Just because both episodes feature lower deck characters, it doesn't mean that GS is a LD rip off. Storywise there ain't so many similarities.
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Just because both episodes feature lower deck characters, it doesn't mean that GS is a LD rip off. Storywise there ain't so many similarities.
It was a blatant homage.
I am honestly surprised that didn't get Vorrik out of mothballs for this one so they could Deja Vu the heck out of the poor spud.
Then, following that logic, most of the last season of Scrubs was a horse of the same colour what with those new Interns in charge of the asylum playing on the grass and running with scissors like there was no tomorrow.
150 crew on Voyager vs. a thousand on the Enterprise?
One more story about Riker's beard or Kim's naivety and i was going to puke, so why not share the wealth?
I am honestly surprised that didn't get Vorrik out of mothballs for this one so they could Deja Vu the heck out of the poor spud.
Then, following that logic, most of the last season of Scrubs was a horse of the same colour what with those new Interns in charge of the asylum playing on the grass and running with scissors like there was no tomorrow.
150 crew on Voyager vs. a thousand on the Enterprise?
One more story about Riker's beard or Kim's naivety and i was going to puke, so why not share the wealth?
Can you imagine him saying to Janeway "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me!"? It would almost be as exploitative as designing a story with a wrestler from when Dwayne stopped by as if they assumed he couldn't remember dialogue.
I enjoyed this episode...
I just wished one of them would've been a Maquis...
I just wished one of them would've been a Maquis...
I rather like the fact that they were not Maquis. Especially someone like Mortimer - a Starfleet officer who had zero interest being in deep space missions, but ended up on Voyager.
This isn't about affirmative action going overboard is it?
Was it made for certain that the Maquis were treated %240 more fairer than the rest of the crew who went to the academy for at least 4 years?
Was it made for certain that the Maquis were treated %240 more fairer than the rest of the crew who went to the academy for at least 4 years?
I did too. It would've been too easy to have included a Maquis in there.
I rather like the fact that they were not Maquis. Especially someone like Mortimer - a Starfleet officer who had zero interest being in deep space missions, but ended up on Voyager.
The EP in question was not the first time in Trek, that the writers used seldom used lower deck crewmembers in an Ep. In TNG EP 167 titled
"Lower Decks". In the show four lower deck junior officers worry about being promoted, and one decides to go on a covert mission into Cardissian space and gets killed in the process. The junior officer killed was a Bajorian, her name was Sito Jaxa. If memory serves me, she was one of the cadets that was in on the cover up at the acadamy with Westley and another cadet by the name of Nick Larcardo aka Thomas Eugene Paris...
Resistance is Futile
"Lower Decks". In the show four lower deck junior officers worry about being promoted, and one decides to go on a covert mission into Cardissian space and gets killed in the process. The junior officer killed was a Bajorian, her name was Sito Jaxa. If memory serves me, she was one of the cadets that was in on the cover up at the acadamy with Westley and another cadet by the name of Nick Larcardo aka Thomas Eugene Paris...
Resistance is Futile
Who said that it was?
Nevertheless, Lower Decks and Good Shepard are still very much two different things.
Great premise for an episode as it did put Janeway in a new setting with new people. And if stranded away from Starfleet, she'd have had to make sure everyone was pulling up thier socks. So I liked it for that.
I loved it for the characters. Again, Voyager for all the criticisms it gets could do one off characters like these, the Maquis members, the Equinox crew, etc, to great effect. It sadly, failed to capitalise on such terrific work. Would have been good to see them used again. Even like the O'Brien character in TNG. Recurring background stuff. Ah ... the missed possibilities.
I loved it for the characters. Again, Voyager for all the criticisms it gets could do one off characters like these, the Maquis members, the Equinox crew, etc, to great effect. It sadly, failed to capitalise on such terrific work. Would have been good to see them used again. Even like the O'Brien character in TNG. Recurring background stuff. Ah ... the missed possibilities.
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