Re: Star Trek: Dominion and Borg
I read the 'alpha' link (the description of the last episode of Voyager). It looks like they really went out with a bang. I remember losing interest in the show because it seemed a little too sissy and politically correct about every action the crew took. Compare this with old Kurk taking life or death risks and walking away with a bloody nose each episode, and Voyager just wasn't my cup of tea. But gosh, it looks like they changed by the end.
I thought Voyager was much better than Deep Space Nine which seemed to contain mostly freaky aliens and not enough humans. Adronema (spelling?) was just very teen-oriented and seemed to jam in alot of senseless action with the crew killing masses of enemy gaurds almost for sheer fun. I kind of forgot about Star Trek for a while, but I'm getting interested again with the new movie coming out.
I think the ending of Voyager was maybe a little too much of a happy ending. It seems Janeway committed atrocities, and for what? 16 years shaved off or whatever. 22 lives or whatever. Man, that's so selfish. I also still have a problem with the borg going down so easily. Why is it that Janeway is allowed to give herself advanced technology from the future, but the borg can't? Couldn't the borg do essentially the same thing (go back in time and give themselves all their latest weaponry)? The Q didn't interfere with Janeway's time travel, so I guess they're indifferent.
And what about the love triangle thing with Seven of Nine, The Doctor, and Chakotay. It seems like that was just droped and forgoten about, at least acording to what I read. And, the borg queen said since Admiral Janeway was going to die, that means she can't be around to use time travel and make this all happen. So what happened there? The borg queen would know what she's talking about, you would think.
In the first season or two I watched, there were some 5 episodes I remember where the holodeck put everyone's lives in danger. They should have taken a sledge hammer to the holodeck. Also, in one episode, Janeway could have had a child with Q and he would have taken them all home in a second, but she said no, so...how determined is Janeway to get home, really? She and Q would just have to touch finger tips to reproduce, but she thought that was too idk, easy or something. These sorts of things bothered me about the show. And, there was an episode where there were two Janeways and one of them blew up the other Voyager to take out a massive enemy ship. The last episode is basically the same thing all over again. Two Janeway's, one sacrifices herself to wipe out the enemy, etc.
I suppose whenever time travel is involved it turns the whole show upside down. Then again, it's Star Trek so anything goes and it has to have time travel. Oh well, thanks for reading my little essay.
