Whenever Voyager comes up, and especially when Janeway comes up, I feel obligated to share my unpopular opinion: the introduction of 7 of 9 and the Borg totally fucked up the show.

Season 1 is pretty rough (as per usual for Star Trek); Season 2 is better and has some real bangers mixed in with a couple stinkers; Season 3 really hits a stride and all the cast have good chemistry and lots of good episodes … then they introduce 7 of 9 and the Borg and it goes off the rails. Season 4 is incredibly bad, and it’s super obvious that Kate Mulgrew hated the introduction of 7 of 9. Janeway’s character starts becoming EXTREMELY inconsistent and the writers just rehashed the plots to a bunch of Data’s storylines. Seasons 5 and 6 are alright (but some kind of magic and chemistry of the early seasons are gone), and Season 7 experiences the same dip in quality due to general fatigue of everyone involved.

Season 3 really was the peak (before Borg intro at the end), where all the crew’s characters and their relationships are really getting fleshed out, but the writers just stopped giving a shit about all of that development to play with their shiny new toy (7 of 9).

Blame it all on the booba - the showrunners saw flagging ratings and wanted the neckbeard viewership at the cost of any kind of internal consistency (they dropped the “lost in space scrounging for supplies” narrative, the science-babble went through the roof, and all problems became trivial in the face of 7 of 9’s super-brain and/or nanobot-blood).

I still love Voyager because it is very comfy, but I will always maintain that it could have been so much better without the Borg and 7 of 9.

*I should note that there were a couple of earlier Borg episodes that were awesome, like the detached Borg colony that makes a new hivemind on a planet

I just responded to a one-month-old-comment of my own :-\

A few years ago I went to Tempe to visit a friend and every-time we ventured outside of Tempe I was confronted by Yakub’s most devilish creations.

Phoenix is a contradiction.

The desert is beautiful, but the people inhabiting that space are…

This city should not exist, it is a monument to man’s arrogance.

Actually it was great. But I acknowledge your incorrect opinion.

You can definitely tell they they went … whoops and tacked on the last 30 minutes of the movie to make him seem like the bad guy. The entire film goes into a severe tonal shift.

So I’m relying on more knowledgeable bears here, but this is basically a manifestation of unions without theory right?

Without state support unions will be assaulted by capitalistic mentalities and turn into gangs?

Laughing in hell eating pizza

Liberalism is in the spinal cord - this move excises liberalism.

Haha, great video thanks

I still love them anyways

Yeah… :-(

I still love them

Boo

The poorest Americans are constantly fighting with the bureaucracy to get assistance, this is by design to make them hate it.

Any addition to the expansion of the state will be met with hostility.

Self immolation in the Imperial Core is an expression of profound helplessness, and speaks to the utter inability of the left to provide those people with a comprehensive ideological framework.

The U.S. State has done such an effective job of destroying revolutionary movements that those who could be drawn to a clear-headed Marxist perspective cannot find purchase; there are no revolutionary organizations that are not captured.

Blame Trotsky and the New Left I suppose (after you blame the State for the murder of the Black Panthers and the original BLM leaders).

TL;DR - Imperial Core collapse in slow motion

Dominant Butch Lesbians are the powerhouse of the polycule

The Standard Oil building seems benign in photos but in person perhaps one of the most striking buildings in the Chicago Skyline.

I like to buy them and look at them - but I’m wanting to get into playing the game and want my cute little Grass guys to be at least somewhat competitive

That tumbleweed guy is wild

I love Butterfree so much

Movie that on paper shouldn’t be good but has such a bizarre dreamlike quality that it burrows into your mind. Highly recommend.