence, but low technology and thirsting for higher tech.

Plus the Kazon also allowed for two additional subplot lines to run featuring Seska and Paris-Jonas.
 
Just read the Voyager related parts of this Moore interview
http://www.lcarscom.net/rdm1000118.htm

As much as I enjoy Voyager (my fav series next to TNG) I`ve to say that Moore is right in many points. (I`m sad to say this). But I always will love this series with all of it`s problems.
The main reason because I love Voyager so much is the great cast. And I`m glad to read that Moore tells the same.

Moore does have praise for some things about VOYAGER, however.It’s a big, beautiful show that isn’t doing anything with all this beauty. It goes for the actors as well. I’ve maintained from day one that the VOYAGER cast overall was probably the best cast of all of them. You really had a strong group of players that could really take the show someplace. I loved the other two casts that I worked with, but I looked at the VOYAGER cast and thought, ‘These group of players all really like each other, and they are all going to have fun together on the set. They are all willing to try anything that you give to them.’ I found that in the brief time I was working with them, too; they will do anything for you. They work very hard; they take a lot of pride in their craft. Do something with them!

But he also covers many of the shows flaws, a fair few people would agree with his assessment

As with many things there can be positives as well as negatives.
 
Voyager started well and had excellent character dynamics but I felt the Kazon were very one dimensional.

I disagree. I think the Kazon offered a very interesting twist for the crew. Here they are, thrown light years away, surrounded by enemies who have a tiny bit of advanced weaponry and technology, but are mainly a coupe of centuries behind technology wise, unlike in the Alpha Quadrant were all the parties tend to be on equal footing. The Kazon were an interesting mix of the Klingons and Pakleds: intelligence, but low technology and thirsting for higher tech.

Plus the Kazon also allowed for two additional subplot lines to run featuring Seska and Paris-Jonas.

I like the Kazon. I find the whole idea about them a good one. It has happened before that after an opressor is overthrown, the different organizations who have fought for freedom then start to fight each other and the area turns to lawless land.

This includes the struggle for technological speriority which could lead to one sect taking control over the others.

Not to mention that we had a fantastic pair of villains in Culluh and Seska!
 
I like Voyager. It might be my second favourite series after TOS - depending on the day of the week (it's either Voyager or Enterprise). Voyager has a lot more of that TOS feeling of fun and adventure, which was so sorely lacking (IMO at least) in TNG and DS9. TOS had a strong core cast whose interactions kept even the worst stories watchable. Voyager comes close with Janeway, The Doctor and Seven. I kept watching to see what they would do next.
 
In World of Warcraft you can type /played and it will tell you how many hours you have spent playing on that character. It can be truly horrifying.

OF course we don't need that with Trek if we know how many times we've watched a series through all the way. Also for some of us truly horrifying, if you're the sort of person that values productivity.
 
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