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animentality · 7 years

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thoughts on star trek voyager characters:

Ok, so I wanted to make a separate post on characters.

Although I found them interesting enough to make up for some of the weaker plots, I have grievances.

First off, I didn’t like Kes.

But she left.

So whatever.

I originally didn’t like Neelix, but I warmed up to him.

I understand a lot of fans hated him, but I sort of liked his dynamic with the rest of the crew.

Especially when he became suicidal one episode, and when Naomi Wildman’s mother got trapped on an asteroid or a planet or something.

I felt like his cheerful attitude being shaken was...eh, enlightening and intriguing.

He kept his head up, and since Voyager often gets a depressing, that was interesting, if annoying at times.

I liked B’elanna! And I liked Tuvok. They were solid people, and usually had something funny to say or something interesting about their cultures or backgrounds.

Unlike...Tom.

But I didn’t mind Tom, I just didn’t really start liking him until he started dating B’elanna and began to adjust to being an expectant father.

As for Chakotay....ugh.

He’s sort of a...dull character when he’s on his own.

That’s why I never liked any Chakotay centric episode.

The man is fun when he’s interacting with someone, but with an alien or alone....i dunno, he was always going on some spirit quest, which was weird, or some dumb survival thing where he’d inevitably begin speaking to his father.

I sort of found that offputting.

And maybe a little racist, I mean seriously, enough with the tribal drum.

Anyway.

I loved Seven of Nine.

She was fun, sexy catsuit aside.

I liked how slow it was, her development. They didn’t try to instantly make her a part of the crew.

She was very much...aggressive. A loner.

Plus, I liked how bitchy and completely callous she was, I mean, you can say the outfit is sexist and fetishy, but at least Seven acted in a way that is REALLY offputting to guys.

She was a cold bitch and didn’t care if you knew it. They didn’t make her like Kes, a submissive, soft-spoken, purity sue.

She might’ve ramped up sex appeal, but at least she had a character outside of it. She wasn’t token sex appeal.

The DOCTOR.

Best character.

Deeply bitter, intelligent, arrogant, sarcastic, a little overzealous, but deeply loyal to his crew.

I wish we knew what they did with him, he’s fascinating.

Most of his standalone episodes are REALLY great.

Like his episodes are honestly the best voyager episodes.

The one where they erased his memory, where he got sent to a planet divided by class, the 700 years into the future, the one where another species uses him as a conduit to spy on voyager...

all good episodes.

But here’s what I really wanted to talk about:

Janeway.

I did love.

I liked her a lot.

She was a very capable, competent lady.

I just wish they’d...been more consistent.

Sometimes she loved her crew more than anything and saw them as family, as the most important thing in the world.

And sometimes...

it’s like she remembered she was in a TV show.

She kept making this decisions, these overly moral decisions....

And it’s like, yes, ok, Starfleet is a goody two shoes of the galaxy.

But for christ’s sake, woman, you really toss away opportunities to get home like they’re nothing?

Like the end of TNG was great.

The last episode was honestly gorgeous, it went into the future and back, and it had Picard dealing with all the phases of his life and having to come to terms with mortality as well as save the human race from a temporal rift, you know, the usual.

But the last episode of Voyager...

i mean...I was just pissed that younger Janeway couldn’t just go into the fucking...Borg thing.

Like.

Why???

There’s SIX more.

Just go back to the alpha quadrant, give future Janeway’s technology to starfleet, and then THEY can go out better equipped and hunt for borg...whatever they’d called, I forgot, don’t judge me.

She was willing to destroy YET ANOTHER gateway home...

And sure, it’s aggravating, but I could’ve gotten over it...if Janeway didn’t keep flip flopping between being...stick-to-your-guns and do-whatever-it-takes.

Picard had his moments of iron will.

He had moments where he manipulated his more hard headed opponents into doing something in starfleet’s interests.

But he did it with class and consistency.

Janeway could’ve either been...an iron lady who was constantly battling against unfriendly assholes of the delta quadrant...or a strong, but self righteous captain who would die rather than stick to her morals.

She was both.

But they seemed to...clash from episode to episode.

Like she split up Tuvok and Neelix....and i found that odd.

I dunno, this is just personal opinion.

I think she was a very charming lady, don’t get me wrong.

When she wasn’t making odd decisions, she was great because she was charming and likable without being weak.

She was decisive, at the very least.

I just wish she’d been...

Actually, you know what?

This just comes back to the plot again.

I wish the plot had chosen to be grittier and have more genuine moments.

So I could’ve seen the real Janeway, the desperate one.

Not the one who was constantly barking out orders and expecting them to be followed.

Like the starfleet hierarchy might as well not exist way out in the delta quadrant.

At one point, all she was doing was making really risky decisions, like trying to protect that stray Species 8472......

when the hiirogen were coming for it.

I mean lady, you’re ALONE out here.

You’re responsible for 140/50 crew members, including a CHILD.

And you’re going to sacrifice it cuz this one alien is being hunted down?

I mean it sucks, but you don’t have starfleet to back you up, ok?

But anyway.

Overall, characters made voyager entertaining.

without interesting characters, the plots really...would not have kept me interested.

and it wasn’t the characters on their own, it was how they interacted with one another, which is always star trek’s strength.

so i enjoyed it, most of the time, but i don’t love it the way i loved TNG or adored it the way I adored DS9.

Anyway.

Enterprise is up next.

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