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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • That’s really hard to answer objectively. Some of the artwork is nice, I guess? The mechanics are incredibly simplistic, but I still go back and play it every so often. I suspect that is more for nostalgia value than anything else.

    It is annoying getting the message that “during fighting, your ship has been shelled and insurance won’t cover the damage in a war zone” just after delivering a lovely shipment of weapons to the port of Basrah.




  • Voyager was “my” Star Trek growing up. I live in a country where we didn’t get things as they aired, so we were behind in the broadcast seasons, 1 season behind, from memory. I was too young to really appreciate TNG, but I really liked the feel of Voyager, even as a kid. I always thought that the Enterprise was never too far away from a Federation starbase, but Voyager being all alone really struck a chord with me.

    Also I was 13/14 when Seven of Nine came on board, so of course that ratcheted up my desire to watch the show a million percent.

    But going back and watching it later, with older sensibilities, god DAMN was that a good show overall. Yes, some episodes were terrible, and some of the writing really fell flat, but The Year of Hell particularly stood out for me. I haven’t seen anyone mention The Doctor in the comments so far, and I have to say that Robert Picardo was the perfect choice for that character. The Doctor had one of the best character arcs I’ve seen on TV. He never got “flanderised”, his character was consistent and always entertaining to watch. Chakotay as a character was poorly handled, he was very milquetoast, never really did anything interesting to stand out, he was always just…there.