Consolidated Star Trek Voyager watch list — updated 4 August 2019
Star Trek can be a fun watch, but unfortunately while there are many good episodes, each series has emanently spippable episoes.
My wife and I recently finished watching Star Trek Deep Space Nine. We relied on two lists of which episodes are worthwhile. They are:
Max Temkin’s Deep Space Nine in 82.5 hours; and
Social-Iconoclast’s Deep Space Nine — Essential Episodes.
Generally, we watched episodes that appeared on either list.
After finishing DS9, we started watching Voyager, and I looked for similar lists. I found 4 lists of episodes:
Trek BBS — The Essential Voyager Episodes
List of Non-Filler Voyager Episodes
Liz tells Frank — Star Trek: Voyager the Skip it / Watch it Guide
As there is not a lot of consensus between the lists, I combined the lists together, to show how popular particular episodes were.
Update (18 July 2019): Since making the consolidated list, Jean MacDonald made another Voyager list. Since I regularly listen to her podcasts, I felt compelled to update this table. I have added a bit more commentary below the table.
Update (4 August 2019): On request I have incorporated the OpticalData guide.
Just 32 episodes appeared on all four lists. Only 26 episodes do not appear on any of the lists.
I leave it as an exercise for the reader / viewer to choose what cut-off you want to use to determine an episode is worth watching. For what its worth, we are watching the episodes that appear on at least 2 lists.
Update (18 July 2019): As would be expected, Jean’s watch-list is different again from the original 4. She recommends 3 episodes that none of the others do, and does not recommend 3 episodes every other watch list does.