Star Trek: Voyager: Season Four

Star Trek: Voyager: Season Four, 1997-1998. A spaceship stranded on the other side of the galaxy continues to make its way home.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor. Directed by Jesús Salvador Treviño (4 episodes), Alexander Singer (3), David Livingston (3), Winrich Kolbe (2), Anson Williams (2), Kenneth Biller (2), Allan Kroeker (2), Victor Lobl (2), LeVar Burton (1), Mike Vejar (1), Nancy Malone (1), Allan Eastman (1), Andrew Robinson (1) & Tim Russ (1). Written by Joe Menosky (9 episodes), Brannon Braga (8), Lisa Klink (5), Bryan Fuller (4), Jeri Taylor (3), Kenneth Biller (3), Harry 'Doc' Kloor (2), Jimmy Diggs (2), André Bormanis (2), Sherry Klein (1), Rick Williams (1), Andrew Shepard Price (1), Mark Gaberman (1), Robert J. Doherty (1), Steve J. Kay (1), Greg Elliot (1), Michael Perricone (1) & Rick Berman (1). Starring Kate Mulgrew.

Concept: 3/4 (Good)
Story: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Characters: 2/4 (Indifferent). Seven of Nine shows up, and suddenly Voyager has a well-written character. It would have been better if they'd just started writing Janeway well (or Kes, for that matter). When they briefly did that in season two, it was pretty great. But I'll take what I can get. Meanwhile, the inanity of the other characters intensifies.
Dialog: 1/4 (Bad). Usually terrible, with a couple surprising moments of greatness.
Pacing: 1/4 (Bad)
Cinematography: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Special effects/design: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Acting: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Music: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Subjective Rating: 6/10 (Okay, 2/4). It's occasionally awful, but most episodes have something to offer, and a few are very good. I would have given it a 7/10, except that a lot of the mediocre episodes manage to be boring as well, which is a first for Star Trek.
Objective Rating (Average): 1.9/4 (Eh)