Tanis, the Ocampa who hails Voyager and leads the visiting party, looks like he's wearing a Red Bull can for the whole episode.
Of course Suspiria will respond within "forty-seven hours." It's Star Trek, therefore it couldn't be forty-eight hours.
Does anyone else find it odd that "Security, meet me in Main Engineering" seems to have meant "One single yellow-shirt, meet me in Main Engineering"? Something tells me that Starfleet regulations wouldn't have such a small security team confront an unknown threat in the heart of a ship. It just seems really odd. (Also, he only appears in that one short segment. He wasn't with Tuvok and B'Elanna later.)
There are parts of this episode that I really like, such as the fact that Kes really gets to be a person with side interests and not just an assistant to the Doctor. But the hokey writing around Suspiria and her band of Ocampa telepaths bothers me. So much of this plot seems to come out of nowhere, or go nowhere. Especially with regard to Suspiria herself, who has an irrational hatred for the Voyager crew because she thinks they killed the Caretaker, which is kind of resolved but not really (and nothing further comes of this later in the series).
A story like this had to happen at some point, because they did say in "Caretaker" that there was another Nacene out there for Voyager to find—and to leave that thread loose at the end of the series would have been silly. I just wish it had been more…consequential.
Review by dgwVIP 9BlockedParent2017-12-22T08:47:30Z
Tanis, the Ocampa who hails Voyager and leads the visiting party, looks like he's wearing a Red Bull can for the whole episode.
Of course Suspiria will respond within "forty-seven hours." It's Star Trek, therefore it couldn't be forty-eight hours.
Does anyone else find it odd that "Security, meet me in Main Engineering" seems to have meant "One single yellow-shirt, meet me in Main Engineering"? Something tells me that Starfleet regulations wouldn't have such a small security team confront an unknown threat in the heart of a ship. It just seems really odd. (Also, he only appears in that one short segment. He wasn't with Tuvok and B'Elanna later.)
There are parts of this episode that I really like, such as the fact that Kes really gets to be a person with side interests and not just an assistant to the Doctor. But the hokey writing around Suspiria and her band of Ocampa telepaths bothers me. So much of this plot seems to come out of nowhere, or go nowhere. Especially with regard to Suspiria herself, who has an irrational hatred for the Voyager crew because she thinks they killed the Caretaker, which is kind of resolved but not really (and nothing further comes of this later in the series).
A story like this had to happen at some point, because they did say in "Caretaker" that there was another Nacene out there for Voyager to find—and to leave that thread loose at the end of the series would have been silly. I just wish it had been more…consequential.