Star Trek: Voyager. The most DISAPPOINTING show in science-fiction history!!!!!!!
Now don't get me wrong! I TRIED to watch it. I didn't compare ANY of the main characters to the wonderful ones of TNG. I watched it COMPLETELY unbiased.
First off: I hated the entire concept of the crew being lost in the Delta Quadrant. I understand that this would give writers creative freedom, and new aliens and planets could be discovered, etc. That, unfortunately, didn't help much, nor did that surface often. What races were discovered? The KAZON??? Whop-dee-do!! The Kazon! L-A-M-E! They weren't interesting! None of those aliens were interesting! The Kazon weren't even original. It can be sumed into this equation:
(Klingons - "honor") + (Ferengi - "big lobes") = Kazon
Also, this show Voyager reminds me of another sci-fi show. Hence, my nickname for it, "Lost in the Delta Quadrant" (Danger, Kathryn Janeway, danger!!!!)
Secondly: This crappy show screwed (literally!) my favorite character in all of Star Trek! The wonderfully omnipotent Q! Now, you MUST remember. I am a die-hard TNG fan. We TNG Trekkers were introduced to Q the Judge, Q the arrogant entity, Q the insufferable pain in the ass! Q, even though he was irritating, is the best Star Trek foe. He is the great comic foil to Jean-Luc Picard. C'mon, you have to admit that Q and Picard's bickering was highly entertaining! Now, let me get to my point. Just remember....a TNG fan watching Voyager. I remember the Voyager episode "Death Wish" well. I have it taped!! And I remember the date it aired. 2/19/9?(ok, so maybe I don't know the year!). Why would I remember that? Because Feb. 19 is my birthday! And I was SO happy because my favorite character's appearing in a new episode on my birthday! So there I was, in my room, eating popcorn, watching "Death Wish." And everything was going great........until the bedroom scene! Now, I had read the TV Guide that featured this episode, and there were remarks about "bedroom banter." I thought that it would be like that on TNG between Picard and Q. Remember "Tapestry"? Anyway, I almost choked on my popcorn. WHO wrote the show???? Did that person know how many TNG fans almost died of a heart attack? Good thing is, though, that Janeway turned down Q. PHEW!!! Other than that scene, the episode was pretty good.
Then a year later, just to my delight(SARCASM!!!) another Q episode aired. Once again, I read my trusty TV Guide, and I knew that Q was going to ask Janeway to have his child. I was expecting the episode to go like this:
(Q appears in the Captain's Ready Room)
JANEWAY:: (looks up) Q! Oh no, not again!
Q:: (looking hurt) Oh Kathy, is that how you greet a friend?
JANEWAY:: (frowns) What do you want Q?
Q:: (still looking hurt) Kathy, do you think that I always have an ulterior motive? That I couldn't just happen to drop by and see you?
(JANEWAY gives Q a dirty look)
Q:: Oh all right..........Kathy, I have a VERY important question to ask you.
JANEWAY:: (curious) What Q?
Q:: (snaps his fingers and Janeway is in his arms) I want you to have my child.
JANEWAY:: NO! (jumps out of Q's arms)
Q:: Please, please, please!!
JANEWAY:: NO NO NO!!!!
I thought that it would be like that. Q being a pain in the ass to Janeway.....not TOO unerving.
Oh was I SO wrong!!!!!!!
Now, not only am I a fan of ST, but I am a loyal watcher of Saturday Night Live. Most watchers of SNL can have a perverted imagination. I am one of those people. Do you remember the promotional commercial for "The Q and the Grey"? Let me describe it to you.....
NARRATOR:: Next on Star Trek Voyager.....
Q is back (picture of Q on the screen) and he wants something that you'll have to see to believe (shows picture of Janeway in Q's arms)
Q:: I want you to be the mother of my child.
(Supernova explosion is showing. At the same time:) JANEWAY:: Oh Q....
NARRATOR:: Together they can create Star Trek the Next Generation(HAHA!)
I know what you are thinking. "How is THAT perverted?" Well, lemme explain.....