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 **** Doctor Factor
 
 Present, but just as unsatisfying as the entire episode.
+*** DONE Star Trek: Voyager - 05x18 Course: Oblivion
+CLOSED: [2024-04-03 Wed 21:14]
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: 05x18-course-oblivion
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: abstract One of the  best episodes I've seen
+:EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: img-c
+:EXPORT_HUGO_MENU: :menu st-voy-rev-s5 :name 18
+:END:
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+We start with B'Elllanas and Parises wedding and celebration of successful enhancement of Voyagers drives.
+The ship is 2 years from reaching earth.
+
+The celebration is cut short, as Torres comes down with illness breaking her molecular structure.
+We learn, that we are not on /our/ Voyager, but on a identical copy.
+The entire crew are clones  born on the Demon planet.
+
+Soon, rest of the crew comes down with the same illness as B'Ellana.
+
+"Course: Oblivion" is a direct continuation of Demon (04x24[fn:before])
+#+attr_shortcode: "star-trek-voyager-course-oblivion-1.jpg" "https://voy.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=96"
+#+begin_img-c
+Look how happy they are. 
+#+end_img-c
+
+**** Impressions
+
+This may very well be my favorite Voyager episode yet.
+This series is far from happy-go-lucky, but damn.
+Seeing the entire crew die is not something I would have expected.
+But it is a Bryan Fuller episode, so it doesn't come as such of a surprise.
+
+We're still thematically around the /self/ problem.
+Are the clones the same people as the originals?
+They possess the same memories, they have the same goals, they have the same personalities.
+Moreover, they don't remember being clones.
+It's closer to a /Twilight Zone/ brain melter, than I would have anticipated.
+
+The only downside are the effects.
+It's a nitpick, but we're seeing /crap-on-face/ type of decomposition, which starts as cool.
+Unfortunately, the with time and the process progression, more and more faces are covered - and with it, all the problems are more visible.
+Near the end, we see dried up, cracked masks.
+I'm glad it's not a 4K remaster.
+
+But this does not matter.
+I finished the episode seriously sad.
+I wanted a different ending.
+Not often we are left with such soul-crushing scenes.
+
+It is not a story episode, /Trek/ gave us plenty of those.
+It simply goes from point A to B.
+After we learn that we are not seeing That Voyager, Fuller does not give us any more surprises.
+This is pure emotional episode.
+It came late in season 5, so I know those characters and I really felt their deaths.
+I'm glad this not how the entire series is, but I will mention it anytime I am asked about greatest Trek episodes.
+It right there, besides "The Inner Light" (TNG) and "The Visitor" (DS9).
+It adds nothing to the main story, yet it is /essential/ to appreciate /Voyager/.
+
+I think it's time to say it out loud: /Voyager/ is a better series than /The Next Generation/.
+It's more mature, less goofy and overall has amazing episode quality.
+#+attr_shortcode: "star-trek-voyager-course-oblivion-2.jpg" "https://voy.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=96"
+#+begin_img-c
+Look how sad they are.
+#+end_img-c
+
+**** Doctor factor
+
+Reduced to plot device, but I still love this episode.
+
+[fn:before] I have not reviewed episodes before reaching season 5, sorry.
+
+*** DONE Star Trek: Voyager - 05x19 - Fight
+CLOSED: [2024-04-03 Wed 21:38]
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: 05x19-fight
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: abstract Voyager, you are not Northern Exposure!
+:EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: img-c
+:EXPORT_HUGO_MENU: :menu st-voy-rev-s5 :name 19
+:END:
+
+Checkotay undergoes a vision quest while laying in sickbay.
+
+**** Impressions
+
+After a great episode, we've come to this.
+I don't care about any of this native-american plot that they are bringing with Checkotay.
+It worked in /Northern Exposure/, but it does not work here.
+I don't think /Trek/ is a good place for spiritual stories.
+It didn't work in ghost-love-story in /TNG/, it does not work here.
+It's not nearly half as bad, but it is boring and forgettable.
+
+**** Doctor Factor
+
+I was snoring so loudly, that I didn't notice.
+He was here, right?
+It's sickbay so he should.
 
 * Picard                                                         :@star_trek:
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