Voyage's End

Some time ago I found myself in a Star Trek-ky mood. I think it was probably at one of the points where we had a Paramount+ subscription, but where I'd watched all the latest shows. And so I made the mistake of starting a rewatch of "Voyager".

The reason I chose "Voyager" shouldn't be a huge mystery: as I've mentioned on the blog before (albeit a long time ago), I lost track of it after the end of the fifth season, making it the only one of the middle run of Trek TV I never finished. (I've also never seen all of TOS, and never seen any of TAS, but I'm afraid I have no great enthusiasm for those.)

Of course, one might very well question why I went for a rewatch, rather than just jumping back in at the sixth season. Certainly, I'm now wondering just that...

(The reason, incidentally, is that it's been so long that I wanted to see if my previous impressions still held. And, for the most part they do - I find myself somewhat kinder of some aspects of the show, but also struck by how many of the characters are unlikeable, or just dull, and how much wasted potential there is in the show. Also, I've just reached the middle of the third season, and hit a run of really, really bad episodes.)

So "Voyager" has been my recent go-to for a brainless show to kind-of watch when I have nothing much else to do. Which has been going okay.

Except that last week Netflix let it be known that it will be leaving in a couple of weeks. Meaning that if I really push myself, I may manage to get to somewhere early in the fourth season - just after the introduction of Seven of Nine, and the beginning of the show's painful obsession with all things Borg. I might, just about, reach the "Year of Hell" episodes that mark the halfway point of the whole (and also the very "best" episodes of the show).

And then it will be gone, just as surely as it was before. Typical.

(I daresay that at some point we'll take out Paramount+ for another couple of months, presumably when "Strange New Worlds" returns. At which point I may race through some more of "Voyager". Or maybe not.)