Star Trek: Voyager

Skippable, and it is the most frustrating series here because its premise is the best one anyone had. A ship is thrown seventy thousand light years from home, with a crew half composed of the terrorists they were sent to arrest, no support, no resupply and a journey of seventy years ahead of them. That is a show about scarcity, compromise and people who have to live together.

The series almost never does it. The ship is repaired between episodes regardless of what happened, the two crews integrate within about four episodes, torpedoes are expended well past the number the first season says exist, and the format resets to self-contained adventure television of the kind The Next Generation was already doing better. The gap between the premise and the execution is the standing criticism and it is accurate.

What it has is Janeway and the Doctor and, from the fourth season, Seven of Nine. The Doctor is a hologram who was written as an appliance and spends seven years arguing himself into being a person, which is the best long arc in the show. Seven's arrival reorganised the series around a character who had been raised by a collective and had to learn individuality from scratch, and Jeri Ryan is very good at it.

Treat it as a pick-and-choose series. Year of Hell, Timeless, Blink of an Eye, Living Witness and the Doctor's episodes are worth anyone's time. It runs alongside Deep Space Nine and shares nothing with it.