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Star Trek Voyager 2.06 "Twisted"
Neelix's jealousy thing is old. Really old, and really kind of creepy actually.
The episode itself, however, has some pretty neat ideas driving it. Some strange new spatial anomaly, very Trek. And the distortion of the entire ship so that the cast is wandering in circles and repeatedly ending up in the same places is a lot of fun. Only thing is, I wish they hadn't done the door from Engineering into some guy's quarters thing. That just didn't fit in with what the rest of the episode was doing.
I also really like the diagram of the distorting ship that we see at one point. I don't understand why the corridors don't appear to be going uphill and downhill from the perspective of the crew, but I can let it slide. It would've cost too much to portray it, and it's not ultimately necessary to the storytelling.
And all this because Tuvok decided that the best option was to fly through the distortion in order to minimize the amount of time they were going to be in it
Star Trek Voyager 2.08 "Persistence of Vision"
Honestly I kind of zoned out while watching this; spent most of the runtime tooling around in my Star Trek XLS file instead. A starship crew being driven to distraction by its hallucinations and lack of inhibitions was fun in The Naked Time, less fun in The Naked Now, and downright awful in If Wishes Were Horses. I don't see why they needed to recycle it here, too.
Neelix's jealousy thing is old. Really old, and really kind of creepy actually.
The episode itself, however, has some pretty neat ideas driving it. Some strange new spatial anomaly, very Trek. And the distortion of the entire ship so that the cast is wandering in circles and repeatedly ending up in the same places is a lot of fun. Only thing is, I wish they hadn't done the door from Engineering into some guy's quarters thing. That just didn't fit in with what the rest of the episode was doing.
I also really like the diagram of the distorting ship that we see at one point. I don't understand why the corridors don't appear to be going uphill and downhill from the perspective of the crew, but I can let it slide. It would've cost too much to portray it, and it's not ultimately necessary to the storytelling.
And all this because Tuvok decided that the best option was to fly through the distortion in order to minimize the amount of time they were going to be in it
Star Trek Voyager 2.08 "Persistence of Vision"
Honestly I kind of zoned out while watching this; spent most of the runtime tooling around in my Star Trek XLS file instead. A starship crew being driven to distraction by its hallucinations and lack of inhibitions was fun in The Naked Time, less fun in The Naked Now, and downright awful in If Wishes Were Horses. I don't see why they needed to recycle it here, too.
I loved Persistence of Vision! Kes really is a 'powerful little thing'.
I found it to be an original episode and it showed us what the crew really wanted and who they were connected to most, if only at the time. Janeway and Mark, Tuvok and T'Pel, Paris and his dad, icky Torres and Chakotay... I thought it worked very well. And the tiny Doctor was hilaRious! The only thing I can't stand it all the foaming pus during Kes' hallucination.
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