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My complete STAR TREK: VOYAGER Skiplist

sometime in the middle of the lockdown, I decided to watch all the Star Trek shows that I'd not yet seen. I watched all of Discovery that existed at the time, then all of Picard, then Lower Decks, then Prodigy (then Strange New Worlds!). After that, there was only one option: Voyager. Soon, I'll start Enterprise, god help me.

I finished VOY with some friends a few weeks ago, and after a discussion about the series' hit rate, I decided to make a "skiplist". This is that list. It's also a record of my nightmarish quest. My "year of hell", if you will.

Voyager is a terrible show. A bizarrely frustrating show. A show that on the macro and micro levels never fails to make baffling decisions, lag in the wrong spots and rush through its endings. A TV show so terrible that it drove Ronald D Moore to create the Battlestar Galactica reboot. I truly LOVE Star Trek, and man, this show tested my patience. I must say that, unlike Picard (one of the worst TV shows ever produced by human hands), Voyager IS an actual Star Trek show, and an actual TV Show. It's just very, very bad.

If I come across hard on it, just know it's because I want to love it. I'd never write about Picard's episodes like this, because it's a fake tv show, with zero real episodes. I might do something like this for Discovery, but each individual season basically encompasses a single TNG episode's worth of story, so it would be a short list (here I'll do it right now1.) We'll see how I feel after Enterprise, but i get the feeling it wont piss me off quite so much. Just remember, I'm not a Star Trek hater, okay? This is loving.

What is Voyager?

I'll tell you:

Captain Kathryn Janeway is a merciless sociopath who has been sent to hunt down members of the Maquis, anti-Federation rebels. She's chasing a Maquis vessel captained by Chakotay, a guy from a made-up Native American tribe (the native cultural advisor was a white guy pretending to be native who was exposed many times but got the gig because he was friends with the loathsome Rick Berman). He's one of Star Trek's flattest characters, and was evidently so stupid that no less than three members of his rebel cell were secretly double agents or serial killers.

Janeway is hunting the poor bastard when they both get sucked to the ass-end of the galaxy by a weird pile of slime who was looking for his girlfriend. 70 years from Earth at maximum warp, low on supplies, no allies, half their crews dead, and trillions of lightyears (?? is that right?) from home, they decide to join forces, much to everyone's chagrin. Janeway eagerly gives these terrorists provisional Starfleet officer status, going so far as to make Chakotay her first officer over her actually Starfleet vulcan security officer, the only member of the crew with a normal brain (who also served with Sulu, but go off I guess). They also quickly recruit a troll doll and his two-year-old wife to guide them through this uncharted quadrant.

They set off to basically immediately ignore all the interesting shit from the premise I just described in favor of scanning weird clouds for a hundred or so episodes. Eventually they recruit a borg baddie, who Kate Mulgrew wouldn’t allow to go pee because she thought she was stealing the show from her. The show gets slightly better from there on out.

THE LIST:

GOOD! -When the episode is good. There are thirteen of these. Can you believe that??

Okay -These are totally watchable episodes but they aren’t like AMAZING.

Bad -Voyager’s chief export.

Jesus Fucking Christ -this is a special category for episodes that are so Bad they have historic value, or episodes that just suck in a truly captivating way. Potentially worth a watch.

WoBbLy ShIp -one of the lowest and most dejectable forms of Voyager episode. These are episodes where the central conflict of the episode is that the ship has become “Wobbly” for some reason. Under no circumstances must you EVER watch a “Wobbly Ship” episode.

For efficiency's sake, I've collected the good episodes below.

THE GOOD EPISODES OF STAR TREK: VOYAGER:

216: MELD
223: THE THAW
302: FLASHBACK
307-308: FUTURE’S END
323: WORST CASE SCENARIO
408-409: YEAR OF HELL
512: BRIDE OF CHAOTICA!
521: SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
604: TINKER, TENOR, DOCTOR, SPY
610: PATHFINDER
615: TSUNKATSE
708: BODY AND SOUL
723: RENAISSANCE MAN

But we're not here to watch good tv. We are here to watch Star Trek: Voyager. Let's see what it has in store:

SEASON ONE:

  1. Caretaker, Parts I & II
    Bad -you’d think the first episode of Voyager would be important…but it’s not! The show basically doesnt pay attention to anything that happens in these episodes, so dont worry about it. I mean. I guess you should watch it. What are we even fucking doing. Whats the point

  2. Parallax
    Bad-one fun moment.

  3. Time and Again
    Bad

  4. Phage
    Bad

  5. The Cloud
    Bad -the first “weird cloud” episode of Voyager, but not the last. Janeway loves taking detours on her way back to Earth to observe a weird cloud. Why not? It’s only 70 years back to the Alpha Quadrant.

  6. Eye of the Needle
    Bad

  7. Ex Post Facto
    Bad

  8. Emanations
    Bad

  9. Prime Factors
    Bad

  10. State of Flux
    Bad

  11. Heroes and Demons
    Okay The Doctor has to go on his first “away mission” INTO the holodeck because the Beowulf program went haywire and now he has to do a bunch of heroes journey type shit. Ends weak, but that’s Voyager for you!

  12. Cathexis
    Bad

  13. Faces
    Bad- extra marks for being a preposterously racist episode as well. Torres gets split into her human half and her Klingon half. You can imagine how it goes from there.

  14. Jetrel
    Bad- though I recall Neelix getting a rare dub here when he blows the fuck up on a smug war criminal guy who killed his people. Voyager’s odd political perspective shines through in this one…”turns out the war criminal sold his watch to get neelix that hairspray he was looking for…makes u think” type moral.

  15. Learning Curve
    Bad- almost okay. Tuvok teaches some layabout maquis officers to actually pull their weight. Somehow this is the season finale. Jesus what a stupid fucking tv show

SEASON TWO:

  1. The 37's
    Bad- almost worth it cause of how frustratingly stupid this episode is. Has an all-timer good opening hook for a trek episode: they find a 1930 Ford pickup drifting through the Deltta Quadrant. It DOES NOT DELIVER on this premise. Hilarious bit where they go visit these human colonies on an alien planet, but we dont see any of it, and later they’re talking like: “wow. Those cities were fucking crazy right.” were they?? You didn’t show me that.
    Also a good example of Janeway sort of “creating” a moral dilemma to weigh over that wasn’t really there before. Maybe she envies picard or something so she’s constantly trying to muck up starfleet procedure with unnecessary Measure of a Man trials about shit nobody but her seems to care about.

  2. Initiations
    Bad

  3. Projections
    Okay -Barclay and the Doctor on some inception-type shit. Really manic and nutty episode. Maybe not like, actually GREAT, but really really fun and stupid, and the EMH and Barclay having a neurosis-off is legit really fun.

  4. Elogium
    Jesus Fucking Christ Kes gets “horny-itis”. There are at least 10 episodes of Trek about Horny-itis that are way better than this -one of which is literally responsible for the concept of slash fiction. And none of them are about Kes, Neelix’s two-year-old wife. Watch this bit though.

  5. Non Sequitur
    Okay maybe im misremembering. This is a kinda interesting ep. Harry wakes up on earth with his smokeshow girlfriend. Beginning of the “Harry Kim is allergic to getting laid” subplot that runs through almost the entire show. Voyager tries to do a “weird one” and nearly pulls…something off.

  6. Twisted
    WoBbLy ShIp

  7. Parturition
    Bad

  8. Persistence of Vision
    Bad- “As Voyager readies for a potentially dangerous encounter with the Botha,” Our first experience with Janeway’s proclivity towards for real falling in love with her stupid bodice-ripper holodeck programs. Starfleet’s most gullible captain, I think.

  9. Tattoo
    Jesus Fucking Christ- potentially the most racist star trek episode ever produced. And if you love star trek, you know that’s really fucking saying something. Turns out white aliens taught natives all the stuff they knew.

  10. Cold Fire
    Bad

  11. Maneuvers
    Bad. One of voyager’s top three episode endings in terms of pure insanity.

  12. Resistance
    Bad

  13. Prototype
    Bad

  14. Alliances
    Bad

  15. Threshold
    Jesus Fucking Christ- honestly I think this episode gets a bad rap as “Star Trek’s Worst Episode,” i think there are far stupider/more boring episodes in this show that deserve that title. At least some fun shit happens in this! We get a passable The Fly cronenberg riff, and then the episode loses its entire mind. This is a perfect example of the Voyager format, which is “waste time for the first 4 acts, then speedrun the rest of the episode in the final 2 minutes.” And THAT is what makes this episode an all-timer. The fucking WHIPLASH you go through in the last bit of this episode. Its fucking amazing.

  16. Meld
    GOOD! Tuvok faces down against “The God” Brad Dourif (Saavedro from Myst III: Exile, Grima Wormtongue from The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers, Chucky from Chucky) in Voyager’s first legitimately GOOD episode. Great showcase of Tim Russ saying insanely hard shit AND it introduces Suder, the only character in Voyager who has a remotely functional character arc over an entire season.

  17. Dreadnought
    Bad

  18. Death Wish
    Okay- Q episode. Fun to see John DeLancie, fun to see what a “suicidal Q” looks like, etc. Ends bizarrely as always.

  19. Lifesigns
    Bad- more mid than bad iirc. The Doctor gets a gf, which is cute. This show is seriously fucking carried on Robert Picardo’s back for most of its run. He makes all this pinnoccio stuff really sing.

  20. Investigations
    Bad

  21. Deadlock
    WoBbLy ShIp

  22. Innocence
    Okay Tuvok has to babysit some kids. Fun dynamic. Not much else to speak of.

  23. The Thaw
    GOOD! Somehow this episode is actually awesome. Reading the premise you'd think its the worst one, but its great! Awesome guest star, actually has some Star Trek problem solving, and a super hard Janeway moment at the end. Evil and Dark Janeway is the one angle they have for her other than “really stupid” and this episode hits it well.

  24. Tuvix
    Jesus Fucking Christ- tremendously stupid episode. Tuvok and neelix get turned into one guy. All time piece of trek history and worth it for that, much like threshold. People cite this as a big “janeway is the most brutal captain” episode because of how she solves the moral dilemma, but im 100% on her side here. He used to be two guys. Stupid thing to get worked up about. Break em up!

  25. Resolutions
    Bad

  26. Basics, Part I
    Bad- but if you liked Meld and wanna see what happens to Suder, you could scrub through this episode for his scenes. Its pretty cool! Honestly a really interesting star trek character i would have loved to see more of. Brad Dourif is so fucking cool.

SEASON THREE

  1. Basics, Part II
    Bad- finishes up the shit from last season. Same goes from my previous summary

  2. Flashback
    GOOD!- this episode is provisionally good because we get a bunch of awesome scenes of Tuvok working alongside the swaggy CAPTAIN SULU!!! Its a weak episode narratively but damn if it isnt awesome to see two kings doing their thing.

  3. The Chute
    Bad

  4. The Swarm
    Bad

  5. False Profits
    Bad -VOY manages to undo the goodwill we’ve developed towards “ferengi episodes” ever since DS9 made them sources of delight.

  6. Remember
    Bad

  7. Sacred Ground
    Bad

  8. Future's End, Part I & II
    GOOD! Only MOSTLY good. Really fun premise. Tuvok says “please hand me a burrito.” 90’s Sarah Silverman being incredibly cute, time travel shit, etc.

  9. Warlord
    Bad

  10. The Q and the Grey
    Bad- yeah. Its a Q episode but it sucks. Hate to say it

  11. Macrocosm
    Bad

  12. Fair Trade
    Bad

  13. Alter Ego
    Bad

  14. Coda
    Bad. Awesome moment.

  15. Blood Fever
    Bad - terrible “horny episode”.

  16. Unity
    Bad

  17. The Darkling
    Bad

  18. Rise
    Bad

  19. Favorite Son
    Bad

  20. Before and After
    Bad

  21. Real Life
    Okay- not really that good, but several hilarious scenes of the Doctor interacting with the holographic family he makes for himself, and an Always Sunny- level Sociopathic Be’lanna plot where she just randomly decides to permanently traumatize the EMH.

  22. Distant Origin
    Okay Dinosaur charles darwin claims that his dinosaur species is actually from earth and kidnaps Chakotay to prove it. Hold on, wait. This episode is actually Bad

  23. Displaced
    Bad

  24. Worst Case Scenario
    GOOD! -fun episode about the Voyager crew all doing Neon White speedruns of a mysterious “Maquis Mutiny” holodeck program, and a fun Tom Paris-Tuvok friendship angle I wish they had the wherewithal to follow up on.

  25. Scorpion, Part I
    Bad- we meet Seven in these episodes but jesus. Theyre fucking Bad. And we meed Species 8472 who are like the Meat version of borg and the borg are super scared of them and they come from a fluid dimension that’s all water. They come from a goo dimension. Its stupid.

SEASON FOUR:

The quality of this season minorly improves because they introduce Seven of Nine and she’s wearing the silver suit. I have no further comments to make on this matter.

  1. Scorpion, Part II
    Bad

  2. The Gift
    Bad

  3. Day of Honor
    Bad

  4. Nemesis
    Bad

  5. Revulsion
    Bad- sidenote. Seven wants to have sex with Harry in this episode and he runs away. What is fucking wrong with this guy??

  6. The Raven
    Bad - this episode is really weak, but almost a solid Seven episode, if you want to know her deal more. But its not actually a GOOD episode.

  7. Scientific Method
    Bad

  8. Year of Hell, Parts I & II
    GOOD! Probably the only episodes of VOYAGER id recommend outside of Meld to new viewers. THE GOD Kurtwood Smith, crazy time stuff. Just an all-timer trek episode. Was gonna be a seasonal arc, which would have really ruled. Oh well!

  9. Random Thoughts
    Bad- Tuvok does say some hard shit in one scene though. He trades some of his evil ownage memories to black market Feeling Dealers. Stupid!

  10. Concerning Flight
    Bad

  11. Mortal Coil
    Bad

  12. Waking Moments
    Bad

  13. Message in a Bottle
    Okay EMH episode. Very fun. Pretty much any Doctor episode is gonna be a hoot.

  14. Hunters
    Bad

In between these two wretched episodes, Deep Space Nine released one of the best episodes of TV ever, Far Beyond the Stars. Just as a reference point.

  1. Prey
    Bad

  2. Retrospect
    Jesus Fucking Christ- Seven learns the consequences of cancel culture when she WRONGLY ACCUSES someone of doing surgery on her and he DIES as a result. Insane scenes such as her and the EMH taking it to Janeway and she says some shit like “well what was she wearing at the time?? This guys never done secret surgery on me, he seems perfectly fine” and so on. APPALLING episode. One of the most “Story by Brannon Braga” episodes ever.

  3. The Killing Game, Part I & II
    Bad- one of Voyager’s MANY 2-parters that could have barely sustained a single episode. Lots of aliens rolling around in Stasi uniforms. So that’s something. One awesome image of Tuvok firing a tommy gun like hes one of the untouchables.

    Seven wears an evening dress in these however…

  4. Vis Ă  Vis
    Bad

  5. The Omega Directive
    Bad- neat idea utterly wasted by Voyager.

  6. Unforgettable
    Bad

  7. Living Witness
    Bad

  8. Demon
    Bad- worth keeping this one in mind cause it sets up one of Voyager’s stupidest episodes ever.

  9. One
    Okay See, the trick Voyager figures out here, is that if they can get Seven and the Doctor in an episode mostly alone, the episode will actually be pretty good.

  10. Hope and Fear
    Bad

SEASON FIVE:

  1. Night
    Bad

  2. Drone
    Bad

  3. Extreme Risk
    Bad

  4. In the Flesh
    Bad

  5. Once Upon a Time
    Bad

  6. Timeless
    Okay We get Sexy Future Harry, some neat stuff, etc. its fine.

  7. Infinite Regress
    Okay A mid episode uplifted by getting to see Jeri Ryan do a one-woman-show playing like 12 different characters. Its fun!

  8. Nothing Human
    Bad

  9. Thirty Days
    Bad

  10. Counterpoint
    Bad

  11. Latent Image
    Okay- Solid Doctor episode with a hilarious Evil Janeway scene where she compares the EMH to a replicator or a chair.

  12. Bride of Chaotica!
    GOOD! People really love this one- i think its PRETTY good, but not amazing. But its a lot of fun and worth watching for sure.

  13. Gravity
    Bad

  14. Bliss
    Bad

  15. Dark Frontier, Part I & II
    Bad

  16. The Disease
    Bad

  17. Course: Oblivion
    WoBbLy ShIp/Jesus Fucking Christ -this episode is so fucking stupid. Once you realize what’s happening, you’re gonna lose it. Almost worth watching for that reason…

  18. The Fight
    Bad

  19. Think Tank
    Okay -Jason Alexander guest stars and has a lot of fun as a con artist who, like all the Voyager villains, successfully sells Janeway a bill of goods.

  20. Juggernaut
    Bad

  21. Someone to Watch Over Me
    GOOD! -one of my very favorite episodes of Voyager, and introduces the absolutely nuclear Seven/Doctor ship, which is easily the cutest and best relationship on the show. A MUST-watch.

  22. 11:59
    Bad

  23. Relativity
    Bad

  24. Warhead
    Bad

  25. Equinox, Part I
    Okay -uhhh these episodes are fine. Cool angle though. If you’re interested in watching the “essential” VOY you should probably not miss these. Evil Starfleet Captain stuff.

SEASON SIX:

  1. Equinox, Part II
    Okay

  2. Survival Instinct
    Bad

  3. Barge of the Dead
    Bad

  4. Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
    GOOD! I THINK this one is good? Its a fun Doctor episode, so it goes on the list.

  5. Alice
    Bad- Tom Paris has sex with a car.

  6. Riddles
    Bad

  7. Dragon's Teeth
    Bad

  8. One Small Step
    Bad

  9. The Voyager Conspiracy
    Bad

  10. Pathfinder
    GOOD! Weird episode to do in Voyager, but really fun to see Barclay and Troi in essentially what is a Seinfeld episode inside of Star Trek.

  11. Fair Haven
    Bad

  12. Blink of an Eye
    Bad

  13. Virtuoso
    Okay This episode is fun. Doctor stuff, Seven being bratty when the Doctor gets famous and starts ignoring her, etc.

  14. Memorial
    Bad

  15. Tsunkatse
    GOOD! Awesome episode. Martoks actor guest stars, not as Martok but still!! also Jeffrey Combs is here. And its just a solid ep! There’s ANOTHER guest star in this who i won’t name…but let’s just say that the hierarchy of power in the Star Trek Universe is about to change.

  16. Collective
    Bad

  17. Spirit Folk
    Bad- Tom Paris fucks around in the holodeck and accidentally gives a bunch of irish holodeck characters self-awareness. Thankfully, Janeway is there to put down another class uprising. Manages to be both boring AND revive anti-irish racism from the dustbin of history.

  18. Ashes to Ashes
    Bad

  19. Child's Play
    Bad

  20. Good Shepherd
    Okay -This episode is kinda mid but has such a fun premise. Voyager’s least competent officers are put on a mission together. We get one of Star Trek’s cutest characters ever with the lazy and stupid bajoran engineer who is constantly trying to get out of work. I love her. incompetent Bajoran starfleet engineer, please call me.

  21. Live Fast and Prosper
    Okay Mid episode with an AMAAAAAZING premise. Con artists are impersonating the voyager crew and scamming alien cultures. Worth it for fake janeway and fake tuvok.

  22. Muse
    Bad

  23. Fury
    Bad

  24. Life Line
    Okay You get to see the doctor acting against himself. Its fun. More barclay and troi! Why not!! They’re from that good star trek show!

  25. The Haunting of Deck Twelve
    Bad

  26. Unimatrix Zero, Part I
    Bad

SEASON SEVEN:

I really have to respect this show for not even trying to make this feel like the final season. just really walked this show across home plate. mercy killing finale.

  1. Unimatrix Zero, Part II
    Bad

  2. Imperfection
    Bad

  3. Drive
    Bad

  4. Repression
    Bad

  5. Critical Care
    Bad

  6. Inside Man
    Okay I don’t remember this one but it sounds like it was fun? Evil barclay episode?

  7. Body and Soul
    GOOD! -This one is an all-timer. Seven and the Doctor bodyswap episode. Hard to overstate how good Jeri Ryan is at playing the flamboyant and bratty EMH. and ANOTHER EMH/Seven episode that is just craaaazy charming. They have so much chemistry it drives me insane that she’s gay married in Picard. Im homophobic about it. She BELONGS with the DOCTOR!!!

  8. Nightingale
    Bad -feels like this episode was written BY Janeway. “Harry Kim is NOT ready for command.”

  9. Flesh and Blood, Part I & II
    Bad

  10. Shattered
    WoBbLy ShIp

  11. Lineage
    Bad

  12. Repentance
    Bad

  13. Prophecy
    Bad

  14. The Void
    WoBbLy ShIp

  15. Workforce, Part I & II
    Bad

  16. Human Error
    Bad

  17. Q2
    Bad

  18. Author, Author
    Okay -the Doctor writes a holonovel about his stupid colleagues, it pisses everyone on voyager off.

  19. Friendship One
    Bad

  20. Natural Law
    Bad

  21. Homestead
    Bad

  22. Renaissance Man
    GOOD! -Great EMH episode.

  23. Endgame, Part I & II
    Bad - THEY DONT EVEN GET TO EARTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    1. bad but watch the Michelle Yeoh scenes, she owns. and the timeloop episode.
    2. FUCKING ATROCIOUS but watch the Pike scenes, he owns.
    3. Mid- most competent season to date.
    4. below mid but not awful. You could watch the start and the end and not miss too much

Unangbangkay
@Unangbangkay

But I don't disagree with this in the least apart from loving Wobbly Ship episodes

(Also the Japanese dub of voyager is very good if you like anime and know enough Japanese to get excited about hearing a ton of now very famous seiyuu act the shit out of the alien of the week)


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in reply to @Sullivan's post:

As the number one Enterprise defender I hope you have a good time. I think you will from this. There's more legendarily stupid shit, and there's more actual good shit and also they stumble ass backwards into Lore Genius multiple times. Having actual Vulcans and Andorians around and not spending seven seasons stuck in bumfuck nowhere really helps

Yeah i might reevaluate that. Its a delightful episode. OH RIGHT i derated it because Andy Dick is there. He's really fun in that episode, but i have to evaluate every Andy Dick role by the rubric "is this worth Phil Hartman being dead?"

You ungrateful little worm. Let's see how you like a NEW season of Picard. You know what we might do after that? Maybe we'll let that team do a DS9 epilogue. I bet you'd love that. Then you'll fucking wish you were watching the Voyager episode where it turns out everyone is actually a Goo Version of themselves

im curious what you'll think about enterprise because as i see it there are two possibilities

  1. you hate it less than voyager because voyager is a garbage show and infinitely worse
  2. you hate it more than voyager because at least voyager was at least doing "something" even if it was bad instead of puttering around contentlessly for 40 minutes at a time

Thank you for highlighting the garbage fire that is 'Retrospect'.

I do appreciate the more snoozy self contained episodes voyager has over the new whizbang long arc stuff though. The mundanity really helped ground it as a fictional universe.

I genuinely love Voyager. I adore the characters (Chakotay is not included in this). I enjoy most of the episodes, yes even the one with the lizard babies.

I'm not sure that I can really seriously disagree with anything here though. I guess it's kind of like the Trek version of Glee for me: a show I can enjoy for what it could have been if it lived up to the potential of its concept.

I think this is the proper mindset of the true Trek fan. I think Strange New Worlds and TOS are the only trek shows in history with truly GOOD first seasons. If we didn't give these shows a chance, they'd never have made it into our hearts!

You are SO RIGHT about Suder. Another one of those interesting things about being a single ship far away from home that just got completely thrown out the window. Like, how do you deal with someone who's done a terrible crime but wants to reform himself when you're in such tight quarters, is he able to reform himself, can the crew forgive him, what will come of - oh and he's dead in three episodes. ho hum

Just imagining how hard Suder's arc would have hit if he spent like three seasons developing empathy and attachment to the crew, seeing how Starfleet treats him, having his awesome friendship with Tuvok, and then he's tested and has to make a huge sacrifice to save the ship. That would have gone so hard. Outside Voyager's scope to execute on unfortunately. Their resistance to ANY sense of development was just so wrongheaded

My mom and I don't like this show either. That being said, I genuinely think Scorpion part I and II are fantastic, like among the best episodes in all of Star Trek. I'm serious, I was surprised by how much I loved them.

I have a fondness for Voyager but yeah, most of it is pretty dire, and it's absolutely carried by Seven, the Doctor, and Tuvok. I do actually really like Living Witness and Blink of an Eye for doing the external perspective of Voyager, though they would be even better as standalone things which could have more powerful conclusions

I appreciate going to bat for The Thaw, which is far more maligned than it deserves to be, but you couldn't possibly be more wrong about Seven and the Doctor. The only redeeming thing I can say about their relationship is it's better than the weird Seven/Chakotay thing they threw against the wall at literal last moment.