Does anybody else think that this episode is great? This is one of my favorite Trek episodes of all time. It is interesting, it is written very well and the makeup of the Voth is incredible. The whole idea of the Gegan character being like Galileo in interesting as well. What are some of your opinions on this?
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Deja Vu. Not a great episode.
The concept itself was not the best, but I liked this one. Of course it relies on rigidly stupid antagonists, but there were some good moments.
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Too powerful to be recurring villians.
Voyager already gets too much grief for surviving multiple encounters with the BORG. These guys were even more powerful than BORG, due to their warp 10 technology.
They're also less boring than the Borg because they aren't a Hive Mind. With the Voth they could've created a recurring super-powerful species that weren't good or bad, or just run into small groups of them in less powerful ships, or use them as a plot device to survive Borg attacks, etc.
There's far more potential with them than with the Borg, who were dead-end after BOBW.
There's far more potential with them than with the Borg, who were dead-end after BOBW.
Oh jeez, we're starting on this train of BS already, are we? Well, before the thread completely goes to pot, I'm going to comment that I personally am rather fond of the episode, and I think it's one of Chakotay's better ones.
Top ten Voyager episode! Srsly!
I am a sucker for dinos.
I am a sucker for dinos.
I thought it was a good episode. A double win, since it featured Chakotay and yet somehow didn't leave me wishing I were instead at the dentist.
Buuuuut... the idea that dinos evolved in secret and flew off across the galaxy is preposterous (even by Trek's loopy standards), and requires lots of suspension of disbelief. It's not like there aren't thousands of Earth-local worlds they could have settled on/conquered much more easily than zipping to the Delta Quadrant.
Maybe they actually evolved on one of those long forgotten Duplicate Earths (from TOS, remember?), maybe even one in the Delta Quadrant? Maybe Chakotay and Galen were totally wrong, and the Voth were no more from Earth (our Earth, at least) than Miri's people, or the people of the Roman and Nazi planets were.
Hmm... I wonder if Janeway would have settled for a duplicate Earth?
Buuuuut... the idea that dinos evolved in secret and flew off across the galaxy is preposterous (even by Trek's loopy standards), and requires lots of suspension of disbelief. It's not like there aren't thousands of Earth-local worlds they could have settled on/conquered much more easily than zipping to the Delta Quadrant.
Maybe they actually evolved on one of those long forgotten Duplicate Earths (from TOS, remember?), maybe even one in the Delta Quadrant? Maybe Chakotay and Galen were totally wrong, and the Voth were no more from Earth (our Earth, at least) than Miri's people, or the people of the Roman and Nazi planets were.
Hmm... I wonder if Janeway would have settled for a duplicate Earth?
Well, about 99% of the show is silly if you really think about it. Interspecies mating, universal translators, artificial gravity deckplating, holodecks, FTL travel...dinosaurs inventing spaceships and disappearing without a trace is almost plausible next to those.
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