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20 years ago today, "Star Trek: Voyager" premiered

mhirtescmhirtesc Member Posts: 581 Arc User
edited January 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I remember the Anniversary of TNG on STO, where you spoke to a hologram of Worf and got the TOS Kilingon sash as a reward.

This time around, what with all the DR stuff (BEST EXPANSION EVER AND THE PLAYERS LOVE IT!!), do we see anything special in the game?
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  • z3ndor99z3ndor99 Member Posts: 1,391 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    What! 20 years ago!!! Really gonna feel old when enterprise is 20 years old!.
    They still have time to do some sort of " event ".
  • aleaicaleaic Member Posts: 352 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    And 20 years later, the DR grind results from it...

    Anywho, that's cool to know. =^^=
  • thatcursedwolfthatcursedwolf Member Posts: 1,617 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    A 20 day grind right now would be a little too close to the last 25 day grind event.
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  • jjdezjjdez Member Posts: 570 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Please, don't remind us about the utter disaster that was the voyager series. Thanks.
  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Man, can't believe Voyager was 20 years ago.. it just doesn't seem that old.

    Time to re-watch the series from the beginning.

    I can watch it while I'm mashing my space bar in Argala. :D
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  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    [Insert obligatory Voyager is stupid/Voyager sucks/I hate Voyager/Voyager should not exist/Anything else is better than Voyager comment here]

    :P
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  • alcyoneserenealcyoneserene Member Posts: 2,414 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Voyager was alright, except for being too over-the-top and of trying to squeeze too much content into single episodes. It would have been better if they had 2-part or even 3-part episodes to go more in depth and stretch some stories longer.
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  • medalionemissarymedalionemissary Member Posts: 612 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Right then
    so for those who complained some of the voice actors in DR from Voyager sounded old

    Now you know why
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  • mikoto8472mikoto8472 Member Posts: 607 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    20 years ago?

    Damn I feel old.
  • tigerariestigeraries Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I am old... =(
  • eagledracoeagledraco Member Posts: 340 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Ahh so it's been 20 years since I fell in love with Roxann Dawson? It only seems like yesterday :)
  • ightenighten Member Posts: 181 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Its only 20 yrs old.. Wow it was worse than I thought then :rolleyes:

    Seriously though feck .. Cant believe its that old and they still haven't released a version that doesn't look like its been filmed through vaseline yet.. (Is one planned (I presume it was filmed on 35mm like TNG or do they not think theres the demand)
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  • rodentmasterrodentmaster Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I would doubt they shot it on 35mm, based on ALL OTHER levels of quality used in the show. It was a phoned in effort, with pathetic writing and didn't even follow its own rules or guidelines, other than the ever-standing golden rule that applied to every episode ("f*** it, do it anyway").

    Good riddance. Worst trek ever -- and yes that includes Enterprise.
  • sinn74sinn74 Member Posts: 1,149 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    rodentmaster wrote: »
    I would doubt they shot it on 35mm, based on ALL OTHER levels of quality used in the show. It was a phoned in effort, with pathetic writing and didn't even follow its own rules or guidelines, other than the ever-standing golden rule that applied to every episode ("f*** it, do it anyway").

    Good riddance. Worst trek ever -- and yes that includes Enterprise.

    This. So much this.
  • svindal777svindal777 Member Posts: 856 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    And 20 years ago today I was very disappointed.
    Well excuse me for having enormous flaws that I don't work on.
  • taylor1701dtaylor1701d Member Posts: 3,099 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Happy anniversary VOYAGER
    Its hard to accept that its already been 20 years. Time sure does fly when you're having fun.

    Now ..wasn't Voyager about 20 years travel time away from Earth ? They'd be arriving home around now, had the show followed real time.

    That's quite something, in and of itself.
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  • eulifdaviseulifdavis Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    taylor1701d wrote: »
    Now ..wasn't Voyager about 20 years travel time away from Earth ? They'd be arriving home around now, had the show followed real time.

    75, actually.
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  • ddesjardinsddesjardins Member Posts: 3,056 Media Corps
    edited January 2015
    Yes, Happy Anniversary Voyager. For any show to be remembered and celebrated 20 years after it was first released is a pretty cool thing. I should also point out that Babylon 5 and DS9 technically premiered the same year. A good year for science fictions television. Except for Seaquest DSV - overhyped, and underdelivered, but it did have Roy Scheider and Peter Deluise.

    What other shows from 1993 do you remember?

    Acapulco H.E.A.T.
    The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
    Animaniacs
    Bakersfield PD
    The Building
    The Chevy Chase Show
    Sr. Quinn Medicine woman
    Exosquad
    Fallen Angels
    Frasier (omg)
    Grace Under Fire
    The john Stewart Show
    Late Night with Conan O'Brien
    Late Show with David Letterman
    Lois & Clark
    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
    Politically Incorrect
    Route 66
    Seaquest DSV
    Space Rangers
    Star Trek Deep Space Nine (debuted in 1993)

    and

    Walker, Texas Ranger

    Suddenly I am feeling very, very old.
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Much like Janeway violated the Temporal Prime Directive in the show to save Voyager some time, I'm hoping that sometime in the future somebody will come back and save us from Voyager...

    edit: Yes, I know some folks like VOY. I'm not telling them they can't like it. I'm just saying I don't like it.
  • ddesjardinsddesjardins Member Posts: 3,056 Media Corps
    edited January 2015
    virusdancer wrote: »
    Much like Janeway violated the Temporal Prime Directive in the show to save Voyager some time, I'm hoping that sometime in the future somebody will come back and save us from Voyager...

    edit: Yes, I know some folks like VOY. I'm not telling them they can't like it. I'm just saying I don't like it.

    *chuckle* Voyager turned me off TV for a while. It's the first ST series I stopped recording, only coming back to it in reruns.

    Highlight (lowlight) Janeway/Paris salamander babies.
  • taylor1701dtaylor1701d Member Posts: 3,099 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    eulifdavis wrote: »
    75, actually.

    Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.
    Though now that you mention this, I mustve had remembered them "cutting off 20 years or so" in a particular episode.
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  • jheinigjheinig Member Posts: 364 Cryptic Developer
    edited January 2015
    Voyager gave us one of my favorite Star Trek characters: Lon Suder (http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Lon_Suder). Not only is Brad Dourif an excellent character actor, but his first appearance gives us an episode that talks about capital punishment, and then when he appears again we get to see that he has developed as a character thanks to his previous experiences. Though his time is brief, he makes for a fascinating study in what it's like to live in the Star Trek future when you aren't "perfect" like everyone else and you have to hide who you are just to fit in -- and how the things that made you less-than-perfect can, under the right conditions, make you a hero.
  • ddesjardinsddesjardins Member Posts: 3,056 Media Corps
    edited January 2015
    jheinig wrote: »
    Voyager gave us one of my favorite Star Trek characters: Lon Suder (http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Lon_Suder). Not only is Brad Dourif an excellent character actor, but his first appearance gives us an episode that talks about capital punishment, and then when he appears again we get to see that he has developed as a character thanks to his previous experiences. Though his time is brief, he makes for a fascinating study in what it's like to live in the Star Trek future when you aren't "perfect" like everyone else and you have to hide who you are just to fit in -- and how the things that made you less-than-perfect can, under the right conditions, make you a hero.


    I had completely forgotten about him, thanks for reminding me. You're quite right, one of the better performances in true trek fashion.

    Makes think about what the Mirror Suder would be like.
  • lieutenantusherlieutenantusher Member Posts: 56 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Posting mostly to see my sig. It's amazing that Voyager's so old. Too bad Cryptic isn't doing anything for it (so far) they usually do a better job at Voyager than the original producers did.

    I remember the first time I watched Voyager. After the first episode all I could think was "this is boring, where's Jeri Ryan?" Come to think of it, the second time went something like that too; till season 7 where I then said TRIBBLE this and watched Doctor Who instead.:D
  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,115 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    mhirtesc wrote: »
    I remember the Anniversary of TNG on STO, where you spoke to a hologram of Worf and got the TOS Kilingon sash as a reward.

    This time around, what with all the DR stuff (BEST EXPANSION EVER AND THE PLAYERS LOVE IT!!), do we see anything special in the game?

    How about an ingame dose of Prozac so you character avoids the bi-polar/schizophrenic nature that was evident week to week in the 'Captain Janeway' character?:eek::D;)
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  • antoniosalieriantoniosalieri Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    jheinig wrote: »
    Voyager gave us one of my favorite Star Trek characters: Lon Suder (http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Lon_Suder). Not only is Brad Dourif an excellent character actor, but his first appearance gives us an episode that talks about capital punishment, and then when he appears again we get to see that he has developed as a character thanks to his previous experiences. Though his time is brief, he makes for a fascinating study in what it's like to live in the Star Trek future when you aren't "perfect" like everyone else and you have to hide who you are just to fit in -- and how the things that made you less-than-perfect can, under the right conditions, make you a hero.

    I liked those episodes very much.

    I think people are hard on voyager with little cause honestly. Did some of the scripts focus to much on stupid love sub plots, sure... where some of the characters badly written at times, ah yep. Still even focuses of hate like Nelix had there moments when the writing didn't let them down. (Fair Trade comes to mind.. I feel its also what they should have done with Nelix the entire time, making him a darker character, who's ultimate redemption could have been more profound.)

    I think in the end it was the writing that let voyager down. There was a handful of really strong episodes, and some that did touch on some great social commentary. There was also far to many that where just poor... and there where plenty of missed opportunities. Nelix being one of them... he got the reverse Troy done on him. Started off with an interesting and useful premise, turned into a cheerleader characters. Had Nelix been a woman, the complaints would be low. After they blew the promise of a "baltar" type character at least they could have put her in a shorter skirt. lol

    For well written Voyager... Latent Image Living Witness Equinox Parts 1 & 2 Blink of an Eye One
    and for the comedy value (much better then that chaotica stuff lol) Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy

    I also agree that Meld and Basics 1+2 are also right up there.

    Trek is always best when it has a message wrapped in solid Sci fi. With all the trek series you can't expect A+ Sci fi writing in every episode. If people are honest with themselves there are just as many terrible DS9 and TNG episodes... even a good handful of TOS are horid.

    Although the worst of Voyager was annoying... the best is right up there imo.
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  • uryenserellonturyenserellont Member Posts: 858 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    jheinig wrote: »
    Voyager gave us one of my favorite Star Trek characters: Lon Suder (http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Lon_Suder). Not only is Brad Dourif an excellent character actor, but his first appearance gives us an episode that talks about capital punishment, and then when he appears again we get to see that he has developed as a character thanks to his previous experiences. Though his time is brief, he makes for a fascinating study in what it's like to live in the Star Trek future when you aren't "perfect" like everyone else and you have to hide who you are just to fit in -- and how the things that made you less-than-perfect can, under the right conditions, make you a hero.


    Still not as much as Barclay.

    And how has it been 20 years? Where the hell did all those years go?? I watch the 90s Trek series and they don't feel that old. TNG started in the 80s and still feels sort of modern.

    It's disorienting.
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