Ah, Star Trek: Voyager. It lasted seven seasons, aired 172 episodes, sold a sizable pile of spinoff merchandise, and still, in the final analysis, was there ever a TV series that cost so much, lasted so long, was watched by so many, and yet in the end was forgotten so quickly, leaving behind only a few very faint, tiny, and rapidly fading footprints to mark its passage through the zeitgeist? It was the flagship series of the UPN network. Does anyone even remember the UPN network, now?
Well, I for one think this is terribly unfair, and that it's long past time for Star Trek:Voyager to be recognized as the powerful, moving, deeply significant, and world-changing phenomenon it truly was. For after all, a recently released poll reveals that in November of 2008, a decisive 18% of the American electorate thought they were voting for, "that Vulcan guy on Voyager."
Let the arguments begin.
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