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Posted by Individual 5748 on :

Overall, I thought it was a good episode. The Vaadwaur were really an interesting looking race.

But what passed through my mind as the end of the episode was that it was originally two hours long, like "Dark Frontier."

I originally thought after watching the episode that this might have been a better way to go: the ship battles at the end weren't quite as momentus as the first three-fourths of the story would have led one to believe. However, I quickly reconsidered, thinking that it would have been difficult to add a whole other hour to the episode. I think the story would have run a little thin. What do you think would have been better, the one hour or two?

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

I thought it was a great episode. Though I don't see it lasting 2 hours.

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

So.. where the SFX as good as was suggested in the promo??

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

I think so...the opening scene was nifty, as was the final battle.

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Posted by Epoch (Member # 136) on :

I thought the episode was really good. It had depth. I also loved how it should Seven gaining even more of her humanity.

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Posted by Obi Juan (Member # 90) on :

The ep felt a bit formula to me, but it had lots of pretty FX so I'll let it go.
I think 1000 LY was a good choice for a didsstance that the Vaadwaur nwere going to transport Voyager. Something longer automatically tells the viewer that it ain't gonna happen, but 1000 is possible. It seems reletively short compared to the distances the Vaadwaur could supposedly travel when they controlled the conduits, but then again this is only their "secret pathways".
What did you think of the tidbits of borg history. Sounds like resistance wasn't quite as futile 900 years ago.

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Good stuff. Interesting aliens. History in the Delta Quadrant.

One minor point, though. Voyager was blowing up ships left and right, yet Tuvok says "four vessels have been disabled". I'd hate to see what constitutes his definition of destroyed.

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Posted by Lt. Tom on :

VOY with depth. I like it! I really like it! Oh yeah, nifty VFX too.

The only part I didn't like was the ending scene with Seven and Janeway. It seemed "tacked on" (which it probably was, since the two-hour version probably had an extended final battle that would have given us the information revealed in that scene).

Posted by Jim Phelps (Member # 102) on :

1000 light-years is nothing, one year out of 27 or 29?. Janeway seemed extremely unobservant of the Prime Directive for this trifle distance. If they had said 10,000 ly, that would be something.

Now, a couple of notes:

1) The Borg were not a real threat 900 years ago! It's a significant piece of historical information, suggesting that the collective is on the order of a thousand years old. Some inofficial claims had placed them at millions of years in age, but according to the alien, the Borg had assimilated only a handful of systems in his age.

2) Stardate is not in order: 53167.9. When is the episode supposed to be set?

3) Talaxian New Calendar year 5022 was less than 900 years ago.

4) A new iso unit: isorams.

5) "Today is a good day to die": Kahless' battle cry. Interesting.

I think the episode falls into the category of those useful for background information.

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