# A Stupid Thing in Star Trek That Has Annoyed Me For Years (Add Your Own!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2008, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stupid-thing-in-star-trek-that-has-annoyed-me-for-years-add-your-own/456414 "2008-07-14T09:53:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 29
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stupid-thing-in-star-trek-that-has-annoyed-me-for-years-add-your-own/456414/561 "2008-10-21T19:20:29Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > _Voyager_ was a festival of missed opportunities and stupid ideas. Which is bothersome because the series had such potential. If they had stuck to their basic premise–the ship being a lifetime from home & any support—they could have done endless interesting stories. Interestingly, if you google my name, the only thing that comes up is a letter to scifi blasting Voyager for exactly this and telling them to shitcan the show and start over. Good premise completely ignored in order to give us another factory made Star Fleet show. Can you imagine if Buffy had pretty much ignored the vampires and tried to be a typical high school show, or if Babylon 5 had minimized the war and alien races and concentrated on internal plot lines? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stupid-thing-in-star-trek-that-has-annoyed-me-for-years-add-your-own/456414/562 "2008-10-22T00:19:31Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Can you imagine if Buffy Never saw the damn thing. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-stupid-thing-in-star-trek-that-has-annoyed-me-for-years-add-your-own/456414.md?page=28)