Amph [NERRRD] Observations, rhetorical questions, comments & 55 Years of Star Trek (General Thread)

In Death Wish (the first Voyager Q episode), Q offered to send them home if she ruled in his favour.

 

"Q wants to do something nice for me."

"I'll alert the crew."

 

I'm thinking of a different episode, though. I think it might be Q2.

 

Speaking of early Voyager, I re-watched Projections the other night, and quite enjoyed it. Definitely one of the best out of the early seasons. Robert Picardo is fantastic.

 

First spy cam set pics.

 

Currently through a poor run of the second half of series 3. Coda. Unity. Rise. Alter Ego. Blood fever. Nothing much to enjoy. But Darkling was good, and looking forward to a Before and After, and Real Life

 

Worst Case Scenario was a pretty decent one from late season 3 too.

 

Indeed. Looking forward to that. Dreading Nemesis. Worst episode ever

 

Yeah, poor Chakotay...the episodes that focus on him are terrible most of the time.

 

One thing I didn't get about that episode: How could Harry Kim even possibly read that one alien guy's manifesto, because wouldn't it be written in a Delta Quadrant alien language he wouldn't have even recognized?

(It's just a TV show, I should really just relax...)

 

I don't remember Voyager episodes by heart. Is this like your other hated episodes-- mediocre at worst?

 

hahhahha, Chakotay in Rambo: First Blood, awesome. Does he have a "Nothing is over!" speech to Janeway?

Semi-related, I love this episode, crazy Leland Orser hologram is crazy

 

for some Trek stories, the human aliens work well in the context of the narrative. "Critical Care" is a pretty grand Voyager episode about hospital care that uses mostly "human" aliens (and a smattering of non-human aliens because the medical facility is one big mash up of races) but it's sort of a medical care allegory so using, basically, humans does click.

 

Wasn't "The Chase" the one where they found out that Humans, Romulans, Cardassians, etc. are all actually descendants from the same original race or something?

 

THAT'S ALL? If she were not dead, I would kill her!

 

Yeah. It was the writers' way of explaining in universe why all the major powers in the Alpha Quadrant look so similar and why they can interbreed with each other.

 

Probably. I cannot abide the entire concept of "it was all in his head" episodes. It's a cop-out of the highest order and ridiculously lazy writing (with the exceptions where it is put to good use such as Inner Light, or Hard Times). This is not an exception. It built up really well, and on its first viewing, I was gripped with the thought of how it would end. Then the ending came and I was nonplussed. Completely pointless episode.

I am on the fence, however, with reset button episodes. Year of Hell is a good example. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. I like the idea of exploring alternate outcomes so they are often good. I can't think off the top of my head of a bad example in Trek, but Doctor Who's "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" is an excellent example of a bad reset episode.

 

Watching "Displaced".

The Nyrians show that they have the ability to choose who to swap, yet leave the 1st officer to last? Not exactly great planning

or writing.

 

I got through your first sentence, thought of these two, and then saw them after...

 

Those are the exceptions as the use of "it's all in the mind" is the central premise of the episode. It's not used as a quick get-out when you are not talented enough to write a decent conclusion.

 

Especially in the case of "The Inner Light" when it's clear that the affects on Picard last long after the events of the episode are over.