Category: Trekathon

A rogue ship of Holograms looks for its promised land. The Doctor is a total idiot. Otherwise the attempts of the Hologram leader to compare his life on Voyager to his life being hunted would have had no influence on him at all. As it turns out it’s not until he turns out to be…

Federation technology is used to create a crew of killer holograms. Oh, the Hirogen. I thought we were done with them, but sadly apparently not. One of Trek’s major weaknesses is the ‘everyone in a race is the same’ trope, which is actually a pretty unpleasant way of thinking. The Hirogen are one of the…

Harry Kim has his first command. Interestingly enough it’s a new take (for Trek) on the old ‘first command’ story that’s been done about half-a-dozen times now. Here, rather than being unable to work out how to be a leader, Harry has a different common management problem – he can’t delegate. Let’s just say that…

The Doctor ‘borrows’ Seven’s body. First, the good. Jeri Ryan does a fantastic job of capturing the Doctor’s tone, movements and cadence. It makes the idea that someone has taken over her body quite believable. Performing the same character every week must get a bit dull for the actors, so I’m sure she was happy…

The Doctor is kidnapped by an evil Space-[HMO](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_maintenance_organization). This is just about as blatant as [that TOS episode with the half-white half-black aliens](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2010/02/trekathon-070-let-that-be-your-last-battlefield-tos/), as message shows go. Yes, we get it, evil organisations who won’t allocate health care to all, just to the rich. Of course, no need for the Doctor to understand any of…

Tuvok stars as ‘The Manchurian Vulcan’. An overcrowded episode with some really good ideas, some good execution, but a hurried ending that might as well have worn a big sign saying “we didn’t know where to go”. The initial investigation is nicely done, a nice update on the ‘the investigator is really the culprit’ story.…

Tom enters into a race rather than trying to have a relationship with B’Elanna. Another great big pile of ‘dull’. Voyager stops to join in a ship race – potentially interesting, but ends up just being dull. Harry Kim falls for another girl who turns out to be a saboteur – dull. B’Elanna gets snippy…

Seven of Nine breaks down. Mechanically, that is. This is one of those episodes that I find difficult to pin down precisely. There were some good elements – Seven’s reaction to her mortality, Icheb’s growth as a character, and the moral discussions about risky surgical procedures. But that’s balanced by some straight out puzzling choices…

Janeway’s Cunning Plan (™) saves the day and starts a Borg civil war. Yay, I guess. I’m not sure starting wars is the Star Fleet way, even if it is with Borg. Not that I really cared very much about the other side – ‘Unimatrix Zero’ continues to be as uninteresting a place as it…

Voyager Season 6 in one word: ‘Meh’. In two words: ’Not Great’. There’s some good stuff here: *Pathfinder* and *Blink of an Eye* in particular, but also *Survival Instinct*, *Life Line*, *Memorial* and (controversially it seems from some Internet searching) *Fair Haven*. The ‘contact with Earth’ plot worked quite well. At the other end of…