Caretaker

There’s no rest for me, I’m straight into Voyager from The Next Gen and I’m going to alternate season for season as I push hard to finish off the episode reviews to make TREKZONE.org nice and complete. I think having just watched All Good Things has put me in a good mindset for a new series to kick off.

As I said over on that episode, I wasn’t sad that the series ended… the writing felt tired, but I don’t think that’s because they were in the seventh season, I think it’s because the executive team were really busy trying to make this series. And not just make Voyager, but fit it into a network mould – a mould that would eventually prove to be the downfall of Trek on the small screen.

Focusing on this episode it was a nice mix of action and stark realisation that our new heros are so far from home. And I know that many of the subplots setup here (limited resources, Maquis v Starfleet etc) will eventually fall by the wayside it was nice to see some attention placed on the negative feelings that the Maquis have against Starfleet – one stemming from I guess a feeling of abandonment rather than hatred.

Thankfully I know that each of these characters will fit into their skins over the coming episodes, and that the pilot episode will always be a little rough and a little forced… you can look past that and say “Hey, new Trek!” Lets have fun with this…