Yknow, deep space nine handles a lot of really heavy subject matter. But voyager is Fucked Up. Like, ds9 is about the horrors of war & in voy shit will just happen. People say voyager is the darkest star trek series and that doesn’t feel quite right to me because ds9 is About War and the aftereffects thereof but there’s definitely something happening on voyager. It has a really different vibe about it. Ds9 is dark but voyager is scary
Ds9 handles its subject matter gracefully and voyager Does Not. Shit just happens on voyager. You watch an episode of voyager and you say What the fuck? & the episode ends and they never talk about it again
[ID: a reply from @bonecouch that reads, “in this way voyager reminds me more of tos than any other star trek spin off” /end ID]
Oh now there’s a take. I think you’re onto something. Janeway definitely has a Kirk energy about her & the episode structure is pretty close to the tos formula of going to a place and something fucked up happening and leaving. It just feels slightly *off* though in a way that’s hard to pin down… tos was entirely episodic so you don’t really *expect* things to be brought up again, but voyager does have a level of continuity, so they kind of leave you waiting. Sometimes things come back later but a lot of it Doesn’t. It’s all very strange
