Voyager improved on TOS's worst episode.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Star Trek: Voyager improved on the storyline from one of Star Trek: The Original Series's worst episodes. Voyager had to carve itself a unique place in the Star Trek franchise when it first began airing in 1995, and one of the ways it did this was by having the show be set in the Delta Quadrant, an uncharted portion of the galaxy that no other series had ever explored.
The Vidiians were introduced in Voyager season 1, episode 4, "Phage", and quickly became one of the more horrifying species in the Star Trek franchise. Once a race of explorers, Vidiian society was ravaged 2,000 years ago by a deadly disease called the Phage, which attacked their bodies and destroyed tissue at an alarming rate. In order to survive, the Vidiians were forced to harvest the organs of other species, often from living organisms, to graft into their own bodies.
Star Trek: Voyager Is A Big Improvement Over TOS' Worst Episode While "Phage" and the Vidiians have been compared to the Star Trek: TOS season 3 episode, "Spock's Brain," Voyager actually improved on the hated TOS installment, taking concepts from it and making them much more interesting.
"Phage," however, took the idea of organ-stealing aliens and made it much more complex. While the Eymorgs are less than sympathetic, the Vidiian's struggle in "Phage" gives the episode a true ethical dilemma that is genuinely compelling to watch the characters struggle with, especially Captain Janeway .
Why The Vidiians Are One Of Voyager’s Best Villains Although Voyager struggled to create good Star Trek villains during its seven-year run, the Vidiians ended up being one of the best. Their history with the Phage was tragic, making them oddly sympathetic even if their methods for fighting the disease were reprehensible. This complexity made the species all-around compelling villains that provided Voyager with some truly great episodes over the course of the show's first three seasons.
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