10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek: Voyager
It's a longer road getting from the Delta Quadrant to here avoiding signs for dumb.
The Star Trek high-concept series took fans to beyond the edge of the frontier and then just that step further.
Packed with fresh ideas and the opportunity for new adventures unrestricted by the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, Janeway and the crew took the Borg by the assimilation tubules and headed right on home.
Well, almost. The journey was diverted and downright interrupted on occasion by some of the deadliest opponents and situations ever faced by a Federation starship. Yet there was still the occasional time for a fromage-based emergency or a holodeck jaunt to break the tension. Here though we will be looking at those moments, plot points, and characters that could have been avoided and likely shaved a few dozen light years off the trip back to Earth.
Of course if they just shifted into high warp and aimed a line for the Alpha Quadrant seven seasons of Janeway sipping coffee and Neelix's cooking would soon become rather tedious to the viewing public. So there has to be some intrigue and story to make this a truly great Star Trek show which Voyager heartily delivered in spades week in and week out. But that also means there were a few times the silly or ludicrous crept in.
Prepare for storytime, rapid builds, rug sweeping and most importantly lizards as we take a stumble down the path that is the Dumbest Things in Star Trek: Voyager.
10. Tiny Little Legs
"We could land the ship" announced Captain Janeway in The 37's, marking the first occasion a starship would make planetfall and not end up a burning hulk of twisted metal. The audience held their breath as she descended into the atmosphere and the 400 year old mystery of Amelia Earhart.
Successfully completed more times than the Enterprise-D saucer separated, USS Voyager's party trick wasn't just limited to the Intrepid Class but it would be the only craft during this era of the franchise that would touchdown. With blue alert flashing and no need for a bulb change, the title vessel would descend from the stars, through the clouds and gracefully come to a rest on the surface.
However it would do so on the most inadequate set of landing gear. The nearest equivalent in current times might be standing a Boeing 747 on four bricks but whatever way you look at it, the inertial dampeners have a lot of work to do. For one the ship is saucer heavy with all four landing feet aesthetically having to be located on the underside of the engineering hull. One might expect Tom Paris to step out and stick up a bonnet pole for precautionary measures.
Whatever way you look at them though they are very, very small and just to emphasise this, nearly every shot of Voyager landed has the feet concealed somehow. In Basics and The 37s they are hidden behind rocks or a cliff face and in future sightings Voyager is often seem from above rather than highlight the landing gear.