# Whoo-hoo! It’s a ST: Voyager-athon on Spike! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-hoo-it-s-a-st-voyager-athon-on-spike/384661 "2006-12-18T18:03:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thursday\_next](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@thursday\_next](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thursday_next)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-hoo-it-s-a-st-voyager-athon-on-spike/384661/1 "2006-12-18T18:03:40Z")
Imagine my happiness and surprise when I turned on the TV today, flipped around the channels and saw Voyager on Spike! It’s on all this week during the day and then moves to the regular line up in January. I had forgotten how pretty Kate Mulgrew’s hair was when it was long. What a nice present from Spike to me. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-hoo-it-s-a-st-voyager-athon-on-spike/384661/2 "2006-12-18T19:21:34Z")
Damn! Wish we had cable. Are they showing them in original airing order, or a “best of” selection? I have to admit, Trekker that I am, there were less than, say, 20 VGRs that I really liked. Most were just “meh,” and another 20 were just gawdawful (the Warp-10 show where Janeway and Paris turned into salamanders and mated, for instance :smack: ). ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-hoo-it-s-a-st-voyager-athon-on-spike/384661/3 "2006-12-18T20:06:36Z")
Oh, how lucky we are. If we’re really lucky, they’ll follow this with a DS9 marathon. ---
**Author:** ![thursday\_next](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@thursday\_next](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thursday_next)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-hoo-it-s-a-st-voyager-athon-on-spike/384661/4 "2006-12-18T22:29:15Z")
**Elendil’s Heir** , its a best of, in order. Sorry you’re going to miss it. _Threshold_ is pretty cheesy, but it makes me giggle. Its not in the listed line up anyway. For anyone interested, [Startrek.com](http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/22055.html) has the schedule listed. My computer doesn’t like Spike’s website so I don’t know what they have to say. Hey, if they had a DS9-athon later, I probably would plotz! Especially since Sci-Fi is going to start airing _Enterprise_ on January 8th and I’d expect some kind of marathon from them. Hooray for the trekkie goodness! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-hoo-it-s-a-st-voyager-athon-on-spike/384661/5 "2006-12-18T22:36:17Z")
Dear Spike, 1). Please show the one where Kes keeps jumping through time backwards 2). Then show the one episode where Jeri Ryan sits naked for the Doctor to paint her. 3). Repeat #2 continuously. ---
**Author:** ![Asgardking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Asgardking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asgardking)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-hoo-it-s-a-st-voyager-athon-on-spike/384661/6 "2006-12-19T04:46:10Z")
Damn, according to that schedule, I’m going to miss The Thaw. Micheal McKean as an evil clown was just cool. ---
**Author:** ![MrDantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@MrDantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDantastic)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-hoo-it-s-a-st-voyager-athon-on-spike/384661/7 "2006-12-19T04:53:57Z")
so is voyager taking TNG’s spot in january, or are they going to be at different times? ---
**Author:** ![Clark\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@Clark\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_K)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-hoo-it-s-a-st-voyager-athon-on-spike/384661/8 "2006-12-20T23:23:41Z")
Oh God, I’d forgotten how incredibly mediocre this show was, especially in light of Battlestar Galactica. Any sort of emotion, human drama or originality was methodically removed from the show before it could air. I assume they remodulated the deflector dish to do the job. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-hoo-it-s-a-st-voyager-athon-on-spike/384661/9 "2006-12-21T02:46:41Z")
[QUOTE=Clark K] Oh God, I’d forgotten how incredibly mediocre this show was, especially in light of Battlestar Galactica. Any sort of emotion, human drama or originality was methodically removed from the show before it could air. I assume they remodulated the deflector dish to do the job. [/QUOTE] That’s what kills me about this show: the basic premise is fantastic, but they consistently shot themselves in the foot. ---
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-hoo-it-s-a-st-voyager-athon-on-spike/384661/10 "2006-12-21T02:49:12Z")
I for one loved Voyager, and most of the episodes. Today saw the one where Kes goes backwards in time. Also today, one that I don’t care for, the reptilian characters in search of their human ancestors – too many reptilians and not enough Voyager people. I thought this was one of the most original and imaginative of the Star Trek series – a strong, yet feminine, woman captain, lots of human emotions, all kinds of interesting stuff happening on the holodeck, some humorous moments, especially involving the doctor, many subplots involving the backgrounds of the major characters, the borg/human Jeri Ryan, and frequent disruptions to the space-time continuum (I love any show that tackles the time travel concept.) I just hope that Spike will show the series chronologically starting Jan. 2. ---
**Author:** ![Clark\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c77e96/32.png) [@Clark\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_K)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-hoo-it-s-a-st-voyager-athon-on-spike/384661/11 "2006-12-21T03:41:24Z")
[QUOTE=Sycorax] Today saw the one where Kes goes backwards in time. … I thought this was one of the most original and imaginative of the Star Trek series – a strong, yet feminine, woman captain, lots of human emotions, all kinds of interesting stuff happening on the holodeck, some humorous moments, especially involving the doctor, many subplots involving the backgrounds of the major characters, the borg/human Jeri Ryan, and frequent disruptions to the space-time continuum (I love any show that tackles the time travel concept.) [/QUOTE] I saw the backwards-in-time show, too, and was left flat. I didn’t feel that Kes was scared or that the concept of reliving her life was ABOUT anything, except a gimmick. Maybe if one of the Maquis characters had regressed, or Paris – someone who’s made mistakes and lived an interesting life – the episode would have had some resonance. And the technobabble! Chroniton particles. Temporal torpedoes. Stasis fields. I just felt so bad for the actors who had to deliver all this make-believe exposition without any true emotion. The thing is, I agree that the show had interesting elements. A female captain, a mixed crew, the lost in space bit. Instead of doing anything with that (at least in the episodes I’ve seen), they wasted their time on holodeck malfunctions and temporal rifts.