• remotelove@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      All of those actors were also pulled down by the Kazon, IMHO. They just ruined it for everyone.

      Actually though, Neelix got better once he got a little more depressed and serious. Tom Paris wasn’t bad when he wasn’t acting like a child. Chakotay was fine when he wasn’t babbling on about pseudo-native indian culture that usually ended up being borderline racist. (While I am not Native Indian, it seems like it would be insulting to have some cultural aspects twisted in the way Voyager did sometimes.)

      I still try to watch the first few seasons of Voyager, but always end up jumping past anything Kazon. Voyager gets much better when that story arc is out of the picture.

      Side note, Voyager is probably my favorite series and my criticism is just overly sharp. I really do enjoy it, but those first season are a bit rocky.

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      5 months ago

      Yes, exactly the same for me.
      Just too much stereotypical stuff going on there. Of the guys Doc & Tuvok are the least annoying & feel like ‘planned’ characters. And the latter one caused Tuvix, which was just a walking intergalactic crime on abominations, so that leaves me with the glitchy software.

      (But actually all characters at some point lean way too much into a single one of their stereotypes, like in a tabletop rpg.)
      (And yes, I also like Voyager very much :))