Star Trek: Voyager Season 5
SPOILERS TOTAL. Â You've been warned.
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501: Night 1998 October 14
(First watched 2008-09-08) Â I'd been wondering whether people could modify their appearance in the holodeck. Â Well, it seemed within its possibilities, but I don't think it had actually happened until now. Â Though it seemed kinda silly that they remained in grayscale when the ship's power went out. Â Holodeck was still running, but not the LIGHTS on the holodeck!?
Further, doesn't it seem a bit silly for the Doctor to use the holodeck, as he did in the beginning of this episode? Â I mean, he's already a computer simulation. Â Can't he just... simulate some experience directly, without needing to use his computer-generated physical presence to interact with another computer-generated physical presence? Â He wouldn't have to bicker with the rest of the crew about it being his turn.
Janeway is moody today. Â I guess she only has regrets when the crew is completely safe; not when she's putting them in danger on a weekly basis. Â She's really sorry she saved the Ocampa rather than dooming them so their few dozen people could've went home? Â Jeez, it's a good thing Kes isn't around to hear that, or the many other people they've helped along the way.
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502: Drone 1998 October 21
(First watched 2008-09-08) Â So a transporter malfunction combines nanoprobes, the holographic transmitter, and generic crewman to create... superdrone. Â He had a very different look than other Borg and a shitload of new functionality; I guess the little Borg nanites are a hell of a lot better at extrapolating from a small bit of 29th century technology than our everyday heroes are.
Janeway doesn't want to resort to murder? Â Yeah, tell that to Tuvix.
Seemed disrespectful that One picked a name, people seemed to be accepting him, and yet he was still mostly referred to as "the drone". Â Especially in the aftermath of that Sphere explosion, that's a very unspecific name.
So One dies... hey, anybody remember when Neelix was dead for three days and they were able to revive him using old-fashioned 24th century Borg technology? Â Though in this case it was his will to die. Â Very Terminator 2, One.
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503: Extreme Risk 1998 October 28
(First watched 2008-09-16) Â So B'Elanna's been doing crazy shit for months, and we see the entire problem and solution condensed into one episode. Â Also an episode when they design and build a new type of shuttlecraft from scratch. Â Well, OK, Tom had already planned much of it out. Â But the default shuttles must be really awful if a small unaided crew can so best it in such little time.
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504: In The Flesh 1998 November 4
(First watched 2008-09-17) Â Peace between enemies... that's Star Trek.
So 8472 got all their data about Starfleet from Voyager? Â Somehow? Â But thought Starfleet Academy had a load of Ferengi in it?
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505: Once Upon A Time 1998 November 11
(First watched 2008-09-18) Â Given how they were treated at the beginning of TNG, 11 years prior, I thought holodecks were still fairly new and novel at the time. Â So I thought it odd when Harry Kim talked about playing the Flotter programs when he was young. Â Then Janeway busts out an old tale of her time there in her youth. Â So holodecks have been around for 40+ years? Â Maybe it was just the inclusion of them on ships that was novel at the beginning of TNG?
Another shuttle crash... but this time it's their Super Shuttle!
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506: Timeless 1998 November 18
(First watched 2008-09-21) Â So we've got an interesting new show with fugitives from Starfleet where Janeway and Seven are dead and LaForge is a captain... but the fugitives just want to cancel it and bring back Star Trek: Voyager. Â I guess Geordi's not that big a shot, though. Â He's got a Galaxy-class ship, which is probably a quarter century old by this point.
Again we see something where supposedly they've been working on a project for months, but this is the first we ever hear of it. Â So much stuff in this show could've worked so much better in a serial format where we could really see these things come together over months.
So they went through a bunch of holodeck tests to see that their original slipstream plan was a bust... but didn't run a single one with their new plan, which is said to be one of the riskiest things they've done yet?
So they cut another 10 years off their trip, eh? Â Must be down to around 50 years left, then.
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507: Infinite Regress 1998 [[]]
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