Voyager got pretty weird.
The episode where tuvok and neelix merged onto one being in the transporter because of... plants
The episode with a trial whether to let an immortal being commit suicide
The episode where a device gives the crew ptsd from an ancient war
The episode where viruses became giant
The episode where another immortal being wants to mate with janeway to make a superior hybrid lifeform to end a civil war between the beings (shown with american civil war reenactors)
The episode where tuvok crashes on a planet where they exile old people of a race that ages backwards
I think it's easy to say all Star Trek had some bonkers moments
I'm finishing up DS9 soon but I started Voyager 2 weeks ago. I'm glad to know I'm in for a ride and a half.
Actually Star Trek always has "that" one episode every season.
The worst part is that the last episode you mentioned isn't actually non-canon. Sure, people ignore it and rightfully call it dumb, but it genuinely happened and it's canon that Paris and Janeway have space lizard babies (which are apparently the direction human evolution is going, or at least with artificially spurred evolution) living on some planet in the Delta Quadrant.
I like to imagine there were a lot of awkward mess hall conversations after that debacle.
I guess the DS9 equivalent would either be the one where they do a casino heist in the holodeck because a troll programmer put in a thing to take over Fontaine's lounge or the one where they to try to defeat Vulcans at baseball. Also I was looking up the DS9 executive producer to find Fontaine's name and he's in the lounge in the series finale, neat.
i'm only on season 2 of DS9 but i sure am excited to see what voyager has in store now
What about the episode where the holodeck went out of control and the crew had to fight in a resistance to get access to the building with the main control panel in it?
Or the one where Harry Kim died and they transport in an alternate universe version of Harry from an exploding alternate Voyager and then never bring it up again?
Or the one where Seven of Nine had a full holodeck relationship with a fake Chakotay.
Voyager was a weird, dumb show and I love it.
It also had some pretty sweet episodes, like Timeless where you see a couple aged members of Voyager, the sole survivors of the incident that killed everyone else in an attempt to get home faster, going through the wreckage of Voyager and the bodies of their former crew to figure out a way to send a message back in time to stop the event,, with a cameo from Lavar Burton trying to stop them.
Also any episode with Seven of Nine in that one piece
Voyager doesn't have shit on the animated series, where Kirk and Spock team up with Lucifer and visit a multi-dimensional planet of space wizards
I hated that episode even more because the biology major in my is angry that individuals were evolving. That doesn't make any sense at all, individuals don't evolve, it doesn't matter if super-warp speeds up their metabolism or whatever because that's just not how evolution works. You can't have natural selection, or artificial selection, or any kind of selection without generations, it sounds like they have no idea how evolution works at all. Yeah star trek is full of pseudoscience nonsense, and that's fun, but usually what they do is make up wacky science about things we don't know about, like undiscovered particles or a hidden layer of not-space where you can go FTL. If you try to make up nonsense about something we've known about for like 100 years it just feels dumb.
I guess all of that pales in comparison to having Janeway and Paris turn into salamanders and fuck, leaving their horrible offspring to populate an alien world.
Voyager is definatly one of my favorite star trek series I really like the concept that voyager is completely alone with no outside help it kind of gives it a wild west feel.
All the borg episodes and the year of hell are some of my most favorite episodes period although I think year of hell would have worked better as its own season.
Wasn't Year of Hell actually planned to be a season long?
Holy shit I was stoned face until rapidly gyrating head, lost it there for like two whole minutes. I don't remeber that all from voyager.
No, it was always planned as a two parter.
The spinny head honestly freaked me out a little
Honestly, it's stuff like that I enjoyed the most. There's no point to having a submarine drama set in space if all you are going to do is bump into 'ordinary' things. Part of the thrill is being thrust into a vast and incomprehensible universe where you are relatively just a small bug.
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