11:59

I love 11:59, it's one of my absolute favorite Voyager eps.

It's a simple story and well told, so for all those who complain about Voyager saying it didn't have room for these kinds of tales while TNG and DS9 did, well, here you go.

I also felt the previous episode, "Someone to Watch Over Me", was brilliant and a simple story told well.

What I like most about 11:59 is that the frame narrative involves Captain Janeway struggling with the realization that her ancestor isn't the giant she thought she was.

We get to see that woman and get to know her, she is so much more relatable BECAUSE she is not a giant, I think that's really wonderful.

5/5, superb.

'what does this have to do with anything?'---Henry Janeway

This episode is among the slightest and easiest to skip of all the episodes of "Star Trek: Voyager". It's not necessarily bad but it does seem irrelevant and like filler.

The episode consists of folks talking about their family histories. Janeway decides to tell everyone about her great-great-great-great- great-etc. grandmother...a woman who, oddly, looks EXACTLY like Captain Janeway. I hate when movies show distant relatives who look EXACTLY like the present individuals--it's as bad a cliché as the identical cousins cliché! The story involves the woman's romance with a grumpy old guy (Kevin Tighe) and has just about nothing to do with the show in any way!

By the way, I am a stickler for details and in the beginning of the show Mr. Neelix is trying to show off how smart he is. However, BOTH things he says are wrong!! Qin is not pronounced 'kin' and the Great Wall of China CANNOT be seen from space--that's an urban legend. Two more reasons to hate Neelix...as well as the writer who didn't do their homework when they wrote this one.

Another review here made every point I would so I will keep this short and bitter. Boring, pointless, meaningless... The dialogue is trite and really difficult to endure. I watched this episode once and won't bother again. The premise about the millennium, I guess at the time was supposed to be involving, but considering the millennium didn't start for another two years (2001) this really was out of place, technically. It drudges on and there is no real point to the story. It lifts out completely and ads nothing at all to my appreciation of Janeway. Feel free to skip without missing anything. Its not like they even make a connection to Janeway, or tell us how it has any real significance to her; maybe if they linked it and showed a real unique or unexpected time-connection that could have made it better, or ad some mystery to it. Its just not there... fire whomever wrote this tripe. I can hardly remember what it was about; a bookstore or something. Just like I don't care for the 'Fair Haven' or really any major 'Holodeck' based episode on TNG or any of the them. I watch Star Trek to see spaceships and exploration of the 'Trek' galaxy. Not to see something that would have been rejected from 'Masterpiece Theatre' for being too dull.

This is an okay episode with some reasonably thought provoking themes about characters with very different outlooks on life, but I struggled to maintain an interest in the story as it unfolded.

I find genealogy a fascinating subject and the process of examining accepted histories to reveal the truth, but when it involves the family history of a fictional character I think it is a bit of a stretch to call it interesting.

For me the plot is not helped by the shifts back and forth between past and present, halting the momentum of the Shannon O'Donnell story. I think the writers would have been better starting the episode during the flashback time period and only revealing towards the end who the main protagonists are in relation to Captain Janeway (who is in the process of doing some genealogical research).

I think Katie Mulgrew and Kevin Tighe deserve credit as they lift the material to make the episode quite watchable, but I would not describe it as riveting.

I guess this is based on the premise that Janeway and the others have to have diversion, and a look at the past fulfills this as bit. Janeway had an ancestor, going back centuries, who had some function with NASA. It then tells how, after losing her job, she winds up in a small town that is about to get big. Except for a bookseller who refuses to sell his property to developers. It now becomes a rather maudlin story that really doesn't fit well with the Star Trek thing. It was entertaining at times, but filled with cliches and precious behavior.