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Hurray for Citytv, another early Voyager. I missed the first ten minutes though.
In short, a very TNG-feeling episode... similar pacing, character chemistry etc. It wasn't, thankfully, a TNG ripoff. The idea behind it was fairly fresh, and we see some interesting interplay between all the character, and thankfully avoidance of the Voyager-5-minute-ending(TM). Not spectacular by any means, but solid.
Continuity hounds: Yes! They did it again! Two eps in a row with a far higher-than-usual continuity count. They really did their homework when it came to Friendship One, as the tech derived from it is very similar to the look of the Phoenix consoles from ST:FC. No iconography or space agency names on the thing from the days of the early Earth as far as I could tell (might have been in the first ten minutes) but the name is written on the casing in a similar style to the Starfleet pennants on the sides of modernish starships--red stripes and the name in black in that font. Carey returns, and we get a hint of what he's been doing for the last few years: builing a model Voyager in a bottle that looks very very cool. (j/k, but the ship in a bottle is nonetheless impressive.) We get proof positive that modified photon torpedoes can do anything. Both Neelix and Seven get the opportunity to give Quarklike speeches about the flaws and merits of humanity, Paris gets to do the ER thing, Janeway seems to make Chakotay part of the decision making process for once.
Some nifty directing, too, and for the first time since "Waltz" I've actually appreciated the use of the tried-and-true cave set... it actually contributes to the "feel" of the scenes rather than being an irritating reminder of the show's budgetary limitations.
All in all a solid outing.
------------------ "I can be creative when I have a good idea. That just happens way too rarely." -Omega, April 6
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In the spring of 1977, Dr. Carl Sagan assisted NASA in compiling a series of audio recordings to be placed aboard the Voyager I and Voyager II spacecrafts. The golden phonograph records enclosed in the two Voyagers, which were designed only to explore the Jupiter and Saturn systems, had a shelf-life of a billion years. In his 1994 best-seller, Pale Blue Dot, Sagan enumerates the phonograph's contents: "greetings in 59 human languages and one whale language; a 12-minute sound essay including a kiss, a baby's cry, and EEG record of the meditations of a young woman in love; ... and 90 minutes of the Earth's greatest hits -- Eastern and Western, classical and folk, including a Navajo night chant,...Stravinsky, Louis Armstrong, Blind Willie Johnson, and Chuck Berry's 'Johnnie B. Goode.'" Of the fifty-nine human greetings, one was by President Jimmy Carter.
This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation-states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization.
We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some -- perhaps many -- may have inhabited planets and space-faring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message:
This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so that we may live into yours. We home someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill in a vast and awesome universe.
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 *** "I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen" - Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 23, 1994.
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 *** "I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen" - Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 23, 1994.
I hate to break this to y'all, but Joe Carey does indeed die about halfway through the episode. Sorry.
------------------ Nic: She's not a practicing lesbian. We need PRACTICING lesbians! Me: I have a camcorder. Nic: But no lesbians. Me: Ahhh... no. Nic: DAMN IT MAN! WE NEED LESBIANS! LOTS AND LOTS OF LESBIANS!
It would've been more shocking for Mark if he'd seen the episode believing that Carey WOULDN'T die. Dramatic tension. Honestly, now.
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 *** "I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen" - Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 23, 1994.
Earth sure doesn't have a great track record when it comes to its probes, does it? Nomad gets merged with an alien probe and goes about eradicating all life in the universe. Voyager 6 winds up on the other side of the galaxy, fixed up, and makes its way back to Earth as V'ger, turning everything in its path into data. Now Friendship One...
Alien 1: There's a probe heading towards us, sir.
Alien 2: Where'd it come from?
Alien 1: Some planet called Earth.
Alien 2: WE'RE DOOMED! DOOMED, I TELL YOU, DOOMED!
And once again, another prime opportunity to mention the Krenim goes by...
*Smites Voth, Kobali, and Vaudwaar*
------------------ "The Long Kiss Goodnight begins, more or less, with Geena Davis being kicked in the head by a deer. This was the high point of the film."
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Spoiler !!!!!!! $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ I probably won't see this ep until sometime in 2003, but I just heard that it's established that Earth uses antimatter by 2067? Can anyone give me more details about this? Is antimatter actually used to power starships or only groundbased reactors? If true, this marks the first shot in TPTB's war upon the Starfleet Museum. I'm going to kill those bastards.
------------------ When you're in the Sol system, come visit the Starfleet Museum
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Whatever happened to the days of killing nameless redshirts. I can't believe the writers bring back Carey only to kill him off for no reason.
And can't Seven bring people back from the dead like in "Mortal Coil"?
------------------ "Let me ask you something, Mr. Garibaldi, a purely philosophical question. On a scale of 1 to 10, how stupid do you think I am anyway?" - Bester Federation Starship Datalink: Brand new look, fresh minty scent, same great taste!
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They killed him for a reason! His death had more effect than a nameless red-shirt, do you not agree? It would've had more effect if they'd shown Carey a few times a season -- how long has it been since his last appearance, anyway?
Look, what has more effect? Lt. Carey dying, or Ensign Brumfeld, who we've never seen before? I mean, come on people. Look at the emotions it has stirred! "They killed Joe! Nooooo!"
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You know, this close to the end, they could've killed Paris, or B'elanna, or Kim, or Chakotay, or Neelix, or Seven of Nine, or Janeway ...
And, since Neelix is apparently being written off in the recently renamed "Destiny", they very well could HAVE killed someone off ...
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 *** "I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen" - Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 23, 1994.
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