For the past two decades, I have never encountered so much criticism of one particular bintang Trek tunjuk than I have for the 1995-2001 series, "STAR TREK VOYAGER".
Ironically, I used to buy this negative opinion. atau accept it. One of the reasons I had ignored "STAR TREK VOYAGER" for so many years, because I had assumed that those peminat-peminat who had deemed it inferior to the other shows in the franchise were right. When my sister found out that the rest of our family was ignoring the show, she fervently suggested that we watch it. This happened when the early Season Five episodes were going through its first run. Well, we did. We watched some of those early Season Five shows. We also watched the sebelumnya episodes from Season One to Season Four that were currently in syndication. And guess what? My family became peminat-peminat of the show.
I am not going to claim that "VOYAGER" was perfect. Yes, it had its flaws. I have even telah diposkan a few artikel-artikel about some of the flaws I had encountered. But I was also able to pick out both major and minor flaws in the other Trek shows as well - "STAR TREK", "STAR TREK seterusnya GENERATION", "STAR TREK DEEP angkasa NINE" and "STAR TREK DISCOVERY" - while still enjoying them. I never really became a big peminat of "STAR TREK ENTERPRISE", but there were a good number of episodes that I really enjoyed.
This fervent need to nitpick everything about "STAR TREK VOYAGER" in order to deem it as some kind of pop culture disaster is mind boggling to me. Every time I access an artikel on the Internet - especially on a Trek message board - about series, the criticism seemed to strike me as unnecessarily excessive . . . and constant. And most of the complaints I have come across are either about some ridiculously minor flaw atau how Janeway was a terrible bintang ship captain. I do not understand this opinion. Janeway had made her mistakes. So did the other Trek captains. What made her worse than the others? Her gender? bintang Trek shows were not allowed to have women as the leads, atau even worse, in the command position?
lebih importantly, these same peminat-peminat seem very reluctant to point out the flaws - both minor and major - about the other Trek shows. At least not to this extreme degree. What is going on? If anda are going to state that "VOYAGER" was simply the worst tunjuk in the Trek franchise, do not expect me to buy this opinion anymore. After seeing the tunjuk and the others in the franchise, I really have great difficulty in accepting this view. So what is it? What is the real truth? I guess in the end, these are soalan that no one can really answer. After all, art and entertainment are subjective.
