Ever since they have stopped importing Star Trek tapes, I have no means of watching the last four seasons of ST Voyager other than the odd episodes that was typed and mailed to me by my good friend in Canada. I have just purchased and finished watching Season 6 and 7 on DVD.
IMHO, Jeri Ryan’s Seven of Nine saved the series single handedly. Her performance in one episode where Seven had to store the Doctor’s matrix into her body rendering the Doctor taking over her body, with Jeri acting of the Doctor’s character was excellent and simply hilarious.
The role change over from Kes to the Doctor, where in the first 3 series it was Kes teaching the Doctor social skills and humanity, and then Kes left Voyager and Seven came, and the Doctor was teaching Seven social skills and humanity, was also well executed.
I have the first 3 seasons on type but they were never as good as ST:TOS or ST:TNG. All because it lacked a Spock/Data type character. Granted, Voyager have Tuvok and the Doctor. However, Tuvok was too much a wimp. Which Robert Picardo’s performance of playing the Doctor was exemplary, it was still no match for the performance of Brent Spiner’s Data.
The series has a few copycat episodes such as the one where the Doctor was sent back to Starfleet in hopes of saving his creator, Dr. Zimmerman, who was also played by Robert Picardo. That was almost an exact copy of Data trying to save Dr. Noonian Sung, where both characters as well as Lore were all played by the brilliant Brent Spiner all at once in the same scene. Also, both Data and the Doctor explore their singing capabilities, which Data sings Jazz and the Doctor sings Opera. Both of which were sung by the actors and both were brilliantly done. As far as a nice singing is concern, the series also reviewed that Jeri Ryan (Seven) also has an excellent singing voice.
Other ST:VOY episodes did explore a few more areas of humanity, which was what really stands the ST series out among other non-ST Sci-Fi series. As expected, the dialog of ST:VOY is just as sophisticated as other ST series and much more so than any other non-ST Sci-Fi series as well. This is one area where a dictionary wouldn’t help any non Sci-Fi buffs.
I am going to purchase Season 4 and 5 as well. With the introduction of Seven of Nine in Season 4, I am sure I’ll enjoy the episodes that I have missed just as much.
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