Some good Voyager
Apr. 30th, 2015 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swehSo I wrote that Voyager was the worst ST ever.
I still agree with that, because of the overall structure.
This doesn't deny that some _episodes_ were good though.
Viewing Voyager as a "old school story telling" structure allows you to see each episode as an individual story.
One really good one is "Child's Play" (season 6). This is a "7 of 9 episode" (one of the downsides of Voyager was "harry episode", "tom episode", "tuvok episode" etc etc), but it was one of the better standalone episodes, talking to what it means to be an individual, to have self-agency. It's a well done story... but it only works because of the episodic nature; next week it doesn't matter.
I still agree with that, because of the overall structure.
This doesn't deny that some _episodes_ were good though.
Viewing Voyager as a "old school story telling" structure allows you to see each episode as an individual story.
One really good one is "Child's Play" (season 6). This is a "7 of 9 episode" (one of the downsides of Voyager was "harry episode", "tom episode", "tuvok episode" etc etc), but it was one of the better standalone episodes, talking to what it means to be an individual, to have self-agency. It's a well done story... but it only works because of the episodic nature; next week it doesn't matter.
