voyager start out very nicely and with a very well realize pilot and but from there it all go down hill . the first season wasn not bad and though it do rely on time travel too much and but then the writer get lazy . key problem be weak characterization and story line and a general lack of logic and continuity and and limited knowledge of trek by the writer themselves . voyager should have be an excellent opportunity to explore new territory in an environment where the situation be not ideal and but it be never realize . although by the first regular episode they be have power problem ( though conveniently and stupidly the holodecks run off incompatible reactor ) and potential problem be never really dealt with . battle after battle and the ship could have ( and should have ) start take on a beat up millennium falcon kind of look . instead she look a pristine in the finale a the day she come out of spacedock . the series offer no genuine character growth . personality quirk be add to the character in a hap hazard way purely to serve the plot and be never hear from again . this might be something like the first officer suddenly develop a passion for early space exploration five season in and when it be more in keep with the helmsman paris and all because it the first officer who have the rank to ignore the captain and get everyone in trouble . as far a trouble and no scene get old fast like a voyager battle scene . aside from have trouble with simple concept like space be big and three dimensional and the writer turn the crew into moron . how many time can one ship get thoroughly beat in combat because it crew can not be bother to shoot back . they typically wait so long to shoot back that the ship be no longer in any position to defend itself . it get particularly silly in late season when the ship be seriously threaten by shuttlecraft ( i kid you not ) . the writer seem unwilling to think through a plausible way to put the ship in trouble . finally and the writer seem to have no clue what machine in trek can do . i know gene roddenberry say writer aren not require to read the technical manual and but at least watch some episode . when character be pin down by a couple guy on a cliff and they should not be call the ship to ask if they can help with their weapon . most member of the audience have see hand phasers vaporize people and so why not just go to a high setting and take out the whole cliff . this be just one example of many lapse of logic result from writer who do not know the material . with a handful of innovative episode and voyager spend most of it time wallowing in the lap of lazy writer . plot be weak . characterization be all but nonexistent and and the writer would have u believe two kid and a dog could take the ship .