Lt. Cmdr. Dmitri Valtane

[Mysterion]

Valtane clinically died for a minute, forcing the parasite to migrate to Tuvok, but was resuscitated mere moments later when medics arrived on the bridge. That's as simple as it needs to be, really.

Works for me. Other characters have died in ST and been brought back by (and in) much less believable circumstances.

 

[CaptainHawk1]

I just dismiss the whole episode as the feverish rantings of terrible Voyager writers.

Now THAT was funny.

You're absolutely correct. It's an incredibly lazy episode with little effort put into it to even come close to making sense when put into context with TUC.

It's kind of disgusting considering how much effort that was put into the other anniversary episode Trials and Tribble-ations as far as being unique yet being true to canon at the same time.

It's like they didn't even care. These were both episodes produced for the fans and the VOY staff wound up epitomizing seven years of mediocre writing in that one episode.

And believe it or not, I actually like VOY.

They couldn't even get the time frame right - the episode claims the excelsior went on its rescue mission two days after Praxis blew up. TUC doesn't take place until months after Praxis blew up. How hard was that to research?

The worst part is that as Trek fans we can very easily come up with logical theoretical explanations as to why an obvious canon violation really isn't (i.e., Chekov knowing Khan and vice versa in TWOK when Chekov wasn't even on the show is easily explained by the idea that just because Chekov wasn't seen doesn't mean he wasn't on the ship) but there's so much in VOY that just defies all logic... like this entire episode. VOY gushers will simply suggest that the whole damned episode is just the ranting of a mad man.

If you're going to go that route, you might as well do it for the whole series. I still need someone to explain to me the pip problem that Lieutenant Tuvok has for the first two seasons or the fact the Delta Flyer can't fit in Voyager's shuttlebay based on the scale shown yet it miraculously does.

The list goes on. There's no reason to get your panties in a bind over Flashback, it's simply par for the course for this series.

Either you accept it like I do and enjoy it for what it is anyway or you just hate the show.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

You'd think George Takei would've known/cared enough about the canon inconsistencies to say/do something about it.

Then again, he was probably just excited to be Captain of the Excelsior again.

 

[CaptainHawk1]

You'd think George Takei would've known/cared enough about the canon inconsistencies to say/do something about it.

Then again, he was probably just excited to be Captain of the Excelsior again.

Before I read your second sentence I was thinking the exact same thing.

 

[Green Shirt]

This guy clearly died on the Excelsior in the VOY episode "Flashback" during the events of TUC, since that is how the memory virus transferred to Tuvok.

However, at the end of TUC, we can clearly see that he is alive (top left).

What gives? Is he a faker?

He was one of those "Fathead" things, stuck on the bulkhead.

 

[Daneel]

Valtane clinically died for a minute, forcing the parasite to migrate to Tuvok, but was resuscitated mere moments later when medics arrived on the bridge. That's as simple as it needs to be, really.

This works for me. I remember the Trek Encyclopedia commenting on this inconsistency, speculating that either Dmitri had a twin, or Tuvok's memory wasn't quite perfect.

But, yeah, this is one of many examples that prove the Voyager writers didn't really care about what they were writing, not to the extent that the DS9 writers did. You can explain away some of these things in a reasonably plausible way, but it would be nice if we didn't have to do so quite so often.

Despite this, I think "Flashback" is an okay episode, even if the whole virus thing is kind of lame and improbably -- at any rate, I don't seem to have the disdain for it that most fans do.