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The Most Disliked Episode of VOY, Season 3 - 2025 Edition...

Saving "RISE".

Tuvok and Neelix paired episodes are always at least decent.

And it does rise above the level of the remaining episodes.



"THE SWARM"
"SACRED GROUND"
"THE Q AND THE GREY"
"ALTER EGO"
"CODA"
"DARKLING"
"FAVORITE SON"
 
I'll save "Darkling", which is truly awful but entertaingly so. I mean:
"MY FIRST VICTIM
HE WAS IN MY WAY"
I also just love the notion that something called the "Personality Improvement Project" backfires spectacularly by way of of turning him into a grotesque monster.

"THE SWARM"
"SACRED GROUND"
"THE Q AND THE GREY"
"FAVORITE SON"
 
These are simply terrible. One is seeing Janeway waffling too much with consistency, another where Q gets neutered, and another REALLY bad Kim episode.

That leaves "SACRED GROUND" to be saved. It was the first directing for Robert Duncan McNeill. And it at least let's Janeway put into question all her scientific beliefs.


"THE SWARM"
"THE Q AND THE GREY"
"FAVORITE SON"
 
Favorite Son is one of Voyager's worst, because it was the episode where the showrunners actively decided not to develop Harry's character, letting him stagnate instead. Other episodes might have been marginally worse technically, but how many are the direct cause of the ruination of a main character?
 
I'll save THE Q AND THE GRAY. The early scenes with Janeway and Q were hilarious, due largely to the chemistry between the actors.

By now, Q and the Continuum are superficial, if not outright Flanderized. But, yeah, the scenes between Q and Janeway, jocular as they were, always created a decent chuckle when in the right mood. But the rest of the story and reasons for the sophomoric humor? That's when I turn the channel, but at least it's one episode down with 25 to go. Not to mention, warts and all, I'd put Q² above this one and not because it's the only episode title of the only show to use a squared value in its name anywhere... apart from maybe "The Big Bang Theory" but I have my doubts and am ² lazy to look it up...

Flashback. I could present you with an essay as to why but instead I shall just use the immortal words of Bradward Boimler, "oh my gosh Captain Sulu! Even better!"

Essays are great! More people should do it. Like the song lyrics, not everybody does it but everybody should! :devil:

Seeing ST6 given a slight retcon as well as focusing more on a secondary plot that the movie could or would not actually do allows for some interesting plotting. Not sure on how Tuvok's imagining things seamlessly fit in, but it is a bit more creative than asking for a holodeck program, and as holodeck malfunction episodes were really trite by now it's a clever way to get around it. It's an anniversary story so it really is about sitting back and enjoying what it is trying to do, even if it stumbles. Like your new puppy not understanding the difference between newspaper and hardwood floor...

The episode did have a couple of clunker lines that made most of TNG season 1 stand out positively by comparison, what with Janeway badmouthing the crew of 100 years prior to her. An interesting moment, it's both a sledgehammer and a moment of inspiration as, in Trekland, what happened 100 years ago was quite a different context and genuinely wasn't as perfect as Janeway's time was. Janeway's a bit of a historian then and she's not necessarily wrong, either... plus, a year or two later and she gets to put down the "no fraternizing" law on Harry despite centuries of Rikers and Kirks creating new disease strains across the galaxy...
 
By now, Q and the Continuum are superficial, if not outright Flanderized. But, yeah, the scenes between Q and Janeway, jocular as they were, always created a decent chuckle when in the right mood. But the rest of the story and reasons for the sophomoric humor? That's when I turn the channel, but at least it's one episode down with 25 to go. Not to mention, warts and all, I'd put Q² above this one and not because it's the only episode title of the only show to use a squared value in its name anywhere... apart from maybe "The Big Bang Theory" but I have my doubts and am ² lazy to look it up...



Essays are great! More people should do it. Like the song lyrics, not everybody does it but everybody should! :devil:

Seeing ST6 given a slight retcon as well as focusing more on a secondary plot that the movie could or would not actually do allows for some interesting plotting. Not sure on how Tuvok's imagining things seamlessly fit in, but it is a bit more creative than asking for a holodeck program, and as holodeck malfunction episodes were really trite by now it's a clever way to get around it. It's an anniversary story so it really is about sitting back and enjoying what it is trying to do, even if it stumbles. Like your new puppy not understanding the difference between newspaper and hardwood floor...

The episode did have a couple of clunker lines that made most of TNG season 1 stand out positively by comparison, what with Janeway badmouthing the crew of 100 years prior to her. An interesting moment, it's both a sledgehammer and a moment of inspiration as, in Trekland, what happened 100 years ago was quite a different context and genuinely wasn't as perfect as Janeway's time was. Janeway's a bit of a historian then and she's not necessarily wrong, either... plus, a year or two later and she gets to put down the "no fraternizing" law on Harry despite centuries of Rikers and Kirks creating new disease strains across the galaxy...
Actually, "Q2" does not use the squared 2 as part of its title.

But ENTERPRISE's "E²" does use the squared 2.
 
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