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Well I think
I must be suffering from an overexposure to 7 of 9 because I wasn't
feeling terribly bothered about this being the Season Finale. My
husband recorded it for me and missed most of the opening sequence
with Janeway and Seven and I didn't even shout (which worried him a
little). All I thought was why do they have to dress Janeway so
dowdily.
Now normally when I watch Trek I tend to take all
the technical stuff without questioning it but not this time. How
did Arturis manage to plan all this? He must've been a pretty quick
thinker because he only had a few minutes to alter the Admirals
message. Then all of a sudden we have co-ordinates, which are less
than 10 light years away, and low and behold the Dauntless is
waiting for them with a Federation signature and looking
suspiciously like a Starfleet vessel.
Then when Chakotay,
Tuvok and Tom are on board the Dauntless it suddenly takes off. The
vessel is obviously remote controlled but how does he manage to do
it. When his plan is uncovered and Janeway meets Tuvok and co. on
the bridge of the Dauntless, Arturis is wrestling the security guard
why does she nod at Tuvok to fire on him, she had her own phaser and
we know from past episodes she's not afraid of using it. During this
struggle Arturis pulls a lever and the bridge controls are changed
back but not anywhere else as we discover later on when Seven is in
engineering it's still Starfleet control panels.
Major
nit-picks now, How did he know she had negotiated with the Borg and
how had he managed to observe them for 3 months without being
detected? Now I know this must seem as if I disliked the episode,
but that's not the case. I did like the story line and the way they
tied Season 3s finale with this one. There were some good moments,
there was lots of Janeway screen time, which is always a good thing,
but Kate also had some good interactions with several
characters.
Nice scene with Chakotay in the mess Hall at the
beginning when she asked him to join her for coffee, the only
thing that marred this was Chakotay suggesting she ask Seven to
help her with the algorithms.
The way she stopped Tuvok from leaving the briefing
room and confessed that she had doubts about the whole situation,
I think that Tim and Kate always act well together.
Liked it that Seven tried out her first joke on
her.
Good scenes with Arturis especially when he drops the
bombshell on her that he feels she is responsible for the
destruction of her home planet.
Basically a
reasonable episode, not really befitting as a finale. Two saving
graces, Seven didn't single handed save the ship and Janeway beat
her in the rematch at velocity.
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