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  VOY S5 E24: "Relativity" After a string of middling to disappointing episodes, "Relativity" is a delight. It's one of the better Star Trek time travel episodes. The cold open is great, showing us what appears to be a flashback until we see Jeri Ryan at the end, sans Borg jewellery. It does the 'open in medias res' thing without quite doing the lazy '3 days earlier!' thing. I mean, we do go back to the beginning, from 7&a...

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  VOY Season 3 There are a lot of things to complain about in the modern TV era of 10-episode seasons and “ten hour movies”, but watching season 3 of Voyager is really putting all that in perspective. So many of these episodes seem to exist only because they had to fill out a 26-episode order somehow. Apologies, but I did not comment on many of the Season 3 episodes. #VOY #startrek

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  VOY S3 E7 "Sacred Ground" On the other hand, “Sacred Ground” is pretty good. Star Trek rarely challenges the Starfleet point of view head on this way. I love how the spirit guide constantly subverts Janeway’s expectations, even while fulfilling them, without making her come off as stupid, arrogant, or an asshole. It’s a fine line, but they walk it. I would call this the rare Voyager episode that draws more from DS9 than TNG; Janeway experiences about seven seasons worth of Sisk...

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  VOY S3 E8-9 "Future's End" I’m really tired of Star Trek characters traveling to the “present” and dropping their monocles at youth subcultures. Tuvok acts like Venice Beach in 1996 is the craziest thing he’s ever seen. How can anyone who sees a Talaxian every day think a kid with a dyed Mohawk the slightest bit out of the ordinary. It really makes it seem like the future is going to be a drab, boring place. Where did they think they were going with that Chakotay and T...

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  VOY S3 E23-25: "Distant Origin" , Displaced", and "Worst Case Scenario" Latest Voyager update: Almost to the end of S3. "Distant Origin" was a clever concept and good structure, undermined by sloppy writing. "Displaced" was kind of fun, but required too high a suspension of disbelief. But "Worst Case Scenario", man that was a home run. I could see the twist coming, but that didn't matter. I...

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  Editor's note: My coverage of VOY S4 is pretty spotty in this era. No notes on "Scorpion", "The Gift", "Day of Honor", or "Revulsion". On "Nemesis", my review was: "Meanwhile, Voyager’s “Nemesis” is a well-intentioned misfire." I do have notes on S6-7: I'd already seen "The Raven", in preparation for S1 of PIC, but it is still a banger. 7 of 9 and Jeri Ry...

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  VOY S4 E10-11 "Random Thoughts" and "Concerning Flight" Editor's note: Inspired by reading Shatner's memoir Star Trek Movie Memories, I binged the Original Cast movies, then came back to VOY: By Star Trek V, I was really starting to miss Janeway and Chakotay and the gang (might have just been that movie). I had stopped after "Year of Hell', so that was a good note. I came back to "Random Thoughts". The logli...

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  VOY S4 E20, E22, & E23: "Vis à Vis", "Unforgettable", and "Living Witness" My Voyager watch is in the last stretches of season 4 now. I noticed a pattern in episodes 20, 22, and 23 ("Vis à Vis", "Unforgettable", and "Living Witness"). They all have different writers, and vary in subject matter, tone, and quality, but they all have the same flaw: a failure to deal with the question...

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  VOY S5 E9 & E11 Editor's note: And now we skip deep into Season 5, with this laconic comment on "Thirty Days": Voyager keeps wanting me to think Tom Paris is an interesting character, but it's not working. "Latent Image" gets a little more exposition: I just got to VOY S5E11: "Latent Image". I had clocked the basic idea pretty quickly; when someone is rewriting your memories, it's probably Janeway doing it...

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  VOY S5 E12-13: "Bride of Chaotica" and "Gravity" I guess it's a testament to how good Voyager has gotten in S4-5 that I was so disappointed by "Bride of Chaotica" and "Gravity". "Bride" is cute and inoffensive, I guess. And what red/green-blooded man/woman/enbie doesn't want to watch Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway as the Queen of the Spider People working her feminine wiles on Chaotica? Bu...

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  VOY S5 E18-19: "Course:Oblivion" and "The Fight" Meanwhile, in my Voyager voyage, I have reached S5 E18-19. "Course: Oblivion" has a great twist and the midpoint, and then... does nothing with it. Very disappointing. What did we learn? Even a copy of Janeway is relentless and determined to complete her mission? Even a copy of Tom Paris is an asshole? What was the point of that episode? As for "The Fight"... also disappoint...

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@History_of_Geology/117508641887830075 OK, this may be my favorite thing that I've seen on Mastodon yet. I love Star Trek, and "Devil In The Dark" may be my favorite episode. I also secretly love geology, despite being a psychologist. #startrek #geology #Horta

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  VOY S5 E20 "Think Tank" You know what's a fun Voyager episode? "Think Tank"! With a surprisingly good performance from Jason Alexander, of all people. #VOY #startrek #JasonAlexander

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  VOY S5 E22-23 "Juggernaut" and "Someone to Watch Over Me" My most recent Voyager double-header: "Juggernaut" and "Someone to Watch Over Me". I think it's a good pairing, because they both miss the mark in similar ways. "Juggernaut" seems to be an attempt at Alien-style space horror, with an away team running around an industrial-looking space waste hauler that is filled with steam for some reason a...