10 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.