Voyager was another TNG spin-off that had more bad episodes than good but was still better than TNG (and at its best was the best series of the franchise, IMHO), which itself was a superior spin-off from the original.
This is where we disagree. I found Voyager to be the worst of Star Trek. It tended to solve problems through the power of technobabble much more than any other trek before, and had totally unlikable characters to boot. Captain Janeway - trying to be a female John Wayne didn't really work and her more authoritative posture attempts always made me cringe. Paris and Kim - bland, faceless characters without any character whatsoever. The Doctor - there was potential there but they ruined him as well with a bunch of stupid writing. Kes - oh how I celebrated when she left the show. Neelix - almost as bad as Jar-Jar; the less said about him the better. Tuvok - take Spock, remove every interesting thing about him and presto, Voyager's chief of security. Chakotay was somewhat tolerable but that wasn't enough to save the rest. No wonder they had to force a 3 sizes too small costume onto Jeri Ryan's body, fabric holding on to it's dear life, to get some of the ratings back.
And don't even get me started on the Borg kids.. Voyager had maybe 4-5 relatively decent episodes in it's entire 7 season run. That's a pretty bad ratio.
Of course, I find the entire Star Trek universe somewhat sterile, boring, and lame - but Voyager was definitely the worst of the lot, imo.
pretty much this.
Although i have to say that the Doc, was the only really likeable character, and possibly the only one with something that's called character developement ( and he's a ****ing hologram!! ).
Chakotay had really potential, but i didn't like this "american-native-hollywood-edition-extended" bull****.
In my opinion, they really screwed it up, from episode one. And they had a chance to do something really good, the concept had potential.
We have here a a lot of possible conflict situations between the Federation part of the crew and the Maquis one.
Not used, only in one episodes, iirc.
The enemys, poor. Kazon?? srsly
Then they ****ed the Borg...
This show had it's good episodes, sadly not enough. Voyager is the worst of Star Trek. I like TNG ( post season 2), haven't seen enough episodes from DS9 to change my opinion yet.