[ghaff]

Voyager is actually a pretty good example of a show that was... flawed... in many ways but which nonetheless had some pretty good episodes that could be enjoyed in relative isolation. For some reason, some of the time travel mini-arcs worked pretty well for me--perhaps because they existed somewhat outside of an overall story arc that never completely clicked for me.

[danielweber]

A lot of the greatest hits of Voyager outright contradicted each other. "Blink Of An Eye" is a wonderful piece of sci-fi, but it totally doesn't fit in the Trek world.

There was a move away from continuity after DS9, which given the larger pace of television since then looks downright silly today.

[ghaff]

>There was a move away from continuity after DS9, which given the larger pace of television since then looks downright silly today.

Well, we're in a phase where much of the better television is indeed very arc-centric. I'm not convinced that's an unalloyed good although it's a fairly natural outcome of a variety of factors including on-demand viewing and serial TV being something that can 't really be replicated in movies (for the most part). On the other hand, there are certainly examples of historical TV SF that haven't been serialized and, in the case of The Twilight Zone, were purely anthologies.