Poor old Voyager gets a lot of hate. Personally, I like it.

Voyager keeps getting better because new shows keep lowering the bar.

"Off-brand Klingons, the kind you would get in Aldi"...hahaha, this is brilliant!

Jennifer Lien's story was tragic. She clearly had a lot of demons, but was also one of the better actors in the original cast line-up, as well as possibly the most compelling character. Kate Mulgrew admits openly that some of her famous hostility to Jeri Ryan on set came from a feeling that the producers hadn't done enough for Lien, and had simply 'traded up' for another model. I blame Tom Paris. The dick.

Voyager was always my favorite Star Trek growing up in a house in the 90s where every evening felt like we were watching one of three Star Trek shows. I was always more excited and interested in Voyager as a child and adult and I still love it. It was the first show I saw with a women in a position of power and I loved that. I was terrified of the Borg as a child (still am to tell the truth). Also I had a crush on Tom Paris and no one can change my my mind on that. Voyager always felt like it was higher stakes to me because they were on their own far from home with no help from the federation. This will always be my favorite of the franchise.

Great fun Show! Every time the hologram doctor was on screen was absolute gold. such a great character.

I have always loved Voyager as a successor to TNG, it became really good once 7 of 9 joined.

When it aired in the 90s, I was a poor kid without access to tv stations that ran it in my country. In the 2000s I forgot about it, in the 2010s I evaded it so I wouldn't get dissappointed. Then in 2020 Picard launched and after seeing it I was sure that no other show can dissappoint me this much. So I finally watched Voyager, 25 years after I was so excited for it as a kid. And... it was great! Sure, some things stink here and there. Some episodes are boring or stupid. But some are amazing! And that joyful 90s philosophy oozes from every frame! It's so hopeful, so cozy. It's Star Trek! I'm so glad that I finally watched it. It's like getting into a time machine, away from bleak sci fi we're getting today. Also I gotta admit I love Neelix. He's a space-holocaust survivor with severe PTSD that he hides behind a big dumb smile and he battles through every day, despite being made fun of and all. What a brave soul!

Every episode about The Doctor was amazing. Just watch those.

"Tom Paris is a Dick." Best takeaway line.

My brother in law is called Tom Paris! Guess what my new ring tone is!!!! 🖖 😁

“Tom Paris Is A Dick” 😂💯😂

Disagree, I love Voyager. I watched it when it first aired on UPN during its first run. Rick Berman did a fantastic job on Star Trek.

i really loved the "void" episode where janeway looks to the federation charter as a solution to their problems. i feel is one of the best ep's of all the star treks honestly. really good science fiction deals more with philosophy than any technobabble jargon solution

Still better than Discovery and Picard

Voyager is easily my favorite ST show. It came along during a very difficult time in my life and it was a bright spot for me. I will always have a special place in my heart for the series. 7 and the Doctor are also the best characters in the entire ST Canon

I loved The Thaw. It had surrealism elements and was pretty creepy, The Chute was another fav of mine, kinda dark.

Voyager may be my least favorite Star Trek, but it's still Star Trek and I still love it. It's still better than 99% of the crap on TV, both in the 90s and today. That being said, I gotta disagree with your assessment of "The Thaw." I really enjoyed it. I found Fear to be a wonderful antagonist.

Underrated. Voyager has by far the best scripts and specifically the most solid dialog of any Star Trek series. And I loved "The Thaw".

I happen to like Voyager alot! Love the Borg and the time travel. Love love love the episode where they go through the dead space!!!

I actually enjoyed it seven of nine and the hologram doctor were well written characters

My opinion was I thought Voyager was mostly very good as I rewatched all episodes earlier this year. Actually Voyager fared well in reruns and ranks as one of the top 2 most watched Star Trek reruns along with TNG. Although there are some not great episodes (a number of them), there are at least a couple dozen or more excellent ones including Borg and Q episodes. The Year of Hell 2 parter was very good. The 3 characters that fans loved the most include the eccentric Doctor, Seven and Janeway, and good secondary characters of Tuvok, and Harry, and Paris and Belana stories (like in the "race" episode). Chakoutay was mostly not used enough (which the actor also complained) and is no Riker for a second in command. However, he does have a few good episodes (not many). Neelix was not that well liked by some fans, as mostly served as comic relief and was irritating at times, but was okay in some episodes that were better written. If I compared Voyager to the new Discovery show, I would rather watch Voyager, maybe because I liked the TNG style writing. Strange New Worlds though, is excellent (finally a great new trek show). "Picard" is moderately good and includes Seven. Today's special effects and scenery are far superior no doubt. But you still need a good story. Sometimes the season long stories of Discovery drag on too much (I did not like the 10C aliens as they were too weird blobs with tentacles). Good to return to episodic format in SNW and focus on making each episode better when there are only 10 episodes, than having boring ones with a long season story arch of new trek. Enterprise has a great season 3 though.

Voyager was a great show !

It was certainly behind the curve compared to TNG and DS9, but I still developed a genuine affection for most of the characters (especially the Holographic Doctor, who was ultimately a very well developed and interesting character) and it did have some genuine high points during its story arcs, specifically species 8472 as a compelling threat to the might of the Borg, and was especially intriguing, if ultimately poorly developed in the long run. I certainly rate this series ahead of TOS and Star Trek Enterprise, and vastly superior to the new Discovery series, which IMHO shares very little DNA with the older shows.

The story about Voyager’s “Native American” consultant who was a fraud is very interesting… “Akoocheemoya… we are far from the bones of our ancestors…” hahahaha!

I my life I have found that "It takes one to know one". The ending really says a lot.

I really enjoy your vids, humor, and production.

Nice review. Having watched TNG through the first season of ENT while they came out on the air, I felt there was a feeling of Trek Fatigue in the franchise. VOY did play it safe being Trek-Lite, while DS9 delved into creating space opera. One can appreciate both depending on what mood you're in. Yes, Harry Kim did get the shaft, early on it seemed like Kim and Torres were going to be the pair. When Paris gets repromoted, Kim asks where's the box with the pip on his chair, only getting a dismissive look from Janeway. And he's not even the original Harry Kim! Voyager probably has the most time travel episodes out of any ST series. Some of the good ones are Timeless and Relativity. Living Witness is a good Doctor/Alternate Crew episode. All in all, VOY got into so much time travel they ended the show with it, only to start fresh with Enterprise and the Temporal Cold War... oh yay, more time travel. But yeah, while VOY is not really groundbreaking, it can be comfy. Again, Trek-Lite.

Harry Kim started out as an Ensign and 7 years later was still an Ensign. That pretty much encompassed Voyagers character development. Its vanilla Trek. Nothing terrible, nothing memorable.

The worst Star Trek series is not a choice between Voyager and Enterprise! Without a doubt, hands down, the worst Star Trek series is Discovery. It's an abomination that should not have the words Star Trek attached to it.

I rewatched Voyager a number of years ago, having only watch the episodes once when they first aired. It reminded me why I quit watching before the series ended. I think I gave up rewatching at about the same point, too. It was like getting back together with someone you broke up with and, after a few dates, you remember why you stopped calling them back in the first place.

I really enjoyed Voyager, truly a masterpiece compared to discovery.

Two things: Janeway is a breen, obviously and Tuvix reminds me a whole lot of my refugee neighbor from algeria, not only because he also constantly has to fight "seperation" (deportation), but also because of his kind and gentle nature - heck they even kinda look alike. Oh and: It really annoyed me, how in the early seasons, they were supposedly flying home as fast as possible, yet they keep meeting the same people (Seska et al.) - and they never ask her "how the hell can you already be here?!". It´s like the race between the hedgehog and the rabbit (if you know northern german folklore).

I like Tom👍 and love the show, dont take it seriously.

Voyager suffered from Star Trek fatigue. Not fatigue in the fans. But fatigue in the writers and producers. 14 years of a series can be very draining, and its hard to keep it fresh. How can I miss you if you never go away. After 14 years of marriage - even though I still love you, the sexual drive diminishes greatly.

“Excited Puppy, Harry Kim” ‼️

I've ALWAYS loved Voyager despite the hate and jokes and criticism and YES the 1st 3 seasons were a bit bland on the FIRST viewing but after a couple rounds of those first 3 seasons I grew to LOVE those first 3 seasons. Can't explain that but that's exactly what happened. And of course from Season 4 onward Voyager was ALWAYS excellent sci-fi TV and Trek lore.

Love TNG (dull episodes withstanding) and adore DS9 but never had interest in Voyager. You've convinced me to give it all a watch :) Thanks

It’s impossible to remaster Voyager for HD, because it was shot on video instead of film. The effects were even created on video, of course in standard definition. You can’t add information where it wasn’t captured in the first place.

Voyager vastly improved from season 4 onwards. The early stuff with the Kazon, and episodes featuring Kes, Neelix and Chakotay were on the whole a bore fest for me. There are some really good later episodes.

Sorry totally disagree. Two numbers make it awesome and worth watching, numbers 7 and 9.

22:48 huh? "the Thaw" is for me one of the best episodes.

great channel, I'm enjoying the content. Any thoughts on doing a Deep space 9 retrospective?

They did Ensign Kim so dirty

Chaotica was great. I want more Captain Proton

Wow. That intro. Well done sir.

This channel is so awsome. I fall asleep to this. I wish you could combine every sub Playlist into one massive one that I can just put on Shuffle and go to sleep too.

The show that started by dropping the ball. "Lets set up for one thing and then do something totally different." Come to think about it, that could be the slogan for the whole show and not just the instant disregard for the premiss they started with. The show and characters are written like it was that children's game where you write a story together without knowing what the others are writing. Still like it though. It is like the comfy alternative you watch when you already seen all of TNG and DS9 but aren't ready to boldly go to Enterprise just yet.

Jeri Ryan for the win. It holds up well.

‘Year of hell’ stands alongside any of the best Trek episodes.

A buddy of mine became a huge ST fanboy from initially watching Voyager with me a couple of times lol

I had the great privilege of seeing Jerry Goldsmith at the Royal Albert Hall perform the Voyager theme with the London Symphony Orchestra. It was so good it nearly made up for watching all 7 seasons of Voyager.

I have to disagree about The Thaw. It was a fantastic episode with one of the best endings in all of Trek.

Voyager was my fav trek by a long way but still fell short of real sci fi like Babylon 5.

star trek voyager "Year Of Hell " episode was great

I could have done w/o Neelix. He was a poor man’s Quark which should tell you something.

I enjoyed Voyager back in the day. Kate Mulgrew was known before Mrs. Columbo: she was the original (and best) Mary Ryan Finelli on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. I also thought Kes was fine. She didn't necessarily have to be a main character: she could have been recurring as the Doctor's nurse, since the two actors had a good chemistry. As for the age thing, people should stop thinking that a 2-year-old Ocampan is the same as a 2-year-old human. I did get kind of bored once it became The Doctor and Seven of Nine Show.

I really liked Voyager when it came out, mostly because of the premise of a small ship on an actual trek, or rather odyssey compared to a big cruise ship in mostly known space with a lot of back-up, plus I like that along with Janeway, Seven, the Doctor also Tuvok gets some praise here, Tim Russ portrayal along with Enterprise's focus on the Vulcans really got them grow on me. Sadly there weren't many other likeable and/or interesting characters (although Tom Paris might be a d***, as I heard once, I think he was entertaining) and yes, many anomalies and more techno babble solutions than even a Trek parodie, all in all the faults were more easily visible, since it didn't use that great premise very well (where do all the missing shuttles come from?), it was still an entertaining show and the Voyager a place you like to stay. But I also saw DS9 after Voyager, in fact I saw it very late and, oh boy, the harsh critic of Voyager is understandable when this came after that, the show with the least intersting premise and alien species and making by far the most out of it, in many ways the polar opposite of Voyager. And while I have rewatched DS9 countless times till now, I didn't so much with Yoyager, I still like it but the already easily visible cracks basically blink red when watching it after DS9. So it's not the best Trek has to offer, although when Voyager was good it was really good, but it certainly is not the worst, just go with it and enjoy the trip.

Im grateful to have watched this on television when it released. Felt like a very streamlined storyline compared to the ambiguous openendedness of TNG and DS9. Basically it turned Red Dwarf into a Star Trek.

It was my favorite Star Trek series, from season 4 on. You have a weird dislike of it.

You have a gift and it's an hilarious turn of phrase. I related to your criticisms of this programme because I am a Trek fan but in spite of two attempts over the years, I couldn't hack this series past the first half of the first episode. Worse scripting ever.

I got all of them on my list on Netflix I didn't like "Deep Space Nine" that much but loved Voyager & Enterprise!👍

Ok, well today I Iearned people didn't like Voyager. Personally I loved it, all the way through. It may seem bland, but a deeper look shows it has a surprising amount of heart, intriguing plots and all round good acting. Some cracking episodes are sprinkled throughout, like Future's End, Scorpion, the finale...amd many more

Voyager is a good show!

Though Tom Jackson denies it, I remember a news item back when STV was just starting production that he was being cast as Chakotay. With him and Bujold in leading roles I thought this would be a Canadian ship - Star Trek: Voyageur.

I loved the never ending supply of shuttles. Had fun watching it but wish it had a bit more DS9/BSG feel. Maybe what I wanted was RDM to write and manage the show.

"No. A daughter -- one that looks just like you" 😬

I loved Babylon 5 but no seem all that excited about it. Can you review it and critique it?

Tom Paris Really Was A "Richard Abreviated" . . . Oops . . .

I suspect the Kazon were meant to be scummy Klingons, they didn't want them to be cool and relatable like Klingons.. Keep them bad guys and unlikeable Bit too successful there.. :) The Voyager crew had good banter, like a sassy office getting the work done and the anomalies explored.. Tuvok and the Doctor insulting Tom Paris is just always enjoyable..

The brain magic "something-something-something-something" ... I've heard that kind of dialogue on STAR TREK shows (frequently on VOYAGER) typified as "Quantum? Quantum! Quantum? Quantum? Quantum!"

Mentioned about paramount not doing a hd version, did you see that guy on the KZfaq's who re-rendered some of the startrek intros in 4k? It's pretty neat maybe one day we'll get hd releases of em, enjoying the channel so far, narration reminds me of Atomic shrimp

When channel UPN initially started out not all TV sets were able to receive it all of the time. So half of the time missed an episode of Voyager because I couldn't get the network. So after a while I quit trying. The few episodes that I did see, I enjoyed watching. So I will hunt down the series on Netflix. Thanks for getting me interested again in Voyager.

Voyager is still my favorite.

Paramount/CBS keeps insisting on rehashing old content with a new twist to em. While I am interested in "Strange New World's" I would much rather see a BRAND NEW SHOW for christ's sake. They are other quadrants in space in Star Trek lore we have not seen. I dunno....Hell...A new "5 year mission" exploring the Gamma Quadrant or something. I dunno, Something NEW. Since they insist so much on rehashing old stuff? Make a show that picks up where Voyager left off, Throw in some DS9 and add a touch a New Generation, and see where that takes us... LOL

I love Voyager I remember watching that and TNG when i was in my teens loved Janeway and still do in the new Prodigy show

Is Voyager the worst Star Trek? Definitively answered in 2017.

The one thing Stam Fine missed was the "Jamake Highwater scandal", where it turned out that Robert Beltran's advisor on playing a Native American was himself a fake Native American. Jack Marks (Jarmake Highwater), a writer and journalist, had been revealed as a false Native American in 1984, but Paramount hired him anyway in 1995 when the show was under development. That's why Chakotay is a blob of vague.

Kazons are evolved, sentient broccoli.

Lol voyager was probably my favourite trek series. I found ds9 very boring until the last few seasons

I like The Thaw!

Sorry Stam if you have done one but I have not seen it yet, but from your comments here it seems the review of Enterprise will not be flattering. As a authentic trek fan I object to any major negative response to this series. yes the first two seasons have bad episodes, but so does every other trek series. Yes the series finale is a abomination, but the series overall stands up alongside any of the others. I think Jolene Blalock is very comparable to 7of9 and in some ways she pulls off the character better than Jeri Ryan does. Do not forget that most of Seven's major episodes were helped due to the Borg being involved in some way. Blalock had to act as the naysayer (which got tiresome), and she was always being asked by Archer if she recognised a vessel and even though Vulcans were supposed to have basically travelled to every planet which had space travelling species, 99% of the time she said she had no idea of the vessels design. She had to overcome that and Jolene Blalock does it so well by the end of the series she is now known as one of the best popular Vulcans throughout the franchise.

Voyager is just showing here in the UK, four episodes in, last nights episode was appalingly bad, Tom Paris is accused of murder on an alien world and has implants so he relives what he has done(that's a new one). The aliens are humanoid, and even have dog's, that's right, 70,000 light years in another galaxy, and they have dogs, i mean Star Trek TOS was often laughed at because every alien world was just like Earth, but that was 1969, haven't things moved on? I could go on and on about the lows of the series, so many missed opportunities, the potential conflict between the Starfleet crew and the Maquis for example, but instead they are in Starfleet uniforms by the end of the pilot.

Always prefered Voyager over TNG and DS9.😃

So I'm getting the impression Stam Tom Paris might be a... 😂

I finally started Voyager. Did not like it while in TV. I needed to watch the first few seasons on 1.5 speed to make it through.

25:00 -- RE: Stand out episodes of Voyager -- My own personal favorite is season 6, episode 22, "Muse".

Yep. I'm a weirdo. I loved Threshold AND The Thaw. I guess that means we can't be friends. ROFL

Best Doctor of all the series.

Voyager had its issues. The reset after every episode. Overuse of the Borg and Q. Poor character development for Kim, Paris and Chakotay. But it also had quite a few really good episodes and some great characters. I could watch Picardo and Ryan any day. And speaking of good episodes, the one where the doctor's portable emitter has been lost for centuries on a planet coming out of a civil war was great. A Picardo episode, no surprise.

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!

For me Voyager was the first Star Trek series I ever saw, I really like it but I’d really grew love Star Trek more once I saw the other series. But i think for a concept that could drive the show forward (ways to get back to the Alpha Quadrant) we got to see another chunk of the Star Trek Galaxy with a all around solid cast, the show compared to the others is certainly not as strong.

Instead we got star trek Voyager 😂😂😂

Any show that has Jeri Ryan in a skin-tight Lycra suit is okay in my book.

Voyager was watchable after Seven of Nine came into the show (catsuit notwithstanding). For that It is better than Enterprise. Without Seven , it would have been worse than Enterprise.

Voyager is the only Star Trek show I have watched from start to end. I was too young for the original and next gen and deep space I found boring. Voyager just hit my sweet spot.

I'm currently rewatching TOS, so it'll be a while before I get back to the Alpha Quadrant, I mean Voyager. Maybe I should be watching them in reverse so the shows keep getting better?

I realize entertainment is subjective. But you think “The Thaw” is the worst STV episode? I think it’s one of the best...certainly in the top five of the first three seasons. Think I’m nuts? Check out Jammer’s Reviews on it.

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LOL. The Thaw is one of my favorite episodes.