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I could never get into "Enterprise". I think I was looking for it to be The Right Stuff in the 22nd century, but what we got instead was more like a stroll through a new neighborhood. I heard it got better in the last couple seasons, but I didn't have the patience to make it that far.

Thank you both for the kind words!

I finished things up today by watching the following: "Homestead": This episode featured exactly the kind of big swing a final season episode should take, but that the final season of "Voyager" too rarely risked. For everybody else on Voyager, the journey to Earth is a journey home. Getting...

Tonight I watched: "Q2": This concept was done better on the original series with "The Squire of Gothos". As a whole, with the exception of "Death Wish", I've found the "Voyager" Q episodes less effective than the TNG Q episodes. For one thing, Q's lecherous behavior toward Janeway is...

Tonight I watched: "Human Error": I found most of this episode uncomfortable to watch; there is something vaguely unethical about creating facsimiles of real people from your life to play out your fantasies with. However, it does two things that are rare for this show, and it does them well...

Tonight I watched: "The Void": It was interesting watching this episode now, at time of great disillusionment with regard to globalization and a severe fraying of international cooperation, because it is basically an encapsulation of the Clinton-era optimism about a global economy that...

Tonight I watched: "Prophecy": When the D7-class cruiser de-cloaked at the beginning of the episode, I figured I was in for yet another standard-issue Klingon story, with some contrivance that would allow the "Voyager" writers to play in an area of Star Trek that's usually off limits to the...

Thursday night I watched: "Unimatrix Zero" (two-parter): This was clearly the writers' attempt to make the "Voyager" version of "The Best of Both Worlds". While not terrible, it isn't nearly as effective as that two-parter was. For one thing, Voyager has had a lot more interactions with the...

Tonight I watched: "Life Line": This was pretty close to a flawless episode. Continuing on from the events of "Pathfinder", Lt. Barclay has found a way to utilize the regular, predictable fluctuations of a pulsar to create a window for Starfleet and Voyager to communicate for several hours once...

Tonight I watched: "Ashes to Ashes": I skipped back slightly to watch this one, because there was a big jump in the relationship between the Borg children and Seven of Nine between "Collective" and "Child's Play" and I wanted to see what transpired in between. Their subplot is interesting, with...

Yesterday I watched: "Blink of an Eye": I really enjoyed this one. It's a classic science fiction premise, and the episode really milks it for all it's worth. My one criticism was going to be: What are the odds that Voyager arrives just as civilization began on the planet? But the episode...

Tonight I watched: "Barge of the Dead": With a story by Ronald D. Moore (his final Star Trek writing credit) and a teleplay by Bryan Fuller, this episode had a strong pedigree behind it. It's sort of the inverse of Fuller's fourth season script "Mortal Coil"; whereas Neelix went into his near...

Last night I watched: "Someone to Watch Over Me": This episode is basically Voyager's retelling of Pygmalion, with the Doctor cast as Henry Higgins and Seven of Nine cast as Eliza Doolittle. It wasn't one of my favorites; as a general rule, I haven't enjoyed the romantic storylines on...

Tonight I watched: "Bride of Chaotica!": This was a pretty frivolous episode, but the writers and actors were clearly having a good time making it, and that energy carries through. The episode never takes itself too seriously, and there's some meta commentary on episodic television that's...

Tonight I watched: "Counterpoint": This was one of those episodes where the writer's hand is felt a little bit too strongly; things happen because the writer needs them to happen, not because they're what the characters would do. After several episodes where Janeway has left innocent people to...

Tonight I watched: "Thirty Days": This was far from a flawless episode, but there was a lot I liked. It was a good "check-in" episode to see where Tom Paris is on his redemption arc, and had quite a bit to say about both Paris's principles and his feelings toward his father. It had a pretty...

Today I watched: "Extreme Risk": I liked the idea behind this episode, with B'Elanna Torres depressed from the massacre of her fellow Maquis and unable to process her feelings in a healthy way. But it either needed to air closer to "Hunters", when she learned the news, or the show needed to do...

Tonight I watched: "The Omega Directive": This episode bookended "Prey" in terms of the conflict between Janeway and Seven of Nine. In that episode, Seven of Nine was insubordinate. In this episode, she obeys orders even though she disagrees with them strongly. The first third of the episode...

Tonight I watched: "Hunters": This episode dealt with the fallout from "Message in a Bottle" and the first communication from Starfleet in an interesting way. I liked the episode's melancholy tone; as excited as everybody is to hear from home, the news is decidedly mixed, as it would be under...

On Tuesday I watched: "Year of Hell" (two-parter): This story grappled with a lot of the ideas that I'd been hoping the show would have dealt with right along: Voyager is alone and unsupported in a remote, unknown, and often hostile corner of the galaxy. Yet up until this point, all of the...

Last night I watched: "Nemesis": I didn't love this one. The twist didn't feel earned. At the end of the episode we get an exposition dump that explains that everything in the episode up until the battle where Tuvok intercepts Chakotay was a simulation, but it's not explained how it's a...

Today's episodes from quarantine: "Rise": I've always been fascinated by the idea of space elevators, so I enjoyed this episode for that reason. It was also an important episode in terms of developing the relationship between Tuvok and Neelix, who are an enjoyable odd couple whose strengths are...

Today's episodes from quarantine: "Remember": This was an episode that kind of just slips the knife in; you think you're watching an episode about Torres living this romance vicariously through this other person's memories, but you're actually watching an episode about Holocaust denial, as the...

Today's episodes from quarantine: "The Thaw" - I had mixed feelings about this one. The scenario of the construct within the stasis cambers was genuinely nightmarish, and Michael McKean was suitably menacing as the villain. But having Janeway literally defeat fear itself felt a little on the...

My evening watches: "Death Wish": I loved this episode. It dealt with a lot of heavy philosophical questions more recently explored by "The Good Place", and reached rather similar conclusions. Gerrit Graham was wonderful as the suicidal Q, in a performance that reminded me a lot of Henry...

Last night I watched "Prototype", which was a somewhat interesting change of pace from the normal episodes, but ultimately really derivative of a lot of artificial intelligence stories told previously, with out anything new to add. I did laugh at how analog the display from the android's point...

Just watched "Resistance". It wasn't my favorite episode. The technologically advanced police state was a darker turn than I usually associate with Star Trek, and I liked that the inciting incident of the episode was a resources issue; Voyager needed something that would have been easy to get...

I just finished watching it, and I really enjoyed it. Thanks for the recommendation. The hook is Sharon Lawrence as Amelia Earhart, but the heart of the episode is a unique dilemma for the crew of Voyager. My first thought was that the people from 1937 had been pulled through a temporal as...

I just watched the two-part series premiere again. Some thoughts: After being spoiled by the TNG HD Remaster, it's a really tough downgrade in quality going back to standard definition for this. It's not just the 480 lines of resolution; it also the interlacing artifacts and the analog...

I'd forgotten that I'd made that list! Thanks for the reminder, Nelson. Here is my new list, combining my previous list that I never completed and the top 15 episodes that Osato linked to: Season One: "Caretaker" -- going to rewatch "Parallax" -- already watched "Phage"-- already watched...