After 42 episodes Voyager is yet to produce a single great episode. At the same point into their runs every other series had at least one, normally more. It generally stays out of truly awful (with the exception of *The Thaw* this year), but never really clicks. Mediocrity at work.
There was no common thread to the three best episodes of the year: *Non Sequitor* was a Harry Kim story, *Death Wish* imported Q from TNG, and *Deadlock* was a good old fashioned spatial anomaly. I think the problem is mainly a lack of courage, but also a failure to really carry through on a premise once it's been tried.
Overall I felt things were staler even than the first season. There isn't much *bad*, which keeps it ahead of TNG Season One and TOS Season Three, but that's about all you can say for it.
That takes the rankings to:
- TNG Season 6
- DS9 Season 2
- TNG Season 3
- TNG Season 5
- TOS Season 2
- TNG Season 4
- TOS Season 1
- DS9 Season 1
- VOY Season 1
- TNG Season 7
- DS9 Season 3
- TNG Season 2
- TAS Season 1
- VOY Season 2
- TOS Season 3
- TAS Season 2
- TNG Season 1
Just a couple more until the end of DS9 Season Four.