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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SuperGamera" data-source="post: 2186906" data-attributes="member: 27559">It wasn't that they weren't great characters, the Doctor especially.  It's just that they became unable to write decent episodes for any of the other characters after about Season 5.  Dating one of the showrunners certainly didn't hurt 7 of 9 (Borg implants and all) from getting lots of episodes.  By the end, either of them could pretty much run the ship by themselves (and each did at least once).In 7 years, Harry never got promoted, and only had some romance once that I recall, catching perhaps only the 2nd reported STD in Trek history.  Many of the other characters got hardly any development at all.Also, after DS9 muddied the morality and ethics of the Trek universe, Voyager was more often timid and PC.  Somehow, Chakotay's hallucination-inducing device is OK, but more traditional methods are not?  Also, the show de-fanged the Borg, making them all subject to the Queen (rather than the identity-consuming group mind they were in TNG).  No longer was the entire race focused on assimilation, making genocide the only potential solution; they were simply unwilling participants in the Queen's plans, and removing her could solve all their problems.Voyager had some great episodes, but the plot gaps, lack of character development, and large number of bad episodes make it the worst of the (TOS-TNG-DS9-Voyager) Trek.</blockquote>