Not being a huge Star Trek fan, i really liked the idea of what his story tried to do, to mix a group of political rebels together with loyal Starfleet officers and get them lost on the other side of the galaxy and have them work together to find a way home, whoever the show turned out to be a boring mess that somehow trudged along for 7 long years without getting canceled, and how it did that is anyones guess.
The problem in the show is the writing is incredibly boring, the characters have no real flaws or differences to keep them interesting, Kate Mulgrew's Captain Janeway lacks any acting talent or charisma that made Kirk and Picard so memorable, there is no drama among the ships crew,
somehow the Marqii (political rebels) and Starfleet put all their differences aside and happily work together. It lacks the emotional journeys of characters like Data, Spock and Worf. The only actor in the show who truly stand out is Robert Picardo's Doctor (And i believe most of his good lines where ad-libbed).
A good comparison is the Next Generation episode "The Best of Both Worlds" where Picard is assimilated by the Borg to help then understand humanity, after that episode Picard was so traumatized he felt like taking his own life, and it was one of the greatest Trek story's ever because of the emotional journey he went through, however in a later Voyager episode Janeyway and several other crew members are assimilated by the Borg, but are all better at the end of the show due to some magical machine the holographic doctor made to keep them sane or something like that, just make the show seem so unbelievable and boring compared to The Next Generation.
The problem in the show is the writing is incredibly boring, the characters have no real flaws or differences to keep them interesting, Kate Mulgrew's Captain Janeway lacks any acting talent or charisma that made Kirk and Picard so memorable, there is no drama among the ships crew,
somehow the Marqii (political rebels) and Starfleet put all their differences aside and happily work together. It lacks the emotional journeys of characters like Data, Spock and Worf. The only actor in the show who truly stand out is Robert Picardo's Doctor (And i believe most of his good lines where ad-libbed).
A good comparison is the Next Generation episode "The Best of Both Worlds" where Picard is assimilated by the Borg to help then understand humanity, after that episode Picard was so traumatized he felt like taking his own life, and it was one of the greatest Trek story's ever because of the emotional journey he went through, however in a later Voyager episode Janeyway and several other crew members are assimilated by the Borg, but are all better at the end of the show due to some magical machine the holographic doctor made to keep them sane or something like that, just make the show seem so unbelievable and boring compared to The Next Generation.