This is a opinion I have had for awhile but I have never talked about it.. I think there is a view that "Voyager" was a big technoabble show but I never felt that was the case after season 2 and I would say the same thing about "DS9" after it's season 2.
It even goes a little more deeper and I would even say the overal language of those shows start to change as well were you start to hear more contemporary style of speech and less of the over stylized speech on "TNG" were it felt like everyone had a thesaurus and loved to use it.
As for Pillar I have read about how writers said he was big on it. I think the idea was he felt it made the characters come off as more smart and professional. I actually think Pillar was kind of right and I also enjoy the stylized speech but I also enjoyed the new ways as well when we say Behr take over on "DS9" and Jeri Taylor and later Braga on "Voyager." Pillar's way made the writing feel a little more clever but Behr's way made the characters feel more emotional and easier to relate to.
Back to "Voyager." I think their are 2 reasons why it gets a bad rap in this department I don't think it deserves. One thing is the show had certain flaws that make some either dislike the show or like it a little but still see it as inferior. Once you got that opinion people sometimes make arguments based more on emotion than logic.
The second reason is because "Voyager" had the pointless space battle syndrome that really hurts many episodes. I think the ship was in more pointless battles than any other Trek show. Granted fake danger wasn't exactly new to Trek. The Enterprise on "TOS" was always on the verge of blowing up every week and the transporters never worked except when they needed them to work. On "TNG" you had encounters with space anomilies or other kinds of danger. Sometimes it would be another spaceship but most of those seemed to be resolved by a speech from Picard.
"Voyager" though would encounter aliens who were always angry and hostile even if they didn't have any logical reason to be. Way to many times this would end up in a pointless battle were you feel like everyone is just going through the emotions. You would hear all the classic space battle talk. "shields down to 50%" "Fire phasers" "Tansporters are down, or warp speed is not functioning." I think this battle speak is sometimes confused with the more technoabble stuff like "I'm going to run a positronic scan on the mylithium hull fragments to see if I can locate any neutron charge particles on it. Anyways that is my views.
Jason
It even goes a little more deeper and I would even say the overal language of those shows start to change as well were you start to hear more contemporary style of speech and less of the over stylized speech on "TNG" were it felt like everyone had a thesaurus and loved to use it.
As for Pillar I have read about how writers said he was big on it. I think the idea was he felt it made the characters come off as more smart and professional. I actually think Pillar was kind of right and I also enjoy the stylized speech but I also enjoyed the new ways as well when we say Behr take over on "DS9" and Jeri Taylor and later Braga on "Voyager." Pillar's way made the writing feel a little more clever but Behr's way made the characters feel more emotional and easier to relate to.
Back to "Voyager." I think their are 2 reasons why it gets a bad rap in this department I don't think it deserves. One thing is the show had certain flaws that make some either dislike the show or like it a little but still see it as inferior. Once you got that opinion people sometimes make arguments based more on emotion than logic.
The second reason is because "Voyager" had the pointless space battle syndrome that really hurts many episodes. I think the ship was in more pointless battles than any other Trek show. Granted fake danger wasn't exactly new to Trek. The Enterprise on "TOS" was always on the verge of blowing up every week and the transporters never worked except when they needed them to work. On "TNG" you had encounters with space anomilies or other kinds of danger. Sometimes it would be another spaceship but most of those seemed to be resolved by a speech from Picard.
"Voyager" though would encounter aliens who were always angry and hostile even if they didn't have any logical reason to be. Way to many times this would end up in a pointless battle were you feel like everyone is just going through the emotions. You would hear all the classic space battle talk. "shields down to 50%" "Fire phasers" "Tansporters are down, or warp speed is not functioning." I think this battle speak is sometimes confused with the more technoabble stuff like "I'm going to run a positronic scan on the mylithium hull fragments to see if I can locate any neutron charge particles on it. Anyways that is my views.
Jason
I'm 100% sure that was a direct poke at Trek.
