PATRON TIER LIST - VOY S2E1 - The 37's

i liked this one despite a few serious glitches. :)

I'm willing to accept a lot from sci-fi writers to move a story forward, but premising the whole episode on an alien race who are advanced enough to make a 140k lightyear round trip and then to use that technology to ..... abduct primitive humans for slave labor? No. Just.... no. There are a million other ways to get Amelia Earhart in the Delta quadrant if they wanted to work her disappearance into the show. This was something I'd expect from a grade schooler, not a professional writer. It's as close as it can get to an E without crossing into that territory. Low D

I gave it an easy A simply because for the 37s, it’s like they traveled through space and time to wake up 400 years in the future to discover how humanity has changed for the better instead of the war-torn Earth that they’ve left behind when they were abducted.

B. Great idea, but the end result was underwhelming for a season opener (ex-finale). Just a couple of very small sets that only function as a place where they could talk to Earhart 90% of the time. The ending was good, but predictable. This was no Caretaker.

I'm sure it took great restraint from the writers to not have the Briori show up during the episode

C-tier, honestly I remember for how much I dislike the episode, it's only elevated to C by landing sequence and the tease at the end of what the episode could have been.

C-tier. It's an okay episode. Not particularly memorable for me, and I think not showing what the Voyager crew is giving up by not staying is something that really hurts it. Without that, the story feels kind of hollow toward the end.

S I need no reason beyond it being my first Voyager.

This is a C, it's passable but loses steam along the way and then eventually seemed to have lost budget and instead of showing us the scenes we had two people talk about them in retrospect.

The ending for me elevates it to A-tier. If the entire episode was as intriguing it may have hit S.

S for me because, for one thing, it is well performed, it presents a great dilemma for the crew, trying to decide whether to stay or go, and perhaps most importantly, it does the one thing that no Star Trek show has ever done to date: landing the whole ship on a planet. As far as I remember, that is.

B. not awful but not great as an season opener just o.k.