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 - Star Trek Voyager - The Complete Seventh SeasonAlways nice to watch, but would be even better if in Widescreen. Rating: - Note to Paramount: no sane person is going to pay more than $60 for a DVD set, ever!Wake up Paramount! Take a cue from your sales on the STTNG sets. Now that you have finally come to your senses and dropped the prices on the sets to where they should have been in the FIRST PLACE, I would imagine that all of the hold-outs (like me) are now buying them. See, it works like this, 30 minute shows on DVD, for a season, have earned a fair market price of $25-35. So, since Star Trek episodes are an hour long, that means a fair doubling of the price puts it into the $50-70 range. So, $60 is your sweet spot. You will be able to take in the obsessive fans with your initial insane pricing points, but everyone else looks at your current price tags, especially with the shoddy packaging that you are still foisting on us, and just laughs and waits for the inevitable price drop. So, do us all a favor and fire your marketing and sales people, drop the price to where it is supposed to be, and earn your sales. Nobody sane is going to pay more than $60 for a season of an hour long/episode TV show on DVD, period! Rating:  - A great ending to the seriesI found these episodes well written and emotionally satisfying. The series ending is well-done, exciting, and just what we'd hoped for. The characters have been well developed, effects are great, and the crew make it home only with courage and self-sacrifice on the part of Janeway, Seven, and the rest. Rating:  - One of the weakest Star Trek seasons I've seen.I generally consider myself a Star Trek fan, but I've never gotten into Voyager, only watching the occasional episode here and there. Thanks to a friend, I got the opportunity to catch season 7, but the result was yet another round of missed opportunities for the Trek series that boasted such an enticing premise. Compared to the seventh seasons of TNG (4.5/5) and DS9 (4/5), this is definitely lagging quite a few steps behind. That said, few of the episodes were outright terrible, as most were just mediocre, and there were a number of fairly enjoyable episodes as well. If Voyager is ultimately a TNG clone with a few minor twists, it comes up far short of its predecessor thanks to its mediocre cast and bland storytelling. DS9 and Enterprise weren't perfect, but at least they delivered lengthy, epic story arcs that gave us tension, intrigue, moral quandaries, and cool space battles. Unimatrix Zero, Part II- C, not without some cool action and f/x, but ultimately drags too much when focusing on 7 of 9 and her romance. Imperfection- D, not being a Seven fan, I can't say I found this episode to be very entertaining. Drive- B-, not that bad, given that Paris and Torres make for a decent couple. The race had its moments of humor. Repression- C+, starts out intriguing, but loses its momentum towards the end. Critical Care- C-, a subpar episode focusing on the holographic doctor. Nightingale- B-, pretty interesting to see Harry Kim take command, even if the episode doesn't really do anything outstanding. Flesh and Blood- B-, delivers some good tension and excitement, though it suffers a bit when focusing on the Doctor and his interaction with the other holograms. Shattered- B, probably the season's best episode, even if the premise comes across a bit gimmicky. It's cool to see how Janeway and Chakotay interact given the situation. Lineage- C, Torres' back story makes for some rather weak drama. Repentance- D, had the potential for strong drama, but comes across too bland and predictable. Prophecy- B, a rather amusing episode thanks to the presence of an entire crew of Klingons. There's some solid laughs and a bit of action towards the end. The Void- B, this episode does a pretty convincing job of creating a dire situation, though I think it would have been more dramatically effective if Janeway had violated the prime directive in this instance. Workforce- C-, rips off an already mediocre Stargate SG-1 episode. Q2- C-, not without its share of laughs thanks to the presence of Q, but his son is unbearably annoying and badly acted. Author, Author- B, an absolutely hilarious first half thanks to the Doctor's supremely silly holodeck novel gives way to a limp courtroom drama that was done better in TNG's The Measure of a Man. Friendship One- C+ Natural Law- D Renaissance Man- C-, loved the Doctor's "deathbed" confession, but little else about this episode works. Endgame- C, the time travel premise seems like a cheap cop-out (and all the more frustrating when you recall the point the crew had made about not changing time back in Season 1's Eye of the Needle). There's some cool action against the Borg, but not enough to really send this series out with a bang. Rating: - StarTrek VoyagerI am a very avid "Star Trek" fan, and find the DVD's very worthwhile and interesting. ( My Star Trek interests go back to the original series with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, et. al.)
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