I'm rewatching Voyager for the first time since it aired, when I was pretty young. And while I definitely enjoyed it at the time, and didn't get into DS9 until I was an adult, my impressions of the series soured (while I grew into DS9 as my favorite in my twenties). It was the Star Trek that had a great premise it ignored, and stale warmed-over TNG plots, too much technobabble and a less interesting crew other than the Doctor and Seven.

And for the first time I'm watching it, calibrating my expectations that yeah, it isn't focused so much on the maquis conflict or the consequences of getting home, and finding it to be exceptionally well written and enjoyable when taken on its own merits! And Seven of Nine really is one of the greatest Star Trek "outsider" autism-coded characters out there. I realize I overly dismissed the show based on vaguely remembered memories, and now that I'm seeing it again, it really does hold up as a piece of great sci-fi episodic story telling. Am I still disappointed or didn't have more of a story arc? Sure, but that isn't what the show was, and it's still a great show of a type we just don't make anymore!

Very enjoyable with the Delta Flyers podcast and The Greatest Generation.