An alien weapon that possesses artificial intelligence links with the EMH program and begins to terrorize the crew.An alien weapon that possesses artificial intelligence links with the EMH program and begins to terrorize the crew.An alien weapon that possesses artificial intelligence links with the EMH program and begins to terrorize the crew.
Steven Dennis
- Onquanii
- (as Steve Dennis)
David Keith Anderson
- Ensign Ashmore
- (uncredited)
John Austin
- Voyager Ops Officer
- (uncredited)
Sylvester Foster
- Crewman Timothy Lang
- (uncredited)
Holiday Freeman
- Night Shift Tactical Officer
- (uncredited)
Maya Fujimoto
- Science Division Officer
- (uncredited)
Kerry Hoyt
- Crewman Fitzpatrick
- (uncredited)
Tony Jones
- Command Division Officer
- (uncredited)
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This episode reminded me why I skipped the series 20 years ago...
...I can excuse boring characters, which Voyager has quite a few, but it's a complete showstopper when the "heroes" act unbelievably stupid, over and over again. Which they do in this one, even more than in most other episodes.
This ship should have been destroyed at least a dozen times, by now, just because of their mind-blowing dumb "ah, lets do it, what could happen?" mindset.
That's what you get for putting Harry Kim in charge!
Ensign Kim has been given the chance to command Voyager during the 'night' shift (there's no night or day in space!). However, this shirt is anything but dull in this episode. It all begins with the ship receiving a distress call. When Harry and the Doctor land on a craptastic planet, they find that the call is NOT coming from a living being but a machine that THINKS it's alive! Naturally the Doctor is excited, as he thinks he'll have some new mechanical friend. However, when they bring it aboard they learn the truth--it's a type of smart WEAPON. Way to go, Harry!
This is a decent episode. It also gives Robert Picardo a chance to act a bit outside his normal range as he's soon taken over by the weapon and it makes him act a tad grumpy, to put it mildly. Original and worth seeing.
This is a decent episode. It also gives Robert Picardo a chance to act a bit outside his normal range as he's soon taken over by the weapon and it makes him act a tad grumpy, to put it mildly. Original and worth seeing.
Star Trek writers have seen Dark Star shock!
My review would give them 3 out of 10 for originality, anyone who has seen the 1974 indie film Dark Star would recognise the part of the story line that John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon wrote all those years ago. Then it was written as a black comedy, this story tried to make it a serious subject, it doesn't work.
Great episode, but...
Why was Kim in command? There's at least one more ensign who's been on Voyager just as long and is wearing a red command uniform.
Starfleet confusion
Another prime example among many other particular episodes where writers once again denote StarFleet "Principals" in usual confusion and immense frustration to the viewer!
So tired of the Star Fleet/Janeway making decisions off rationalizations. It's like find the most illogical idea and do that one.
The irrationality is nicely demonstrated here. Kim cites Starfleet protocol. Doctor cites is morality (anyone else want to add some philosophical construct that will make real consequences for the crew based on more abstraction, which can't ever be argued with?) Then the scientific fact of an explosion is noted, Ah, but any medical procedure has risk is countered with (What?) But of course the illogical nebulus comment is what drives the reality of the crew to keep explosive on board (What?) Then planets are at war. Janeway says won't help one against the other because... "we can't interfere with the affairs of planets (What was that contradiction?) If won't interfere with plants that have their own dispute... then you're actually interfering with the planets by not letting them dispute...?
Of course it does! Base real decisions on conjecture and irrational sayings and sentiments... it's the Starfleet way on Voyager!
Just off the wall thinking and it's like the crew says, "Ah, darn. Guess we got to do that silly thinking and base reality and harm on that!. Doesn't make sense from some general conjecture speculating thing. So... let's pick that one to base fact on!" Set a course....
Half the series has this conflict. Just another inconsistently irrational situation, or a benefit in being obtuse. You can't argue with an abstraction, conveniently so.
So tired of the Star Fleet/Janeway making decisions off rationalizations. It's like find the most illogical idea and do that one.
The irrationality is nicely demonstrated here. Kim cites Starfleet protocol. Doctor cites is morality (anyone else want to add some philosophical construct that will make real consequences for the crew based on more abstraction, which can't ever be argued with?) Then the scientific fact of an explosion is noted, Ah, but any medical procedure has risk is countered with (What?) But of course the illogical nebulus comment is what drives the reality of the crew to keep explosive on board (What?) Then planets are at war. Janeway says won't help one against the other because... "we can't interfere with the affairs of planets (What was that contradiction?) If won't interfere with plants that have their own dispute... then you're actually interfering with the planets by not letting them dispute...?
Of course it does! Base real decisions on conjecture and irrational sayings and sentiments... it's the Starfleet way on Voyager!
Just off the wall thinking and it's like the crew says, "Ah, darn. Guess we got to do that silly thinking and base reality and harm on that!. Doesn't make sense from some general conjecture speculating thing. So... let's pick that one to base fact on!" Set a course....
Half the series has this conflict. Just another inconsistently irrational situation, or a benefit in being obtuse. You can't argue with an abstraction, conveniently so.
Did you know
- TriviaMcKenzie Westmore (daughter of series makeup artist Michael Westmore) appears in this episode as Ensign Jenkins. This is her second appearance on a Star Trek show but her first as an adult. Eleven years earlier, when she was ten years old, she featured in The Next Generation episode "When the Bough Breaks" in an uncredited role. She played "Rose" one of the children abducted by a sterile but technologically advanced race.
- GoofsWhen Tuvok introduces a malfunction to the Sickbay Holo-emitters and we see it start to take effect, The Doctor is wearing the mobile emitter. The mobile emitter is completely separate from the sickbay Holo-systems and would not be effected.
- Quotes
Captain Kathryn Janeway: Assemble the staff. We're going to find a way to outsmart a smart bomb.
- ConnectionsReferences Star Trek: Voyager: Prototype (1996)
Details
- Runtime
- 46m
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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