That episode was called "Displaced". It was actually one of my most favorite episodes of Voyager. But to each his own.
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That episode was called "Displaced". It was actually one of my most favorite episodes of Voyager. But to each his own.
Fury
That pathetic excuse for a Star Trek episode is not only bad, it's downright insulting.
The worst episode ever, not only in Star Trek but in the whole history of TV series.
Time travel tends to do that to the story, but yeah they really did screw over the whole Kes character and everyone who was a fan of hers. It never even made sense why Kes would blame Janeway. It was her idea in the first place to leave the ship and she did so because she was destroying Voyager.
I always liked that scene between Neelix and Kes in the transporter room though. There was something touching and sad about it at the same time.
Yes. Which is odd, since I hated their relationship when they were together.
It's a good rule that time travel stories never make sense and we should just ignore the silliness, but Fury really went over the edge. Plus it just gratuitously ruined Kes. I didn't find her particularly interesting, but she was pleasant and Jennifer Lien brought a certain charm to the role, so for this to happen... yuk.
I have to vote 'Threshold'...but I did find the concept of what Tom and the gang were attempting to do interesting. The rest...NOPE. *Grossout moment-seeing 'transformed Tom' pull his toungue out!(Aw, man!) Brannon Braga has admitted to the eh, stinkiness-my word-of this ep, but then, every series has had it's 'shameful moments'....I will say that I liked ''Course:Oblivion''...it was to me touching as 'Tom' dealt with a dying 'B'Elanna', and our Kath's valiant determination to press on, to be whom she felt in her heart they were...even if in truth not. 'Spirit Folk' did have one important storyline, in Janeway's interest in the barkeep...after all, a woman has needs, and 'Kotay wasn't on the radar...I think it could happen to any person in her place, in that environment...As far as the second Q ep for STV, I liked the concept of an internal struggle within the Continuum interesting-and have some ideas story-wise re that....and Q is always bringing his 'style and panache' to whatever Trek he visits...
Supposedly they were going to have Q back for season 4. Well, assuming there was ever any truth to these episode rumors ......
http://www.hack-man.com/StarTrek/TREKFAQS/voy.txt
16. “Quartered” - Q makes his third appearance as he temporarily brings the Voyager back to the Alpha Quadrant, where he tries to convince the crew that the Federation has been defeated by the Dominion and that they’re better off in the Delta Quadrant. This show will celebrate TNG’s 10th anniversary and will feature part of the TNG cast.
Fascinating... some of those I really would've liked to see, however truthful those rumors are. Most especially 14. "Shards of Time." And the one you highlighted. Although I'd hope a crossover involving the Dominion War would feature at least one of the DS9 crew.
I voted for Threshold.
The others were either boring or stupid...but Threshold was the only one that was outright absurd and disgusting.
And it's good to see you, w'S? !!!!!
The others were either boring or stupid...but Threshold was the only one that was outright absurd and disgusting.
And it's good to see you, w'S? !!!!!
C:O is actually one of my favorite episodes. Plus, NO RESET!
My problem is that the episode gave us a whole episode of character development, that has no impact on anything. Tom and B'Elana work things out and get married, for example, in nothing but a little fuck you to the fans. At the end of the day, the episode is just a waste of time because their deaths and sacrifice are meaningless. To me that's worse than the reset button. The whole episode is a reset button.
To me it's worse than the Demon planet episode, because it forces us to remember that stupid episode and try to work through the logic of it. Seriously, how does that goo from the planet go from replicating organic matter, to replicating anti-matter, and bulkheads, and sophisticated computer equiptment? And if the magic goo could do all that, why would it randomly just start to break down? There are just to many leaps in logic required for this. And if there was something meaninful at the end of the day, maybe I'd be willing to suspend disbelief, but not as is.
First, one reading of Course: Oblivion is that life is meaningless, which is genuinely dark. People who get their notions of dark from things like DS9 are shocked to see the real thing.
Second, the "silver blood" was borrowed from the Founders on DS9. If it made two episodes of Voyager unacceptably stupid, it made several years of DS9 unacceptably stupid.
Teya's case for Tattoo is strong. But, making Injuns part alien is sort of endowing them with Magic Negro powers. It's still racist drivel but it lacks malevolence. I nominate Equinox, where killing the Injuns is so matter of fact that we, the audience, are supposed to hate Janeway for getting upset about it.
I'd like to nominate all of these..
Parallax - Voyager is trapped in a quantum singularity's event horizon.
The Cloud - The crew enter a nebula to collect samples before realizing it is a living organism.
Ex Post Facto - Tom Paris is framed for murder on an alien world, and Tuvok must work out the truth before Paris's mind is shattered by his punishment: reliving the murder from 'his' victim's perspective every few hours.
Heroes and Demons - The holographic doctor must rescue crew members who were turned to energy in the Holodeck, by entering a holodeck program of Beowulf.
Faces - B'Elanna Torres is split into her human and Klingon halves by the Vidiians.
The 37's - A group of humans from the 1930s is found in stasis on an abandoned planet, including the lost Amelia Earhart.
Elogium - Space-dwelling life-forms cause Kes to enter the Ocampan fertile phase called Elogium, putting pressure on her relationship with Neelix.
Parturition - Neelix and Tom Paris fight over Kes, but are sent on an away mission together.
Tattoo - Chakotay encounters non-humans that have the same tattoo on their foreheads that he has.
Threshold - Tom Paris breaks the transwarp threshold in the Shuttlecraft Cochrane, designed to reach warp 10, but there are some peculiar side effects.
Dreadnought - A highly advanced Cardassian AI missile that had been reprogrammed by B'Elanna Torres is found in the Delta Quadrant
Innocence - Tuvok crash-lands on a moon and finds children who have been abandoned.
The Thaw - The crew find aliens mentally connected to a computer that has created a being that feeds on their fear.
The Chute - Tom Paris and Harry Kim are trapped in a prison.
Warlord - Kes is controlled by an alien warlord named Tieran.
Rise - Voyager helps a planet with asteroid problems. Tuvok and Neelix crash-land on the planet and attempt to fix a maglev space elevator.
Favorite Son - Harry Kim is contacted by a planet full of women.
Real Life - The Doctor creates a family on the holodeck.
Concerning Flight - Aliens steal several key components of
Voyager, which are retrieved with assistance from a holographic Leonardo Da Vinci.
Mortal Coil - Neelix dies in an attempt to sample proto-matter from a nebula. Seven of Nine believes she can revive him using Borg nanoprobes, but Neelix finds it hard to adjust, particularly given that he has no memory of an afterlife of any kind.
Extreme Risk - B'Elanna purposely puts herself into increasingly more dangerous situations. Meanwhile the crew decides to build a new shuttlecraft, the Delta Flyer.
Once Upon a Time - Neelix looks after Naomi Wildman when her mother is injured on an away mission.
Nothing Human - A wounded alien is brought on board from a stranded vessel and attaches itself to B'Elanna Torres.
Bride Of Chaotica - Paris' latest holodeck adventure The Adventures of Captain Proton takes an unexpected turn.
The Fight - Chakotay lies in sickbay as he attempts to communicate with aliens through hallucinations.
11:59 - Janeway reminisces about one of her Earth's ancestors, Shannon O'Donnell from Indiana.
Barge of the Dead - B'Elanna's shuttle is hit by an ion storm and she awakens to find herself among Klingons in the Barge of the Dead, on the way to Klingon Hell.
Tsunkatse - Seven of Nine and Tuvok are kidnapped whilst on shore leave, and Seven is forced to fight in a gladiatorial contest to the death.
Good Shepherd - Three crew members who are under-performing are taken on a mission by Janeway.
Muse - Torres is stranded on a bronze-age planet after a crash in the Delta Flyer, and Kim is missing in an escape pod.
Natural Law - Seven and Chakotay are stranded on a planet with primitive humanoids.
That should do it.'Threshold' is bad, but one's like 'Barge of the Dead', and 'The Fight' are easily more unwatchable.
Parallax - Voyager is trapped in a quantum singularity's event horizon.
The Cloud - The crew enter a nebula to collect samples before realizing it is a living organism.
Ex Post Facto - Tom Paris is framed for murder on an alien world, and Tuvok must work out the truth before Paris's mind is shattered by his punishment: reliving the murder from 'his' victim's perspective every few hours.
Heroes and Demons - The holographic doctor must rescue crew members who were turned to energy in the Holodeck, by entering a holodeck program of Beowulf.
Faces - B'Elanna Torres is split into her human and Klingon halves by the Vidiians.
The 37's - A group of humans from the 1930s is found in stasis on an abandoned planet, including the lost Amelia Earhart.
Elogium - Space-dwelling life-forms cause Kes to enter the Ocampan fertile phase called Elogium, putting pressure on her relationship with Neelix.
Parturition - Neelix and Tom Paris fight over Kes, but are sent on an away mission together.
Tattoo - Chakotay encounters non-humans that have the same tattoo on their foreheads that he has.
Threshold - Tom Paris breaks the transwarp threshold in the Shuttlecraft Cochrane, designed to reach warp 10, but there are some peculiar side effects.
Dreadnought - A highly advanced Cardassian AI missile that had been reprogrammed by B'Elanna Torres is found in the Delta Quadrant
Innocence - Tuvok crash-lands on a moon and finds children who have been abandoned.
The Thaw - The crew find aliens mentally connected to a computer that has created a being that feeds on their fear.
The Chute - Tom Paris and Harry Kim are trapped in a prison.
Warlord - Kes is controlled by an alien warlord named Tieran.
Rise - Voyager helps a planet with asteroid problems. Tuvok and Neelix crash-land on the planet and attempt to fix a maglev space elevator.
Favorite Son - Harry Kim is contacted by a planet full of women.
Real Life - The Doctor creates a family on the holodeck.
Concerning Flight - Aliens steal several key components of
Voyager, which are retrieved with assistance from a holographic Leonardo Da Vinci.
Mortal Coil - Neelix dies in an attempt to sample proto-matter from a nebula. Seven of Nine believes she can revive him using Borg nanoprobes, but Neelix finds it hard to adjust, particularly given that he has no memory of an afterlife of any kind.
Extreme Risk - B'Elanna purposely puts herself into increasingly more dangerous situations. Meanwhile the crew decides to build a new shuttlecraft, the Delta Flyer.
Once Upon a Time - Neelix looks after Naomi Wildman when her mother is injured on an away mission.
Nothing Human - A wounded alien is brought on board from a stranded vessel and attaches itself to B'Elanna Torres.
Bride Of Chaotica - Paris' latest holodeck adventure The Adventures of Captain Proton takes an unexpected turn.
The Fight - Chakotay lies in sickbay as he attempts to communicate with aliens through hallucinations.
11:59 - Janeway reminisces about one of her Earth's ancestors, Shannon O'Donnell from Indiana.
Barge of the Dead - B'Elanna's shuttle is hit by an ion storm and she awakens to find herself among Klingons in the Barge of the Dead, on the way to Klingon Hell.
Tsunkatse - Seven of Nine and Tuvok are kidnapped whilst on shore leave, and Seven is forced to fight in a gladiatorial contest to the death.
Good Shepherd - Three crew members who are under-performing are taken on a mission by Janeway.
Muse - Torres is stranded on a bronze-age planet after a crash in the Delta Flyer, and Kim is missing in an escape pod.
Natural Law - Seven and Chakotay are stranded on a planet with primitive humanoids.
That should do it.'Threshold' is bad, but one's like 'Barge of the Dead', and 'The Fight' are easily more unwatchable.
Mortal Coil was actually very good, IMO. Real Life was pretty good, Rise has some really good character moments and Innocence and Warlord weren't bad. Most of the others are just average, a few are really bad. I can think of a few worse ones that you did not list (The Q and the Gray, False Profits, Demon, The Killing Game [aka an exercise in just how many WW2 movie cliches can you possibly cram into 90 minutes of yet another annoying holodeck episode]). I've only up to the beginning of season 5 so I can't comment on the last few on the list.
I really enjoyed "Barge of the Dead", I thought it was a damn solid VOY episode and a rather nice development of Klingon mythology. In a pinch I named this my favourite Torres episode on another thread, and while it's been a while since I watched the series that probably still holds true.
"Threshold" is the only Voyager episode that made me literally almost throw up my supper. That, and its pseudo-physics crap make it even worse than "Spock's Brain" for Worst Episode of Star Trek.
Another I really hated was "Tuvix."
Another I really hated was "Tuvix."