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* DesignatedVillain: Species 8472. Their initial appearance, in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E25S4E1Scorpion Scorpion]]", has Janeway decide to ally with the ''Borg'' to destroy them because... one Species 8472 soldier shot a warning shot off ''Voyager's'' bow, and Kes (a telepath with powers that have consistently been shown to be unreliable and unstable) says that they're very angry and shouting xenophobic war cries telepathically. In fact, the show eventually walked back their status as TheDreaded in episodes like the season 4 finale, "Hope And Fear" and season 5's "In The Flesh," when Janeway does get called out on that controversial decision.
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* DesignatedVillain: Species 8472. Their initial appearance, in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E25S4E1Scorpion Scorpion]]", has Janeway decide to ally with the ''Borg'' to destroy them because... one Species 8472 soldier shot attacked Harry while the away team was wandering around in a war zone and then fired a warning shot off ''Voyager's'' bow, bow when they tried to {{tractor|Beam}} his ship, and because Kes (a telepath with powers that have consistently been shown to be unreliable and unstable) says that they're very angry and shouting xenophobic war cries telepathically. In fact, the show eventually walked back their status as TheDreaded in episodes like the season 4 finale, "Hope And Fear" and season 5's "In The Flesh," when Janeway does get called out on that controversial decision.
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: By the ''cast'', actually: Creator/KateMulgrew herself has been known to say in hindsight that she believes Captain Janeway was bipolar or otherwise mentally ill, due to [[DependingOnTheWriter the inconsistent writing of her character]].
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** The preposterous idea that the Voth from ''Distant Origin'' could have achieved space travel without leaving a single piece of archeological evidence either on Earth or the surrounding planets, or would have been restricted to just one small part of the world as the episode suggests despite the fact that anyone capable of interstellar space travel should also know the secrets of the boat, suggests that their ancestors were abducted from Earth and left to evolve in the Delta Quadrant as opposed to leaving it of their own free will. There is also the leadership, which either refuses to listen to anything that counters the narrative they believe in or know the truth yet forcefully push a specific narrative on their people to keep them compliant.
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** The preposterous idea that the Voth from ''Distant Origin'' could have achieved space travel without leaving a single piece of archeological evidence either on Earth or the surrounding planets, or would have been restricted to just one small part of the world as the episode suggests despite the fact that anyone capable of interstellar space travel should also know the secrets of the boat, suggests that their ancestors were abducted from Earth and left to evolve in the Delta Quadrant as opposed to leaving it of their own free will. There is also the leadership, which either refuses to listen to anything that counters the narrative they believe in or know the truth yet forcefully push a specific narrative on their people to keep them compliant. Another theory that has gained traction in recent years that would neatly explain away these problems is that Chakotay and Gegen were just plain wrong. After all, we do know from [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E18TheChase The Chase]] that every humanoid species in the galaxy shares the same DNA. It really is not that much of a stretch using ''Star Trek'' science that this also stretches to the Voth and the dinosaurs in some capacity.
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** Harry Kim infamously never got a promotion on the show. While the non-canon ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' would give him command of the ''Rhode Island'', he almost got to be the Captain of the ''Voyager''-B on ''Picard''--only for that planned cameo to be scrapped.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: Whenever one of ''Voyager'''s crew disobeyed orders to save the ship or do what they thought was right, Janeway threw the book at them and gave them a harsh punishment (such as Seven of Nine sending an invading Hirogen and Species 8472 at war with each other back to the former's fleet while they were attacking the ship, Tom Paris violating the Prime Directive to save a planet, etc.) . While they did go behind her back, their intentions of protecting the ship and the crew were far more justified--in fact, necessary considering that they offered that solution to Janeway in the first place, only to be shot down--and yet they're treated as being unequivocally wrong for doing so. And they either had no choice but to accept the consequences of their choices, or got shot down with any counterargument they made towards their Captain. Yes, Janeway insists they have to maintain the moral high ground, but seeing as that doing so often puts the ship and crew in more danger than necessary (and could have been easily avoided had Janeway taken the more pragmatic option), their efforts feel less like them disobeying their Captain and more like doing what she should have done in the first place.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: At times, Janeway could slip into this. While she was mostly treated as AMotherToHerMen, and is unquestionably a fine Starfleet Officer, her unequivocal MyWayOrTheHighway attitude towards her command decisions (which Tuvok even said in "Year Of Hell" that "The Captain is always right) made her come off across as inept when it was clearly unsound. Yes, a command structure needs to be maintained on the ship, but half the time, her choices place the ship in a much greater danger than necessary (such as refusing to allow a Hirogen to kill Species 8472 because she didn't want any bloodshed, even though she was already in enough hot water with the former as it was), and whenever one of her crew suggests making the sound choice, she always shoots it down and sticks to her guns. Then when said crew member inevitably goes behind her back to do what she should have done in the first place, she dresses them down for disobeying her orders, even though it winds up ending the crisis she got them into in the first place. Given that, it's little wonder she's one of ''Trek'''s most divisive Captains.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: At times, Janeway could slip into this. While she was mostly treated as AMotherToHerMen, and is unquestionably a fine Starfleet Officer, her unequivocal MyWayOrTheHighway attitude towards her command decisions (which Tuvok even said in "Year Of Hell" that "The Captain is always right) made her come off across as inept when it was clearly unsound. Yes, a command structure needs to be maintained on the ship, but half the time, her choices place the ship in a much greater danger than necessary (such as refusing to allow a Hirogen to kill Species 8472 because she didn't want any bloodshed, even though she was already in enough hot water with the former as it was), and whenever one of her crew suggests making the sound choice, she always shoots it down and sticks to her guns. Then when said crew member inevitably goes behind her back to do what she should have done in the first place, she dresses them down for disobeying her orders, even though it winds up ending the crisis she got them into in the first place. Given that, it's little wonder she's one of ''Trek'''s most divisive Captains.
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* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Seven of Nine's rediscovery of the humanity she lost to The Borg, as well as being mentored by Captain Janeway, winds up paying off in spades come ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', when [[spoiler:she's made Captain of the ''Enterprise''-G, aka the ''flagship'' of Starfleet.]] Janeway[[note]]who was supposed to appear to make it happen, but sadly got cut[[/note]] would be very proud.
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** The episode "Worst Case Scenario" has an excellent plot hook: Torres (a former Maquis) finds a holodeck program hidden away in the computer which depicts a Maquis revolt on Voyager. It's later revealed that it was designed by Tuvok as a way to train security to handle such a scenario. The episode completely fails to do ANYTHING interesting with this, possible because the character (by that point) didn't have the depth to make the episode interesting. SF Debris also noted on this one how sad it was that by this point, the supposed major hook of the show in having Starfleet and Maquis forced to work together had become such a non-issue that Tuvok literally had to write his own fanfiction for it to be explored at all.
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** The episode "Worst Case Scenario" has an excellent plot hook: Torres (a former Maquis) finds a holodeck program hidden away in the computer which depicts a Maquis revolt on Voyager. It's later revealed that it was designed by Tuvok as a way to train security to handle such a scenario. The episode completely fails to do ANYTHING interesting with this, possible because the character (by that point) didn't have the depth to make the episode interesting. SF Debris Website/SFDebris also noted on this one how sad it was that by this point, the supposed major hook of the show in having Starfleet and Maquis forced to work together had become such a non-issue that Tuvok literally had to write his own fanfiction for it to be explored at all.
