VOY S2 E20, "Investigations" This was... fine? I still don't find VOY's attempts to build long-term stories about the Kazon and Seska particularly interesting or successful, but I did like the payoff to the "Tom goes off the rails" B stories of the last three episodes. I was irritated in the […]

VOY S2 E 16-17 "Meld" and "Dreadnought" Meanwhile, "Meld" was pretty good. I liked the way it starts off as another whodunnit with Detective Tuvok but then veers in a very different direction. I did wonder how Grima Wormtongue ended up on Voyager, but he did a good job. "Dreadnought" was a […]

I mean, I don't expect TV writers to understand evolution, or anything scientific, on anything like a technical level. But they consistently depict evolution as a teleological process that can occur within an individual lifetime, rather than as a process of constantly fitting to the environment […]

VOY S2 E15 "Threshold" So while my wife is away on a business trip to El Salvador, I've been burning through some S2 Voyager episodes. Which means I finally made it to "Threshold". Of course, I've heard about this episode for 25 years. It's the one where Paris breaks the Warp 10 barrier and he […]

Same here

It doesn't help that the episode opens with Voyager getting so battered by the Kazon that B'Elanna doesn't know when they'll get warp drive on line again, and then closes with everyone saying "yeah, we're totally set for the next few months". I'm also increasingly irritated with the show's poor […]

VOY S2 E14 "Alliances" "Alliances" starts off well, with Chakotay and Tuvok advising Janeway that maybe she should get off her high horse and cut some deals to make the Kazon less likely to attack Voyager. Then the deals with Kazon sects fall apart, and Neelix fortuitously makes contact with a […]

Eve Marie Saint always makes me think of Lloyd Cole's "Rattlesnakes": "She looked like Eve Marie Saint/In on the Waterfront/As she reads Simone de Beauvoir/In her American circumstance"

VOYAGER S2 E8-9 Voyager watch update: Please tell me that "Parturition" (s2e8) is the last appearance of Jealous Neelix, Voyager's worst character Meanwhile, "Prototype" is, oof. A mashup of "Samaritan Snare", "The Offspring", and a thousand sci fi stories where robots kill off their creators […]

VOYAGER S2 E4 "Elogium" I don't know if "Elogium" is the worst Star Trek episode ever, but it's definitely the most cringe-inducing. It's a weird hybrid: take a mash-up of TNG episodes (the one with the space whale that thinks the Enterprise is its mommy and the one where aliens impregnate […]

I have finished the first season of Voyager. The episodes fall mainly into two classes. There are episodes that could just as easily have been TNG episodes and have nothing much to do with Voyager ("Time and Again", "Ex Post Facto", "Emanations"), then there are True Voyager episodes, that make […]

After the 2009 Star Trek movie came out (the first JJ Abrams film), I decided they were no longer making Star Trek for me. Which was fine, really, because there were still 28 seasons of Star Trek TV (and 10 movies) out there. Furthermore, I realized that I hadn't really watched Voyager or […]

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