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Good episode. I'm not much for nitpicking Voyager on every little detail so I'll leave that to the experts here. Though there is one thing that still bothers me, that did appear to be a tractor beam used onboard Starfleet ships. I know Seven's brain was overloading, but the tractor beam was still there regardless. Of course there's also the possibility it wasn't a tractor beam at all.
As for next weeks episode, I'm really looking forward to that.
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Could that tractor beam come from the USS Equinox? That ship apparently arrived in the Delta Quad before Voyager, so that could explain a few things. But the theory of that cloaking device, I thought that the Defiant Class prototype was the only one to have a cloaking device? That's if you don't count the cloak that the Enterprise-D used in "The Pegasus."
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The Equnox didn't have a cloak or they would use it while running from Voyager. I think this ties in with Section 31, specificly key points seven brought up about Tuvok.
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The array itself could have beamed away it's core thingy. Maybe it would have destroyed the planet if it was caught in the explosion or something.
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Michael_T: But on the other hand, if there really was a conspiracy, Starfleet could have easily stuck a cloak on another ship.
And I don't think we can realistically say that was the USS Equinox, since Ransom and his crew would have no reason to be using their CGI creature drive--if they weren't assigned to map the region, they'd be under orders to work on the catapult.
DeadCujo: That doesn't look like a transporter effect to me...
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But I felt that the Captain and Chakotay were too easily shifted to 'THE DARK SIDE'! All of the facts that Seven was blurting out, would not have been enough for me to commit mutiny. But I digress.
Now that catapult is sitting there for anyone to use.. I wonder if they're going to use that in the future.
And what was that tractor beam??? Maybe there's a Romulan in the DQ??!!
MAN... We're becoming as bad as Seven. To speculate or not to speculate.. that is the question!!
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Or perhaps the tractor beam was part of the damaged self-destruct sequence on the array. Maybe the array's power core was affected by the subspace field generated by an incoming tri-cobalt device, and the computer on board the array decided to eject it. If the ejection sequence uses a standard tractor beam to push the core into this "null space" before it explodes, everything would be explained. Since the core never exploded, it would have popped up somewhere, and that would explain how Mr. alien-of-the-week got his hands on it.
One problem with Seven's theories was that the core was carried by a series of ships to the location where the catapult was built. Ships faster than Voyager, including Transwarp, Slipstream, and Kes jumps? That'd have to be ships constantly traveling at transwarp velocities. There don't appear to be that many races with that ability.
All in all, a good episode. At least it didn't turn out to be some alien manipulating the crew, like in Hope and Fear.
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But did they ever definitively say that Tash's catapult was the Caretaker's reactor? I think Seven was only considering it. It is possible that it is simply from another species. The Voth maybe? I don't think they ever said for sure that what was on the catapult is what was on the array. But I could be mistaken.
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Well Seven would discover the mysterious Starfleet tractor beam and the crew would start to investage it. Some interesting plot twists later they still don't discover the source of the beam, only that it is definatly Starfleet.
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Since I don't get Voyager anymore where I live, does anyone have, or know where, I can read a full synopsis? This was one of the episodes I really wanted to see this season. I'll be trying to get a satellite dish soon, so I should see the rest of the season.
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Spoiler warnings aren't really needed in the title. The name of the episode is there. Anyone who comes into the thread and then complains that they didn't know it was about an ep they hadn't seen needs to be tarred and feathered... :-)
As for the epsiode itself, I thought it was crap. As mentioned, Janeway and Chakotay were way too quick to believe Seven's unfounded rantings. Plus, when they finally confronted each other in the cargo bay, there was plenty of potential for playing w/ the tension and paranoia between them. Instead, they resolved the matter within a couple minutes. And then, of course, there was the big red reset button the writers pressed at the end, which almost always cuts an episode's quality at least in half...
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