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by BladeCollector
Isn't that a sign of a good story teller, keep them wanting more??
Overall I enjoyed it, I personally would rank it behind TNG and DS9, not because it was bad, but to me, those were much better.
The crew grew on me more and more as the seasons went on and I really liked the edition of 7 of 9, although at first I was like, that must suck for Kes to be fired to make room in the budget for a more attractive woman, but I thought the Kes storyline fizzled out quickly, but it would have been an interesting dynamic to deal with her species short lifespan after really becoming attached to a character that lives only 7 years.
At first I thought they were going to over use the holodecks. They used them quite a bit, but some of the weakest TNG episodes, for me at least, were those holodeck based episodes. Some were cheesy, Tom's sci-fi fantasy etc. I was worried we would get a lot of Janeway's holo novel, but that ended up being only a couple of episodes overall.
I think the series could have been more serialized. It started off sort of that way with the Kazon, the first 2 seasons, but naturally they left their space, as well as the Vidiians. But after that you had the Hunter species and a few here and there, but there weren't really any later DS9 era season long or multi season long arcs that I think, really made DS9 great.
I think they used time travel paradoxes a few too many times, but they did mention that with the temporal investigation units having to deal with Janeway a lot. Not that I am against the time travel episodes, but I don’t like the paradox episodes. Even with the finale, old Janeway goes back to help Voyager get home sooner… so if that happens, then old Janeway would have never gone back in time to help Voyager get home sooner??
I don’t know why I haven’t seen it fully until now, I guess I just put it off and put other shows ahead in my “to watch” list.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.