Shout by LeftHandedGuitarist

Star Trek: Voyager: Season 1

1x04 Time and Again

Quite unimpressed with this one. I make fun of Voyager for using the reset button, but this episode ACTUALLY RESETS EVERYTHING AT THE END. It makes it all rather pointless, as none of it ever happens. Which is a shame, because the Janeway/Paris pairing was working quite well, and they had a lot things to teach each other. I feel more on Tom's side in that the Prime Directive should never apply when an entire planet is going to be wiped out (this was touched on not long ago in the TNG episode 'Homeward').

A thinly veiled criticism of nuclear power is all fine and well, though no real points are made other than "it's too dangerous". The alien civilisation they encounter (did they even both to not make them look human this time?) all wear the terrible same clothes, and the forced friendship story between Tom and the little boy was quite horrible to watch.

Kes's weird telepathic abilities are quite cool, but since everything resets I guess she doesn't remember anything about what it all means.

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@lefthandedguitarist to be fair, in this instant, it actually didn't happen. Or wouldn't. Or whatever. So in that regard it is, at least theoretically, correct.
But I get your point and you're certainly right about them disregarding what happened before a lot. They took the episodic storytelling to far.

@finfan Fair warning, I get super harsh with my reviews for this series. In retrospect, I was a bit too hard on it overall.

@lefthandedguitarist don't worry. I left my share of negative comments, too. But, I watched the first four episodes in one sitting and wierdly it wasn't as tedious as I feared it would.

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