Category: Trekathon

Seven of Nine discovers a Borg dream world, and Janeway decides to use it to destroy the Borg. Rarely has a cliffhanger annoyed me quite this much. Janeway et al have a special secret plan that requires them to get assimilated? Pretty sure that’s going to turn out to be one of the stupidest plans…

Neelix tells a ghost story to the Borg children. So, where were the Borg children while all of this was happening? Apparently all they saw was a single section being closed to access. They didn’t notice the ship-wide emergency, power outages, significant numbers of casualties, and the presence of nebula gas across the ship? Not…

The Doctor goes on a house call to the Alpha quadrant. So, to get this straight – this episode stars Robert Picardo as the Doctor, guest stars Robert Picardo as Lewis Zimmerman, and was written by Robert Picardo as well? Was he too busy to direct? It’s a fairly good episode, which works best if…

Kes is back, and she’s mad as hell. This entire episode is predicated on the assumption that: * A: Kes’s personality can change so dramatically in just a year or two that she wants to kill the Voyager crew; but * B: She hasn’t changed so much that she can’t be talked out of it…

B’Elanna is held hostage by a writer needing inspiration. Whenever a writer appears on screen, you can know that you’re in store for some self-referential circularity about the sheer awesomeness of writing. This is worse than most, with the rant in the middle about ‘writers who just want to write excitement, rather than good story’…

Voyager gets conned by some of the worst con artists in the Delta quadrant. Maybe my standards are too high (cough *Leverage* cough), but this was a pretty dull and uninteresting con. For a start, it was pretty much just straight lying and then running. A *good* con is one where the mark doesn’t go…

Janeway finds out that three of the crew are ‘broken’, and decides to fix them. So, let’s get this straight. Voyager has a crew of around 160? They’ve been stuck in the Delta quadrant for 6 years? And somehow Janeway is only noticing now (because of Seven of Nine) that three of them aren’t very…

Voyager finds the parents of one of the Borg children. This episode puzzled me for most of its duration. Why are we spending so much time on this character who we don’t know? Shouldn’t we have more focus on Seven in this plot? And then at the end I realised – he’s a new member…

A Voyager crew member returns from the dead. So, an alien race that reproduces by reanimating the corpses of other species? Can I be the first to say – Ick! Unfortunately, the show doesn’t have the history to make this work. Imagine for a second an alternate Voyager, where some second-tier crew member that Harry…

Back to Fair Haven, as the holograms malfunction. *Sigh* I really did quite enjoy *Fair Haven*. But now we head straight into standard Holodeck Malfunction plot A – the holodeck characters become aware the crew are different, and do something about it. It’s predictable and tiresome, and begs the question ‘why don’t they reset things,…