My Review of last weeks episode
Retrospect - I didn't like this episode much. It certainly
wasn't the way they tried to promote it to be.
Seven recalls memories of being 'violated'. This means that she
remembered someone taking borg nanoprobes from her while she was held down.
She accuses this guy. He ends up killing himself right after they
find out that it really wasn't Sevens memories that she had recalled.
I don't know where they were trying to go with this episode but I could
see how a lot of people might get offended by this episode.
Prey - I really loved this episode.
The Hirogen capture a left over Species 8472 but it escapes and injures
them. Voyager comes across their ship and sends an away team over
to the ship. Seven objected to this. Tom got to go on the away team.
<Yeah!> The away team finds the injured Hirogen and takes him
back to Voyager. Species 8472 attacks the ship and everyone in engineering
except Seven. Everyone starts tracking the Species 8472. Tom
shows his brilliant sense of humor. When they meet up with the alien, everyone
starts shooting. Tom gets shot. <I can't complain really, considering
he used to get hurt all the time and hasn't really been hurt lately.>
Tuvok gets in touch with the alien Species 8472 telepathically and finds
out that it just wants to go home. Reminds me of a Steven Spielberg
movie I saw a long time ago. Seven refuses to help Janeway get Species
8472 home so Janeway confines her to the cargo bay. A bunch of Hirogen
ships approach and want the Hirogen and Species 8472 but Janeway refuses
to give them the Species 8472. The ships fight. Voyager is
losing. Janeway asks Seven to go to deck 11 and bring some borg nanoprobes
so they can sedate the Species 8472. She does this but when she gets
there, the Hirogen shows up also. He escaped from a brig with a force
field and two security officers. They just don't train those security
dudes like they used to. Maybe they should call up Jerry Springer
and see if they could borrow those dudes for a while <I'm a big Steve
fan.> Species 8472 escapes and fights with the Hirogen. Seven then
transports them both to one of the Hirogen ships. The Hirogen ships
leave. Janeway then tells Seven that she will be denied some priveledges
and if she wants she can just stay in the cargo bay for the rest of the
trip. Seven is allowed to work in the astrometrics lab if she wants
but if she messes up she will be put in the brig for the rest of the trip.
Seven then acts like a scolded spoiled child and tells Janeway that she
was only ascerting her individuality.
The Hunters - I don't know why they named it this because it certainly
ended up being the subplot of the show. Letters from Home would have
been much better.
Voyager receives a message from starfleet but it gets lodged in the
Hirogen's relay station so they have to go get it. The message contains
letters from home. Chakotay gets the first one. Chakotay tells
B'Elanna that all the Marquis, except a few who are in prison, are dead.
Harry and Tom chat - Harry about the letters and Tom about the food.
Kims says to Tom, "I'm not you." DUH! You are nothing like Tom.
The data stream degrades so Seven and Tuvok have to take a shuttle to get
the message (We all know what taking a shuttle means.) B'Elanna takes
over for Seven (Sevens job was to get the data, doesn't anyone else work
on the ship?) Seven and Tuvok get beamed off the shuttlecraft and
onto a ship. (I thought we were the only ones in the Delta quadrant
with transporter technology.) B'Elanna calls Tom down to where she's
working. She tells him that a letter is coming in for him.
He cops a bad attitude and tries to leave but B'Elanna doesn't let him.
<Kleenex time> Tom explains to B'Elanna how he feels about the letters.
He tells her that everything he has on Voyager is better than what he had
in the Alpha quadrant and explains to her about his dad. The letter
is from his dad. She then tells him about the news of all her friends
dying and that she has been crying. He hugs her. B'Elanna puts
her hand on Tom's face and tells him she will call him when the rest of
the letter comes in. He turns around and leaves. <Kleenex time over>
<RANTING TIME NOW!> Those @#$% TPTB, where in the @#% is the kiss?
This point in time should have definately had a kiss with it. <RANTING
TIME OVER> Janeway tells Chakotay that Mark married someone else.
Could be an opening for you J/Cer fans. Don't write me, I'm not one
of you. Voyager discovers that no one is on the shuttle. Tuvok
and Seven escape but in the process the relay station gets destroyed.
B'Elanna gives Harry his letter from his parents and then tells Tom that
she couldn't get any more of his letter. She tells him to assume
that his dad said he loved him and he's proud of him and Tom agrees to
do that.
Scientific Method - I'm having to do this one from memory - I should
know some of it real well since I've watched it a billion times (I've watched
'the good parts' a billion times).
B'Elanna gives Seven a lecture of Starfleet protocol. <GO
B'ELANNA!> Tom gets out of his sick bay duties and uses the ships
site-to-site transport to bring B'Elanna flowers. They kiss.
<YEAH!> Aliens interfere. <BOO!>They kiss Again. <YEAH!>Commercial.
<BOO!>Everybody is working and Tom comes to see B'Elanna in engineering
on the pretense to help her do some work<Wink Wink>They go upstairs
to her workstation and get it on.<YEAH!>Tuvok enters<BOO!>Tom catches
up with Tuvok and tries to convince him not to say anything. Tom is sooo
sweet. B'Elanna and Tom enter the turbolift and try to decide what
to do. They go to their meeting. They only look at each other
once and then quickly look away. After the meeting, they start to
leave when Janeway calls them back for a private talking. She lectures
them about their romance and that they better start acting like senior
officers. <BOO! JANEWAY> They leave and return to their duties.
B'Elanna helps the doc out and almost dies. Tom saves her though
and is so caring in sickbay with her. Seven <sleep mode on>....
<sleep mode off>. Tom and B'Elanna are in his quarters having
dinner. He is so FINE! They kiss a lot <YEAH!> The end.<BOO!>
The Raven - Alternate Title - Seven has PTSD
Seven picks up on a homing signal and then takes a shuttle to go join
back with the Borg. Tom and Tuvok go after her also in a shuttle.
Tom sure is cute. Tuvok beams aboard the shuttle and is quickly subdued
by Seven. How come she's so strong? Isn't she a human now?
Then they find a ship and its the ship that Seven was originally on when
her and her parents were assimilated. Now how did that ship get in
the Delta quadrant in the first place? Long range exploration just
doesn't cut it here. What happened to Seven's parents? What
happens to Borg's when they get old? That really was the end of the
story. I didn't like this episode very much. Tom sure was cute
in this episode though.
Message in a Bottle - Alternate Title - "Two Starfleet Commando's"
I loved the doctors in this show. I don't like how they are doing
Seven's character. She should have to follow the same rules as the
rest of the crew. If they keep it up then they might as well call
it Baywatch in Space. Just my opinion.
This one starts off with Chakotay sticking up for the Borg when B'Elanna
is complaining about her. Seven TELLS the Captain and Chakotay to
come to the science room. She has found a ship in the Alpha quadrant.
They try to send it a message but the attempts fail and they decide to
send the doctor. They send him through a space alien network to the
other ship. He arrives on the 'Promethius', a rather cool looking
ship. This ship has regenerative shielding and Multi-Vector Assault
Mode. This ship has been taken over by the Romulans. The Doctor
summons the EMH from this ship and the two doc's work together to overtake
the ship. While back on board Voyager, Neelix tries to kill some
of the crew off with his Rodeo Red Sir Red Hot Root N Toot'n Chili with
jalapenos in it (Neelix pronounced the jalapenos with the j). Paris
is having a bad hair day. Perhaps he needs me to run my fingers through
it. Paris tries to get Kim to create another EMH so he can get out
of sick bay. He's a pilot not a doctor as he said. B'Elanna
tries to explain to Seven that she is rude, but it doesn't seem to do any
good. The Herogin appear and tell Voyager to quite using their network
and they disconnect. Once they re-establish contact, Janeway tries
to convince them that they really need to use the network but the Herogen
don't listen, so all on her own Seven sends them a mild shock. Great,
now lets piss off the aliens because we aren't getting our way. In
other episodes they have to find other ways of doing things when the alien
race won't allow them to do whatever it is they are trying to do.
The two docs are successful at defeating the Romulans and the Doctor comes
back aboard Voyager and informs them that he told Starfleet command that
Voyager was in the Delta Quadrant. Apparently, 14 months ago, Voyager
was officially declared lost. Starfleet will now attempt a rescue
mission and contact Voyager family members. Now, two more weeks of
re-runs. ARGH!
Waking Moments - Alternate Title - "Help! I've fallen asleep and
I can't wake up." I know, that was bad. Speaking of bad, there
was a lot of bad acting and directing in this show. I still liked
it because I thought it was funny. I could definately tell that Roxanne
was pregnant.
Everyone is having a nightmare, Kim is being attacked by Seven.
Tuvok goes to the bridge without his uniform on. The captain kills
the crew. Paris is crashing another shuttle and DAMN him for not
dreaming about me. If you watched this show for some good quality
sci-fi, you were probably disappointed but I kept picking myself off the
floor laughing. I'm easily amused. B'Elanna comes to see Tom
after he sleeps through their breakfast date. Tom looks so good in
that robe. They decide to go to Tahiti. Life must be rough
for B'Elanna, Tahiti and Paris. In MY dreams. Neelix gives
Tom some cooking oil to drink. Janeway questions Tuvok about his
dream and then looks him up and down. I think she might like a naked
vulcan. Janeway and Tuvok go to get Kim and Janeway knocks on the
door. I haven't seen anyone knock on a door in a Star Trek episode
in a long time. They go into his dark room and never turn the lights
on. That's the first thing I do when I go into a dark room, silly
me. The doctor informs us that people are in Hyper-REM state.
Chakotay tries lucid dreaming. I'm sure all the Chakotay finds would
like to try lucid dreaming with Chakotay but thats another web page.
Chakotay meets the alien and is told to leave their space. Neelix
talks about his dream, he was boiled in a pot of his own leola root stew.
I think that TPTB must have gotten this idea from the DIE! NEELIX! DIE!
fans. Sounds like something they would do. The aliens attack
the ship again and Chakotay realizes he's still dreaming. So everything
I just said doesn't count. There is a real cute shot of Tom sleeping
on the bridge, Chakotay moves his head out of the way. I'd like to
move his head too! Chakotay finds the aliens and wakes one and then
everything is just hunky dory. The big RESET button of life is again
pressed. Except for a few crew members with insomnia.
Day of Honor - Alternate title - "Tom Paris needs a good slapping
in this episode." This is one episode that inspires me on both sides
of the fence. I loved parts and I hated parts of it. I love
Tom Paris, but not in this episode. It was good to see Vorik, and
Neelix had a shining moment.
The Borg woman gets to request her own choice of duty assignments.
How nice. Janeway decides that Seven doesn't need a security detail
posted with her, afterall she's done so much to earn their trust and its
only the engineering department. She couldn't possibly do much damage
there. Get a clue Janeway! B'Elanna is having a bad day and
Tom isn't helping the matter much. I say slap him. The Caatati
show up and ask for a handout. B'Elanna's day gets worse and Tom
helps make it worse. I'd slap you if I could Tom. The Caatati
blah blah blah. Tom tries to protect the borg woman. Excuse
me while I gag. Tom offers her friendship and support if she needs
it. Gee Tom in three days (Revulsion) you will be giving Kim a lecture
on staying away from borg woman. Are you trying to pick her up or
something. B'Elanna should slap you silly boy. They have to
perform a transwarp test in engineering which B'Elanna was against in the
first place but no one listened to the chief engineer because we were trying
to make the borg woman happy. Tom smart mouths B'Elanna. He's
really asking for it. The test goes bad and they have to dump the
core. Should of dumped Tom too and while were at it, lets dump Janeway
and the borg. Tom and B'Elanna have to take a shuttle to get the
warp core. You know it is going to be bad when they get into a shuttle.
As expected the shuttle blows up and Tom and B'Elanna are out in space
in environmental suits. This is where we need to pause to go get
our Kleenex. Tom now returns to his normal self and there are a few
nice lines and touching moments shared in space. Then the big one
happens. B'Elanna, near death tells Tom that she loves him.
His reply, "You picked a great time to tell me." WHAT the hell was
that Tom? You are dying in space and the woman that you've been chasing
has just confessed that she does love you and you come up with "You picked
a great time to tell me." I ought to slap you for that one.
Does this mean that you don't love her or that TPTB just lost it for a
moment? ARGH!
I love the episode Revulsion, so its review
may be a little longer than the others. I also love the character
of the Doctor so don't send me hate mail about him.
Revulsion - Alternate title - "Our Isomorph
went Postal"
The show starts by showing a man cleaning up his crew mates and then
sending a distress call. Then we get to see the most wonderful scene
in the history of Star Trek (IMHO anyway). Tom Paris is telling a
story about how he played a joke on Tuvok. I love the character of
Tuvok. Tuvok gets a promotion (GO TUVOK!!). B'Elanna gets up
to leave and Tom gets up to go after her. He meets her and says that
they need to talk. He gives B'Elanna an excuse about saying that
she loves him (He's so sweet) but she confirms that she does love him.
She then starts babbling on about how he doesn't have to love her.
Tom tells her to "Shut Up" and gives her a big kiss. <REWIND>
He gives B'Elanna an excuse about saying that she loves him (He's so sweet)
but she confirms that she does love him. She then starts babbling
on about how he doesn't have to love her. Tom tells her to "Shut
Up" and gives her a big kiss. The doctor interrupts them. Note
to self - kill the doctor. <Wipe drool off remote control> The
Doctor wants to go help the hologram and offers to take B'Elanna with him.
Note to self - kill the doctor. Kim and Seven have to work together
and Kim gets nervous. B'Elanna and the Doctor are in the shuttle
and the Doctor tries to pick a fight with B'Elanna. Note to self - kill
the doctor. Then they beam down to the isomorphs ship. Paris
gives Kim a lecture on the do's and don'ts of dating Borg woman.
Kim doesn't listen. <Dumb Kim, Dumb> Isomorph goes nuts
and tries to rip B'Elanna's heart out. Note to self - kill isomorph.
Kim asks Seven to sit. <She can't stupid, not in that outfit.> Kim then
tries to put the moves on Seven but he gets scared. B'Elanna fries
the isomorph. YEAH! B'Elanna. Back in sick bay B'Elanna asks Tom
if he is to tired to come to her quarters later. "Can your heart
take it he replies". I wasn't very happy with that one but I guess
that was the best that TPTB could come up with. The doctor then makes
a smart remark. Note to self - kill the doctor.
Nemesis - Alternate title "Chakotay
does the Jungle"
This was a re-run but I had never seen it before. Chakotay has
to transport down to the sphere and mingle with the people from this planet
who were at war with some alien race (sorry, I already forgot who).
He tries not to get involved at first, but reluctantly he starts to feel
for the people and begins to hate the enemy. Oh, there's Tom on Voyager
talking to Janeway and Tuvok about how to rescue Chakotay. (Funny
Janeway, how come your rescuing Chakotay but you wouldn't help rescue B'Elanna
when she was being held by the Mari? sorry I'll get off my soapbox).
Paris gets off a good one to Tuvok "There you go again looking on the bright
side". Hey wait Tom is looking at me. He's coming over to me.
He's kissing me! Oh, sorry I was daydreaming again. Back to
the story. The credits roll. Just kidding. Chakotay ends
up being saved by the aliens that he has grown to hate. Moral of
the story. Your enemy is all in your mind. I don't know I just
made it up. If you got something better let me know and I'll put
it on here.
Mortal Coil - Alternate title "A waste
of tape"
Neelix, Neelix, Neelix, Blah, Blah, Blah.
Oh wait there's a scene with Tom it it. He's so gorgeous. Yeah!!!
Yeah!!! Yeah!!!
Neelix is dead, Neelix is dead! We could
make a song out of this idea. Hey wait a minute, Neelix wasn't wearing
a red shirt. Is something fishy going on??? Yep, just as I
suspected, here comes the borg lady to save Neelix. I knew someone
would. Darn It! Excuse me Captain but I think you need to button
up that blouse, Chakotay is looking. Hey another scene with Tom in
it and he's in engineering, could it be? YES! YES! A Tom and
B'Elanna scene and Chakotay is leaving. YES! YES! Hey what is this
Neelix crap again. Where's my story about Tom and B'Elanna????? Darn
It!!!! Neelix is leaving??? Are they teasing us again? Yes,
they are! I just knew it. It was to good to be true.
Darn It!!!!!
The Gift - A re-run Alternate Title - "We
need better ratings so out with Kes in with the Borg Lady"
Okay, this show was a little to hard to watch without some enlightening
drink to go along with it. Mainly because it was almost 30 minutes
before a scene with Lt. Tom Paris was shown. I don't think that they
explained very well the reason why Kes was transforming the way she was.
If that was a gift from Kes, then why didn't she send them back to the
alpha quadrant, not just ten years? Well I don't remember much more
about that episode, except the fact that I'm gonna feel real sorry for
Jerri Ryan (7o9) if she ever has to go to work feeling bloated. Send
your comments to kbellap@geocities.com
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