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- Darth_Rasputin32898’s guide to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- OpticalData’s guide to Star Trek: Voyager
- petrus4’s guide to Star Trek: Voyager
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On the whole, i enjoyed S2, but if I was to give it a numerical rating, I'd say 4/10, below average for Trek.
One of my bigger complaints would be with how watered down the Borg Queen was in terms of threat. We've previously seen Borg assimilation happen in mere seconds, and the assimilation of the Dr. took multiple episodes to resolve.
As for my biggest complaint, it'd be the setting. A jump to the past is a nice trip for a 2 or 3 parter in Trek, but a whole season just didn't jive that much for me.
On the other hand, S3, that was some of the best NuTrek I've seen so far.
I recently watched it and didn't regret doing so. Picard was way more fun for me than Reddit had me thinking it was going to be.
Same. To me, a sci-fi series or season set in the past just screams, "Somebody is over this shit." Whether that's the actors, writers, or (most likely) the money, somebody didn't want to build a bunch of god-damn sets, or get up at fuck o'clock to go into prosthetics, or pay for any of that nerd nonsense.
Honestly, I enjoyed the portrayal of the Borg Queen outside the context of the collective. She got the sort of character development that I didn’t know I needed. And frankly, she was practically holding S2 up after they arrived in the past.
Then she got the villain ball and ran off with Jurati and my interest fell flat.
The Borg Queen worked as a character. She didn’t work as a villain. It was impossible to balance her being a galactic level threat against a crew that had no resources, and Doyalistly wasn’t allowed to deal with her until Picard had time to spare to concentrate on her.
All posts and comments in Daystrom Institute must be substantive and explain their reasoning. Simply declaring that a season of the show is so bad that it shouldn't exist is not sufficient.
If you want to point out specific discrepancies and argue that they are a reason to view S2 and S3 and contradictory, that would be appropriate here.