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501: '''Night''' ''[[1998]] [[October 14]]''

Janeway is moody today.  I guess she only has regrets when the crew is completely safe; not when she's putting them in danger on a weekly basis.  She's ''really'' sorry she saved the Ocampa rather than dooming them so their few dozen people could've went home?  Jeez, it's a good thing Kes isn't around to hear that, or the many other people they've helped along the way.

502: '''Drone''' ''[[1998]] [[October 21]]''

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?  Though in this case it was his will to die.  Very [[Terminator 2: Judgment Day|Terminator 2]], One.

503: '''Extreme Risk''' ''[[1998]] [[October 28]]''

(First watched 2008-09-16)  So B'Elanna's been doing crazy shit for months, and we see the entire problem and solution condensed into one episode.  Also an episode when they design and build a new type of shuttlecraft from scratch.  Well, OK, Tom had already planned much of it out.  But the default shuttles must be really awful if a small unaided crew can so best it in such little time.

504: '''In The Flesh''' ''[[1998]] [[November 4]]''

So 8472 got all their data about Starfleet from Voyager?  Somehow?  But thought Starfleet Academy had a load of Ferengi in it?

505: '''Once Upon A Time''' ''[[1998]] [[November 11]]''

Another shuttle crash... but this time it's their Super Shuttle!

506: '''Timeless''' ''[[1998]] [[November 18]]''

So they cut another 10 years off their trip, eh?  Must be down to around 50 years left, then.

507: '''Infinite Regress''' ''[[1998]] [[November 25]]''

So this thing affecting Seven wouldn't be lessened by them just going away... so it's just an enormous coincidence that when it started being a problem they were within a day of it?  And now that the vinculum is back with the people who'd been screwing with it, won't they just screw with it again and Seven will be messed up again?

508: '''Nothing Human''' ''[[1998]] [[December 2]]''

(First watched 2008-09-28)  It's almost another Tuvix.  Everyone is freaking the hell out about what the ''real'' Cardassian doctor did, but as his hologram points out... he's just a hologram programmed with the Starfleet knowledge of him, which was quite incomplete.  He's not the guy who performed experiments on Bajorans, nor does he have any memory of it.  Yet for that and helping save someone's life, he's deemed worthy of deletion.  I guess the Doctor is lucky he wasn't programmed with a Hitler mustache, or he'd have been offed long ago.

509: '''Thirty Days''' ''[[1998]] [[December 9]]''

(First watched 2008-09-28)  So Paris is busted back down to ensign.  Maybe that's why Harry's still an ensign; he just keeps committing off-screen violations.

510: '''Counterpoint''' ''[[1998]] [[December 16]]''

(First watched 2008-09-29)  An episode that would be boring the second time around, because it's so built on whether or not the guy is double- or triple-crossing.

511: '''Latent Image''' ''[[1999]] [[January 20]]''

So if that holoimager thing was so easy and so informative in checking out the crew's health, why wasn't it already a standard practice?  It took the brilliance of an EMH to decide it should be?  No offense, Doctor.  Also, the amazingly intricate scan required them to pose at different angles?  Certainly the results look more complex than something one would get from combining four angles of data.  If four could do such detail, why not one?

512: '''Bride of Chaotica!''' ''[[1999]] [[January 27]]''

The ship seemed to be running into lots of trouble with malfunctioning replicators and bathrooms... but I don't recall them ever explaining why there were problems beyond them being stuck.

513: '''Gravity''' ''[[1999]] [[February 3]]''

(First watched 2008-10-06)  The background bits with a young Tuvok were interesting.  Too bad they had to be interspersed by another shuttle-rescue episode of Voyager.

514: '''Bliss''' ''[[1999]] [[February 10]]''

Star Trek has strange things, but this is one of the creatures that ''really'' strains credulity.  How did a creature thousands of kilometers long and that has lived for hundreds of thousands of years evolve to its state of telepathically tricking starships into itself to eat them?

515: '''Dark Frontier Part I''' ''[[1999]] [[February 17]]''

(First watched 2008-10-09)

516: '''Dark Frontier Part II''' ''[[1999]] [[February 17]]''

So they cut another 15 years off their return?  35-ish years left, about half what they started with?

517: '''The Disease''' ''[[1999]] [[February 24]]''

(First watched 2008-11-23)  So Starfleet regulations require getting the okay from the commanding and medical officers before getting intimate with an alien?  How come I haven't seen people getting busted for this before?

518: '''Course: Oblivion''' ''[[1999]] [[March 3]]''

I've previously complained about how Janeway will so strongly fight for one path, and then end up reversing it.  Here she does it again, but since it's a mimetic double crew rather than the real one which can survive everything, her dumbass refusal to turn around sooner ends up dooming them all.

519: '''The Fight''' ''[[1999]] [[March 24]]''

What an insane long hallucination sequence this episode has.  Is that one of the longest in all of Star Trek?  Well, I know there are a few where almost entire episodes are supposed to have taken place in someone's mind, but this is the more general type where we know it's a hallucination and they keep hitting us over the head with changing locations and weird lighting and character disappearing and yada yada yada.

520: '''Think Tank''' ''[[1999]] [[March 31]]''

(First watched 2009-06-18)  Heeeey, [[Jason Alexander]].  This think tank group is interesting.  They help people as we're always seeing the Starfleet groups do... but do so in a capitalist way.  I like the reference to curing the Phage, which Voyager ran into in one of [[Star Trek: Voyager Season 1|the first episodes]].

521: '''Juggernaut''' ''[[1999]] [[April 26]]''

Hey, we actually see a sonic shower work in this episode, rather than just hearing it referenced.

522: '''Someone to Watch Over Me''' ''[[1999]] [[April 28]]''

Robert Picardo did a nice job; I could really read without words as his feelings toward Seven were changing.  But then, Robert Picardo tends to do a nice job.

523: '''11:59''' ''[[1999]] [[May 5]]''

Also, Ms. O'Donnel, emailing everyone within a hundred miles is ''not'' a simple task considering email addresses have no logical relationship to worldwide location.  And it's an assholey thing to do even if you could.

524: '''Relativity''' ''[[1999]] [[May 12]]''

If nothing else, this episode at least gave us a cool shot of many ships at Utopia Planitia.

525: '''Warhead''' ''[[1999]] [[May 19]]''

So everyone was impressed with how admirably Harry Kim handled things in this episode.  Surely he'll be rewarded with another non-promotion.

526: '''Equinox Part I''' ''[[1999]] [[May 26]]''

Though the Doctor's holographic generator has been used by other intelligences before, it's interesting that this time it's by ''another'' EMH who has similarly developed on his own for the last several years--albeit without his ethical subroutines.

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