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This week on Voyager --

THE DOCTOR: I was quite a shutterbug [18 months ago]. Not a day went by when I didn't record an image for posterity.
ME: hey do we remember the Doctor being very into photography 18 months ago?

innerbrat: I think perhaps every episode of Voyager takes place in a very slightly different AU from every other one

Anyway, I did mean to catch up on Voyagerposting two weeks ago, but in the two weeks since we have seen two episodes we really quite enjoyed back-to-back (including the one with the Doctor's new old photography hobby) so perhaps it's for the best that I'm going into this post on a high!

( Voyager Season 5, Episodes 1-11 )

Apparently the last time I did a Voyager catchup post was almost one full year ago ... we have still been having a great time watching Voyager! I have also just been very busy this year! But I promised

innerbrat that I would catch up on the ... seventeen episodes, good lord ... that I am behind on before our next Voyager date next weekend, so here goes a partial catchup with the rest of Season Four.

( Season 4, Episodes 19-26 )

We have also seen the first nine episodes in Season Five, but my arm is tired now so stay tuned for that later this week!

innerbrat reminded me that it had been 8 episodes since my last Voyager write-up! It has now been over a week since then so actually it has been 9 episodes since my last Voyager write-up, but this means I get the reward of writing about ~*~white tuxedo Janeway~*~ in this batch so in this case procrastinating served me well...

( Season 4, episodes 10-18 )

Dang, I think I got to agree with the multitudes on this one: it's s4, Seven of Nine is here, and Voyager is definitely achieving a much more consistent run of quality episodes. We've just finished the Year of Hell arc and sat there for a few minutes afterwards like "was that great? we think that was genuinely great!" "aside from the unfortunate implications of the fact that Chakotay develops a huge crush on a guy who does genocide" "well yes aside from that". The Voyager experience!

( Season 4, Episodes 1-9 )

We've finished Season 3 of Voyager! At the beginning of this post I wrote 'Broadly speaking, we liked it!' but in fact now I'm reviewing I realize that I do not actually think many of the individual episodes were that great BUT THEN WORST CASE SCENARIO HAPPENED and rose-tinted my entire perception of the season, well done Worst Case Scenario.

... but first we went back and watched the VITAL episode of Season 2 that we somehow completely missed, lol, thank you to everyone from my last post expressing distress at this situation because the whole Janeway/Chakotay arc of S3 would have been deeply mystifying to us without it. GREAT episode. LOVED seeing Janeway and Chakotay attempt to balance SCIENCE! and ROMANCE! while STRANDED IN A ROBINSONIAD! ( spoilers for this episode in particular as well as broad s3 arcs )

( anyway now here are all the remaining episodes of Season 3 )

It's been like ten months since I posted about Voyager! Since then

innerbrat and I have watched a lot more Voyager!

We're midway through S3 now and I have ... forgotten a lot ... about many of the episodes ... so this catch-up post is going to be a bit of an adventure and probably not very useful to anyone, but here we go!

( many, many Voyager episodes in Season 2 )

( and many more episodes in Season 3 )

I am going to try to be more regular about these so I don't end up having to do 25 episodes at once, hopefully another post at least by the end of S3!

Great news, everyone: we got past the lizard sex episode of Voyager and somehow we're still going! This is a wonderful achievement given that

innerbrat states this episode is what originally compelled her to quit not just Voyager but all space-related television, in its entirety, for several decades.

( Voyager S2, episodes 6-15 )

We're actually a couple episodes ahead of here by now but I think the infamous lizard sex episode is a reasonable place to leave off, returning soon with more hits like "we still love to see B'Elanna be an irritable genius" and "every Star Trek ship desperately needs a legal department."

I absolutely did not notice when we slipped from S1 to S2 of Voyager until

innerbrat pointed it out midway through the second or third episode of the season. Anyway! We're in season 2 now!

( The last four episodes of Voyager S1 and the first five episodes of S2 )

I just checked and we're only four episodes away from having seen the whole first season of Voyager? That went so fast! Anyway, this was already a vast improvement, I would say that I solidly liked a good fifty percent of these episodes at least.

( Voyager S1, episodes 7-12 )

innerbrat and I have started watching Star Trek: Voyager! We're doing about two episodes a week; right now we're up through episode six.

Previously I have seen: none episodes except in the background when my parents were watching it in the nineties and I was in the room doing other things. I know who most of the characters are, that eventually Seven of Nine will turn up, and that at some point there will be an episode wherein Janeway and Chakotay become alien lizards and lay eggs, and that's it! That's my Voyager knowledge!

( First six episodes of S1 )

I wrote a series of Deep Space Nine ficlets about space Jews for the Purimgifts exchange this year, which was an interesting experience because a.) it's definitely the most Jewish fic I've written, including the year I wrote Fiddler on the Roof fic and b.) I tend to forget that many people don't necessarily know things like 'who is Queen Vashti' or 'what is a Purimshpil.' Which doesn't really matter, because these fics are unashamedly written for the people who do know those things, and that's fine. But it was an interesting experience nonetheless.

Anyway: Space Jews Celebrating Space Purim. I have accidentally given myself a lot of Jewish Star Trek headcanons now. Anyone want to talk to me about Starfleet Academy Hillel?

Crossposts: http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/440041.html

Something else I did in 2015 that I never got a chance to write up: finish all of Deep Space Nine!

( Episodes 11-26 of Season Seven (?!?!) under the cut )

I don't ... necessarily feel like Deep Space Nine really stuck the landing; my favorite moment of the entire series is probably that shift at the end of Season Five, with its promise of serialized greatness that they never quite figure out how to manage. However, this diminishes neither my love for the show as a whole, nor my feeling of bereft bewilderment that we've actually seen the whole thing and there is no more. How is there no more? Come on, Star Trek Powers That Be, I would ABSOLUTELY watch Season Eight with Captain Kira and her right-hand woman Ezri and her frenemeses Quark and Gadfly Reporter Jake. Also, where are my Captain Nog Adventures?? THE PEOPLE DEMAND CAPTAIN NOG ADVENTURES.

(

innerbrat and I spent several weeks over the holidays trying to figure out what we were going to watch next, and if it was going to be another Star Trek, but I think I need a break before I start trying to love another Star Trek cast so that I don't resent them for not being the DS9 crew. So instead we are switching over to kdrama for a while and watching Hong Gil Dong. After that, we'll see!)

Crossposts: http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/432736.html

I was going to start writing up the seventh season of Deep Space Nine after eight episodes as per usual, and then I hadn't gotten around to it by the ninth episode and then DUKAT STARTED LEADING A CULT and anyway we've seen through ten episodes of this season by now.

( Episodes 1-10 of Season Seven, under the cut )

Crossposts: http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/425651.html

We're done with season six of Deep Space Nine! I am kind of having difficulty adjusting to the fact that we only have one more season to go? WHAT A STRANGE CONCEPT.

That said despite the fact that this episode DEFINITELY includes the worst DS9 episode ever, like, it's almost impossible for me to conceive of an episode worse than this.

Anyway!

( Episodes 19-26 of Season Six, under the cut )

Crossposts: http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/419628.html

There's a way in which I really kind of love that the first few episodes of season six of Deep Space Nine are INTENSE SERIALIZED SCIENCE FICTION, and then that ends and they're like "what do we do now ... uhhhhhh ..... ummmmmmmmm .... whatever, fine, IT'S FANFIC SEASON. Let's shrink the Defiant!"

( Episodes 11-18 of Season Six, under the cut )

Crossposts: http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/416959.html

OK, the first ten episodes of Deep Space Nine's sixth season have not been quite as amazing as the ending of the fifth season, because, like ... what could be?

On the other hand, serialization and mirrorverse and fanfic episodes!

( Episodes 1-10 of Season Six, under the cut )

Crossposts: http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/412760.html

And now we're done with Season Five of Deep Space Nine and I'm still reeling a little bit from how good the ending of the season actually was; I wasn't expecting any of that!

( Episodes 17-26 of Season Five, under the cut )

Crossposts: http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/407396.html

We're more than halfway through season five! Including probably the episode that has made me angriest so far, and the episode that made me laugh the most so far, thank you, Eddington's Kate Beaton obsession.

( Episodes 7-16 of Season Five, under the cut )

Crossposts: http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/401985.html

I should have stopped for a Deep Space Nine episode write-up a few weeks ago, but at that point we were only two episodes away from Trials and Tribble-ations, and I was like, you know what, SCREW IT. WE'RE HOLDING OUT FOR TRIBBLES. And we did. And it was amazing.

( The last four episodes of Season Four )

( And the first six episodes of Season Five )

Crossposts: http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/394265.html

innerbrat has been waiting REALLY IMPATIENTLY for me to get to writing up this set of episodes so we can rant about the WORST DEEP SPACE NINE EPISODE EVER.

So here it is, folks: the set of writeups that includes the worst Deep Space Nine episode ever, ( Episodes 15-22 of Season 4, under the cut. )

Almost done season four! The rest of the episode titles for this season are SUPER DRAMATIC, I'm looking forward to them.

Crossposts: http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/387857.html

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