NINJA'D!
A truly Spocktacular episode,
VOY: "Meld" (2011)
is a powerful episode that ingeniously makes use of Vulcans AND Betazoids in a compelling adventure that feels like Twilight Zone/TOS at times. They nailed the feel and format, and put thought into both the Tuvok-meld AND Neelix-strangle scenes.
Heck, VOY - as with the Borg - put thought into delving into Vulcan lore with tact and intrigue and that's what helps makes VOY more enduring than its original-but-quickly-ditched premise of two factions having to survive together.
(Suder does get a little Star Wars sudsy in this scene, but it doesn't not work.)
Reminiscent of Kohlinar from TMP as a baseline for Vulcan emotion-purging, the whole story really does the Vulcans some justice, as well a terrific bait-n-switch. Spoiler alert for a three decade-old show, don't read that aforementioned sentence if you want to be jubilance-driven-then-be-abjectly-disappointed that it's just a holodeck routine.
(The edited highlight of the previous bit, if you want this in "HD", for which read "creepy waxy walking mannequins thanks to extensive deinterlacing and mpeg compression cleanup", then this is for you.)
A truly Spocktacular episode,
VOY: "Meld" (2011)
is a powerful episode that ingeniously makes use of Vulcans AND Betazoids in a compelling adventure that feels like Twilight Zone/TOS at times. They nailed the feel and format, and put thought into both the Tuvok-meld AND Neelix-strangle scenes.
Heck, VOY - as with the Borg - put thought into delving into Vulcan lore with tact and intrigue and that's what helps makes VOY more enduring than its original-but-quickly-ditched premise of two factions having to survive together.
(Suder does get a little Star Wars sudsy in this scene, but it doesn't not work.)
Reminiscent of Kohlinar from TMP as a baseline for Vulcan emotion-purging, the whole story really does the Vulcans some justice, as well a terrific bait-n-switch. Spoiler alert for a three decade-old show, don't read that aforementioned sentence if you want to be jubilance-driven-then-be-abjectly-disappointed that it's just a holodeck routine.
(The edited highlight of the previous bit, if you want this in "HD", for which read "creepy waxy walking mannequins thanks to extensive deinterlacing and mpeg compression cleanup", then this is for you.)
