I just finished watching every single episode of Star Trek: Voyager, from start to finish. It all started with me watching every single episode of Enterprise many months ago. As I stated in that post, Enterprise was the only Star Trek series I never avidly watched. That was not the case with Voyager. Out of Voyager’s 200+ episodes I had watched about half of them. I remember watching the pilot when it first aired. Unfortunately Voyager came during a time of my life where school became more and more dominant in my life. Junior high and high school were taking some demanding tolls on my free time, along with extracurricular activities. Voyager’s time slot became unavailable to me, as did the rerun slot. So here I am over a decade later with all those lost episodes seen. It’s been quite a journey, a journey I started right before the summer, after I finished watching Enterprise.

Voyager wasn’t the best series, but it was mediocre. The excessive lack of creativity amongst the writers and producers was shown by the excessive holodeck episodes and use of the Borg. The Borg used to be special, something you would crave to see in a series because they were rare and deadly. After watching every episode of Voyager I can officially say that I’m Borged out. The lack of plot development and storylines in the show was offset by the excellent character building. The relationships between crewmembers was gradual and realistic. You developed bonds with the characters on a personal level. However, unlike Enterprise where I grew a deep affinity for Trip and T’Pol, I did not grow any particular bond with any character on Voyager. It was missing the emotional oomf.

Nevertheless, I still felt some remorse that the series came to an end, but just some. With Enterprise I was about to cry. The only moment I felt true emotional sadness for the series was in the season 7 episode “Homestead.” The scene I’ve posted above is the one that got me feeling the knife in the gut. It wasn’t just me either. Jeri Ryan mentioned that this scene was the one that hit the actors the most. They were all fighting back tears in this scene because they all realized that this show was coming to an end. This scene hit home.