All week, every day, Spike TV has apparently been airing marathons of the best Star Trek: Voyager episodes. That’s nine hours a day, five days in the week. Can there actually be that many good episodes of the show? This is Voyager we’re talking about here, after all.
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They will probably keep rerunning the same 3 episodes over and over. 🙂
They do seem to be leaning pretty heavily towards the 7 of 9 years…although that may have as much to do with it being the end of the week as it does with Jeri Ryan’s breasts.
There was one episode from before the 7 of 9 years that I liked. Called The Chute or some such, with Tom and the other guy in a prison. That was pretty intense. Shows you how memorable I found the show.
I stopped watching pretty early on. Not having access to a local UPN station near the end of the show’s run didn’t help. But I’ve got to say, judging from the little I’ve seen these past two days, I’m not sure I missed out on anything except Ryan’s breasts.
Trek has its many weaknesses, and these showed through in all the series, but in my experience Voyager had a knack for being consistently boring. I was much more of a Deep Space Nine fan when both shows were on the air.
If they aired nothing buy episodes featuring the Holodoctor as the main character, I might actually watch.
Me, I found Enterprise boring. I often found Voyager actively annoying.
I really haven’t watched enough of Enterprise to form a definite opinion of it. There seemed to be a lot of active retconning involved, and a lot of mistakes made along the way, but on occasion you could catch a glimpse of that thing that probably drew the Trek producers to create the series in the first place. There was a sense of adventure, the possibility of (re)discovery. But I think the show was in the unenviable position of having to be entirely new, so as to appeal to Trekkies who’d seen it all before, while at the same time maintaining continuity with earlier series, so as to not piss those same Trekkies off. Whether the show succeeded or failed at this dual task…well again, I haven’t seen enough episodes to say, really. The episodes I have seen, however, were pretty widely uneven.