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DS:9 was interesting. Took a while to get going, and I wasn't so fond of the entire season they spent aboard a tiny little ship and NOT on the station, but hey you can't win 'em all. But it wasn't exciting so much as it was ... "interesting".
Voyager sucked donkey nuts. Whether or not you like Jeri Ryan in skintight spandex (I don't - whether or not she has the body of a venus she has the face of a MAN, MAN!) you have to admit that the show, while it had promise, SUCKED.
I mean, I honestly thought that the days of shows where a twist of fate at the very end of the episode kept the people stranded/marooned/stuck/going every single bloody time were OVER. This isn't Gilligan's Island, this isn't "Lost in Space", it's Star Trek.
I mean, c'mon - at LEAST a dozen times, Captain Kurt (err... sorry... Capt. Kate!) passed up a perfectly good opportunity to get home. "No, we must save <race x> from their natural enemies!" WTF happened to the prime directive? "No, we promised we wouldn't use that." THAT was the episode that clinched it for me. The aliens said "well, we have technology that would send you home, and we won't stop you from using it, but we'd really prefer it if you didn't..." and the dumb b***h says "oh, ok we won't".
They booted the most interesting characters off the show, never developed the most interesting potential relationships or subplots, and basically just wrote the damn thing into oblivion. I stopped caring after the first season, and stopped watching after the second.
Things they should have followed up on, and/or never mentioned:
1. Voyager is a living ship, right? Great. Pre-farscape. Only problem? They gave it a cold once, first season, and then never mentioned it again. Oopsie!
2. Vulcans have amazing mental powers that nobody ever knew about before. Yeah, ok.
3. Babies. ONE episode, second season, Capt. Johnway (err... Janeway, sorry I have a hard time remembering it's a girl) wrestles with the fact that if they're stuck out in space people might pair off and *gasp* screw. And that this pairing and *gasp* screwing might in fact lead to *gasp* babies! Then it was never mentioned again. (Sense a trend yet?)
Then, just when everyone is beginning to COMPLETELY not care about the show, they bring in a post-op transsexual (sorry, Jeri fans - I just can't look at that square jaw and that well-defined adam's apple without thinking it) in a tight suit.
*sigh*
I loved the original Star Trek, honestly I did. But let's face it - it wasn't exactly GOOD sci-fi. It had gigantic floating Abraham Lincoln heads, for crying out loud! But it set a standard.
TNG blew away that standard. 8 seasons, all of which were quite good. Memorable characters. I can't even remember the entire voyager crew, and the only people I remember from DS:9 are Quarg and Odo.
*shrug*
Hey, it's all my opinion.
- Gurm
Voyager sucked donkey nuts. Whether or not you like Jeri Ryan in skintight spandex (I don't - whether or not she has the body of a venus she has the face of a MAN, MAN!) you have to admit that the show, while it had promise, SUCKED.
I mean, I honestly thought that the days of shows where a twist of fate at the very end of the episode kept the people stranded/marooned/stuck/going every single bloody time were OVER. This isn't Gilligan's Island, this isn't "Lost in Space", it's Star Trek.
I mean, c'mon - at LEAST a dozen times, Captain Kurt (err... sorry... Capt. Kate!) passed up a perfectly good opportunity to get home. "No, we must save <race x> from their natural enemies!" WTF happened to the prime directive? "No, we promised we wouldn't use that." THAT was the episode that clinched it for me. The aliens said "well, we have technology that would send you home, and we won't stop you from using it, but we'd really prefer it if you didn't..." and the dumb b***h says "oh, ok we won't".
They booted the most interesting characters off the show, never developed the most interesting potential relationships or subplots, and basically just wrote the damn thing into oblivion. I stopped caring after the first season, and stopped watching after the second.
Things they should have followed up on, and/or never mentioned:
1. Voyager is a living ship, right? Great. Pre-farscape. Only problem? They gave it a cold once, first season, and then never mentioned it again. Oopsie!
2. Vulcans have amazing mental powers that nobody ever knew about before. Yeah, ok.
3. Babies. ONE episode, second season, Capt. Johnway (err... Janeway, sorry I have a hard time remembering it's a girl) wrestles with the fact that if they're stuck out in space people might pair off and *gasp* screw. And that this pairing and *gasp* screwing might in fact lead to *gasp* babies! Then it was never mentioned again. (Sense a trend yet?)
Then, just when everyone is beginning to COMPLETELY not care about the show, they bring in a post-op transsexual (sorry, Jeri fans - I just can't look at that square jaw and that well-defined adam's apple without thinking it) in a tight suit.
*sigh*
I loved the original Star Trek, honestly I did. But let's face it - it wasn't exactly GOOD sci-fi. It had gigantic floating Abraham Lincoln heads, for crying out loud! But it set a standard.
TNG blew away that standard. 8 seasons, all of which were quite good. Memorable characters. I can't even remember the entire voyager crew, and the only people I remember from DS:9 are Quarg and Odo.
*shrug*
Hey, it's all my opinion.
- Gurm
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its just a tv show... 
I wish people could just take it for what it is... Don't get me wrong. I have seen most episodes and I think it's great. But is is just a show.
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