Voyager: The Next Generation
Ensign Kim is still at Operations.
And he’s died about 20 more times.
It’s why he’s still an ensign. Military organizations have time in rank and time in service requirements. Starfleet doesn’t consider Harry to have met the time in rank requirements since he keeps getting killed/timeline shifted/temporally displaced/sucked into a meteor coffin. Each time this happens his time in rank starts over.
No, I just started watching Voyager for the first time! This can’t be true.
(In my defense, Voyager writers are as painfully terrible with science concepts in season 1 as I remembered. But this time, I’m gonna hold my nose and get through it, so I can see the stuff everyone loves so much.)
Yeah in my old age, I’ve learned to forgive the 1st season of most shows and just power through it to get to the good stuff.
The Expanse and Mr. Robot are both huge and surprising exceptions to that rule.
You will benefit immensely if you also listen to the podcast “The Delta Flyers” where the actors discuss each episode. They give a ton of commentary that is pure gold.
I absolutely adore voy, it grows on you if you give it a chance, first season is rough as usual lol
It is a controversial show that’s for sure. Plus it isn’t nearly as good a series as DS9 overall - but it does capture that “adventuring spirit” from TOS and TNG better, and at the time when shows were watched more in isolation based on whatever came onto the TV when you wanted to watch something rather than binging in succession that was still an important factor in its popularity at the time. I definitely still recommend that show though.
Now Enterprise on the other hand… especially towards the end it literally crossed a line into being an absolute waste of my time imho. But Voyager isn’t that, so enjoy it! (as you said, not quite all of it but mostly :-P)
I used to think that, and in some ways it’s true. I never really appreciated DS9 until much later. There is a ton of “drama” that coming from my sheer worship adoration of TNG, I didn’t like or enjoy at the time. Though later I came to appreciate the greater depth of the show, and looking back I even see TNG now as lacking the drama - IKR, SACRILEGE!? Fortunately they are both excellent shows, and have lots to offer everyone:-).
Also if you haven’t yet check out Earth: Final Conflict, which his wife Majel Rodenberry (computer voice woman) created from Gene’s notes, after he died. It’s a totally different show than any of the Star Treks, but he has such a versatile mind that basically everything he did was good - surely that speaks to enormous efforts made on his behalf to make them thus:-).
Dude, in the 5th episode of season 1, they encounter an alien species that has been decimated by an infection with a phage (which is a virus that targets bacteria, not animals, but ok). This species’ solution to their problem is to steal organs from other species and graft them into their own bodies. So after two millennia, they have the tech to overcome organ rejection, but can’t figure out how to deal with a virus.
So they steal Neelix’s LUNGS, and he sits in sickbay with no lungs while they have a whole ass conversation about trying a dangerous experimental surgery to give him holographic lungs. They do this, and at the end of the episode, their solution is to transplant one of Kes’s lungs into Neelix, leaving them both with one lung.
The doctor just says, “Don’t worry you’ll get used to it,” and the whole show moves on like none of this ever happened.
Omg. Airing alongside DS9 in the wake of TNG, I can see why I declined to watch this show when it originally aired. The season 1 writing is just so bad. But I’m gonna tough it out this time.
The primer of Deep Space Nine happened closer to man landing on the moon than today’s current date.
The moon landing was 24 years prior to DS9 coming out. DS9’s premier was 31 years ago. It’s just a casual observation / joke that people reminiscing about actual space exploration when DS9 came out would be looking back less into the past than people reminiscing about a space station TV show today.
Tbf, TOS is “older” in another way too: it comes from ye olden television times when color was still being added, and CGI wasn’t near the point that it had reached by the time of Voyager. So between those two shows a phase shift had occurred in television, whereas between Voyager and now the types of shifts we have seen have been more like moving from TV signals sent out freely over the airways to having to pay 15 different streaming platforms ON TOP OF your ISP, one for each different season of the show as it gets bought & sold & migrates among them:-(. I wonder how kids today can even begin to image purchasing a device and being able to watch something instantly on it without having to pay for a subscription service, plus hack the ROM to try to get rid of ads being added directly onto the device itself:-|.
I vividly remember in 1996 one of the cable TV stations in Germany had a basically year-long celebration of “thirty years of Star Trek”, airing all the movies, premiering new seasons of DS9 and airing the first season of Voyager for the first time (Germany was a year behind every season, probably because of dubbing and other licensing terms). I was teenager then, loving everything about Star Trek.
And last year it kinda hit me like a brick that in just three years time (now two) we can celebrate “sixty years of Star Trek”.
