[quote=@Crimmy]
Voyager spent a lot of the time trying to be TNG.

So would Universe have needed to spend a lot of time trying to be SG-1?
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Universe was so busy shouting at everyone that it was completely different from SG-1 and Atlantis that it fell flat on its face cause it didn't realize it was walking in the exact wrong direction.

For the record Voyager was better than TNG, (don't shoot me). Being in the Delta Quadrant allowed the show to cut its ties with Starfleet and a good number of stigmas attached to that while still remaining in essence a Trek show. It had room to breath and carve its own path while TNG by the end was forced to recycle plot points and ideas because there are only so many things you can do in the section of the galaxy that is fully mapped out with a fully developed socio-political system, you had Starfleet, the Romulans, the Klingons the Vulcans and the Cardassians and while there were other species there wasn't much room to expand because of the vast amount of space and history that the other species occupied. It's the same reason that DS9 created a link to the Gamma Quadrant. So they'd have room to expand and make new material unhindered by Starfleets shadow baring down on the Alpha Quadrant.