I am five episodes into Star Trek: Voyager, and things are looking pretty grim so far.
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I'm four episodes into Star Trek Voyager (or only three if you count the two-part premiere as one big episode) and already *two* of them have involved time travel in some way. That's... I'm not sure what to make of that, actually. Hmm.
And... the next episode after those involves Neelix getting his lungs stolen all "Spock's Brain" style and having them temporarily replaced with holographic lungs. I mean... what. I do hope some of the ups start showing up soon rather than these downs, because Voyager as a whole has just been kind of meh at best, so far. >_>;
I'm going to stick with it though, because I know that TNG was pretty weak during its first season as well, so hopefully Voyager will similarly pick up as well.
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This episode. "Phage." It was hilariously terrible. I mean, really, Neelix's lungs are stolen by a couple of ghouls from Fallout (no, really) and are replaced by holograms. Voyager flies inside an asteroid which has a giant funhouse hall of mirrors kind of thing inside of it. Just... what. o_O
I started watching this series expecting to experience what TVTropes calls Critical Backlash, because I'd heard it was supposedly so bad, but I just figured that was the Internet being its typical, overly critical self, you know? But wow. So far, it has started out rather lackluster and has only gotten progressively worse with each episode. Seriously, though, this thing with "Phage" here has to be the nadir, right? It simply can't get much worse than that, can it? But then, just for the heck of it, I did a quick Google search for "worst Voyager episodes" and this "Phage" show doesn't even seem to register on the lists of bad episodes that I glanced at. Really, if this is any indicator at all of what is to come, I might just have to revise my stance and start watching it simply for the "so bad, it's good" eps (though I can't say that "Phage" rises to meet even that low standard) and just be pleasantly surprised by the ones that actually are good.
I mean, really, even as bad as TNG season 1 was, I don't remember anything being as ludicrous as "Phage," aside from maybe "Code of Honor." As for DS9, "The Storyteller" from season 1 is what I consider to be the worst episode from that series, but it is still head and shoulders above "Phage." I'll admit that "Phage" is not quite as blatantly ridiculous as some of the Original Series episodes I nitpicked before, but then those at least had "made in the 60s" as an excuse. >_>;
But really, I can't hear the holographic doctor saying "His lungs have been removed" without immediately thinking of this:
My reaction to "Phage" was pretty much the same as Kirk's reaction in the above clip.
I'm four episodes into Star Trek Voyager (or only three if you count the two-part premiere as one big episode) and already *two* of them have involved time travel in some way. That's... I'm not sure what to make of that, actually. Hmm.
And... the next episode after those involves Neelix getting his lungs stolen all "Spock's Brain" style and having them temporarily replaced with holographic lungs. I mean... what. I do hope some of the ups start showing up soon rather than these downs, because Voyager as a whole has just been kind of meh at best, so far. >_>;
I'm going to stick with it though, because I know that TNG was pretty weak during its first season as well, so hopefully Voyager will similarly pick up as well.
New content beyond the above:
This episode. "Phage." It was hilariously terrible. I mean, really, Neelix's lungs are stolen by a couple of ghouls from Fallout (no, really) and are replaced by holograms. Voyager flies inside an asteroid which has a giant funhouse hall of mirrors kind of thing inside of it. Just... what. o_O
I started watching this series expecting to experience what TVTropes calls Critical Backlash, because I'd heard it was supposedly so bad, but I just figured that was the Internet being its typical, overly critical self, you know? But wow. So far, it has started out rather lackluster and has only gotten progressively worse with each episode. Seriously, though, this thing with "Phage" here has to be the nadir, right? It simply can't get much worse than that, can it? But then, just for the heck of it, I did a quick Google search for "worst Voyager episodes" and this "Phage" show doesn't even seem to register on the lists of bad episodes that I glanced at. Really, if this is any indicator at all of what is to come, I might just have to revise my stance and start watching it simply for the "so bad, it's good" eps (though I can't say that "Phage" rises to meet even that low standard) and just be pleasantly surprised by the ones that actually are good.
I mean, really, even as bad as TNG season 1 was, I don't remember anything being as ludicrous as "Phage," aside from maybe "Code of Honor." As for DS9, "The Storyteller" from season 1 is what I consider to be the worst episode from that series, but it is still head and shoulders above "Phage." I'll admit that "Phage" is not quite as blatantly ridiculous as some of the Original Series episodes I nitpicked before, but then those at least had "made in the 60s" as an excuse. >_>;
But really, I can't hear the holographic doctor saying "His lungs have been removed" without immediately thinking of this:
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My reaction to "Phage" was pretty much the same as Kirk's reaction in the above clip.