Voyager Season 2 TOP 10 Episodes & Season Recap

Josh you need to watch Robocop ASAP

My Voyager Top 10 episodes from season 2: 1. Meld (S) 2. Deadlock (S) 3. Projections (S) 4. The Thaw (S-) 5. Prototype (A+) 6. Death Wish (A+) 7. Lifesigns (A) 8. Persistence of Vision (A) 9. Tuvix (A) 10. Non Sequitur (A)

I enjoy Voyager top to bottom but the episode titles are the pits. Learn from TOS dammit. "For The World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"--piquant, banger, memorable. "Prototype"--this is a 1st draft title I hate you >:c Shout-out to Alex for having Twisted in his top 10, it's even higher for me. :D

I won't dare spoil anything, but I will say that you won't be disappointed by Janeway (character) or Mulgrew (actress) going forward. She's consistently excellent throughout the entire series. Tons of great Janeway moments ahead.

S: Deadlock, Investigations. A: Projections, Twisted, Basics, Persistence Of Vision. B: Dreadnought, Prototype, Tuvix, Threshold, The Thaw, The 37's, Lifesigns. C: Meld, Resolutions, Initiations, Maneuvers, Alliances, Death Wish, Elogium, Cold Fire. D: Non-Sequitur, Innocence, Resistance, Parturition. E: Tattoo.

besides the top 10 episodes for each Season, your recaps are the most fun to watch every Time. thx guys.

I find it funny how Josh mentioned TNG is the older child that you're proud of, and VOY is the youngest child that can do no wrong, and DS9 is the neglected middle child. That's actually pretty accurate to how the general public felt during the 90s. Your analogy isn't far-fetched at all.

I think the holdover of episodes from S1 into S2 got Voyager off to a rocky start. Seeing some of those episodes in S1 would have likely evened things out more. Plus there is a S3 episode that was originally intended for S2. I do hope you like that episode despite reasons that will become apparent.

Hold up. You haven't seen Robocop?

Voyager has to be the most boring show ever that wasn't canceled. I think in S2 I would make a whopping 3 episodes as being not forgettable and bland. The cast is just as vanilla as it gets too, and I would have fired Neelix and Chakotay.

After Star Trek Enterprise don’t bother watching.

Voyager suffered the dreaded "sophomore slump" in season two After a solid debut year, life in the Delta Quadrant during the second season felt like the series was trending water with a number of episodes that came as run-of-the-mill. Not bad by any means (bar "Threshold") but largely forgettable efforts While DS9 was doing a much more layered approach in it's fourth season in terms of character building and storytelling, Voyager was doing "threat of the week" and in many ways was coming off as a retread of TNG but with less focus The chemistry of the cast and the likeability factor of our characters is what ultimately sustains the series even if the writers lack the ability to make the series more consistent in overall quality

The kazon were the biggest miss of the TNG/DS9/Voyager period. Just a complete failure of a villain. How much cooler would it have been if instead of Seska becoming a generic villain and joining the Kazon; instead she was revealed to be a Cardassian but stayed on the crew, and we got to see the crew dealing with it/her reconciling her Cardassian values with being on a starfleet ship?

The Thaw and Tuvix get high marks from me because they dip into dark and or scary Janeway. We like to poke fun at Janeway having a crazy alter ego at times, but I think it's all rooted in Kate Mulgrew having incredible presence on screen.

S3 is slightly better than S2. S4> S5> S6 > S7 > the first 3 seasons

I really love Deadlock too. It's not even in my top 10 of Voyager. Fear not. Many peaks to come. As for Death Wish, guest of the week curse. You didn't hate the guest actor nor really love him, so it was hard to connect with his plight (and subsequent decisions from Janeway focused on him). Makes sense if unfortunate.

I really hope when we get to the end of the series that you all do a top 10 lines from Janeway. There are definitely some good ones yet to come.

Another perfectly cold Janeway line is when she says “welcome to the bridge” to the Viidians in “Deadlock”.

There’s a “‘Resistance’ is futile” joke somewhere to be made, but I can’t quite find it

Patrons Alex Josh 1- Deadlock 1- Deadlock 1- Deadlock 2-Tuvix 2- Lifesigns 2- Lifesigns 3- Meld 3- Tuvix 3- Meld 4- The Thaw 4(5)- Prototype 4- Tuvix 5- Lifesigns 5(6)- Parturition 5- Non Sequitur 6- Death Wish 6(4)- Meld 6- Projections 7- Prototype 7- The Thaw 7- The Thaw 8- Investigations 8- Threshold 8- Investigations 9- Projections 9- Dreadnought 9- Prototype 10- Non Sequitur 10- Twisted 10- Threshold Honorable mentions Resolutions Non Sequitur Parturition Dreadnought Initiations Projections Resolutions Was sure Josh would have Lifesigns at #1

The "story by" credit is not just for the basic idea of the episode. Typically for Star Trek, it means a detailed scene-by-scene breakdown - no dialogue, but a beat-by-beat synopsis. Once in a while, there might be a "story by" credit that's more of a "this person contributed an idea, so as a nice gesture we're giving them credit", but usually it DOES mean a significant amount of work on the episode.

Regarding guest performances being the focus, that’s kind of how Roddenberry designed the show. And our heroes tell them why they’re wrong or whatever. Sometimes this has a personal effect on the crew but not always. DS9 was literally designed to be different. It has to focus more on the main guys because they are stationary. If Trek is about how we interact with the galaxy, DS9 is about how the galaxy interacts with us. Where I agree with you is that the producers of VOY (and TNG to a point) created too big a cast of regulars to then abandon that for typical episodic stories. Like a back-up plan for drama when they need bottle episodes. TOS works because it’s the Kirk show. It’s hard to make just the Janeway show when there are 7 other credited leads. I don’t think season 2 is quite as bad as you do, but it’s sort of like TNG season 5 to me.

Love for Resolutions!!! Yes, Deadlock is the best, but in terms of individual performances from our cast, those would also be in my top...which I missed sending in for this first time. Meld, Tuvix, Lifesigns..and dagnabbit Threshold! RDM's acting is superb. I spoke to him in 1996 at Cincinnati Union Terminal during Star Trek night right after Voyager started. He's the nicest...love my picture with Robbie. Great lists, Guys!!! Season 3 let's go.

0:56 For The World is Flat and I Have Reached The Edge

DS9 Season 1 easily better

Oh oops, I forgot the Barclay episode is in this season. That should've been somewhere in my 7-10. Damn episode titles.

While I don’t care for Initiations and Tattoo cheers to who put them in their top tens

I love that you took that second to acknowledge DS9 like that. I have wondered why you even keep watching it since you seam to critics it all. But you nailed it. I hope you love the rest. Love your channel.

Great discussion!!! Love watching these episodes with you guys - Thaw and Deadlock particularly are episodes I often skip and never really appreciated before. I've changed my mind thanks to your takes! Thank you for the journey fellas!

In regards to Tom Paris plot in Threshold, who wouldn't suddenly slay their inner demons after having salamander babies with Janeway? It makes sense to me.

All Berman Star Trek shows struggle for the first couple of seasons to find their way. I tend to like the season 2s more than the season 1s, though Voyager was an exception for me in that I liked the season 1 episodes more than season 2 episodes, for the most part.