The best episode of Voyager - Part Two

[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!

Winners

Season One - State of Flux
Season Two -

The 37s
Initiations
Projections
Elogium
Non Sequitur
Twisted
Parturition
Persistence of Vision
Tattoo
Cold Fire
Maneuvers
Resistance
Prototype
Alliances
Threshold
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Investigations
Deadlock
Innocence
The Thaw
Tuvix
Resolutions
Basics (I)

 

[Supernuke]

Removing Threshold. I would state why, but if I listed all the reasons I would be here all day

The 37s
Initiations
Projections
Elogium
Non Sequitur
Twisted
Parturition
Persistence of Vision
Tattoo
Cold Fire
Maneuvers
Resistance
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Investigations
Deadlock
Innocence
The Thaw
Tuvix
Resolutions
Basics (I)

 

[Claudia]

The 37s
Initiations
Projections
Elogium
Non Sequitur
Twisted
Parturition
Persistence of Vision
Cold Fire
Maneuvers
Resistance
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Investigations
Deadlock
Innocence
The Thaw
Tuvix
Resolutions
Basics (I)

Removing Tattoo - I really like Chakotay, but his are some of the most boring episodes of the whole series...

 

[TrekAlliance92]

The 37s
Initiations
Projections
Elogium
Non Sequitur
Twisted
Parturition
Persistence of Vision
Cold Fire
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Investigations
Deadlock
Innocence
The Thaw
Tuvix
Resolutions
Basics (I)

Removing "Resistance," my least favorite episode of Season 2.

 

[KNH]

The 37s
Initiations
Projections
Non Sequitur
Twisted
Parturition
Persistence of Vision
Cold Fire
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Investigations
Deadlock
Innocence
The Thaw
Tuvix
Resolutions
Basics (I)

Eliminating Elogium. Beyond plain disliking Kes and by proxy Kes-episodes, it also introduces us to the very contrived and pessimistic concept that the numbers of the Ocampa are cut in half every generation and the race will die out rapidly and irrevocably.

 

[tomalak301]

The 37s
Initiations
Projections
Elogium
Non Sequitur
Twisted
Parturition
Persistence of Vision
Cold Fire
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Investigations
Deadlock
The Thaw
Tuvix
Resolutions
Basics (I)

Removing Innocence. This episode was just really really boring, probably moreso than Unforgettable.

 

[Tiberius]

The 37s
Initiations
Projections
Elogium
Twisted
Parturition
Persistence of Vision
Cold Fire
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Investigations
Deadlock
The Thaw
Tuvix
Resolutions
Basics (I)

I'm removing Non Sequitur. A good enough vehicle for Harry, but up until that point he had been a supporting character only and all of a sudden he was not only the star of the episode, but carried the episode almost entirely. The story and the character weren't good enough to warrant removing the entire cast (except for Tom who hardly had any screen time).

 

[AuntKate]

The 37s
Initiations
Projections
Twisted
Parturition
Persistence of Vision
Cold Fire
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Investigations
Deadlock
The Thaw
Tuvix
Resolutions
Basics (I)

I'm taking out Elogium. I just find it icky.

 

[KNH]

Elogium was eliminated three posts prior to yours not sure why it came up on some lists after my post.

 

[Mage]

The 37s
Initiations
Projections
Twisted
Parturition
Persistence of Vision
Cold Fire
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Investigations
Deadlock
Tuvix
Resolutions
Basics (I)


I eliminate The Thaw. Just a terrible plot, with terrible acting.

 

[Geck]

Removing "Resistance," my least favorite episode of Season 2.

It's probably the best episode of the season. Super surprised to hear someone doesn't like it.

Initiations
Projections
Twisted
Parturition
Persistence of Vision
Cold Fire
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Investigations
Deadlock
Tuvix
Resolutions
Basics (I)

Taking out The 37s - a stupid idea to start with, and it's always bothered me that no one decides to leave the ship and stay on the planet. Unrealistic and it would have been much more dramatically interesting to watch Janeway deal with the reality that maybe not everyone is on board with this 80 year journey business.

 

[Captain Ransom]

Removing Innocence. This episode was just really really boring, probably moreso than Unforgettable.

Innocence cracks me up. Maybe I'm alone in that. It reminds me of Galaxy Quest and the miners who look like minors.

Dr. Lazarus: "Could those be the miners?"
Fred: "Sure. They're like, 3 years old."
Dr. Lazarus: "I said miners not minors!"

I eliminate The Thaw. Just a terrible plot, with terrible acting.

No way! Have any of you played Fallout 3? It's got a part similar to this episode (Tranquility Lane). Granted, the help-I'm-trapped-inside-a-machine plot concept might be corny, but it's a plot theme I absolutely love for some reason.


Initiations
Projections
Twisted (*wraps arms protectively around the episode to hopefully save its poor little self*) (j/k)
Parturition
Persistence of Vision
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Investigations
Deadlock
Tuvix
Resolutions
Basics (I)

I'm eliminating Cold Fire. Mostly because I dislike the Ocampa dude and the interpersonal situations that arise in the episode. It makes me uncomfortable. (Actually, thinking about it more, most episodes involving Kes, other than Fury, I find uncomfortable.) I actually liked the fact that the episode included another caretaker, even though I didn't like the episode "Caretaker."

 

[Admiral Shran]

Initiations
Projections
Twisted
Parturition
Persistence of Vision
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Investigations
Deadlock
Resolutions
Basics (I)

Taking out Tuvix. Talk a lack of morality on Janeway's part!

 

[Tiberius]

I'm also going to say I loved the Thaw. Sending the Doctor in is a great idea, and when you watch it, you think it's just that - a great idea without realising it was actually setting up the holographic Janeway at the end. I love episodes where they out think the bad guy, and the Thaw delivers it in spades.

 

[Claudia]

Projections
Twisted
Parturition
Persistence of Vision
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Investigations
Deadlock
Resolutions
Basics (I)

Removing Initiations - the next boring Chakotay-episode...

 

[Geck]

Projections
Twisted
Persistence of Vision
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Investigations
Deadlock
Resolutions
Basics (I)

Taking out Parturition - beyond Tom and Neelix stranded on a planet fighting over Kes, which was a fairly annoying subplot to begin with, I barely remember what happened in the episode.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Projections
Twisted
Persistence of Vision
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Deadlock
Resolutions
Basics (I)

Removing Investigations - very unsatisfying end to the Michael Jonas storyline.

 

[Claudia]

Projections
Twisted
Persistence of Vision
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Deadlock
Resolutions

Basics (I) - the only good thing about that episode is that it's the beginning of the end of the Kazon...

 

[BlueStuff]

Projections
Twisted
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Deadlock
Resolutions

Farewell "Persistence of Vision". ANOTHER hallucination plot?

 

[AuntKate]

Projections
Maneuvers
Prototype
Alliances
Meld
Dreadnought
Death Wish
Lifesigns
Deadlock
Resolutions

So long to "Twisted." Never liked that one much.