History YMMV / StartrekVoyager

* AlienScrappy: Neelix

** She made a significant proportion of them in those same episodes.

** The opening sequence seems to have served as the template for the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZs00NjTPoo Mass Effect theme music]] as well.

** Definitely a case of Your Mileage May Vary. Only those who put all their hopes in an afterlife would be disturbed by that episode; humanists and others who value life more out of the belief they only get one would find it extremely family friendly.
** [[WriterOnBoard Bryan Fuller's disillusionment with Catholicism]] was the catalyst for The CessationOfExistence message in "Mortal Coil," according to Memory Alpha.
** Add the fact that this episode originally aired one week before Christmas on to that.

** Since the show established that the future Starfleet repairs damage done to the timeline by intervention, doesn't that make [[spoiler: the DownerEnding of the ship's journey in "Timeless" the true ending?]]

** As SFDebris points out, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen they were originally going to get rid of Harry Kim instead of Kes.]] So, WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis!

** Neelix has one too. But it's not really repeatable in polite company... (HINT: It has to do with how useful his brain is, and what his head look like...)

** Neelix has one too. But it's not really repeatable in polite company...

** Harrin, a Lower Decks one shot character, who easily comes off as the most sympathetic crewman on Voyager, whose life has been ruined by Janeway's stranding them, since he never wanted to be on Voyager in the first place and doesn't hold back in his contempt of her. He's also a genius astrophysicist, that for the last 7 years has been doing lowly gruntwork in engineering, which as SFDebris points out "On a ship meant to explore the wonders of the universe, you've put CarlSagan in charge of ''shovelling coal''!"
*** Considering that Harrin refused to take on any added responsibilities and preferred to spend his time on his mathematical equations, having him "shoveling coal" makes sense.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: While this example by no means detracts from the beauty of it. WordOfGod states that in the last shot of the opening sequence (done in CGI), the three (incredibly tiny, almost window-like) grey patches on the bottom of the Voyager nose before it jumps into warp were actually missing texture spaces. [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Amblin_model_with_missing_textures.jpg This is the shot in question]]

** Harry Kim's EpicFail in "Deadlocked" when his brilliant solution to fix a hull breach with a new forcefield he designed promptly gets him sucked out into cold vacuum of space where he dies. Due to technobabble involving a phased photocopied duplicate from the second Voyager [[IGotBetter he gets better.]]

** Then there's what happens to Harry Kim at the end of season 3. [[spoiler:When Tuvok remarks "the life form is 5 meters away and closing" when they're exploring the Borg cube, Harry suddenly dashes forward all by himself, without looking, and blurts out "from where?" Of course, this gets him mauled by one of Species 8472, and if it weren't for ExecutiveMeddling he'd have died.]]

** Then there's what happens to Harry Kim at the end of season 3. [[spoiler:When Tuvok remarks "the life form is 5 meters away and closing" when they're exploring the Borg cube, Harry suddenly dashes forward all by himself, without looking, and blurts out "from where?" Of course, this gets him mauled by one of Species 8472, and if it weren't for ExecutiveMeddling he'd have died.]]


!!Another ShowWithinAShow ''The Voyager Encounter'' contains examples of:
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: ''Heavily'' employed, being an alien recreation of an encounter of a run in with the USS Voyager 700 years ago and much of the actual history was lost. The crew wear fascist uniforms and are portrayed as violent sociopaths. Seven of Nine is still a Borg leading a contingent of captured drones. Even Voyager herself has become a darkly light ship, armed to the teeth and referred to as a Warship.
** Anyone not familiar with Deep Space Nine's take on it might've thought this was intended to be the Mirror Universe.

* MoralEventHorizon: Captain Janeway herself very nearly '''leaps''' over the Moral Event Horizon in Equinox. The supposed bad guy, Ransom, is sympathetic by comparison. He only wanted to get his crew home.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: According to some of Voyager's production staff (including the late Michael Piller), ''Voyager'' was a victim of ExecutiveMeddling. UPN execs wanted [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]-type ratings, and they decided the best way to achieve that was to turn ''Voyager'' into ''TNG-Lite''. Hence little or no character conflict, no ongoing story arcs (for example, producer Brannon Braga wanted a year-long "Year of Hell" but UPN vetoed it), and various other flaws (real and imagined) the series had.
** This is underlined by Ron D. Moore's stint on the series. He wrapped up DS9 and then spent about three weeks on VOY's production staff before giving up for the above reasons (and more). He then went on to create a show about another spaceship that was left to its own devices in hostile territory, trying to find a home. It's called ''BattlestarGalactica'', [[TakeThat it has all the things the Executive Meddlers veto'd]], which was a ratings and critical hit. Coincidence?\\

Here's an [[http://www.mania.com/star-trek-profile-fanwriterproducer-ronald-d-moore_article_18708.html interview]] with Moore trashing Voyager, it's an interesting look into the show as, according to him, it got so bad that even the people working on the show pretty much gave up on it (as he notes on one time he asked about how he should write Torres and he pretty much got the answer: ''We don't know, do whatever you want''). Well it would explain a lot...

* EnsembleDarkhorse: ''The Doctor''. Not only is he considered by many fans to be their favorite character, but there's an argument to be made for him being the most prominent example in franchise ''history'', eclipsing even Spock or Data. Nearly every single episode that is generally agreed to be "good" or better features The Doctor prominently.\\
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It does help that Robert Picardo enjoyed his character and working on the show a good deal more than any of the other major cast members, and that The Doctor was easily the most consistently-written character.

** Then there's what happens to Harry Kim at the end of season 3. [[spoiler:When Tuvok remarks "the life form is 5 meters away and closing" when they're exploring the Borg cube, Harry suddenly dashes forward all by himself, without looking, and blurts out "from where?" Of course, this gets him mauled by one of Species 8472, and if it weren't for ExecutiveMeddling he'd have died.]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Certainly had one of the best Star Trek [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXCP6lJkDZU themes,]] if not ''the'' best. So good, in fact, that it won an Emmy. It has been said that ''Voyager'''s opening theme is the music to what the show '''should''' have been.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Certainly had one of the best Star Trek themes if not the best. So good, in fact, that it won an Emmy.

* CriticalResearchFailure: SFDebris loves to point them out.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Certainly had one of the best Star Trek themes if not the best.

* CompleteMonster: The MonsterClown in "The Thaw."

* HolyShitQuotient: While "Coda" had some definite problems, the scene where [[spoiler: the Doctor ''euthanizes'' the Phage-infected Janeway]] is both awesome and chilling at the same time. Also, the scene shortly thereafter where Chakotay tries and fails to bring Janeway back with CPR; this doubles as a TearJerker.

* HolyShitQuotient: While "Coda" had some definite problems, the scene where [[spoiler: the Doctor]] ''[[euthanizes]]'' [[the Phage-infected Janeway]] is both awesome and chilling at the same time. Also, the scene shortly thereafter where Chakotay tries and fails to bring Janeway back with CPR; this doubles as a TearJerker.

* HolyShitQuotient: While "Coda" had some definite problems, the scene where [[spoiler: the Doctor ''euthanizes'' the Phage-infected Janeway]] is both awesome and chilling at the same time. Also, the scene shortly thereafter where Chakotay tries and fails to bring Janeway back with CPR; this doubles as a TearJerker.