Originally Posted By: thedoctor
 Originally Posted By: thedoctor
Voyager sucks!


 Originally Posted By: Lothar of The Hill People
TNG and DS9 set the bar high. Whatever followed had to be as good or better. Poor Voyager just did not reach those levels.


on all counts. Except substitute "the Dominion War" for DS9 in Lothar's post.

TNG remains the high-water mark for me and many fans in terms of consistently good Trek. After Roddenberry died, we started seeing some deviation from his original singular vision for Trek. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing - hippie morality plays in OUTER SPACE tend to bore me after the second or third nearly identical one. But as DS9 progressed, there seems as I look back to be a 'buckshot' effect where the unity of the ongoing storyline (not to be confused with the continuity; one's conceptual and the other's structural) starts to dissolve and the focus of the show fans out so much it's barely impacting anything after a while.

Dominion War brought it all back together for a kickass wild ride - a decidedly less placid Trek universe that more adequately satisfied a different generation of viewers. But Voyager went right back to the trend of every creative entity having a completely different direction in mind for the show (if not the franchise), a trend that's killed many a promising franchise within and beyond sci-fi. For almost the entire damn series, they were all over the map, not just in the structural (continuity) aspect of the show but the conceptual (unity) aspect of the show as well. For a while, the most you can say to address the artistic unity of the show is "well, they're still on the way back to the Alpha Quadrant at least".

I'm not going to discuss Enterprise at this time because I don't feel like dealing with the Wrath of Pro™.

go.

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