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To Finish Voyager Or Not?

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Alright, so I watched Voyager pretty faitfully up until mid Season 4. I did see a smattering of episodes between mid Season 4 and mid Season 5. Due to a variety of factors I stopped and never really saw another episode outside of the Finale.

I never liked Voyager as much as TNG, DS9 and ENT although some of the episodes I thought were really well done like...

Tuvix
Year Of Hell
Eye Of the Needle
Flashback
Scorpion I & II
Message In A Bottle

So since its the only TNG Era Trek I haven't finished, I figured I would see if I should finish this one up.

Thoughts?
 
Why not? If you've enjoyed Voyager enough to have seen 3.5 seasons, you might as well watch the rest.
 
Well, Voyager is actually my least favorite Trek series, but still, I love a great deal of it. Some episodes rank among the best episodes of all the Trek series. So yes, I'd say finish it! :D
 
You didn't think many episodes were that great did you? :O
I like Voyager a lot and find it very enjoyable, also you are just on the cusp of season 5 which is in my opinion the best Voyager season and definitely a contender among all Star Trek seasons for good episodes.
I would continue...if you like Trek then watch Trek ya know?
 
Well, this is just based on my own opinions, but I'd suggest completing Season 4 (which I thought was pretty solid, and one of the series' best), and maybe Season 5 (which was less solid, but still had its fair share of decent episodes).

After that... meh. Seasons 6 and 7 are kind of dull, and don't really add up to a whole lot. Overall it's watchable, and there's still the occasional standout episode, but to me, it felt like the writers weren't even trying anymore. Voyager was never the best Trek series, and this became even more apparent in the last two seasons. The problems that were plaguing the show from the beginning (and continued to plague Enterprise, at least for its first couple of seasons) were even more obvious: no risks were being taken in the stories, nothing ever changes (i.e. the characters don't grow, the ship always stays in pristine condition, etc.), and you could watch almost all the episodes in any order you wanted and it wouldn't make much difference -- which may have worked in TOS and TNG, but television was evolving past this static nature, and Voyager failed to evolve with it. It just felt like more of the same, more of the same... a kind of TNG-lite.

Now, don't get me wrong, I don't hate Voyager --it was still a decent way to kill an hour, and there was plenty of worse stuff on TV-- but by the end, I felt like I was watching it more as a completist than a true fan. If it hadn't been a Star Trek series, I'm not sure I would have bothered watching at all.

But that's just my own $0.02. Obviously, there are a lot of fans of the series here, so it must have had a certain appeal for some people. As I stated, even I liked the show up til around Season 6. So yeah, I'd suggest finishing Seasons 4 and 5, and then proceeding from there. Start Season 6, and if you're not really feeling it after a few episodes, you probably won't care much for the subsequent episodes.

Hope you found some of this useful. If you decide to watch the rest of the series... enjoy! :bolian:
 
You should finish it. Of course you're going to get an answer like this on the Voyager board!

In my humble opinion seasons 4-7 are so much better than the 1st three.
 
i liked Voyager just as much as TNG. 7 of 9 was a really dynamic character. even though Enterprise has the vulcan babe, she wasn't nearly as interesting as 7 of 9.
 
You should finish it. Of course you're going to get an answer like this on the Voyager board!

In my humble opinion seasons 4-7 are so much better than the 1st three.

I agree seasons 4-7 are better but there's a level of impatience there that isn't necessarily in season 1-3 like "What the hell are you doing farting about in a frikking recreation of an Irish village!? You're supposed to be stuck in the freaking delta quadrant alone remember!?"
 
Yea, I liked Voyager more after they left the horrible Kazon behind. I like what I saw and what I heard of The Borg of course, Hirogen and other Voyager bad guys.

Whats the episode with the Dinosaurs? I liked that one.
 
Yea, I liked Voyager more after they left the horrible Kazon behind. I like what I saw and what I heard of The Borg of course, Hirogen and other Voyager bad guys.

Whats the episode with the Dinosaurs? I liked that one.

Distant Origin- season 3.
 
Personally I don't like seasons 4-7. Much of what was good with Voyager dissapeared after season 3.

However, I would advise you to watch it from beginning to end to get your own opinion. The only episode you should skip is "Fury" in season 6.
 
Why not to finish? IMHO, Season 5 > Season 4. Season 7 is "so and so". Even I, as a die-hard Voyager fan, can admit that the season 7 was far from the best. Unfortunately so, I might add. And I still dislike the finale. But there are couple of really brilliant episodes on S7 too, definitely worth watching.
 
And Season 6? I thought it also was somewhat weak... There's still some nice episodes in there though...

But yes, go back, watch the rest of Season 4 (or perhaps even start from the beginning again) and then proceed till the end...that would be my sugestion too.
 
It doesn't matter.

Endgame could come after any other single episode as seamlessly as any other episode in the entire run.

Yes even after a Scorpion or Equinox degree cliffhanger.
 
Why not to finish? IMHO, Season 5 > Season 4. Season 7 is "so and so". Even I, as a die-hard Voyager fan, can admit that the season 7 was far from the best. Unfortunately so, I might add. And I still dislike the finale. But there are couple of really brilliant episodes on S7 too, definitely worth watching.

That's "so-so" and I think *spoilers* getting in touch with earth ruined the entire premise of the show *spoilers*
 
They spoiled the premiss as soon as they found their first alien who wasn't backward enough to amazed by transporter technology and begging for water.
 
As someone who has just completed watching the final couple of seaons of Voyager I can honestly say that, aside from a few stand-out episodes, it was pretty lame. There seemed to be alot of "rehashing" - old TOS, TNG or DS9 stories done with different characters, which is just lame and lazy.

That said, I'm glad I watched them, as it "completes" my experience of all Treks. There are also some nice character moments, particularly between Seven & The Doctor and Tom & B'Ellana. Harry might aswell not be their really, and the stories he was involved in were poor.

I really liked the premise in "Repression", but it should have been told over two episodes. They seemed to build up to this major event and than "solve" it in just three minutes - a massive let down. I could never forgive them making assimilation such a "regular thing" either, as they did in "Unimatrix zero". And Borg children, give me a break!
 
LOL they really did lose their way at the end especially with Pathfinder and Lifeline etc etc, just plain rubbish.
 
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