I don't remember many details, I haven't seen it in a long, long time (since it first aired), but I'd be willing to bet that Maya has given me my life long interest in British redhead (though, at that point in my life I was still in the "I like girls... I don't know why... but I really like them..." stage.
Hmmm... I'm not sure about the ur-Voyager concept. Both do feature crews struggling to get home, but the premise beyond that is somewhat different. MA is hurtling away from the earth at a healthy fraction of C, IIRC, while Voyager has been shunted off to another quadrant and is making it's way back. Maya - 38 of D-... I mean 7 of 9. Both aliens, but other than that... Maya's people don't really show up as a regular menace, nor does Maya take a parental role. I don't recall the Voyager crew leaving people behind to found colonies of inbred humans, but my memory may be faulty.
Final episode of season one, "The Testament of Arkadia." :)
1999 also seems to have a different tone/view of humanity: half of the episodes are about the crew being terrorized by some alien menace (that's the part that actually maps well to Voyager, except they prefer spatial anomalies), and the other half are superior alien cultures keeping this foolish, savage, self-destructive race at arm's length (or farther, if possible). Alpha had not the means nor the moral high ground to fly across the quadrant playing good Samaritan; it's more a matter of survival and having the door repeatedly shut in their face. "Go away, we don't want your kind here."
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Date: 2004-06-28 11:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-28 11:42 am (UTC)(The irony of your interest is that Catherine Schell was born in Hungary...)
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Date: 2004-06-28 11:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-28 12:24 pm (UTC)Both do feature crews struggling to get home, but the premise beyond that is somewhat different. MA is hurtling away from the earth at a healthy fraction of C, IIRC, while Voyager has been shunted off to another quadrant and is making it's way back.
Maya - 38 of D-... I mean 7 of 9.
Both aliens, but other than that... Maya's people don't really show up as a regular menace, nor does Maya take a parental role.
I don't recall the Voyager crew leaving people behind to found colonies of inbred humans, but my memory may be faulty.
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Date: 2004-06-28 12:50 pm (UTC)1999 also seems to have a different tone/view of humanity: half of the episodes are about the crew being terrorized by some alien menace (that's the part that actually maps well to Voyager, except they prefer spatial anomalies), and the other half are superior alien cultures keeping this foolish, savage, self-destructive race at arm's length (or farther, if possible). Alpha had not the means nor the moral high ground to fly across the quadrant playing good Samaritan; it's more a matter of survival and having the door repeatedly shut in their face. "Go away, we don't want your kind here."
Apologize immediately!!!
Date: 2004-06-28 12:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-28 01:58 pm (UTC)IMO both are about equally goofy, in their premises and execution.
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Date: 2004-06-28 02:11 pm (UTC)