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[ivyfic]

I am continuing with my very flawed project of watching all of Star Trek. The fact that Voyager can have an episode in season three where two characters discuss how wonderful it is to be on Voyager and how they feel very fortunate to be there means that THEY HAVE JETTISONED ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE INTERESTING ABOUT THE PREMISE OF THE SHOW.

It's rather like people on Battlestar: Galactica treating it like summercamp. You are stranded so far from home you will probably never get back in hostile territory where you have no support system, no way to replace anything that breaks, and no reenforcements to call on. You will most likely die on some backwater planet and no one back home will ever know what happened to you. Yeah. Sounds like a FANTASTIC time.

(What other show treated a similar set-up like it was summercamp? Oh, right. Stargate: Atlantis.)

Comments

[mithras03.livejournal.com]

What episode was that? I'm seriously starting to believe that I've blacked out much of Voyager; my brain has just erased my memory of it - particularly the first three seasons - as a form of self-preservation or something....

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Some Neelix-centric drivel where he accidentally gets involved in drug dealing while trying to procure a map. Honestly, I was reading while it was on.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I hate Neelix. Not as much as I hate Kes, but still quite a lot.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

There was a kernel of something that could have been interesting in this episode--here's this guy who's weaseled himself into a sweet gig and the most luxurious (and probably safest, despite their enemies) ship in the sector. But he was brought on as a tourguide and they've reached the end of his knowledge, and he's anxious about staying.

Except they turned it into this shmoopy we're all a family crap when they should have been like well, you want to stay? There are some waste recepticles that need cleaning.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I feel like in DS9, they would have gone there.