Despite problems, I kind of enjoyed this. It shows the Voyager crew interacting and working together in a way that feels like old friends, maybe for the first time I've really noticed so far in the entire show. While it's not perfect - Tom and Harry's playful dialogue and joking is absolutely atrocious - it feels warm and genuine. Better are the scenes with Neelix of all people, as he spars with both Tuvok and the Doctor.
The stuff on the planet is where the episode surprised me, because I didn't see a lot of it coming. Unfortunately it does take a very long while to get going, and all of the really interesting stuff happens in the final 15 minutes or so. The "demon class" planet is an intriguing notion but the episode deals with it in odd ways. Chakotay tells us that even going into orbit around the planet is suicide, but Voyager appears to overcome that immediately, and then shuttles and even people are going down to the surface without much fuss. If it's that easy then class Y planets wouldn't have the fearsome reputation Chakotay seems to imply.
Surprise surprise, Janeway throws the ship into danger again without too much thought of the consequences and somehow makes it seem justified. I was thinking that the crew didn't even get the deuterium they needed to survive another week, but there is a throwaway line about getting some hidden in there.
The ending is odd and kind of cool, but wrapped up EXTREMELY quickly. I also had to kind of laugh at the show's first attempt to give Harry some kind of character development since the first few episodes of season 1 - I wonder if that will be followed up on at all?
Review by LeftHandedGuitaristBlockedParent2018-05-13T12:37:24Z
Despite problems, I kind of enjoyed this. It shows the Voyager crew interacting and working together in a way that feels like old friends, maybe for the first time I've really noticed so far in the entire show. While it's not perfect - Tom and Harry's playful dialogue and joking is absolutely atrocious - it feels warm and genuine. Better are the scenes with Neelix of all people, as he spars with both Tuvok and the Doctor.
The stuff on the planet is where the episode surprised me, because I didn't see a lot of it coming. Unfortunately it does take a very long while to get going, and all of the really interesting stuff happens in the final 15 minutes or so. The "demon class" planet is an intriguing notion but the episode deals with it in odd ways. Chakotay tells us that even going into orbit around the planet is suicide, but Voyager appears to overcome that immediately, and then shuttles and even people are going down to the surface without much fuss. If it's that easy then class Y planets wouldn't have the fearsome reputation Chakotay seems to imply.
Surprise surprise, Janeway throws the ship into danger again without too much thought of the consequences and somehow makes it seem justified. I was thinking that the crew didn't even get the deuterium they needed to survive another week, but there is a throwaway line about getting some hidden in there.
The ending is odd and kind of cool, but wrapped up EXTREMELY quickly. I also had to kind of laugh at the show's first attempt to give Harry some kind of character development since the first few episodes of season 1 - I wonder if that will be followed up on at all?