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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 310727" data-attributes="member: 3887">A few thoughts...To restate the obvious: People dislike Voyager because it was dull. Genuine idea-heavy sci-fi extrapolations and musing were replaced by the dreaded technobabble. A situation which seemed at first to be rife with conflict and tension,  was reduced to level of an office at a small tech company. No, I take that back. Most small tech firm offices positively seethe with human drama compared to Voyager. The writers on Voyager deplyed a facinating array of techniques apparently designed to strip the drama out of every script. Hobbling the Borg pales in comparion to how they flattened the emotional lives of the regular players. Only the computer-generated hologram had any spark; and the scripts continually had to punish him for aspiring to be more than the uber-future office drone that every other sentient being on the ship was. Voyager was the first sci-fi show I've ever seen with a sentient AI --who passes the Turing Test with flying colors-- which argued, for a while in favor of treating him as a non-person.N</blockquote>