It's been a long road ...

"Terrence Daniels" wrote

From my POV it's been basically the same dozen or so cliches recycled over
and over again for a long time. The cliches were occasional bumps in the
road during TNG and DS9, but Voyager to me was just one big cliche episode
after another... The cast, the plots, the character relationships,
everything was boring and PC and touchy-feely. I totally quit watching ST
after the first year or so of Voyager. Enterprise has made a partial
recovery, *finally* some refreshing stuff going on (glad to see some
hell-for-leather & guts again) but it's still got some whine-and-cheese
problems.

If the writers could at least keep a good "backstory" going behind the main
plot line in an episode they'd probably do better. My wife and I noticed
that this seemed to get better about halfway through last year. I don't
think the writing is yet on the level of "Law & Order" (IMHO), but the
developing story line about the Delphic Expanse provides a decent escape;
it's got potential.

Jon