dave wrote:
> I can see your point... to a point. When Voyager first ran on prime
> time I could not bring myself to watch it. I thought it was trying to
> be too politically correct. I began to watch it after the series ended,
> while it was in reruns. I grew to love this show because of it's fine
> character interaction and acting. It's a great show. I believe it was
> the best Star Trek series ever made.
What?
How can you possibly believe that?
>> After indulging myself in the Bliss that is called TNG, I decided to
>> check out its sequel Voyager. I was expecting Sci-fi, I got a space-
>> opera, I thought I could force myself to like or at least tolerate
>> this tripe.I admit I was foolish enough to fall for the name, now I am
>> sure Roddenberry is spinning faster than a neutron star in his grave.
>> We only have look at the cast to see why:
>>
>> Captain Kathy Janeway. The trangendered leader of the crew, it was
>> needed to employ a female, if you could call it that, to make the
>> numerous foolish decisions required to get the show to last more than
>> one season. Picard would have had the crew home for dinner, instead
>> Janeway, as the token strong female leader present in all shows
>> nowadays, tries again to break down stereotypes but only spawns more
>> misogyny through her ineptitude. TNG had Wesley, Voyager has Janeway,
>> nothings ever perfect, but this is shit.
>>
>> Commander Chakotay. Yet another attempt of the pinkos to shove their
>> morality down our throats. Having a Tomboy Captain is bad enough, but
>> an Indian first officer! I truly came to dread Chakotays meaningless
>> prattle about akoochimaya and other nonsense. A masculine alpha-female
>> and a feminine beta-male, could the show be trying to make some point?
>> They don't even give this sissy a first name.
>>
>> Lt Tuvok. As if we haven't had enough minorities in the command
>> structure. This lame rip-off of Spock spends his entire time stating
>> the obvious. Tuvok is probably one of the less irritating characters
>> in the show since we don't have to endure as much of the mindless
>> space-opera character development.
>>
>> Bologna Torres. Only a woman engineer could be so inept, every shuttle
>> mission had catastrophic failure, every weapon hit to the shields
>> knocked out transporters and the warp drive. This little petach
>> somehow managed to become chief engineer, no doubt due to some 24th
>> century version of employment equity. The show doesn't make Janeway
>> wear skimpy troy outfits(thank god!), but Torres is passable, they
>> truly underutilized her in the series.
>>
>> Harry Kim. So far we have a lesbian, an Indian, a Negro, whats
>> missing? You guessed it: a naive Asian. The innocent asian science
>> geek, just when you thought the show was trying to break stereotypes.
>> At least he's not driving the ship.
>>
>> Tom Paris. The ships pariah, chauffeur and nurse, naturally he's a
>> young white guy. After every unsuccessful diplomatic encounter on the
>> viewscreen he is forced to make some quip to the effect of the alien
>> race being "pleasant" "charming" or some other irritating comment.
>>
>> Kes. The original failed voyager sex symbol, starts out way to cute
>> and innocent, ends up turning into a major bitch, true to life at
>> least, she got old pretty quick and was replaced by:
>>
>> Seven of nine. Space barby, her only use in the show is to try an act
>> serious and prance around the ship in her skin tight uniform.
>> Occasionally she shortcuts the plot with technobabble of borg
>> technology. Naturally being a woman she, along with Janeway and Baloni
>> are the best scientists in existence.
>>
>> The Doctor. Another outcast Caucasian; he, like many of the males
>> aboard, doesn't get a full name. Although he is professionally
>> competent, they had to write in serious character flaws so as to
>> bolster the pro-feminist/minority (AKA Politically Correct) agenda of
>> the show.
>>
>> Neelix. Lots of people hate this guy, and no wonder: his character is
>> crap, a token cute/amiable/ character. Berman probably thought this up
>> himself, typical sell-out tactics. I hope the few measly dollars they
>> made selling Neelix-dolls was worth it to them. Fucking bastards.
>>
>> Extras: In order to remedy the pure unadulterated excrement Berman
>> brought us some extra's and surprise surprise its the TNG cast. Q,
>> Barclay, and Troy are all brought in in a feeble attempt to bolter the
>> shows poor performance. Not that it helped but I personally got a tiny
>> bit of satisfaction out of the nostalgia.
>>
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