When Voyager was first broadcast, we didn't yet have the Fediverse... we had Usenet. I saved a little sample reaction to "Threshold".
From: [email protected] (Carlos May)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.startrek.voyager,alt.slack,alt.fan.tito,alt.sex.extraterrestrial
Subject: Re: Is Star Trek Voyager a comedy??
Organization: Planet Of The Frogs [email protected] wrote:
[snip...]
The lizard kids grow up quickly and embark on a quest for their lost mama. A repeated plot devise has them narrowly
saving the Voyager from being vaporized by the Interplanetary
Eco-Crimes Tribunal.
One of the lizards goes through a time-warp to try to
prevent Voyager from getting lost in the first place. He
finds himself stranded on a desert planet with James T. Kirk, so he pelts Kirk with Styrofoam boulders.
--F.
6/6 #AllStarTrek
Garrett P. Serviss and his 1898 sci-fi potboiler "Edison's Conquest of Mars" live as long as "reverse the polarity" remains in the technobabble vocabulary.