Just finished season three of Voyager.
Luckily the Kazon are gone. If you´ve read my other reviews you know why I never liked them. That freed up time for other stories and species. In a way they pushed the reset button on certain things which helped the show in the long run. I would say this is the better Season 1. This Season has one of the best episodes up to this point f.e. "Unity", "Real Life", "Distant Origin" which was my favorite of this year. We meet the "Q" again, "Before and After" was really well made and "False Profit" was a fun episode to watch. But this season also contains the infamous "Trilogy of Terror". If you don´t know what this is about google it. For me it felt like a rolercoaster that has some really exicting sections and than some boring ones. They still couldn´t keep it on the same level for a whole year. Since there were more good episodes than in the first two season combined (this is my personal opinion I´m sure other´s feel different) I´d rank this as the best Season so far.
I could never quite figure out why Voyager was my least favorite of all the Star Trek shows. With TNG and especially DS9 I was hooked after Season 1. Voyager was more of an effort to like. Since it was Star Trek I wanted to watch it and like it. Which ultimately I did. For me until the end of this year in general everything was "just-so". Watching it now, almost 20 years later, I wonder if it hadn´t been Trek would I have had the patience to see it through ?
This is not a good season. Too few good stories. Too few interesting crew members. Most of the time too inconsequential: the big button resets most characters after each episode. There's only little character building: the Doctor who's trying to evolve over the course of a couple of episodes and the Paris/B'Elanna relationship are the only exceptions to that rule.
Voyager doesn't start before Seven comes into the picture. Luckily the Kazons and Vidiians are gone in this season. They have partially realized the biggest problem of this show: it can't capitalize on the established alpha quadrant universe. And all ideas they had to populate this part of the Galaxy with new intriguing races and civilizations failed. Miserably. Thus, they injected some episodes with some connection to well established structures: Ferengi, Sulu onboard the Excelsior, Q, the Borg. But that's not enough to save season 3. It's just mediocre and it's perhaps the worst of all third seasons of all Star Trek shows of that era (seasons 1 were always bad - in all shows of that era).
Shout by Dann MichalskiBlockedParent2020-06-14T01:00:06Z
Star Trek: Voyager enters into a third season of Delta Quadrant adventures as the crew continues their voyage home. This season starts to hint at the coming Borg threat, which will change the direction of the show for the rest of the series. Additionally, a budding romance between Paris and Torres begins as the romance between Neelix and Kes comes to an end. Some of the major episodes of the season include “Future’s End,” “Real Life,” “Scorpion,” and the Star Trek 30th Anniversary special “Flashback” (featuring George Takei). However, the writing is inconsistent, and the character development is rather weak. Star Trek: Voyager continues to improve, but it still pales in comparison to the other Trek series.