Whatever. The Skipper never murdered a crewmember or tried to destroy an entire astronomical phenomenon for coffee.
He’s out of line, but he’s right
No, this week I’m pretty sure they will actually make it home. How could it go wrong?
At its core, the Gilligan’s Island model relies on the lagoon as its main source of conflict – something floats in, the castaways have to deal with it. The lagoon remains constant, the things in it change. Most ship-based Star Treks are anti-Gilligans Island shows in so far as they are what’s floating into someone else’s lagoon. They remain constant, the lagoon changes.
If anything, I would say DS9 is the better Gilligan’s Island analogue, with the wormhole acting as the lagoon.
In Voyager, the ship is the lagoon. It’s probably got the same square footage as the island. Just look at Voyager as static and the rest of the galaxy is moving past it, washing up shenanigans every week.
Just look at Voyager as static and the rest of the galaxy is moving past it, washing up shenanigans every week.
Instead of looking at it as it actually is? The lagoon is the delta qdt and to get home voyager as a whole must leave it, not to get home they must leave voyager.
The person you are replying to got it right, you’re trying to force voy into the gilligan’s model
Gilligan’s Island and Voyager share the same overarching goal, though: Getting home.
Fuckin and?? Voyager moves, to get home they must not leave voyager but voyager leave the lagoon. The fact they both want to get home does not make it the same model
And Neelix is Gilligan
Wouldn’t Chakotay be Gilligan since it was basically his fault they got trapped in the Delta Quadrant?
Also, he worshiped a stupid imaginary indigenous American deity that wasn’t actually part of anyone’s real belief system. That’s not relevant, but I like to bring up Jackie Marks when I have the opportunity.
