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Originally Posted by Guru
I'm right there with ya really. As a kid in the 70's I watched TOS whenever channel 41 out of KC would bleed through on our limited antenna. They didn't bring cable out to the house I grew up in until the 90's.
Because of TOS, I watched TNG from the start and was completely hooked. Then I watched DS9 but kind of lost interest after season 3 which seems to be when it really took off. I do like Voyager and even liked the first season of Enterprise.
With all that said, every time I try to go back to TOS the production of it drives me up the damn wall. As a kid with limited access to the show I didn't care about that. Now it is hard to sit through. But, I always go back to watch any ep that somebody references or recommends.
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I'm probably giving Voyager too hard of a time. There were some serious clunker episodes-- far more clunker episodes in Voyager than there were in TNG or DS9. The one where Tom Paris cracks Warp 10, turns into a salamander, finds Janeway, she turns into a salamander, and they run off together to have salamander babies. Horrific. Far worse than Avery Brooks singing "Allamaraine, count to four..."
They put out some interesting aliens, though. As hypocritical as Janeway is about Star Fleet duty, she's pretty badass. They worked with some great sci-fi concepts that TNG just kind of ran out of time to explore. For example, that episode where a copy of the Doctor is preserved in a museum a few centuries in the future on a planet with a violent past. The historical accuracy of the role Voyager played in one of its big events is misunderstood and made to look like Voyager was the aggressor. Science fiction is the perfect vessel to critique something like historical conjecture when not quite all the evidence is there. It's funny how we imagine the past and think we know it, but we really have no ****ing clue at all.
The biggest turn-off about Voyager is just the number of hollow, crap characters that show has. Chakotay was always a giant piece of shit. Neelix was hella annoying. And Tom Paris had so much forced shit jammed into his character, he was possibly the worst-written main character in the entire Star Trek franchise. You can just tell that Rick Berman's idea to put a career ****up and societal misfit like Tom Paris on a starship backfired in his face. He couldn't keep it going. Tom Paris just wasn't Star Trek, so Berman had to turn him into somebody responsible, but then that made him useless. So uh... he likes 20th century Earth stuff! Yeah! And old black and white science fiction holodeck programs! It can be like a meta-critique of the genre it purports to be!