Rating  - I like voyager
Voyager remains the best series ever produeced as a star trek title. Perhaps it is a personal taste, but I can't help but be drawn the the tales of the lost crew. Each of the crew seem to possess a unique passion, and by god the passions are very noble ones. The captain's obsessiveness of the caring of her crew, chakotay's unwieldly humor, tom paris's passion for flight and science fiction, the dotor's fine appreciation for music. Many parts of the episodes seem to echo a similiar passion in my own heart, and I can't help but smile profounddly as I watch the series.
Season six, like five , have some of the best episodes, intertwined with some less interesting, but nevertheless worthwhile ones. The doctor has a few debuts as an opera star in 2 episodes and you can listen to him sing like a pro, "the blink of an eye" tells of a planet where an entire civilization evovles from stone age to primitive space ships right in front of your eyes, (especially good if you're an Civilizations fan). Tom paris's "Alice" is a space ship that talks and falls in love with you, and you with her, it makes you want to grab hold of a joystick and play one of your favorite fight simulation games right after you've seen the sexy space shuttle.
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Rating - SEASON SIX EXPLORES VOYAGERS CREW
If character development is what fans thought was lacking in this series Season Six proves that VOYAGER had the mettle to prove itself. As the crews come closer to returning home, Captain Janeway and company find themselves facing some of the Delta Quadrants most interesting adversaries and facing their own inner demons, as explored in the stand-out episodes like the BARGE OF THE DEAD and FAIR HAVEN. The future of humankinds fate in space exploration is also visited in the episode ONE SMALL STEP. All in preparation for the series upcoming finale...
Rating  - ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
In the fall of 1999, for the first time in seven years, there was only going to be one Trek on. With Deep Space Nine sent off to syndicated rerun heaven, Voyager now had a chance to improve itself for its sixth season. Ronald D. Moore, who made the Klingons one of the most popular characters, was brought on board to help. However, his tenure was short-lived. He departed only a few weeks before production started on the sixth season though he did write Survival Instinct and helped pen Barge of the Dead (a Klingon story that showed why he was so good at using them). Again, the first half of the season was a mix bag of bad and semi good, with Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy, Dragon's Teeth, Blink of an Eye, and Memorial coming in on the semi good side. Pathfinder, featuring the return of both Barclay and Deanna Troi continued Voyagers foreshadowing that it the crew would eventually return home. But then there was Alice (the Stephen King inspired story), Riddles, and One Small Step (which appeared to be setting some grounds for Enterprise, for at this time there was speculation that the new series would be set before TOS). The second half featured some of the silliest and lamest episodes yet, including two trips into Tom's latest holodeck creation Fair Haven (what does Trek have against Irish people? This is not the first series to make them look like superstitious buffoons). Two whole hours wasted. These two stories alone proved that Voyager was sinking like a rock. Speaking of rocks, in another attempt getting ratings gold, wrestling superstar The Rock was brought onboard in Tsunkatse, an episode inspired by the controversial motion picture Fight Club (many other TV series did story lines like the Brad Pitt movie). It also featured two semi-regulars from DS9, the always-oily Jeffrey Combs and J.G. Hertzler. It was just too silly -and not even in the most escapist sort of way. There is an old saying Hollywood, everyone has heard it. Don't act with kids or animals. In some odd attempt at creating a story arc, plus get those ratings up, the Borg returned again in Collective. This time, a cube has been so damaged; the Collective has abandoned it, leaving a handful of children in charge. Bad acting children in charge, I might add. They would be the focus of at least three episodes, all of which were sub-par. The rest of the season was a wash, including the boring Muse (Shakespeare in Love?), Good Shepherd, (VOY's version of much better TNG episode Lower Decks) Live Fast and Prosper (a group of conmen who have stolen Voyager's identity. Was it supposed to be funny or serious? Either way, it didn't work) and Life Line (the Doctor is transmitted to the Alpha Quadrant again to help his creator, who is dying). However, one of the most confusing shows, outside of some its time travel episodes, was Fury. It featured the return of Kes, who appeared to have had bad experiences since she changed forms nearly 4 years earlier. The show itself made no sense, and it even confused the cast (especially Robert Beltran, who went off like a rocket). Most were unsure why Jennifer Lien would return in such an unappealing way, and in such a horribly written episode to boot. One fan at TrekWeb, in an interview with producer/writer Bryan Fuller said the (episode had) "weak plot and silly contradictions like Kes's shuttle, where did she get it?" Fuller responded by saying: "We figured that if Kes had advanced telepathic abilities she would have no trouble stealing a shuttle from a hapless passer-by." Fuller continued, "I agree with you on that one being a disappointment. We originally conceived of the show as a contemporary piece with real dramas with the crew seeing their old friend come back and having to deal with her bitterness, but somewhere along the line it became a time-travel episode. I think that was a mistake. It would have been more satisfying to see her interactions raising real issues as opposed to her skulking around the ship looking devious." The season ends with the return of the Borg, who are no longer the menace they once were, as Braga has used them like tissue paper. Again, like the previous season's final episode, Unimatrix One cliffhanger was anticlimactic. Fairly large white arrows pointed to a conclusion that even a child could figure out. So, there was no anticipation for the conclusion, because they (the production team) already gave you one (and there might be a point at which one could say TNG's Best of Both Worlds was any series best cliffhanger). On the good side, though, he was leaving the day to day work to others, for he and Rick Berman were off to develop the new Trek series now scheduled to bow in the fall of 2001.
Rating  - A Martian Probe, Starfleet Contact & Borg Children
Less than one year following the concluding season of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1994, executive producer/writer Rick Berman, along with Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor, created a fourth television series based upon the "Star Trek" universe originally created by Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991) in the 1960's. This fourth television series, entitled "Voyager" (which is the name of the Federation of Planets starship used in the series), first aired in January 1995, and ran for seven seasons until it concluded in May 2001. Because "Voyager" aired initially in the month of January (instead of the traditional September), only 16 episodes were filmed for the first season. The succeeding six other seasons had 26 episodes each, for a grand total of 172 episodes for the entire series.
Unlike the previous three "Star Trek" television series, which (for the most part) took place within the bounds of the Federation of Planets (or in nearby sovereign areas of space, such as the Klingon Empire or the Romulan Empire) in the Alpha Quadrant, the starship Voyager is hurled tens of thousands of light-years from home into the previously unknown and unexplored Delta Quadrant, which is located at the far side of the Milky Way Galaxy. Even while traveling at warp 8 (the fastest safe speed that a typical starship can travel), it would take Voyager several decades to return to Earth. Hence, the series focuses on the survival of Voyager's Starfleet crew, who are completely isolated and unable to even maintain normal communications with Earth, as well as the crew's ultimate desire to find a way home faster than their ship is capable of doing. Also, along the way, Voyager adopts a few Delta Quadrant natives.
The primary cast members of the sixth season of "Voyager" include Captain Catherine Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), Commander Chakotay (Robert Beltran), the half-Klingon Lt. B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson), Ensign Thomas Eugene Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill), Delta Quadrant native (Talaxian) Neelix (Ethan Phillips), the holographic Emergency Medical Holographic Program (a.k.a., "The Doctor", played by Robert Picardo), the Vulcan Lt. Cmdr. Tuvok (Tim Russ), Ensign Harry Kim (Garrett Wang) and the former Borg drone Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan). Voyager's sixth season begins with the episode "Equinox, Part 2". In this continuation of the fifth-season cliff-hanger final episode, Capt. Janeway finds a way to protect Voyager from the attacks of nucleogenic life forms that are fighting back at Captain Ransom (John Savage) who has been slaughtering them for use in improving his equally marooned Starfleet ship, the Equinox. Of course, once Janeway understands what Ransom and his crew have been doing, she does all that she can to stop them.
During the sixth season of "Voyager", Seven of Nine faces her past in episode "Survival Instinct", B'Elanna's ongoing struggle with her Klingon half is brought to the forefront in episode "Barge of the Dead", Tuvok suffers from neurological damage in episode "Riddles", Janeway & Voyager discover awakens an ancient race in episode "Dragon's Teeth", Chakotay gets excited over the discovery of a long-lost Martian probe in episode "One Small Step", Voyager is contacted by Starfleet thanks to Lt. Barclay in episode "Pathfinder", Borg children are discovered in episode "Collective", former Voyager crewmember Kes (Jennifer Lien) unexpectedly visits in episode "Fury" and Capt. Janeway with Seven of Nine again battle the Borg Queen (Susanna Thompson) in first of the two-part episode "Unimatrix Zero". The best sixth-season episodes, in order of airdate, include "Survival Instinct", "Barge of the Dead", "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy", "Riddles", "Dragon's Teeth", "One Small Step" (possibly the best sixth-season episode), "Pathfinder", "Fair Haven", "Blink of an Eye" (the planet in accelerated time, a very good episode), "Virtuoso" (reality-check for the Doctor), "Memorial", "Collective", "Spirit Folk", "Child's Play", "Muse", "Fury", "Life Line" and the season finale "Unimatrix Zero, Part 1". The least memorable sixth-season episodes include "Equinox, Part 2", "Alice", "Tsunkatse", "Good Shepherd", "Live Fast and Prosper" and "The Haunting of Deck Twelve".
Overall, I rate the sixth season of "Voyager" with 4 out of 5 stars. It was somewhat weaker than the fifth season, but did have several shining moments.
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