Here we are at the beginning of the third season of Star Trek: Voyager! 42 done, 130 to go. Well, that’s a lot… We’re only a quarter of the way through! Well, let’s get to it. This beginning of the season is the first after a cliffhanger, as it was traditional in the sister series … More Star Trek: Voyager – S03E01, Basics (Part II)
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one. That’s what Spock and Kirk would say, only to forget it in order to help each other when needed. Well, if Janeway had followed this simple rule, the USS Voyager wouldn’t be in the situation it is at the end of … More Star Trek: Voyager – S02E26, Basics (Part I)
This is a hard review to write! Investigations seems to start off in the worst possible way that is, with the equivalent of Fun with Flags with Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory: Neelix (let me repeat for the n-th time that Ethan Phillips is great, by the way) begins a daily TV program … More Star Trek: Voyager – S02E20, Investigations
And here’s the third appearance of the Vidiians, the first in the second season, some excellent villains whose concept was also used for the Son’a race in Star Trek: Insurrection (the 1998 film directed by Jonathan Frakes). But this time things are very different: contrary to what happened in Phage and in Faces, in Lifesigns … More Star Trek: Voyager – S02E19, Lifesigns
Meld is a beautiful episode: Tim Russ has the opportunity to get out of the rigid canons imposed by the interpretation of a Vulcan and proves that he was the right choice for the character of Tuvok. Not that we haven’t seen angry Vulcans before, huh! Let’s say that, in line with Roddenberry’s thoughts, this … More Star Trek: Voyager – S02E16, Meld
Threshold shocked me. I don’t understand how such nonsense made it to an episode of a reputable series like Star Trek: Voyager in a season that so far hasn’t been all that great, but also had some very good peaks in quality (see Alliances, for example). I don’t even know how to start summing up … More Star Trek: Voyager – S02E15, Threshold
Our Klingon friends return in Alliances… uh, I mean our Kazon friends! And that’s their fifth appearance after Caretaker, State of Flux, Initiations and Maneuvers. Now the fact that there are many clans is much clearer than before, each being led by a Maje. But the plot begins with a fight in which a member … More Star Trek: Voyager – S02E14, Alliances
It’s Kazon time again! This is the fourth Kazon episode, and so far they’ve all been good (the first three were: Caretaker, State of Flux and Initiations). Maneuvers starts really well but the ending is disappointing, a bit like previous week’s Cold Fire. I wonder why the writers messed it up so much, but probably … More Star Trek: Voyager – S02E11, Maneuvers
Tattoo is an episode that perhaps I shouldn’t have liked as much as I did, but I actually loved it, I found it extremely moving. Yet, on paper it’s a mediocre episode, I’m the first to admit it! On the other hand, the theme touched me deeply and when it ended I rewatched it immediately … More Star Trek: Voyager – S02E09, Tattoo
It’s as simple as that: Robert Picardo makes everything better. Projections is yet another episode in which the holodeck malfunctions and endangers the lives of the crew. Been there, done that. Do you remember Heroes and Demons? This time the episode works a little better, both thanks to Picardo and to the numerous plot twists. … More Star Trek: Voyager – S02E03, Projections
