Star Trek: Lower Decks’ wants you to know it’s okay to like ‘Voyager’

This week’s episode of a lower deck, “We will always have Tom Paris,” Successfully squeezing two references into the title: One season one next generation installment called “We will always have Paris,” and the name of the main actor. Star Trek member: Voyager, Lieutenant Tom Eugene Paris. But apart from a few smart words, the title also brings deeper meaning: that just as we want to forget more embarrassing moments of the Star Trek franchise, they still happen and they are not all bad. In fact, and especially, Voyager.

The viewers’ reaction to Voyager was rather polarized for 26 years since it was aired. Back to the 90s, many fans were eager to have a “real” star track performance, which took place on a vessel who continued to explore, unlike a relatively stationary political drama of two Deep Space nine. But wrote clumsy worsens the opinions of many people about Voyager, and towards the end of running this performance more to seven skintight nine clothes and slate guest stars a week, including Jason Alexander and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

After the show flowed from the air, the franchise stopped moving forward in his timeline, chose to explore the establishment of Starfleet in Enterprise and booted the entire universe completely with the 2009 Star Trek film. While fans thrown bone with a short cameo by Admiral Kathryn Janeway in the film The last era, Nemesis, Voyager will basically disappear from the Canon Star Trek until the appearance of seven of nine picards.

For fans of the next generation, Picard has its advantages: We must see troi and riker as family, and the data gets a better sentoff to the hereafter. But for Voyager fans, it was completely not positive, with the death of supporting characters and rather gloomy existence for seven nine favorites.

Star Trek: The bottom deck rolled back clock, because it lasted a year after the nemesis event, making it our first real view of the future of Star Trek Universe directly after TNG, DS9 and Voyager. The Dominion war was completed, Romulus was under the new regime and the Voyager USS crew was basically a celebrity after seven years was spent at the Delta quadrant; Picard lasted almost twenty years later, when the glance would disappear.

Here everything is just shiny and new and worth the warning plate – a little strange thing in the culture post scarcity, but this is a comedy series, after all. And in the B-plot this week, Brad BooMler wanted to get one of his plates signed by special guests for USS Cerritos: Tom Paris. Or, when Brad refers to the former Voyager crew member, “The Creator of Fairhaven, captain of the proton itself” and the first man to break the Transwarp barrier. Straight, it’s the third reference from the episode of the most Goriest, strange and some spoken Star Trek: Voyager. And if you forget what was so bad about the last, Mariner asked, “Is he still a salamander?,” Because it is the thing that happens in the episode “threshold.”

Underester (and maybe even pushed) by the oddity, BOIMLER all hyped to meet his hero. Even after the ship’s system did not recognize it and would not let him through the door, he was taken to Jefferies tube to make the road to the bridge to meet Lt. Paris.

On the one hand, it feels like a metaphor for how Fandom feels about Star Trek: Voyager now. While everyone admitted to having a lot of stupid moments, they really made it more charming. The famous line “there was coffee in the nebula” would inspire the astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti to bring a replica uniform with him and use it on the back mission in 2015:

And who can forget the famous “Tuvix” episode, where the members of the Tuvok and Neelix crew are combined into one grateful for the accident of the transporter? Although individuals produced are healthy and happy, the decision was made to force him to divide back into his components, inspiring the internet recently Rallying Cry “Janeway killed Tuvix.” Even Actor Janeway Kate Mulgrew entered the debate, responding to a tweet from members of the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez congress. When you have politicians involved, it’s not a fandom in-joke again.

Maybe it’s time to give Voyager a little more credit. It’s not as good as TNG or DS9, but still has a fair part of fans. I remember the time when it seemed to continue walking in Spike TV (now paramount network), which contradicted the inner nine room, which rarely rerun due to serial nature. Last year I sat and replayed all the Star Trek franchises, including Voyager, and saw the few episodes that I missed for the first time. I found myself enjoying some of them, with cringing as often as possible, and finally remembering why I stopped watching the show for a while when it was aired. In general, I feel the biggest problem the show is overlooked, like the way the conflict between Starfleet members and Maquis Crew is quickly mashed, how it utilizes a lot of actors, and why on earth, Harry Kim has never been promoted.

However, it’s not a low deck job to explain or exchange Voyager. BooMler and Tom Paris are just a b-plot here, with the main drive episode as a tendi and mariner mission to take the package for T’AS doctors and Rutherford search to find out how a death officer still alive again. The episode only asked us to consider how it felt to be a Starfleet officer and heard of all Voyager adventures at Quadrant Delta. Strange and ridiculous? Yes. But honestly, they are also quite cool.