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Deep Space Nine starts with the Borg and ends with the protagonist being thrown into an unknown part of the galaxy
Voyager starts with the protagonists being thrown into an unknown part of the galaxy and ends with the Borg
#star trek voyager#star trek deep space nine#Iâve been thinking about this for months#finally figured out how to word it I think#do we really know whatâs in the wormhole?#the gamma quadrant is largely unexplored cause they were on a space station and not a starship#voyager did a good deal of the delta quadrant but they also did a bunch of 4-10k lightyear jumps#so much potential for strange new worlds#come on Star Trek letâs trek some stars letâs goooooo#prodigy is doing its best but the rest mmmmm
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Bottom Five Star Trek VOY Episodes
by Ames
Star Trek: Voyager gets a lot of flak for not always capitalizing on its unique circumstance, as a show about a cumulative journey meant to take a lot of time. Some of that is the episodic nature of the show: audiences needed to be able to tune in randomly and not feel as lost as the crew were. But some bad episodes just had no excuse. And youâll see a lot of that in A Star to Steer Her Byâs picks for worst episodes of the show.Â
Weâll miss all our Delta Quadrant friends, enemies, and alien races, sure. Weâll miss the ship and the crew. But thereâs also a lot that we wonât miss, as there were a good deal of missed opportunities, clunkers, and just plain offensive episodes along the way. Good riddance to those! Scroll on to see what we mean in our bottom five episodes of Voyager below, and/or listen to our coverage over on the podcast (series review starts at 1:29:20) with some audio-exclusive picks from guest star Liz! Itâs finally time to self destruct this ship.
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âThe Fightâ: Ames Iâm pretty clear on my stance on dream sequence episodes, but for those of you sitting in the back: I hate them. Theyâre contrived, theyâre convenient, theyâre too literal. Just ugh all around. Which is a shame because thereâs something in this episode that could have been interesting for Chakotay to do for a change, but it got lost somewhere in boxing metaphors and some Native American spiritualism. Talk about a bad dream!
âTattooâ: Chris Speaking of Native American spiritualism, this episode is just plain uncomfortable and it all comes down to the one line of dialogue that goes too far: âForty five thousand years ago, on our first visit to your world, we met a small group of nomadic hunters. They had no spoken language, no culture, except the use of fire and stone weapons.â Oh writers, you done screwed up to imply that the only reason Native Americans have culture is because aliens. A-koo-chee-moh-no.
âAliceâ: Caitlin Caitlin surprised us a couple times in her series picks by opting for episodes she hadnât even included in her season-by-season lists! So welcome, âAlice,â to the bottoms list. The femme fatale ship was just too tropey and icky and really brought Tomâs character down a few pegs. Itâs episodes like this that make us wonder how on earth Torres stayed with him throughout the show.
âEx Post Factoâ: Jake Tom did some more suffering in this early-seasons dud of an episode. Weâve seen Star Trek do film noir to a slightly better effect in something like DS9âs âNecessary Evil,â but this one just whiffs hard at the style. It doesnât help that the Baneansâ hair feathers are distracting as hell and that the conclusion that the damn dog helps solve stretches credulity to its very limits. Have the writers never met a dog before?
âConcerning Flightâ: Caitlin Youâd think John Rhys-Davies playing Leonardo da Vinci would elevate an episode to something greater, but somehow this baffling episode proved to be a waste of time. We spent most of it confused by pretty much everyoneâs motivations. Why did Tau keep da Vinci around? How did da Vinci not notice anything was out of the ordinary on this planet? Does the sun always set in the same place on this planet? Who knows!
âBody and Soul���: Ames Iâve clumped a bunch of really gross, sexist episodes together if only to rile myself up because I hate these kinds of episodes so much. But how can one not get riled up when Seven tells the Doctor that he violated her and his response is to blame her? What should be a fun romp watching Jeri Ryan get to pretend to be another character is horribly tainted by that âshe was asking for itâ attitude. And then for Seven to be the one to apologize while the Doctor never sees what he did was wrong: VOMIT!
âRetrospectâ: Chris Oh look, more violating Seven of Nine! This show really couldnât help itself sometimes. What else was there to do when you had an attractive woman on the cast but to exploit her? If this episode was trying to debunk false memories, it failed hard by making it about a violation of a woman character because then the only thing you can see is the allegory for fake rape allegations, and that is not the message you want to send. Plus the doctor suddenly peddling pseudoscience is just nonsense.
âBlood Feverâ: Ames Hereâs another gross sexual act that Iâve never been quite okay with. Pon farr as a plot device was fine enough in âAmok Time.â Weird and kind of illogical, but fine. But when Vorik goes and sexually assaults Torres and everyone tries to sweep it under the rug because itâs some weird Vulcan bullshit, thatâs not fine. And when Tom makes it clear that it would not be consensual for him and Torres to bang it out but Tuvok insists they do, I am all the more disgusted. No means no, Vulcans!
âSacred Groundâ: Ames, Jake Weâve got some overlap in our remaining bottom picks, starting with this absolutely nonsensical debate between science and faith that just boils down to: believe everything youâre told without questioning it and maybe magic is real. Thereâs a reason this franchise usually shies away from addressing religion in this kind of way. Itâs one thing for a character (or a person in real life!) to have faith; itâs quite another for miracles to just happen for plot convenience (unless youâre part wormhole alien or something).
â11:59â: Caitlin, Chris, Jake The hatred for Henry Janeway is strong in this room (though that might be because Chris skews the curve a bit). But heâs just a wet blanket of a character whoâs just taking his son and his whole damn town down to his level through sheer obstinance. Add to that the fact that he seriously has no chemistry with Shannon â like really, he could be her father â and youâve got a massive clunker of an episode on your hands.
âFuryâ: Caitlin, Chris, Jake The series as a whole wasted Kes as a character, which was quite the shame to watch, but the one thing it did do was give her a poignant and powerful farewell in âThe Gift.â But Voyager can giveth and Voyager can taketh away, and this return of Jennifer Lien as the hardened, hellbent, furious Kes basically attempts to ruin her character. This was not the Kes we knew and loved, and damned if we even understand how she got there. How dare they do this to our sweeting!
âElogiumâ: Ames, Caitlin, Chris, Jake Finally, the one we all agree on is some other weird sex claptrap. The Vulcans may have their pon farr (which I hate enough on its own), but the Ocampa have elogium, which somehow makes even less sense! Biology aside (blegh), the rest of the episode is confused in its messaging: these are people who are not ready for a baby, but instead of really exploring what that means for them, weâre stuck with this weird Ocampan heat thing. This whole episode has lost its sex appeal!
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See also: our Top Five Star Trek VOY Episodes list! And why not: hereâre all the seasonal tops and bottoms from seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7!
Weâll still miss the Voyager and her plucky crew of misfits⌠just not when they were being racist or misogynist for no reason. And while Iâd love to say weâre glad all those bad episodes are over, thereâs always more bad ideas to go around. Letâs see how our next show in the rotation compares as we prepare ourselves for our next watchthrough: Star Trek: Enterprise! Weâd love for you to watch along with us on SoundCloud or whatever podcast platform is your favorite, to hang out with us on Facebook and Twitter, and to really brace yourself because we know more pon farr action is on the way. Ew.
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