To Finish Voyager Or Not?

[NCC-1701-B]

Watch them all!!! i spent over a year watching voyager every day when i got home from school. i watched every episode. i enjoyed pretty much all of them. except the odd few.

Good idea to watch them all!

 

[Deckerd]

Workforce in S7 was very good.

I also almost like Endgame if only they could have kept away from bloody time travel.

At least Voyager never had an alternative universe episode. Those really pissed me off.

 

[Tachyon]

At least Voyager never had an alternative universe episode. Those really pissed me off.

Oh yes. The alternative universes in DS9 were a major turn off for me.

 

[Similitude]

Well I'm certainly not going back to the start. I HATED the Kazon and the vast majority of the other things and plot devices they came in contact with early on.

But maybe going back to Scorpion and going from there is a good idea.

 

[Tachyon]

Kazon was alright for me. And in the end, there weren't so many episodes featuring them. So I would recommend watching some of the earlier episodes as well. Especially from season 2, which is brilliant.

 

[kimc]

I now find it hard to go past Season 7's "The Void" myself. However, if I had to sit through "Endgame" once then everyone else should have to suffer too.

Seriously, may as well finish it up.

 

[Xerxes1979]

Finish through season 5 then reevaluate how much more you want to watch.

 

[Starbreaker]

I think S5 and S6 have some really good episodes, but the writing in S7 is absolutely abysmal.

 

[Garth Rockett]

I say finish it up. I personally enjoy the earlier episodes more (I really enjoyed the Kazon storyline, myself, and found most of the first four seasons enjoyable). Upon first viewing, I found the quality declined steadily after season four. I just finished off the series on DVD last fall and rewatching it the final three seasons (particularly 5 & 6) were better than I remembered (or maybe I had adjusted my expectations). It's at least consistently watchable and fairly entertaining. I don't think there's too many stinkers in the bunch, but the really good episodes do become more few and far between, IMO.

 

[Tachyon]

I now find it hard to go past Season 7's "The Void" myself. However, if I had to sit through "Endgame" once then everyone else should have to suffer too.

I guess I have the same limit. I rarely watch Workforce and episodes beyond that; even less.

 

[Jeri]

IMO, one has to watch it all if one's a Trek fan; I did. Even the shows I dislike. A fan needs to know what happened in the story.

 

[Similitude]

I saw Endgame and thought it was okay, maybe even good. So perhaps I should finish up if I like it more then you guys lol.

 

[Smiley]

Everyone has their own opinions as to what Trek episodes are good or bad. Is it worth it to you to sit through a few bad episodes to find the ones that you will enjoy a great deal? That is the question to ask yourself.

 

[Reliant]

Might as well go for it. Season 4, 5, and 6 has some of the best episodes of the series. The Final season on the other hand, other then 4 or 5 really good episodes, you might want to just skip it. The writing really starts to go down hill, and there are a lot of missed opportunities. At least watch season 5, because it was really good.

 

[Denara Pel]

Overall there were hits and misses throughout Voyager's 7-year run. Seasons 1 & 2 with the over-emphasis of feeling from the Kazon was somwhat uninspiring. Caretaker was one of the finest Trek pilots and ranks up there for me with TOS' The Cage. There were some wonderful stand alone episodes like: Phage, Meld, Deadlock, Lifesigns and Resistance. Others too.

However, I think stronger episodes with good character development started to emerge in Season 3 and 4. In terms of good science fiction story-telling, Before and After, and Scorpion rank at the top.

I do think Season 5 was the weakest of the lot in terms of equitably using an ensemble cast to its fullest. However, Drone and Counterpoint are too of my favorites from this Season.

Season 6 was a wierd amalgam of episodes, many took on a comical tone - Live Fast and Prosper. Really liked Dragon's Teeth and Barge of the Dead.

The final season had its share of highs and lows. Highpoints for me include: Critical Care, Shattered and Workforce. Can't say I loved Endgame - it was too hurried to actually bring the Voyager Saga to complete closure when compared to the detail in setting up the Voyager story in Caretaker.

 

[Praetorian]

LOL they really did lose their way at the end especially with Pathfinder and Lifeline etc etc, just plain rubbish.

I actually liked those episodes. Alot...

 

[Guy Gardener]

hey, Bob Picardo wrote Life Line.

An actor sick of being some meat puppet bitch and did something about it.

You have to respect that he is at least attempting to become the master of his own destiny while the rest of them just bent over and took it week after week.

Hmmm?

HA! Tarik Ergin has a higher billing than Jeri Ryan on Voyagers IMDB page.

Lower decks rule!!!

Kate, Beltran, Wang, and Jeri, wrote and directed nothing.

Dawson directed 10 episodes, Robbie directed 4 episodes, Tim Russ directed Living Witness (possibly the best episode ever.) and what the hell is a script revisor? Because Jennifer lien was an uncredited "script reviser" on "Fury" of all things... Which sounds like she complained and got stuff changed, or she adlibbed something they gelled into the script, or they actually wanted her input because her return was something special and awesome, or possibly she was only going to show up if the script didn't suck and her revisions decreased the overall sucking, because the little girl needed some leverage before she'd step back on the lot after they had hurt her feelings with the firing and whatnot?

More investigation is required.

Jennifer seems to be producing this right now, or just then, which at first glance seems like soft porn straight to video.

 

[The Grim Ghost]

Haha, oh wow. I just watched the trailer for Geek Mythology on Youtube. Well at least she's working!

 

[Ro Boat]

The disappointment with Voyager is that it never took advantage of the idea that they were alone in another part of the galaxy. Many of the story lines could have easily taken place on TNG or TOS. This isn't bad, just disappointing. Since the acting and writing was not as consistently good as TNG and TOS, VOY always seemed lacking to me. It seems like the last few seasons were failed attempts to recapture what TNG had. This was taken to such an extreme that there are actually TNG episodes in VOY. I just watched Inside Man. That must have been a slap in the face to the VOY cast.

Season 5 is an improvement over Seasons 3 and 4, but it is all down hill from there.

One notable exception in 6 & 7 is Blink of an Eye. This is one of those episodes that could have easily been on any other Trek. Nevertheless, it is an interesting premise, well-executed too.

As someone else mentioned, the issue with the last few seasons is a lack of focus. Major character development story lines appear, but then disappear without reason. It becomes frustrating to the point that you just want them to get home already.

You have to watch them all though. You have to.

 

[The Grim Ghost]

^ Well they did take advantage of the "alone in the quadrant" thing a few times, but not nearly enough. It should have been the major theme of the show. I think you'll find most people here in total agreement with that.

It seems that a lot of people are real down on seasons 6 and 7. Well yeah there are the wretched Fair Haven eps. and some big wastes of precious time when they should have been tying up loose ends near the end of 7..but I still feel that seasons 6 and 7 are pretty strong.