Really?
What about the mechanical clock, printing press, compass, astrolab, stirrups, eyeglasses, farming innovations that allowed for better crop yields?
Yeah, it's way more of a vibrant era than I was ever taught in school.
You do have some points here, at least when it comes to inventions, discoveries and such.
But I still find that era dystopian and boring, compared to other eras. Maybe it's the strict hierarchy or just too much doom-and-gloom in series about that era.
The main character death was questionably handled in "Skin of Evil", and just a bad decision in "Tears of the Prophets". But there are right ways and right times to eliminate a character. These include:
- Convincing the audience that no character is safe.
- Establishing a character as a major hero.
- Removing a character who is stagnating.
- Bringing another character who has nothing to do into prominence.
- Resolving a love triangle. If you aren't willing to leave the third lonely, and can't just throw a convenient person for them to fall for.
- Explaining the death or departure of a lead actor.
Personally, I don't like when main characters are killed off, just like that. OK, if the actor dies, it's the only solution because if there is something I hate more than killing off main characters, then it is when they bring in another actor to play a certain character. That's really something which can make me abandon a certain series or series of movies.
Naming and discussing all series I've stopped to watch because a main character has been killed off would make the post too long and be too much off topic. However, it has happened that I stayed with certain series, most notably TNG, DS9, NCIS and the CSI series when things like that has happened but the reasons for me to continue watching have been the quality of the series and remaining main characters I've lilwed better than the departed one. Asan example, I didn't like when agent Todd was killled off in NCIS but I liked the seires and the other character so much that I continued watching, sometyhing I've done up to now despite some other changes in the cast. However, the recent changes had made the series so bad that I decided to quit, not to mention that thwe stories aren't as good as they used to be.
Well of course. Cult mistress Alixus escaped from custody and obliterated a Starfleet captain named Janeway with a transporter "malfunction". Then, she paid a dubious Orion plastic surgeon to transform her face and voice to match Captain Janeway's, then started a new life for herself. Upon being stranded in the Delta Quadrant, she began building her own little cult. Given the threat level there, she can no longer shun technology. The Potential of Man is only good for so much.
And Voyager's replicators actually worked fine all along, and only drained about 0.00000001% of the power used by the warp engines. Alixus/Janeway just doesn't approve of them. This one technology she will still avoid.
IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!!!!!!! 
Oh please, now you're disappointing me.
You can't possible compare Captain Janeway with the horrible, rude, and obviously mentally disturbed Alixus!
No matter what opinions you might have about Janeway, she is far from being so disgusting as Alixus. I remember when i watched the
Paradise episode for the first time and wished that Alixus would be killed off. I found he downright obnoxious.
There are also some differences between Alixus and Janeway. Alixus forced her people to stay on the planet with a combination of terror, threats and downright brainwashing. janeway, on the other hand were ready to let the crewmembers who wanted to stay on The 37's planet leave the ship. Another difference is that many crewmembers on Voyager prefer to stay on the ship with their friends and colleagues instead of jumping off in an unknown area with aliens they don't know anything about while mosty of Alixus's people would have ataken the first opportunity to leave, at least until they had become totally brainwashed.
Same. ASD and fandoms, especially Trek, seem to go together.
Well, you might have a point here!
I agree that "Non Sequitur" is good, but they REALLY needed to have Harry having second thoughts. Consider that he's home, and can look forward to spending his days putting pips on that collar and nights getting hot with Libby. No more Delta Quadrant dangers, no more cold showers, no more captain intent on keeping him at ensign until the heat death of the universe... would you be eager to go back?
I agree with your statement when it comes to the writing and that Harry should have had second thoughts. At least for a while.
If I had been Harry, I would at least have considered to stay. But when a lot of things in that timeline is wrong?
Hmm, I don't know. I wouldn't mind to go back to "happier times", maybe make a slight change to something I did wrong back then. But what if I end up like Picard in
Tapestry and my future life would be completly miserable compared to what I have now? And in harry's case, a lot of things were wrong in that timeline. The poor guy actually made a fool of himself when he was about to present the new ship he had constructed so I can understand that a future on the lost Voyager must have been better in comparision.
And that's really unbelievable when you think about it. A newbie like Harry should be incredibly easy to write for; there's so many places you can take him!
Which was proved in the Voyager books!
The problem woith the writers for the series was that they kept him as "young Ensign Kim" for so long that he stagnated as character.
A better way to play it would be for the Doctor to know (and the Taresians to freely admit) that it was a retrovirus, and that Harry's physiology was compatible with it. The overall effect (Harry turning into a Taresian) would be the same.
I agree.
And in the long run, The Doctor could fix it, like he did in the episode. Once they got Harry back, he had found a way to remove it.
Sounds like Voyager's writers should have read more.
At least they should have thought more, takling time to develope the characters and use their potential, like the writers in DS9 did.
I also think that they should have read some of the books and got some ideas out of it. In fact, some of the books, like
The Black Shore,
Marooned,
The Garden and maybe
The Escape are so good that they could and maybe should have been used for TV episodes.
Still, even in the future people could be overly… maybe even neurotically, concerned about “doing the right thing.” In fact, living in a society that has been called utopian, maybe you would feel even more pressure to “be your best self.”
