Star Trek: Voyager - Repeating Storylines and Uninspired Episodes

Sometimes a great TV show takes a little too much inspiration from previous work! In Star Trek: Voyager, the crew on this interstellar ship were trying to find their way home and this really caused "Voyager" to have plenty of great adventures! But sometimes this awesome space adventure repeated its plots!

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Two episodes in "Voyager" were a lot alike. One of those memorable shows from the early 1990s, which brought viewers a compelling and long running series that helped bring space exploration and sci-fi action into their living rooms.

This episode, from Season 5, had some truly memorable moments, more great episodes, as compared to some of those episodes in the first season. Season 5 also included Seven of Nine a fascinating character.
Season 5 and this awesome, well-loved cast gave some powerful performances that fans truly adored.
It looks like Season 5 had something else in store with "Night."
This was going to be an epic adventure as Voyager traveled into a place with no stars! In a super tense setting that was scary for Voyager.

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Voyager's "Night" and "The Void":

Fantome (Jonathan Del Arco) sits looking curiously at something off-screen in Sickbay in the Star Trek: Voyager episode

Now for the next installment and a little too much inspiration! This time we head into Season 7 of "Voyager" where the crew is lost once more!

Voyager gets sucked in by some strange force, it gets stuck again!
Both instances, it was just as terrifying.
"Voyager" found itself in this space and the episodes were too much alike!
They also included this incredible addition- they discover something they never expected.
They run into aliens! The aliens that made these trips so challenging had these very unique and similar elements! Both times it turned out these species were nothing like what anyone expected.
It really appears that it was a little too close to the other episodes!

What happened in "Voyager" and what makes these stories a bit too close to call? Let's talk about these episodes and the plot lines.

While fans were incredibly invested in "Voyager," and their great journey, It seems these shows gave people so much to be excited for.

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The Story of "Night":

Two images of Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) from Star Trek: Voyager, one of her sitting looking up and one of her standing with her arms crossed. Image

This series really focused on those emotionally intense moments.

That came from "Night" being so special.

Janeway
She deals with those emotional pressures as well, it's part of what makes her such a powerful character! But the captain of "Voyager" had these complex feelings after losing so much in the delta quadrant.

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"The Void"

The Star Trek Voyager season 4 cast stand together for a promotional shot with the USS Voyager in the background. Image

The show wasn't as compelling in this storyline, however. What fans may have seen was an intense, compelling story! That brought Janeway's storyline forward. However, "The Void", tried to bring in action as opposed to these powerful feelings and emotions. You might have found yourself trying to get to know what the space exploration was going to look like but was let down by this unfulfilling installment.

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The Worst Episode of Voyager:

Voyager was full of so many exciting twists, even more interesting to those who loved the series as they had those big-time storylines in every episode. If there's one that stands out it was, "Random Thoughts," it's even more strange since they tried to replicate previous storylines! And it did so poorly, giving us some of the least enjoyable episodes in this series!

"Random Thoughts" came in Season 4 and this one episode just brought too much from previous episodes to the fore! If you watched "Meld" and "Ex Post Facto," the most memorable and interesting episodes on the show, there was something super interesting about them! "Random Thoughts," brought everything back.
But unfortunately this meant the episode was forgotten as quickly as it had arrived!

These characters had some truly remarkable storylines and a long history!

While it might look like Voyager copied from its previous season, what is interesting is that this series has had moments where they re-imagined elements of other series!

Season 1 of Voyager! Fans got a new storyline called "Jetrel."

"Jetrel" was based on one of the episodes that Deep Space Nine had in their season.

"Duet

You may even wonder if it took elements from one of Deep Space Nine's great episodes, "Duet" and tried to re-imagine them, it was an epic fail in every way!

When the writers for "Voyager" could come up with original plots they created some truly special moments, but if they decided to play it safe and create new iterations of previously shown storylines it rarely went over well. There is no surprise why "Star Trek" fans continue to return to this epic series!

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Star Trek: Voyager - Repeating Storylines and Uninspired Episodes

Voyager's "Night" and "The Void":

The Story of "Night":

"The Void"

The Worst Episode of Voyager:

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