Top 10 Star Trek Voyager Episodes
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Time to rank the best Star Trek Voyager episodes of all time! I'm sure they're all 7 out of 9s!
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Tuvok’s blindness in Year of Hell is so, so carefully done, and subtly I think one of Star Trek’s best representations of disability. Tuvok is silently offered the arm of someone for guidance rather than being dragged (super subtle, but my hub who is low vision recognized it immediately from his Orientation & Mobility training), and Voyager is apparently so accessible(!!!) that Tuvok is able to lose his vision and go back to work without struggling for accommodations, or giving us some excuse like “Tuvok is so great he compensates.” Obsessed with this tiny detail, and have been thinking about it a lot since last week’s SNW.
Fear exists for one purpose...to be conquered.
Janeway's "I know....." at the end of the episode is bone chilling.
LIVING WITNESS!!! I'm an archivist and Living Witness was weirdly a sort of course-setter for what I wanted to do in life. The importance of maintaining recorded history and helping to represent the voices of the marginalized for the future was burned into my brain. And now it's what I do as a career.
This episode was such an amazing one.
I love that the episode had the actual history be morally complicated as well. They focused on the fact that sometimes both factions have things to take responsibility for.
@@Nostripe361 I'm from Northern Ireland, didn't need a Star Trek episode to teach me that...
I’ve seen (maybe) one episode of Star Trek as a kid but now I have the very sudden and powerful desire to watch everything from start to finish
Watch Strange New Worlds, it's currently airing so is modern, but it's set pretty early in the timeline, with only Enterprise and Discovery's first two seasons taking place before it.
Ohh hoh oh I'm trying to get my friends and family to start watching since last year when I picked up the Next Generation so I'm now almost done with voyager..... best decision of my life, you will be a fan forever!
Also watch The Orville. It's a a parody/homage to old trek. Really awesome and funny.
I'm a little sad that Blink of an Eye only gets an honorable mention. It's the Voyager episode that stuck with me the most, and it's such a fantastic concept.
I love lots of these! Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy is another fun one. The Doctor's Pon Farr song and when the crew all have to play along with his daydreams at the end. 😆
Star Trek doesn't have bad actors, but Mulgrew, Picardo and Ryan really carry the entire show
I say Tuvok is great too... show could do without Chikotay.
@@thomasputko1080 he shines in Nemesis
i think the fact that most characters have real highlight episodes prove that they all _can_ carry the show (at least for a time) it’s just that they’re usually not given the material or spotlight to do so, as mentioned in the video a real shining performance for me is wang’s older kim in timeless
Bride of Chaotica makes my list. It’s ridiculous & I love it for that. Also, special honorable mention to the first few minutes of Tinker, Taylor, Doctor, Spy for Picardo’s operatic performance, which is an incredible moment, imho.
Bride of Chaotica is funny and sexy. What more can you ask for?
Love tinker tenor doctor spy!!! “Paris please find a way to grab a hypospray”. Lol.
I'm glad that both "The Thaw" and "Living Witness" are on this list as they're some of the most overlooked episodes out there.
"The Thaw" is excellent on many fronts as they never resort to the physical monstrosity clown trope. Fear ends up being a fairly cerebral villain at times.
Really? I always see love for "the Thaw". Which is well deserved. It's amazing.
@@AmaranthOriginal we need more thaw love. Haha. The actor playing the clown is so epic. I finally realized it’s Saul Goodmans brother from better call Saul. He’s great there too.
In lockdown, I watched _TNG_ in full for the first time in 30 years, then _DS9_ for the first time ever, then - reluctantly, remembering those bad S1 eps in the '90s - _Voyager._ To my *shock,* _Voyager_ - a mix of _TNG,_ _TOS,_ & _BSG_ - became my favorite _Trek_ series above all. Currently on my third series rewatch.
10. Macrocosm
9. Relativity
8. Scientific Method
7. Scorpion
6. Timeless
5. Course: Oblivion
4. Resolutions
3. Deadlock
2. Blink Of An Eye
1. Equinox
Voyager was really the first Star Trek series I watched, and I was introduced to it by my parents (who are huge Star Trek nerds and love the franchise), I went into it not that excited, but after around a year of watching it with my parents it’s become one of my favourite shows and somewhat of a comfort show to me, there are so many episodes I love just sitting down and rewatching
I think "Living Witness" is the closest thing we'll ever going to get for a Mirror Universe episode for Voyager.
I also like "Shattered" as well, not only it given us a chance to revisit some past episodes, but my personal favorite part of that episode is the optimistic future of Icheb.
The SF Debris review of Shattered is 50% of the reason my novel length Seven of Nine/Samantha Wildman fic exists.
Life is weird.
I’m really glad you appreciate how many standout episodes are in S5 & S7. The one thing that I wish you had made note of were the comedy episodes, which I think rival eps like The Magnificent Ferengi and Déjà Q. “Doctor, Tenor, Tinker, Spy”? Hysterical. “Real Life”? Incredibly funny-and horribly tragic.
Seeing the Doctor's daughter die just tears me apart every time.
Tuvok I understand
You are a Vulcan man
You have gone long without
For seven years...about
What I really enjoy about those later episodes with the Doctor is how it reflects how much Robert Picardo *loves* singing and musical theater, and really wanted to incorporate that into his character.
@@Kizyr he was quite talented
@@AmaranthOriginal Paris please find a way, to grab a hypospray!
The Equinox would have definitely been in my top ten, it was interesting to see another crew in the same circumstances as Voyager and how badly they handled it. It is also one of the few episodes where we see Janeway almost go dark side, and she might have if Chakotay had not intervened.
An episode I would have put on my top ten that never gets put on anyone's list is Nemesis, it a Chakotay episode where he gets drawn into a war on a planet, and I always thought it had such interesting things to say about war propaganda and manipulation of people's emotions. I also like how at the end Chakotay is not fine really, like he has that great line about wishing it was it was as easy to unlearn hate as it had been to learn it.
That last line of Nemesis gets me every time!
I love this list! All of these episodes were great, and it’s awesome to have someone else see Workforce as more than just a boiler plate action movie.
The thing I like about Voyager is that it’s fine with letting you feel uncomfortable with the main characters. When she compares the Doctor to a replicator, it’s one of the most chilling moments in the show. And yet at the end of the episode it doesn’t come back with a long-winded monologue to make you feel better. The character development is much more subtle. The show just presents the events as they were without turning to the camera and telling you what to feel. This is especially apparent in Tuvix and Equinox as well.
I also think it’s weird that The Thaw isn’t so common in Best Of lists.
In fact, while it’s not amongst my top favorite episodes of all Star Trek, that last scene, ending with Fear saying “I’m afraid” and Janeway whispering back “I know”, I’d say, is one of, if not my favorite scene in all Star Trek. It’s soooo well acted and impactful.
Can I just say up top that I adore the Voyager intro more than any other? I know, others are iconic in their way, but combined with Voyager being my first Star Trek, the music is just so dang good.
Critical Care (S7E5) was one of the VOY episodes that really stayed with me. The Doctor being forced to let poor people die so rich people could be *slightly* more comfortable, and his answer to that dilemma, are still highly relevant today
Critical Care is one of my favourite episodes in the whole franchise. Happy someone else out there appreciates it too
Also with Tuvix, I think it would've been incredibly interesting in subsequent episodes to have them dealing with a sort of bleed through effect, where each experiences little quirks of the other or has a memory that isn't their own or something of that nature.
I've been watching voyager for the first time and partially for that reason, I've got a lot of different episodes to you in my top ten (I'm only on season 5)
Macrocosm and Faces I love for the scifi horror of it all
Bride of Chaotica! and Message in a Bottle are such fun episodes that allow the cast to show off how funny they can be.
Coda and Resolutions are some of my favourites as someone who loves Janeway and Chakotay.
Also shoutout to B'Elanna Torres, some of her episodes like Extreme Risk and Remember deal with really tough issues and you can tell Roxann was giving her all.
Faces is definitely a favorite of mine. The duality of feeling "stuck" between 2 cultures and the realization that B'Elanna was incomplete without both. Beautiful message ❤️. Plus the Vidians were so weird and dangerous. RIP Durst.
The EMH has so many good episodes, it'd be hard to do a top ten of those alone.
Voyager defined my childhood, can't wait!
You're right that there are so many good episodes of Voyager. One of my personal favorites is Muse. I love theater history and this did an excellent job playing with ancient theater. The commentary on how stories work mechanically and how they can influence us made it one of my favorites.
"Living Witness" as #1 YES! YES! YES! This might be my favorite episode of the entire Trek canon. The ending gets me in the feels every time! THANK YOU!
I’d also add the following to the list:
“Death Wish” (the last brilliant and last great Q episode ever)
“Projections” (a clever story that only Brannon Braga can deliver)
“Pathfinder” (a terrific and consequential story that truly thinks outside the box and a crossover that is worthwhile)
“Eye of the Needle” (another underrated gem that uses the “lost in space” premise well)
“Prime Factors” (ditto)
“State of Flux” (also ditto)
“Meld” (the beginning of the Lon Suder arc. He’s so much more interesting than Seven of Nine as Voyager characters go-no offense to Seven fans)
“Basics, parts I and II” (this is only for the compelling conclusion of the Lon Suder arc, not the rest of the episodes)
“Deadlock” (only for the last INCREDIBLE act)
“Before and After” (Another clever story and it features Voyager’s most underrated main character, Kes!)
“The Cloud” (This is also one hell of a character showcase for Voyager and shows their instant chemistry!)
I know that’s more than 10, but I love those episodes to pieces!
I wish we had gotten more Lon Suder. Yet another missed opportunity in Voyager. He was so interesting.
Love this list. DS9 maybe my cast, but Janeway is my captain that showed up freshman year of high school. Thanks Jessie.
I've been saying for years that VOY was a show that maintained a solid okay-to-good quality level for most of its run, which on average might have made it the worst of the three 90s shows and it may have had fewer truly standout episodes, but it also had a lot fewer just outright stinkers compared to TNG and DS9, as well.
I'm more likely to throw on a random VOY episode because there are a greater number of perfectly nice hours of television to enjoy a meal to in its run compared to TNG, because there's a much higher ratio of episodes like "Man of the People" for every "Best of Both Worlds" than there are "Thresholds" to "Timelesses," and DS9's serialized nature makes it harder to just pick an episode and jump in sometimes compared to VOY's episodic structure.
A lot of the VOY hate has always felt like confirmation bias to me. It's easy to hold up "Measure of a Man" or "In the Pale Moonlight" against "Retrospect" if you aren't willing to put "Code of Honor" or "Let He Who is Without Sin" go up against "Blink of an Eye" in return.
“Equinox” is my fav voyager episode; “Night” is also one of my all time favs.
It's inconceivable to me how 'Meld' isn't in everyone's top three of this series. To each their own naturally, but all the other positives notwithstanding, Brad Dorurif just completely hands everyone their asses performance-wise. They all had to come correct with their 'A' game as a result, and the audience reaped the benefits. He's a treasure.
I'd also like to give a nod to 'Warlord'. One of the very few opportunities the writers provided Jennifer Lien to show what a skilled performer she was. To say she was impressive would be under an understatement.
Warlord is a great underrated one, with Kes as a supervillain vs Kes the Psion we know and love.
I really liked Blink of an Eye. Glad to see it on your honorable mention list.
I'm loving these videos, and I can't wait to find out where some of the top ones come out on your overall top of all trek combined.
The Thaw is an amazing episode, as a kid it scared me shitless, but now as an adult i can appreciate it and you're definitely right, it's great! The ending is just totally amazing in a really macabre way. Workforce is one i've not seen for ages, so after watching this, I'm off straight to my PLEX to watch it.
I started rewatching Star Trek Voyager because of your Top 10 Videos and I really love it! Thank you!
THE THAW is my all time favorite Voyager ep and one of my favorite Star Trek eps, period. I was happy you included it on this list !!
Voyager was my first Trek.... will u be doing Enterprise too?
She's been going in release order, so I imagine that's next.
She's said she's doing them all. And at the end will pick 20 eps from all of star trek to list
good list, my favorite has to be "Survival Instinct". The line "Survival is insufficient" stuck a very strong chord in me.
I absolutely agree with no 1, it's on the top of my list as well. Meaningful and funny at the same time. I'm also very glad you included Workforce, The Thaw, Course:Oblivion and Timeless. Tuvix definitely makes my top 10. And Distant Origin. And I would add Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy and Real Life.
great list! I was introduced to Voyager with the episode "The Thaw" as a 10 year old kid, and I have to say it was the reason that stunted my experience with the series. I didn't revist Voyager until the final season aired, and then again with the advent of Netflix. By far, "Worse Case Scenario" and "The Void" are the two episodes I could binge forever. Those are my favorites!
Whenever my friends ask what episode of Voyager they should start with, I just chant "Tsunkatse! Tsunkatse!" in increasing volume.
This list is reminding me of so much, also, like how much I really enjoyed Workforce and The Thaw. For me The Void and Equinox might make the list since both (from very different angles) kind of capture what it means, ideally, to be in the Federation and what those values are. And the Blink of an Eye (though iirc it's based on a classic Clarke story).
Oh, and Tsunkatse.
That was one of The Rock's first acting appearance if I remember correctly.
Hi jessie. Hope you are feeling better.
Bern saying prayers for you. Love your top 10 list. Great video as always
I hope you will be able to do the top 10 of enterprise next. Happy 4th of July.🎆🎇✨🧨
Excellent picks! I would love to see a ranking of the top scariest episodes of Voyager. There were some moments in that show that were downright terrifying for me as a kid. Episodes like Faces, One, and The Void come to mind.
The lists keep coming, Thanks!
Oof, the thaw was so good!! It really had that TOS vibe strong. More so than any other voyager episode I can think of. Great to see that make a best of list. You have such good taste!
I personally would add "Death Wish" to the list, the story of the Q continuum and how they've reached their peak only to perpetually stuck in immortality is a solid episode. It wasn't afraid to tackle a very hefty topic, can suicide ever be moral? It also brought back Riker for a small cameo helping to bring together more shared universe ideas. Year of Hell and Bride of Chaotica were episodes I could watch over and over again, so much fun watching the actors just have a blast with every scene.
My top ten in no order: Shattered, Memorial, Pathfinder, The Void, Before & After, Drive, Drone, Message in a Bottle, Course Oblivion, Child's Play.
Honorable mentions: Life Line & Inside Man--finally we get to see what happens at headquarters and two great Troi episodes!
So nice to see a more positive video on Voyager, so much hate online for it. I may be biased though, as I have fond memories of watching this on reruns with my parents every night after dinner. So glad you mentioned 'The Thaw,' I watched it with a non treky, and he loved that episode, it's for sure one of my favorites, I was also a big fan of all the 2 parters, but otherwise I think your list is very close to what I'd rank.
I love reading such a lively discussion centered on Voyager. It's the series that always seems to get the least love but there is so much being offered here!! Also, where can I get a shirt like that, Sis???
Work Force and Deadlock are two of my favorites, btw:)).
Good evening Jessie, I think your list in good and as you said we all may change our order on any given day. thanks for sharing it
Good list! Two of the episodes I hesitate to watch too often because they're heartbreaking are Tuvix and Course:Oblivion. In all these top episode videos I appreciate the interesting takes you have on the episodes. You're recognizing different levels than I might have noticed, which is fun - or things I have noticed, which is also fun! I always enjoyed the Living Witness episode as well. A stellar episode. Another one I like that I don;t believe you mentioned is the one where species 8472 recreates Star Fleet. Maybe the common feature of all the episodes I like is that they promote a new way of looking at familiar or expected scenarios. That;s what makes me like the species 8472 Star Fleet episode. I've never done a top 10 list of episodes for myself and I've never attempted to articulate why I like one episode over another. I can see it would be an interesting project. I look forward to the rest of the series episodes and the final list. Thank you for all your reviews! 😀
Hello. Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy. It is my personal favorite Doctor episode and I think it deserves to be in the top 10 or at least honorable mentions.
I’d put in strong recommendations for Distant Origin (the dinosaur episode) and Dragon’s Teeth (a great Seven episode, and a great villain). Two really top-shelf Star Trek episodes.
I also really love Equinox. I appreciate that it plays out almost like a dare for the audience, as if it’s saying “this is what Voyager would look like if it stayed closer to the original premise. Are you sure you want that?”
Voyager was always my favourite Trek show and my absolute favourite episodes are Timeless, Blink of an Eye (what a great idea!) and Living Witness (such a perfect ending). Other great episodes include Year of Hell, Distant Origin, Scorpion, Time and Again, Before and After, and Shattered.
Glad to see “Counterpoint” and “The Omega Directive” made the Honorable Mentions. They’re two of my favorite Voyager episodes.
You know, Voyager is just the one series I always struggled to get into. I wanted to like it so much. Even after they add Seven, I would go back and forth on it. But I have loved Seven in Picard so maybe I need to go back and give this a shot from the beginning
One that would be on my top 10 would be Pathfinder, one of my favorite parts of Vogager was the part with Tom and his dad in that episode even if it was so short
Wow. What a list. Excellent tastes, my friend.
"Eye of the Needle" is one I don't think you mentioned but it's such a great episode early on that actually lived up to the idea of what Voyager could be about.
Also love Thirty Days, Pathfinder, Equinox, Counterpoint, Distant Origin, The Killing Game and so many others!
I haven't watched Voyager yet but now I really want to. Your discussion of Author, Author reminds me of my college writing workshops. I wrote honestly about my experiences being bullied and discriminated against for my autism and a lot of my critique letters included some variation of "that many people being that ableist is unrealistic."
After having been introduced to Star Trek with The Motion Picture and The Search for Spock on TV with my parents, Star Trek Voyager was the first TV series of the franchise I watched (and the first I got on DVD for my birthday) as my geography teacher was praising the series in his lessons (or the breaks, I can't remember) and I loved it! I'm thus a bit biased, I think, when it comes to the quality of Voyager as a whole. Until Lower Decks came along, Voyager was my favorite Star Trek TV series.
My favorite Star Trek film is First Contact. It aired twice over a suprisingly short time span and I watched it both times with glee, mostly due to the notion that money no longer exists, which paved my way of becoming interested in politics and eventually becoming an anarchist.
I just started watching, but my favorite is the one were doctor bugs out for his decision of who to save, speaks a lot to me and the moments in my life I had to just accept horrible things happened and move on, even thou these situations are never resolved.
Yey it's on the list. ❤
I think year of hell is great because it shows what would happen if voyager didn't overused the reset button. It would not be the voyager we know, I'm not sure it would be best or worse.
When I came back to watch a Voyager episode after having not watched any in a good while - I went straight to Living Witness for exactly the reasons you cited. It is a fantastic play about how history is recorded and used by power and a musing on how we ourselves will be remembered in the future. So I'm all for it being number one. I was wondering where the heck it was because it HAD to be there and then boom. Number one. Fits.
Bride of Chaotica is absolutely on my top list - i live and die for conscious camp. plus this episode has the added effect of being a rly interesting speculative scifi. and kate mulgrew is an absolute queen (always, but on so many levels here)
Totally agreed on the #1. The cast clearly had a blast and I liked the far future and how history is written by the winners.
I understand why these are structured the way they are and why the modern shows have fewer episodes and will therefore be grouped together but I think with four seasons Discovery is equal to TOS+TAS and Enterprise in episode count, and therefore could receive its own list
I loved latent image, year of hell, the melting crew one too. The Harry slipstream one was good.
I could be pulling from the wrong show, but I also loved the one where they go on the away mission and come back with PTSD from like jungle war and they go back and relive the war only to find out it was like decades or centuries old and there was this tower to keep a massacre from being forgotten.
Great list and a great t-shirt as well! Hope your recovery from your surgery is going well too!
I really like "Day of Honor" and "Nemesis" (I know they come right after each other but that's honestly just a weird coincidence). The first one was a good B'Elanna episode, which we also sadly didn't get enough of and Seven facing the people whose lives were ruined by the Borg was very interesting to see. And "Nemesis" showed how insidious propaganda and brainwashing can be, especially in the times of war and used Chakotay greatly in my opinion.
I just love how you reffered to Kurtwood Smith as "Red from That '70s show" lol
Well your list is definitely interesting lol. But I gotta say THANK YOU for putting Shattered in your list! It is by far my favorite episode and I feel that with a bit more epic-ifying it could’ve been the finale voyager deserved. As my favorite Trek show I’m glad you found most of the episodes enjoyable!
"Blink Of An Eye" is probably my favorite Voyager episode, the whole concept is extremely cool and executed so well, and I think it's an almost perfect episode to show someone who's new to Trek what Trek is all about. "Equinox" is another one that would have easily made my Top 10 because in my opinion, it's one of the episodes that uses Voyager's concept best, and shows what other path Voyager might have taken, had they been less lucky and more desperate for survival.
However, I'm here to drop an even hotter take: I'm a Kes fan. I love the character, love the character's whole concept, don't love what the writers did to her, except in some rare cases, and one of the best Kes episodes that I never see mentioned anywhere in my opinion is "Cold Fire". In this episode, Kes meets other Ocampa for the first time in her life and learns just how powerful her species can actually become when they learn to master their abilities. Up to this point, she often used her powers kind of by accident, but now, she's given a chance to actually learn how to control them. The scene where she accidentally makes Tuvok's blood boil truly shocked me when I first saw it, and the conclusion at which she decided that she didn't want to use these powers anymore because of how she had almost lost control over herself over suddenly feeling so powerful felt sad, but very understandable. This could have been a defining episode for Kes' character arc had the writers handled her better overall. Getting over her fears and trauma and learning to properly use the powers she'd gotten a glimpse of in this episode could have been awesome character growth, but alas, she had to switch from scared kid to Destroyer God Mode with no build-up whatsoever at the beginning of season 4 instead.
Jesse’s intros make me smile every time
Latent Image is my personal #1. I love how it's a self contained philosophical exploration. The scenes with Janeway and Seven are fantastic, as well as The Doctor's mental breakdown in the mess hall with Neelix.
However, I also love tf out of The Thaw and it 100% deserves a spot on any top 10 list.
I’ve got no issues with your list. Gives me a new appreciation for Voyager. Given the ups and downs from the most recent Trek, you are right that Voyager is consistent, not always great but not a total mess.
Living Witness is a curious choice for the #1 choice but I get it. It would be nice to see that version of the Doctor in Discovery. That said, if I had to make a list of the top 20 episodes of all of Trek, I don’t think I would include it. Can’t wait to see that list.
Great list : a few other episodes that I loved
- Macrocosm
- Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
- Deadlock
I feel like deadlock is one of the first episodes where its like :o ok this show can be extremely exciting and kinda dark
One thing I love about Living Witness that you didn't mention is that it's one of the very few times we get a look at the elusive consequences of Voyager's actions. At that point we'd had four seasons of Voyager tooling around the Delta quadrant, basically doing whatever they liked, solving problems messily, by force or by deception, and then never having to face up to any of it because of that lack of continuity. Living Witness isn't continuity of course, but it does give a look at how all the people Voyager screwed over (inadvertently and not) might have remembered them.
Tuvix is an interesting episode because it's kind of great as a self-contained episode of drama (and I like Tom Wright as Tuvix), but fits horribly into a show with supposedly ongoing characters. It also always felt like the point at which the Voyager writers confirmed they really didn't know what the heck they were doing with Janeway; they wanted her to be tough, uncompromising and not too woman-y, and accidentally made her into a psychopath.
I'm glad that Captain Janeway didn't have to decide to separate your Sci- from your -Fi, Jessie! 😁
It's never on any of these lists, so I'm not shocked it's absent here, but I was still sad Lineage wasn't on here.
A heartbreaking B'Elanna episode that tackles racism, trauma from racism, and the fear parents have for their children?! Fuck. It's one of the episodes of Voyager that had me sobbing at the end.
Interesting bunch of episodes! I enjoyed them as well. 👍
I always loved the one with the macro viruses where Janeway got to be an action hero for one episode.
Here are my top 10 Star Trek Voyager episodes...
1)Scorpion Part I & II
2)Equinox Part I & II
3)Homestead
4)Year of Hell Part I & II
5)Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
6)Caretaker
7)The 37's
8)Demon
9)Basics Part I & II
10)Author, Author
What do you think?
my list is different but love the review! Robert Picardo was brilliant as opera-singing EMH with great comedic timing & improvised lines
Body and Soul, simply for Jerry Ryan's impression of Picardo's Doctor.
So basically, this is a list of your top FAVORITE "Star Trek Voyager" episodes. Here is a list of my favorite episodes:
1. "Bride of Chaotica!"
2. "Blood Fever"
3. "Scientific Method"
4. "Endgame"
5. "Timeless"
6. "Shattered"
7. "Prey"
8. "Pathfinder"
9. "Maneuvers"
10. Year of Hell"
My favourite Voyager episode will forever be the Killing Game. It's the ultimate Holodeck episode.
The holodeck is always treated like a lighthearted fun romp in Star Trek(and even the Orville) when it's not trying to kill people, but is just taken for granted, never questioned what its existence means. It's genuinely a society changing technology; being able to simulate any place, at any time with any scenario is huge.
The Killing Game explores those possibilies such a technolog opens up, while still being extremely fun.
It got fun Anti-Nazi subterfuge, secret meetings in hallways, Harry stands up for himself, and the final victory hinges on the nicest guy on the ship pretending to be a Klingon warrior and leading a bunch of drunk Klingons into battle against the Nazis.
And it's so refreshing that the stupid prime directive isn't even brought up when they ultimately share the holodeck technology, it's just the right thing to do, regulations be dammed. That's the spirit of Star Trek, getting to know other people, learning to understand them and their plight and helping where possible.
The big unfortunate thing isn't even in the episode, it happens in the reset between episodes, when the Voyager gets repaired off screen. The crew were so thorough with repairs, they even remove the holo emitters in the hallways and in front of sickbay(the holographic explosion exits sickbay, there have to be emitters there). Poor Doctor, he finally has the means to leave sickbay without the mobile emitter and they tear it down. Really makes the crew seem like jerks, especially after he's been stitching them up this whole time and saved the ship.
Yeah, I'm one of those that would have put "Year of Hell" as #1, that being said... Really enjoyed this list! Feel better soon!
Honestly, really good list! I personally might have put "Killing Game" on there, as well as that one episode (can't think of the name right now) where there's the ethical debate about using the treatment developed by a Cardassian doctor who experimented on Bajorans during the occupation. Other than that, though, I would say solid, justifiable choices!
I really enjoyed Voyager I don't think I could do a top ten list of best episodes because the show was so great filled with many amazing episodes 🌟
Happy to see Living Witness at a spot I'd probably give it myself! I love how it gears you up for evil voyager fun times then goes into a fascinating look at revisionist history and its affects on cultures. Glad to see you include Course: Oblivion and Author, Author too, especially the latter, I've always had a soft, if nostalgic, spot for it. The episode really explores the topic, something I think Voyager does well in its best episodes. Shattered and Latent Image are also stellar choices. Personally, I hold issue somewhat with the specific ethical dilemma the episode puts on the Doctor, since it seems to undermine Harry's importance to the show imo. Isn't he a senior officer? Then yes, while that sucks and I won't remiss you for disliking command structures, then Harry was objectively the person to save! If it had a lower ranked character who we still already knew, I think this wouldn't bother me so much. Despite that, Robert Picardo is always amazing. Stuff like The Thaw and Workforce wouldn't be in my top 10 but I'm glad to see them get love.
Agreed with most of your honorable mentions being greats as well. I'm not sure Tuvix would even be in my top 20 admittedly, but I agree it's a great one for giving the audience this big moral dilemma alone, as well as offering a solution to agree or disagree with (whether or not the crew should have had more agreement or disagreement too) As somebody else said, Kes also shines in the episode. The feeling of her crying to Janeway is hampered a little bit by her relationship with Neelix being creepy/gross but it's still stunning. The idea that her love drives a captain to kill is amazing.
Hope your recovery is going well and hasn't been too hard on you. Love you heaps
where did you get your shirt! i love it so much
When Voyager was airing, Tuvix was the episode that first made me think that it might end up being a good show after all. Same criticism, of course - there should have been consequences - but really, that's a criticism of those episodes that followed, not Tuvix itself.
It would have een fun living with tuvix thou too. As tucix, i can remember one episode where h is showing he is a caring father to kids, and one wher h got some vulcan altzheimers and gets to be mor human,
And that jar jar bings that overshadowed way better cass by traping her, i dont blame the actor, but he was plain too annopying to care about him even in better episodes. So yeah it would hav been bold and daring keeping him even as alternative of, we keep him, tuvok, and neelix. That could have been fun.
The doctor episode where he makes a family still makes me cry
1: "Year of Hell"
Same reasons as you, this made VOY's situation in the Delta Quadrant real for me.
2: "Barge of the Dead"
A B'Ellanna episode. She's my favorite character in all of Trek. I like most of her episodes but this one I've rewatched a dozen times and only recently understood why this episode strikes the most significant, personal chord for me out of all them.
3: "Dark Frontier"
A Seven episode. My second favorite character admittedly but this episode Carrie's alot of found memories of when I was a kid rewatching on that old recorded VHS tape with all those 90s commercials. Fun times.
4: "The Equinox"
This is my Mom's favorite for similar reasons why I like "Year of Hell" she likes "Equinox". For me this was Janeway's Moby Dick episode.
5: "Dragon's Teeth"
My Dad's favorite episode. Action packed, asked alotnof pertinent questions about history and who writes it and who's telling the truth. Wish we got to see more of the Vaadwaur tho.
6: "Flashback"
A Tuvok episode. We get to see the Excelsior again, my favorite ship in all of sci-fi, fills in gaps left behind by "Undiscovered Country".
7: "Course: Oblivion"
This was a very depressing episode. Hard to watch but for all the right reasons.
8: "Alliances"
I actually liked the Kazon as an enemy. I found them genuinely fascinating and we get learn more about not just their history but the wider history of the Delta Quadrant at large.
9: "Warlord"
This Kes episode was actually pretty badass. Like most fans, I'm not super fond of the character but I like my Jekyll and Hyde episodes and you can't get more Jekyll and Hyde than telepathic whiz kid vs immortal Adolf Hitler.
10: "Caretaker"
Again, i just like pilots. I love watching these and the finale's back-to-back. Second only to DS9, VOY's evolution is the most fascinating to watch.
Really not the same as my Top Ten list, but I enjoyed it! Thank you!
Also, shoutout to Tim Russ for giving his directoral debut for Living Witness. We often think of Jonathan Frakes as being the most successful director to come out of the Star Trek cast but Russ must have done a good job if this one is your #1.
I also liked Workforce. The thing I thought was great about that story was that it wasn't about the stakes being cranked up to eleven (which often happened when the Borg were involved)... but just the crew being tricked. I also liked the costumes in that story.
Year of hell is such a good episode that it makes me kind of angry, like I’m being teased with what Voyager could have been. I don’t even necessarily want a super dark version of Voyager, just a show that really took advantage of the premise.
My problem with Tuvix, other than that it's never brought up again, is that there was just nothing to make this even a little bit more grey. There is no timer on the Tuvix problem. And Thomas Riker is the living proof, that it must be possible to bring back Nelix and Tuvok without killing Tuvix. I mean the crew of voyager overcomes technological hurdles, that the entirety of star fleet engineer corps couldn't overcome with all the resources of the Federation. Their nurse (!), who also pilots the ship if there is nothing to do on sick bay developed a warp 10 drive in his off time. But they don't even try to save Tuvix. They don't even bring it up. They murder him, because he needs to be murdered by the end of the episode no matter what. It casts the captain in a terrible light for doing it, it casts the doctor in a terrible light for helping it, it casts the entire crew in a terrible light for allowing it and it casts Tuvok in a terrible light for not immediately incarcerate Janeway for murder until they reach the next starbase.
I think 'Similitude' is basically the same concept, but it's much better, because it ends up doing those things. So I am really interested to see, if it is brought up next week :)
To be fair, Star Trek has a bad habit of traumatizing characters and it just never coming up again. Remember Hard Time in DS9?
@@pjlusk7774 I would rather say Star Trek has a bad habit of traumatizing Miles O'Brien XD
Living Witness is unbelievable I find it to be brilliant every time I watch it and The Doctor truly shines in this episode. Robert Picardo is the best actor in all of Star Trek, Fight me.
Your ship shirt is sooooo cute!
I'm so pleased to see Living Witness at number 1, it's my favourite Voyager episode - and always in my top ten Trek episodes.
Damn.. I'm going to have to get back to this.. I've only just started season 5..
You should do a top 10 doctor focused episodes from all of Trek.