None of this kept him from doing great work on these other shows, of course, but Scheerer insisted that there was something truly special about working with the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast.
Regarding his first episode of Voyager, he noted that its own cast was “friendly” but they “had not really come together the way they did” on TNG. He admitted that he couldn’t “really explain it and never really analyzed it,” but “there was just a much more complete feeling about The Next Generation than Voyager.”
With that being said, the director seemed to think that the new cast might eventually come together the way the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast did.
He noted that “Voyager was still evolving,” and that phrasing implies they might evolve into the same kind of tight-knit cast that TNG had. By all accounts, though, that sadly never happened.
