![]() Kes just disappeared’ ‘Disappeared?’ Yes, nobody takes even a moment to mourn the death of Harry Kim. Gasp at the nasty medical vampires working their way through the ship, scanning people and preparing them for organ harvesting. It’s even more satisfying that the Voyager that we end up staying with it’s the damaged one (as opposed to the one littered with corpses).īest moment – Just when you think things can’t get any worse than two crewmembers dead and one of the two Voyager’s damaged beyond repair along comes the Vidiians to harvest the organs of the crew of the undamaged Voyager. That’s a rare but enjoyable feeling on this show. When it comes to the point where the Bridge is in flames, explosions are still raining and they are having to evacuate I even wondered if they were going get out of this one. Sets are blown up and left in debris, coolant leaks spit gas in the corridors, proton bursts explode in peoples faces and best of all Harry Kim gets sucked into the vacuum of space when the hull bursts open. The proton bursts are a brilliant Brannon Braga concept and how they are delivered, silence and then a slow build up of noise before complete destruction, is full of uncertainty because we know that further devastation is imminent. David Livingston brings a real pace and seriousness to the opening half which is effectively one long action set piece. Production – One of the better Voyager action episodes because it feels like the entire situation has shot to hell and that things have gotten out of control in a way that cannot be salvaged. ‘Mr Kim, we’re Starfleet Officers…weird is part of the job’ might just sum up every other episode of Voyager and Mulgrew nails the line. Mulgrew has a way of making the most extreme technobabble sound entirely plausible. If Captain Janeway is buying into what is happening, then I believe it is really happening. ![]() it is often the case that the more bizarre concepts on this show fall on Mulgrew’s shoulders to convince us that they are really happening. She has the difficult job of bringing two separate Janeway’s to life who are basically the same character but one who has just undergone severe trauma and another who hasn’t. Performance – Janeway, her face cut and bloody, having the result of the damage spilled out to her (including the death of the child) is one of those rare Voyager moments where the Quadrant pushes down hard on her. That’s right folks, you’re really not going to get out of this one. Deadlock takes the show as far as it can go down the ‘end of the line’ route because it has two Voyagers to play with and so one set of regulars can be disposed of.Ĭharacter – I love the moment where Janeway sets the self-destruct and everybody on the Bridge starts looking at each other. As one Voyager sets off proton bursts to help their situation it is literally sucking the life out of the other one.Īt one-point Tom Paris is literally on the run for his life from the Vidiians and Tuvok is having his organs harvested. The duplicate Voyager’s that are inextricably linked so that one directly effects the other is such a brilliant piece of techno-madness that I’m surprised it has taken this long for somebody to come up with it. ![]() ![]() I’m sure there are plenty of women watching who are envious of the simplicity of such a procedure. What a wonderfully simple and yet creative use of Star Trek technology. I love the idea that you can beam a baby out of the womb and into the tiny infant bio bed if the pregnancy is traumatic enough. That’s what makes what ultimately happens so clever and satisfying. For a show like Voyager I could imagine them not wanting to deal with the consequences of having a baby on board the show so it is perfectly feasible, in dramatic terms, that they would go down this route. Voyager is going to bear down on the tricky subject of infant death at birth? This is one of those rare times when the happy go lucky existence on Voyager is intruded upon by the horror of the Delta Quadrant and it really hits home (especially since the entire crew are on tenterhooks waiting for the arrival of the first baby born on Voyager). Elogium wasn’t that long ago to remind people of how badly fudged maternal themes can be on this show. Plot – The teaser leads the viewer right down the garden path into thinking that this going to be a twee Voyager episode about one of the crew giving birth.
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