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Did Voyager run out of ideas?
Topic Started: Aug 31 2006, 10:38 PM (998 Views)
TiberiusK
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Did Voyager run out of plot ideas in the early or later seasons? Did it become predictable and unimaginative?
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fleshandblood
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Commodore
i dont think so. season 6 was my fav. season, and season 7 wasnt bad at all. they did re-use certain themes, but all the star trek series do that a lot. DS9 used re-used themes practically every season i have noticed.... for example, i think EVERY member of the crew got kidnapped at some point.

Voyager didnt really use anything too repetative, i liked where it headed in the end.
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Nyackjohn
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I liked Voyager, but my problem with it's scripts stretched from the first season to the last. There were way too many "alternate timeline" episodes... one or two was plausable, but they seemed to do one at least once a month. Individually any one of them might have had great dramatic impact, but when grouped together, they became trite. I mean, you just KNEW that if anything REALLY bad happened, it would be erased and they would get a "do over".
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ralahinn1
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I think it did run out of ideas, the producers of the show really should have tried to get more writers for the show, even if they had to pay a little extra, and go after a novelist.
 
Freyr Tuck
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i think what happened was that it was the final show that held some imagination, but it was recycling far to many ideas from previous Trek shows. Those recycled ideas were shadowing over the good ideas like a plague.
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MeliKoritsi
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I think Voyager reused a lot of themes (holodeck malfunctions, Borg, weird new aliens) but they also created some original ideas. I don't think they ran out of ideas, but they could have been a little more imaginative from time to time.
 
Nyackjohn
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I think one of the most original ideas they came up with (Trek-wise at least) was the Vidiians and the Phage and the whole body harvesting thing... it was interesting having the villians have a reason for being villians that you could feel sorry for them for...
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witbee
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Stop the hate.....
I thought Voyager did a great job keeping the new ideas running. Heck, even the run of the mill type situations were new and different when taken from the perspective of a female captain and non-startfleet crewmen.

And who could forget "Tuvix?"



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Lynx
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No, it was excellent in seasons 1-3.

It ran out of ideas later on when those in charge stopped trying to come up with good stories and instead brought in a "sexy babe" for some people to drool over.
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Almighty
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Freyr Tuck
Sep 2 2006, 04:10 AM
i think what happened was that it was the final show that held some imagination, but it was recycling far to many ideas from previous Trek shows. Those recycled ideas were shadowing over the good ideas like a plague.

And all of that recycling made ENT seem worse than it actually was.

Voy used up the well before ENT came along
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