Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - Voyager - Season 3 Week 6!- "Displaces" to "Scorpion - Part 2"
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Ashes to Ashes
I said the Borg kids were ok in the last episode they were in. But I didn't realise they would keep using them.
I don't remember Lindsey at all and I didn't care enough to look her up. The story was ok, but never got above being average.
Harry Kim was creepy as strawberry float at the end. "Such pretty hair you have little girl" before he grabs her hand and drags her to the holodeck.
Still, this was a strawberry floating masterpiece compared to the New Haven bollocks that came before.
Child's Play
A Chucky episode? Nope, the strawberry floating Borg kids by the look of it. I bet this will be gooseberry fool. I'm going to regret saying the kid actors weren't too bad aren't I? Why are kids always so annoying in American TV shows?
Ok, I was harsh, it wasn't that bad. Most of the episode was ok, if unspectacular, but the last ten minutes or so was great.
Although, why use a child to deliver the pathogen? Instead of using a kid, use an adult that volunteered! I know they said he was genetically engineered from birth to produce the pathogen, but that's bollocks, they could come up with a way of doing the same thing with an adult.
Good Shepherd
Tom Morello?
Another desperately average episode. This would have been better as a "lower decks" episode, with the three misfits bitching about the higher ups. And at the end Rage Against The Machine could have popped up to tell Janeway to strawberry float off.
Live Fast and Prosper
Fingers crossed this is an episode where the "family" from Fast and Furious steal a warp core and zoom away in a shuttle - at the end it's revealed that Tuvok was the mastermind behind the heist...
Sadly not
Despite a lack of Vin Diesel, this was pretty fun. I like the identity theft idea and thought the bad guys were very well played.
How bright was that torch at the end? The guy reacted like he had the light of a sun fired into his face.
Muse
I'll be disappointed if this isn't about a supermassive black hole....
Urghhh, I would have been happy for a black hole to swallow up this episode.
It reminded me of an Assassin's Creed game. An Ancient Rome/Greece setting with a little bit of advanced sci-fi tech thrown in.
Imagine how bored and pissed off you'd have to be to be happy to see Harry Kim arrive. And I can absolutely answer the question of whether he's ever inspired anybody
Meh.
I said the Borg kids were ok in the last episode they were in. But I didn't realise they would keep using them.
I don't remember Lindsey at all and I didn't care enough to look her up. The story was ok, but never got above being average.
Harry Kim was creepy as strawberry float at the end. "Such pretty hair you have little girl" before he grabs her hand and drags her to the holodeck.
Still, this was a strawberry floating masterpiece compared to the New Haven bollocks that came before.
Child's Play
A Chucky episode? Nope, the strawberry floating Borg kids by the look of it. I bet this will be gooseberry fool. I'm going to regret saying the kid actors weren't too bad aren't I? Why are kids always so annoying in American TV shows?
Ok, I was harsh, it wasn't that bad. Most of the episode was ok, if unspectacular, but the last ten minutes or so was great.
Although, why use a child to deliver the pathogen? Instead of using a kid, use an adult that volunteered! I know they said he was genetically engineered from birth to produce the pathogen, but that's bollocks, they could come up with a way of doing the same thing with an adult.
Good Shepherd
Tom Morello?
Another desperately average episode. This would have been better as a "lower decks" episode, with the three misfits bitching about the higher ups. And at the end Rage Against The Machine could have popped up to tell Janeway to strawberry float off.
Live Fast and Prosper
Fingers crossed this is an episode where the "family" from Fast and Furious steal a warp core and zoom away in a shuttle - at the end it's revealed that Tuvok was the mastermind behind the heist...
Sadly not
Despite a lack of Vin Diesel, this was pretty fun. I like the identity theft idea and thought the bad guys were very well played.
How bright was that torch at the end? The guy reacted like he had the light of a sun fired into his face.
Muse
I'll be disappointed if this isn't about a supermassive black hole....
Urghhh, I would have been happy for a black hole to swallow up this episode.
It reminded me of an Assassin's Creed game. An Ancient Rome/Greece setting with a little bit of advanced sci-fi tech thrown in.
Imagine how bored and pissed off you'd have to be to be happy to see Harry Kim arrive. And I can absolutely answer the question of whether he's ever inspired anybody
Meh.
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Fury
I see that this has terrible ratings and people seem to hate it. But I thought it was pretty good. It's not up there with the best of Voyager, but it's far from being bad.
I enjoyed Tuvok's confusion when he was seeing the premonitions. And his utter loathing of his birthday
Kes was never the greatest character. But it was nice to see her, her powers were way too strong for Janeway to have any hope of stopping her, it would have been better to get through to her with reason than for Janeway to survive a few psychic blasts and then still be able to shoot a phaser.
Life Line
That massage
Zimmerman is a strawberry floating arsehole. The Doctor should have just let the prick die.
A good episode but there's not much to say about it really. I'm glad they're sticking with the Barclay/Pathfinder stuff, it'll be interesting when they get home just how Starfleet reacts to the maquis and Borg crew.
The Haunting of Deck Twelve
Neelix telling ghost stories to the Borg kids?
seinfeldwalkingout.gif
I thought this was going to be gooseberry fool and was stunned to find out that it was actually very gooseberry fool. Meh.
Unimatrix Zero: Part 1
This was made about a year after the first Matrix movie. While it's not identical, the people living inside a computer simulation and outside people coming in fighting the machines is a similar feel.
Why did Seven say Unimatrix Zero was a myth? It's literally part of her full Borg name.
A very good end of season episode with a great cliffhanger , even if it is very similar to the TNG end of season episode where Picard was turned into a Borg.
Looking at the air dates, this was the last episode to air (in the US) while I was a teenager. I'm so old.
On to the final season!
Unimatrix Zero:Part 2
The final season! It won't be long before Dr Sam Beckett shows me what old Federation ships were like.
I laughed that it was Tuvok who was first to start turning into a full Borg. That Vulcan self control wasn't so great.
Good conclusion to the two parter and a decent season opening. I thought it was weaker than the first part, but overall was very enjoyable.
I assume that's the last we will see of that Borg queen. I have no idea how that works, does a drone in the collective now get a promotion? Is there one Borg queen for ALL the Borg, or do different sectors have different queens?
I've thought this a lot during Voyager, but way too many episodes end with "it's been 2 days, we've put everything back to normal", rather than actually showing what happened.
I see that this has terrible ratings and people seem to hate it. But I thought it was pretty good. It's not up there with the best of Voyager, but it's far from being bad.
I enjoyed Tuvok's confusion when he was seeing the premonitions. And his utter loathing of his birthday
Kes was never the greatest character. But it was nice to see her, her powers were way too strong for Janeway to have any hope of stopping her, it would have been better to get through to her with reason than for Janeway to survive a few psychic blasts and then still be able to shoot a phaser.
Life Line
That massage
Zimmerman is a strawberry floating arsehole. The Doctor should have just let the prick die.
A good episode but there's not much to say about it really. I'm glad they're sticking with the Barclay/Pathfinder stuff, it'll be interesting when they get home just how Starfleet reacts to the maquis and Borg crew.
The Haunting of Deck Twelve
Neelix telling ghost stories to the Borg kids?
seinfeldwalkingout.gif
I thought this was going to be gooseberry fool and was stunned to find out that it was actually very gooseberry fool. Meh.
Unimatrix Zero: Part 1
This was made about a year after the first Matrix movie. While it's not identical, the people living inside a computer simulation and outside people coming in fighting the machines is a similar feel.
Why did Seven say Unimatrix Zero was a myth? It's literally part of her full Borg name.
A very good end of season episode with a great cliffhanger , even if it is very similar to the TNG end of season episode where Picard was turned into a Borg.
Looking at the air dates, this was the last episode to air (in the US) while I was a teenager. I'm so old.
On to the final season!
Unimatrix Zero:Part 2
The final season! It won't be long before Dr Sam Beckett shows me what old Federation ships were like.
I laughed that it was Tuvok who was first to start turning into a full Borg. That Vulcan self control wasn't so great.
Good conclusion to the two parter and a decent season opening. I thought it was weaker than the first part, but overall was very enjoyable.
I assume that's the last we will see of that Borg queen. I have no idea how that works, does a drone in the collective now get a promotion? Is there one Borg queen for ALL the Borg, or do different sectors have different queens?
I've thought this a lot during Voyager, but way too many episodes end with "it's been 2 days, we've put everything back to normal", rather than actually showing what happened.
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Imperfection
Didn't three of the crew have cortical implants in the last two episodes? Shame they obviously threw them away
Not rubbish, but I never felt at any point that there was any real risk to Seven. It was always way too obvious that it's all turn out fine.
I'm glad they've cleared out most of the Borg kids. The older one isn't too bad and I can't wait to see Starfleet's reaction to a Borg applying to become a cadet.
Drive
I assume Ryan Gosling(
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Kim's flirting is painful to watch. He needs to go and get laid on the holodeck.
I wished for a Fast and Furious crossover a few episodes back. Looks like this is as close as I'll get to that wish, especially with that ship with the red and green interior. I half expected it to have LEDs on the undercarriage.
Repression
"You've programmed a 3D environment to project a 2D image and I have to wear glasses to see it in 3D?"
As soon as we saw the ghostly image, it was obvious it was Tuvok. It looked just like him.
Entertaining enough episode, but the explanation was a little too ridiculous for me.
Critical Care
strawberry float, this was basically Britain by 2026 if the Tories keep going. I've deliberately put that date a long way ahead as I doubt this review will be posted for years.
I love the way they called out the Doctor for stealing, when he had been stolen himself.
Not a bad episode, I love the Doctor so anything with him in is usually decent. And the moral questions raised were thought provoking.
Inside Man
Please be a Denzel Washington bank heist episode, please be a Denzel Washington bank heist episode, please be a Denzel Washington bank heist episode...
Haha, it's not Denzel, but the way Barclay has programmed the hologram is hilarious, and I'm only up to the opening credits.
Ahh, it was the Ferengi being twats, little strawberry floaters
I'm not convinced I buy a lot of the stuff in this episode, they've beamed the Doctor to and from the Alpha Quadrant before without jamming their systems, but it didn't matter, it was still fun.
Didn't three of the crew have cortical implants in the last two episodes? Shame they obviously threw them away
Not rubbish, but I never felt at any point that there was any real risk to Seven. It was always way too obvious that it's all turn out fine.
I'm glad they've cleared out most of the Borg kids. The older one isn't too bad and I can't wait to see Starfleet's reaction to a Borg applying to become a cadet.
Drive
I assume Ryan Gosling(
) is starring in this. Kim's flirting is painful to watch. He needs to go and get laid on the holodeck.
I wished for a Fast and Furious crossover a few episodes back. Looks like this is as close as I'll get to that wish, especially with that ship with the red and green interior. I half expected it to have LEDs on the undercarriage.
Repression
"You've programmed a 3D environment to project a 2D image and I have to wear glasses to see it in 3D?"
As soon as we saw the ghostly image, it was obvious it was Tuvok. It looked just like him.
Entertaining enough episode, but the explanation was a little too ridiculous for me.
Critical Care
strawberry float, this was basically Britain by 2026 if the Tories keep going. I've deliberately put that date a long way ahead as I doubt this review will be posted for years.
I love the way they called out the Doctor for stealing, when he had been stolen himself.
Not a bad episode, I love the Doctor so anything with him in is usually decent. And the moral questions raised were thought provoking.
Inside Man
Please be a Denzel Washington bank heist episode, please be a Denzel Washington bank heist episode, please be a Denzel Washington bank heist episode...
Haha, it's not Denzel, but the way Barclay has programmed the hologram is hilarious, and I'm only up to the opening credits.
Ahh, it was the Ferengi being twats, little strawberry floaters
I'm not convinced I buy a lot of the stuff in this episode, they've beamed the Doctor to and from the Alpha Quadrant before without jamming their systems, but it didn't matter, it was still fun.
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Body and Soul
Jeri Ryan was fantastic in this. She perfected the way the Doctor speaks as well as his facial tics. And some great drunk acting.
Tuvok's pon farr was underplayed really. They should have done an episode on it, rather than a little bit part here. Tuvok is very underused in this series.
I doubt they'll ever do anything like this again or that it'll mean anything in the long run, but I thought it was brilliant.
Nightingale
I love how tens of thousands of light years from home, on a ship built by a species that they've never even heard of and Kim knows exactly how to use their computer systems.
Something about this was giving me Firefly vibes, it took me way too long to recognise it was because of Shepherd Book. I'm terrible with faces.
Harry Kim is such a boring character. And the Borg kid was just too naive to take seriously.
A very meh episode.
Flesh and Blood: Parts 1 & 2
This is one long episode on Netflix, so I'll keep it as one review.
I really enjoyed this. It had everything you'd want in an episode. Action plus a moral question.
It was pretty damn clear that holograms are capable of being self aware, the Voyager crew should have known that just from knowing the Doctor.
Giving the Hirogen the technology was an appalling decision in hindsight. The evil twats were always going to do something like this!
Having said that, Iden was also a wanker. I get that he had been through a lot, but that's little excuse for his actions. Religious zealotry with a genocidal nature, it's a good thing he was deactivated!
Shattered
The first 21st century episode, Trek is now basically modern day.
While it isn't a clip show, it had that feel. One major difference being that this was actually good (very good!), whereas clip shows are awful.
I'm a sucker for time travel stories and this did time travel in a different way, I thought at the end that Janeway was going to at least hint she remembered it, but I guess that would have blown all continuity out of the water.
Lineage
I can see online that this is an episode that is highly thought of. But I found it a little dull.
I could see why Torres had the worry over her kid being a human/Klingon hybrid and there are obvious real world parallels. Plus her dad leaving and the things they said to each other. But to go this far to alter her child? I don't think so, nothing about Torres has previously suggested she'd go this far on an "issue" like this.
Not terrible, just not great.
Jeri Ryan was fantastic in this. She perfected the way the Doctor speaks as well as his facial tics. And some great drunk acting.
Tuvok's pon farr was underplayed really. They should have done an episode on it, rather than a little bit part here. Tuvok is very underused in this series.
I doubt they'll ever do anything like this again or that it'll mean anything in the long run, but I thought it was brilliant.
Nightingale
I love how tens of thousands of light years from home, on a ship built by a species that they've never even heard of and Kim knows exactly how to use their computer systems.
Something about this was giving me Firefly vibes, it took me way too long to recognise it was because of Shepherd Book. I'm terrible with faces.
Harry Kim is such a boring character. And the Borg kid was just too naive to take seriously.
A very meh episode.
Flesh and Blood: Parts 1 & 2
This is one long episode on Netflix, so I'll keep it as one review.
I really enjoyed this. It had everything you'd want in an episode. Action plus a moral question.
It was pretty damn clear that holograms are capable of being self aware, the Voyager crew should have known that just from knowing the Doctor.
Giving the Hirogen the technology was an appalling decision in hindsight. The evil twats were always going to do something like this!
Having said that, Iden was also a wanker. I get that he had been through a lot, but that's little excuse for his actions. Religious zealotry with a genocidal nature, it's a good thing he was deactivated!
Shattered
The first 21st century episode, Trek is now basically modern day.
While it isn't a clip show, it had that feel. One major difference being that this was actually good (very good!), whereas clip shows are awful.
I'm a sucker for time travel stories and this did time travel in a different way, I thought at the end that Janeway was going to at least hint she remembered it, but I guess that would have blown all continuity out of the water.
Lineage
I can see online that this is an episode that is highly thought of. But I found it a little dull.
I could see why Torres had the worry over her kid being a human/Klingon hybrid and there are obvious real world parallels. Plus her dad leaving and the things they said to each other. But to go this far to alter her child? I don't think so, nothing about Torres has previously suggested she'd go this far on an "issue" like this.
Not terrible, just not great.
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Repentance
This was ok, but it would have been more interesting if they had examined it from a rich v poor angle, and didn't put in the brain disorder stuff and then have one of the other prisoners turn out to actually be evil.
As it was, it felt like a criticism of the prison/capital punishment system, while also sitting on the fence about it.
Prophecy
I've noticed that often in Trek there will be an emergency situation like "30 seconds until a warp core breach!" and they'll spend 25 seconds of it looking worried and doing strawberry float all.
The story behind why the Klingons were there was a bit underused, it would have been good to know more about them. As it was, they just mostly came across as religious (and racist) fanatics.
Fun episode though, I especially laughed at Neelix at the end, dirty bastard. Tuvok should have murdered him.
The Void
While good, this felt like a mix of a few other episodes. Various episodes but most especially the empty space of Night crossed with the planet trapped in a distorted area of space in Gravity. Don't be impressed, I didn't remember those episode titles, I had to Google.
I also had to Google to remind myself of the name, but some of the aliens in this looked exactly like the Sontarans from Doctor Who. Thieving Trek bastards.
The aliens "music" was just an annoying series of beeps. Janeway's "it's wonderful!" was laughable.
A good episode, despite my petty nitpicking.
Workforce: Part 1
The crew look so happy on that planet, they should just be left alone rather than go back to the misery of Voyager.
I'm going to hold off giving all my thoughts until after part 2.
Workforce: Part 2
I enjoyed part 1 far more than part 2. There was a nice build up in part 1 but I thought the second part spent far too long on characters trying to convince the crew they were who they were. It's one of those things that would have to happen in real life/in a serious show, but here just dragged when all you wanted was to get back to the action.
Overall it was good, but it could have been much better.
This was ok, but it would have been more interesting if they had examined it from a rich v poor angle, and didn't put in the brain disorder stuff and then have one of the other prisoners turn out to actually be evil.
As it was, it felt like a criticism of the prison/capital punishment system, while also sitting on the fence about it.
Prophecy
I've noticed that often in Trek there will be an emergency situation like "30 seconds until a warp core breach!" and they'll spend 25 seconds of it looking worried and doing strawberry float all.
The story behind why the Klingons were there was a bit underused, it would have been good to know more about them. As it was, they just mostly came across as religious (and racist) fanatics.
Fun episode though, I especially laughed at Neelix at the end, dirty bastard. Tuvok should have murdered him.
The Void
While good, this felt like a mix of a few other episodes. Various episodes but most especially the empty space of Night crossed with the planet trapped in a distorted area of space in Gravity. Don't be impressed, I didn't remember those episode titles, I had to Google.
I also had to Google to remind myself of the name, but some of the aliens in this looked exactly like the Sontarans from Doctor Who. Thieving Trek bastards.
The aliens "music" was just an annoying series of beeps. Janeway's "it's wonderful!" was laughable.
A good episode, despite my petty nitpicking.
Workforce: Part 1
The crew look so happy on that planet, they should just be left alone rather than go back to the misery of Voyager.
I'm going to hold off giving all my thoughts until after part 2.
Workforce: Part 2
I enjoyed part 1 far more than part 2. There was a nice build up in part 1 but I thought the second part spent far too long on characters trying to convince the crew they were who they were. It's one of those things that would have to happen in real life/in a serious show, but here just dragged when all you wanted was to get back to the action.
Overall it was good, but it could have been much better.
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I'm definitely keen to get onto Enterprise as it's the first Trek show that I never really watched so a lot of it will be completely new to me! 
I'll see how quickly I can get through the rest of VOY, shouldn't take too long now
I'll see how quickly I can get through the rest of VOY, shouldn't take too long now
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