You’re probably right, they also had the mid-season breaks back then. Which really slowed the pacing down. So even when watched weekly now, you don’t get to digest it all the same way.
Like the recent Gorn episodes. Those would have been the mid-season finale & premiere on the older shows.
PS - I still hate Neelix… with a passion. I literally dread every scene with him during every rewatch. They should have seriously just shot him out of the airlock in episode 3. And B’Elanna to a lesser extent (she acted like a spoiled child, not an angry Klingon).
Your thoughts mirror my own a lot. Early B’Elanna was rough. She mellowed out a little later in the show 😆
Weirdly, nowadays it’s Chkotay that makes me cringe, knowing what I know now about how his character was cobbled together by a racist scam artist memalpha link
I had a friend with a trauma-riddled past who identified with Neelix. He said he saw a lot of his own past struggles in the character, and that watching him go from bumbling joke to competent team member instilled a kind of hope. Turned my perspective around on him.
You’re probably right, they also had the mid-season breaks back then. Which really slowed the pacing down. So even when watched weekly now, you don’t get to digest it all the same way.
Like the recent Gorn episodes. Those would have been the mid-season finale & premiere on the older shows.
PS - I still hate Neelix… with a passion. I literally dread every scene with him during every rewatch. They should have seriously just shot him out of the airlock in episode 3. And B’Elanna to a lesser extent (she acted like a spoiled child, not an angry Klingon).
Your thoughts mirror my own a lot. Early B’Elanna was rough. She mellowed out a little later in the show 😆
Weirdly, nowadays it’s Chkotay that makes me cringe, knowing what I know now about how his character was cobbled together by a racist scam artist memalpha link
I had a friend with a trauma-riddled past who identified with Neelix. He said he saw a lot of his own past struggles in the character, and that watching him go from bumbling joke to competent team member instilled a kind of hope. Turned my perspective around on him.