Oh, Slynky, Slynky. Why did you ever give her the first season TNG to watch.
It always cracks me up when people rip on Voyager and say how great TNG was. I figure they are either too young to have watched TNG season one, or perhaps like me they were simply so repulsed by it they have subconsciosly blocked it out.
TNG didn't even get consistantly watchable till season 3 really. Season 2 had flashes of being a decent show. Season 1 was absolutly abysmal. I am firmly convinced that if it hadn't been that people were desperate because Trek had been off the air for 20+ years that TNG s1 would have killed the franchise outright.
Voyager in my mind is way underated by trek fans. The writing, acting and chemistry between the characters was better by far in the first episodes then TNG or even TOS. The biggest problem I think was that Kes chick. Fortunatly she wasn't that big a part of the show. Unfotunatly she suffered from the Wesley/Jar Jar Binks syndrome in that she was so objectionable that's all people remember from the show.