Attractiveness in a potential mate is all relative, I guess. So it's fitting that I'm talking about...
"Relativity"
We start with a flashback of a bunned Janeway touring the yet-unlaunched USS Voyager. Just to show how geeky I am, I proudly tell my wife, "That's the Utopia Planitia shipyards" as they're showing the ships being built.
But then, we see Seven. Without all that Borg stuff on her face, and in a regular uniform! What's going on?
She's trying to find a temporal device of some kind, and she does, but then she dies. And the time police start over, by recruiting her again.
We get to see Voyager blow up real good...and I love the scene where Chakotay recommends heading to the escape pods. Janeway thinks about it, agrees, and has a look on her face that just screams, "I'm not going in an escape pod." And we get that look again as she sits in her chair, just before the ship blows up.
Absolutely cool Voyager moment, but maybe a little selfish of the captain--surely the crew could use her as they try to rebuild on the M-Class planet.
I also loved when she turned on the Doctor with Patterson, and that we saw Carey again. Great Tuvok and Paris references, too.
Featuring Seven and the Captain, this episode can't really go wrong. Seven's even great when Paris challenges her to join them for ping pong. And Ryan plays everything just right, not totally going over the top, but with a little something that suggests she's having fun.
One of the reasons that I liked this episode so much was that it got so silly towards the end, but it wasn't "make fun of the non-human because he's funny" silly, but more situational stuff. I loved the time cops as Joe Friday types with bad senses of humor, and Braxton's removal from command was also great. This is another episode with real Dickian undertones (being punished now for a crime you'll commit in the future). I wonder who on the writing staff was the PKD fan?
This is another episode that seemed to have it all--action, suspense, Janeway facing death with resolve, and humor. It was just about a perfect balance.
"Relativity"
We start with a flashback of a bunned Janeway touring the yet-unlaunched USS Voyager. Just to show how geeky I am, I proudly tell my wife, "That's the Utopia Planitia shipyards" as they're showing the ships being built.
But then, we see Seven. Without all that Borg stuff on her face, and in a regular uniform! What's going on?
She's trying to find a temporal device of some kind, and she does, but then she dies. And the time police start over, by recruiting her again.
We get to see Voyager blow up real good...and I love the scene where Chakotay recommends heading to the escape pods. Janeway thinks about it, agrees, and has a look on her face that just screams, "I'm not going in an escape pod." And we get that look again as she sits in her chair, just before the ship blows up.
Absolutely cool Voyager moment, but maybe a little selfish of the captain--surely the crew could use her as they try to rebuild on the M-Class planet.
I also loved when she turned on the Doctor with Patterson, and that we saw Carey again. Great Tuvok and Paris references, too.
Featuring Seven and the Captain, this episode can't really go wrong. Seven's even great when Paris challenges her to join them for ping pong. And Ryan plays everything just right, not totally going over the top, but with a little something that suggests she's having fun.
One of the reasons that I liked this episode so much was that it got so silly towards the end, but it wasn't "make fun of the non-human because he's funny" silly, but more situational stuff. I loved the time cops as Joe Friday types with bad senses of humor, and Braxton's removal from command was also great. This is another episode with real Dickian undertones (being punished now for a crime you'll commit in the future). I wonder who on the writing staff was the PKD fan?
This is another episode that seemed to have it all--action, suspense, Janeway facing death with resolve, and humor. It was just about a perfect balance.
