Lack of good storyline.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Television Review: "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995-2001)Presumingly seventy-three light years away from "Planet Earth" after a major "Interstellar" incident, when even the most advanced technology in the whole Starfleet of decade 2350s and beyond within the United Intergalactic Federation of Systems and Planets brings along this highly-addictive "Star Trek" television series with first reception from Januar 1995, lasting consecutive seven seasons, including intriguing "high-profile" episodes of the "Star Trek" universe to variations striking with female Captain Kathryn Janeway, portrayed with iron-fist and a heart by actress Kate Mulgrew, when her crew surrounding the usual invited characters from the far side of the galaxy as Commander Chakotay, given face by Robert Beltran and given advisors as technical engineers with "Star Trek" formula-indulging Vulcan character Tuvok and Lady-Klingon B'Lanna Torres, performed by Roxann Dawson and Tim Russ respectively towards the mysterious personally-invited character of Tom Paris, centers every scene he is in with consecutive performance by Robert Duncan McNeill, letting "Voyager" become the widest ranged crew as exploration into deep space travels with a total of 170 episodes, meeting alien organisms, the Borg, recalling highlighted former-collective-becoming an individual character "Seven of Nine, performed in mid-term receptions by actress Jeri Ryan; and further ongoing Klingon civil-war-issues, Romulan conspiracy theories toward inner-ship-struggle for keeping moral up and running to redeemed homecoming endings with no further wishes open.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

I found Voyager to be the only watchable Star Trek. The Original series is so old these days it's completely unwatchable for someone like me. The Next generation may be the perfect example of how diplomacy should work in our future but it doesn't offer very exiting conflict for storytelling. I seem to recall half of those stories begin with "we received a distress call" and "now orbiting this place" and end with successful negotiations of some sort. Beyond boring. I never liked Deep Space Nine either, it just seemed like a horrible idea to anchor the show to a single location, seemed like a soap series in space to me. Enterprise was filled to the brim with horrible actors and had no replay value. Voyager to the rescue!First of all, apart from the first 2-3 seasons, the stories have a lot more cinematic quality to them. I think it's the writing. The stories often begin in the middle of a situation and starts to unravel. This is good since the scripts seem to be so full of things happening they had to get creative in order to fit the story into a single episode. So no more boredom. It's pretty much the opposite of TNG.Not only that but the whole premise of being stranded in an unknown area of the galaxy for me is a much better set up for a series than policing around an established area. This should be the best trek for this reason alone.Third, the cast is the most interesting so far. I loved the captain for having more balls than Picard, I loved Paris for being a relateable criminal, I loved the doctor and Seven for their artificial nature, I even loved Nelix and Tuvok. The cast had a good family dynamic. This gave way for some good, naturally whimsical, subtle humor that really was the cherry on top for me.So to sum up Voyager had a good premise, good casting, good stories. The only downside to this show are the first 2-3 seasons which are just as bad as the other Trek shows so I highly recommend searching for a skip list to at least weed out the bad non-storyarch episodes to get you to the end of season 3 as fast as possible. It's an absolute thrill ride after that, you'll thank me later.

I am not much of a Trek fan, or at least I wasn't. As a kid, I saw some episodes of Next Generation or the Shatner original, but I thought it was lame. Oddly enough, it would be Voyager that brought me somewhat into the Trek universe. Having very few channels to watch as a young teen, I was able to pick up UPN with rabbit ears, where I had to make due with whatever was on the tube. I got caught up in Voyager and found that it wasn't that bad. Looking back now, as I re-watch the series in 2017, I see how painfully corny and low-budget it must seem, but at the time, in the glorious 90s, it was pretty entertaining TV. Many people find glaring problems with this installment, and I can understand their outrage at Maquis sailors wearing Federation gear and the ship never running out of items or looking worn. I have also thought of this over the years. They used more torpedoes than they had when stranded, etc. The dialogue= LOL= Man, is it cheesy. I definitely have to laugh at the scripts. "Hi, I am having a nice day." "Me too; I need Neelix to bring me some pork chops"-- The talking was extremely childish and one-dimensional, as if written for a baby cartoon at times. Yet, it could also take off in more dramatic fashion when addressing a serious problem with a new race or Janeway's conferences on a problem, or Tuvok or the doctor posing great logic or intriguing questions.Overall, it really depends on the episode you happen to catch. I notice, even now, that one episode will be boring, filler, redundant stuff about time or space(filled with technology babble and fake words), while the very next episode may be truly interesting and exciting, featuring newly encountered races or villains, or serious fighting, or genocide, etc. To me, those are the best Voyager episodes-- where they actually interact with other species or discover treachery among "friends" or deliberate over the prime directive while trying to solve a problem with some strange world, or battle pirates or deal with the Borg. The larger philosophical question episodes are what makes Star Trek appealing-- not so much the mindless "smarty" tech words and stories about a fracture in the space time consortium transition doohickey that messed up everyone's memory or whatnot. I guess this one is a guilty pleasure from my childhood or teen years, so it will always be one of the installments I know better than others. It has a lot of cheesy issues, but for space stuff, it has enough redeeming qualities to remain watchable.

Voyager can be said to be a science fiction version of Homer's story of The Odyssey with Captain Janeway as a female version of Odysseus. The crew of Voyager face the same adventures that Odysseus and his crew did after the Trojan War. Many of the episodes reflect the myths of the of The Odyssey especially the one where the planet of women that capture men to drain them of life such as Ceres did to the crew in the novel.