What would have improved Voyager?
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They improved it fine with Farscape and then 10 times better than that with Battlestar Galactica.
Lone ship surrounded by enemies making it's way off to the other side of the galaxy to find a home called earth.
Lone ship surrounded by enemies making it's way off to the other side of the galaxy to find a home called earth.
Exactly. Most of VOY's flaws can be traced back to this problem. Even the fact the creative team that just got DS9 up and running was a little tired and reluctant to create yet another new show can be traced back to the fact UPN demanded a Star Trek show as its flagship property.
One word: Shatner.
Shatner's barely not god.
Kiradax it wasn't that there was a reset button more than half the adventures were about different quicksilver alien duplicates.
Kiradax it wasn't that there was a reset button more than half the adventures were about different quicksilver alien duplicates.
A different writing staff.
1) No chakotay- make Tom Paris an older rogueish man and a commander.
2) Crew finds out Seska is cardassian but she stays on anyway...no stupid pregnancy. I always liked Seskas acidic wit...instead of a cardboard cutout villain she would have worked better as a foil
3) B'lanna looks and acts more klingon
4) No neelix
5) No holodecks
6) Scarcity...if you everything you need where are the plot twists?
7) The maqui and the federation do not have to be enemies but they do have to do things differently.
2) Crew finds out Seska is cardassian but she stays on anyway...no stupid pregnancy. I always liked Seskas acidic wit...instead of a cardboard cutout villain she would have worked better as a foil
3) B'lanna looks and acts more klingon
4) No neelix
5) No holodecks
6) Scarcity...if you everything you need where are the plot twists?
7) The maqui and the federation do not have to be enemies but they do have to do things differently.
Stupid UPN executives interfering with the creative process too much.
This should be bolded and underlined.
Year of Hell: the Series.
Actually, thinking about it more, it wasn't even so much the stories or the acting or such that made the show fall mostly flat. It was simply the overall background atmosphere. Voyager was just too clean.
The uniforms were rank and file neat. Bulkheads and floors were sparkling whole and unscratched (not to mention the most completely bland color scheme possible). Repairs happened at the snap of a finger (or at least by Janeway's second snap). You never heard complaints about food shortages or berthing crunches, replicator failings, or power conservation blackouts. Nobody missed home for more than five seconds, and everyone got along peachy keen after five minutes.
For a ship lost 70 years from home, life was just too easy.
The uniforms were rank and file neat. Bulkheads and floors were sparkling whole and unscratched (not to mention the most completely bland color scheme possible). Repairs happened at the snap of a finger (or at least by Janeway's second snap). You never heard complaints about food shortages or berthing crunches, replicator failings, or power conservation blackouts. Nobody missed home for more than five seconds, and everyone got along peachy keen after five minutes.
For a ship lost 70 years from home, life was just too easy.
They should have made it more an ensemble show and not just about 2 or 3 characters.
They should have tried to do something new with the charaters and not repeated the same stories over and over again (The Doctor and Seven always discovered humanity in their eps, B'Elanna always came to terms with her Klingon side, Tuvok always lost control...)
Their situation (alone in unknown territory, looking for supplies, missing their families back home) should have been more developed. Who missed family anyway? B'Elanna and Tom were estranged from theirs, Chakotay's father was dead, Janeway's as well, Neelix's family was dead, too, so was Seven's, the Doctor didn't have any. Kes' family was probably dead, too. That leaves Harry and Tuvok. And Tuvok wouldn't show he missed them. So we always got the impression they didn't really care too much about going home....
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They should have tried to do something new with the charaters and not repeated the same stories over and over again (The Doctor and Seven always discovered humanity in their eps, B'Elanna always came to terms with her Klingon side, Tuvok always lost control...)
Their situation (alone in unknown territory, looking for supplies, missing their families back home) should have been more developed. Who missed family anyway? B'Elanna and Tom were estranged from theirs, Chakotay's father was dead, Janeway's as well, Neelix's family was dead, too, so was Seven's, the Doctor didn't have any. Kes' family was probably dead, too. That leaves Harry and Tuvok. And Tuvok wouldn't show he missed them. So we always got the impression they didn't really care too much about going home....
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