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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9664860" data-attributes="member: 6799660">Depends on which Janeway she was this week. I always felt like she and Spike from Buffy were in a competition for who could collect more mutually exclusive inconsistent characterizations.They really amped up the return-to-status-quo mentality. The ship is always understaffed because of the first episode disaster, but subsequent casualties do not degrade them further. They are always resource scarce and looking for resupply, but the shortages never get worse. We're told they are in short supply, but they always have auxiliary craft and photon torpedoes to use (and they do, sometimes with reckless abandon). Damage to the ship happens (and kudos to the effects team for applying it to what I think is the last physical model used as the primary external reference), but never in a way that lasts (and thus has to be tracked by continuity specialists, etc.). I always wondered if this was more because the writers were writing scripts that didn't engage the specific-series-concept (and thus had shuttles and crew people to burn same as ToS or TNG), or if there was some edict on high about keeping continuity so viewers could miss episodes or see them in any order, etc.</blockquote>