#intrepid class

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USS Voyager, "Eye of the Needle"

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The Void by Greg Ellison

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If I was the lead set designer on Voyager but I still have the 30 years of hindsight and nostalgia that I have now, I would have made the ship extremely frutiger aero/gen x soft club/Y2K with lots of brushed chrome surfaces, jelly textures (bio-neural gel packs right), smooth blobby lines, perspex, semi-translucent covers to mechanisms that you can see circuitry under, diffused light coming from the floor tiles, and pops of singular color.

Then as the series goes on, all the surfaces get scratched up and broken, and stuff gets disassembled for parts, and random pieces of totally alien technology get installed, and it just looks a bit grimy and maybe the lighting gets darker.

Mood board:

I feel like it's already like 40% of the way there

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Voyager is my kind of Trek

Does Voyager have missed potential?

Yes.

Is Voyager well written as a series?

Well… no. Being a fan of Voyager can be frustrating because many things don’t make sense. I have lots of headcanon to deal with this…

So, why do I love Voyager?

Why am I obsessed with the Star Trek show that used to be (and still is to some extent) so hated by Trekkies?

Voyager is the buffé with all my favourite stuff.

Is this a buffé that’s been prepared and composed with the utmost care? No. Does that make me enjoy it any less? Not really.

Star Trek Voyager has:

Captain Janeway, the first female captain to lead a Star Trek show. I have written about how awesome she is here.

Lieutenant Tuvok, the first full-Vulcan crew member on a Star Trek show. He is the fountain of wisdom and one-liners on the show, and not having more Tuvok is the true missed potential of Voyager.

J/C, the captain and first officer ship that rivals Spirks Austen-esque longing. It’s a straight ship, but it doesn’t feel like one. There are reasons but it’s still insane.

The USS Voyager, a beautiful intrepid class starship that isn’t called The Enterprise and doesn’t look anything like it. It’s a beauty, and it makes the whole show more beautiful.

The best music. All of it is so good, not just the theme song. Voyager’s scores are sweeping and cinematic.

A female focus, more often than not a female character is leading an episode of Voyager and it’s not just Janeway. Voyager always has three female crew members, and they’re all great characters that are different from each other. These characters also have interesting relationships with each other. It really outperforms previous Star Trek shows and Star Trek Enterprise in the Bechdel test.

A pervasive sadness, because most of the crew want to get home and they are so close to getting home so many times and their hopes are continually crushed. I’m a sucker for that sort of thing.

TOS-like episodes in a good way, because they’re really weird and excellent.

TOS-like episodes in a bad way, because they’re not very good but they’re unhinged and very funny. I think we all know the most infamous example, but there are others too…

There are so many other things I could list, but my point is that there is so much to love about Star Trek Voyager. I love this show in spite of and because of its flaws, and while I agree with some criticisms of missed potential etc I also think it avoided many potential pitfalls.

Star Trek Voyager is my kind of Trek, and if you haven’t seen it I think you should at least give it a chance because it could be your kind of Trek too.

[licaonia]

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©️Licaonia Lupe

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Started watching Voyager today 💓💓