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mustang6172:
When did startrek.com take down hundreds of episodes?
TheEvilDog:
Couple of interesting facts about Voyager:
* While Janeway is believed by many to be the most poorly written Captain in the franchise, Kate Mulgrew has spoken out and said she believes that Janeway is at best bipolar and at worst suffering from a severe mental illness due to the stress of Voyager's situation.
* As hated as Neelix might be, Ethan Phillips did have to endure 4 hours of heavy prosthetic make-up everyday he was film, often starting several hours before everyone arrived on set and spent a great deal of time in front of a burning hot oven.
* Kate Mulgrew was only brought in because Geneieve Bujold, who had originally been signed on to play Nicole Janeway, quit after three days filming. Presumably because Bujold was a film actress and not used to the intensity of filming a series. Funnily enough, this was considered the best move the producers made concerning the series.
* The adjusted budget of Voyager's pilot episode was more than the budget for filming the Wrath of Khan.
* Harry Kim had been slated to die between Season 3 and 4 to make room for Jeri Ryan, but when he featured in an Entertainment Weekly top 100 list, the producers forced the scriptwriters to keep Garret Wang and to get rid of Jennifer Lien instead.
* Susie Plakson, who played the Female Q and told Torres she always liked Klingon women because they had spunk, also played K'Ehleyr in the Next Generation. Who was also a Human/Klingon hybrid like Torres.
* Voyager had originally been slated to be a much darker series, with elements and episodes intended to last entire seasons, such as the Year of Hell had been intended to actually last the whole of season 4. The executives at UPN vetoed any such idea and wanted to see TNG type ratings, but with none of the character conflict, hence why we ended up with what people call TNG-lite. The episode "The Void" which aired near the end of Voyager, gave a glimpse of what the show could have been.[li]While played for laughs, the episode "Author, Author", is considered by many to be one of the most reviled episodes of Voyager because of the Mark 1 EMHs were repurposed into what could effectively be called a slave labour force. Especially in light of the Next Generation episode "Measure of a Man".
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Voyager might be one of the weaker parts of the franchise, but if you read about how much trouble to production crew had and how much crap they had to put up with from the executives, you might see the series in a better light.
But that's like lighting a match in a pitch black cave.
jwhouk:
The biggest problem with Voyager was that it was seen as "Lost In Space meets Trek." And, generally, Trek fans were not fans of LIS, and vice-versa.
Kugai:
Like Enterprise, there was so much potential for Voyager to go in an entirely different direction - especially since the ship was essentually cut loose from the Federation by being thrown into an entirely different region of the Galaxy. It's a pity that the assholes in charge at Paramount didn't have the balls to take it into new territory.
to Voyager, the series that launched a thousand Femslash Fics
jwhouk:
And made Jeri Ryan what she is today.
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