I've been a Star Trek fan all my life. I grew up on the original series with Kirk, Spock, Scotty and McCoy, and was delighted when the franchise was revived in 1987 with Star Trek: The Next Generation, with the series updated to the new moral codes and much deeper storylines and a touch less of the comic relief. Deep Space 9 followed in 1993 and when Voyager premiered two years later we had two Trek shows running concurrently. Surely it could not get any better, I thought?
And I was right. It didn't. Voyager was, for me, a huge letdown. Like any series, you give it a chance for a few episodes, even a season, but Voyager in many ways never really got going. Sure, it had some good episodes but they were few and far between and generally the show became for me, and for a large percentage of the Star Trek followers, the weakest of the three descendants of the original.
But my buddy The Batlord does not agree, and in the pages of this journal we will go head to head, watching every episode of Voyager and debating the strengths and weaknesses of each, as well as trying to put the series in perspective. Expect the sparks to fly. Expect scraped knees and red faces. Expect shouted insults and stony silences. Expect a real contest of wills, fact challenged by preference, namecalling and sulking, as two of the most rabid Trekkers here (yeah he probably doesn't consider himself a Trekker but anyone who's willing to partake in a debate with me about the merits or otherwise of Voyager can't avoid the implication) square off against each other in an arena which only one will leave from, bloody but undefeated.
That will be me, of course.
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