Started watching Voyager again. So far season 3 has been okay, not bad but not warp-9-engage types of awesome. In fact, there were a string of episodes that just irked the heck out of me, as if the writers of Voyager slowly pulled back their shadowy hoods to reveal that they wrote for DS9 as well, the horror!
Watched Remember, where B'elanna has dreams about some crazy romeo and juliet injustice with some sort of 'Regressives'. What really irked me was B'Elanna's blow up. All she had was circumstantial evidence and fleeting dreams yet she stormed the room and demanded everyone believe her and refused to consider that maybe she was crazy. Sure, we know she's not because it's a show but I'm not on her side at this point. And right when I'm expecting Janeway to be a damn leader and reprimand the half-n-half for the outburst, she says, "Well the Enarans are still getting their stuff together if you want to harass them some more." ... REALLY? Ugh!
Then came Sacred Ground, where Janeway wants to go through with a holy ritual in order to find a way to help Kes. At the end of all the tests, they tell her it was for nothing and a waste of time. Meanwhile, Kes is dying because Janeway is screwing around having discussions about Science Vs Religion. In the end, Janeway just goes with 'belief'. That's great.. so what if Kes had died when she walked through the field? What then? "Guess the sages didn't want Kes to live." "Pfft, OKAY! sounds legit, lets go." The most annoying bit of this episode was the very end, when the Doctor explains what happened and how Kes was saved, Janeway just says "how very scientific" and looks off, lost in thought, almost damning science in place of blind faith in one expression... Ugh!
Then there's the Q and the Grey... again we have an omnipotent, multidimensional being and not one person asks him to whisk everyone to Earth. Not one crew member stops and says "hey, could I sell you my soul for a one way back home?" No, we get lines like "I watched TNG on dvd - I know what you did!" Ugh! UGH!
But Warlords was fun. Kes acted and looked a lot like Prince Joffrey!
