Star Trek: Voyager Season 4: Difference between revisions

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401: '''Scorpion, Part II''' ''[[1997]] [[September 3]]''

(First watched 2007-01-17)

402: '''The Gift''' ''[[1997]] [[September 10]]''

(First watched 2007-01-17)

403: '''Day of Honor''' ''[[1997]] [[September 17]]''

(First watched 2007-01-28)

404: '''Nemesis''' ''[[1997]] [[September 24]]''

Far before the episode was over, there was a an obvious "twist" that seemed to be coming.  Though my theory turned out to be half right... it then blindsided me with another twist.  Well done.  Really a very good episode.  Interesting to see Chakotay assimilate into this new group, even if it took yet another freaking shuttle crash for him to end up in that situation.

405: '''Revulsion''' ''[[1997]] [[October 1]]''

Speaking of artificial and quasi-human life forms, Tuvok got promoted to Lieutenant Commander.

406: '''The Raven''' ''[[1997]] [[October 8]]''

(First watched 2007-02-17)

407: '''Scientific Method''' ''[[1997]] [[October 29]]''

I know people can sometimes be expected to try irrationally hard to stop something bad from happening... but when the Doctor said that a woman's circulatory system was collapsing, Janeway's response was to give her CPR?  Did she really think that made sense?

408: '''Year of Hell, Part I''' ''[[1997]] [[November 5]]''

The [[Star Trek: First Contact|First Contact]] reference is plain good fun.  Though it is seeming increasingly goofy that Seven seems to retain knowledge of everything the Borg knew... plain physical reality makes that impossible.

409: '''Year of Hell, Part II''' ''[[1997]] [[November 12]]''

At the very end, though, the name "Krenim" didn't seem to ring any bells for Voyager.  In this end timeline, did they no longer have the warning from Kes months prior?

410: '''Random Thoughts''' ''[[1997]] [[November 19]]''

(First watched 2007-02-21) Interesting look at a telepathic society with a very different justice system.  Rather than the person committing a crime being to blame, it's the person who had a violent thought which affected the assailant.  The outlawing of violent thought brought about an underground of telepathic negative thought sharing.

411: '''Concerning Flight''' ''[[1997]] [[November 26]]''

It was really interesting seeing Leonardo react to fantastical things as best he could.  When a phaser blast passed right through him, he started questioning his very existence; I really felt for the guy.  Yet the best explanation Janeway would give him about all the fancy goings on was that, like a bird wouldn't understand a human, he couldn't properly understand the things going on.  So dismissive.

412: '''Mortal Coil''' ''[[1997]] [[December 17]]''

(First watched 2007-03-07) Interesting.  Neelix "dies", but thanks to Seven's medical knowledge can be revived after 19 hours.  This exaggerates the sort of things people already wonder about the nature of when life ends, and really lets us into Neelix's head to see how he tries to deal with it.  Is he still really the same Neelix?  Was his belief in an afterlife a sham?  Of course conclusions can't really be reached for these issues, so in the end we just see Neelix freak out over them and then get convinced to get over them and get on with life.

413: '''Waking Moments''' ''[[1998]] [[January 14]]''

(First watched 2007-03-16) The concept of a race that lives primarily in a collective dream world is interesting.  I'm also a sucker for the plot device of someone not being sure if they're really back in reality or not.

414: '''Message in a Bottle''' ''[[1998]] [[January 21]]''

Of note, as the middle of the middle season, this is basically Voyager half-point.  Probably not a coincidence that it was picked for a major event like finally achieving some communication with home.

415: '''Hunters''' ''[[1998]] [[February 11]]''

(First watched 2007-03-18) Receiving messages from home was more what I expected from the title of the previous episode.  Sooo Voyager finds a massive network of communication relays, learns they're amazingly powerful and 100,000 years old... and in a rescue mission destroy one relay causing the whole system to shut down.  I haven't seen an opportunity like that slip away since every other [[Stargate]] episode.

416: '''Prey''' ''[[1998]] [[February 18]]''

(First watched 2007-03-21) Alien VS Predator.  Three episodes in a row with these Hirogen.  I guess now that they're away from the Kazon they had to write up yet another warrior race.  Also [[Tony Todd]].

417: '''Retrospect''' ''[[1998]] [[February 25]]''

(First watched 2007-03-22) I kept worrying they were going to cop out and make Seven's memories accurate, but this was much more interesting.

418: '''The Killing Game, Part I''' ''[[1998]] [[March 4]]''

(First watched 2007-03-23)

419: '''The Killing Game, Part II''' ''[[1998]] [[March 4]]''

(First watched 2007-03-23)

420: '''Vis à Vis''' ''[[1998]] [[April 4]]''

(First watched 2007-03-24 & 26)

421: '''The Omega Directive''' ''[[1998]] [[April 15]]''

(First watched 2007-03-27)

422: '''Unforgettable''' ''[[1998]] [[April 22]]''

(First watched 2007-03-29) Interesting idea, a species that makes others forget about them.  Could've been an interesting addition to the permanent cast.  They'd get in one of the bi-weekly shuttle crashes, and by the time a rescue party arrived they'd have no idea who she was.

423: '''Living Witness''' ''[[1998]] [[April 29]]''

(First watched 2007-03-30) OK, that was really really good.  At first we know that something is off, but not what.  As it turns out, it's just inaccurate history.  The one thing that bugs me is that being set in the 31st century, it seems to set a limit on what progressions have gone on in the Star Trek universe.  No Federation presence within communications distance that Backup Doctor learns of in his years in his new life, for instance.

424: '''Demon''' ''[[1998]] [[May 6]]''

(First watched 2007-04-03) So I understand how the stuff duplicated Tom and Harry exactly; it had access to them all.  Yet at the end Janeway is talking about just using samples of DNA to make copies of people... but that shouldn't have allowed for the copies to have memories and clothes.  Maybe someone reminded her of that offscreen.

425: '''One''' ''[[1998]] [[May 13]]''

(First watched 2007-04-04)

426: '''Hope and Fear''' ''[[1998]] [[May 20]]''

Finally, someone strikes back at Janeway for the galaxy-level power politics she plays for Voyager's interests.

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