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Shufflingdead > Things of the Week > Shameful Human of the Week
Rick Berman
This week's shameful human was a difficult decision. I knew it had to be either Brannon Braga or Rick Berman, because I knew they both had ties to making Star Trek: Voyager as bad as it was. And although Braga may be responsible for writing one of the all time worst episodes of Star Trek, that being Voyager's "Unimatrix Zero," which happened to utterly destroy virtually all of the coolness factor of the Borg, I have to ultimately choose Berman. There are really two reasons for this decision. Firstly, Berman was an executive producer of the show for its entire run, and secondly, I need to save Braga for Enterprise week. I don't know if Berman is responsible for all the ways that Voyager failed, but I need a scapegoat.
Let's face it; Voyager was a shitty show, really shitty. I'm a fan, I'll admit it, because I'm a sucker for cheesy terribleness, and also because I'm a sucker for Star Trek, but the show was bad. It would be impossible to sum up all the ways that Voyager was a terrible show in the short amount of space that I have, but I'll try to list some of the major issues.
- the technobabble in Voyager is overwhelming, even compared to other Star Trek series
- Janeway is well acted but, frankly, an idiot who cares more about hippie ideals than reality and the safety of her crew
- Seven of Nine is just a ludicrous character in every respect, I don't care how hot she was
- most of the other characters were either boring or under-developed, notably: Chakotay, Harry Kim, and Kes
- the show could have easily been good if the writing hadn't been so lazy and the overarching storyline had been more closely followed
- the Borg became steadily more pussified every time they showed up on the show, to the point that by the episode "Unimatrix Zero," assimilation wasn't even a problem for its victims
- come on! the ship was supposed to have limited torpedoes and shuttles, so where the fuck did all the extra ones come from? oh I know, from the gaping assholes of lazy writers!
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