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Star Trek Voyager (VOY) Season 7 Guest Reviews

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Imperfection Stardate 54129.4: Synopsis in main VOY listing

Plot holes and nitpicks first, Seven and B'Elanna, in a rather touching moment in this otherwise predictable episode, talk about the afterlife, Seven asks Torres if she believes in an after life, B'Elanna reacts with uncertainty though, forgetting that she, as far as we knew, DID die and was on the Barge of the Dead anyway, so it looks like they forgot that little piece of character development, surprise, surprise. It's also surprising to have the Delta Flyer II appearing so soon with a brief remark about how the previous one was destroyed last time Janeway took it for a ride only 2 episodes previously. However in actuality that is because this episode was screened out of order.
And, further to my review of Part II of "Unimatrix Zero", I feel vindicated in that in this episode Janeway and Tuvok visit a damaged Borg vessel, and what do ya know, the pair are totally unmoved by the experience, it would've been great if for a moment Tuvok was unnerved by being there as he had become a fully fledged drone only what we can assume was a couple of weeks ago (if we go by the stardates of both episodes).
Oh, and the other 3 unimportant Borg brats are done away with in this episode, but I do admit I was a little touched when Mezoti hugged Seven, that was nice.
Anyway, like I said, there's no question as to what will happen at the end of this episode, which is a shame because it draws some great performances from Jeri Ryan and Manu Intiraymi, but there's no question Seven would live so that's a problem.
I do have to give it credit though, the episode doesn't have the most original script, but the performances really make it worthwhile, Manu is particularly impressive in his efforts to save Seven, from his 'Wesley Crusher' like quest to researching the data needed to prove replacing Seven's node with his would work, to actually using his alcove to remove it himself, and finally confronting Seven in Sickbay giving her a reality check about how stubborn and childish she has been about how she acted when confronted with her condition.
Anyway, so in the end they're all fine, Seven's fine, Icheb's fine and every one's happy. So while it's a generally clichéd story, it does work at least from a performance level. So in rating, that's the difficult part, I liked the performances here from the 2 drones, but wasn't really emotionally invested in the outcome as we knew what was happening, so it gets 5.
Remarkable dialogue #1: "I have isolated a section that contains the bodies of approximately thirty seven drones." - "Thirty seven doesn't sound approximate to me." -Tuvok and Tom Paris
Remarkable dialogue #2: "I need you at tactical! When I bring us around, target their engine core." - "Aye, sir." -Tom Paris and Captain Janeway
Rating: 5 (Cameron)

Drive Stardate 54058.6: Synopsis in main VOY listing

Hey, it's 'Speed Racer' in space! No, it's the pod racing scene from 'The Phantom Menace' in space! No, it's pretty unoriginal, though not by Trek standards, however the race itself is very minor an issue, the issue at stake here is the culmination of Tom and B'Elanna's relationship, as a disillusioned Torres decides to be Tom's co-pilot for an interstellar race in an effort to bring their relationship closer together as she feels it's grown apart, and I wouldn't blame her. This is the first time in a long time we've had something considerable to talk about with these two characters. And this episode is also pretty important in terms of the development of B'Elanna, no longer is she so impulsive, assertive and dare I say inconsiderate, but here she takes advice from Seven and joins Tom in his racing endeavours, really reaching out to him, it's quite rare to see this sort of change in a character on this show especially, and that's probably why it works so well, the race itself, with the impressive effects and juvenile appeal really takes a back seat aside from the B-plot about sabotage, which finally gives Harry a chance to be little more than just a foil in the grand schemes that occur around him, as he his brought to the realisation that Irina is the saboteur, and ingeniously warns Tom of the danger to the Delta Flyer using Morse code.
So that's really the meat of the episode, Tom and B'Elanna and how after all this time and against the odds they still manage to hang onto each other as their love's so strong (how ironic this episode is screening the day before Valentine's Day as well). Some clever plot turns, nice effects to fill in the background and a good capping off to a well handled romantic story makes this a good episode.
Remarkable dialogue: "Keep a lock on my bio-signs, will ya' doc." - "What for?" - "Because, in about five minutes, there's going to be a medical emergency in Engineering." -Tom Paris and Doctor talking about meeting B'Elanna.
Remarkable VFX: Many, the multitude of alien ships at the starting line of the race, the wormhole/anomaly, the nebulae
Remarkable fact: This episode properly introduces us to the Delta Flyer II, no discernable difference other than a different internal paint job and some cool secondary impulse engines.
Rating: 6 (Cameron)

Repression Stardate 54090.4: Synopsis in main VOY listing

Oh so much potential, this is an interesting episode in the way it was executed, for the half we're treated to this mystery plot, and then it very loosely connects to a Maquis takeover of the ship. Now this episode really does have a few clichés, there's a crewman spooked by flashbacks, there's the mysterious assailant injuring crewmen, said spooked crewman under an external influence, and finally a takeover of Voyager.
The first half worked for me, I liked the mystery of it all, though watching it a second time it is kind of obvious that Tuvok is in fact the attacker, but the second half is so shoehorned in, maybe just to again satisfy the crowd who wanted a little more Maquis/Starfleet conflict, but it's by now too little too late, and even then it's not a satisfactory kind of delivery.
The idea of this Bajoran fanatic plotting to takeover Voyager for a start doesn't make much sense, what was he hoping to accomplish? One lone Intrepid class ship wouldn't have been much of a match for either the Federation, or the Cardassians (even after crippled following the Dominion War). The rhetoric a under the influence Chakotay talks about saying that as long as the Maquis on Voyager existed, meant the Rebellion would live on, was the most indicative thing of Teero being delusional and a fanatic in the strongest sense of the word.
And the all too quick resolution, oh boy, this is why I talked about potential, something like this carried out over a couple of episodes, even if the Maquis were still under an influence not of their own, would've made this an interesting arc to see he Starfleet crew caught off guard after all these years, subject to a Maquis takeoever. But due to the hasty nature of the takeover, it's over and done with in about 10 minutes. And that's the biggest failing of the episode, it's like they found a script involving Tuvok being hypnotised by an alien influence, but someone thought to involve the Maquis somehow, and this script was born, it's clumsy writing I thought. Not particularly well acted by Tim Russ either, I am much more enthralled by his acting when he is the calm, logical Vulcan, who submissively injects traces of something much more sophisticated into his role, the nuances and so on, here he's reduced to cowering in a corner and yelling in defiance, it's demeaning.
So the end product, promise, but thanks to a rushed and easy resolution, it meant failed execution.
Remarkable dialogue: "These will make the images on the screen appear three-dimensional." - "Let me get this straight: you've gone to all this trouble to program a three-dimensional environment that projects a two-dimensional image, and now you're asking me to wear these to make it look three-dimensional again?" - "Great, isn't it?" -Paris and Torres, referring to 3D glasses
Rating: 4 (Cameron)

Critical Care Stardate not given: Synopsis in main VOY listing

The idea isn't so remarkable as it isn't so unfeasible, but the execution was for me, there's plenty in the way of real world issues and social commentary to be discussed, and that's what drives this episode so, relying on the dramatic presentation of the Doctor's plight onboard the remarkable hospital ship and how he has to contend with their system of patient prioritisation, the wealthy and important members of society are free to indulge in gene therapy to prolong their age when they have no other life threatening illnesses, while the less useful people die en masse. The B-Plot on Voyager was really enjoyable as well, with Voyager investigating lead after lead, hunting down the man who stole the Doctor from them, and was also quite funny from the fat alien who left his wife who starts crying to Janeway having to convince said wife that she and Tuvok are lovers (much to Tuvok's chagrin), and finally Tuvok describing a mind-meld as an invasive and disturbing procedure and Neelix using poisoning his food using it as leverage to get Gar to tell them where the Doctor is, the dropping out of warp and locking onto Gar's ship with a tractor beam was also a nice touch as well. It's great that this episode really managed to get the balance right with the humour of Voyager's plot, with the peril the Doctor had found himself in, for the second half is anything but humorous, instantly we're treated to scenes of a primitive hospital, nothing like the clean, bloodless sickbay of Voyager, populated by starving, diseased masses, and poorly trained and under equipped orderlies. Level blue in its own way is quite dark, the fact that the people there, the 'important' members of society are being treated merely to prevent arterial ageing while other died made really hammered the message home. And the Doctor himself goes to ultimate lengths to convince Chellick to reconsider the hospital system, only by poisoning him and blackmailing him into submitting to change.
I really loved this episode, I appreciated the look of the alien planet, the hospital ship as well was quite impressive though the interior wasn't so much. The guest stars really helped, and Gregory Itzin is a fine actor (whose performance in Season 5 of '24' should not be missed), so for such a minimal role he really does play an important part in complimenting the EMH.
There's no easy answers either for the people of the alien planet, the argument that people should be given preferential treatment on the basis of their role in society is not one that would be easily won by those in Chellick's position, but if we had a better understanding of this culture, I believed it would've helped maybe to try and justify how this idea came into play. The Allocator as well really wasn't a sufficient sort of 'character' for what it was. I expected a little more from such a supposedly important piece of technology, and thought it should've played a bigger part.
But all that aside I think it's a fantastic episode, very well written, well acted by Robert Picardo and executed very well.
Remarkable quote: "I'm making you a patient in your own hospital!" -The Doctor, to Chellick after injecting him with the chromo-virus
Remarkable quote #2: "It's not that, it's just...I already have a man." -Janeway, as she takes Tuvok's hand to demonstrate to the adulteress that she has no romantic interest in Gar
Remarkable VFX: The opening sequence with Gar's ship flying amongst the cityscape of the alien world, the hospital ship.
Rating: 7 (Cameron)

Inside Man Stardate 54208.3: Synopsis in main VOY listing

Upon the activation of the 'Reg' hologram in the teaser opening I immediately cursed, again we have Reg and Deanna Troi and Starfleet HQ brass playing an integral role, but at least the plot wasn't as bad as the initial Reg episode "Pathfinder" as I think they got the balance right between both stories, however the Ferengi's involvement was just plain ridiculous. I had thought the Hierarchy were to be responsible for the corruption of Reg's program, I knew they were another alien species to feature in a few episodes in this final season, but I expected them to have been more capable of carrying out this ruse than the Ferengi.
Look, really, I thought it was an ok episode, it was average. I did find similarities with other Trek episodes, personally the battle of wits with the 2 holograms and Reg's plan to lure the Voyager crew into a trap made it seem like "Datalore" and "The Game" had been thrown into a blender and this was the result, with a dash of the "Pathfinder" plot already established. So it was fairly predictable. I thought the Doc going without his mobile emitter was hastily overlooked just to keep this Reg moving about the ship, and a lack of consideration made the crew look irresponsible and dismissive of the Doc. Janeway acting so coy around the unusually charismatic Reg made her demeanour look more like a flirty teen than a responsible captain. And like I said, how the Ferengi found out would be a mystery but then again it's not so inconceivable the word would spread, but their plan using the sun to receive Voyager, that one completely flew over my head, I'm not sure what the deal was with that, I'm certain I missed out on some explicitly important dialogue.
There's some funny moments though, the Reg holograms impersonation of Janeway and Tuvok were dead on and had me laughing guiltily, the interrogation of the Dabo girl was also a bit enjoyable, as are Reg's reactions when she reveals she's in fact NOT a teacher, that bit and the revealing of the rest of the plot, actually had me a tiny bit hooked as the story unraveled in a seemingly probable way. Of course, there's Reg posing as the hologram Reg trying to convince the Ferengi to stop what they're doing, threatening them with all sorts of fictional weapons Voyager had of Viidian, Borg and Hirogen technology.
There's good continuity as well with Tom referencing Arturis from "Hope and Fear" and the space borne organism which tried to eat the ship while convincing the crew they were home in "Bliss" as previous times Voyager looked to have had the chance to get home. Barclay mentions an interest in Voyager the Romulans had, possibly as pay off for the events of "Eye of the Needle" where Romulan scientist Telek R'Mor received a transmission from Voyager albeit in the 2350's. And Barclay also mentions the nanoprobes ability to reanimate dead cells as a nod to "Mortal Coil" where Seven's nanoprobes reanimated Neelix.
All in all, it's better than "Pathfinder" as a story dealing directly with involvement of both Voyager and Reg. But I still don't find these episodes as interesting, the fact that Voyager is no longer lost really took something away from the show, it took away the sense of isolation Voyager had from Earth and the ambiguity over whether they were getting home or not. The fact that Starfleet and the populace knew they were there (so much that schoolkids were learning about Delta Quadrant races) and could communicate, even monthly, this late in the series pretty much sealed their fate I felt, and that's a defining thing in determining the quality of these episodes for me, so this one doesn't rank too highly, the plot is pretty predictable, the acting, except for Reg whose quite good I'll admit in his dual role as the typical neurotic Reg and the charismatic, confident reprogrammed hologram, is quite lackluster. Marina Sirtis is bland Troi in a role that doesn't ask anything of her (except wear that hot one-piece bathing suit on the beach, yowzer), the remainder of the Voyager crew suckered into believing holo-Reg's ruse makes them look like delusional idiots, at least Paris was the only one to really accept the notion that they weren't assured a sweet ride home, Janeway looks, again, so incompetent that she's so utterly distracted by the prospect of getting back to Earth she'll believe anything and fall for anything as well. The Doctor didn't put up much of a fight either to get his mobile emitter, so gone was the powerful independence which we saw in the previous episode "Critical Care", replaced by blind submissiveness. The remainder of the crew might as well be absent from the episode, like I said in my review of "Pathfinder", it's another sad case when the guest stars take over prominence from the main cast, it's even more distracting and doesn't seem to serve the show well when those guest stars were from another Star Trek series.
So that's where the rating leads me, I can't deny it was somewhat entertaining, but with so many implausibilities, not too mention my problem with the themes of the episode and again, the situation of having Reg take over as a near central character in a show about Voyager, I can't rate it much higher than I have. I am really, REALLY not like Bernd who finds constant references to The Next Generation's characters somewhat redeemable in a script for a show that was supposed to stand on its own more than any other series in the franchise. To me the constant namedropping of Will Riker, Data, Geordi, Deanna and her addiction to chocolate, the Enterprise (which was mentioned in "Pathfinder" and "Life Line") was totally contradictory to what is supposed to make a decent script for Voyager, it just felt to me like they were leaning too heavily on these things to jam into their script as homages to fans. I don't appreciate stuff like that though, TNG was a fine show in it's own right, and it had 7 years and 4 films dedicated to it's memory. And episode of Voyager like this, almost felt like an honorary TNG script for how much they talked about people from that show. So that's my main beef with this episode and why it's ranked where it is.
Rating: 4 (Cameron)

Body and Soul Stardate 54238.3: Synopsis in main VOY listing

This has to be one of the funniest episodes of Voyager and in the Star Trek franchise too, hats off to Jeri Ryan, who here proves she's not just a pretty face (and did I not mention the perfect body I could go day's describing...?) with a marvelous performance as The Doctor trapped inside Seven due to holo-phobic aliens attempting to decompile the Doc, he hides himself in her body using her 'cybernetic matrix'. Experiencing her sensations, taste, smell, touch, getting drunk as hell, not too mention one other thing which had justified possibly the greatest line in Star Trek history: "You became sexually aroused in my body!" Seven accuses the Doctor following a massage he received while in her body.
But Jeri's performance really drives this episode, and thankfully the B-Plot isn't dwelled on much, it's nothing special either. Tuvok going through Pon Farr and Tom's effort to alleviate his symptoms, effectively pimping out the holodeck which Tuvok sensibly accepts as a viable alternative, however I was surprised that when Voyager encounters another holo-phobic alien ship and they agree to shut down the holodeck as a compromise, Tuvok wasn't going through the ship in a comical rage instead of begrudgingly taking his post in a time of crisis, but that may have just been too much for this light hearted script.
Anyway, so we're treated to many moments of Doc-as-Seven attempting to escape the alien craft, Jeri's performance though is absolutely brilliant, picking up every little mannerism of the Doctor, from the vocal inflections, the body language, it's a superb performance and one that makes this unmissable.
The aliens are a little refreshing thanks to the two main ones we deal with in the episode, so thankfully, instead of the typical bigoted group of aliens like in "Counterpoint" or many other episodes, so thanks to those two, these aliens aren't quite as unlikable and as completely paranoid as the other alien commander we saw.
Robert Duncan McNeill directs this episode, so it's a great job by him, considering he also had to put in a few scenes as Paris.
Remarkable quote #1: "The reports of my decompilation have been greatly exaggerated." -The Doctor (inside Seven of Nine), paraphrasing Mark Twain
Remarkable dialogue #1: "And the massage you got from Lieutenant Jaryn?" - "Entirely therapeutic!" - "You became sexually aroused in my body!" -Seven of Nine and The Doctor, after what happened in the Lokirrim Sickbay with Jaryn
Remarkable fact: Robert Picardo performed many of Jeri Ryan's scenes as the "possessed" Seven of Nine on videotape so that Ryan could study his elocution and movements and more accurately mimic him.
Rating: 7 (Cameron)

Flesh and Blood, Part I Stardate 54315.3: Synopsis in main VOY listing

Like many episodes before it I always approached this one with a hint of hesitation, believing it to be nothing more than an excuse to cram all these Alpha Quadrant species in regardless of logic, however given the plot, expanding on the holographic technology given to the Hirogen at the conclusion of "The Killing Game", it's as logical as it gets.
And it works too, we see the full extent of the Hirogen's meddling with the holodeck technology, as they create prey that evolve to such an extent where the oppressed become the oppressors, the holographic prey revolt and begin the hunt against the Hirogen. This episode just sets up the motivation behind that all, albeit predictably we have a Bajoran leading the revolt against the Hirogen, as he attempts to find a new home for his band of holograms.
Kidnapping the Doctor complicates matters though, some of the holograms need 'medical attention' which the Doctor provides, before he's subjected to the memory of a hunted hologram before him to be made aware of the plight shared by other holograms. As it so happens, and as we saw coming, the Doctor at first protests to this invasion, but it gives him the insight needed to side with the holograms, joining them as the holograms prepare to do battle with Voyager.
The Doctor's plight is really the focus leading into part II, it may have been easy his turncoat but considering how Janeway treats the situation of the holograms and how it opens his eyes it's a brave but not unreasonable step for him to have taken to have joined them. But maybe if he had spent more time in the episode aboard the ship it could've helped persuade him further, but I guess the scene's we had of him with them were sufficient. Janeway, I'm not quite sure exactly what to make of her actions here, cleaning up her own mess is satisfying in a way, as for once we see the ramifications of her sharing technology which she was so against when the journey started, but doing so at the expense of the 'lives' of the holograms, yeah a bit conflicted there, surely some breach of the Prime Directive in some way.
So that's really all that can be said, the Hirogen are clichéd as always with the exception of the timid technician, there's some nice effects like the inside of the Hirogen training outpost when the program was deactivated and we see all the dead Hirogen littering the floor, and seeing a Breen and Jem'Hadar was cool, though incredibly problematic as I'll note below.
But it's still enjoyable, the holograms can almost be sympathised with, and realising they had been programmed to be able to rebel for me didn't take much away from that I thought. They were both victims and aggressors, but were given no choice thanks to the attitude of the Hirogen who didn't give them the chance to be free. So it's hard to take sides either way, but Part II will surely elaborate on their attitude and their fate.
Nitpicking: Why oh why are there holograms of a Breen and a Jem'Hadar soldier? No way could they (Voyager or the Hirogen) have been privy to this information when they had the holodeck technology. Perhaps the Jem'Hadar considering "The Search" took place before Voyager left and they may have known as the Jem'Hadar had appeared before "Caretaker", but no way should the Breen have been there.
Rating: 7 (Cameron)

Flesh and Blood, Part II Stardate 54337.5: Synopsis in main VOY listing

Part II pretty much sends us a little deeper into the madness that is Iden's perception of his role in the little holographic society he had created. First we thought of him as a liberator, but within a short space of time he's allowed his prejudice to turn him into a murderer, all spurred on by this idea he's now more than a liberator, he's a prophet in his own mind who seeks to free all holograms. Whether this was just defective circuitry or the full extent of the hate he developed for organics defined for me was up in the air a little. Within only a few days he had gone for someone who was charismatic, willing to trust Janeway and have faith in the Doctor not to betray them, to someone willing to butcher the Hirogen and kill peaceful aliens in an effort to rescue their photonic 'slaves'. For him to have changed so much over the course of an episode, it's a little excessive but it had to be down just to make us realist the hypocrisy of his actions and why he felt such conviction doing what he did.
We also have B'Elanna on the other hand, sensibly setting her prejudice towards Cardassians aside as she begins to place trust in in the Cardassian hologram Kejal, so thankfully the lesson from "Nothing Human" about realising holograms are nothing more than an imitation of the real thing had been learnt (I would like to think so anyway!).
And last we have Janeway for a change owning up to her failure as Captain in the decision to give the Hirogen the holographic technology which was abused and led to such death on both parties, so while the Doc got off lightly in my opinion, it was refreshing for once to see Janeway admit that she had made an error in judgement which had extreme ramifications, and as such the Doctor can't be punished as harshly as say, Tom or Harry had done when they went against the rules for their own reasons.
It was a nice touch as well in the end how Neelix convinces the Hirogen how it was better to tell the story of his taking the mantle of Alpha and killing the holograms, rather than let it be known they were saved by the Doctor and Voyager in the end. And yes I think it was a compliment too Janeway, you idiot.
So that's what part II dealt with, prejudice and responsibility, Iden had a responsibility to his 'people', but in the end his prejudice jeopardised their chance at leading a normal life as he sought to free holograms by force if need be. B'Elanna learnt to trust in a hologram and Kejal did the same for B'Elanna, and Janeway accepted that she was fallible as Captain, and the blood spilt was truly on her hands.
The action takes a back seat here and instead we have some impressive little tricks used when 'the hunt' is on for the holograms and their ship, Voyager hiding in the Hirogen vessels 'wake' looked impressive, and the maneuver to disable the ships, as ridiculous and implausible as it always is for Voyager to do, also looked nice. And there's a chase scene at the end with the holograms hunting the Hirogen. But as I said, the action isn't as important this time round, and most of the time is taken up by the Doctor coming to the realisation that Iden is batshit insane and he made the wrong decision to trust in him to help settle a peaceful society.
Did I like it? Sure I did, I thought Iden's multiple speeches got tiresome and it became increasingly clear what was going to happen, Voyager's tracking of the Hirogen was clever and thankfully not dwelled on too much for fear of becoming boring. I liked the characters of Kejal and Donik, and how they matured how little we saw them and how they were the ones willing to rebuild their small little civilisation, which is now much better off without Iden's influence (though that Starfleet guy, Weiss, doesn't seem remotely trustworthy either from what we saw of him).
So rating, I'm not sure I did enjoy it, but wasn't overwhelmed like with any other episodes, I still wish this websites had decimal places cause I'd be giving it 6.5, so I'll have to settle for 7.
Remarkable ships: the massive Hirogen vessels, which looked more like flying fortresses
Rating: 7 (Cameron)

Shattered Stardate not given: Synopsis in main VOY listing

I love this episode, one could almost pin it down to being a clip show but I'd rather think of it as as homage to some of an otherwise average shows best moments. As I'll note below we have the events of "Caretaker", "Basics Part II", "Bliss", "Macrocosm", "Scorpion Part II", "Bride of Chaotica", a period in Voyager's second year in the Delta Quadrant not seen in an episode, and 2394 are the periods featured as Chakotay bounces through time trying to get the ship back in temporal sync after an anomaly strikes and segments the ships into different time frames.
A simply premise, but just for the novelty value alone of seeing all these events revisited, and the payoff in the end makes this episode special, as all the crew from every time period comes together to ensure Seska, in her villainy, attempts to bring the ship into her time period to control it.
And that's it, the highlights are many, a Doctor in the past marvelling at the prospect of a mobile emitter he's yet to receive, a bunned-up Janeway being taken on this journey encountering a future yet to be and her coming to realise her captaincy will be much more difficult than she envisioned. We have Seska, in a time where the Kazon have overtaken the ship, becoming wise to the situation regarding the anomaly and once again tries to use it to her advantage. There's the reappearance of the Captain Proton program and Martin Rayney, delivers again as Chaotica. There's an appearance of the Macrocosm-mutated organisms, and a glimpse into an improbable future where Icheb is Captain, and an older Naomi Wildman is smokin hot. 'Improbable' you say? I do indeed, let's fact it, with a season left it would've taken another one hell of an extraordinary circumstance for Voyager to have gone through all it's senior staff to the point where Icheb, who looks roughly 30-odd years old, to be Captaining the ship. So that is a big nitpick of mine of an otherwise highly enjoyable episode.
Of course it's always nice to that Chakotay has a proactive role and teases Janeway about his little adventure through time which effectively erases every one's memory of it ever happening, as none of the crew seem to remember a future-Chakotay appearing in different time periods recruiting them to assist in piecing the ship back together. Who knows, maybe giving them the memories would've added a nice little edge at the end of the episode, instead of Janeway, as Chakotay predicted, getting the last word, telling Chakotay she only knows of his secret stash of Cider through a temporal experience of her own...
Speaking of Janeway though, this episode does reinforce her hypocrisy, one moment she would rather not talk about time travel due to the migraine it gives her, but at the drop of a hat forgoes following the Temporal Prime Directive, 'to hell with it' she Say's here, and in the finale. Another example of her putting her own interests before Starfleet regulations any other Captain is bound by, and I'm sure to talk about it extensively in my eventual review of "Endgame".
But that's not what's in question here, or up for judgement either, this is a great episode, for fans of the show especially. The tidbits made the episode for me, so for a change I'm going in the extreme opposite of Bernd's review, cause this one does rate highly for me.
Remarkable dialogue: "You're going to have the opportunity to study things no human has ever seen before." - "Including some very large germs." -Chakotay and Janeway (from 2371), after they narrowly escape a macrovirus
Rating: 7 (Cameron)

Lineage Stardate 54452.6: Synopsis in main VOY listing

From the opening segment where we learn, rather humorously that B'Elanna is pregnant (Icheb believing the fetus is a parasite, I lol'd), and the pair discovering in different ways about the 'secret' being out, this episode ran the risk of becoming well, rather soap opera-ish, but it does delve much deeper than that into B'Elanna's childhood as she begins to fear for what will happen with her own new family thanks to what we amazingly see to be an incompetent father of hers.
While the setting of a camp in the woods was uninspired for the setting, for a change we're given a character far from perfect whose influence on B'Elanna was lasting, just a bit of a shame this is the first we've heard of it, she has always been a conflicted character, but it's taken 7 years to really scratch beneath the surface after a very few episodes dealing with her personality. There was "Extreme Risk", in which her depression after learning of the Maquis' eradication led to her harming herself, then "Barge of the Dead" which talked a small amount about her relationship with her mother, now "Lineage" rounds out the family dynamic addressing her fathers role in her life.
It just twisted a little too much for my liking, at first we're supposed to believe B'Elanna wanted to spare her daughter the trauma of being teased, the flashback used highly, then it goes on this tangent about how all along B'Elanna has 'daddy issues' and doesn't have enough faith in Tom not to abandon her and her daughter like her own father did. To me that made the whole camping trip tale unnecessary. They could've found a better way to address B'Elanna's father's role in her life without resorting to such a, 20th century background, and the teasing by the cousins, again just felt a like it wasn't needed if that wasn't the real factor behind her decision to try and alter her child so.
Which brings us to her actions, modifying the Doctor's programming? Locking sickbay out to do it, those actions are almost criminal yet the Doctor didn't seem too bothered, nor did it seem like B'Elanna was punished in any way for it. So that's the nitpick for the episode.
The only thing this episode had going for it was the performances of the 2 leads, Robert Duncan McNeill and Roxann Dawson have a great amount of chemistry when the 2 characters are getting along, and even when the pair are fighting, they deliver brutally realistic performances, hats off to the two of them, because they make this episode worth watching. The scenes when they first argue about B'Elanna wanting to alter the child, when they're in the ready room and Janeway sensibly ordering them to sort it out, and the cumulative argument in sickbay, they stand out thanks to these actors. And considering the subject matter, the lack of anything out of the ordinary like anomalies or aliens, friendly or otherwise, make this probably one of the most 'real' feeling episodes. And of course it's another milestone in the relationship of these characters.
I just really wish they had a clear direction for B'Elanna's actions and stuck to it, instead of jerking us around in one direction, then pulling us in another and then another. Some of the flashback sequences felt wasted and the setting was too primitive for my liking. So I'm conflicted about rating it, I can't deny the actor's sold the episode for me, but there were other parts that just felt wasted. So I'm giving it 5/10.
Remarkable dialogue: "I'm detecting another lifesign!" - "Where?" - "Inside Lt. Torres. It could be a parasite." -Icheb and Seven of Nine, discovering Torres's pregnancy
Rating: 5 (Cameron)

Prophecy Stardate 54518.2-54529.8: Synopsis in main VOY listing

Klingons....in the Delta Quadrant? Definitely the most unoriginal script so far but it did show some potential. First we have the Captain of the vessel, Kohlar (with his crazy hair, yes), a refreshing perspective on Klingons we haven't seen since TNG where Worf undertook a spiritual quest of his own. Kohlar is much the same, and instead of a typical brute of a Klingon brings a sense of peace, thought and faithfulness to his character, he's of course like Janeway who has been journeying for over a century to find his people's home, so that time has thankfully made him a contemplative character more concerned with fulfilling the prophecy, even if it takes a bit of conjecture, just to give his people peace from the long journey.
However he's the only interesting guest character, and the only unique aspect about the Klingons here, there's a small scene with a Council of Elders, who don't do much, there's a couple of scenes in the mess hall where they all fight and get drunk and cheer and yell out 'Pa'tak' and 'Ka'plah' and eat like ravenous animals and bang their cups full of bloodwine, pretty much everything you'd expect. There's the duplicitous character of T'Greth, who quite understandably has become cynical over the years, but typically initiates an implausible takeover of Voyager that comes scarily close to succeeding, I mean, how in the world was that one Klingon able to operate the transporter so efficiently after a few moments of being shown how it works? It surely should've taken longer, and Tom's dismissive 'I can't' comment when asked to block the transporters was unsatisfactory.
So the takeover to me seemed a pointless waste of script.
And the other clichéd Klingon behaviour actually made me laugh out loud which helped, of course that would be Harry hiding from the female Klingon leading to Neelix getting some action, the results of course are Tuvok's destroyed quarters, in which Neelix was 'bunking' with for the duration of the Klingon's stay. Ethan Phillips comedic acting really helped here when any other time it is usually an annoyance. Yeah it probably would've been better to elaborate more on his living with Tuvok and the fun that could've turned out to be, but it seemed to me there was a choice with pursue another 'Odd Couple' homage with these 2 characters, or elaborate a bit on the Harry Kim subplot. And Kim of course shows he is the biggest fool in the galaxy, turning down Seven of Nine, and now ignoring the chance to hook up with some semi-hot Klingon chick with no strings attached, idiot.
The plot, well it does have some credibility to it, the idea of putting Klingons in the Delta Quadrant to start with immediately takes points off the episode, such a premise just screams of a desperate rating's grab, but giving their being in the DQ some meaningful purpose helped. B'Elanna dealt with being the 'Virgin Mary' of this group of Klingons pretty well despite all the problems she faced a few episodes back in "Lineage" (continuity well kept as Tom references her comments about how hard she felt is as the only Klingon on a ship full of humans in that episode), as did Tom, even though his accepting the challenge was a bit foolhardy it does show what a strong relationship he has with his wife. So another dynamic to this relationship is explored, we've had B'Elanna dealing with Tom's 20th century fascination and putting up with his shenanigans, and Tom having to deal with his wife's personal demons many times, here the issue though is much more Klingon and he doesn't back down from sticking by her as she deals with this enormous responsibility placed on her shoulders.
Another gripe I do have with the plot was this almost useless introduction of this disease the Klingons have, which was only brought upon to 'seal the deal' that B'Elanna's child is the saviour after all, it just seemed created at the last moment as a way to wrap everything up. Perhaps if they hinted at this disease a bit earlier it would've been a little more satisfactory and not as if it was made up as an afterthought.
So in the end I think with a more intelligent script which complimented Kohlar's character and without the obligatory 'takeover' plot, it would've worked as a much better episode, I'd give it a 5.5 if I could, but can't, so it gets 5. Not to say it's a BAD episode, it isn't and wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but it could've been a lot better.
Remarkable dialogue: "I see fear in your eyes, human." - "The only Klingon I'm afraid of is my wife after she's worked a double shift." -T'Greth and Paris, during the match
Rating: 5 (Cameron)

The Void Stardate 54553.4: Synopsis in main VOY listing

Oh boy, take one part "Night", one part "Gravity", and half a part each of "Alliances" and "Year of Hell, Part 2", sprinkle with a dash of "11001001" and "Drive" and a cup full of healthy inspiration from "The Time Trap" and you have one of the most unoriginal scripts of Star Trek there is. "The Void" pits Voyager in a starless anomaly in space (see: "Night") in which they are sucked into with seemingly no return (see: "Gravity"), and before Janeway considers listening to the advice of her XO and Tactical Officer, she puts HER principles (as due to the constant discontent Chakotay remarks the crew may have with her many decisions which fall in line with only HER ideals) ahead of the basic instinct to survive, she decides instead to try and formulate an alliance with other species (see: "Alliances", and the plethora of alien ships is like "Drive"), hoping out of the sheer goodness of their hearts they will not take advantage of Janeway's hospitality. I didn't really buy it that much, but it was still a means to an end, in what's actually not THAT bad of an episode, it just suffers for unoriginality.
Added to the new Allies Voyager also has creatures native to the region who communicate using technology (see: "11001001"), and they assist in Voyager's escape.
There's a couple of things I did like in this episode, I thought the teaser was rather silly and have no idea why Seven was in the kitchen in the first place, nothing seemed to have been made about this before now nor will they pick up on it again as far as I know, but I like her insistence on the crew eating the meal as per her recipe dictates. I also really like the 'alien flavour' brought to this episode, all these races are presented differently by each respective Captain, first we have the cunning General Valen, who is charming but makes it clear to Voyager what they must to do survive, after all, he's a master of it and it shows later on. There's the Nygean Captain Garon, who's hesitant and from what we saw an honorable man who saw merit in Voyager's plan and joined, the timid Hierarchy crew members who of course join without hesitation, and Bosaal, who seems genuine at first in joining despite his prejudice against the natives of the region, but has a darker side and joins with Valen in the end. So even if these characters only got a couple of scenes, they did well to not be REALLY predictable, which may have happened any other episode. The scenes on Voyager where all these species are interacting is a nice touch and added a much needed dose of culture for a short time to this sterile environment.
The episode had a nice pace to it and a very exciting conclusion, which for all the reliance on technobabble, still was executed sufficiently. There's an exciting space battle and some impressive VFX shots of Voyager and the ships flying toward the anomaly in the heat of battle.
So that's that dealt with now I need to rate it, well the first half of it bored me really, the concept of the starless void was clearly recycled from only two seasons ago, as was the idea of being sucked into it with little chance of escape. The idea of forming temporary alliances had been visited before too for the idea to be scrapped at episodes end which is always a shame for continuities sake. The battle scenes got repetitive and there's just no tension in them this late in the series. Janeway's smug arrogance once again is a cause of great frustration from me that I once more wanted to reach in the TV and slap her in the face. One wonders why they bothered writing Tuvok and Chakotay into that scene to voice objections to her plan and suggest they for a short time relax their attitude towards Federation principles for survival's sake. I find two failings with this. First, their protests are never greeted with acceptance and contemplation from Janeway, she had her mind made up long before those two entered her ready room and immediately countered their suggestions about not following Starfleet regulations to the letter while in this situation, and her rationalisation towards that is that if they do that it will condemn the entire crew to nothing more than piracy. Now pirates attacked other ships for supplies, but also for monetary gain, this was a situation no pirate a few centuries ago could've been faced with and isn't equitable to what Janeway believes would make Voyager's crew if they turn to stealing supplies in order to survive. So I found Janeway to be over-reacting and it makes me think she has some kind of fascist attitude towards Starfleet rules that she condemns alternative tactics, equating them to acts of barbarism. To me that seems to be her answer to criticism of her following the rules, her first instinct is to say it will make them lesser people.
The second failing, is that the plan went off almost without a hitch, Janeway's earlier speech (and oh my how many she has had at the ready in situations like this) and plan of making an alliance is totally justified. I know that the plan probably wouldn't have succeeded had the other ships not joined Voyager and the entire point about co-operating despite differences which is essential in Trek would've been lost, but it just seems to me these small objections made by Chakotay and Tuvok are made only for the sake of trying to present a tiny bit of credibility the role of First Officer has that Chakotay and Tuvok represent and doing nothing but failing thanks to the ease in which everything works out in Janeway's favor. Riker and Picard would have disagreements at times, it almost always worked out for the best, but at least Picard would be thoughtful of what his first officer had to say and appreciative of his honesty, but Janeway has absolutely no regard for that at all, she has never once taken the word of her First officer(/s so to speak) remotely seriously in my opinion, as this character is so ridiculously self-assured she doesn't feel she needs to justify her actions, and considering it's all gone her way for 7 years under this style of leadership, which I find very problematic, who could blame her? All she does is basically point to either a seal of the United Federation of Planets, or the Starfleet Arrowhead and say 'This is why I'm making my decision, live with it because you have no further say than two lines of dialogue expressing your unease with what I'm doing and why.' There never seems to be a healthy compromise between both parties, so I really do wonder what point there is in Chakotay and Tuvok, who have many a time had reasonable objections to the plans Janeway formulates, or the way she commands her ship, even bother speaking up when she immediately counters with her unwavering support for Federation principles which all too often got them out of any and every situation, no matter how improbable. The same kind of dynamic that Kirk had with Spock and Bones really helped as Kirk would have these men, who were in as many way his advisors as he was their leader, conversing with him and alternatively offering him different points of view, the merits behind one action and the dangers of the consequences, and Kirk took those ideas on board and acted accordingly. But Janeway, as much as the fanbots like to delude themselves into thinking, isn't like Kirk, she's not someone who I felt could rely on the advice of her trusted friend Tuvok, and a more experienced leader and spiritual consultant in Chakotay. Neither of these men really had anything to offer her to try and guide her into making the right choice as Captain, and when it seemed like they did, she brushed their opinions aside like it didn't matter. This aspect of her character just seems like a wholly unappealing one.
But thankfully that really doesn't take up a great deal of time on this episode as it has in others, and the ramifications certainly are less severe, and everyone (the good guys, screw Valon and Bosaal) are better off. But I really wonder what chance those four Void natives stood against the crew of the ships they were beamed onto, oh well, blissful ignorance can be a lovely thing...
So, I was about to rate this episode before going off on that major rant about Janeway, so once again we have a cobbled together script, recycled from several others, Janeway playing God like usual which like always proves to be the right decision, more technobabble to save the crew from evil aliens and this particular anomaly of the week, and I didn't mention it, but a real severe lack of anything interesting from the main cast. I know that the action really took the spotlight this episode, but it being centered so closely around Janeway with the rest of the crew just spouting exposition or starring in pointless scene's like Neelix serving a disgusting looking dinner to Tom and B'Elanna. It did have some nice touches regarding the aliens of the week and what they brought, but take that away and this would've been an even poorer episode. I'm giving it 5. I think the cons outweigh the pros in this situation. It's a decent episode which is interesting to watch and exciting at times and the co-operation amongst the Alliance was very much in the spirit of Star Trek despite being incredibly naive, but the otherwise smart script suffers in other places I felt. Don't take what I said the wrong way I genuinely enjoyed this episode, but there's just things which when I look back in contemplation I find so irritating it hurts its ranking. Those things being the unoriginal plot and Janeway.
Rating: 5 (Cameron)

Workforce, Part I Stardate 54584.3: Synopsis in main VOY listing

Well this season continues to surprise me, up until recently I had held the opinion nothing was going to surpass Season 4 as Voyager's best but at the rate this episode's going Season 7 just may do that, and in my mind "Workforce" is another contribution.
My only problem so far would have been the first act dragging out for so long, I think a little less time should've been taken to establish the majority of the crew were on this planet brainwashed into believing they were labourers with no recollection of their time on Voyager. The blatant reuse of a Breen vessel as the Quarran's was also regrettable, but I guess an imposing vessel was needed and the redressed Breen vessel fit the part, but those are my only two problems with Part 1.
Character drives this episode, we have all these ministories about each member of the crew, there's Janeway and her relationship with Jaffen, which is fairly credibly presented. Tom's a bartender/waiter and immediately feels a connection to B'Elanna, whose role isn't really specified but as she ends up back on Voyager at the end that wasn't important. Tuvok, thanks to his superior Vulcan mind I suppose is the only one whose memories begin to resurface and realise the inoculations the workers are given are really memory suppressants, however he's captured at episodes end and is going to be subject to more 'treatment'. And without surprise Seven of Nine is an efficiency monitor.
Back on Voyager, we have the Doctor, rather the Emergency Command Hologram I should say. Now I missed the first episode where the ECH makes an appearance, but I liked the subtle changes made to the Doctor to make him appear almost a different character, and of course he struggles to prove himself when Chakotay and Harry get back, who swiftly take command back from him.
The premise is pretty good, it's not something I really think has been seen in Star Trek before, en masse as it happens here, the buildup after the initial explanation was enjoyable and credible, as the Delta Flyer encounters Voyager hiding in a nebulae with the ECH attempting to repair it, once it's underway the 4 remaining crewmen journey to Quarra to find the crew, and discover what has happened. Chakotay and Neelix journey to the surface, Neelix and B'Elanna are transported back to Voyager which flees, leaving Chakotay at the mercy of encroaching security.
Great episode, again convincing acting really helps this episode, there's a nice pace, a suspenseful conclusion and impressive VFX which I'll note, and a couple of nice nods to Star Wars a true geek like me appreciates which I'll also note :D
Remarkable VFX: The opening shot of Quarra and many more of the power plant and the citiscape, Voyager hiding in the nebula and in orbit of Quarra.
Remarkable cross-franchise references: Quarra is close to Quarren, a race of aliens in the Star Wars universe. Nar Shaddan is an allusion to the Hutt controlled moon of Nar Shadda.
Rating: 7 (Cameron)

Workforce, Part II Stardate 54622.4: Synopsis in main VOY listing

Whereas Part 1 was character driven and set up to establish the crew of Voyager on Quarra and the seeds of doubt planted in a few, Part II does an excellent job complimenting that with the right blend of action and thoughtful story. Instead of the typical rescue which woud've been achieved with ease had the entire crew been onboard Voyager. After the Doctor uses an impressive tactic to disable the pursing Breen vessels, Voyager now must turn and hide, make repairs, help B'Elanna remember her life. And while Chakotay's arrested after trying to convince Janeway of her true identity, the focus shifts to two ordinary Quarren workers, a detective of sorts and a doctor, who both uncover the truth about what's being done. With the help of Seven, who received a mind-meld from Tuvok to make her remember portions of her life, they set about finding other members of Voyager, and assist in escaping the planet.
It was quite excellent this episode, both plots were engaging, with Kim and the ECH co-operating in commanding Voyager, and I still must say I enjoyed what in my mind is a 'new' character of the ECH, yes it's the Doctor but the way the part was played by Picardo you'd think it was a different program altogether. The few scene's with B'Elanna (due to Roxann Dawson directing) are quite touching as she connects with her former life.
On the planet we have a wounded Chakotay taking refuge in Janeway's apartment, his attempts to get her to see the truth fail though and he's captured. Like I said above it's great to see Seven and this one-off detective character co-operating as they unravel the conspiracy, and the Quarren doctor is in a similar position, they're characters who actually serve a greater purpose to the story and sell the realism of the plot, however the Doctor almost pays the price for knowing the truth. Tom doesn't have much to do in this episode, neither does the relationship between Jaffen and Janeway go any further, but there was nowhere to go really, so that's understandable.
There's the final rescue which is exciting too, where all the crew on the planet play a role in helping escape, and Harry using an impressive maneuver of his own to disable the attacking Breen ships, and it ends with the impressive shutting down of the power station causing a massive blackout, so some nice effects shots helping.
So much like part 1, it's an intelligent script, a great story and with good acting from the guest stars it helps a lot.
Nitpicking: Maybe Tom did damage that ancient Bat'leth given to B'Elanna by Kohlar in "Prophecy", as instead a brand new one adorns the wall on their quarters.
Remarkable maneuver #1: That would be the Doctor, firing a photon torpedo and detonating it with a phaser blast to disable to Breen ships in pursuit.
Remarkable maneuver #2: 2nd is Harry, ejecting escape pods that are tractored by Breen ships, then detonating the pods when they're in close enough range (I'm guessing the escape pods had photon torpedos beamed aboard or something).
Rating: 7 (Cameron)

Human Error Stardate not given: Synopsis in main VOY listing

It isn't a particularly enthralling plot despite the subject matter, Seven spending time in the holodeck with a facsimile of Chakotay as she attempts to simulate her humanity more by making it look like her implants have been removed, choosing civilian clothes and later a standard Starfleet uniform.
The choosing of Chakotay makes little sense as the object of Seven's affection, the pair hadn't really been, well, connected in any way and there was little hint she had been interested him in or vice versa for the past 4 seasons. I could only imagine it's due to Tom being married, Kim being a worthless fool and no other men of prominence on the ship. I would even think that Tuvok may have been a more interesting choice for the subject of her simulations, at least those two characters had an understanding of each other and had been through more situations to bond a little more than she and Chakotay did.
For what it's worth Jeri Ryan, gorgeous as always, acts really well in this episode, she's very vulnerable physically and emotionally, as she tries in vain to shed the last remnant of Borg in her, but thanks to the cortical node preventing her from achieving that, she has no way to escape her past.
The B-Plot isn't that exciting, a lot of explosions and a semi-interesting plot regarding Voyager traversing a proving ground make it a little more interesting than a simple 'anomaly/alien enemy of the week' plot.
The only thing it seemed to have had going for it was the completely unexpected ending, not that Seven lying to herself that she's able to perform her duties while still Borg despite what she loses by not pursuing these aspects of her humanity, but the ending is so abrupt, so that caught me off a little.
But, that's all there is to it, it would almost be forgettable if it weren't for a couple of things, there is continuity with "The Void", I was under the impression that Seven's cooking endeavours weren't going to be picked up on again, they were here. There's also the reference to Unimatrix Zero, where Seven was more human there than she ever could be in reality and that's what she hoped to gain here. Chakotay would later be of interest to her in a couple more episodes yet, as utterly pointless a relationship I view it to be and I'll have more to say about that when the time comes, and Seven, with her hair down in that red dress....yeah. Not the greatest of episodes though, it gets a charitable 4.
Rating: 4 (Cameron)

Q2 Stardate 54704.5: Synopsis in main VOY listing

Normally any episode with Q is above standard thanks to John DeLancie, personally though, I found his appearances on Voyager were less than insightful as they were in 'The Next Generation'. At least in TNG, even when he was a buffoon there was still a much greater purposes to his pestering of Jean-Luc, there was an inherent reason in doing so. But in 'Voyager' I felt the episodes including him diminished in quality and it just played on his infatuation for Janeway which made it just silly as he was the one on the receiving end of the lectures. To me, Q of TNG was such an interesting character because his arrogance was accompanied by intelligence, on 'Voyager' he's simply a buffoon.
Q2 doesn't even involve him to that much of a degree and when it does the whole thing feels like a silly sitcom about the virtues of parenting with a Star Trek twist, with Q Junior's acting up only embellished about ten thousand fold, but it still feels like something that doesn't belong on Star Trek and I was bored with it. There's a formula that repeats itself, Q Jr. misbehaves, Janeway lectures him or responds in some other way, Q appears and says something, repeat and repeat again till the episode ends with Q Jr. being allowed back to the Continuum. There wasn't much I took out of this episode and really didn't find it to be entertaining at all. Seeing people discuss the merits of parenthood isn't really why I tune into Star Trek. In rating, yeah, my opinion on this episode reflects the rating, it may have been a Q episode, but it was a poor one that just didn't captivate my attention as much as others had. Q had always been a thorn in the side of Picard and Janeway for at least credible reasons, here he's just an idiot who can't handle his own child, it's just demeaning to the character. And Q Jr. isn't that interesting either, he's a precocious brat for the first few minutes it's a wonder the Continuum didn't turn him into specks of cosmic dust for eternity before he was allowed the chance to better himself. Predictably he does so within moments of being aboard Voyager, does break a couple of rules when he again thinks he has no expectations upon him, learns his lesson owning up to responsibility and gets to go back to the Continuum, yawn.
Remarkable quote: "Coffee, black." - "Make it yourself." -Janeway and the Computer, after Q Junior "gives it a personality"
Remarkable quote #2: "Talk about perfection." -Q Junior, admiringly to Seven Of Nine after "clicking" her naked in the cargo bay
Remarkable quote #3: "Can I see you naked again?" -Q Junior, to Seven Of Nine
Rating: 3 (Cameron)

Author, Author Stardate 54732.3: Synopsis in main VOY listing

First impressions would compare this to "Living Witness" and "The Measure of a Man", and to me, "Author Author" didn't live up to either, which is a shame because I had high hopes for this episode to be something other than retreading old ground which we had covered before in the latter TNG episode where this argument was made over Data, though for different reasons. The only difference in the situation here, is that the Doctor's ownership of his damaging holonovel, the pretentious and shockingly over-exaggerated 'Photons Be Free', causes the argument about whether he's a person to be not.
For me, this episode didn't leave that emotional resonance "The Measure of A Man" had. To me the Doctor didn't do himself any favours with is outrageous view of the 'Vortex' crew, and the notion his mobile emitter, a tool of liberation as Janeway put it, was seen more as a cumbersome burden. I found that to be quite ridiculous, he had previously flaunted his emitter with a grin you could see from a mile away, boasting about it to other holograms who were without this incredibly piece of technology which was a major role in his ability to become something more than just an EMH. His depictions of the crew, were incredibly outlandish and unnecessary, this is just a poor reflection on his character and it was a bit difficult of me to sympathise with him so much when he was defending his 'masterpiece', the arrogance he displayed also didn't help.
So after the exposure to the holonovel (great scene where Tom turns the tables on the Doctor, presenting a sleazy EMH with a comb over, providing 1 of 3 (aka. Seven of Nine) with a Klingon aphrodisiac in an attempt to seduce her), which is obviously full of allegories which are understandable but hard to take seriously due to the ridiculous nature of the 'Vortex' crew, we come to the legal proceedings regarding if the Doctor fits the definition of a person. Look, it's basically the same legal scene from "The Measure of A Man" all over again, with a few contextual and thematic changes yes, but that's what it boils down to, so don't expect anything out of the ordinary to occur. At least this episode follows through with the original message of the 'Next Generation' episode in question, by showing the Mark 1's in servitude mining dilithium, looks like the ideals that Picard fought for, in a bid to make the Judiciary see that with what was considered a non-sentient being like Data being used for possibly slavery, was all a waste considering the Federation resorted to this in the end with just another group of "non-sentient" beings.
So while the end of the episode is uplifting in a way, knowing the Mark 1's will discover the Doctor's achievements and take inspiration from them, it's on the other hand depressing to know what the Federation resorts to was no different than only a few centuries ago, which funnily enough Janeway quotes as reason to allow the Doctor equal rights.
I just disliked this blatant use of script rehashing in what I perceived to have been a better episode. The Vortex is a nasty place which the Doctor outdid himself portraying it to be as damaging to Voyager's reputation as possible, just to try and emphasis his deluded opinions of his role on the ship. He was given incredible freedom after a short time and was considered a person by the crew, why this shocking outlook? There was no conceivable reason given as to why he would have this view of the crew, even if he had been writing it for a few months it doesn't make sense. I feel that if they had him penning this holonovel much earlier in the series it would've made sense, but here it doesn't, and only serves as a vehicle to walk us down the same path we had been before discussing the rights of another artificial being on a star ship, a message well received before that looks like it was forgotten by Starfleet as they used another form of artificial intelligent for menial chores anyway! There were a very few positives, I liked the continuity maintained where we have the small side story of B'Elanna speaking with her father, mentioning presumably the same female cousin we saw in flashbacks of her youth in "Lineage", and there's also Seven of Nine talking with her aunt in a somewhat touching scene, but aside from those small plots and the chance to see the crew act a little out of character for the holonovel, I was really let down by this episode, as such it gets 4/10. I wasn't as entertained by the Vortex story as I'd hoped to be and instead was left depressed, I was then angry at the Doctor's reaction at the suggestion he revise his work in consideration for his friends, and by the time the episode ended I felt entirely indifferent. The arguments for the Doctor's rights had been made before in a better episode where the consequences of failing to acknowledge Data as an individual were so high and so controversial and left such an impression. With nothing more weighing on the line than the Doctors 'artistic ownership' of his novel, I could not possibly feel the same way.
Remarkable characters: The crew of the Voyager, Captain Jenkins has black hair and murders her own crew to get her helmsman preferential treatment. Batanay is her first officer, a Bajoran. Tactical officer Tulak is a human with a sweet goatee. Lt. Marseilles is a womaniser, well he's just like Paris then. Lt. Torrey is the ships human engineer and Kimble is a Trill hypochondriac.
Rating: 4 (Cameron)

Friendship One Stardate 54775.4: Synopsis in main VOY listing

Wow, poor Joe Carey, brought back from oblivion only to be killed off for a madman to prove a point. It's funny also how Chakotay states that Carey must've been working on his 'Voyager in a bottle' for months, more like YEARS. Also quite sad how the background information for this episode on Memory Alpha suggests Vorik or Samantha Wildman were also candidates to have taken Carey's place as the sacrificial lamb for the episode. What good would that have done though? It's not like we have much of an emotional connection to the recurring secondary characters to feel anything when they eventually die.
Anyway, this episode was so boring I thought, the fact a probe from Earth was responsible for the disaster on the planet didn't seem to be as important a plot device as it shoud've, sure I guess it was interesting how the cold opening had Friendship One approaching the planet with foreboding, and later Voyager discovering what the planet had become (a nuclear wasteland), but after that all we have is a standard hostage plot where the reason for being there is all but forgotten. The aliens could've found any reason to kidnap Voyager's crew, hold them to ransom and blackmail them into finding them a new home. So the only really interesting aspect of the episode didn't seem to mean much a all to me.
That's really all I have to say, it's an unremarkable script. A boring one too.
Remarkable visuals: The planet's landscape, ravaged and turned into an icy wasteland.
Remarkable dialogue: "Even if I believed you, Verin never would." - "Then your people may need a change of leadership; Someone more open to new ideas." - "I'm not a leader." - "But you're a scientist; someone who can see a problem and envision a solution. The same definition could apply to a leader." -Seven of Nine and Otrin
Rating: 1 (Cameron)

Natural Law Stardate 54827.7: Synopsis in main VOY listing

Well I was pleasantly surprised by this episode, for the most part it was your typical 'stranded on an alien planet' plot, and with a primitive alien species around it was clear Chakotay would have something to do for once. It had the potential to be rather boring and have nothing really important to say, sadly the only interesting piece of the story came around in the last few moments, where after Seven brings down an alien forcefield, it gives more advanced members of the same race as the primitives access to the piece of land they had lived on and been protected by the same forcefield for hundreds of years, shielded from protection. This could've been fuel for a very interesting and provocative episode that is relatable to our modern times and of what humans have done in the past of affecting primitive cultures for better or worse, unfortunately it ends up being fuel for another firefight with Voyager.
I'm glad though that the amusing side-plot with Tom being forced to take mundane flying lessons was tied into the plot in the end as well.
So it's a nice episode if not a great deal underwhelming, I liked the interactions with the primitive Ventu Chakotay and Seven had and the performances by the people performing the roles were convincing too.
It had a lot going for it, but just got too trapped in the initial plot of being stranded on the planet for too long before anything more interesting could occur and be dwelled upon for a satisfactory length of time, which is a shame. I'm giving it a 5, no I don't think it's as bad as the last couple of episodes to receive that ranking, because it's NOT a bad episode, but it could've been much better.
Rating: 5 (Cameron)

Homestead Stardate 54868.6: After examining traces of Talaxian life signs, the Delta Flyer crashes on an asteroid inside which a small Talaxian colony exists. Neelix befriends the Talaxian widow Dexa and her son Brax. When a mining company, represented by Commander Nocona, demands that the Talaxians leave because they want to demolish the asteroid, Janeway agrees to transfer the Talaxians to a Class-M world, but Neelix pleads to defend the asteroid. With Janeway's silent agreement, he installs shield emitters around the colony that withstand the miners' attacks. Neelix eventually decides to stay with his new friends.

I noticed something about this episode that has never been explained. Neelix was the first non-Voyager alien that the crew met, so Voyager is 70,000 LY from Earth. Talax is probably no more than 100LY from that location as Voyager visited that world already. Fast forward to "Homestead". Suddenly, Neelix runs across his own race after seven years - and 40,000 LY - of travel from the area of space where Talax is located. HOW did Dexa and her people end up 40,000 LY from Talax?
Remarkable error: As text indicates - how did Talaxians travel 40,000 LY?
Rating: 3 (Kevin Gaukel)

Homestead Stardate 54868.6: Synopsis in main VOY listing

It's a good thing I don't have much time to review this episode, because I really have little to say about it. The whole episode just sets up Neelix's goodbye to Voyager as he decides to settle on a Talaxian colony which he helped defend from miners who wanted to destroy the asteroid the settlement is buried inside.
I couldn't really think of anything wrong with it, of course other than the discrepancy about how the Talaxians made it that far, but it just didn't stand out that much to me. The relationship with Neelix and Dexa was well executed, the story was fine, and maybe I got a little choked up when Neelix was leaving the ship, but I really didn't get overly excited by this episode. There was some other good parts, like Tuvok telling Neelix he feels he's able to help lead the Talaxians, and Janeway quite clearly fabricating the story about how Starfleet wants a permanent Ambassador to the Delta Quadrant so Neelix can feel like he's still serving Voyager in leaving the ship to be with his people.
I just can't really bring myself to figure out something so great or terrible about this episode, so it gets 5/10.
Rating: 5 (Cameron)

Renaissance Man Stardate 54890.7: Synopsis in main VOY listing

It's almost like "Body and Soul" turned inside out, with the Doctor being forced to use his holographic advantage to impersonate members of the crew in an effort to steal the warp core for a couple of Overlookers to collect and sell (one predictably evil, the other innocent who assists the Starfleet hostages, no surprise). And that's as simple as it gets, it's fun in places especially the Doctor's escape from Voyager after ejecting the core, and the few moments where his disguises slip, but, I just couldn't get too excited about it otherwise. It sorely needed something different instead of the Doctor continually drugging the crew, stealing their image and helping his plan form. It's a smart script I will give it that, and I enjoyed the parts of the episode which weren't frustrating like the Doctor's subterfuge, of course his 'deathbed confession' was completely over the top but funny none the less, but the episode still didn't feel too extraordinary.
Remarkable appearance: This is the only time Ayala, now stationed at the CONN indicating a change of division since "Homestead" where he was last seen in Tactical Gold, is seen to speak on screen.
Rating: 5 (Cameron)

Endgame Stardate 54973.4: Synopsis in main VOY listing

Alright people, we've come to the end of a long journey, so settle in cause I've got 5 pages worth of notes and a hell of a lot of hate for the Series finale of 'Star Trek - Voyager': "Endgame".
Well I guess first thing I'll say is a big thanks for Bernd Schneider for giving myself and others the opportunities to commit our thoughts on these many episodes of Star Trek from any series on his website, much appreciated. I'll give my final thoughts on Voyager as a series at the very end of the review as well, and my final ratings for each season. But for now, here's what I thought on this pitiful finale episode.
We open in 2404, to see Admiral Janeway witnessing a presentation on the 10-year anniversary of Voyager's arrival on Earth. Yes between "Renaissance Man" in 2378 and 2394 we can only assume Voyager stopped making these obscene leaps and bounds closer to Earth that they needed to cover less distance in more than double the time it took them to cover the 40,000 light years travelled so far. Right, that's my first nitpick out of the way, it may be pedantic, but please, Voyager had found many, many ways to take steps closer to home under the most amazing of pretenses, using drives of the week, slipstream corridors, spaceship-'slingshots', non-corporeal beings given them a push in the right direction. With so many means to cover these great distances at regular occurrences, I just didn't buy they all but stopped finding ways to get home sooner after a brief period of time.
Anyway, in honour of the anniversary there's a shin-dig for Voyager's crew (what's left of it) when we get an all too brief glimpse at the what's become of the crew, we see Harry FINALLY managed a promotion some time, as he's now Captain of the Rhode Island (though not the ideal ship for 4 year deep space missions, oops), Tom's a balding holonovel author (and the make up IS terrible), B'Elanna's a Federation liaison with Qo'noS, and the Doctor now has name; Joe, in honour of his new wife's father or grandfather or whoever. It doesn't really matter, cause we'll only see Kim and The Doctor (he's not referred to as Joe again in the future segments) again. We learn through dialogue that Janeway is planning something covert with the assistance of Miral, Tom and B'Elanna's daughter, we'll learn more about that later. So after a toast by Reg, Janeway reminds people to remember the crewmen lost (an obvious note to 3 key people we haven't seen yet), setting the stage for the lunacy that is to come.
First Janeway visits Tuvok in, of all places, a MENTAL HOSPITAL. Sure it's the 25th century, but it might as well have been an out take of Terry Gilliam's "Twelve Monkeys" the way Tuvok, in his room, is reduced to speaking near gibberish and scribbling his thoughts on paper on the floor. Why? Because he has some mental condition that we've never been given any indication of before on the show. And it isn't like that point's above criticism as the episode goes out of its way to infer he'd been sick for a while, but did we see any of this? No, he might as well have been Kal-toh champion up till this episode because it feels like his losing to Icheb was nothing more than the fluke Icheb theorises it was. Nothing was given to indicate this was happening to Tuvok, but that's one thing driving Janeway's plan. She then visits the tombstone of Chakotay who had died years before, Janeway talking to his grave tells of how she knew how hard it was since 'she' died (guess who), but she plans to set things right so it will be 'better for all of us'.
Cut to the present, B'Elanna's nearing childbirth, so we know she'll pop at the end of the episode, no surprise, the surprise to come is now the forced romance between Chakotay and Seven. I already talked about the unlikelihood of this being credible before in "Human Error" because, much like the situation with Tuvok above, the whole relationship was whipped up from out of nowhere. Why? I don't believe it was done in "Human Error" just to give it some legitimacy here, because it didn't help one bit. These two characters just had no chemistry at all. Chakotay says some sweet nothings to Seven, who coyly plays along like a giddy school girl. But aside from causing me to yawn and grimace with the cheesy dialogue exchanged, the relationship was only brought up to serve as more fuel for Admiral Janeway's plan that soon comes to light. It's fairly vague as we're not privy to what she tells Captain Harry, but we can guess well enough her intentions to use the technology to change the past in Voyager's favour, and of course Harry brings up the point of the consequences, but in true hypocritical fashion, she ignores what he says, the consequences of her actions WOULD be immense, but when weighed up against the value of three lives, and let's not fool ourselves here, she ONLY ever gave a crap about Tuvok, Seven and Chakotay, those three people were more important than an entire established history. So she asks Harry to 'trust her judgement' and let her continue. Judgement? Yeah right, her entire rationale and justification for her actions is flawed and above all things, criminal. Moving on.
So using advanced technology stolen from extremely dishonourable Klingons (why not use Romulans damnit? At least using Romulans it could've hinted at a possible peace between the two societies, oh well), Admiral Janeway returns to the past to appear to the crew, in a sequence well executed that reminded me of "Timeless", with the action of both timelines occurring simultaneously till the Admiral meets up with Voyager.
On Voyager we have Seven regenerating where she is visited by the Borg Queen (played by Alice Krige who reprises the role from "First Contact") who says that Voyager will be destroyed and her crew assimilated if it enters the nebulae. Rather than be surprised Seven bluntly states that the Queen may be able to communicate her while she's regenerating but can no longer order her to do anything. Now, exactly how is this happening? I don't think I missed anything in dialogue, so why does the Queen have this magical access to Seven of Nine in her sleep and why does Seven seem so unsurprised? Anyway.
Well Voyager enters the nebula on the advice of the Admiral, decked out with advanced weapons and armour it traipses through the nebula allowing Borg ships to take pot shots at it, which allows them to scan the armour to find a weakness, I'm guessing likewise for the weapons, but nothing's made of it but for a line of script by Adm. Janeway later. In the center of the nebula a Transwarp hub is found to be lurking, which Seven goes on about having exit points which lead into every sector of the Galaxy. This hub is nothing but a plot device, a deus ex machina if there ever was one. So first we're led to believe there's six of these in the galaxy, and each of them have many, many conduits allowing for travel across the galaxy (one right to Earth's front door no less! I'll get to that later too), so is there some particular reason the Collective never made use of this thing before now in their many attempts to assimilate Earth? I can only theorise the hub was only completed recently in the chronology, but that's stretching belief a great deal to allow for this thing's existence.
Upon discovery that the Hub, a key tactical target both get Voyager home yet be destroyed and cripple the Borg, the two Janeways talk (and talk, and talk, and talk, you won't want to hear Kate Mulgrew's voice for quite a while after watching this episode), and the Admiral succumbs and tells her that what happens in Captain Janeway's future is the reason she's there and wants her using the hub to get home. The Captain, points out the Temporal Prime Directive (wow, some consistency, at least from "Shattered" cause she sure wasn't hesitant to respect it earlier in the show!), the Admiral typically sighs at her attitude and goads the Captain into accepting the information when she tells her about Tuvok having the space crazies, Seven dying, and Chakotay being miserable after his WIFE'S death, pining till he died too. Janeway wrestles with what she'll do next, so the Admiral just points to the Captain's initial decision to destroy the Caretaker's Array which stranded them, and that she shouldn't allow that self-righteousness to ruin the chance for her crew to get home (like the Admiral is one to talk though considering the means she's gone to just to save her three Bestest friends and most likely 22 faceless goldshirts to boot...).
So the senior staff gather in the briefing room and they all resolve to focus on destroying the Hub rather than use it to get home without destroying, and despite Harry's bad speech he makes the point already made by both Tom and B'Elanna earlier in the episode about Voyager being their home, and that the journey is what mattered, not the destination. Now I liked that bit because it was true, I didn't feel the journey Voyager had been on was arduous enough, failed to reflect reality for many reasons and so on, but he was right. Voyager was a place that these outcasts called home. Janeway, the rookie Captain taking it upon herself to lead her crew home her first officer a Maquis leader who became a trusted (not too mention neutered) friend. Tom, the convict, now a responsible husband, father and officer, B'Elanna, from a fiery young woman to a trusted Chief Engineer. There's also Harry, the perpetual Ensign whose dedication and mortality was constantly tested as he served the ship with no previous experience, the Doctor, a unique individual, an EMH overcoming his limited programming and bedside manner to become something more, and there's Seven of Nine, Neelix and Kes, who were all leaving their past lives behind and starting afresh, Kes' story clearly not ending for the best. But the point was that Voyager felt more of a home to more of these people than Earth did. So while the overall desire to get home was there, I never felt like it mattered if they got there or not.
Another nitpick is Janeway, the way she opened the briefing talking about her lack of regret for destroying the Array that got them stranded, which contradicts her feelings from "Night" where she confessed putting her morals above the duty to her crew was a mistake. Oops.
So we come into the final act with Admiral Janeway leaving, talking to the Borg Queen (through a synaptic interface, yes she was able to hack into the Borg Queen's head) asking for her to get a cube to tractor Voyager back to Earth in exchange for the technology in her shuttle, the Queen sees through this though, and assimilates the Admiral. At the same time Voyager approaches the hub and begins its plan to destroy it. Back in the Queen's 'throne room' she starts falling apart, literally, thanks to another ridiculous technological plot advancement, a neurolytic pathogen that disrupts her link. So rather than make use of Alice Krige's abilities as an actress, her character spends the next minute or so dismembered on the floor deluding herself into thinking she has won. It was already demeaning for Tuvok to be reduced to a crazy man, scribbling notes on the floor by candlelight, yelling dates and getting violent later, and I felt the same here for the Queen to have done absolutely little for the plot but to stand there, observe proceedings, and make idle threats against Admiral Janeway and Seven. So a total waste of a character there. So Voyager rides through conduit, but with a Sphere in pursuit and the a wall of Starfleet ships gathering at the exit of the conduit not far from Earth (duh), Voyager somehow, almost by a wizard, is transported inside the centre of the sphere, and blasts its way out. Total, total crap, scene stealing even from "Return of the Jedi" with the Millennium Falcon escaping the destruction of the Death Star flying out of it from the interior as it explodes.
And how do we wrap up the show? Janeway quips to Admiral Paris (who says nothing to his son, shame) about how they'd 'phone ahead' next time. As predicted Miral is born in sickbay, Chakotay takes the CONN and Voyager glides back to Earth. AND THAT IS IT. That is all we get, we don't get to see Tom reconcile with his father, we don't get to see Tuvok see his family again, we don't get to see Janeway talk with Mark and have a bit of closure there. We don't get to see what became of the relationship with Harry and his girlfriend Libby who we last saw in "Non Sequitur" but they must've been together before Voyager departed. We don't get too see B'Elanna reconcile with her father either as promised a few episodes ago, which episode escapes me though. We don't get to find out what happens with the Maquis either, whether Starfleet absolves them of their criminal past or not (I know books dealt with this, but this episode should have!). And we don't get to see how Seven reacts to truly being back on Earth. It's amazing, at first we have these characters in the future, with their own lives that some of them seem content with, erased by Janeway, and it's swapped for an ending where none of the main characters have any closure at all! I could care less that the episode wouldn't have allowed something like that to have all been shown, because this was a poorly executed episode and even a worse finale! We have Janeway's selfish desire to control the universe taken to extreme's where she defies TIME ITSELF to make everything better for her (and only her, it isn't like she shared her plan with anyone who AGREED with it!), Kirk took Spock's death on the chin and moved on as best he could for a short time. He was resigned to the fact that this was the nature of the universe and Spock understood this too. Picard had the chance to warn Tasha Yar not to go touching the evil talkig oil slick named Armuson Vargas II in "Skin of Evil", because he knew better than to play with history. His lesson from "Tapestry" where he was presented with the chance to change his own history at great cost to himself well learnt. And Sisko was turned into a God and had many means to bring back Jadzia, but that would've meant 'ending' the life of Ezri before it even began. Granted, I doubt the opportunity was offered to him, but my point remains that where these three Captains had the chance to bring back a fallen comrade they chose to respect the nature that is life, Janeway did not. Janeway wanted to make everything better for her and only her no matter what the consequences were, and as a result this episode technobabbled its way from problem to solution to problem to solution: Chrono deflector opens temporal rift, anti-tachyon pulse to close the rift. Synaptic receiver to neural interface to Borg Queen to neuralytic pathogen, oh gimme a break. This episode takes everything, EVERYTHING I disliked about Voyager, and crams it into 120 minutes of anti-climax. On top of the technobabble there's the mistimed character arcs with Seven and Chakotay, I didn't care about it and it wasn't convincing. There's the total disregard for the more dignified message of the show in favour of the quick fix. Harry said it best, it's the journey, not the destination, but Captain Janeway's comment about having their cake and eating it too gave license to throw out that noble message, opting to just get Voyager home no matter what.
Now I'm not blind to the truth, this show could only end two ways: Voyager gets home, or Voyager keep trekkin' (pardon the pun), the first resolution would've been fine if executed properly, but it wasn't, making me wish the ship stayed stranded to reinforce the idea that Voyager was on a journey home, and they would get there. They didn't have to get there thanks to a cheat of an Admiral who allowed her narcissism to get the better of her.
It gets 3/10. Second only to "These Are the Voyages" as the worst of all Star Trek finales. It certainly could've benefited with the treatment given to "What You Leave Behind" and "All Good Things", both those episodes did excellent to not just finish off the loose ends the show had created over time, and dealt with overextending arcs (Q vs. Picard, and the Dominion War/Prophets and Sisko), but also left it well open in a way that had people wanting more. They got more from The Next Generation, and people still want more DS9, but "Endgame" did neither. This episode gave no closure, and it also sealed to door to the fate of Voyager and these characters. As I said I know books have been brought out, but they could only go on the less than mediocre ending we were given, instead of continuing the voyage, long after it had ended it's run on tv.
And for some brief final thoughts on the show, growing up I found it harmless enough, I was too young for TNG and never saw a lot of DS9, so Voyager was the optimum Trek to get into barring the movies I also enjoyed. Looking back, my opinion hasn't changed, but I understand why I felt that way. Because this show was afraid of change. It may have had it's hands tied by UPN to deliver a family friendly Trek easily accessible to casual viewers, but what was delivered was still rarely good enough. There were some brilliant episodes, but they were outweighed by those average ones and poorer episodes, which were dragged down by bad writing, and bland characters. Too many rehashed plots, too many reset buttons. Unlike TNG which reinvigorated Star Trek and gave it more mainstream appeal, and DS9 which challenged Roddenberry's utopian vision for the future with a different premise than the other 'Enterprise-based' shows, Voyager added nothing new to the franchise, the concept of the show was made a non-issue as we never felt these characters were in danger or were in peril of never returning home. It remains an 'ok' show in my eyes and I feel my ratings reflect that, a slightly above average show, which never realised the potential it had to be better.
Remarkable quote: "I think it's safe to say no one on this crew has been more... obsessed with getting home than I have. But when I think about everything we've been through together, maybe it's not the destination that matters. Maybe it's the journey, and if that journey takes a little longer, so we can do something we all believe in. I can't think of any place I'd rather be, or any people I'd rather be with." -Harry Kim
Remarkable dialogue: "Don't get too comfy. Klingon labor can sometimes last several days." (Torres screams and seizes him by jacket collar) - "Of course, I'm sure that won't be the case here." -The Doctor and Lt. Torres during her labor
Remarkable continuity: The Starfleet uniforms seen in the future sequences are the same as those seen in the future timelines in "All Good Things" and "The Visitor"
Remarkable fact: Robert Beltran, a noted critic of the writing and characterizations on the show, said of the final episode: "This is what we're going out with?"
Remarkable ratings for Star Trek: Voyager: Season 1: 5.5/10, Season 2: 5.9/10, Season 3: 5.8/10, Season 4: 6/10, Season 5: 5.2/10, Season 6: 4.5/10, Season 7: 5.2/10. Average rating for Star Trek Voyager as a series: 5.4/10
Rating: 3 (Cameron)

 


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