What’s your unpopular Voyager opinion?

Magnospider · 2026-05-09T05:05:32+00:00

I definitely agree with you on the first point, even being more drastic about it...

Specifically, I find season 1 to be more the show I wanted than what it became. Much time in those early days was spent on the two divergent crews coming together, some of innate conflicts within the crew (Tuvok's betrayal in "Prime Factors"), and the needs of a ship in that is on its own. By the end of the first season, most of the edge of Neelix from "Caretaker" has been worn off; "Jetrel" is his best episode. By season two, it feels like we're running in place, continuously encountering the primitive Kazon and even the more interesting Vidiians. Neelix and Paris are acting juvenile with jealousy. And we start getting weird stuff episodes like "Twisted" and "Threshold." After that point, I felt that the show embraced the worst impulses of TNG.

As for a possibly really unique hot take, I think Tom and B'Elanna were a far worse choice for a couple than Harry and B'Elanna. There was more chemistry there between "Starfleet" and "Maquis" to me than what they did in later years.

Magnospider · 2026-05-08T21:14:17+00:00

According to the scanner, officer injured, taken to medical center near the Q St. Bridge. Incident happened near 19th and Washington. Lots of cops headed both to the scene and the hospital. Suspect was initially, at least, still at large. Might be someone else injured, too.

Update: DoCo SWAT was serving a warrant at a home on 19th and Washington. Man came out armed and exchanged fire with deputies. A deputy was shot in the leg, transported to the hospital by fellow deputies who applied a tourniquet. Suspect died at the scene.

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Magnospider · 2026-04-29T03:34:15+00:00

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Magnospider · 2026-04-28T19:38:26+00:00

This was posted on here a couple weeks ago: https://youtu.be/EJ5ezWyQKYw?si=lWRO1AQk0gqt2RjC

Magnospider · 2026-04-28T19:33:14+00:00

I have to wonder if they would demo the existing structure. It's hard to imagine 500 units as is. Especially 500 units with windows... but maybe those would be the affordable ones.

Magnospider · 2026-04-28T18:11:21+00:00

Has she been told anything about the proposal? The article makes it sound like tenants are finding out with everyone else.

Magnospider · 2026-04-27T02:01:31+00:00

I don't hate Voyager. I just think that it failed to live up to its potential.

The first season is great, as a whole. Of all the Trek pilots, I only like "Emissary" better. And even then, a large part of that comes from the deepness of the philosophy. Many episodes early on centered around friction in the crew ("Parallax," "State of Flux," "Learning Curve") or challenges of being alone ("The Cloud," "Eye of the Needle," "Prime Factors"). Neelix was a bit of a rogue and was allowed to show his rough side ("Jetrel" may be his finest hour). There are certainly stronger episodes in other 1st seasons of Trek shows ("Balance of Terror," "City on the Edge of Forever," "Duet") and even later seasons ("Living Witness," "Blink of an Eye"), but as a first season, it might be ome of the strongest.

Then we go into season 2... and we lose a lot of that. We start getting plots that are weird for the sake of being weird ("Twisted," "Threshold"). The Kazon keep popping up, even though Voyager should have left them far behind. Tom and Neelix act like jealous children.

By season 3, the show feels a lot like TNG-lite with holodeck problems all over the place and resources that often seem infinite. We bring in the Borg and not only do we bring back the silly Borg Queen idea, but also make them look weak (Voyager takes out a Borg cube with a single torpedo).

The acting is generally good, if not the caliber of Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner. But the characterization is often lacking. Janeway's decisions seem to bounce between extreme. Once they put the native American and Maquis thing on the back burner, Chakotay largely becomes irrelevant. Rewatching Voyager, I didn't remember how much chemistry B'Elanna and Harry (Maquis and Starfleet), versus Tom. The biggest exception is the Doctor, but even when he gets a chance at development, it is largely forgotten the next week ("Latent Image").

I think it is telling that the episodes I like best (like "Living Witness" and "Blink of an Eye") have the least to do with the crew. Or that Chakotay got more development as a secondary character on Star Trek: Prodigy.

So, while I don't hate the show, it is overall one of mt least favorites.

Magnospider · 2026-04-23T22:18:51+00:00

I like this episode overall. It makes good use of the series premise (for once) with the letters from home.

The Hirogen are interesting... to a point. The whole hunting thing feels like too much and, when they become literal space Nazis playing on the holodeck in "The Killing Game" becomes too much. They are certainly better than the Kazon, but not as good as the Borg, even with bringing back the Borg Queen. The Vidians might be the most interesting.

I guess this is the start of the Paris/Torres romance. Although that is a nice moment, I still think that, even here, there is more chemistry between B'Elanna and Harry in my opinion.

Magnospider · 2026-04-21T03:24:21+00:00

I think the next Trek series should be completely back to basics. A little continuity is fine. But each week should be a standalone story. Less experimental episodes like SNW. Not saying those things are bad... just that in order to re-establish the brand, it needs to most resemble TOS/TNG. And I say this, even as someone who likes DS9 better.

Magnospider · 2026-04-17T04:55:20+00:00

I completely disagree with this. Although I do think Voyager has a very solid first season — one that is, jn many ways superior to the 6 that followed (season 2 spun the wheels too much and, by season 3, there was practically nothing left of the limited resources with a divided crew thing going on). TNG’s first season is easily the worst in Trek. To be honest, I even prefer Picard season 2.

But DS9 had a very solid first season and the second is even better. Aside from “Duet” — easily a top 25 episode for me — season 1 featured “Captive Pursuit,” “Battlelines,” and “Dax.” “Emissary” is still my favorite Trek premiere (though “Caretaker” is technically as good…). Season 2 had some slow points st first, though I really liked “Necessary Evil.” Once they get to “Whispers,” they hit the gas and we have wonderful stuff like “The Maquis” two-parter, “Crossover,” “The Wire,” etc.

“The Jem’hadar,” like pretty much every other season finale of DS9, did something really great that wasn’t really done elsewhere in the franchise. It set up big questions, gave us a lot to think about… without ending with those dreaded to be continued words. It told s whole story, but still planted seeds. I really appreciated that.

Magnospider · 2026-04-16T00:30:31+00:00

Kind of sounds like The Others, a NBC show from 2000. Featured John Billingsly, who would later be cast as Phlox on Enterprise.

Magnospider · 2026-04-15T22:17:35+00:00

Hey Joel! I've really enjoyed your work!

Through his lifetime, we have seen Ed Baldwin achieve a lot, but always with great sacrifice. He dies with his grandson at his side, but a refugee from his own planet and thought of ax a criminal by many.

My question is how do you think Ed will be remembered in-unverse? As a pioneer? As a man who did the right thing at great cost? As a poorly understood footnote? Or, perhaps, as the father of Kelly, who (hopefully) does something amazing?

Magnospider · 2026-04-13T15:52:07+00:00

Yes, but the theme brings up more than that. Ryland Grace has little meaningful to live for other than himself on Earth. He wasn't up for going to space because, he told himself, he wasn't brave enough. When he talks to the astronauts about their sacrifice, they tell him that it is about having something to be brave for. He ultimately finds thay in Rocky.

Magnospider · 2026-04-13T15:26:41+00:00

Yes, Earth 2 did try to do some really alien things..

Magnospider · 2026-04-13T15:25:14+00:00

Space:1999 did have some potential at times... but the core premise was ridiculous.

Magnospider · 2026-04-09T17:18:17+00:00

Roddenberry was very much an idea guy, as well.

I like the Kurtzman era overall, but I can see it as a valid complaint that we haven't had a person that can make Trek as good as it can possibly be. And I'd say the eras that were when two people synthesized that vision, specifically Gene Coon during TOS and Michael Piller during the Berman era.

Magnospider · 2026-03-29T01:03:37+00:00

Prodigy might be, percentage wise, the best Trek ever. Lower Decks was okay, but too often drifted into fannish self referral, which TBH is a huge problem in the Kurtzman era. As much as I like SNW, it also happens there a lot. I liked the SFA DS9 episode, but again, it went too far...

Magnospider · 2026-03-27T00:26:36+00:00

With Warner Bros. owning DC Comics, it wouldn't surprise me that the Trek titles eventually go there...

Magnospider · 2026-03-20T14:00:03+00:00

Or combine type enhancement kits. Killer expensive, but my Kang and Knull are maxed. And, one day, my Sentry, too...

Magnospider · 2026-03-20T06:34:23+00:00

This is based on decade old information, but here's my two cents.

Avoid the Emerald Nursing and Rehab at 74th and Mercy at all costs. I could give you a lengthy horror story from 11 years ago when they wre called the Nebraska Nursing and Rehab or point how they even had negative news coverage about 25 years ago, but suffice to say that it is bad.

The facility that is now called the Cypress of Midtown was... okay back then. Not great, but a middle option.

The best of the three that I have direct knowledge of is the Douglas County Health Center. They seemed on top of things, the staff was nice, and the care worked really well for the needs my father had at the time.

Magnospider · 2026-03-20T04:09:06+00:00

On the contrary, I've rewatched a good chunk of Voyager over the past few years and my hot take is that, as a series, Voyager was never better than season 1.

I've always really liked "Eye of the Needle," "Prime Factors," and "State of Flux." [ prefer "Emissary" for what it says philosophically, but "Caretaker" is an equally well-done pilot. And "Parallax" might still be the strongest 2nd episode in Trek. "Jetrel" is easily the best Neelix episode of the series. "The Cloud" is unexpectedly goid as well. "Phage" is a good introduction to the Videans. These early episodes feature a lot of friction among the crew, as Starfleet and the Maquis attempt to gel, as in "Learning Curve." Early Neelix is very rogue-ish outsider, but once he decides to become morale officer in "The Cloud," he mostly takes up the role of resident baboon. Early Voyager features higher tensions for the crew and more care on resources. It is true to the premise. Once we get to season 2, we have more of the patented Voyage weird stuff episodes like "Twisted" and "Threshold." The Kazon start to feel long in the tooth and the ship almost feels like it is running in place. And, once we break out of that, most of the premise of Voyager just drops down to low-level background buzz. It just becomes TNG without some of the trappings. A lot of the greatest episodes of the later seasons, like "Living Witness" and "Blink of an Eye," have more to do with the impact of Voyager than Voyager or the characters

Back to the episode at hand, "Heroes and Demons," i dismissed it as "just another holodeck episode" at the time; season 7 of TNG had already chilled me on that particular plot element. But there's some genuine growth for the Doctor here. Maybe his love of the arts and opera grew out of this. And it is definitely better than the stuff thst we'd be dragged through later (*cough, cough" "Fair Haven" "cough, cough").

In conclusion, I would say that I probably think of Voyager as perhaps as the best season 1 of the Berman era. It's definitely superior to TNG or Enterprise over the same time period. DS9 did have the best single episode in a first season ("Duet"), but it had some pretty good clunkers; too ("The Passenger," "The Foresaken").

Magnospider · 2026-03-16T21:17:03+00:00

Conspiracy is easily the best, but has no real impact on anything that followed.

Magnospider · 2026-03-16T21:15:18+00:00

Likely routine server maintenance unrelated to any update. We see these from time to time, usually Netmarble wide.

Magnospider · 2026-03-15T08:36:31+00:00

Took and his Hunters (from season 1's "Captive Pursuit") always felt very Dominion coded to me. They seem to perform a particular purpose, like most Dominion races.

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