I read through the search and didn’t find anything on this, which is somewhat surprising since I’ve seen a lot of ST threads. Anyway, what are some of your favorite and hated Voyager episodes?
Favorite eps
Prototype - bunch of robots that killed off their humanoid creators and fight each other.
Death Wish - Q trapped in a comet wants to die but the Q Continuum won’t let him. A personal favorite episode.
Scorpion, parts 1 and 2 - Janeway makes a deal with the Borg for safe passage while helping them fight off Species 8472.
Year of Hell, parts 1 and 2 - Voyager fights a timeship capable of eliminating entire species from ever existing.
Nothing Human - The Doctor creates a holographic doctor of a Cardassian exobiology specialist.
The Bride of Chaotica - Aliens from a different dimension visit the Captain Proton holonovel while in progress and mistaken it for a real threat.
The Disease - Harry Kim gets it on with an alien on a city-sized ship.
Think Tank - A group of aliens want Seven of Nine to join their think tank.
Dragon’s Teeth - Voyager finds a group of sleeping people on a devasted world that still has many enemies.
Blink of an Eye - Voyager is trapped above a planet that has hyperaccelerated evolution.
The worst episode: Kim is somehow transposed with a dead body that was being beamed to its final resting place. The whole thing involved a big religious aspect. “What if” you suddenly learned that your whole image of the afterlife has been a big sham? It was far too overdone and preachy.
This was the only episode of Voyager I thought was really really good. There were a few others that I thought were ok but this one was great. There are to many episodes of Voyager to list that I hate and I don’t really know the titles to all of them any way.
Mortal Coil (Neelix dies and is brought back, then has a crisis).
Sacred Ground (Janeway must have a mystical experience to save Kes. Good because it’s the only Trek episode I can think of that proposed that some things can’t be explained by science.)
The Chute (Tom and Harry in prison, a.k.a. the most homoerotic episode in the history of the Trekiverse. Includes much Disheveled Harry action.)
The Omega Directive - one of the few 7 episodes I liked.
Living Witness (Doc wakes up hundreds of years in the future in a planet whose history claims that Voyager attacked it).
Are you serious? Better than “The Visitor” and “Far Beyond the Stars” (DS9) and “The Inner Light” (TNG)?
Oh, and I forgot: I really liked “Distant Origin”; it managed to do a compelling story despite its hokey premise (dinosaurs left Earth and travelled to the DQ.)
What I dislike about a lot of Star Trek episodes is the use of gimmicks. Now that 7 of 9 can use her nanites to bring back the dead I don’t see why any members of the crew since then had to die.
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Spirituality seems to be ignored in a lot of science fiction unless it had something to do with alien cultures. I always wondered what religions people in the Star Trek universe had since I’ve never seen any references to it. Outside of Chakotay’s Native American spirit animal stuff. No rabbi, priest, of Dali Lama in Star Trek.
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Amazing how two people can watch the same episode and not see the same thing. Homoerotic?
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Was this the one where the Borg wanted to harness the power of some perfect element? I disliked most episodes of Voyager with the Borg and Q.
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Well there’s another episode I thought was pretty cool. That’s two so far.
I, too, enjoyed Living Witness. But my absolute favorite was Message In A Bottle (I think that’s the name… the Doctor is sent to the Alpha Quadrant to help Doc Zimmerman?). I’ve always considered Voyager’s strongest link to be the Doctor, and seeing him act off of himself (I think he convincingly played two separate characters) was a pleasure.
Incidently, I also love Reg Barclay, simply because he’s NOT the oh-so-perfect Federation officer.
I also liked the last-season episode where the Doctor had to “prove” that he was, indeed, a person (I don’t know the episode name).
In fact, most episodes that DIDN’T involve Voyager in danger of being blown up for any reason, I enjoyed.
Finally… the most depressing episode was the one that dealt with the “clones” of Voyager and its crew (from the Demon-class planet). While the premise was ridiculous, the way it was carried out was just very unhappy and tear-jerking.
Best: Living Witness, while good on its own merits, loses points because its premise was essentially based on the writing staff’s contempt for continuity and their audience: after several seasons of beating us over the head with the notion that the Doctor’s program CANNOT be backed up, we got a whole episode starring his backup.
I really liked the first-season episode Eye of the Needle, the best of the “Gilligan’s Island” episodes they did about once a year. The ship found a wormhole leading to the Alpha Quadrant, but it crossed time as well as space, so they would have emerged twenty years in the past.
Worst: My brain almost seizes up when I consider this…there are so many to choose from! Still, I think I have to go with Threshold, also from the first or second season. Tom Paris discovers how to make transwarp drive work. Then he turns into a salamander.
Worst-- “Distant Origin,” just for the scene where Janeway is on the holodeck, and “evolves” the dinosaur 65 million years. WTF?!? Who wrote that, a two year old? It makes my head hurt just thinking about it.
Oh, and most of the rest of the shows that didn’t involve Q or the Doctor pretty much suck as well. Especially Harry episodes. Ew!
What i think is the worst THING about Voyager was Berman/Braga patting themselves on the back for ignoring continuality for story-telling and the lack of continuing minor characters. Apparently neither of them watched an episode of DS9 to see why it was so much better.
They modify the deflector array to perform some task it wasn’t originally designed for.
There’s an accident with the transporter that a) switches someones personalities b) sends someone to an alternate reality/timeline.
Something goes crazy on the holodeck.
A red-shirted crewman gets vaporized 10 minutes after beaming down.
The entire bridge crew except for the one guys who never commanded the ship before goes down to the planet. Some emergency happens and the command staff is stranded on the surface until the end of the show.
The crew stands trial for all of humanity.
The crew throws together some miracle cure for a disease that has been uncurable for 100’s of years.
Some new technology goes from concept to actual production during the course of the show.
The Federation spreads their imperialism to yet another planet.
Have you seen that one?
Just saw a TOS episode called “Bread and Circuses” in which a Roman Empire is still running on a replica of 20th century earth. Anyway at the end it turns out that the religious son cult was actually referring to Christ. So I was wrong about the religious angle.
