I'll tell you what bothered me about this episode--I wasn't convinced at all in the end that Kovin was innocent. I didn't find the evidence convincing, and I DID see his flight as proof of guilt. He was one hinky guy, and I think that he did in fact assault Seven. This is one weird episode--either make it amiguous, and obviously so, or make it completely unambiguous. So am I the only one that thinks Kovin was guilty? If the answer's yes, perhaps I should watch it again. But it disturbs me--Seven is assaulted again by her own colleagues, in some ways.
Retrospect
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I don't think he was guilty. The Doctor made that assumption and led Seven down that path. One could say it was post-traumatic stress syndrome due to her assimilation (violation) by the borg that was finally surfacing. I think this was supposed to be a commentary on the whole "repressed memory" thing. I found this episode to be quite disturbing.
That's kind of the problem--it wasn't supposed be ambiguous--clearly we were supposed to think he was guilty. Yet I didn't--the evidence could have been stronger that he was guilty, I just didn't quite buy it. I think that it was a poorly written episode. Also--it was just too twentieth-century. Surely by then, the theory of repressed memory will be proven or debunked. They should have a better way of figuring things out by then.
I agree. I had a hard time seeing where the episode was going and what the message was supposed to be.
For me, I interpreted this episode as an analogy of rape and ofcourse, assault. That is, pertaining to our modern moral dillema of who's really responsible. We hear at times of women who accuse men of rape or assault, and people who take ridiculous things as sexual assault. There are some cases where it's very hard to tell whether the man actually did something.
I think this episode would be an appropriately disturbing commentary because of its ambiguity...
Of course, I could have looked too far into it.
I think this episode would be an appropriately disturbing commentary because of its ambiguity...
Of course, I could have looked too far into it.
Many other people interpret the episode as an analogy of false accusations of rape and how they destroy an innocent person's life.
Right...that's exactly what I was trying to say.
Sorry, I'm kind of tired today. :-)
That's how I took it too.
