RedLetterMedia - Star Trek: Voyager Season One - re:View

I'd get it in a heartbeat if I could play it on my Mac.

I have never been to the star trek sublistnook why would this be taken down?

I was wondering why I couldn’t see it there

Probably will fly in /r/voyager Edit it's there already

Mike made an excellent and profound point about how anyone who thinks the things they believed in in their 20's will be the same when they are in their 40's is nuts...lol

Voyager has really great episodes. As a whole it was fairly mid, but it has some of the best episodes (and best comedic episodes) of Trek.

I rewatched it a few years back and it holds up better than I expected. All the Maquis stuff probably could have been executed better, and holy f*** Neelix is annoying, but overall I liked it more than now than when it aired. I'm still holding out for it and DS9 to get a, well shit it was shot on film - do a 4k remaster. I know it cost them a fortune to undo the special effects in TNG, but that sounds like a good use for AI.

Yeah Voyager was “good”.  It wasn’t great, but it was good.   The only character I really liked was The Doctor but even that character I don’t think was handled well.  They were trying to go with a Commander Data vibe but it didn’t make sense.  He’s literally a standard issue piece of software.   Given that they left him running for so long it would have been cool if he became more eccentric, not more human.  Make copies of himself to marionette around the sickbay, use invisible force fields to move objects around the sickbay (because all he is is light and force fields), start teleporting around because there’s no need for him to walk.   All I’m saying is I wished they played more with the idea of a computer program who’s had the keys to his cage handed to him.   Janeway was fine, but that’s about it.   Chakotay had the charisma of a long nap.  Kes and Neelix was f****** weird.  They had zero chemistry and it was awkward as f***.   Harry and Tom were nice.   B’Lanna and Tom, again, was weird.  Zero chemistry and not believable.   Seven was well written and interesting but an obvious act of desperation.  The sheer volume of Borg stories became a chore.  

Voyager is weird because there are so many just really bad episodes but generally all the two parters and the season finales/premiers are all really good Trek up with the best. Also I really like Captain Janeway, and Ricardo as the Dr is just on another level in some episodes with how good he is.

I think I'm super easy to please. I liked all fhe Star Treks from around this era TNG to even Enterprise. DS9 was my favorite though. For me the first two seasons for all those series were probably their worst in my opinion. I've always thought they all took until about season 3 to really come into their own. Voyager a bit moreso than TNG and DS9. AND Enterprise way moreso than the previous three. I have not cared much for the Abrams LENS FLARE Trek nor this current run.

Its a very weird series. I enjoyed it. It doesn’t have the “i know what I am” that DS9 and TNG do

I had a lot of fun rewatching Voyager this past year and then listening to the commentary and review of each episode on the Mission Log podcast.

> The wandering through an unknown quadrant with no backup and no idea about the local systems just works so well. There’s also obviously an overall goal: to get home. All those things make the stakes higher and I loved it I would call that a strong premise, but the actual execution was... rough. Some Voyager episodes are among the best Trek episodes, but there are so, so many bad ones. Very uneven show, suffered from a lot of bad writing.

The issue is that Voyager has the highest ratio of filler episodes and often the consistently worst writing. Its highs are awesome and there's a lot to love, but it has more mediocre episodes than any other series in the franchise.

The best premise for sure, it was the first trek I was old enough to understand when it was on. Some of the most memorable episodes. I particularly remember the Durst face swap episode scaring the shit out of me.

I am glad people like you who love it got to enjoy it. I like to think that every creation can find its audience. That said, Voyager ranks somewhere around #6 or #7 for me in Star Trek series. 1. DS9 2. TNG 3. STNW (but could be losing ground because of last season) 4. TOS 5. Enterprise (that opening theme is last place, however) 6. Picard (even the last season needed some better direction) 7. Voyager 8. Discovery (liked first 2 seasons then OMG preachiness from the wisdom of pre-teens may make it the worst) 9. Lower Decks (sorry, I know people love it, but it doesn't really grab me.) 10. TAS - I can't watch them at this point and never watched more than like 4 of them 11. Prodigy - I watched it, but Star Trek for children isn't my thing. 12. I am not watching that Academy thing. It looks worse than Discovery's last two seasons and might be related to the "Minds that brought you Section 31."

2/10ths the length of start fleet academy season 1 and it will likely have more views than that entire show by tomorrow.

Voyager was a really good Star Trek series, but rarely delivered on their premise. Much of the time, it just felt like TNG. Which is still good, but not what the show promised.

They always f****** do that. I love RLM, but they seem to be allergic to releasing the later episodes of multi-part videos in a timely fashion, and most of the time they will put out like 5 more videos before they get back to whatever series/movie/director they were talking about like 3 months ago

False. And tired.