and I noticed that Voyager didn't require his authorisation to concur with setting the self-destruct
They already threw the self-destruct confirmation out the window in "Dreadnought". Since I spent so many words on it just a few episodes ago there was no point bringing that up again in my own review of this one. :D
Speaking of "Dreadnought", what happened to, "The moment a captain decides to initiate a self-destruct, any episode will become extremely predictable"? Looks like this one proved an exception to your generalized insult directed at plots that use self-destruct.
@dgw I can't remember what I did yesterday, let alone the contents of a review I wrote months ago! :p
Review by LeftHandedGuitaristBlockedParent2017-11-07T14:00:42Z
Creative and enjoyable, with a pleasantly weird alternate-universe/time-shift aspect that never becomes too complicated to follow. It leaves you with the odd feeling of having seen the Voyager crew die, but never really being sure if they were our original crew, or whether that even matters. The exact same thing happens to Harry that happens to O'Brien in DS9's 'Visionary', in that we are left with a version of the character who isn't exactly our own one.
It was also good to see the Vidiians back to being pretty decent bad guys again. There was something chilling about the way they just assessed unconscious people by which organs they could harvest from them. Janeway was a bit of a badass in regards to the solution to getting rid of them.
Having the duplicate Janeways standing so close to each other during their scenes made it look like they were about to kiss, and really made me aware of how shows had to work within the 4:3 aspect ratio back then. I felt a bit more let down that the two versions of Kes didn't really interact with each other at all.
I got quite wrapped up in the ordeal of Ensign Wildman finally having her baby, which certainly ran through a gamut of emotions! Chakotay was as useless as ever, and I noticed that Voyager didn't require his authorisation to concur with setting the self-destruct - I guess Janeway changed that because she knows he'd just mess it up.