New Trek show...

[Pat Mustard]

The problem with Voyager was that it was nothing new.  It was TNG Season 8 when TNG had been wrapped up because the showrunners realised they'd run out of usable ideas.  This didn't change until Seven was introduced and by that stage the staff had gotten so lazy they went with running her into the ground.

Any show that needs to beak credibility to keep its premise past the pilot doesn't deserve this.  Not alone did Voyager commit this wrong, it then ditched that premise five episodes later.

I don't actually know what you are referring to. I just checked on wikipedia and there wasn't a season 8.

Voyager season 1 was specifically set up as continuation in tone and structure of TNG. In reality, if not in name, it was TNG Season 8 with a new cast.

It even went so far as to shrug off the serialisation and continuing story arcs that DS9 had brought into the franchise to return to the string of one off episodes where they met the planet of hats of the week before hitting the reset button that was a hallmark of TNG.