Ok so I finished Voyager finally. I feel I have the right to bitch about it. If you liked the show, that's fine, don't have to read this. I might curse a lot. All my opinion of course.
What a dull, mediocre show. It's not like a show you just hate right from the start and then drop. It's more right down in the middle to the point of being so mediocre that it's worse than hating it from the start and dropping it. You keep watching, hoping the show will grow a pair of fucking balls. But no. Almost all of the characters are the most boring, dull people in Trek that I've seen so far.
The reset button was so annoying. It's so obviously there and does absolutely nothing but hamper on potentially good sci-fi. Any thought-provoking and/or potentially good episode is hampered by the continuous episode design of the reset button. They always structure the episodes in a way so that they can implement that. This really takes away any sense of accomplishment or achievement in Voyager, it's like nothing happened. Now about the characters.
Neelix was useless. His roles were useless. They could have had him be more knowledgeable about the Delta quadrant, but anyone with a half a brain is good enough to deal with the Delta quadrant. Their attempts at elevating his role were just sad and pathetic. Tuvok was allright, he was mostly just there, they shouldn't have delved into his Vulcan sex thing and tried to make it all serious and whatnot. Was just stupid. Don't get why they were trying to sell us this Neelix-Tuvok bromance thing or whatever the fuck they wanna call it.
Chakotay is nothing more than a cardboard character that is just there as wallpaper and nothing more. He has his Indian or whatever ancestry and his yo cootchie maya. Yo cootchie gofuckyourself. He lets Janeway walk all over him. Anytime he opposes her, Janeway castrates him on the spot or somewhere down the line. She just shoots him down everytime and almost always turns out to be right, which I contribute to preservation of all things Janeway.
Tom is the dullest of them all. How could you be so fucking boring? Your nostalgia for the past involves a 300-400 yr time period in Earth's history? That's all you fucking care about? Goddamnit, you fucking boring punkass. I hated that he hooked up with Belanna. The reason is cause this made Belanna a weaker character to me. Almost all of the episodes involving the two of them revolve around her acquiescing to Tom's fucking stupidass fetish of the past. Why couldn't you be interested in the Greeks? Or Norse? You fucking assturd, ruined the Holodeck with all your mediocre shit like that stupid Irish village. Got sick of his 'past' fetish and daddy's little girl routine.
Harry is such an incompetent dumbass. I've lost count of how many times he couldn't get a lock. You should be fucking studying the technical manual and everything about the transporters so you never have to say the words "there's too much interference". Go fucking open a book or something, you incompetent boob. By the end of the show, you should have had a fucking Nobel prize for your knowledge of the transporter system. Harry did more chicks than the supposed "playboy" of the crew, Tom. Almost all of his episodes revolve around him falling hard for some fucking chick. Go fucking study, you dumbass. Stop being Tom's beyatch. Tom apparently has time to fucking be a pilot, indulge his douchebag fetish, assist the Doctor, and be a husband. What the fuck are you doing? Maybe that's why you've never been promoted, but we know that's the producers and whatnot. And there's apparently some sex code in the prime directive, whatever Voyager, whatever.
My problem with Belanna was that she tried to be a character that was more than her Klignon genes, but almost all of her episodes revolved around her Klignon-ness. I wish there was something more to her than that. Also, the whole Stepford wife to Tom and his fucking bullshit. Oh Tom, please let me be a part of your bullshit fetish so that you pay attention to me. Fuck Tom.
Seven had lots of potential, that I felt was squandered by an overindulgence of Seven stories. Her and the Doctor pretty much owned the show with their stories. But I hated that she so willingly gave in to Janeway shoving humanity down her throat. Also hate that she's supposed to be all that in the intelligence department, but can't grasp basic social skills and set up more Borg enhancements that would have been beneficial to Voyager. And let's face it, she was basically a sex object. If you honestly do deny this, I just do not value your opinion at all. Her catsuit is not something that's "efficient" which seems to be among her defining characteristics. She should have realized that better social interactions allows her to perform more efficiently in conjunction with the rest of the crew. Her Chakotay lovestory was pretty bullshit, and the writers seemed to have pulled it out of their ass. And apparently she also succumbs to Holodeck obsession.
The Doctor, I liked for the most part. However, I absolutely hated that Voyager seems to have elevated all holodeck/photon beings to sentient beings capable of functioning like a human. I hated that he was a hologram. I mean, I would have liked it if they really delved into how he got sentience. What was the line he crossed to attaining a sense of being more than a hologram? But apparently all hologram people become sentient if you leave it on long enough or some bullshit. They could have made some hard sci-fi ventures here with the Doctor, but they gave him sentience right away. He had more humanness than the entire main cast. He apparently grasps an appreciate of abstract concepts such as art and music just by downloading some "subroutines", whatever the fuck they are. I wish they truly explored the science portion of this instead of the psychological route they went with instead, namely the people around him viewing him as a person. This guy had a massive ego for fuck's sake. That's extremely human. But how the fuck did he even attain such a thing?
Also, the doctor is a photonic being. Wish they shared how such beings work. I mean, he sees like a normal person or something? His eyes do the seeing? Or does he have sensors that just picks up on everything around him regardless of where his eyes are positioned on his photonic head. Instead of all the bullshit opera and other crap, why didn't he give himself multiple arms, or multiple eyes so he can see in every direction? He could never be surprised. He could attend multiple injuries at once by having detached arms or some shit. I have NO fucking idea why they didn't make clones of him. There should be multiple versions of him. And DON'T even say that there isn't enough space. The doctor could go around with a fucking mobile emitter and transfer his essence into that. When he goes on away missions, all of his essence is in that fucking contrived piece of shit. That means there's freed up space for another one of his essence on Voyager. So there could be two of him at all times. But no. He has to be a unique little snowflake. Fucking bullshit. Wish they actually explored the science-y elements of his existence and his potential to be more than just confined to some human form. They really should have explored the holodeck and photonic whatever potential. Would have made for much more interesting stories.
Janeway is meh. She tries to be all holier than thou, but I attribute that to all of the stories structured around preserving her sanctimonious, self-righteous decisions as the correct decisions. Hated that 'writer protection' that she got. All of her decisions were the right ones. And anytime there were story elements questioning her decisions in the respective present or the past, they raise valid questions and potentially good characterizations. But no, they quickly make the source of that objections to her character and choices become a cartoon villain. They quickly dismiss them as 'monster of the week'. And the questions raised dies with them. All of this, structured around preserving the status quo and usage of the almighty reset button. Her not violating Prime Directive is complete horseshit. Endgame is her prime example.
I hated how stupid this show was. Hated the time travel bullshit and the whole timecops thing. They introduce this Starfleet Time whatever. But then they have all of those fucking time travel episodes. Where the fuck were they then? That fucking Harry episode where he reset events in the past by sending that message, that species erasing other species with their bullshit outside of time vessel, and Endgame; where the fuck were they then? They completely ruined time travel stories by making them completely idiotic and moronic.
They also ruined Holodecks. Almost all of the Holodeck shit involved either one character lets holodeck time interfere with their work and lives, holodeck lounge place, and/or holodeck malfunctioning in the middle of some fucking program. At least, TNG's holodeck episodes were relatively fun and were good adventures. They went and did mysteries, explored the past, and whatnot. In Voyager, they went and did absolutely NOTHING in there. No exciting adventure whatsoever. Also, fuck Tom and all of his hologram shit. They essentially made holodeck adventures like how the show made star trek and deep space adventuring, they made it mediocre and dull.
Another thing that bothered me was the way they constantly had to resort to the previous show villains and races for most of their episodes. The Borg? I mean, ok fine, they had some interesting ideas. But the execution (Borg children, dreamshare bullshit, etc.) left a bad taste. They could have really bold and explored the Borg in a way like never before, such as the origins of the Borg, or some other stuff. But instead, their sci-fi stories with the Borg are just so dull. I would often roll my eyes at the Borg stories. They could have delved into heavy sci-fi concepts but resolved themselves to humanizing Borgs and often in the form of children or something. Fuck the Borg.
They never made bold strides towards high concept sci-fi, like with the Borg. They constantly ground their stories to revolve around human affairs somehow. I mean, another example is the Q. They could have explored the Q in a very sci-fi manner or even historical manner. But instead, we get the Q pms'ing about their existence or some shit. What spoiled potential.
Ultimately though, I can't really blame the characters or the other stuff because it ultimately rests on the creators and producers. They seem to favour mediocrity and extreme blandness. They should have grown a pair of balls. They could have had some really good sci-fi concepts and whatnot living in this day and age. But they constantly dumbed down the stories with ridiculous levels of technobabble, grounded mundane characterizations, and structuring their stories around the reset button. The technobabble was sort of a byproduct of them being overly liberal with Murphy's Law. Sometimes, people who try too hard at something are usually overcompensating for a lacking in that something, like Voyager does often with their sci part of the sci-fi.
Say what you will about TNG but their characters are larger than life and people that viewers can sort of look up to in a way. People were inspired by Geordi to become an engineer or Spock to do science, etc. Those characters are memorable and likable. To me, the characters in Voyager are completely forgettable and less than a shadow than most of the characters in the previous Treks. The creators really botched this one by dumbing it down by having characters that are themselves average; they should have been more bold and should have been the vanguard of sci-fi (especially Trek) with bold sci-fi concepts, deep philosophical questions, etc. They shouldn't have dumbed things down and instead should have challenged the viewers to expand their horizons rather than coddling them with dumbed down concepts and sci-fi exploration.
I think this series was the beginning of the dumbing down of Trek for mass appeal and may have led to the Trek we have now, stupid and dumb downed for mass appeal. I bet JJ liked Voyager.
Fuck Voyager.
That's all for now. If you honestly read all that, I don't know what to say, haha.
Its fun, entertaining, smart (mostly) and well written (mostly). Balanced entertainment with few eyerolls. Later, using an analytic eye however.... 
. Im talking about stuff that we know was limited like replicator power. How the hell did they build these ablative armor emitters? Note the scale based on the window. These emitters were all over the ship.
