Star Trek: Voyager
Summary
Bryan Fuller explained howStar Trek : Voyager ’s biggest " impuissance " led to a enceinte Klingon storyline for B’Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson ) being drop . Voyagerwas a dynamic addition totheStar Trektimelinewith a various plaster cast of interesting character , include more distaff characters and characters of color than any otherStar Trekseries that had come before it . admit in both these categories was B’Elanna , whose independent storyline revolved around the duality of her Klingon - Human heritage .
B’Elanna was the first half - Kligon main character to play as a star for aStar Trekseries , and this played a major part in her storylines throughoutVoyager ’s run . Every primary type inStar Trek : Voyager ’s castunderwent dramatic change during the show ’s seven time of year , buta particular storytelling weakness sometimes ended up stunting their ontogeny . This , unluckily , was also something that happened to B’Elanna in a time of year 6 instalment .
Star Trek : Voyager ’s darling characters have returned in Star Trek : Picard , Star Trek : Lower Decks , and specially Star Trek : Prodigy .
Voyager’s “Weakness” Led To A Great B’Elanna Storyline Being Dropped
The show’s anti-serialization caused B’Elanna’s religious conversion to be ignored
B’Elanna ’s character developing duringVoyagerseason 6 , sequence 3 , " Barge of the Dead " was forgotten thanks to episodic storytelling . During the episode , B’Elanna undergo the equivalent of a spiritual conversion when she experienced an encounter with the Klingon hereafter . InThe Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 days : From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams : The Complete , Uncensored , and unauthorised unwritten History of Star Trekby Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross , Bryan Fuller , the episode ’s writer , talk about how B’Elanna ’s Three Kings' Day was dropped andVoyager ’s " anti - serialization " when compared with appearance likeStar Trek : Deep Space Nine . Read Fuller ’s quote below :
" The strength of DS9 was its serialisation . Its power to say this is an on-going story and we have to see our characters develop and alter and develop . On Voyager , I remember we had an sequence where B’Elanna Torres had kind of a religious reawakening and it was going to be a huge deal that this person , who was essentially a recovering Catholic , had turned her back on the Church and had no interest in being a part of it any longer , then has this fantastic experience where she sees the hereafter . She has a spiritual Three Kings' Day . To me , that was something so engrossing for this character to go through , because she is essentially having a confirmation of things that she had antecedently denied to herself and to everyone who would mind . Now she has to dole out with religion becoming fact in her heart . But the storyline was just dropped . It was , like , here we have a grapheme who can rediscover things and yet it was “ No , you ’re holding on to plot line from previous episodes and we have to move forward . ” The weakness of Voyager in its anti - serialization was the strength of DS9 . And when Voyager did hug its serialized nature or a serialized nature it was more rich in its storytelling for it . "
Although episodic storytelling was the average of theStar Trekfranchiseat the meter , Voyagercould have sincerely benefitted from taking a page out of DeepSpace Nine ’s book . " Barge of the Dead " should have been the culmination of B’Elanna ’s storyline onVoyager , realise as it was the most in - deepness exploration of her inheritance to particular date . The installment even included a ending to B’Elanna ’s complicated kinship with her mother , Miral ( Karen Austin ) . Instead , B’Elanna ’s old frustration with her Klingon side keep on to be explored in next episodes , essentially contradict what she went through in " Barge of the Dead . "
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Deep Space Nine’s Serialization Forshadowed Star Trek’s Future
DS9 was the first Star Trek show to be serialized, and it wouldn’t be the last
Bryan Fuller is correct in saying thatStar Trek : DS9 ’s sterling strengthwas its serialization , which bode the approach the franchise would take to storytelling in the futurity . most all ofStar Trek ’s modern shows utilize serialized storytelling to varying degrees , although the shows that blend serialization and episodic storytelling , likeStar Trek : Strange New Worlds , have been proven to be the most successful . TheStar Trekfranchise embracing serialization is partly thanks to the fact that most modern shows are serialise . However , DS9paved the way forStar Trekto in full espouse this form of storytelling .
It is unfortunate thatVoyagercouldn’t use serialize storylines more than it did , since Fuller is also correct that when the show cover this storytelling style , its instalment were richer for it . One of the main strengths ofVoyager ’s overall secret plan was the main cast ’s progress from leery stranger to a close - knit family . This aspect of the show was more serialized andhelped keepVoyageron cover even when individual episodes were hit or pretermit . IfStar Trek : Voyagerhad been capable to embrace serialized storytelling amply , there ’s no telling how much more popular the show might have become .
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Source : The Fifty - Year Mission : The Next 25 year : From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams : The Complete , Uncensored , and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross
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