I saw one person theorise that Voyager should've ended up home in the season 4 finale, which set it up and was otherwise lacklustre. Or, more practically, maybe season 6. Show them getting to know everyone again, multiple episodes like TNG's Family where Picard went back to his friends post-Borg. Show them getting used to not being out in the middle of nowhere, actually having firmer rules, hell the Maquis are one of the most interesting things because what are they at that point? The Alpha/Beta quadrant Maquis were destroyed, but even if they're friends with Voyager officers that hardly makes them Starfleet, and technically they're still terrorists. Have a season end with the return home, then go full DS9 and have a multi-parter of the fallout, struggling to fit in, struggling to gain trust of other officers, throw in new crew members to replace those that died and have a lower decks episode dedicated to them trying to get used to the fact that the Voyager crew are basically a family now they've spent six years with only each other and it's hard for others to get in on that.
Also, shout out to that episode where the EMH lost all of his memories and development of years of the show and it was never brought up again.
And the fact Starfleet apparently actually has regulations on sex with alien species. I choose to believe Picard and Spock cowrote them.
Voyager can pretty much be defined by wasted potential. A character like Janeway is made by how the world reacts to her, and how she reacts to the world, and we barely got one of those. Seven of Nine had the potential to play up the interesting post-BoBW Picard dynamic, and she was really interesting, but was also ruined both by overexposure and deciding to sexualise a fricking Borg. Kes, a mysterious alien with mysterious powers... did nothing and then came back stupidly. Everything about the Maquis. Neelix, a whole new species getting to know the Federation for the first time was just annoying. Tuvok was well-acted but had no material.
And the Borg were... honestly as much flak as the series gets, I don't mind the fact the Borg were easier to deal with. Voyager had more data on the Borg than any other starship, including a former member of the collective, they were far better prepared. It makes sense they'd fare better; in First Contact Picard could destroy a cube because he could sense its weak point despite it being years since he was assimilated, with Seven aboard you'd expect Voyager to do well. I just hate the fact they skipped over Borg Space. If people can walk around on a cube and be ignored because they're not a threat, you could easily translate that to a ship flying through Borg space being ignored (unless a cube's panning to go assimilate) because it's too small to bother with. You could do some good things with that.
It was built up well, and Shifter brought up Enterprise season 3 which was incredible, and more than that it kept continuity. If the ship got damaged in one episode, it stayed damaged in the next. That could have made the series intense, Voyager actually showing wear and tear consistently, showing the toll the journey took.
But nope, it had a cool premise but didn't do anything with it. Pretty much every episode could belong to any other series, which is a pity. The best episodes of TNG, DS9, even Enterprise, were the ones where they did something that only they'd do. The Inner Light, BoBW and Family, giving Picard a journey Kirk would never have gone on. The Visitor or Way of the Warrior or basically anything to do with the arc for DS9, showing serialisation never really seen in Trek and, because it's on a space station, showing consequences. Cogenitor and Dead Stop for Enterprise, showing how new everything is. Every series, especially in a shared universe, needs to establish an identity. Voyager never did.
I like the fact that the thread meant to make as argue has inexplicably started Shifter and I agreeing with each other. And by like, I mean I feel dirty.
Star Trek had a thing for Nazis.
My favourite Doctor Who companion is a Nazi.