It's also a pretty poor moment of Janeway.
[TV] Talk about the last TV you watched, the catchall thread
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Shame he's not streaming it.
Ugh, Once Upon a Time is "THAT ONE EPISODE". You know, that one where you'll be channel surfing and tune into a show you only casually watch in reruns and it's the one you seem to see over and over and over and over again. Every time I'd tune into Voyager on Space it seems like it would be this fucking episode.
For DS9 it's that stupid early season episode where they get turned into game pieces in some Gamma quadrant alien game.
For TNG it's the rad episode where Picard and co come back to the Enterprise frozen in time in some incident with a romulan warbird. (This episode rules)
For TOS, it's Who Mourns for Adonis? The greek alien space god episode.
For DS9 it's that stupid early season episode where they get turned into game pieces in some Gamma quadrant alien game.
For TNG it's the rad episode where Picard and co come back to the Enterprise frozen in time in some incident with a romulan warbird. (This episode rules)
For TOS, it's Who Mourns for Adonis? The greek alien space god episode.
GasBandit
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Move Along Home, I think it was called. Not the best episode.
It's funny watching a show like Voyager kind of tackle stuff like depression. It really shines a light on how far we've come on the topic since the 90s. I mean, Chakotay basically cures B'Elana of depression by telling her to stop being depressed. Then the next episode we get Tom Paris put into solitary confinement for 30 days, which we KNOW is inhumane torture.
And yet they still do it more humanely than we would. Neelix brings him nutritious food, if not particularly exciting or interesting... we'd be feeding Paris nutraloaf today. He also gets visits from The Doctor to check on his well being. In the US, the prison would have to be non-responsive or vomiting everywhere to get a visit from the cut-rate prison doc.
In hindsight, the Holodeck was a terrible addition to Star Trek. Sure, we got a couple neat Sherlock Data episodes, but we got so much more Capt Proton/Vic Fontaine/Dixon Hill crap out of it.
It's absolut inhuman. He didn't even got visits from his girlfriend or any friend whatsoever.
We also got Robin Hood, the Three Musketeers and Reginald Barclay (One of my favorite characters). I'd say it did more good than harm.
It should've stayed on the Enterprise, then.
(Also, the only remember Robin Hood I remember was Q's)
figmentPez
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I like Vic Fontaine...
I know my main reason for hating holodeck episodes is I'm not watching space adventure show in the far off distant space future to watch characters pretend to be fucking hardboiled 30s detectives or hang out in prohibition era night clubs. It doesn't matter how many times an accident causes them to malfunction or whatever.
"It's Only A Paper Moon"? That episode is great, if you ignore ALL the Vic stuff. It's supposed to be about Nog dealing with his issues from the war (and yeah, he WAS NOT ready for Space Vietnam) and it does that well. It's just all the Vic stuff is... tiring?
The Heist episode from DS9 is great though. Too bad it's happening DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE DOMINION WAR.
But we also got “Qpid*” and “A Fistful of Datas.”
...and an Animal House reference.
—Patrick
*Yes technically not a holodeck episode but still a holodeck episode.
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I think after a couple of seasons, and after the 40th red shirt death, the line to get into the holodeck would be quite short.
...I just read a short summary about her, and despite having watched all if Voyager, I have absolutely no recollection of this character.
Like, Sisko's WHOLE FUCKING THING is that he hates Picard because he killed his wife when he was a Borg. It's a big fucking thing in the Trek universe. It kills me.