Why does everyone agree that Season 3 is the worst season of VOY?

[M.A.C.O.]

Season 3 is where I feel the show finally started working. There were a lot of memorable/entertaining episodes.

Far better than season 2. And better than season 1, now that the initial shock of the crew being stranded in the Delta Quadrant being the status quo.

Plus, all that build up for Kes that season to drop her in the next. Oh what could have been.

 

[Oddish]

Season 7 was pretty mediocre, but season 3 had a huge slump of just meh to awful episodes in the middle. "THE Q AND THE GREY", "MACROCOSM", "ALTER EGO", "BLOOD FEVER", "CODA", "RISE", "DARKLING", and "FAVORITE SON".

At least some of those episodes seem to have widely varied opinions. Some liked them, others didn't. Maybe that's S3 in a nutshell.

 

[tomalak301]

At least some of those episodes seem to have widely varied opinions. Some liked them, others didn't. Maybe that's S3 in a nutshell.

I would describe that for Voyager as a whole. I liked some of those episodes listed too, like Macrocosm, Blood Fever and Coda. Also there was Susie Plakson as the female Q so I can't hate that episode by default.

 

[Oddish]

I would describe that for Voyager as a whole. I liked some of those episodes listed too, like Macrocosm, Blood Fever and Coda. Also there was Susie Plakson as the female Q so I can't hate that episode by default.

And the scenes with Q and Janeway. You could see the chemistry between John de Lancie and Kate Mulgrew, close friends IRL.

 

[TheAdmiralty]

Not a Voyager fan but was not aware people thought this, I think it was an improvement over the first two years.

*B'Elanna might have been a manageable sacrificial lamb. She was important enough that the viewers would feel her loss, but her character was kind of on a treadmill.

Ron Moore said when he was trying to write Barge of the Dead and was asking the more experienced writers about B'Elanna to try and understand the character they just told him they'd given up and he could write whatever he wanted.

 

[Oddish]

Ron Moore said when he was trying to write Barge of the Dead and was asking the more experienced writers about B'Elanna to try and understand the character they just told him they'd given up and he could write whatever he wanted.

You can't expect people who can't even ration out 38 torpedoes to understand the abstract concepts of half-Klingon angst.