Post by: Tom on September 02, 2009, 08:52:35 PM
Post by: DJ Doena on September 02, 2009, 09:12:19 PM
But often I come across someone mentioning a Star Trek episode
Q Who
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Post by: Tom on September 02, 2009, 09:58:11 PM
Writer: Joe Menosky (Writer)
Director: Terry Windell
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Albie Selznick (Tash), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
I completely forgot about this episode. On the page discussing "clip shows" at tvtropes someone mentioned this episode as in interesting twist on clip shows. This episode hardly has any clips from previous episodes, and the ones it got are only few seconds long. Seven malfunctions while downloading too much of Voyager's data into her brain during regeneration, and now sees conspiracies in past incidents and even gets Janeway and Chakotey riled up so much, that they almost start to distrust each other.
This is a nice little bottle episode, but the resolution to Seven's paranoia is too fast. She comes around after a short little pep talk by the captain.
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Post by: DJ Doena on September 02, 2009, 10:46:22 PM
Seven malfunctions while downloading too much of Voyager's data
I had to read this part several times because it made no sense at all until I remembered that "Seven" was a person. ;)
Post by: Tom on September 02, 2009, 10:53:51 PM
Writer: David Zabel (Screenwriter), Kenneth Biller (Screenwriter), David Zabel (Original Material By)
Director: Mike Vejar
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Dwight Schultz (Barclay), Richard Herd (Admiral Paris), Richard McGonagle (Commander Pete Harkins), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Victor Bevine (Security Guard), Mark Daniel Cade (Technician), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
I just had to watch this great episode which was on the same disc as the previous one. Lt. Barcley is working on a project to establish contact with Voyager. After being kicked off the project because of a wild idea of his and because of his holo-addiction which makes him interact with the Voyager characters on the holodeck, he gets councelling by Deanna Troi. At the end he proves that his idea was right and Starfleet has two-way contact with Voyager for the first time. This episode also marks the first appearence of Admiral Paris.
I like the fact, that the Maquis members in Reggie's holodeck simulation all wear the clothes they wore in the pilot episode instead of a Starfleet uniform with different rank insignias.
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Post by: RossRoy on September 02, 2009, 11:25:10 PM
Seven malfunctions while downloading too much of Voyager's data
I had to read this part several times because it made no sense at all until I remembered that "Seven" was a person. ;)
Glad to see I'm not alone! :phew:
On TV here in Quebec, there's often an episode of each of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY & ENT all back to back. I will sometimes just tune in while having breakfast or lunch, and I always find it quite enjoyable.
I like Star Trek for its accessibility like that. You can pretty much just pick up any episode, and it's enjoyable, especially if you've seen them all before.
Post by: Tom on September 02, 2009, 11:48:29 PM
Writer: Joe Menosky (Screenwriter), Michael Taylor (Original Material By)
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Daniel Dae Kim (Pilot), Obi Ndefo (Protector), Daniel Zacapa (Astronomer), Olaf Pooley (Cleric), Jon Cellini (Technician), Kat Sawyer-Young (Astronaut), Melik Malkasian (Shaman), Walter Hamilton McCready (Tribal Alien), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman)
Another episode on the same disc. I always found this episode interesting. Voyager is caught in the orbit of a planet, which exists in a different time-frame. One second on Voyager is one day on the planet. The inhabitants are seeing Voyager for centuries and their whole civilization is heavily influenced by the "skyship". We see the evolution from a primitive culture to a spacefaring civilization which ultimately helps Voyager to free itself from the orbit.
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Post by: Tom on September 05, 2009, 02:00:09 PM
Writer: Richard Danus (Writer)
Director: Les Landau
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), John de Lancie (Q), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Richard Cansino (Dr. Garin), Betty Muramoto (Scientist), Corbin Bernsen (Q2 (uncredited))
Q episodes are always fun. Here Q is punished by the Q Continuum and is made mortal. It's fun seeing him without his powers and having him constantly complaining about it.
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Post by: Tom on September 05, 2009, 03:04:14 PM
Writer: Ira Steven Behr (Screenwriter), Richard Manning (Screenwriter), Hans Beimler (Screenwriter), Ronald D. Moore (Screenwriter), Trent Christopher Ganino (Original Material By), Eric A. Stillwell (Original Material By)
Director: David Carson
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar), Christopher McDonald (Richard Castillo), Tricia O'Neil (Rachel Garrett), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan)
I always have loved this episode. This is the only instance we get to see the Enterprise-C. It is thrown 22 years from the past into the present time, which leads to an alternate timeline where the Federation is at war with the Klingons. This was also a great way to bring back Tasha Yar. Both Enterprise crews had to make the decision, to send the Enterprise-C back in time to a certain death because they had reason to believe, that this will prevent the war before it started.
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Post by: Tom on September 13, 2009, 12:13:34 AM
Writer: Brannon Braga (Writer), Joe Menosky (Writer)
Director: David Livingston
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Sarah Silverman (Rain Robinson), Allan G. Royal (Captain Braxton), Ed Begley, Jr. (Henry Starling), Susan Patterson (Ensign Kaplan), Barry Wiggins (Policeman), Christian R. Conrad (Dunbar)
The first part of a two-parter which I have always really enjoyed. As you know, I love time-travel, and I think the episode plays well with it. Also this episode introduced me to Sarah Silverman and because of this episode I usually check stuff out with her in it.
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VOY 3.09 Future's End, Part II
Writer: Brannon Braga (Writer), Joe Menosky (Writer)
Director: Cliff Bole
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Sarah Silverman (Rain Robinson), Allan G. Royal (Captain Braxton), Brent Hinkley (Butch), Clayton Murray (Porter), Ed Begley, Jr. (Henry Starling), Susan Patterson (Ensign Kaplan), Christian R. Conrad (Dunbar), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
The second part, although also fun to watch, is not as good as the first part. The first part had fun setting everything up. But the second part just was standard fare of getting everything back to how it should be.
This episode has lasting effect as it gives the doctor his mobile holo-emitter.
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Post by: Tom on September 19, 2009, 10:48:02 PM
Writer: Bryan Fuller (Screenwriter), Brannon Braga (Screenwriter), Joe Menosky (Screenwriter), Brannon Braga (Original Material By)
Director: Tim Russ
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Henry Woronicz (Quarren), Rod Arrants (Vaskan Ambassador Daleth), Craig Richard Nelson (Vaskan Arbiter), Marie Chambers (Kyrian Arbiter), Brian Fitzpatrick (Tedran), Morgan H. Margolis (Vaskan Rioter), Mary Anne McGarry (Tabris), Timothy Davis-Reed (Kyrian Spectator)
This episode is set 700 years in the future of a planet Voyager had contact with. Their history doesn't portray Voyager in a favorible light until the doctor gets the chance to set the record straight.
I always liked how this episode plays with the characters similar to the "Mirror" universe episodes of DS9 and TOS. And it shows how the historical facts can be miconstrued when relying on few data. This leads to have the Voyager crew portrayed in total different light (except maybe for Mr. Paris :laugh: ) by the future society of this planet.
I always enjoyed this episode, even though it is based on a big plot hole: In the entire course of the series, it is always pointed out, that the program of the doctor is so complex, that it cannot be copied. If his program is lost, so is the doctor. But here we suddenly have a backup of the doctor, somehow left back at this planet. And added to that, the backup seems to have been synchronised rather recent before the backup has been lost.
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Post by: Tom on September 20, 2009, 08:18:08 PM
Writer: Lisa Klink (Screenwriter), Rick Williams (Original Material By)
Director: Nancy Malone
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Judson Scott (Commander Rekar), Valerie Wildman (Nevala), Andy Dick (EMH-2), Tony Sears (Starfleet Officer), Tiny Ron (Hirogen), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
The doctor gets sent through an alien communication network to the alpha quadrant on a Starfleet starship prototype. There he has to battle off Romulans who have taken over the ship with the help of the prototype of his successor program (played by Andy Dick). I always enjoyed this episode for the interplay between the two doctors.
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Post by: Tom on September 22, 2009, 10:59:28 PM
Writer: Jerome Bixby (Writer), Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By)
Director: Marc Daniels
Cast: William Shatner (Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), Barbara Luna (Marlena), James Doohan (Scott), George Takei (Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Vic Perrin (Tharn), Walter Koenig (Chekov), John Winston (Lt. Kyle), Garth Pillsbury (Wilson), Pete Kellett (Kirk's Henchman)
I will be running a theme now: The "Mirror Universe" episodes. The beginning is of course the episode, where it all started.
One of my favorite TOS episodes. It is responsible that we will forever associate the evil twin with having a beard because of Mr. Spock. It is fun to see the cast in a different light. And of course I always enjoy good parallel universe episodes.
Pay attention at the end and you will notice that the last scene of this episode was used in DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations". The only scene which was not derived from "The Trouble With Tribbels".
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Post by: Tom on September 23, 2009, 08:03:42 PM
Writer: Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By), Peter Allan Fields (Screenwriter), Michael Piller (Screenwriter), Peter Allan Fields (Original Material By)
Director: David Livingston
Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Doctor Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lieutenant Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Andrew Robinson (Garak), John Cothran, Jr. (Telok), Stephen Gevedon (Klingon #1), Jack R. Orend (Human), Dennis Madalone (Marauder)
The mirror universe is revisited 100 years after Kirk travelled to it. It is a nice idea that Kirk's visit and influence on the Mirror-Spock is cause of the fall of the Terran Empire.
It is again fun to see another side of the characters. The producers seem to like the chance of killing off the main characters in the mirror universe episodes. Here Quark and Odo bite the dust.
During this episode I was thinking, that having Worf there would have been very fitting. And just now I have read, that they intended to do that (he was even in the script), but Michael Dorn was too busy filming TNG.
I had almost forgotten how annoying Bashir was to the other characters early in the series.
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Post by: Tom on September 24, 2009, 10:13:17 PM
Writer: Ira Steven Behr (Writer), Robert Hewitt Wolfe (Writer)
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Doctor Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lieutenant Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Andrew Robinson (Garak), Felecia M. Bell (Jennifer), Max Grodénchik (Rom), Tim Russ (Tuvok), John Patrick Hayden (Cardassian Overseer), Dennis Madalone (Marauder)
Sisko is brought to the mirror universe to save the mirror version of his dead wife.
It is again fun to see the other side. Nice touch to have a mirror Tuvok there.
I love how Sisko jumped at the chance to sleep with Dax without repercussions :laugh: And she did look really hot with that hairstyle!
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Post by: Tom on September 24, 2009, 11:39:39 PM
Writer: Ira Steven Behr (Writer), Hans Beimler (Writer)
Director: James L. Conway
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Felecia M. Bell (Jennifer), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Carlos Carrasco (Klingon Officer), Andrew Robinson (Garak), James Black (Helmsman), Dennis Madalone (Guard)
In this episode, Jake meets the mirror Jennifer Sisko (his mother). Though this is a nice idea and has a good payoff, they focused too much on this storyline for my taste. Still the episode was fun to watch. Though it is strange, how the rebels could build a perfect replica of the Defiant in such a short time. It is also sad to see mirror-Garak degraded to being the labdog of mirror-Worf.
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Post by: Tom on September 26, 2009, 12:00:51 PM
Writer: Michael Taylor (Writer)
Director: LeVar Burton
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), John Towey (Vedek Ossan), Philip Anglim (Bareil), Scott Strozier (Security Guard)
This time around, two characters from the mirror universe come to DS9. Mirror-Bareil and mirror-Kira. I never found the character of Bareil very interesting which made this episode rather dull.
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Post by: Tom on September 26, 2009, 06:26:32 PM
Writer: Ira Steven Behr (Writer), Hans Beimler (Writer)
Director: LeVar Burton
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Nicole DeBoer (Lieutenant Ezri Dax), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Colonel Kira), Andrew J. Robinson (Garak), Jeffrey Combs (Brunt), Max Grodénchik (Rom), J. G. Hertzler (Martok), Tiny Ron (Maihar'du), Chase Masterson (Leeta), Wallace Shawn (Zek), Peter C. Antoniou (Helmsman)
Usually I do not mind Ferengi episodes that much. There are some that I really enjoyed (like "Bar Associations" from season 4). But sadly here it is mixed with a mirror universe episodes, which also is the last mirror episode of this series. I would have liked to have a proper solution to this storyline instead of having it made into a comedy episode.
Besides this, it is an enjoyful episode.
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Post by: Tom on September 26, 2009, 07:27:06 PM
Writer: Judy Burns (Writer), Chet Richards (Writer), Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By)
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Cast: William Shatner (Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), James Doohan (Scott), George Takei (Sulu), Walter Koenig (Chekov), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), Sean Morgan (Lt. O'Neil)
Originally not a mirror universe episode. It was just mentioned that the Defiant (a ship that went missing and the Enterprise was searching for) is phasing in and out between alternated universes.
It is revealed in an episode of the prequel series "Enterprise", that the other universe was the mirror universe.
No matter what, this is still a great episode. Captain Kirk is presumed dead and McCoy and Spock have to learn to work together without Kirk being there to balance them out.
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Post by: Tom on September 26, 2009, 08:27:19 PM
Cast: Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer), John Billingsley (Phlox), Jolene Blalock (T'Pol), Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Charles "Trip" Tucker III), Vaughn Armstrong (Captain Maxwell Forrest), Franc Ross (Grizzled Human)
In the fourth season of Enterprise they finally understood what potential making a prequel series has.
This episode completely plays out in the mirror universe. We see the mirror universe twist of the first contact of Cochrane with the vulcans (with footage from the movie ST: First Contact). And we see the mirror universe version of Archer's crew which is similar badass as Kirk's mirror universe crew. And a great idea to combine the story about the missing Defiant from the "Tholian Web" episode of the original series with the mirror universe. They even changed the opening credits for this two-parter.
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Post by: Tom on September 26, 2009, 09:20:36 PM
Cast: Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer), John Billingsley (Phlox), Jolene Blalock (T'Pol), Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Charles "Trip" Tucker III), Gary Graham (Soval), Gregory Itzin (Admiral Black), John Mahon), Derek Magyar (Kelby), Pat Healy (Alien), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice), David Sobolov (Slar)
In this second part, Archer has taken control of the Defiant (which is of the same starship class as the original Enterprise). So we get to see his crew onboard a ship which is very similar to the old Enterprise. They even wear the appropriate uniforms.
This episode is a good conclusion to the two-parter.
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Post by: Tom on September 27, 2009, 10:57:48 AM
Writer: Mike Sussman (Writer)
Director: Alexander Singer
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Carol Davis (Giuseppina Pentangeli), Steven Houska (Chardis), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
My next theme: The pairing of Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres (known in the fandom as "P/T"). This is my favorite canon Star Trek couple. I like how they slowly build it up in season 3 with few scenes thrown in in a couple of episodes. Sadly they neglected this pairing during season 5 and 6 but luckily made again some nice episodes in season 7. I will not watch every episode where those two share on-screen time, but will make a selection of episodes of which I remember they had some nice scenes between them.
One story in this episode is about the consequence of the Emergency Medical Hologram running longer than it is supposed to. The doctor's matrix is degrading. We get the chance to see the guy who has programmed him (Dr. Zimmerman) who looks exactly like the doctor. It's the good part about this episode. Robert Picardo is great playing the doctor having dementia. And he is also fun as Dr. Zimmerman.
With the other part, although nicely executed, I have a problem with: Who does Janeway think she is? The alien they encounter make it obvious, that they do no tolerate trespassers. But because it would take Voyager 15 months to go around they space (I assume they did consider 3D space ;) ), she decides to risk the ship and go through their space. Also it seems a little strange, that going around that space would take 15 months, but going through it would only take 3 days.
P/T moment: In the beginning of the episode, Paris asks B'Elanna about her love life. And it also marks the first time (as far as I remember), that he hits on her.
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Post by: DJ Doena on September 27, 2009, 11:22:41 AM
Also it seems a little strange, that going around that space would take 15 months, but going through it would only take 3 days.
It's a "slice of bread" territory. High and wide but not that thick. ;)
Post by: Tom on September 27, 2009, 05:25:03 PM
Also it seems a little strange, that going around that space would take 15 months, but going through it would only take 3 days.
It's a "slice of bread" territory. High and wide but not that thick. ;)
Yes, that was clear. They even showed a picture of how it looks (more like a schematic of a Tie-Fighter: wide on the sides in in the middle, but having two passages where it isn't that thick). But I don't feel it's realisitic. I would have believed it more, if the passages were about a few week's journey. But three days? I think it is to extreme compared to the 15 months around. And of course the picture they showed was in 2D ;)
Probably would have only taken a few days flying around their territory if they would have considered 3D :laugh:
Post by: Tom on September 27, 2009, 07:01:08 PM
Writer: Joe Menosky (Writer)
Director: Robert Picardo
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Sandra Nelson (Marayna), Alexander Enberg (Ensign Vorik), Shay Todd (Holowoman), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
I am skipping the episode "Macrocosm" even though I remember it had a nice P/T scene in it. But that episode is so stupid (Macro-viruses flying around and Rambo-Janeway going after them), that I do not want to watch it now.
The episode "Alter Ego" is about an alien who takes over a holodeck character, Harry Kim and Tuvok both fall for. As you can probably guess, this amounts to a stupid episode. Although I did like the conclusion to this episode.
P/T moments:
Tom complimenting B'Elanna on her dress and him getting competition from the vulcan Vorik.
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Post by: Tom on September 27, 2009, 07:11:48 PM
Post by: Tom on September 27, 2009, 07:24:16 PM
I have subscribed now this this youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/sfdebris#grid/uploads). It has amusing Star Trek reviews pointing out the stupid plot issues.
I will catch up on the videos on this channel in due time beginning with the oldest.
I just laughed my ass off during this review of an early Voyager episode:
Post by: Tom on September 27, 2009, 08:21:20 PM
Writer: Lisa Klink (Writer)
Director: Andrew Robinson
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Alexander Enberg (Ensign Vorik), Bruce Bohne (Ishan), Deborah Levin (Ensign Lang)
The first episode with a big P/T focus. Vorik goes into Pon Farr and chooses B'Elanna as his mate. She refuses but is infected by the blood fever of the Pon Farr when Vorik briefly mind melded with her.
Under the blood lust, B'Elanna chooses Tom as her mate which leads to some great P/T scenes.
The end of the episode marks the introduction of the Borg to the Voyager series.
P/T moments:
There are a lot to choose from in this episode. My favorite two are the following:
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Post by: Tom on September 27, 2009, 09:53:11 PM
Writer: Kenneth Biller (Writer)
Director: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Jessica Collins (Linnis Paris), Michael L. Maguire (Benaren), Christopher Aguilar (Andrew Kim), Janna Michaels (Young Kes), Rachael Harris (Martis)
Kes is travelling backwards in time from the time of her death to the present. This leads us to see a possible future for the Voyager crew (which will be an alternate future because Kes retained her memories and the timeline will certainly change because of this). So we got to see the Year of Hell, some of the crew dying, Kes' child and and grandchild.
One thing always bothered me about this episode. The producers chose a very bad point to change Kes' hairstyle. I remember the first time I have watched this episode, I thought not much about the longer hairstyle of Kes in the scenes set in the future. I thought that she will let her hair grow in the future. So when she was back at the present time, I thought that she still had one jump back in time left, because she still had the longer hair. As it turned out, they have changed her regular hairstyle between the previous episode and this one. Really bad choice as it just confuses the time-traveling even more. It would have been better, if they changed her present hairstyle after this episode. Then they could have used as a reason for the change, that Kes saw it in the future, liked it and decided to make this change.
P/T moment:
In this possible future, Tom and B'Elanna were a couple until B'Elanna died in the first Krenin attack.
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Post by: Tom on September 28, 2009, 08:24:24 PM
Writer: Jeri Taylor (Screenwriter), Harry Doc. Kloor (Original Material By)
Director: Anson Williams
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Wendy Schaal (Charlene), Glenn Harris (Jeffrey), Lindsey Haun (Belle), Stephen Ralston (Larg), Chad Haywood (K'Kath)
Another great doctor episode. He wants to learn what it is to have a family and creates himself the perfect Brady Bunch as his family. After B'Elanna sees this, she convinces him to make the family more realistic which leads for him having to cope with a difficult family life with real tragedy thrown in.
The B-Plot on the other hand is really boring. The anamoly of the week is endangering Voyager yet again.
P/T moment:
Tom catches B'Elanna reading a trashy Klingon romance novel.
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Post by: Tom on September 28, 2009, 09:32:08 PM
Writer: Lisa Klink (Writer)
Director: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Kenneth Tigar (Dammar), Mark L. Taylor (Jarlath), James Noah (Rislan), Nancy Youngblut (Taleen), Deborah Levin (Ensign Lang), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
The Voyager crew is slowly replaced by aliens one-by-one. The aliens pretend that they do not know what is going on and that some third-party is doing the replacing. When the Voyager crew finds out that this is all a ruse, it is too late.
Nice idea for an episode and I always enjoyed this one.
P/T moments:
Tom and B'Elanna fight and make up.
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Post by: Tom on September 30, 2009, 12:34:53 AM
Writer: Kenneth Biller (Writer)
Director: Alexander Singer
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Martha Hackett (Seska), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
B'Elanna stumbles upon a holo-novel about a mutiny lead by Chakotay. As it turns out, it was created by Tuvok, but never finished. When he and Tom try to continue writing it, they find out that Seska had finished it for them and there are now trapped in the holo-novel fighting for their lives.
I like how in the beginning of this episode this holo-novel chatches on with the crew.
And it shows, that similar to the viewers, also Tuvok couldn't believe that the integration of the Maquis crew into Voyager went as smooth as it actually did ;)
P/T moment:
Tom proposes to write in a love affair between the helm's man and the chief engineer :laugh:
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Post by: Tom on September 30, 2009, 07:55:07 PM
Writer: Jeri Taylor (Writer)
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Alexander Enberg (Ensign Vorik), Alan Altshuld (Lumas), Michael A. Krawic (Rhamin), Kevin P. Stillwell (Moklor), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
This is the second big P/T episode. Voyager must dump its warp core (I think this was the first time ever, that we actually saw the warp core eject from the ship on-screen in any Star Trek series). B'Elanna and Tom take a shuttle to get the core back, but are left stranded in environment suits with not much oxygen left. This leads to some heart-to-heart and a love confession by B'Elanna shortly before they would have died if Voyager hadn't shown up in the nick of time.
Although I like this episode and the P/T moments, it was much too sudden. They slowly built up the relationship during season three, and in the first episode in season 4 with P/T content they suddenly get together. Originally it was planned to continue slowly building up that relationship in season 4, but when Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna) became pregnant in real life, they decided to get Tom and B'Elanna together before the actress started showing.
P/T moments: About half of the episode, but the most important is of course the last scene.
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Post by: Tom on September 30, 2009, 08:57:27 PM
Writer: Lisa Klink (Writer)
Director: Kenneth Biller
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Leland Orser (Dejaren)
B'Elanna and the doctor encounter a psychotic hologram. I always enjoyed this episode. The whiny voice of the guest star always was fun to me. It has always reminded me of Jonathan Slavin (Byron from "Andy Richter Controls the Universe"), who at the time I knew from the short-lived sitcom Union Square. It is a similar voice as Tom Lenk (Andrew on Buffy) has.
P/T moment:
This episode contains my favorite P/T moment of the entire series. It is the scene where Tom confronts B'Elanna about her love confession.
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Post by: Tom on September 30, 2009, 10:09:12 PM
Writer: Lisa Klink (Screenwriter), Sherry Klein (Original Material By), Harry Doc. Kloor (Original Material By)
Director: David Livingston
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Rosemary Forsyth (Alzen), Annette Helde (Takar)
Aliens make scientific experiments on the crew without their knowledge. Janeway is even grumpier than usual. Chakotay and Neelix mutate which makes a fun talk between those two about their new disabilites. Tom and B'Elanna act like hormonal teenager and use every chance they get to make out during their duty shifts.
P/T moments:
Some making out scenes, followed by chewing out by the captain.
May favorite P/T scene in this episode is the one where they discuss how they should enter the briefing room.
The final scene offers a possible explanation why the sudden change of their relationship a few episodes back.
From now on the P/T relationship takes a back seat for the next three seasons. They are still P/T moments, but I will skip straight to season 7 where we finally get again some great P/T episodes.
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Post by: Tom on October 03, 2009, 04:38:25 PM
Writer: Michael Taylor (Writer)
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Cyia Batten (Irina), Brian George (O'Zaal), Patrick Kilpatrick (Assan), Robert Tyler (Joxom), Chris Covics (Assistant), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
In the final season of Voyager, they finally put more focus on the P/T relationship again.
B'Elanna asks herself the same question as I as a viewer did: It has been three years since the P/T relationship began, but why was there hardly any progress at all?
In this episode Tom takes on a race challenge, forgetting about a romantic getaway B'Elanna had planned. This starts B'Elanna thinking, if it wouldn't be best to break off the relationship.
During the course of the episode, they talk their problems out, Tom proves that his first priority is with her, and they get married.
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Post by: Tom on October 03, 2009, 06:13:08 PM
Writer: James Kahn (Writer)
Director: Peter Lauritson
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Manu Intiraymi (Icheb), Juan Garcia (John Torres), Jessica Gaona (Young B'Elanna), Javier Grajeda (Carl), Paul Robert Langdon (Dean), Nicole Sarah Fellows (Elizabeth), Gilbert R. Leal (Michael), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
The first full-blown P/T episode without any "Voyager is in danger" side-story detracting from the character-driven plot.
B'Elanna and Tom learn that they are expecting a baby. The beginning of the episode is about the reactions from the crew and of course the reaction from Tom and B'Elanna. The story then focuses on B'Elanna's fear about the child's mixed heritage. Through flashbacks we see a camping trip with her father from her childhood, and how her father left soon after because living with two Klingons was too hard on him. B'Elanna fears that the same will happen with Tom and so she wants to have the Klingon genetic trademarks removed from here baby, even going so far to reprogram the doctor to go along with it. Tom can convince her that he is nothing like her father just in time.
It is really nice to see that they can write an entire episode about this relationship, and address a fear of B'Elanna's which was mentioned throughout the series, without moving it to a B-story of a standard Voyager episode.
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Post by: Tom on October 03, 2009, 07:39:46 PM
Writer: Phyllis Strong (Screenwriter), Mike Sussman (Screenwriter), Brannon Braga (Original Material By)
Director: David Livingston
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Richard Herd (Admiral Paris), Barry Gordon (Broht), Joseph Campanella (Arbitrator), Lorinne Vozoff (Irene Hansen), Juan Garcia (John Torres), Robert Ito (John Kim), Irene Tsu (Mary Kim), Dwight Schultz (Barclay), Brock Burnett (Male N.D.), Jennifer Hammon (Female N.D.), Heather Young (Sickbay N.D.), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
This episode starts out as pure fun, with a new holonovel the doctor has written about his life. He based the novel on Voyager and its crew, but very out-of-character of all involved (it could almost count as an Voyager mirror-universe episode. Tuvok even has a beard like the evil Spock :laugh: ). Though I must say, that the portrayed Janeway is not too far from the truth in my opinion ;)
Towards the end this episode becomes Voyager's "The Measure of a Man" episode (a TNG episode which is about Data's rights as a person). A trial begins, if the doctor has a right on his novel like a normal person. In the end it is decided, that the doctor has the rights as an artist, but they didn't want yet to decide on the fact if he should be considered a person in general. This is a question which is left unanswered in Voyager.
P/T moment:
One story-line in this episode is about the crew being able to have real-time communication with the Alpha Quadrant and thus their families for the first time.
B'Elanna and Tom are talking to her father, who wants to make amends.
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Post by: Tom on October 03, 2009, 11:15:13 PM
Writer: Kenneth Biller (Screenwriter), Robert Doherty (Screenwriter), Rick Berman (Original Material By), Kenneth Biller (Original Material By), Brannon Braga (Original Material By)
Director: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Dwight Schultz (Barclay), Richard Herd (Admiral Paris), Vaughn Armstrong (Korath), Manu Intiraymi (Icheb), Lisa Locicero (Miral Paris), Miguel Perez (Physician), Grant Garrison (Cadet), Alice Krige (Borg Queen), Amy Lindsay (Lana), Matthew James Williamson (Klingon), Joey Sakata (Engineering N.D.), Richard Sarstedt (Star Fleet Admiral), Iris Bahr (Female Cadet), Ashley Sierra Hughes (Sabrina), Majel Barrett (Compute Voice (voice))
Voyager gets home with the help from a future Janeway. It is a nice enough final episode for Voyager. Nice to see a possible future, where Voyager did take another 16 years to get home.
What I missing is some kind of coda, where we see what happens to the crew, now that they are back home. We get some idea through some dialog, but I think it could have easily filled up half a season to explore this topic. For example, what happens to the doctor? How will he come to be recognized as a person?
I think to show the alternate future was in some way a good idea to give some hints about their future lives (at least for the ones who did make it home in that timeline).
P/T moments:
The birth of their daughter for once. Then you also see them still happily married in the alternate future. Also Tom refusing Harry's idea for a dangerous mission to explore the possibility to get home on the grounds, that it's too dangerous for him as a husband and father-to-be and that he is already home, is a nice touch.
This concludes the P/T marathon.
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Post by: Tom on October 05, 2009, 08:56:14 PM
Writer: J. Michael Bingham (Screenwriter), John D. F. Black (Original Material By), J. Michael Bingham (Original Material By)
Director: Paul Lynch
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Commander William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Geordi La Forge), Denise Crosby (Lt. Tasha Yar), Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf), Gates McFadden (Doctor Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), John de Lancie (Q), Michael Bell (Zorn), DeForest Kelley (Admiral McCoy), Colm Meaney (Battle Bridge Conn), Cary-Hiroyuki (Mandarin Bailiff), Timothy Dang (Main Bridge Security), David Erskine (Bandi Shopkeeper), Evelyn Guerrero (Young Female Ensign), Chuck Hicks (Military Officer), Jimmy Ortega (Torres)
I decided to do a Q marathon next. The start makes the pilot episode of Star Trek TNG.
This episode introduces the crew, which in retrospect it fails at, as the characters are very different compared to later on in this series. Picard is a grumpy old man. Tasha Yar is portrayed as a very incompetent security chief. Worf is really stupid (he even almost destroyed the view screen, because he wanted to shoot something appearing on it :laugh: ).
I find it strange that the crew obviously came together without knowing who else will be on that ship. Even the captain didn't know. Riker and Troi are surprised to meet each other again. Picard even asks Crusher to leave again after he finds out that she has now the position of the chief medical officer.
Q is ultimately what gives this episode somewhat of a rewatch value. Especially because his storyline will bookend this series in the final episode of TNG. What I have read, he only was integrated into the story, after the pilot had be padded when the studio asked to make a 90 minute pilot movie instead of the planned 45 minute pilot episode.
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Post by: Tom on October 06, 2009, 09:17:06 PM
Writer: Tracy Tormé (Writer)
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Commander William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Geordi La Forge), Denise Crosby (Lt. Tasha Yar), Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf), Gates McFadden (Doctor Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), John de Lancie (Q), Elaine Nalee (Klingon Survivor), William A. Wallace (Wesley (25 years old))
Probably my least favorite TNG Q episode. Though I like all scenes with Q onboard of the Enterprise (especially his interactions with Picard), I do not like the stuff on the planet. Also this episode has some really ridiculous scenes, like Tasha Yar crying because Q send her into the "penalty box" and Picard comforting her with his "now we have a new rule: The chief of security is allowed to cry if she is in the penalty box"-speech.
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Post by: Tom on October 09, 2009, 08:00:22 PM
Writer: Maurice Hurley (Writer)
Director: Rob Bowman
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), John deLancie (Q), Lycia Naff (Ensign Sonya Gomez), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan)
This episode introduces us to the Borg. Here Q is much more like the Q we know and love.
The Borg become the best villains of TNG. Sadly they are done to death in Voyager later on.
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Post by: Tom on October 09, 2009, 08:01:43 PM
Post by: Tom on October 10, 2009, 09:07:58 PM
Writer: Ira Steven Behr (Screenwriter), Randee Russell (Original Material By), Ira Steven Behr (Original Material By)
Director: Cliff Bole
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Jennifer Hetrick (Vash), Clive Revill (Sir Guy), John de Lancie (Q), Joi Staton (Servant)
In this episode Q seems more like a prankster. I like the beginning of the episode, where the crew gets to know Vash and that the captain seemed to have had more fun at his last vacation than he let on.
But once they were are in Q's recreation Sherwood Forrest, this episode becomes boring and slightly ridiculous. There are some fun moments though like Worf trashing Geordi's instrument or his "I am not a merry man!" proclamation.
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Post by: Tom on October 12, 2009, 10:11:20 PM
Writer: René Echevarria (Writer)
Director: Robert Scheerer
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Olivia D'Abo (Amanda), John P. Connolly (Lote), John de Lancie (Q)
Though this episode is mostly about Amanda, a guest character, without much involvement of the core cast, I always liked this episode.
This episode shows a much more serious side of Q than the previous episodes. There is hardly any banter between him and the Enterprise crew. But I liked it, when he changed Dr. Crusher into a dog while she was arguing with him :)
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Post by: Tom on October 12, 2009, 11:12:47 PM
Writer: Ronald D. Moore (Writer)
Director: Les Landau
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Ned Vaughn (Corey), J. C. Brandy (Marta), Clint Carmichael (Nausicaan #1), Rae Norman (Penny), John de Lancie (Q), Clive Church (Maurice Picard), Marcus Nash (Young Picard), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
One of the best Q episodes. Q gives Picard the chance to correct a mistake from his youth which he always regretted. But then Picard finds out, that without that mistake, he would have never become the person he is today.
In this episode, we see Picard as a young man with full hair. A fact the last TNG motion picture simply ignored. Also the actor displaying that young Picard in this episode had a much closer resemblence to Patrick Stewart than the actor portaying his young clone in Star Trek: Nemesis.
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Post by: Tom on October 12, 2009, 11:23:33 PM
At the end of this week I should be finished with the Q theme. Any suggestions for another theme? Or is there a single episode you would like me to review?
Post by: DJ Doena on October 13, 2009, 11:03:40 AM
TNG/DS9 - Lwaxana Troi
Post by: Tom on October 13, 2009, 10:54:02 PM
TNG - Borg ([Q Who], Best of Both Worlds, I - Hugh, Descent)I had thought of a Borg theme, but then I would have had to watch a lot of Voyager. But a short TNG Borg theme I can see myself doing soon.
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TNG/DS9 - Lwaxana TroiI am not sure. I am not very fond of Lwaxana Troi.
Post by: Tom on October 15, 2009, 10:09:50 PM
Writer: Ronald D. Moore (Writer), Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William T. Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), John de Lancie (Q), Andreas Katsulas (Tomalak), Clyde Kusatsu (Admiral Nakamura), Patti Yasutake (Nurse Ogawa), Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar), Colm Meaney (O'Brien), Pamela Kosh (Jessel), Tim Kelleher (Lt. Gaines), Alison Brooks (Ensign Chilton), Stephen Matthew Garvin (Ensign), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
A great conclusion to the series and to the TNG Q story arc. With showing us three different time periods, we get the chance to see old characters (Tasha, O'Brien) and we get to see a possible future for our characters. And with continuing the trial from the pilot episode, Q wraps up the series nicely.
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Post by: Tom on October 16, 2009, 10:44:03 PM
Writer: Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By), Rick Berman (Original Characters By), Michael Piller (Original Characters By), Robert Hewitt Wolfe (Screenwriter), Hannah Louise Shearer (Original Material By)
Director: Paul Lynch
Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Doctor Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lieutenant Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Jennifer Hetrick (Vash), John de Lancie (Q), Van Epperson (Bajoran Clerk), Tom McCleister (Kolos), Laura Cameron (Bajoran Woman)
This episode was obviously made to bring in viewers from TNG. Too bad that Q hardly interacts with the DS9 crew. It would have been great to have more scenes between Sisko and Q.
It was a good way to introduce Q to DS9 and at the same time bring the Q/Vash story to a conclusion. Sadly there weren't any other Q episodes in DS9 after this one.
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Post by: Tom on October 18, 2009, 08:24:12 PM
Writer: Michael Piller (Screenwriter), Shawn Piller (Original Material By)
Director: James L. Conway
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Gerrit Graham (Quinn / Q), Peter Dennis (Isaac Newton), Maury Ginsberg), John de Lancie (Q), Jonathan Frakes (Commander William Riker)
The first Voyager Q episode and the best one of the three. It guest stars Gerrit Graham (who will always be the principal of the rival school in Parker Lewis to me) as a Q who want to end his immortal life. And our Q is there to prevent this. Q is great as always and also the story is interesting. We also have a cameo by Commander Riker in this one.
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Post by: Tom on October 25, 2009, 04:49:21 PM
Writer: Kenneth Biller (Screenwriter), Shawn Piller (Original Material By)
Director: Cliff Bole
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Suzie Plakson (Female Q), Harve Presnell (Colonel Q), John de Lancie (Q)
A stupid episode. Q wants to mate with Janeway. When she refuses, they end up in the Q continuum portrayed as the American civil war. And then even Voyager manages to enter the continuum. I don't know what the writers were smoking while they have written this episode.
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Post by: Tom on December 03, 2009, 06:20:06 PM
Probably the reason that I forgot to watch it is, that I have recently watched sfdebris' review of it, and I got the feeling that I watched the whole episode now.
Post by: Tom on February 20, 2010, 10:07:27 PM
Writer: Robert Doherty (Screenwriter), Kenneth Biller (Original Material By)
Director: LeVar Burton
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Keegan DeLancie (Q2), Manu Intiraymi (Icheb), Michael Kagan (Alien Commander), Lorna Raver (Q-Judge), John DeLancie (Q), Anthony Holiday (Nausicaan), Scott Davidson (Bolian), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
I finally came around finishing off my Q marathon. What a boring last ever Q episode. Instead of having a big Q story, we have a stupid "Q's son has to learn a lesson" episode, which brings nothing we haven't seen a hundred times before to the table. Best part was when Q junior removed Neelix's mouth and voice :laugh:
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Post by: Tom on October 27, 2011, 12:28:26 AM
Currently I am hardly in the mood to watch movies but watch TV shows instead. So it came to me today, that I could finally do a Star Trek time-travel marathon. I probably will start tomorrow with this new theme. Parallel universe stories count as time-travel for me. But I will leave out the mirror universe, because I already reviewed all of them here. Also others which I have already reviewed in this thread I will leave out.
Here is a list of episodes I remember fitting this theme (and not yet reviewed). Please tell me, if I am missing some:
| TOS | Tomorrow is Yesterday |
| TOS | The Alternative Factor |
| TOS | City on the Edge of Forever |
| TOS | Assignment: Earth |
| TOS | Wink of an Eye |
| TOS | All Our Yesterdays |
| TNG | The Neutral Zone |
| TNG | Time Squared |
| TNG | Future Imperfect |
| TNG | A Matter of Time |
| TNG | Cause and Effect |
| TNG | The Inner Light |
| TNG | Time's Arrow: Part One |
| TNG | Time's Arrow: Part Two |
| TNG | Relics |
| TNG | Timescape |
| TNG | Parallels |
| DS9 | Past Tense, Part I |
| DS9 | Past Tense, Part II |
| DS9 | Visionary |
| DS9 | The Visitor |
| DS9 | Little Green Men |
| DS9 | Trials and Tribble-ations |
| DS9 | Things Past |
| DS9 | Children of Time |
| DS9 | Far Beyond the Stars |
| DS9 | Time's Orphan |
| VOY | Time and Again |
| VOY | Eye of the Needle |
| VOY | The 37's |
| VOY | Non Sequitur |
| VOY | Flashback |
| VOY | Year of Hell, Part I |
| VOY | Year of Hell, Part II |
| VOY | Timeless |
| VOY | Relativity |
| VOY | Shattered |
Addendum:
| TAS | Yesteryear |
| TAS | The Counter-Clock Incident |
| DS9 | Accession |
| DS9 | Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night |
| DS9 | The Sound of Her Voice |
| ENT | Cold Front |
| ENT | Shockwave |
| ENT | Shockwave: Part II |
| ENT | Future Tense |
| ENT | Carpenter Street |
| ENT | Azati Prime |
| ENT | E² |
| ENT | Zero Hour |
| ENT | Storm Front |
| ENT | Storm Front, Part II |
Post by: Tom on October 27, 2011, 08:50:33 PM
1.19 Tomorrow Is Yesterday
Writer: D. C. Fontana (Writer), Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By)
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Cast: William Shatner (Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), Roger Perry (Major Christopher), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), Hal Lynch (Air Police Sergeant), Richard Merrifield (Technician), John Winston (Transporter Chief), Ed Peck (Col. Fellini), James Doohan (Scott), George Takei (Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Mark Dempsey (Air Force Captain), Jim Spencer (Air Policeman), Sherri Townsend (Crew Woman)
The Enterprise accidentally ends up in the 1960s and transports an US Air Force pilot on board. Now they have to deal with him without changing the history.
Interesting episode. One of the better ones, which still holds up today.
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Post by: Tom on October 27, 2011, 11:01:38 PM
1.27 The Alternative Factor
Writer: Don L. Ingalls (Writer), Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By)
Director: Gerd Oswald
Cast: William Shatner (Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), Robert Brown (Lazarus), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), Janet MacLachlan (Charlene Masters), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Richard Derr (Barstow), Arch Whiting (Assistant Engineer), Christian Patrick (Transporter Chief), Eddie Paskey (Lesley)
I never really liked this episode. I find it boring. Some guy is in conflict with his anti-matter universe self.
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Post by: Tom on October 28, 2011, 08:13:09 PM
1.28 City on the Edge of Forever
Writer: Harlen Ellison (Writer), Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By)
Director: Joseph Pevney
Cast: William Shatner (Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), Joan Collins (Sister Edith Keeler), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), James Doohan (Scott), George Takei (Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), John Harmon (Rodent), Hal Baylor (Policeman), David L. Ross (Galloway), John Winston (Transporter Chief), Bartell La Rue (Guardian Voice (voice))
Probably the best episode of the original Star Trek series. McCoy gets transported back in time to the 1930s, which changes the present dramatically. Kirk and Spock also travel back to prevent whatever McCoy did.
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Post by: Tom on October 28, 2011, 09:47:09 PM
2.26 Assignment: Earth
Writer: Art Wallace (Screenwriter), Gene Roddenberry (Original Material By), Art Wallace (Original Material By), Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By)
Director: Marc Daniels
Cast: William Shatner (Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), Robert Lansing (Mister Seven), Terri Garr (Roberta Lincoln), James Doohan (Scott), George Takei (Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Walter Koenig (Chekov), Don Keefer (Cromwell), Lincoln Demyan (Sergeant), Morgan Jones (Col. Nesvig), Bruce Mars (First Policeman), Ted Gehring (Second Policeman), Paul Baxley (Security Chief)
This is an interesting case. It's a back-door pilot for a series which was never picked up. It's strange that Star Trek serves for introducing/spinning of a series, which is set in the present day (1968). Even though the Enterprise and crew play a minor role in this episode, I enjoyed it. I am a little curious how this series would have turned out. But I am not really surprised that it was not picked up.
This is also the first (and I think the only time), that the Enterprise travels through time just for fun (or as they say, for historical research).
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Post by: Tom on October 28, 2011, 11:29:04 PM
3.11 Wink of an Eye
Writer: Arthur Heinemann (Screenwriter), Lee Cronin (Original Material By), Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By)
Director: Jud Taylor
Cast: William Shatner (Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), Kathie Browne (Deela), Jason Evers (Rael), James Doohan (Scott), George Takei (Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), Erik Holland (Ekor), Geoffrey Binney (Compton)
An episode about some time-accelerated aliens who try to take over the Enterprise. A nice episode, but nothing really special.
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Post by: Tom on October 29, 2011, 07:29:04 PM
3.23 All Our Yesterdays
Writer: Jean Lisette Aroeste (Writer), Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By)
Director: Marvin Chomsky
Cast: William Shatner (Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), Mariette Hartley (Zarabeth), Ian Wolfe (Mr. Atoz), Kermit Murdock (The Prosecutor), Ed Bakey (The First Fop), James Doohan (Scott), Anna Karen (Woman), Al Cavens (Second Fop), Stan Barrett (The Jailor), Johnny Haymer (The Constable)
This episode has a promising start. Kirk & co are on a planet whose sun is going supernova. But they find that everybody on this planet already left. To the past. This could have turned out to a very good episode, but then it gets rather boring.
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Post by: Tom on October 29, 2011, 10:08:44 PM
1.26 The Neutral Zone
Writer: Maurice Hurley (Screenwriter), Deborah McIntyre (Original Material By), Mona Clee (Original Material By)
Director: James L. Conway
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Commander William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Geordi La Forge), Denise Crosby (Lt. Tasha Yar), Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf), Gates McFadden (Doctor Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), Marc Alaimo (Commander Tebok), Anthony James (Sub-Commander Thei), Leon Rippy (Sonny Clemonds), Gracie Harrison (Clare Raymond), Peter Mark Richman (Ralph)
Not really a time-travel episode. But three persons from the 20th century are found frozen. Strangely this side-story takes over way too much, considering the A plot of this episode is the return of the Romulans and hints at the Borgs. Because of this, this episode has generally bad reviews. But besides this, I somehow enjoyed it nonetheless.
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Post by: Tom on October 31, 2011, 01:54:01 PM
2.13 Time Squared
Writer: Maurice Hurley (Screenwriter), Kurt Michael Bensmiller (Original Material By)
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), Diana Muldaur (Doctor Pulaski), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien)
The first real time-travel episode of The Next Generation. And it just doesn't make sense. Even the characters try to find an explanation at the end without success ("Maybe it is..., or maybe it was an illustion..."). Added to that Picard is really grumpy in this one (even more than it was usual in the early episodes).
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Post by: Tom on October 31, 2011, 03:23:44 PM
4.08 Future Imperfect
Writer: J. Larry Carroll (Writer), David Bennett Carren (Writer)
Director: Les Landau
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Ensign Wesley Crusher), Andreas Katsulas (Tomalak), Chris Demetral (Jean-Luc/Ethan), Carolyn McCormick (Minuet), Patti Yasutake (Nurse), Todd Merrill (Gleason), April Grace (Transporter Chief Hubbell), George O'Hanlon, Jr. (Transporter Chief)
Commander Riker wakes up in the future without a memory of the last 16 years. I always enjoyed this episode. A nice what-if episode.
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Post by: Tom on October 31, 2011, 04:40:46 PM
5.09 A Matter of Time
Writer: Rick Berman (Writer)
Director: Paul Lynch
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Stefan Gierasch (Dr. Moseley), Matt Frewer (Rasmussen), Sheila Franklin (Ensign), Shay Garner (Scientist)
A man claiming to be an historian from the future arrives to witness the current mission of the Enterprise. An entertaining episode. Especially the scenes where this man is interacting with the crew.
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Post by: Tom on October 31, 2011, 08:42:58 PM
5.18 Cause and Effect
Writer: Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Michelle Forbes (Ro Laren), Patti Yasutake (Nurse Alyssa Ogawa), Kelsey Grammer (Captain Bateson)
This episode starts with the destruction of the Enterprise followed by the Opening credits. What follows is Star Trek meets Groundhog Day.
The crew relives the same few hours leading up to the destruction to the Enterprise again and again without remembering the previous loops. Only a feeling of deja vu follows the crew.
I always liked this episode. It has one of the shortest, but also one of the most effectful opening teasers in the entire run of the series. We also have a cameo by Kelsey Grammer as the Captain of the other ship (which was trapped in the loop for 90 years).
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Post by: Tom on October 31, 2011, 09:39:31 PM
5.25 The Inner Light
Writer: Morgan Gendel (Screenwriter), Peter Allan Fields (Screenwriter), Morgan Gendel (Original Material By)
Director: Peter Lauritson
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Margot Rose (Eline), Richard Riehle (Batai), Scott Jaeck (Administrator), Jennifer Nash (Meribor), Patti Yasutake (Nurse Alyssa Ogawa), Daniel Stewart (Young Batai)
Counting this as time-travel is a little stretch, but I just wanted to see this wonderful episode again. Picard lives a lifetime on a long gone planet in a matter of minutes. During this time he almost forgets his old life on the Enterprise and embraces his new life and family. The ending is very moving.
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Post by: Tom on October 31, 2011, 10:26:49 PM
5.26 Time's Arrow: Part One
Writer: Joe Menosky (Screenwriter), Michael Piller (Screenwriter), Joe Menosky (Original Material By)
Director: Les Landau
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Jerry Hardin (Samuel Clemens), Michael Aron (Bellboy), Barry Kivel (Doorman), Ken Thorley (Seaman), Sheldon Peters Wolfchild (Indian), John Murdock (Beggar), Marc Alaimo (Gambler), Milt Tarver (Scientist), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Michael Hungerford (Roughneck)
Data's head is found in a cave on Earth, where it was lying since the 19th century. During the investigation of this, Data gets pulled into the past.
This season cliffhanger may not have the big impact expected from such a cliffhanger, but I always enjoyed this episode.
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Post by: Tom on October 31, 2011, 11:27:27 PM
6.01 Time's Arrow: Part Two
Writer: Jeri Taylor (Screenwriter), Joe Menosky (Original Material By)
Director: Les Landau
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Jerry Hardin (Samuel Clemens), Pamela Kosh (Mrs. Carmichael), William Boyett (Policeman), Michael Aron (Jack the Bellboy), James Gleason (Dr. Appollinaire), Mary Stein (Alien Nurse), Alexander Enberg (Young Reporter), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Bill Cho Lee (Male Patient)
A good conclusion to this two-parter. I always liked how Mark Twain gets confronted with the future he thought impossible.
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Post by: Tom on November 01, 2011, 09:29:10 PM
6.04 Relics
Writer: Ronald D. Moore (Writer)
Director: Alexander Singer
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Lanei Chapman (Ensign Sariel Rager), Erick Weiss (Ensign Kane), James Doohan (Scotty), Stacie Foster (Bartel), Ernie Mirich (Waiter), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
Scotty ends up in the 24th century. I always enjoyed this episode. We even get to see the bridge of the old Enterprise again (on the holodeck). It is handled well how Scotty must feel being thrown into a future where his engineering knowledge is out-of-date.
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Post by: Tom on November 01, 2011, 10:23:22 PM
6.25 Timescape
Writer: Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: Adam Nimoy
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Michael Bofshever (Romulan / Alien), John DeMita (Romulan), Joel Fredericks (Engineer)
The Enterprise is frozen in time together with a Romulan Bird of Prey. At first glance it looks like those two where in battle. But is this really the case? Picard and company, arriving from a seminar, have to investigate. I like this episode. You have to suspend disbelieve dealing with this premise, but if you do, it is an enjoyful episode.
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Post by: Tom on November 01, 2011, 11:54:18 PM
7.11 Parallels
Writer: Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: Robert Wiemer
Cast: Patrick Stewart (Capt. Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William T. Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), Patti Yasutake (Nurse Ogawa), Mark Bramhall (Gul Nador), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
Worf jumps between different parallel universes. It's fun to see different realities of the Enterprise crew. For example Worf's reaction when Deanna is coming onto him because they are married in the reality he jumped into.
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Post by: Tom on November 02, 2011, 09:31:52 PM
3.11 Past Tense, Part I
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe (Screenwriter), Ira Steven Behr (Original Material By), Robert Hewitt Wolfe (Original Material By)
Director: Reza Badiyi
Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Doctor Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lieutenant Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Jim Metzler (Chris Brynner), Frank Military (B.C.), Dick Miller (Vin), Al Rodrigo (Bernardo), Tina Lifford (Lee), Bill Smitrovich (Webb), Henry Hayashi (Male Guest), Patty Holley (Female Guest), Richard Lee Jackson (Danny), Eric Stuart (Stairway Guard), John Lendale Bennett (Gabriel Bell)
In "present" time, there is a lot of techno-babble which gets ridiculous, just to explain how it could be, that Sisko, Dax and Bashir were transported back in time during beaming. And why the Defiant is not affected by the changes which happen because the past has been changed.
The scenes in the past are also not that exciting, but it's a premise which promises to be at least somewhat interesting.
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Post by: Tom on November 02, 2011, 10:16:34 PM
3.12 Past Tense, Part II
Writer: Ira Steven Behr (Screenwriter), René Echevarria (Screenwriter), Ira Steven Behr (Original Material By), Robert Hewitt Wolfe (Original Material By)
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Doctor Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lieutenant Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Jim Metzler (Chris Brynner), Frank Military (B.C.), Dick Miller (Vin), Deborah Van Valkenburgh (Detective Preston), Al Rodrigo (Bernardo), Clint Howard (Grady), Richard Lee Jackson (Danny), Tina Lifford (Lee), Bill Smitrovich (Webb), Mitch David Carter (Swat Leader), Daniel Zacapa (Henry Garcia)
An okay conclusion to this two-parter. Better than the first part.
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Post by: Tom on November 02, 2011, 11:05:06 PM
3.17 Visionary
Writer: John Shirley (Screenwriter), Ethan H. Calk (Original Material By)
Director: Reza Badiyi
Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Doctor Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lieutenant Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Jack Shearer (Ruwon), Annette Helde (Karina), Ray Young (Morka), Bob Minor (Bo'rak), Dennis Madalone (Atul)
O'Brien jumps multiple times a few hours into the future for a short time each, and sees a new disaster happen each time after preventing the previous one after his trip back.
A fun episodes with an interesting ending.
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Post by: Tom on November 03, 2011, 10:14:47 PM
4.03 The Visitor
Writer: Michael Taylor (Writer)
Director: David Livingston
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Tony Todd (Adult Jake), Galyn Görg (Korena), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Rachel Robinson (Melanie), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
One of the best Star Trek episodes ever. And also the one which probably moves me the most. Highly recommended even to non-Star Trek fans.
In the future, an old Jake Sisko tells his life story of how he lost his father and how he spent his whole life trying to get him back.
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Post by: Tom on November 03, 2011, 11:16:53 PM
4.07 Little Green Men
Writer: David Mack (Writer), John J. Ordover (Writer)
Director: Alexander Singer
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Megan Gallagher (Nurse Garland), Charles Napier (General Denning), Max Grodénchik (Rom), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Conor O'Farrell (Professor Jeffrey Carlson), James G. MacDonald (Captain Wainwright)
This is a fun episode, not meant to be taken seriously. It's a Ferengi episode after all. DS9's main Ferengis Quark, Rom and Nog are transported back in time to 1947 and crashland on Earth and are taken in by the US military.
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Post by: Tom on November 17, 2011, 09:10:26 PM
5.06 Trials and Tribble-ations
Writer: Ronald D. Moore (Screenwriter), René Echevarria (Screenwriter), Ira Steven Behr (Original Material By), Hans Beimler (Original Material By), Robert Hewitt Wolfe (Original Material By), David Gerrold (Original Material By)
Director: Jonathan West
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Jack Blessing (Dulmur), James W. Jansen (Lucsly), Charlie Brill (Arne Darvin), Leslie Ackerman (Waitress), Charles S. Chun (Engineer), Deirdre L. Imershein (Lieutenant Watley), Actors Appearing in the original Star Trek episode), * William Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk), * Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), * DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), * James Doohan (Scott), * Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), * Walter Koenig (Chekov), * Stanley Adams (Cyrano Jones), * Paul Baxley (Ensign Freeman), * Whit Bissell (Lurry), * Charlie Brill (Arne Darvin), * Michael Pataki (Korax), * Guy Raymond (Trader), * David Ross (Guard), * William Schallert (Nilz Baris)
A really fun episode. It doesn't take itself seriously and just uses the premise of the DS9 crew meeting up with Kirk's Enterprise to great effect. A great way celebrating the 30th anniversary of Star Trek.
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Post by: Tom on November 17, 2011, 10:13:49 PM
5.08 Things Past
Writer: Michael Taylor (Writer)
Director: LeVar Burton
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat), Victor Bevine (Belar), Andrew J. Robinson (Garak), Kurtwood Smith (Thrax), Brenan Baird (Soldier), Louahn Lowe (Okala), Judi Durand (Station Computer Voice (voice))
The DS9 crew relives parts of the past when DS9 was under the rule of the Cardassians. An interesting plot but somehow not that captivating for me.
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Post by: Tom on November 17, 2011, 11:12:39 PM
5.22 Children of Time
Writer: René Echevarria (Screenwriter), Gary Holland (Original Material By), Ethan H. Calk (Original Material By)
Director: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Gary Frank (Yedrin Dax), Jennifer S. Parsons (Miranda), Davida Williams (Lisa), Doren Fein (Molly), Brian Evaret Chandler (Brota), Marybeth Massett (Parell), Jesse Littlejohn (Gabriel)
The Defiant crew land on a planet, where they meet descendents of themselves. As it turns out, they will catapulted back two hundred years when trying to leave the planet and crashland there.
Now they have deal with the dilemna that avoiding the accident which brings them back in time would result that the colony of 8000 people will never have existed.
A well executed episode which I always enjoyed.
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Post by: Tom on November 27, 2011, 02:04:41 PM
6.13 Far Beyond the Stars
Writer: Ira Steven Behr (Screenwriter), Hans Beimler (Screenwriter), Marc Scott Zicree (Original Material By)
Director: Avery Brooks
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko / Benny Russell), Rene Auberjonois (Odo / Douglas Pabst), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf / Willie Hawkins), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax / Darlene Kursky), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko / Jimmy), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien / Albert Macklin), Armin Shimerman (Quark / Herbert Rossoff), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir / Julius Eaton), Nana Visitor (Major Kira / Kay Eaton), Brock Peters (Joseph Sisko / Preacher), Jeffrey Combs (Officer Mulkahey), Marc Alaimo (Officer Ryan), J. G. Hertzler (Roy Ritterhouse), Aron Eisenberg (Vendor), Penny Johnson (Kasidy Yates / Cassie)
Not exactly time-travel but it qualifies for me nonetheless. Sisko has visions about being a black science-fiction writer in the fifties. I always really enjoyed this episode. It's also nice to see the cast without their alien make-up.
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Post by: Tom on November 27, 2011, 03:41:20 PM
6.24 Time's Orphan
Writer: Bradley Thompson (Screenwriter), David Weddle (Screenwriter), Joe Menosky (Original Material By)
Director: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Michelle Krusiec (Older Molly), Hana Hatae (Molly), Shaun Bieniek (Deputy), Randy James (Security)
O'Brien's daughter Molly falls through a time portal and lands hundreds of years in the past. When they are able to retrieve her, ten years have passed for her, living and surviving alone in the wilderness. Which of course causes her problems adjusting again to her live on DS9.
It is a good episode. Even though the ending is a little cop out.
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Post by: Tom on November 27, 2011, 07:00:01 PM
1.03 Time and Again
Writer: David Kemper (Screenwriter), Michael Piller (Screenwriter), David Kemper (Original Material By)
Director: Les Landau
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Nicolas Surovy (Pe'Nar Makull), Joel Polis (Ny Terla), Brady Bluhm (Latika), Ryan MacDonald (Shopkeeper), Steve Vaught (Officer), Jerry Spicer (Guard)
Voyager investigates a planet which was annihilated by an accident. Janeway and Paris are transported back in time the day before that accident and they have to find a way to prevent it.
This episode is okay. The best bit is the scene with the doctor. And after knowing how the character of Janeway develops/acts throughout this series, the scene where Janeway gets smacked in the face is somehow funny, I must admit.
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1.06 Eye of the Needle
Writer: Bill Dial (Screenwriter), Jeri Taylor (Screenwriter), Hilary J. Bader (Original Material By)
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Vaughn Armstrong (Telek R'Mor), Tom Virtue (Lt. Walter Baxter)
I always enjoyed this episode. Although because it came early in the series, the ending is no surprise. There is no doubt that the wormhole they have found will have catch and that the crew will not have found a way home just yet.
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Post by: Tom on November 27, 2011, 10:07:43 PM
2.01 The 37's
Writer: Jeri Taylor (Writer), Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: James L. Conway
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), John Rubinstein (John Evansville), David Graf (Fred Noonan), Mel Winkler (Jack Hayes), James Saito (Nogami), Sharon Lawrence (Amelia Earhart)
I have to admit, that I like this episode, even though it is not really good. sfdebris had a field day with it. But I always liked stories about characters confronted with the future.
What I don't like about this episode is the ending. The crew is given the choice to stay back on the planet and make a new life there or continue with Voyager. Many are thinking about it, but none actually stay behind. I find it hard to believe. It would have been more realistic if at least a handful of people decided to stay on the planet.
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Post by: Tom on November 27, 2011, 11:26:54 PM
2.05 Non Sequitur
Writer: Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: David Livingston
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Louis Giambalvo (Cosimo), Jennifer Gatti (Libby), Jack Shearer (Admiral Strickler), Mark Kiely (Lieutenant Lasca), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
This episode could have been more. The main problem is the wooden acting by Garrett Wang. Even worse is the actress playing his fiancé. She was not good at all and they have zero chemistry.
In this episode Harry Kim travels to an alternate reality where he didn't get on Voyager. It's nice to see what would have happened to him without Voyager.
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Post by: Tom on November 28, 2011, 10:03:30 PM
3.02 Flashback
Writer: Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: David Livingston
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Grace Lee Whitney (Commander Janice Rand), Jeremy Roberts (Lieutenant Dimitri Valtane), Boris Krutonog (Helmsman Lojur), Michael Ansara (Kang), George Takei (Captain Sulu)
Voyager's episode to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek. It cannot hold a candle to DS9's.
It is nice to have a crossover to classic Trek by revisiting Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. But I don't like the story about the Flashback surrounding it. They used the fact that Tim Russ played a character on Sulu's ship in Star Trek VI. Too bad that it wasn't Tuvok but a human character.
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Post by: Tom on November 28, 2011, 11:22:28 PM
4.08 Year of Hell, Part I
Writer: Brannon Braga (Writer), Joe Menosky (Writer)
Director: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), John Loprieno (Obrist), Kurtwood Smith (Annorax), Peter Slutsker (Krenim Commandant), Rick Fitts (Zahl), Deborah Levin (Ensign Lang), Sue Henley (Ensign Brooks), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
The first part of one my favorite Voyager episodes. The Krenim have a time ship which can eradicate whole species from time and thus alter history. Voyager gets stuck in a conflict with this species after they have gained a lot of power after such an alteration (and because Janeway cannot take a no if someone tells her that they don't want them in their space). At the end of the first part, Voyager is half destroyed and is abandoned by the crew with only a skeleton crew remaining.
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Post by: Tom on November 29, 2011, 12:38:32 AM
4.09 Year of Hell, Part II
Writer: Brannon Braga (Writer), Joe Menosky (Writer)
Director: Mike Vejar
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), John Loprieno (Obrist), Kurtwood Smith (Annorax), Peter Slutsker (Krenim Commandant), Lise Simms (Wife), Majel Barrett (Narrator (voice))
The most part of this episode is nothing really special. But the ending makes up for it big time. This is one time, where the episode reset button is used to great effect and makes sense story-wise.
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Post by: Tom on November 29, 2011, 08:04:43 PM
5.06 Timeless
Writer: Brannon Braga (Screenwriter), Joe Menosky (Screenwriter), Rick Berman (Original Material By), Brannon Braga (Original Material By), Joe Menosky (Original Material By)
Director: LeVar Burton
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Christine Harnos (Tessa Omond), LeVar Burton (Geordi LaForge), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
Voyager's 100th episode. Fifteen years in the future, Harry Kim tries to fix a mistake in the past which cost the crew of Voyager their lives, by sending back a message through time.
A good time-travel story with a nice conclusion. We also get the chance to see Geordi LaForge from Next Generation as the captain of a Galaxy class starship.
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Post by: Tom on November 29, 2011, 09:08:48 PM
5.23 Relativity
Writer: Bryan Fuller (Screenwriter), Nick Sagan (Screenwriter), Michael Taylor (Screenwriter), Nick Sagan (Original Material By)
Director: Allan Eastman
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Bruce McGill (Captain Braxton), Dakin Matthews (Admiral Patterson), Jay Karnes (Lieutenant Ducane), Josh Clark (Lieutenant Carey)
Seven is recruited from the future to prevent the destruction of Voyager in the past. I always liked episodes which plays with past occurances in the series. Here we got a little taste of it. They use a similar device (time rifts) in a future episode to have multiple instances of Voyager's past scattered throughout the ship ("Shattered"). A question I asked myself during this episode: Why should it not be possible to remove a person multiple times from their timeline? They say they have done it with Seven the third time now and probably further extractions won't be possible. But why? After a failed attempt, they always got a Seven who existed before the last extraction. Therefore for that Seven, it is the first time. I liked the reference to Star Trek: First Contact. The acknowledgment of the causal loop generated by the time-travelling borg and thus the arrival of the Enterprise making the first warp flight possible when they assisted Cocraine. By the way: Seven looks great in a Starfleet uniform. A shame they did not make it her regular outfit.
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Post by: Tom on November 29, 2011, 10:23:22 PM
7.10 Shattered
Writer: Michael Taylor (Screenwriter), Mike Sussman (Original Material By), Michael Taylor (Original Material By)
Director: Terry Windell
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Martin Rayner (Dr. Chaotica), Manu Intiraymi (Icheb), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Nicholas Worth (Lonzak), Martha Hackett (Seska), Mark Bennington (Adult Icheb), Vanessa Branch (Adult Naomi), Anthony Holiday (Rulat), Terrell Clayton (Andrews), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice))
Voyager gets split into different time areas and only Chakotay can travel between those areas. It's fun to revisit instances of Voyager's past this way and get some climpses of a possible future.
Though it's stupid how Chakotay refuses to tell Janeway at the end about his experience, citing the Temporal Prime Directive. But he had no problems telling Janeway of the past a lot of stuff about the future (even though as they later find out she will forget it anyway). Telling Janeway about his experience wouldn't pollute the time line as she already knows everything which there is to know about. So he could just as easily have explained to her his actions.
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Post by: Tom on December 01, 2012, 07:46:16 PM
Season 1.02 Yesteryear
Writer: Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By), D. C. Fontana (Writer)
Director: Hal Sutherland
Cast: William Shatner (Capt. Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), George Takei (Mr. Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), James Doohan (Scotty)
I can't believe it has been a year already since I left off this marathon.
It is time now to watch the time-travel episodes of the animated series. This episode is probably one of the more famous ones from the animated series. In it time is changed and Spock doesn't exist anymore. He has to travel back in time and save himself as child from death. It is a rather good episode.
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Post by: Tom on December 01, 2012, 08:14:44 PM
Season 2.06 The Counter-Clock Incident
Writer: Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By), John Wise (Writer)
Director: Bill Reed, Hal Sutherland
Cast: William Shatner (Capt. Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), George Takei (Mr. Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), James Doohan (Scotty)
The Enterprise enters a universe where the time moves backwards and the crew is getting younger and younger. It is an enjoyable episode, but it is full of scientific nonsense.
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Post by: Tom on March 02, 2013, 07:33:23 PM
Season 4.17 Accession
Writer: Jane Espenson (Writer)
Director: Les Landau
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), René Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien), Robert Symonds (Vedek Porta), Camille Saviola (Kai Opaka), Hana Hatae (Molly), Richard Libertini (Akorem Laan), David Carpenter (Onara), Grace Zandarski (Latara), Laura Jane Salvato (Gia)
In this episode a Bajoran man comes through the wormhole from 200 years in the past. He thinks he is the emissary and wants to bring the Bajorans ways back before the Cardassian's occupation. Including a caste system. This episode is not bad, but I never was one for the episodes about the Bajoran religion.
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Post by: Tom on March 02, 2013, 08:20:31 PM
Season 6.17 Wrongs Darker than Death or Night
Writer: Ira Steven Behr (Writer), Hans Beimler (Writer)
Director: Jonathan West
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), René Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Leslie Hope (Kira Maru), Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat), David Bowe (Basso), Wayne Grace (Legate), Tim De Zarn (Halb), Thomas Kopache (Kira Taban), John Marzilli (Scavenger), Marc Marosi (Gul), Judi Durand (Station Computer Voice)
Kira travels back in time to see if Gul Dukat is telling the truth that him and her mother were lovers.
An okay episode. But nothing really special.
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Post by: Tom on March 03, 2013, 10:35:57 AM
Season 6.25 The Sound of Her Voice
Writer: Ronald D. Moore (Screenwriter), Pam Pietroforte (Original Material By)
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), René Auberjonois (Odo), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O'Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Doctor Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira), Debra Wilson (Lisa's Voice), Penny Johnson (Kasidy Yates)
Not really a time travel episode, but this episode popped up on my radar when searching for Star Trek time travel episodes.
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Post by: Tom on March 03, 2013, 10:52:33 PM
Season 1.11 Cold Front
Writer: Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By), Rick Berman (Created By), Brannon Braga (Created By), Stephen Beck (Writer), Tim Finch (Writer)
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Cast: Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer), John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox), Jolene Blalock (T'Pol), Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Charles "Trip" Tucker III), John Fleck (Silik), Matt Winston (Daniels), Michael O'Hagan (Captain Fraddock), Joseph Hindy (Prah Mantoos), Leonard Keely-Young (Sonsorra), Lamont D. Thompson (N.D. Alien Pilgrim)
Finally I arrived at the last Star Trek series to watch its time-travel episodes. In this one, there is a crewman who claims to be from 900 years in the future trying to capture a saboteur. It is not really something new, but it is an okay episode which sets up the temporal cold war storyline of the series.
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Post by: Tom on March 05, 2013, 09:26:50 PM
Season 1.26 Shockwave
Writer: Gene Roddenberry (Original Characters By), Rick Berman (Created By), Brannon Braga (Created By), Rick Berman (Writer), Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer), John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox), Jolene Blalock (T'Pol), Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Charles "Trip" Tucker III), John Fleck (Silik), Matt Winston (Daniels), Vaughn Armstrong (Admiral Forrest), James Horan (Humanoid Figure), Stephanie Erb (Receptionist), David Lewis Hays (Tactical Crewman)
The continuation of the temporal cold war storyline used as a season cliffhanger. A good episode.
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Post by: Tom on March 27, 2013, 10:15:14 PM
Season 2.01 Shockwave, Part II
Writer: Rick Berman (Created By), Brannon Braga (Created By), Rick Berman (Writer), Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Scott Bakula (Captain Jonathan Archer), John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox), Jolene Blalock (Sub-Commander T'Pol), Dominic Keating (Lt. Malcolm Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Ensign Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Ensign Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Cmdr. Charles 'Trip' Tucker III), John Fleck (Silik), Matt Winston (Daniels), Vaughn Armstrong (Admiral Forrest), Gary Graham (Soval), Keith Allan (Raan), Jim Fitzpatrick (Commander Williams), Michael Kosik (Suliban Soldier)
A good conclusion to the two-parter and a good start into a new season.
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Post by: Tom on March 27, 2013, 11:03:24 PM
Season 2.16 Future Tense
Writer: Rick Berman (Created By), Brannon Braga (Created By), Mike Sussman (Writer), Phyllis Strong (Writer)
Director: James Whitmore, Jr.
Cast: Scott Bakula (Captain Jonathan Archer), John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox), Jolene Blalock (Sub-Commander T'Pol), Dominic Keating (Lt. Malcolm Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Ensign Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Ensign Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Cmdr. Charles 'Trip' Tucker III), Vaughn Armstrong (Admiral Forrest), Cullen Douglas (Suliban Soldier)
This episode started promising, but I got bored with it about half-way through. Some scenes reminded me of Red Dwarf's great episode "Future Echoes".
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Post by: Tom on October 16, 2013, 09:43:27 PM
Season 3.11 Carpenter Street
Writer: Rick Berman (Writer), Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: Mike Vejar
Cast: Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer), John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox), Jolene Blalock (T'Pol), Dominic Keating (Malcom Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Charles "Trip" Tucker III), Leland Orser (Loomis), Matt Winston (Daniels), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Xindi-Reptilian #1), Michael Childers (Strode), Donna Duplantier (Prostitute #2), Billy Mayo (Officer #1), Dan Warner (Officer #2), Erin Cummings (Prostitute #1)
Archer and T'Pol travel back in time to the year 2004. Sadly a rather boring episode.
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Post by: Tom on October 16, 2013, 10:35:54 PM
Season 3.18 Azati Prime
Writer: Manny Coto (Screenwriter), Rick Berman (Original Material By), Brannon Braga (Original Material By), Manny Coto (Original Material By)
Director: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer), John Billingsley (Dr, Phlox), Jolene Blalock (T'Pol), Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Charles "Trip" Tucker III), Matt Winston (Daniels), Randy Oglesby (Degra), Scott MacDonald (Reptilian Commander), Tucker Smallwood (Xindi-Humanoid), Rick Worthy (Xindi-Arboreal), Christopher Goodman (Thalen)
This episode has a short scene where Archer gets pulled 400 years into the future. Nothing special though. I find the storyline with the Xindi boring.
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Post by: Tom on October 17, 2013, 09:32:20 PM
Season 3.21 E²
Writer: Mike Sussman (Writer)
Director: Roxann Dawson
Cast: Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer), John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox), Jolene Blalock (T'Pol), Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Charles "Trip" Tucker III), Randy Oglesby (Degra), Tucker Smallwood (Xindi-Humanoid), Rick Worthy (Xindi-Arboreal), Tess Lina (Karyn Archer), David Andrews (Lorian), Tom Schanley (Greer), Steve Truitt (Crewman #1)
A nice episode, although nothing really new. The premise is a mix between Voyager's "Deadlock" and DS9's "Children of Time". A second version of the Enterprise appears, which had been thrown back in time over a hundred years and was now helmed by the descendants of the crew.
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Post by: Tom on October 17, 2013, 10:20:39 PM
Season 3.24 Zero Hour
Writer: Rick Berman (Writer), Brannon Braga (Writer)
Director: Allan Kroeker
Cast: Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer), John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox), Jolene Blalock (T'Pol), Dominic Keating (Malcom Reed), Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather), Linda Park (Hoshi Sato), Connor Trinneer (Charles "Trip" Tucker III), Scott MacDonald (Reptilian Commander), Rick Worthy (Xindi-Arboreal), Tucker Smallwood (Xindi-Humanoid), Josette Di Carlo (Sphere-Builder Woman), Bruce Thomas (Reptilian Soldier), Andrew Borba (Reptilian Lieutenant), Matt Winston (Daniels), Mary Mara (Sphere-Builder Presage), Ruth Williamson (Sphere-Builder Primary), Jeffrey Combs (Shran), Gunter Ziegler (Doctor), J. Paul Boehmer (Officer), Zachary Krebs (Andorian N.D.)
I found this episode rather boring and it didn't really keep my attention. It has a nice season cliffhanger though, with the characters ending up in a twisted World War II past.
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