Star Trek: Voyager Season 7
SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.
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701: Unimatrix Zero Part II 2000 October 4
(First watched 2009-07-03) So getting assimilated was part of their plan? And they had a neural supressant to prevent them from being a proper part of the Collective? Hmm. Didn't seem to work very well on Tuvok, though.
Borg Queen seemed a bit stupid destroying those ships with a few unconnected drones. Sure she can't feel their presence, but shouldn't they know where they last were? And couldn't process of elimination (Which drone is moving around that we aren't making move around?) find them out pretty quickly and without so much loss? Interesting, though, that this was used against Janeway, who would prefer to not even bring harm to drones.
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702: Imperfection 2000 October 11
(First watched 2009-07-03) So a week after Janeway doesn't want to cause unnecessary drone death, she wants to go hunting to kill a drone to help save Seven. Buh.
So there went the little Borglings, leaving them with only Icheb AKA Borg Wesley Crusher, the prodigy teen who wants to work on the bridge and apply to Starfleet Academy. He's actually a pretty interesting recurring character, though, and well used in this episode. However, things must be different from now on--he no longer has the role of big brother to play.
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703: Drive 2000 October 18
(First watched 2009-07-04) I'd been wondering what was taking Paris and Torres so long. Those silver doubles got hitched more than a year ago.
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704: Repression 2000 October 25
(First watched 2009-07-05) So the investigator is also the investigatee... fun stuff. Though I was kind of leaning that way already with all the "hunches" Tuvok had, that the "photonic residue" or whatever bullshit stencil that was in the holodeck looked like him, and that even its pose looked mindmeldy.
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705: Critical Care 2000 November 1
(First watched 2009-07-06) Ahh, a strong Doctor episode. We didn't quite get a full picture of the society he ended up with, but it's interesting to see how he reacted to it. They seem to have the worst-case-scenario of universal health care. That is, anyone gets it... if they're valuable enough to the state. Realistically they're probably right that focusing care on "important" individuals helped the whole population of the planet, but it does sound heartless and they went to extremes--like using what would be life-saving medicine for some patients, and giving it to more important people as a daily supplement.
This episode reminds me in some ways of TNG's The Most Toys, with an artificial life form being stolen from Starfleet duty and in the end doing more to harm someone than would've been thought possible of him.
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706: Inside Man 2000 November 8
(First watched 2009-07-07) Always a pleasure to see Dwight Schultz, who this time gets to play a very different type of Barclay, as well as the original.
Barclay finding Troi when she's on vacation is a bit What About Bob?
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