I really liked the Vaadwaur, and thought that "Dragon's Teeth" was a fantastic episode. As for the likelihood of them presenting a problem for others or showing up again later in the seventh season... why not? So what if their technology is out of date. It was still effective enough that a few squadrons of comparatively tiny fighters were able to give
Voyager a good fight. These same ships later broke through the line that the Vaadwaur's enemies had established around their planet. It may not be top of the line technology, but it's clearly more than adequate to get by. Once they established their new colony, I don't think it would have been any kind of stretch to have them turn up again on the show, especially since it isn't as if ALL of their subspace corridors were mapped. They could simply use one to show up out of nowhere later, wherever
Voyager happens to be.
That they didn't reappear is a real shame. And since there was a line that
heavily implied they would be back, I consider it a major dropped ball, as well. Seriously, VOY writers: don't foreshadow really interesting plotlines and then not follow through!
I liked the concept that Flesh and Blood re-introduced of the holgrams fighting the Hirogen, but not the execution. If if I were a writer I would not have gone the direction they did with the story. The Holograms should NOT have been self-aware, and frankly the stories dealing with The Doctor's humanity were very weak to me.
I dunno... The Doctor's sentience and individuality basically came about because the
Voyager crew A) kept him on so damn much, and B) let him explore non-medical things such as music, art, etc. His self-awareness developed over a moderate period of time, essentially without anyone really trying to make it happen. Seems reasonable to me that the holograms being used by the Hirogen could have also become self-aware, over a somewhat shorter period of time, since the Hirogen were constantly trying to make them better prey. They were
trying to make them as lifelike as possible, and they ultimately became a little too much so.
I liked the ep, personally. In particular, I thought it was paced in a very clever way. We go from a mystery plot, to the Hirogen possibly being victims, to the "truth": the Hirogen took things too far, and the holograms are the victims, and
Voyager is caught in the middle. Then, later on, they pull
another reversal, and the holograms aren't victims anymore after all. Nicely played, I thought.
The Hirogen were awesome.
I just wish Trek was graphic enough to show them eating somebody.
ewww
Do we know if the Hirogen eat their
sentient prey? Wouldn't surprise me all that much, really, I just don't remember if it was ever established.
Honestly, I don't think he is.
Anwar and I have been members here for a veeeery long time. Posters used to liken Rick Berman to Hitler and trash Voyager for any reason they could think of. There were folks here mad a Berman because he didn't write stores of Janeway getting raped. Posters would avoid the Voyager forum because it was that hostile in here. I think allot of the opinions Anwar has are from comments made by haters back in the day.
He is, quite a bit. Generalizing, that is.
Whatever may or may not have gone on years ago is irrelevant. As long as
I've been a member here (almost three years now), there has been no frothing anti-VOY hatred. No Hatedome. Yet the incessant ranting about it continues. So, yes, he is generalizing, among other things.
That could have been interesting if Picard had lost a limb...a leg say, stuck in a wheelchair, forced to develop his mental prowess...probably would have had to leave the Enterprise though...maybe the Starfleet Academy job was still open, he could have taken over running that school for the gifted...hmmm...this gives me an idea...
Ha. I was about to point out that Picard wouldn't end up in a wheelchair, since any limbs lost to the Borg would just be replaced, then I read the rest of your post. Well played.
Didn't we already have the Changelings?
