there are valid criticisms to be made about disco but i think it's REALLY funny when people derisively call it a soap opera as if voyager didn't have a prominent storyline where a villain falsely claimed to have artificially inseminated herself using a main character's DNA and also she was a cardassian spy

Other Soap Opera Bits on Voyager (affectionate):

- The captain accidentally had three babies with the helmsman

- Half of the crew had a hypnotism cue placed in their brains that made them mutiny

- The captain and the first officer got a disease that made them get quarantined together on a planet all alone and oh no they're falling in love

- The head of security was hiding the fact that he had a degenerative brain condition for the entire show and it was dramatically revealed in the finale

- The captain had a brief dalliance with a dude who was clearly there to sabotage them but she had a Secret Plan to sabotage him first

- There was a literal serial killer on the ship that the head of security ended up befriending and the head of security got a little too murdery himself

- I can think of at least three characters off the top of my head that were, at one point or another, a spy

- A powerful semi-ally asked the captain to have a baby with him for Political Power reasons

- The youngest member of the senior officer crew fell in love with a girl and got a space STD that he refused to get treated because of True Love reasons

- The ship's only doctor almost left the ship to pursue his dreams of being an opera star

- One of the main characters used to be in a cult

- The helmsman and head engineer had a baby that was born during the climax of the finale and the helmsman couldn't be there for the birth because of Dramatic Hero Purposes