I waffled for a few seconds on whether to give this a 6 or a 7. As I think someone else mentioned, I would have given it a 6.5, but decided, somewhat generously I'd say, to round it up to a 7. I'd give WWLB an 8 or 8.5 by comparison, but I may be biased in that I thought DS9 was a better show and I went to the NYC premiere for WWLB and met ISB and got his signature; which was amazing for me.
It was...good, but it was impossible for me to watch it without comparing it to WWLB and finding it a bit lacking by comparison. It's not the puff piece I worried it would be, but kind of like VOY itself I wish it had dug a bit deeper.
I'm glad they touched on Jennifer Lien's departure (although not in as much depth as I was hoping for), and the tension of Jeri Ryan's joining the cast, and I was surprised that they talked about Ronald Moore, but the Garrett Wang stuff felt gratuitous; I also agree with others that at times this felt a bit like a promotion for the cruise, which was pretty banal. What it mostly reminded me of is that VOY just didn't have the gravitas and generally didn't tackle a lot of the harder issues that DS9 was willing to take on. Indeed, call it patting yourself on the back if you'd like, but something I liked about the DS9 doc was when they were recounting the various issues that the series had tackled, and VOY just doesn't have that by comparison, though the discussion of how it influenced women was good to see.
One of the more 'interesting' but also kind of annoying parts to me was that there were instances of TPTB contradicting each other. I'm pretty sure I know who I believe in those...variant accounts...but I don't like it when I feel as though people in documentaries about something that aired over 20 years ago are still playing politics.
This isn't exactly anyone's fault (or is it?), but WWLB also just felt a bit more fun than this one, with the musical performances and the cast perhaps being a bit more willing to make fun of themselves.
It was...good, but it was impossible for me to watch it without comparing it to WWLB and finding it a bit lacking by comparison. It's not the puff piece I worried it would be, but kind of like VOY itself I wish it had dug a bit deeper.
I'm glad they touched on Jennifer Lien's departure (although not in as much depth as I was hoping for), and the tension of Jeri Ryan's joining the cast, and I was surprised that they talked about Ronald Moore, but the Garrett Wang stuff felt gratuitous; I also agree with others that at times this felt a bit like a promotion for the cruise, which was pretty banal. What it mostly reminded me of is that VOY just didn't have the gravitas and generally didn't tackle a lot of the harder issues that DS9 was willing to take on. Indeed, call it patting yourself on the back if you'd like, but something I liked about the DS9 doc was when they were recounting the various issues that the series had tackled, and VOY just doesn't have that by comparison, though the discussion of how it influenced women was good to see.
One of the more 'interesting' but also kind of annoying parts to me was that there were instances of TPTB contradicting each other. I'm pretty sure I know who I believe in those...variant accounts...but I don't like it when I feel as though people in documentaries about something that aired over 20 years ago are still playing politics.
This isn't exactly anyone's fault (or is it?), but WWLB also just felt a bit more fun than this one, with the musical performances and the cast perhaps being a bit more willing to make fun of themselves.
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