30th April 2005, 12:28 AM
Voyager had a lot of the nice fun stuff in there, even if it really wasn't that original. But, it had what it takes, and that was a lot of focus on sci-fi details. One thing to remember about Star Trek is that special attention is payed to making sure it's as accurate as they know how to be to how physics actually works. Yes, they got a lot wrong (showing stars wizzing by the window comes to mind), but what's more amazing is how much they actually got right. That's always been a major part of the series, Gene himself has said as much, so I do take as much interest in those parts as anything else. That said, Voyager had a lot of it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)