The best episode of Voyager - Part Six

[BlueStuff]

Okay Trek fans, this game was successful on the TNG and DS9 boards, and I hope it prospers here as well. Here's the game. The basic idea is your standard elimination game. I'll provide a list of the episodes for each season and you need to eliminate your least favorite or the one you deem the 'worst.' Please provide an EXPLANATION for why you are eliminating your choice and be sure to copy and paste the list with your choice removed. Finally, leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you play again. Not a very accurate way of determining the best episode, but a fun game nonetheless. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Season One - State of Flux
Season Two - Projections
Season Three - Before and After
Season Four - Prey
Season Five - Counterpoint
Season Six -

Equinox (II)
Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Alice
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
One Small Step
The Voyager Conspiracy
Pathfinder
Fair Haven
Blink of an Eye
Virtuoso
Memorial
Tsunkatse
Collective
Spirit Folk
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Good Shepherd
Live Fast and Prosper
Muse
Fury
Life Line
The Haunting of Deck Twelve
Unimatrix Zero (I)

 

[Admiral Shran]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Alice
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
One Small Step
The Voyager Conspiracy
Pathfinder
Fair Haven
Blink of an Eye
Virtuoso
Memorial
Tsunkatse
Collective
Spirit Folk
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Good Shepherd
Live Fast and Prosper
Muse
Fury
Life Line
The Haunting of Deck Twelve
Unimatrix Zero (I)

I'm really torn on whether to eliminate Equinox (II) or one of the Fair Haven episodes. The Fair Haven ones are SO bad for a variety of reasons. But, I'll go with....

Equinox (II) - Janeway thinks it's okay to torture someone. Chakotay stops her (thankfully) and then says he was the one in the wrong for questioning her?!

 

[tomalak301]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Alice
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
One Small Step
The Voyager Conspiracy
Pathfinder
Fair Haven
Blink of an Eye
Virtuoso
Memorial
Tsunkatse
Collective
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Good Shepherd
Live Fast and Prosper
Muse
Fury
Life Line
The Haunting of Deck Twelve
Unimatrix Zero (I)

Wish I can eliminate both of them but I'm going with Spirit Folk. This episode was just so dumb on so many levels.

 

[Seven of Five]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Alice
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
One Small Step
The Voyager Conspiracy
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Virtuoso
Memorial
Tsunkatse
Collective
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Good Shepherd
Live Fast and Prosper
Muse
Fury
Life Line
The Haunting of Deck Twelve
Unimatrix Zero (I)

I'll do the honours. Bye bye Fair Haven, you steaming pile badly drawn Irish cliche you.

 

[HoneyBLilly]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Alice
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
One Small Step
The Voyager Conspiracy
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Virtuoso
Memorial
Tsunkatse
Collective
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Good Shepherd
Live Fast and Prosper
Muse

Life Line
The Haunting of Deck Twelve
Unimatrix Zero (I)

Goodbye Fury, thank you for destroying a great character

 

[KNH]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Alice
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
One Small Step
The Voyager Conspiracy
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Virtuoso
Memorial
Tsunkatse
Collective
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Live Fast and Prosper
Muse
Life Line
The Haunting of Deck Twelve
Unimatrix Zero (I)

I'm removing Good Shepherd. It felt like a contrived rehash of Lower Decks, it would've been better without Janeway, and making Harren's sacrifice pointless just ended the episode on the weak note it's been singing in all hour long.

 

[Mage]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Alice
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
One Small Step
The Voyager Conspiracy
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Virtuoso
Memorial
Collective
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Live Fast and Prosper
Muse
Life Line
The Haunting of Deck Twelve
Unimatrix Zero (I)


I removed Tsunkatse. It was just to odd of a premise to work, and then throwing in The Rock for good measure? Didn't work IMO.

 

[TrekAlliance92]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Alice
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
One Small Step
The Voyager Conspiracy
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Virtuoso
Memorial
Collective
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Live Fast and Prosper
Life Line
The Haunting of Deck Twelve
Unimatrix Zero (I)

Removing Muse, because it was painfully dull and boring.

 

[HoneyBLilly]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Alice
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
One Small Step
The Voyager Conspiracy
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Virtuoso
Memorial

Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Live Fast and Prosper
Life Line
The Haunting of Deck Twelve
Unimatrix Zero (I)

Removing Collective, what happened to the Borg baby?

 

[Geck]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Alice
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
One Small Step
The Voyager Conspiracy
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Memorial
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Live Fast and Prosper
Life Line
The Haunting of Deck Twelve
Unimatrix Zero (I)

Removing Virtuoso. It felt like a rehash of half a dozen similar Doctor episodes, and the alien race were one of the most annoying the show ever featured.

 

[Tiberius]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Alice
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
One Small Step
The Voyager Conspiracy
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Live Fast and Prosper
Life Line
The Haunting of Deck Twelve
Unimatrix Zero (I)

I'm kicking out Memorial. Seems to me to be a rehash of that episode where Belanna was having those dreams that were memories.

 

[Supernuke]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Alice
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
One Small Step
The Voyager Conspiracy
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Live Fast and Prosper
Life Line
Unimatrix Zero (I)

Removed "The Haunting of Deck Twelve". Neelix is really annoying in it.

 

[AuntKate]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Alice
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
One Small Step
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Live Fast and Prosper
Life Line
Unimatrix Zero (I)

Out goes "The Voyager Conspiracy." I bet we see the Caretaker Array blow up a dozen times, and then it's just Seven's voice as she reimagines the past over and over and over. One of my least favorite episodes, even if it does have some delicious J/C moments.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Good Shepard went out so early?

One of my favorites of the series - a much better version of Lower Decks, as it actually had "lower decks" characters I cared about.

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Alice
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Live Fast and Prosper
Life Line
Unimatrix Zero (I)

Bye-bye One Small Step. It could have been a chance to actually have a good Chakotay episode, but instead devolved into Seven learning about her humanity yet again.

 

[Geck]

^ Good Shepherd is nowhere near as good as Lower Decks (IMO), but it's still one of my favourites of the season and I was surprised it went so early too. Ditto for Memorial. Ah well.

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Live Fast and Prosper
Life Line
Unimatrix Zero (I)

I'll take out Alice, AKA Christine-in-space. It should have been more tense and atmospheric to be really strong.

 

[DevilEyes]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Ashes to Ashes
Child's Play
Life Line
Unimatrix Zero (I)

Live Fast and Prosper. One of the signs of VOY turning into a sitcom in the last 2 seasons.

 

[HoneyBLilly]

I hate this season with a burning passion, there's only like two episodes here that I like and all of the rest I hate.

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Riddles
Dragon's Teeth
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye

Child's Play
Live Fast and Prosper
Life Line
Unimatrix Zero (I)

But I'll take out Ashes to Ashes thanks to pot roast

 

[Admiral Shran]

^ Looks like you forgot to take out Live Fast and Prosper after DevilEyes eliminated it. I got it.

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Riddles
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Child's Play
Life Line
Unimatrix Zero (I)

Dragon's Teeth - for the lack of any follow-up.

 

[Saquist]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Riddles
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Child's Play
Life Line



Unimatrix Zero (I)

I like the borg episodes but they are extremely over hyped.

 

[Seven of Five]

Survival Instinct
Barge of the Dead
Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Riddles
Pathfinder
Blink of an Eye
Life Line

I'll take out Child's Play. I liked it enough but I like the other episodes more. One Small Step, Memorial and Muse should be here too!