Star Trek Voyager review – Workforce I
Summary: A nicely arranged setup for an as yet unseen payoff. It’s always hard to review the first part of a two part episode. Fortunately Voyager has gotten into the habit of airing both parts in one...
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Summary: Season 7 presents us with a kinder gentler Voyager two parter. A view from the Isle of the Lotus. And for once working within the system works out. Traditionally the Star Trek two parters have...
View ArticleStar Trek Voyager – Human Error review
Summary: Another sleazy UPN promo serves as a misleading introduction to a nice and poetic if not particularly outstanding episode. Seven goes Barclay and Chakotay gets more action as a hologram than...
View ArticleStar Trek Voyager review – Q2
Summary: Q2 indulges in Deja Q, revisiting a far superior TNG episode with a weak and clumsy imitation centered around a character with none of Q’s charisma. The first problem with Q2 is that...
View ArticleStar Trek Voyager review – Author, Author
Summary: A strong episode that addresses some important issues but its reach far exceeds its grasp. The issue of the Doctor’s holographic rights has been Voyager’s most consistent and longest running...
View ArticleStar Trek Voyager review – Friendship One
Summary: A well meaning but predictable and uninspiring rehash of standard Star Trek material. Between the Vidiians and the Maalon, the disfigured race preying on other species and using their problems...
View ArticleStar Trek Voyager review – Natural Law
Summary: Another day, another shuttlecraft. Half the Voyager special effects budget is blown on one of the worst episodes of the season. The poet has said, “The saddest words of tongue or pen are...
View ArticleStar Trek Voyager review – Homestead
Summary: Neelix is inserted into a standard Western of a surrogate father, a family in risk of losing its homestead and a wandering man finding his destiny. In the Wild Talaxtian West Star Trek has...
View ArticleStar Trek Voyager review – Renaissance Man
Summary: A “perfectly functional” episode that pretty much ties up the Doctor’s development and offers a somewhat decent adventure plot to boot. And it’s always fun to see the Doctor take Tuvok down a...
View ArticleStar Trek Voyager review – Series finale Endgame
Summary: Voyager goes off the air with a finale that isn’t quite a bang but is a fitting farewell in keeping with its themes and tone. Despite heading for a fifth series, Star Trek has only done two...
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