Rating: 
Summary: Star Trek Voyager
Review: Star Trek Voyager really starts to evolve in the seconmd season and the episodes seem to get deepier. The Doctor also gets his ability to move out of sickbay.
Rating:
Summary: great season
Review: The 37's- 6/10
Initiations- 8/10
Projections- 8/10
Eloguim- 9/10
Non Sequitur- 7/10
Twisted- 9/10
Parturition- 9/10
Persistence of Vision- 3/10
Tattoo- 6/10
Cold Fire- 3/10
Maneuvers- 7/10
Resistance- 9/10
Prototype- 7/10
Alliances- don't remember
Threshold- 6/10
Meld- 6/10
Dreadnought- 8/10
Death Wish- 7/10
Lifesigns- don't remember
Investigations- 9/10
Deadlock- 10/10
Innocence- 10/10
The Thaw- 1/10
Tuvix- 1/10
Resolutions- 6/10
Basics, part 1- 8/10
The best episodes of the season are: Deadlock, Innocence, Eloguim, Twisted, Parturition, Investigations, Resistance,
The worst episodes of the season are: Tuvix, The Thaw, Persistence of Vision, Cold Fire
Rating: 
Summary: The Temporal Reset Button Show
Review: The second season continued Rick Berman's stiff attempt to make the show different, except most stories were unmemorable and many fought each other for, what writer David McIntee called, "maximum dullness". Once upon a time, Brannon Braga was a talented writer, penning many of the best TNG stories. But now, as the show began year two, he was a shadow of what he once was; more YES man than a writer. The Braga penned Non Sequitur had no real drama, because you knew Harry was going to get back to Voyager and Cold Fire, a belated sequel to the series opener, was filled with many bland ideas and stretched the mind to wonder what Braga was actually trying to say. Then there was Threshold (Robert Duncan McNeill's favorite episode, apparently), which was perhaps the worst episode ever produced in the Trek canon. It was a high concept story that once again showed Trek putting the cart before the horse; hitching their ideas on the thinnest of threads. One actress I like from the show, was Roxann Dawson, who could take a nothing script and turn it into something special, such as with Prototype. While the script added nothing to the arc and turned out rather silly, her performance made you want to watch the show, even though it could risk death from boredom. There were some highlights of season two, including Meld, which had the always-reliable bad guy character actor Brad Dourif delivering a truly subtle and creepy performance. And only a guest star turn by Joel Grey in Resistance saved that episode. And while not original in any stretch of the word, with uninteresting bad guys and a story that has no real motivation, Grey does salvage the hour. There was, also, the marvelous return of Q. If you look beyond the obvious ratings stunt the show was, Death Wish was well acted and the script actually works (and mostly because Brannon Braga did not write it). And while the Vidiians make another appearance, the second season is dominated by the Kazon and Tom, Tuvok and Janeway's plan to root out a spy (another one!) on Voyager. Once again, I must mention how silly the Kazons really are and how the only high point was actor Anthony de Longis performance. He brought a menace to the role of Culluh, but sadly he was hobbled with Seska, a shrew if there was one. Thaw was just plain creepy, but in the good sense. Some have said that this show was a real throw back to TOS, at least in the set design. I say that this is what made the show work. It was by means no budget breaker, but its surreal setting and Michael McKean's queer performance really makes the show. As a person who thinks clowns are scary to begin with, I found the idea of people dying by being scared to death really frightening. So, the rest of season two rambled on, but the show still had not found its space legs and concluded with a cliffhanger that was not as good as it should have been. Basics began to resolve the Kazon issue, but beyond Dourif's return as Suder, the show lacked any sense of threat and it was fairly obvious the crew was going to lose. And stranding the crew on the planet Hannon 4 was out of character for the Kazon, also. However, maybe Seska did have a moral streak running through her. Personally, Culluh should've killed them. While Rick Berman went on to say that to "keep any kind of substantial conflict going between the Maquis and the Starfleet characters on the show was going to be too disruptive to the Star Trek family we were trying to cement on this ship, lost out there in the Delta Quadrant. We have, from time to time, revisited the whole Maquis question, but I don't think it was a mistake to have minimized the 'warring parties aboard the same ship' concept, so to speak. And it certainly was in keeping with Gene Roddenberry's feeling of trying to minimize conflicts between regular characters." However, this view was not corroborated by co-creator Michael Piller, who said on the official Star Trek site, "The one thing that I look back on and think would have made the series more interesting would have been to keep more conflict going between the Maquis and the Starfleet characters, at least during the first season or two. I think there was an opportunity missed early on to slowly create a group of characters that had to grow to know and trust one another. Because of those concerns, we essentially solved the conflicts and they were a pretty bonded crew probably from episode three or four on."
Rating:
Summary: The First Full Season of Star Trek Voyager...Sensational!
Review: The Second Season, and first full season of 26 episodes, of Star Trek: Voyager really began to explore the show's potential. As with all television shows, Star Trek Voyager had it's great shows and it's duds, but overall a great season of television. The writing is exceptional. The acting equally so, and this season is filled with great ideas. We see the return of the great Star Trek "villain" Q, and Voyager's head-butts with the Kazon continue. There is even a shot at peace. A possible relationship between Chakotay and Janeway emerges, and some typical Star Trek temporal mechanics confusion! We actually see a starship land! The return of the Voyager supervillain Seska! Who could ask for more? Not to mention that the mystery of a Amelia Earhart is finally solved...in a Trekkie sort of way.
Best Episodes:
The 37's, Projections, Non Sequitur, Twisted, Maneuvers, Resistance, Prototype, Alliances, Meld, Dreadnought, Death Wish, Investigations, Deadlock, Resolutions, Basics: Part I
Rating: 
Summary: Poorly Packaged.
Review: The second series of ST:Voyager comes in two pieces of thin plastic and you have to remove the top and bottom to get to the DVDs. This exposes the whole set to dust and who knows what will happen when the very thin plastic top and bottom rip.
Once again overseas viewers in R2 and R4 get hard plastic cases and R1 fans get flimsy thin covers. Why is this?
The series itself has some good episodes and some average ones and has good picture quality.
Series like Babylon 5,Firefly,Lost In Space and The Outer Limits all have good packaging and at a cheaper price,so Paramount deserves criticism for the poor packaging of the American DVD sets of Star Trek. As for one person that(under different names)criticises Amazon,I have praise for their delivery service. I live in Australia and items arrive in very good condition. When one of the Star Trek:Deep Space Nine DVD sets that I ordered had a single scratch on one disc,Amazon was generous enough to send me as a replacement a whole new DVD set. When a Star Trek:The Next Generation DVD set disappeared in the post,again they straight away sent a replacement.
I order a lot of DVDs from Amazon and the service is eccellent.
Rating: 
Summary: Better than first season
Review: There are more episodes in this season than the first and some better one's, too. The episodes that start out with the hollow deck get a little confusing at the start but overall this season is better. My favorite one is the last episode which continues over into the third season where the Kazon take control of Voyager and leave the whole crew stranded on a primitive planet. There is the continuing problem with the Kazon's and Phageans in this second season. Everytime Voyager resuces someone or something it seems to causes trouble like when the robot floating in space is reactivated and they find his ship(the race who had built them is extinct unbeknownest to the crew that the robots had killed off). The robot abducts Torrez so she can make another robot. It ends up they they are fighting another set of robots who had belonged to another extinct race( both were built for war but kill off their creators when they were going to be turned off due to the two species deciding to make peace.
Rating:
Summary: Packaging problems and other woes
Review: There was at least one scuffed disk in the set . Amazon.com was nice about extending me courtesies for a while but won't believe their packaging people could be this incompetant and so blacklisted me so I can't order from them anymore. I had to sign in under another account to write other similar reviews. All this trouble for a less than stellar season of Voyager. It would have been fine if they had an episode where the Captain lets someone kill himself and Torres commits murder against a sentient robot she created.
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Summary: This is what Star Trek is all about!
Review: Voyager is one of the greatest star trek series out there. I have seen TNG and it was ok. Deep space 9 has some good and bad episodes, but overall it just doesn't entice me. When I saw Voyager I fell in love with series. It was Star Trek with a twist: a ship stuck in the Delta quadran. I love the way Voyager explores the conflict of science and morality (Tuvix episode) in a way that TNG and DS9 doesn't. The characters are real and you can identify with them. I also love the science that is involved with the show. Since I am studying Biology, I understand the concepts and it's application to the show.
I am looking forward to the rest of the seasons on DVD. I hope they come out with a Voyager movie, especially since the TNG movies (with the exception of First Contact) have been seriously weak in story line. That last TNG movie, Nemesis, was so lifeless I couldn't believe the studio invested money to make it. I guess I am spoiled from watching the great stories that Voyager has belted out week after week.
Rating: 
Summary: The Packaging stinks and the series isn't much better
Review: Voyager looses Gene Roddenberry's respect in it's disregard for life in this season. Janeway has characters doing things Gene Roddenberry would never have allowed- A man with a homicidal temper murders a crewman (inspite of Piccard's statement that the seeds of criminal behavior have been rooted out of human society) Torres Murders a sentient robot she helped bring to life, and Janeway lets a Q commit suicide because he suffers from a sorching case of boredom. Of all the reasons for doing evil, boredom is absolutely the stupidest. **************When items arrive damaged repeatedly Amazon doesn't blame it's shipping department, they blame the customer.. You are limited to one replacement, even if the manufacturer's packaging is partially to blame for the problem, as it is in this case. When they offer you a promotional certificate or partial refund to compensate you they take it away if they decide you've had too many returns and then blaclist you so yoyu can't shop with them anymore. deepdiscountdvd.com is almost always cheaper, shipping is always free no matter how much you buy, and their packaging is seldom a problem.
Rating:
Summary: Long awaited and well worth it.
Review: Voyager was a new direction for Star Trek- away from the Federation, with none of the usual aliens, and without the possibility of help from home. That makes for some very interesting plot developments. Some of the best examples of which are in the second season. Most of the episodes of this season were great, and particularly noteworthy mention are "The Thaw", "Tuvix", "Cold Fire", "Threshold", "Non Sequitur", and of course the season finale "Basics,p.I". If you're already a voyager fan, you know what I'm talking about. If not, I think you'll be one after seeing a few episodes. I highly recommend the second season to help get you addicted!
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