I found Voyager to be the only watchable Star Trek. The Original series is so old these days it's completely unwatchable for someone like me. The Next generation may be the perfect example of how diplomacy should work in our future but it doesn't offer very exiting conflict for storytelling. I seem to recall half of those stories begin with "we received a distress call" and "now orbiting this place" and end with successful negotiations of some sort. Beyond boring. I never liked Deep Space Nine either, it just seemed like a horrible idea to anchor the show to a single location, seemed like a soap series in space to me. Enterprise was filled to the brim with horrible actors and had no replay value. Voyager to the rescue!First of all, apart from the first 2-3 seasons, the stories have a lot more cinematic quality to them. I think it's the writing. The stories often begin in the middle of a situation and starts to unravel. This is good since the scripts seem to be so full of things happening they had to get creative in order to fit the story into a single episode. So no more boredom. It's pretty much the opposite of TNG.Not only that but the whole premise of being stranded in an unknown area of the galaxy for me is a much better set up for a series than policing around an established area. This should be the best trek for this reason alone.Third, the cast is the most interesting so far. I loved the captain for having more balls than Picard, I loved Paris for being a relateable criminal, I loved the doctor and Seven for their artificial nature, I even loved Nelix and Tuvok. The cast had a good family dynamic. This gave way for some good, naturally whimsical, subtle humor that really was the cherry on top for me.So to sum up Voyager had a good premise, good casting, good stories. The only downside to this show are the first 2-3 seasons which are just as bad as the other Trek shows so I highly recommend searching for a skip list to at least weed out the bad non-storyarch episodes to get you to the end of season 3 as fast as possible. It's an absolute thrill ride after that, you'll thank me later.

I have always been a fan of Star Trek, but Star Trek Voyager was different. They had a different mission, a female captain, and a different persona all together. Like all series, the quality starts out "okay" and then it gets better as it continues. I truly believe this is the best out of the entire Star Trek Franchise, and it is the best 7 seasons of a show that I've been privileged to watch. Bravo.

I am re watching this series along with DS9. At the end of the millennium I had a period of illness that debilitated me. I thought It was my time to go boldly. As it was it was diagnosed as diabetes but it took some many months for that and 18 years later and many insulin injections I am still here for now. I have not been an extra burden on our health service other than my medication needs and regular check ups. I am again semi confined as I now have a tumor on my Pancreas, yes the organ that regulates insulin. So it is watching Star Trek again but able to binge this time. I am sure that I missed a few episodes by being well enough not to be in bed , wife not interested in such things but did like STARGATE.I enjoyed both of the mentioned series. I did not get into TNG very much. Data annoyed me and the blind one who could see. I have more time for Stewart as Bullock ,American Dad, than as the enterprise captain.The story lines are all the ones we know but set in space. My big gripe has always been the use of the role play holo deck. This is a get out for story lines in my opinion. Similar to the many encounters of semi primitives who always have made up forms of culture and faith based on our own earthly types. I am always less than impressed with the costumes and the variety of bipedal life forms who differences are rarely explained. I enjoy SCI FI of this kind but find those aspects hard at times to follow.My other gripe is space combat being displayed as similar to WW2 dogfighting when small craft are involved and that when big craft are involved that there is a possibility of survival when seriously hit.The characters have to grab your attention quickly in series such as these and it is not odd that so many have picked on the virtual doctor as a top one. His delivery and interpretation are class but like so much will not be understood by all viewers. As an aside I feel that the Simpsons should not have been shown as a children's program. They cannot understand a great deal of the humorous lines. The doctors perceived arrogance in a human would have a classification such as aspergers syndrome. My mission is to now see all the episodes and much more while I can. Maybe my demise will see me travel 75 light years to somewhere. Who knows?

I am a big science fiction fan, and while I haven't watched every major sci-fi show of the last 50 years, I have watched most of them; in particular, all of the Trek series. Of the Trek series, I rate them from worst to best as follows.5)Enterprise: The worst. Really a disaster, as far as I am concerned. The biggest problem was casting. The wooden, unimaginative Scott Bakula, while good in other roles, was totally miscast for Enterprise. Yes, he can look authoritative, but his level of excitement seemed to range from "Oh boy, oatmeal!" to "Oh boy, Oatmeal AGAIN!". You could see that he couldn't project belief that in the story, and that was fatal. Personally I thought the long Chindi sequence was not successful, and didn't care for the time travel nonsense, but it was OK.4) Star Trek: DS9. Deep Space 9 is too complex a show to give a meaningful precis, but I want to single out two things. First, Avery Brooks seems to be a terrible TV actor. I think he might be good on stage, but he bellows almost every line, with almost the same intonation every time. His moods consist of different degrees of anger. So, once again, the lead is the major problem. Beyond that, while there was some story lines which I appreciated, I could not stand the descent into mysticism in the final seasons. It is not science fiction when you put in "ancients" who have god-like powers. 3) Star Trek: TNG. I find TNG quite dated now, but basically a good show. The actors were generally good, with some notable (*cough* Levar Burton) exceptions. 2) Star Trek: Voyager: For me, Voyager is by far the most enjoyable of all the Trek series, possessing a wonderful sense of adventure and awe, interesting plot devices, decent writing, and good acting. Janeway is a very compelling captain, in my view, who possesses great strength of character, but who also---unlike Picard or Sisko or Kirk, in my view---has notable personality flaws, which she acknowledges. The more I watch the show, in fact, the less I like Janeway as a person, but I respect the character. She did a fantastic job showing suffering over long struggle in a couple of serials, particularly the one with the Krenim; which, by the way, is one of the finest Trek stories. Some other actors are not so good, but their portrayals work; for example, Garrett Wang, while not a great actor, grew into the role of Kim quite well.1) Star Trek. The original has to be rated the best, if you take into consideration the technical limitations. TOS had some of the best writing of all the Trek series, with scripts written by famous authors such as Harlan Ellison. The acting is relatively a weak spot compared to some of the other Trek shows, but the chemistry was better than in later shows. For instance, while TNG had better actors, I don't feel that the ensemble gelled the way it did in TOS. TOS was way ahead of its time, boldly going where no man had gone before.Notice that I don't rate Voyager number 1. Unfortunately, because of the sets and effects which are no longer convincing, I cannot enjoy TOS anymore. This leaves only Voyager. I will NEVER watch Enterprise again; probably never watch DS9 again; while I watch TNG very occasionally, I don't get much enjoyment out of it. Voyager is the lone survivor in my quadrant of the science fiction universe.