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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

As you may or may not know, Braga issued a decree a while back stating that after this season, there would be no references to the first three seasons of Voyager. However, by the end of Season 5, we will have had mentionings of at least:

The Vidiians
The Kazon
Lon Suder
Captain Braxton
Sandrine's Bar

Am I missing anything?

Anyway, is this the writers' way of protesting Braga's decision? Does this have anything to do with the fact that most of them have gotten fired in favor of DS9 writers?

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Braga is a moron. It doesn't matter how bad Voyager might be; lack of continuity ruins a show even further.

Was he eliminated along with the writers? I didn't think so, but there's always hope...

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

At least they are mentionings, not appearances of these things (mostly the Vidians and the Kazons) to which I'd be scratching my head bigtime.

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Posted by LB4747 on :

That decree probably has more to do with purging anything associated with Jeri Taylor (like Lisa Klink) rather than some dislike of continuity on Braga's part. Braga wanted "Year of Hell" to last an entire season. UPN vetoed it. That doesn't sound like someone who hates continuity.

It's unlikely there was some revolt on the part of the writers. Braga had a say on who was on the writing staff, he chose people loyal to him. Besides, Braga rewrites most of the scripts himself. If he didn't want something mentioned, it never would've made it on screen.

These firings may have come from UPN; more likely they were the work of Rick Berman.

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

If he wanted a season-long arc, then I retract my "moron" evaluation, assuming he wasn't going to reset everything at the end. Again, though...lack of continuity is not good, regardless of how bad everything was before.

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Posted by monkeyboy on :

I guess UPN did not want the tv critics to use the Year of Hell story arc to describe UPN's dismal year or Voyagers year.

UPN's Year of Hell.etc..

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Posted by Dan (Member # 129) on :

Sorry about the edited post, but I had to check to see if my new password worked.

Couldn't you have called Season 5 "Year of Hell"

It seems that Braga is acting on Star Trek's main weakness, lack of continunity. I guess that's why Voyager has made me into such a great B5 fan

Anyways, I never liked Braga, even when he was on TNG. It seems everything good he has written as someone else's name attached to it, also. I have never seen an episode of his I liked. Plus, wasn't it him that screwed up most of the TOS constants?

I wished he was sent out to farm with all the others.

Oh well, with Ron D. Moore joining the staff, Voyager might actually become great. I hope I keep that train of thought after Crusade starts to air. I've missedintellegent Science fiction. Insurrection doesn't have a chance against Sleeping in Light for the Hugo award. If First Contact couldn't win it, Insurrection has a snowball's chance in hell.

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[This message was edited by Dan on May 04, 1999.]

Posted by Simon on :

I quite liked Braga on TNG. I quite liked "Cause and Effect", "Phantasm" and other of his shows. In small doses he is good, but I don't think he has any skill at running an entire show.

TOS constants?

Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

Somehow Braga has been converted sometime over the last two years. From the 'Can Z. Cochrane be a love interest for Picard?' he came up with before FC, to the current season of Voyager, the most continuity-laden of any Voyager season to date, his attitudes to continuity have changed drastically. Any notion that it's the other writers who are sneaking the refs in to annoy him is pure bunk, IMHO. From what I've been hearing, Braga has been doing far more work on Voyager this year thank he has been credited with, in both re-writing a lot of the scripts and coming up with stories, and part of the reason for the writing shuffle is because he feels everyone else isn't pulling their weight.

Looking at what we know for the remainder of the season, I am wiling to call this the most consistent season to date. Only one real stinker, "The Fight" (even TNG from s3-s6 had three or so a year), and while the others haven't been amazing, we're dealing with a very very solid year, and we have nobody other than Braga to thank. Maybe I can start forgetting about "Threshold"...

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Not to run off on a tangent, but if anything other than Dark City wins the Hugo the award is meaningless.

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Posted by Federation Shipmaster (Member # 15) on :

Sandrine's Bar?

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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

Sandrine's Bar was Voyager's "Holoprogram of the Year" for Season 2. I think it might have been in Season 1 as well. It was a bar in France that Paris used to visit a lot during his Starfleet Academy days, and he recreated it on Voyager.

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Garak: Interesting. You saved the day by destroying the world.
Bashir: I bet they didn't teach you that in the Obsidian Order.

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Posted by Trinculo on :

Sandrine's Bar was in the first year of Voyager.

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

The Tropical Resort was Season 3...
Da Vinci's studio - season 4

what was 5?

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

Captain Proton

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Posted by Federation Shipmaster (Member # 15) on :

Oh, that thing....

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Posted by Black Knight (Member # 134) on :

The last time I checked, 1K was 1000

Posted by Warped1701 (Member # 40) on :

Actually, in computer terms, 1K is 1024 kilobytes. Don't ask me how... but that's the way it is.

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

It's the nearest power of 2 to 1000.

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

I doubt he'll do that. He'll probably continue on his mentioning rampage, but won't bring them back. In other words, no episodes with Kazon or Krenim in them, just mentioned. I hope.

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