Harry Kim never developed into anything other than the Asian Wesley Crusher, all wide-eyed, eager to please puppy dog, the perfect straight-laced Starfleet officer with nary an edge to the character. In other words, completely boring. The actor playing Tom Paris was far too whitebread to ever be taken seriously as a cynical, ne'er-do-well, rules-breaking bad boy. He was a boy scourt pretending to be a scoundrel. It would have been better to have kept him as Nick Locarno, that would have given him a more compelling backstory. The Tom Paris obsession with 20th century American pop culture was one of the lamest aspects of latter-season Voyager. Along with any episode featuring the Captain Chaotica/Spaceman Spiff holodeck crap. Ripping off Demolition Man's Sandra Bullock character wasn't a good idea. I found it impossible to believe that any self-respecting Klingon woman, especially an ex-Maquis rebel, could fall for this character plucked straight out of the whitest of American suburbia neighborhoods. Data: The Sequel.
Voyager sucked ass. After watching the pilot episode, I called it "Gilligan's Island in space" (really more like "Lost in Space") and I wasn't wrong.
Voyager was far from perfect, but I liked the characters for the most part and it entertained me. And at least they had replicators to use for parts if they could get the power for them. I'm still trying to figure out where Moon Base Alpha got those uniforms from the second season and where was Tony for the entire first season.
