#intrepid class

Then as the series goes on, all the surfaces get scratched up and broken, and stuff gets disassembled for parts, and random pieces of totally alien technology get installed, and it just looks a bit grimy and maybe the lighting gets darker.

Mood board:

Does Voyager have missed potential?

Yes.

Is Voyager well written as a series?

Well… no. Being a fan of Voyager can be frustrating because many things don’t make sense. I have lots of headcanon to deal with this…

So, why do I love Voyager?

Why am I obsessed with the Star Trek show that used to be (and still is to some extent) so hated by Trekkies?

Voyager is the buffé with all my favourite stuff.

Is this a buffé that’s been prepared and composed with the utmost care? No. Does that make me enjoy it any less? Not really.

Star Trek Voyager has:

Captain Janeway, the first female captain to lead a Star Trek show. I have written about how awesome she is here.

Lieutenant Tuvok, the first full-Vulcan crew member on a Star Trek show. He is the fountain of wisdom and one-liners on the show, and not having more Tuvok is the true missed potential of Voyager.

J/C, the captain and first officer ship that rivals Spirks Austen-esque longing. It’s a straight ship, but it doesn’t feel like one. There are reasons but it’s still insane.

The USS Voyager, a beautiful intrepid class starship that isn’t called The Enterprise and doesn’t look anything like it. It’s a beauty, and it makes the whole show more beautiful.

The best music. All of it is so good, not just the theme song. Voyager’s scores are sweeping and cinematic.

A female focus, more often than not a female character is leading an episode of Voyager and it’s not just Janeway. Voyager always has three female crew members, and they’re all great characters that are different from each other. These characters also have interesting relationships with each other. It really outperforms previous Star Trek shows and Star Trek Enterprise in the Bechdel test.

A pervasive sadness, because most of the crew want to get home and they are so close to getting home so many times and their hopes are continually crushed. I’m a sucker for that sort of thing.

TOS-like episodes in a good way, because they’re really weird and excellent.

TOS-like episodes in a bad way, because they’re not very good but they’re unhinged and very funny. I think we all know the most infamous example, but there are others too…

There are so many other things I could list, but my point is that there is so much to love about Star Trek Voyager. I love this show in spite of and because of its flaws, and while I agree with some criticisms of missed potential etc I also think it avoided many potential pitfalls.

A range of 1998 Dodge vehicles, including the Viper sports car, a pickup truck, an SUV, a van, and sedans.

The top vehicle is the Dodge Viper GTS, a sports car known for its powerful V10 engine.

The second generation of the Viper was produced from 1995 to 2002 and included both the RT/10 roadster and the GTS coupe.

The 1998 Viper GTS had a 450 bhp engine and minimal electronic aids, offering a raw driving experience.

a few things i remembered from before my time on the Cerritos but after I graduated from the Academy, during about a year from late 2379 to 2380.

One is that Oberth Class starships are pretty neat overall, but they are extremely mission-specific vessels. They only have enough delta-v for their specific mission profile and as such don't have particularly strong or powerful impulse engines. But they do need a lot of servicing when they get back to spacedock to replace laboratory equipment, refuel, recalibrate, etc. The one time I got to do anything interesting with the impulse engines on one, was when we were outfitting one for a stellar survey. It needed a lot more delta-v than usual due to its target having a relatively high velocity, so I 're-geared' the impulse engine to use more of its fusion reactor power for subspace than for the main reactor, which drove up the specific impulse and reduced the thrust. As far as I know that ship ended up completing its mission just fine. That's when I learned that a lot of impulse engines, which are specified for a safety factor of 4, are actually due to an error given a safety factor of 8. (The fact that this error is pervasive in so many starship classes makes me wonder if it was intentional. Engineers DO like to push safety factors to the limit. Including me sometimes.)

The other thing is there was one time I was servicing an Intrepid class. These use bio-neural gel computers, and for some reason my manager brought me into the computer core to take a look at the bio-neural gel. I tried to diagnose the problem but computer science is really not my specialty. Now I realize that they were probably just laughing at me behind my back.

(The Intrepid class isn't the only class of ships that use bio-neural gel packs, but that was the only time I was ever called to look at them. The only other one I can recall off the top of my head is Sovereign class, but we never serviced a Sovereign class at Douglas Station during my time there.)