I get it: Voyager was about Voyager’s voyage and there’s a strong case to be made that it ended exactly when it should have.
But on the other hand, every time I watch “Endgame” it strikes me how incredibly abrupt the actual ending feels. Do you think the show should have spent some time depicting the crew’s experiences of arriving home?
I just finished my rewatch of Voyager and re-read both Homecoming and The Farther Shore, so I can weigh in here.
Respectfully, both books were traaaash. The author, Christie Golden, got almost all of the characterizations wrong - none of the characters sounded or behaved like the people I’d spent 7 seasons watching. The plot is beyond stupid, the main villain is laughably one-dimensional, her motivation was super thin and the motivations of her cronies were totally absent, our heroes are pretty dumb (like, really dumb), B’Elanna is off on some totally unrelated (and pretty pointless) quest, and the novels were full of typos, inconsistencies, and just generally careless writing. It very much read like a teenager’s underdeveloped fanfic. And it’s one story told over two books - the first ends in a pretty predictable cliffhanger, meaning that you have to buy both books if you actually want to read a complete story.
Seriously, if you want a laugh, go check out the one-star reviews on Amazon or GoodReads.
I don’t remember it being that bad… but on the other hand, everything you’ve written above sounds familiar, and probably true.
I definitely remember being annoyed about a few things, but overall still had a “actually, I’m glad I read that” by the end.
It probably helped that there was at least 10-15 years between when I last saw Voyager, and when I picked up a cheap copy of the book.