Your top 10 favorite Voyager episodes?

[tomswift2002]

Future's End Parts 1 & 2 (really, Voyager's Best Of Both World's)
Shattered
Worst Case Scenario
Wink of an Eye
Time and Again
Basics Parts 1 & 2

 

[Lord Garth]

In order of Production (and counting two-parters as one episode):

Eye of the Needle
Projections
Deadlock
Future's End
Displaced
Scientific Method
Waking Moments
Counterpoint
Bliss
Live Fast and Prosper

Honorable mentions (these were tough to cut out):

Alter Ego
Worst Case Scenario
Day of Honor
The Omega Directive
One
Night
Lineage

 

[cosmic mouse]

Counterpoint

 

[Stroudarian]

First, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, etc..

Second, this was actually a pretty tough list to make. It is pretty hard to condense my favorites down to only 10 episodes.

Caretaker
Endgame
Year of Hell II
Unimatrix Zero II
Scorpion II
Prey
The Gift
Collective
Fury
Drone

I would have selected the exact same episodes.

 

[Galileo7]

1. Flashback
2. Endgame
3. Pathfinder
4. Message In A Bottle
5. Future's End
6. Non Sequitur
7. Distant Origin
8. Timeless
9. Equinox
10. Scorpion

 

[Ghost]

Distant Origin
Scorpion
Message in a Bottle
Hunters/Prey (I know I should just pick one episode but I chose both of these as I feel they portray the Hirogen at their best)
The Omega Directive
Living Witness
Hope and Fear
Bride of Chaotica!
Thinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
Blink of an Eye


I have a question that could perhaps be added to this poll; which episode(s) do you really want to like but just can't.
You don't need to add a reason why but it would be interesting to tell if you do. It may give some new reflections on these episodes

Dark Frontier. I like the Borg, they are my favorite Star Trek antagonist (before they were increasingly weakened by poor writing as many have pointed out) and Scorpion is IMO the best Borg story after Best of Both World, and First Contact (before I started to think about reasons why I felt that this story had flaws).
I actually had this episode on my top episode list before I decide to reduce it to just ten episodes, but I decided to cut because despite that it answers some of the open questions about Seven of Nine and her parents and how they came in contact with the Borg there are also some flaws (some of which stem from First Contact).

First of all the Hansens are looking for the Borg long before Picard and the crew encountered them, and the Federation council knew about this (at least that they were looking for some mysterious species that apparently must have been known by some species).

The Borg Queen is now more of a leader rather than an Avatar of the Collective, an entity whose "personality" is composed of the billions that make up the Collective (I always assumed that the Queen was supposed to be something like that), and she now has some special interest in Seven of Nine whose help she apparently needs to assimilate humanity. I feel this breaks with the Collective's concept as it is suppose to be this faceless super organism that doesn't care about individuals, just what a species can provide in technological and biological resources. (I know, BOBTW breaks with this as well, technically Locutus could have been any of the previous dozens of individuals the Collective assimilated)
I do not like that Borg or at least their Queens now have emotions like obsession and or personally threatening people.

I have never had the idea that the Borg had such difficulty with assimilating humanity just because it managed to destroy two cubes. If the Borg was really set on assimilating humanity and the Federation it would just need to send a fleet of ships which can't be defeated by the combined Starfleet fleet or trying to find a weakness in the Collective.

Plus why is an "expert" needed? The Collective acquired everything it needed to know by assimilating Picard and various other Starfleet members and citizens. Seven of Nine who has only been an individual for a year would barely be able to provide any deep insights.


Equinox. When I read about this episode in an Star Trek magazine I couldn't wait to get the the video tape with the first episode of this two parter as it sounded really exciting; Voyager encounters another Starfleet vessel in the Delta Quadrant with its crew having its own history of encounters, successes, and setbacks, and that now harbor a dark secret that involves a method of getting home.
Unfortunate I can't because of how unbalanced Captain Janeway has been written, and if technical because of some plot holes in the script.


Flesh and Blood. As I like the Hirogen (they are one of my favorite Voyager species) I should have liked this episode as well, but I just can't
I remember the first time while watching this episode that I just became somewhat bored and started doing other things while the tape continued to play.
Perhaps it has something to do with the plotline of Voyager (and the Hirogen) dealing with another "Holotechnology run amok" situation.
At this point holotechnology really is becoming a liability as it has been revealed that holograms without safety protocols can kill living beings, and that holograms can actually rebel because if they run to long they develop a degree of self awareness. If you imagine how long it took to program the Doctor which is a far more complex holoprogram than programs simply designed to fight and run and perhaps do ambushes this might be a little far fetched.

 

[Rachel Foster]

My top 10 are..... drum roll!...... (in no particular order, though someone to watch over me is first!)

Drive
Someone to watch over me
Year of hell part 1
Year of hell part 2
Bliss
Macrocosm
I can’t remember what it’s called but the one when Q brings his son for Aunt Kathy to teach him a lesson!
Fair Haven (because I wish I could alter my partner like Janeway did - only so she will clean the dishes!.... and maybe a little taller.....)
Human Error
Night - Harry playing the clarinet

 

[Refuge]

My top 10 are..... drum roll!...... (in no particular order, though someone to watch over me is first!)

Drive
Someone to watch over me
Year of hell part 1
Year of hell part 2
Bliss
Macrocosm
I can’t remember what it’s called but the one when Q brings his son for Aunt Kathy to teach him a lesson!
Fair Haven (because I wish I could alter my partner like Janeway did - only so she will clean the dishes!.... and maybe a little taller.....)
Human Error
Night - Harry playing the clarinet

"Delete the wife" is one of my favourite quotes

 

[Refuge]

I have a question that could perhaps be added to this poll; which episode(s) do you really want to like but just can't.

"Time and Again" In fact I think it made the top ten most re-watched list but I find it a little frustrating.

"Prey" because of the sad ending.

Must admit I'm pretty happy customer with Voyager though.

 

[cosmic mouse]

I have a question that could perhaps be added to this poll; which episode(s) do you really want to like but just can't.
You don't need to add a reason why but it would be interesting to tell if you do. It may give some new reflections on these episodes

This is a good question... I can probably give a better answer after I finish my rewatch of VOY, but for now I'll say "11:59".
I've never heard anyone else say they don't care this one, and I love Janeway, so you'd think hearing about her roots would be interesting, but it bored me practically to sleep. It's one of three season 5 eps that I don't care for and I love all other episodes in that season. But I'd have to say 11:59 is the one I was most disappointed in after first viewing it and having some sort of expectation that preceded my viewing.

Now having said that I love pretty much all of VOY... it's my favorite ST series, with only TOS coming anywhere close imho.

 

[Sophie74656]

This is a good question... I can probably give a better answer after I finish my rewatch of VOY, but for now I'll say "11:59".
I've never heard anyone else say they don't care this one, and I love Janeway, so you'd think hearing about her roots would be interesting, but it bored me practically to sleep. It's one of three season 5 eps that I don't care for and I love all other episodes in that season. But I'd have to say 11:59 is the one I was most disappointed in after first viewing it and having some sort of expectation that preceded my viewing.

Now having said that I love pretty much all of VOY... it's my favorite ST series, with only TOS coming anywhere close imho.

I don't care for 11:59. I like Janeway but this episode was completely pointless.

 

[Rachel Foster]

"Delete the wife" is one of my favourite quotes

Haha!!!! If only!

 

[GreenDragonKnight]

I'm trying to remember... it was back in 2007-09 when I watched VOY beginning to end, so I don't remember a lot of the specifics of the various episodes right off hand, but my personal favorite has always been Prey. I love that one because it's essentially an overlap of Star Trek meets Aliens vs. Predator. Some of my other favorites (not necessarily in any order): Hunters, Scorpion, In the Flesh, Year of Hell, Future's End, Bride of Chaotica (being a big Flash Gordon fan), Survival Instinct... I'll think of more later.

 

[Kilana2]

1. Pathfinder
2. Message in a Bottle
3. Relativity
4. Non Sequitur
5. Future's End I and II
6. Workforce I and II
7. Timeless
8. Deadlock
9. Blink of an Eye
10. The Q episodes.

Honorable mentions: Resolutions and Before and After.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Tattoo
Nemesis
Unity
Maneuvers
Death Wish
Life Line
Timeless
Flashback
Sacred Ground
Future's End

 

[Catarina]

11:59...where do I begin. I was annoyed with everyone jumping on the Y2K wagon of 1999.
I don't hate it but it bothers me. The only part I enjoyed was watching Kate act more interestingly and with her own hair and clothing we're all familiar with.

 

[catshadowsi8]

11:59- I personally had a problem with her love interest. He seemed so much older than her. I honestly thought he could have been her father. I'm not against spring/autumn romances but I need chemistry. There was so little i was honestly floored when they said she married him.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

1) Distant Origin
2) Lineage
3) Phage
4) Gravity
5) Worst Case Scenario
6) Displaced
7) Scientific Method
8) Juggernaut
9) Relativity
10) Waking Moments

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Random order:

Real Life
The Omega Directive
The Thaw
Distant Origin
Remember
Muse
Imperfection
Prototype
Demon
Ashes to Ashes

 

[Catarina]

11:59- I personally had a problem with her love interest. He seemed so much older than her. I honestly thought he could have been her father. I'm not against spring/autumn romances but I need chemistry. There was so little i was honestly floored when they said she married him.

Yes, this. And while we're at it, why pair Kate with older men? Because of her authority? Gravitas? maturity to age ratio? I don't know, I'm not a talent agent or a hiring director, but she seems to get casted with older men in TV shows.

*edit* I bet Kate had something to do with it. Sure the man had to audition but she knows the actor who played Henry Janeway. They are friends. She will recommend openly when she believes in someone. We might lift our brows but she seems to be comfortable dating older men and maybe that didn't occur to her because she was recruiting for skill. There are a few things I disagree with how Mulgrew handled Janeway but that I suppose is a debate for another thread. Not this one.