New Trek show...

[The Valkyrie]

My roommate and I used to call him "Chipotle" ... lol. He was annoyed by the character, too. I always thought he was okay. One of my favorite Voyager scenes is when he punched the dude who wanted to do things "the Maquis way" and said, "That's the Maquis way!"

I never really understood all the hate directed at his character.

PS: Janeway was awesome.

I think there were two main problems with Chakotay:

1. He was boring as fuck most of the time.
2. He was a Native American pastiche, an amalgamation of tropes rather than a well-researched and developed character.

Voyager itself was incredibly underwhelming. A lot of it was the writing. The show abandoned its premise early on to become TNG lite, to the point where Reginald Barclay and Deanna Troi were semi-regular guest stars. Conflicts were largely uninspired. Got a problem? Throw some Borg nanoprobes at it and call it a day. There was also some strife among the cast.

Garret Wang was somewhat disliked, and was going to be released until he was voted one of Hollywood's most beautiful actors. Jennifer Lien was released instead (although, given her recent public issues with mental illness, perhaps there was more to her release than that). Robert Beltran had a reputation of being difficult. Kate Mulgrew hated Jeri Ryan.

Still better than Enterprise, but that's damning with faint praise.

Chakotay wasn’t used to his potential.

The character could have really built on his backstory but the writers didn’t bother (not surprising from Brannon and Braga)

The first few seasons suffered from stagnation and they seemed to overcompensate in the later seasons.

Jeri Ryan was overused, as were the Borg.

Neelix should have been killed early on.

Some of the Pathfinder episodes were very well done, though the best thing about Voyager had to be Captain Proton!