Rewatching Voyager

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

Couldn't agree more. SCORPION to me is not noly the best VOY episode but the best sci-fi episode ever written. There are countless reasons for that, one of them being the introduction of Leonardo da Vinci:

I noticed that, often, the episodes in 2 parts (Caretaker, Basics, Futures's End, Dark Frontier, Scorpion, Equinox, Unimatrix Zero, were pretty good -> I voluntarily omitted Flesh & Blood, Workforce - though Jaffen - and Endgame who weren' t has good have those quoted.

Thank you to have quoted Leonardo da Vinci! The character was really charming and his relationship with Janeway was endearing. It reflected, in a certain sense, the same - just more mature - relationship - than the one between Janeway and Seven = the Professor and his protégée.
Besides, I wonder if she didn't try to reproduce her relationship with the Master's with Seven...

 

[Thomas Eugene]

Coda

There was only one thing I liked about this episode, and that was Janeway's "Go back to Hell, Coward" line. Other than that, this episode felt really uneven, unfortunately. I mean we go from a temporal anomoly, to Janeway dying with the Vidiian Phage, back to a temporal anomaly, and by the end of the episode, what came before had no baring at all. We got an alien praying on people who are close to death. Honestly, I would have liked to see the Temporal loops keep going, a la Cause and Effect. How many ways can Kathryn Janeway be killed, and what does the shuttle do to get out of it. Also, who sends both the first officer and Captain on a mission? I can understand resolutions because they had a disease which forced them off the ship, but I don't understand it here.

It's interesting you didn't like this episode that much. I thought the concept of the alien wanting to take with him people from the world of the living was quite an interesting one. Plus there's a lot of Janeway and Chakotay on this one and even though I'd love Chakotay to fall in love with Tom, since it never happens, I'm quite happy about anything Janeway/Chakotay. Also, Kes's telepathic abilities were used on this one - to me it's always a pleasure to see Tuvok and Kes meditate (or whatever the appropriate technical term is).
I guess I've never mentioned on this thread that of all the VOYAGER books, my favourite one is DISTANT SHORES. I'm sure most of you know this collection of short stories but if you don't, I can really recommend reading them. They take place during the seven-year run of Voyager and most of the time authors pick on a certain theme from the show that was briefly mentioned but never elaborated on and then they develop the idea into a story. It's a lovely collection of narrative, I think.
The reason that I'm mentioning this here is that there are actually two short stories related to CODA.
SPOILERS: 1) Talent Night. This is referred to by Janeway and Chakotay in the shuttle in CODA as well as by Neelix at the beginning of the episode. The short story tells the events of how they prepared for the TALENT NIGHT. What is interesting about it is, however, that it's a Paris-Torres story and explains quite a bit about the start of their relationship.
2) Da Capo Al Fine. This, so to speak, is the main story in the collection. Admiral Janeway is standing in the borg Queen's cubicle (cubicle? is that the right word?) and in her dying moments revisits the events during the seven years of Voyager's journey. In this, she is helped by a guide, who is the alien from CODA but this time the alien does not appear in the shape of Janeway's father but in the shape of Seska. END OF SPOILERS

Both stories are interesting - just like the rest of the book - I can really recommend reading it. My favourite story was LETTING GO with Mark, Janeway's (ex-) fiancé.

Blood Fever

Now this was a great episode, and the road to Scorpion officially begins. I've always liked Vorik, and I'm really happy he got his own episode here dealing with Pon Farr when there was no suitable mate. I also liked seeing Torres dealing with it too, and this kicked the Paris/Torres relationship into high gear. As for the ending, this is why the road to Scorpion officially begins. We get a very nice Borg tease. It was only like 30 seconds, but it set the stage for what was to come quite nicely.

Now what can I say? This one is a gem. In every possible sense of the word. You know, whenever some of my VOY fan friends come over to watch a single episode, they always go for BLOOD FEVER. (When we get together at weekends, we watch them in the order the episodes are but if one of them pops up for an hour during the week, it's usually BLOOD FEVER). I must have seen this episode more often than SCORPION, which is number 1 on my list.
In any case, there are so many reasons why I love this ep. One of the lesser ones is the use of the silver uniform: all of them look amazing in it - even Tuvok has a sexy back :

 

[Thomas Eugene]

I noticed that, often, the episodes in 2 parts (Caretaker, Basics, Futures's End, Dark Frontier, Scorpion, Equinox, Unimatrix Zero, were pretty good -> I voluntarily omitted Flesh & Blood, Workforce - though Jaffen - and Endgame who weren' t has good have those quoted.

Thank you to have quoted Leonardo da Vinci! The character was really charming and his relationship with Janeway was endearing. It reflected, in a certain sense, the same - just more mature - relationship - than the one between Janeway and Seven = the Professor and his protégée.
Besides, I wonder if she didn't try to reproduce her relationship with the Master's with Seven...

Leonardo da Vinci is undoubtedly my favourite holodeck programme - but we'll talk about that in more detail when tomalak gets to SCORPION and CONCERNING FLIGHT. But one thing is sure, I'd love to have been his student, too (and have clssses with him AND Janeway together, of course).
tomalak, is it OK to call you that - or do you insist on 301?

 

[tomalak301]

tomalak, is it OK to call you that - or do you insist on 301?

Tomalak is fine.

 

[tomalak301]

Unity

The road to Scorpion continues with the episode that really set up was was to come. Here is a great Chakotay episode, the first since the Kazon Arc probably, and we meet Wolf 359 refugees that have been severed from the collective. I know Voyager gets a bad rap when it comes to the Borg, but I thought Unity added a lot to what we know about the collective and what might happen if a group is cut off from the collective. I liked Chakotay and Reily together and the use of the link to cure Chakotay was something fresh we hadn't seen with the Borg until now.

In terms of my point about setting up scorpion, we get a dead drone corpse, which the Doctor uses in part two to come up with nanoprobes and to take off the Implants for Seven, and we also get the transponder, which Chakotay uses to stop 7 of 9. Unity is a great episode and one of the third season's best.

 

[tomalak301]

Darkling

There isn't much to say about this episode because I'm not entirely sure a lot happened. Kes meets a nice guy, wants to explore her identity now that she's getting older, Doctor turns evil (Didn't he learn from The Swarm that changing his program might lead to some not not very good results?), kills Kes's love interest, and wants to take Kes somewhere only to be therted and then recites the Hippocrates Oath. I think the only things I found interesting was Kes going into the one piece outfit (Man I didn't like it when they put Kes in that) and Kes and Janeway's conversation, which if we take this Road to Scorpion thing to apply to this episode, might imply what is to come in The Gift, which features Voyager still in Borg Space and the aftermath of Scorpion. But I digress, this episode is not all that great. It's not terrible, but not much happens to really warrent much else.

 

[Thomas Eugene]

Unity

The road to Scorpion continues with the episode that really set up was was to come. Here is a great Chakotay episode, the first since the Kazon Arc probably, and we meet Wolf 359 refugees that have been severed from the collective. I know Voyager gets a bad rap when it comes to the Borg, but I thought Unity added a lot to what we know about the collective and what might happen if a group is cut off from the collective. I liked Chakotay and Reily together and the use of the link to cure Chakotay was something fresh we hadn't seen with the Borg until now.

In terms of my point about setting up scorpion, we get a dead drone corpse, which the Doctor uses in part two to come up with nanoprobes and to take off the Implants for Seven, and we also get the transponder, which Chakotay uses to stop 7 of 9. Unity is a great episode and one of the third season's best.

Why VOY gets a bad rap when it comes to the borg ... when it comes to anything really ... beats me.
Here's a wonderful show with a lot of loveable characters, superb interaction, lots of love between the characters, one interesting story after another ... what else do people need?
When it gets a bad rap because of the borg, this gets even worse because the borg are one of the most interesting villains in all Star Trek (in all sci-fi, I think) and Voyager gave us fantastic borg episodes, UNITY being one of them.
One of the great things about this episode was to prove that even without Seven you can have a great borg episode (not that I don't love everything with her).
Also, throughout the show, Chakotay, Janeway, Tuvok, B'Elanna all get "borgified" (does that make sense?) at some point, which means we get a sneak peek at the collective through our main heroes' eyes.
Riley et al were also all great. I really like how Kirsten Beyer incorporated them into one of her books. Although of course, it required a stretch of my imagination to understand that after a long while you bump into people that could potentially take you home and you say no to that - but I've never questioned people's motives. It was probably due to something the producers decided not to tell us.

Darkling

There isn't much to say about this episode because I'm not entirely sure a lot happened. Kes meets a nice guy, wants to explore her identity now that she's getting older, Doctor turns evil (Didn't he learn from The Swarm that changing his program might lead to some not not very good results?), kills Kes's love interest, and wants to take Kes somewhere only to be therted and then recites the Hippocrates Oath. I think the only things I found interesting was Kes going into the one piece outfit (Man I didn't like it when they put Kes in that) and Kes and Janeway's conversation, which if we take this Road to Scorpion thing to apply to this episode, might imply what is to come in The Gift, which features Voyager still in Borg Space and the aftermath of Scorpion. But I digress, this episode is not all that great. It's not terrible, but not much happens to really warrent much else.

You won't be surprised to hear that I just love DARKLING ... First off, I love every single episode that takes place in the Paxau simulation - this is one of the most appealing sides of Season 3 for me. That Caribbean atmosphere is unbeatable ... well, this is not quite true because Leonardo is my fav holodeck programme ... but I'm digressing.
The Doctor might not have learnt anything from the events in THE SWARM, but aren't people like that in real life? Just take any football supporter ... do they ever learn? (I mean vandalism here.) I know this example is too extreme but even under less extreme circumstances people are slow learners. And the Doctor at least had an altruistic motive in him, to become a better personality and a better doctor which is not true of most people (least of all, of football hooligans ... ). In any case, it turns out from this episode that the Nekrit Expanse is not yet charted, or only to a certain extent and it's most probably a dangerous place. Voyager, however, has no other option but to go into it. The idea of introducing the borg at this point of the story was a good one because it underlines the dangers that lie in the Nekrit Expanse: even the borg seem to avoid that stretch of space.
As for Kes's catsuits, I guess they were trying to do with her what later they were doing with Seven but it didn't work so well with her as with Seven. I'm, of course, only guessing, since I'm gay so I have no idea if that was the case or not but I have the strong impression that those catsuits didn't make her eye candy - at least not to the extent that they did Jeri Ryan.

 

[tomalak301]

Just a little update for those following this thread. I'm watching Orange is the New Black season 4 right now, but I will get back to Voyager eventually. I have 5 episodes left and I'm not binging, but I hope to finish OITNB this week and then get back to Voyager.

 

[Thomas Eugene]

Gotcha ...

 

[tomalak301]

OITNB is over for the season, now it's finally time to get back to Voyager, and tonight was a 3 episode night.

Rise

I don't hate this episode but it is dull for the most part. The best parts of it is the interplay between Neelix and Tuvok and Neelix's blow up in the end. I'm really happy to see Neelix finally step up to Tuvok and he had every right to do it here. Other than that, this episode featuring Astroids should have been more exciting but it wasn't.

Favorite Son

This episode is also really dull. In fact, I don't remember much of it other than Kim being controlled by some aliens and firing phasers at a race which was thought to be peaceful. They weren't, but it was still a surprising scene. Also, I guess the Terminator from T3: Rise of the Machines was in this episode. I did not know that.

Before and After

This is the episode I wanted to talk about in this set of three. I'm a huge fan of Kes on the series, and this episode made me realize that very fact many years ago. If Warlord allowed Lien to branch out, this episode allowed her to Branch out and fly as Kes, a strong, but calm and confident young woman who as we see from this episode has lived a full and happy life.

I love the concept of Time Travel here and it's never been duplicated since. Using the Krenim as a preview to what is to come with the Year of Hell as the device to start Kes's backward timeshifting was brilliant, and gave us one of the best stories Voyager has ever done. In fact, I think this is a top 5 episode for me. It definitely is my favorite Kes episode of the series and it's such a shame Lien is being kicked off in like 6 episodes. If they had written Kes this way throughout, it would have been such a great strong character.

Oh, and I can't finish without talking about the new Look. I love this look so much. In fact, for the longest time, I've wanted an avatar with a smiling Kes with the long hair. Now might not be appropriate because of the legal trouble Lien has gotten herself into, but I choose to remember Lien with this look and how she acted in this episode. We got a strong character, full of energy and life, and like I said, it was one of the best episodes Voyager ever did. It's a shame Janeway didn't listen to her though. It could have prevented the entire Year of Hell, but then there goes the drama.

 

[Archimago]

OITNB is over for the season, now it's finally time to get back to Voyager, and tonight was a 3 episode night.

Rise

I don't hate this episode but it is dull for the most part. The best parts of it is the interplay between Neelix and Tuvok and Neelix's blow up in the end. I'm really happy to see Neelix finally step up to Tuvok and he had every right to do it here. Other than that, this episode featuring Astroids should have been more exciting but it wasn't.

Favorite Son

This episode is also really dull. In fact, I don't remember much of it other than Kim being controlled by some aliens and firing phasers at a race which was thought to be peaceful. They weren't, but it was still a surprising scene. Also, I guess the Terminator from T3: Rise of the Machines was in this episode. I did not know that.

Before and After

This is the episode I wanted to talk about in this set of three. I'm a huge fan of Kes on the series, and this episode made me realize that very fact many years ago. If Warlord allowed Lien to branch out, this episode allowed her to Branch out and fly as Kes, a strong, but calm and confident young woman who as we see from this episode has lived a full and happy life.

I love the concept of Time Travel here and it's never been duplicated since. Using the Krenim as a preview to what is to come with the Year of Hell as the device to start Kes's backward timeshifting was brilliant, and gave us one of the best stories Voyager has ever done. In fact, I think this is a top 5 episode for me. It definitely is my favorite Kes episode of the series and it's such a shame Lien is being kicked off in like 6 episodes. If they had written Kes this way throughout, it would have been such a great strong character.

Oh, and I can't finish without talking about the new Look. I love this look so much. In fact, for the longest time, I've wanted an avatar with a smiling Kes with the long hair. Now might not be appropriate because of the legal trouble Lien has gotten herself into, but I choose to remember Lien with this look and how she acted in this episode. We got a strong character, full of energy and life, and like I said, it was one of the best episodes Voyager ever did. It's a shame Janeway didn't listen to her though. It could have prevented the entire Year of Hell, but then there goes the drama.

Before and After is a killer episode! Great watch and defenitly one of Kes' best. I also really like her long curly hair.

So I'm guessing that future was an alternative time line? Becuase there are millions of permutations of the same timeline? I think from reading the book future's end my mind is blowing up from the temporal mechanics of q!

 

[Archimago]

Can I also ask you guys how publicised has the EU referendum been in your country's? See if it's global news yet

 

[tomalak301]

Can I also ask you guys how publicised has the EU referendum been in your country's? See if it's global news yet

This is a huge news story, historic even. The stock market is not going to have a good day.

 

[stardream]

Before and After is a killer episode! Great watch and defenitly one of Kes' best. I also really like her long curly hair.

So I'm guessing that future was an alternative time line? Becuase there are millions of permutations of the same timeline? I think from reading the book future's end my mind is blowing up from the temporal mechanics of q!

I'm a fan of the longer hair as well. I really liked this episode apart from the whole Harry marries Tom's daughter thing.

Interesting that during the Year of Hell Seven finds the torpedo and instead of Janeway and Torres being killed their 'partners' Chakotay and Paris are abducted. Someone had to find the torpedo thing but I wonder if the kidnapping was planned out in the same way?

 

[Thomas Eugene]

OITNB is over for the season, now it's finally time to get back to Voyager, and tonight was a 3 episode night.

Rise

I don't hate this episode but it is dull for the most part. The best parts of it is the interplay between Neelix and Tuvok and Neelix's blow up in the end. I'm really happy to see Neelix finally step up to Tuvok and he had every right to do it here. Other than that, this episode featuring Astroids should have been more exciting but it wasn't.

Favorite Son

This episode is also really dull. In fact, I don't remember much of it other than Kim being controlled by some aliens and firing phasers at a race which was thought to be peaceful. They weren't, but it was still a surprising scene. Also, I guess the Terminator from T3: Rise of the Machines was in this episode. I did not know that.

Before and After

This is the episode I wanted to talk about in this set of three. I'm a huge fan of Kes on the series, and this episode made me realize that very fact many years ago. If Warlord allowed Lien to branch out, this episode allowed her to Branch out and fly as Kes, a strong, but calm and confident young woman who as we see from this episode has lived a full and happy life.

I love the concept of Time Travel here and it's never been duplicated since. Using the Krenim as a preview to what is to come with the Year of Hell as the device to start Kes's backward timeshifting was brilliant, and gave us one of the best stories Voyager has ever done. In fact, I think this is a top 5 episode for me. It definitely is my favorite Kes episode of the series and it's such a shame Lien is being kicked off in like 6 episodes. If they had written Kes this way throughout, it would have been such a great strong character.

Oh, and I can't finish without talking about the new Look. I love this look so much. In fact, for the longest time, I've wanted an avatar with a smiling Kes with the long hair. Now might not be appropriate because of the legal trouble Lien has gotten herself into, but I choose to remember Lien with this look and how she acted in this episode. We got a strong character, full of energy and life, and like I said, it was one of the best episodes Voyager ever did. It's a shame Janeway didn't listen to her though. It could have prevented the entire Year of Hell, but then there goes the drama.

Obviously, there are quite a few dull episodes for you.
I admit, FAVORITE SON is a bit weaker in quality - nevertheless, it is still an interesting story. Even as a gay man I enjoy it - I'd have thought straight men would derive pleasure from the sight of all those women.
Tom definitely did ...
RISE was wonderful, I thought. An interesting murder story - this time Tuvok doesn't only have the opportunity to investigate but also to nearly become a victim himself. Again, we have an episode here which is a positive proof of how much the characters of VOY care for each other. Tuvok was really tender as he attended to Neelix's wound and you could see how much Neelix was suffering when he saw Tuvok outside the elevator struggling for his life.
The final scene between Tuvok and Neelix is a gem: "Something tells me you just hate to lose an argument" ...

BEFORE AND AFTER is undoubtedly the best Kes episode for me, too. Like I've already pointed out, that scene in the Jefferey's (sp.?) tube with Seven in YEAR OF HELL makes absolutely no sense to me. Kes should have been at least in that two-parter.
BTW, did you know that that was the original plan? Season 3 was supposed to have finished with YEAR OF HELL Part 1 with a major role for Kes. No SCORPION, no borg, no Annika Hansen. But then things just didn't turn out the way they were originally planned ...
For me, the best part of BAA was Tom and Kes's marriage. That was beautiful. A lot of people like to hate this episode exactly for this reason (and for the fact that Harry is Tom's son-in-law). To me, this was again a positive proof of how the Voyager crew is a big family, how much they love each other and how much they never give up in spite of impossible odds to make it home. A wonderful episode with an interesting story and a brilliant outcome. If Kes had stayed for YEAR OF HELL, it would have been even more brilliant.
As for Kes's hair, I've always preferred her with short hair. If you are interested in my reasons check out my thread at:
http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/star-trek-voyager-desktop-wallpapers.279007/page-22 (Message No. 429).

Can I also ask you guys how publicised has the EU referendum been in your country's? See if it's global news yet

It has been mentioned briefly ... Since Hungary is doing pretty well at the European Championship at the moment, all are news is about football, football and football ...
Yawn ...
Time to watch Deep Space Nine: SECOND SIGHT. Love that episode - Sisko is (finally) so good on it!

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

Can I also ask you guys how publicised has the EU referendum been in your country's? See if it's global news yet

Here, in Paris (only 2 hours 15 min from London; thanks to Eurostar), our politicians are afraid that the Pandore's box, which was opened by United Kingdom yesterday, goes on the rampage. Marine Le Pen (Front National which is associated to a far-right party) already asked that a referendum on the membership of France in the European Union be organized quickly. But some others parties feel more and more doubts towards Brussels, even if they don't inevitably demand an release)
For information, 2017 is an electoral year (Presidential and legislative).
Lately, a poll gave 62% of French people who would come to a Frexit!

Wait and see!

 

[tomalak301]

Real Life

This episode continues to be sad to this day. Those heartless writers, they killed that little girl. I would argue that the negative family was as unrealistic as the perfect family was. By giving them negative vibes, they didn't really explore the Doctor enjoying family life. I guess you can't considering it's a Drama, but I think it worked for Brady Bunch back in the day. Still, I think it would have been awesome had this family returned and had been a part of the Doctor's development, maybe once a season or something. Then we really could have seen the "Real Life" of them all.

With that being said, I still like this episode. Like I said, the end when Belle dies is really sad and Picardo did an awesome job conveying that sadness. I could take or leave the anomaly story, but everything else worked for the most part.

 

[Archimago]

Real Life

This episode continues to be sad to this day. Those heartless writers, they killed that little girl. I would argue that the negative family was as unrealistic as the perfect family was. By giving them negative vibes, they didn't really explore the Doctor enjoying family life. I guess you can't considering it's a Drama, but I think it worked for Brady Bunch back in the day. Still, I think it would have been awesome had this family returned and had been a part of the Doctor's development, maybe once a season or something. Then we really could have seen the "Real Life" of them all.

With that being said, I still like this episode. Like I said, the end when Belle dies is really sad and Picardo did an awesome job conveying that sadness. I could take or leave the anomaly story, but everything else worked for the most part.

Yes i've always found it to be interesting I Think Picardo really shone through in this epsiode and like you said he conveyed the sadness of the last scene well. But we'll it's a good argument really which family is more realistic I would argue the negative one but then that family is just a negative spiral of events I think a balance between the two would have been best.

Why they weren't revisited I'm unsure it would have been nice even for just a couple of minutes a season we see the doctor in use of it.

I haven't seen the epsiode for a while so I can't remember what the rest of its about something not very important I imagine.

Also I won't start a political debate but interesting to see the news has spread. I think England had made a dire mistake and has set of a chain of events all around Europe and the rest of the world that could be devastating but we will see..

 

[Thomas Eugene]

Real Life

This episode continues to be sad to this day. Those heartless writers, they killed that little girl. I would argue that the negative family was as unrealistic as the perfect family was. By giving them negative vibes, they didn't really explore the Doctor enjoying family life. I guess you can't considering it's a Drama, but I think it worked for Brady Bunch back in the day. Still, I think it would have been awesome had this family returned and had been a part of the Doctor's development, maybe once a season or something. Then we really could have seen the "Real Life" of them all.

With that being said, I still like this episode. Like I said, the end when Belle dies is really sad and Picardo did an awesome job conveying that sadness. I could take or leave the anomaly story, but everything else worked for the most part.

The Doctor exeprienced an unrealistic family life in the positive sense at the beginning of the episode so I find it fitting he'd experience a similarly unrealistic one in the negative sense at the end.
Also, I think that a family where a child dies is more realistic than a family in which everybody keeps smiling for apparently no reason.
REAL LIFE is one of VOY's highs for me. I guess I mentioned before that even though I like action-packed episodes (SCORPION, DEADLOCK or DARK FRONTIER, e.g.), I think the essence of Voyager is that sense of family which has never to date been conveyed so well by any other series as VOY. This sense of family is mainly carried by episodes like REAL LIFE - a gem in my book.
Take Tom, e.g. You'd think of him as the emotionally immature womanizer (remember he says at the beginning of the show he has five girlfriends at home?) who is not capable of deeper emotions. Then you watch the series and you realize how much he changes in this (and other) respect(s). One of the stations on his way of personal development is this episode. It's him, the guy who's never thought of himself as a family guy who makes the Doctor understand what a family is really for:
"Well, think about what's happened to us here on Voyager. Everyone left people behind, and everyone suffered a loss, but look how it's brought us all closer together. We found support here, and friendship, and we've become a family in part because of the pain we shared. If you turn your back on this programme you'll always be stuck at this point. You'll never have the chance to say goodbye to your daughter, or to be there for your wife and son when they need you, and you'll be cheating yourself of the chance to have their love and support. In the long run you'll miss the whole point of what it means to have a family."
You probably don't want to hear this for the umpteenth time but there really is a reason why I think that Thomas Eugene Paris is the perfect guy for me ...
And since he is the protagonist of the subplot, of course I love that part of the episode, too.
Also, we can see the Doctor in so many episodes where he can't curb his ego. Here, at last, it's not the case and it's always a nice change to see when he can restrain himself.

Also I won't start a political debate but interesting to see the news has spread. I think England had made a dire mistake and has set of a chain of events all around Europe and the rest of the world that could be devastating but we will see..

I guess with time you learn to accept the fact that unless something like the Second World War happens, political changes don't have that much bearing on your personal life, no matter how dramatic they might seem to be at the moment they take place. Life goes on ... and I'm sure that in, say, ten year's time, no one will think about the "devastating chain of events" that Britain was a catalyst for - mainly because they most probably won't be devastating at all ...
JMO, of course.

 

[stardream]

Once again I'm the odd one out. I liked Real Life but for me it was all about the space eddy. I do think it was well acted and the Picardo did some great work but in the end the only thing that carried on from this episode was Tom and B'Elanna flirting about her Klingon romance novel. It's too bad...I would like to have seen some more fall out from this but in the end what we are left with is the acceptance that none of this was actually 'real'.