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diff --git a/content-org/star-trek.org b/content-org/star-trek.org index befd23c..86eea6c 100644 --- a/content-org/star-trek.org +++ b/content-org/star-trek.org @@ -1459,3 +1459,38 @@ Survival is insufficient Unsatisfactory. + +*** TODO Star Trek: Voyager 06x03 Barge of the Dead +B'Elanna starts having visions where she is on the Barge of the Dead, where dishonored Klingon souls are placed + +**** Impressions + +I am rarely fond of B'Elanna's plots, but this is one to be better ones. +We often see her struggle with her Klingon heritage, but rarely we see her so vulnerable. +It's not /her/ who is punished, but her mother. +A much bigger deal if you ask me. + +Though he vision, we see twisted versions of the crew. +Everyone is becoming her demon, making her feel alienated and vulnerable. +Seeing a Klingon in this position? +Amazing. + +Sadly, this episode is /yet another/ one were authors are playing with viewer but it's pointless. +Maybe she is dead? +Maybe the entire Voyager was just a dream? +Well, this is episode 223 of /ST:V/ so of course it's not. +Such plot device make for an interesting story when you look at it though the lens of single episode, it doesn't work in the context of the entire series. +Finding B'Elanna confused was great, but this puts me in the viewer's position. +I am not taking any part in the story, as I already know it. + +/Barge of the Dead/ marks the moment when Ronald Moore and Bryan Fuller gave up. +The story was originally pitched as an episode of /Deep Space 9/ (funny to remember that those shows overlapped), but it was rejected. +As we see, it became part of /Voyage/ but the duo felt that it's time to move on. +Voyager was not what they wanted - they had little creative control, and wanted more multi-episodes stories. +Looking at their careers, they sure /made it/. +Moore created the great remake of /Battlestar Galactica/ and Fuller even returned to modern Star Trek. + + +**** Doctor Factor + +Unsatisfactory. |