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title = "Star Trek: Voyager 05x08 - Nothing Human"
author = ["Michał Sapka"]
date = 2023-12-06T23:00:00+01:00
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B'Elanna is attacked by a non-humanoid alien creature and her life is danger.
Doctor creates a holographic representation of a famous Cardasssian exobiologist, Crell Moset, to help save her life.
It is soon revealed that the Cardassian scientist used to experiment Bajorans during their occupation.
## Impressions {#impressions}
A breathtaking episode.
This is what I call SciFi - to use made up, fantastic setting in order to tell story about **humanity**.
Episodes like this make **Star Trek** my favorite western SciFi.
We've got a real moral problem here.
Does the goal justify the mean?
Is using prisoners of war as test subjects justified if it pushed all of us forward?
> > **Ensign Tabor**: I can still remember the sounds his instruments made, the screams of his patients, the smell, chemicals and dead flesh. He operated on my grandfather, exposed his internal organs to nadion radiation. It took six days for him to die. He blinded people so he could study how they adapted, exposed them to polytrinic acid just to see how long it would take for their skin to heal.
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> > **The Doctor**: Ensign, the man you're accusing cured the Fostossa virus. He stopped an epidemic that killed thousands of Bajorans.
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> > **Ensign Tabor**: By infecting hundreds of people so that he could experiment with different treatments - old, helpless people, like my grandfather, because he considered their lives worthless.
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> > **The Doctor**: How do you know this?
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> > **Ensign Tabor**: Everybody knew.
But the biggest question here: does applying knowledge gained from atrocities, give those actions validity?
This entire episode is an allegory of World War II where Germans, Japanese or Russians did unspeakable things.
This which gave them knowledge we use every day (I am writing this on an semi-IBM machine).
And it does it without sounding cliché or forced.
I was expecting a rogue hologram episode (like TNG did a lot) and I was not ready for what I got.
On a lighter tone: once again we see an improvement in special effects.
The team created a nice animatronic alien and a CGI version.
We've all seen Babylon 5 and know that the tech was not ready for computer graphics.
They tried and did what they could.
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Animatronic greatness
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CGI definitely not greatness
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## Doctor Factor {#doctor-factor}
Wooohoooo!
Finally, a rare Doctor-focused episode, and they nailed it.
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The in-between-names doctor in full glory
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