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Originally Posted by The Batlord
What's wrong with that? If you can get past the cheese factor, soap operas are quite entertaining.
You mean, like the original series and Next Generation?
Doesn't ring a bell, so I'll just end with this to show Voyager's quality...
...and you've just been served. |
1. Soap operas are fine if you like them (I don't) but I don't expect my favourite franchise (well, second favourite: Babylon 5 will always be my first love!) to go in that direction. Space opera? Dear God!
2. TOS, sure, nothing followed on, but then times and TV were different them, and Roddenberry was fighting against some pretty entrenched and, by today's standards, outdated ideas about what made good TV. As for NG, well firstly the ship usually didn't get hit that much, but if it did there were always the starbases where it could get fixed up --- Voyager being in the Delta Quadrant and far from same nevertheless seemed shiny new every episode, no matter the pummelling it had taken the previous week.
As for consequences, well certainly when Picard was taken by the Borg this came back to haunt him for years afterwards, Data's evil brother cropped up from time to time, Riker's on/off romance with Troi kept coming up, there were repercussions to Yar's death... need I go on? NextGen was more episodic than DS9, but at least there was a basic continuing storyline and previous occurrences would be referred back to and often influence future eps. Never happened in Voyager. Janeway made and broke alliances like there was no tomorrow, and other than "Dark horizon", there seemed to be no comeback. Hell, she "murdered" Tuvix and did anyone care? I mean, later? What about the Maquis? They just all accepted Starfleet's rules and became good officers? Yeah...
3. Fair bleedin' Haven was their holodeck idea of what a "typical Irish town" should be. Really bugged the hell out of me, as it wasn't even played for laughs. (Your pic didn't work by the way, not sure why)