Star Trek: Why Fans Think Voyager Is The Worst Star Trek Series

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Ever since the mid-1960s when Star Trek made its grand entrance to TV, there have been over 800 episodes spread over 41 (and counting!) seasons across the franchise. These range from the groundbreakingly diverse Original Seriesto iconic The Next Generation, and they keep coming, with new iterations of Discovery and the upcoming Strange New Worlds. Each iteration into the universe follows a different story, each of which delves into a unique storyline, or a new unexplored era in its history. While it’s fair to say each series has its own merits, there is one outlier that seems to irk fans most of all: Voyager.

Voyager, on paper, seems to tick all the boxes for a unique and engaging addition to the franchise. The show follows the adventures of Captain Katheryn Janeway (a surprising candidate for fictional war criminal of the year) and her crew as they desperately try and return home, after getting themselves transported 70,000 lightyears away from Federation space. The universe up until this point had seemed fairly small and easily traversible, with Picard and Kirk’s adventures focusing on issues closer to home, never worrying about venturing too far. Voyager, however, is an estimated 70 years away from home, and that’s excusing the excessive amount of deviation along the way.

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Despite this largely different overarching story of the show, the irony was that the majority of the episodes felt incredibly episodic, each maintaining a microcosm story that felt very self-contained. The show would introduce various problems and aliens in each episode, each with interesting plots and characteristics, but they started to feel like throwaways after a point, simply a short