Am on Season 3 now. I see a problem in that they have been bumping into the Kazon and the Viidians over and over again and it seems as if they are stuck in the same neighbourhood of planets.
Have not been keen on the Kazon, which seem a bit too much like the Klingons. It turns out that they were supposed to be based on teenage street gangs in cities - and were all supposed to have been played by teenagers, with life expectancy being short due to their violent lives in rival gangs, but this got lost in translation and casting - to the point where they might as well have been Klingons.
I like the concept of the Viidians though, but the series is starting to look stupid now when they and the Kazon keep turning up, even though Voyager is heading home. Is the ship going around in circles?
I really liked Brad Dourif's character of Suder. I think they could have kept him on as a worrisome regular.
It was sad to see in FLASHBACK that Grace Lee Whitney's acting ability was, I felt, pretty much gone. She said in her autobiography that she was not supposed to be able to see Janeway stood next to her in the scene, but she - Grace - was so intimidated by the presence of Kate Mulgrew that she said "Kate! You're freaking me out!!" Kate said "Well, I will have to leave the set then, because we need to get this scene."
(Which they did on the next take.) I thought also that George Takei was revelling a little too much in the delivery of his lines, bantering with Kang, Tuvok etc.; with his - the actor's - conceit at finally being on the verge of a Captain Sulu series showing through in the performance just a little too smugly.
I really like Voyager and the characters in it. I remember seeing the first ever assembled cast photo and thinking that Neelix looked like one of the stupidest alien make-ups I had ever seen. But his character/the actor has grown on me.
Hope they fully explore Kes' character before her departure. The character seems a little dumb to me "I am two!", but the actress is likeable in the role. Very sad, what happened to Jennifer Lien.
I like Tuvok too. Tim Russ had perhaps a bigger challenge than Nimoy, who at least had fun as an actor with the "half-human" struggle. Tim, playing a pure Vulcan, has nevertheless made him interesting, likeable - and very often the voice of sane reason, when others are trying to force decisions through on pure sentiment and emotion. Case in point when the crew were on the verge of mutiny against Captain Tuvok - because they wanted to go back and rescue Janeway and Chakotay, through contacting the Viddians for a cure for the pair.
Tuvok was right and the entire crew were wrong. I know this for a seeming fact - coz I was shouting it at the screen at the time.
Yep, I am enjoying VOYAGER. Bring on the remaining seasons!