one of my main annoyances with Voyager is that it irritates me so much that the ship is in such a clean and pristine condition after seven years alone in the Delta Quadrant. After everything that happened with them, that ship should look like it’s barely holding together and glued with duct tape. It should make the Deep Space Nine station look a luxury resort.

Star Trek will be like. This is a hologram, a character made of  photonically-based light projection. This is also a straight hologram.

Man, to this day I can’t believe that the biomimetic lifeform versions of Tom and B'Elanna from  Course: Oblivion got a more moving and pretty wedding scene than the real Tom and B'Elanna, who literally had nothing

Unimatrix Zero is such a mess, both episodes actually… over one hour of nonsense

I mean, to be fair, I think there’s some substance and power in the core premise of unimatrix zero as a concept - a private place where some few lucky drones get to remember who they are and live their lives while their bodies regenerate, like people only able to live in a dream. The ideia of rebel drones too, sentient drones trying to mine the Colective from the inside is very interesting and has potential, too.

However, as it usually is the case with Voyager, the execution of the idea is a disaster lmao

It’s amazing actually, how much effort Voyager accidentely put into the idea of making the Borg toothless. Voyager makes them lose their edge. The Borg Queen in these episodes… her decisions and the way she acts is baffling - why the heck is she trying to negotiate with Voyager. Why does it matter to her. Why does she calls Janeway like some old nemesis to give a warning. Since when does the Borg give warnings… she acts like a cartoon villain. why.

Also the fact that Janeway AND Tuvok AND B'Elanna are assimilated like it’s no biggie is ??? I mean, I know that EMH pulls a Deus Ex Machina solution and that they are able to keep their memories and identity, but assimilation is still a horrifying event?? It’s an incredible invasive, terrifying body violation? It’s something that gave Picard lifelong trauma? If you don’t want to switch series, is something that gave Seven of Nine lifelong trauma?? And still the three of them are able to shake it off at the end of the episode like it’s just another day in the office?!

Fury did Kes so, so wrong. What is the point of bringing back a character notorious for her kindness and compassionate nature to reveal that after her supposed evolution she became some kind of monster that would gladly sell out her friends to have their organs harvested by force so she could have a chance to go home is. appaling. why is Voyager Like This

One of the things that annoys me a lot about Voyager is that a lot of episodes seems to end before they should, like i’ll see the credits at the end and i’ll be like wait no this isn’t supposed to end just yet

i mean like today’s episode of the rewatch, Good Shepherd - it’s an episode with a very good premise and lazy execution (ain’t it Voyager’s story in a nutshell lmao), but I’m a sucker for people-from-lower-decks episodes so I genuinely enjoyed these characters and their struggles, the way it is presented but while yes, the episode ends with them managing to work well enough under dangerous/stresseful conditions, the episode also does absolutely nothing to answer the questions it raised about their lifes and their places in Voyager lmao

One of the things I like about Voyager late seasons is the relationship between Seven and Icheb, especially in the beginning. It feels real, the bond between them, and  I think Jeri is so good at showing Seven’s emotions towards this boy :’)

Not to bash on Voyager once again (I swear i DO like the show lmao i wouldn’t be rewatching otherwise) but the fact that the crew is not as close as I would like drives me up the wall, like

what i mean is that Voyager is completely isolated, unlike any other crew. All the other crews are allowed shore leaves, time off the ship/station, visits and calls to family and friends, even in hard times, and Voyager doesn’t have this luxury - they only have each other, quite literally, which means to me that they should have been a little bit closer than they are. this is something i find more realistic about the Equinox crew, for example - like, heck, I can understand Janeway’s policy of keeping command structure and discipline to not go down on madness but tbh the bonds between the people of the crew should be more obvious. they should be better friends.

and i mean sure we are /told/ that they are but I think I can see this closeness in every other crew and find it believable. TOS crew sacrificing their careers so they could honor their (un)deceased fellow friend Vulcan traditions? I buy that. TNG’s crew does seem like close family too, in great part because they got along so well behind the scenes, but every time those bonds are tested, I bought it too.

DS9 is the most misfit crew and the one who started with the possibility of being the most distant, but the events of the show did a lot to make it believable that when they went separated ways in the end, they were as good as family. Even the Enterprise crew has this close sense of union, be it on the friendships (like Malcolm and Trip), T'Pol’s loyalty towards Archer or even her romance with Trip, like, I can buy it! Discovery crew is also tight as heck, Saru and Michael are as good as family, it’s too soon to tell with the new Picard crew and Lower Decks also has that same sense of union but like…

I always find it missing on Voyager. Always. Not that there isn’t friendships and good relationships in the show - Tuvok and Janeway’s friendship is great, I think Seven and Neelix build a really good relationship with Naomi, but overall the crew lack a greater sense of union to show the depth of their relationships.

I mean, during the sixth season - in a seven seasons show - we have Janeway and Chakotay turning on each other and doubting each other viciously, and all it took was Seven of Nine’s mad theories of conspiracy for them to reach this point. In one episode we have the EMH encouraging Janeway to date a hologram, and two episodes later he’s practically shouting on her face You don’t think I am an equal to you, and you never did with gravity enough for us to see he’s not joking, and the show doesn’t have a good enough record with Janeway for us to think the EMH was exaggerating.

and I think there’s two main reasons for this a) Voyager’s lack of continuity (a whole other can of worms) AND the constant tension behind the scenes (it’s miracle the characters can be civil enough all things considered tbh)

tl:dr Voyager’s distant and at times overly formal crew when by all rights they should’ve been the closest one drives me up the wall

One of the many, many things that bewilders me about Voyager is the completely disappearance of Samantha Wildman combined with the decision of making Naomi Wildman a regular because like, sometimes there’s a mention about Samantha here and there so we know she’s not, like, dead, but overall we just see this five year old girl hanging out with just about every senior officer in the ship while her mother is nowhere to be found

Voyager is a slight better series in a rewatch, when you already know what the failings and problems are so you can appreciate the show for what it is, not what you wished it was. But only slight tho