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diff --git a/content-org/star-trek.org b/content-org/star-trek.org index 819cb179..6bb88dc1 100644 --- a/content-org/star-trek.org +++ b/content-org/star-trek.org @@ -1542,29 +1542,36 @@ Survival is insufficient Unsatisfactory. +*** DONE Star Trek: Voyager 06x03 - Barge of the Dead +CLOSED: [2025-01-07 Tue 20:47] +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: 06x03-barge-of-the-dead +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract My mini review +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :episode_id 6x03 +:END: + +B'Elanna starts having visions where she is on the Barge of the Dead, where dishonored Klingon souls are placed on their way to hell. -*** 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. +I am rarely fond of B'Elanna's plots, but this is one of the 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. +It's not /her/ who is punished for her sins, but it's her mother. A much bigger deal if you ask me. -Though he vision, we see twisted versions of the crew. +Though her visions, 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. +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. +Such plot device make for an interesting story when you look at it though the lens of single episode, but 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. +I am not taking any part in the story, as I already know it how it will end. /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. @@ -1572,8 +1579,78 @@ 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. + + +*** TODO Star Trek: Voyager 06x04 - Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: 06x04-tinker-tenor-doctor-spy +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract My mini review +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :episode_id 6x04 +:END: + +The Doctor alters his program and starts to daydream. + +**** Impressions + +While I always love a good Doctor's epiode, this one easily takes the cake. +We've got two stories putting him the episode. + +The serious one, where an alien race is threating the ship and only Doctor can communicate with them (and therefore save the day), while entertaining, is only small part of why I loved it so much. +The other is full on commedy, where Doctor is living his own desires and dreams. +He is the hero of the crew, a lover, or the capitan. +He is getting all the respect he desires. +I burst out laughing here more than I had in ages. + +The episode was initally to be about Neelix, and I think both characters earned it. +Neelix is by far my least favorite /current/ crewmember, as he very rarely has anything significant to do. +He is not funny, he is not memorable. +More of a pet than a character, but sometimes we see his aspirations. +I'd love if they played more with Neelix, as the way it is, Doctor is lovable underdog of the crew. + +Great episode, will watch again. + +**** Doctor Factor + +Full marks here. +It's doctor at his best. + + +*** TODO Star Trek: Voyager 06x05 - Alice +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: 06x05-alice +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract My mini review +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :episode_id 6x05 +:END: + +Voyager meets a traded of used goods. +Amongst supplies and waste, a lone ship is found. +Paris falls in love with it, and gets himself in a bit of kerfuffle. + +**** Impressions + +One thing I really don't get about the series is how not alien the alien quadrant is. +Very rarely we see anything the crew find in it's path home that is not a quick look at to understand. +Here we see a completely unknown ship, built but some unknown race using a perhaps unknown technology. +Somehow Paris ret... ok, it's not that bad. +But Paris manages to asses it's value, to fix it, to learn how to use. +There is a neuro-link interface which allows the pilot to interact with the ship just with thought, but let's not worry about making it work. +Miles O'Brien already had an experience with something alike, and it went great. +He may have been scarred for life, but he is still there! +(At least to the best knowlege of the Crew. +He might have as well ascended to a lighting beaing at this point). +And while I get that all Treks are not about the SciFi elements, but about the humans, sometimes it's just a bit to much. + +A little risk assesment would go a long way, but it's Paris so of course he will YOLO it. +To surprise of none one (outside of Voyager) it doesn't go well, and we learn that the ship is sentient. +They have a short affair together and soon the ship decides to kill B'Ellana. +Now this I get. +Paris is reckless and some else is to pay the price. +That's relatable. + +That's also the plot of King's /Carrie/, but I don't care. +I loved the episode, as it played marvelously with Paris character. +It uses all his weaknesses through most of the story, only to remind us why we like him by the end. |