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Retro Review
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[Retro Review] Balance of Terror.
Each era of Star Trek has captured a moment in time. The original series captured as unique a moment as any that feels both like ancient history and something that still resonates. It's cast and writers still felt the effects of the second world war, from actors like James Doohan who was famously injured in D-Day, to producer Robert Justman among the many on board the Enterprise who's lives were in part shaped by the historical event. At the same time, much as things are today, there was no end to conflict or instability in the world and even the race to the moon and seeing Apollo 11's flight suffered the dark cloud of the cold war between the United States and what was then the USSR. The background and setting behind the era was what could create episodes like […]
[Retro Review] Where No Man Has Gone Before….
During a search and rescue mission that takes the Enterprise through the Galactic Barrier, ships captain James 'R' Kirk has another problem. During the trip through the barrier, Kirks crewmate and long time friend Gary Mitchell takes a blast of weird energy that slowly transforms him into everyone's best friend, to a telekinetic megalomaniac proving that old parable about absolute power.... By this point, everyone knows the story of Star Trek's two pilots. The Cage was filmed, rejected and the show got a rare second chance. That second chance as Where No Man Has Gone Before. Same ship, different Captain and crew aside from a green blooded alien... This year marks the 60th anniversary of Star Trek, so it seems only fitting we should start, where the show began on screen with the pilot that saw the idea become a […]
[Retro Review] Endgame; Voyager Season 7 Finale
Voyager's first episode set the mission to get the lost ship back to Earth. In the serie's final episode, it would be somewhat of a let down if they just left the crew in the middle of nowhere. Even then the ending seemed like an obvious one and with it all being telegraphed 170 episodes before, the fun wasn't about if they got home, but how... Kicking off with a celebration, we skip to the end with a reunion celebrating the tenth anniversary of Voyagers return to Earth. Sixteen years after the previous episode, Voyager found it's way home. And now twenty six years into the future from our viewer perspective, we get a bit of a catch up with the former crew. Harry finally got promoted and is now a Captain. Paris and Torres have a daughter, Miral, who's […]
[Retro Review] Meld: Voyager Season 2, Episode 16
Solving a murder mystery is easy when the killer nonchalantly confirms the allegation. But when your lead investigator is a Vulcan who's live is based on logic, and your killer just casually murdered someone without a care in the world, you can't just walk away without understanding the lack of motive... I've always loved it when a show pulls back and just creates a bottle inside it's own sets. No space adventure, no travelling to other planets. Just the characters trapped inside the bulkheads with a problem to solve. There's a time for spectacle, and then there's a time for an episode like Meld when after a few dodgy episodes you just need to keep things simple and effective. Brad Dourif was also wondeful as Suder. But a calm, collected and quiet sociopath and Brad Dourif goes hand in hand. […]
[Retro Review] The Thaw: Voyager Season 2, Episode 23
On another distraction from flying in a straight line back to Earth, Voyager finds a world thats been wiped out by natural disaster. But there are survivors; a small group cryogenically frozen in a controlled system designed to wake them up when the coast was clear. Nineteen years later, they're trapped, asleep within the machine... Four years past their scheduled release date, there's been no breakdown, no malfunction. Yet five of the inhabitants are dead, the rest all very much alive and locked into a computer stimulation keeping them in a dream-world state. Bringing them on board the ship, Janeway is told that they can't just switch the machine off as it'll cause irreversible brain damage. But just like dialling into the Matrix, Voyager can plug into the redundant status chambers and hack their way in to talk to the […]
[Retro Review] Death Wish: Voyager Season 2, Episode 12
Discovering a comet that looks a little bit funky on the sensors, Voyager quickly learn that it's not just any rock floating through space, but a prison. Accidentally releasing a shunned Q (not that one, another one!), they learn that the Continuum had exiled and imprisoned him for casting aside immortality, seeing it as a punishment, and trying to end his existence. With Q (still not that one) now released by Voyager, Q (yes, that one!) pops by to put Q (the other one) back in his box, causing a unique call for asylum that puts Janeway in the centre of a Q Conflict (Qonflict?). John de Lancie's Q had been a regular on the Next Generation. Whether just being annoying because he was bored or giving Picard unnecessarily complex lessons in self awareness, he became a bit of a […]
[Retro Review] Futrures End: Voyager S8E8/9
When you're eighty years away from home and no chance of getting back to Earth before you can draw your pension, it's usually quite nice when you switch on your viewscreen and see that blue and green ball ahead of you. Though it's slightly disconcerting when you realise you're a few hundred years in the past, none of your friends or family's grandparents have even been born yet and you only got there moments after someone tells you that you're the harbinger of doom that's responsible for the end of all life. In the middle of reconviction top tennis tips from Tuvok, Janeways called to the bridge as a massive timey wimey event is slightly more important than her serve. Moments after encountering the temporal event, a small ship from the future arrives, guns akimbo, and after a brief skirmish […]
[Retro Review] Living Witness: Voyager S4E23
'When diplomacy fails, there's only one alternative: violence. Force must be applied, without apology. It's the Starfleet way.' It's often said that history is written by the victors and while not often true, events are often relayed through time with a sense of bias. When it came to the USS Voyager getting in the middle of two warring factions, the story told over the centuries would become that of a warship led by a relentless Captain who'd commit genocide in exchange for the location of a wormhole that would get her crew home. War mongers from the other side of the galaxy blasting the Kyrians to pieces with biogenic weapons, abusing their powerful technology and murdering billions on a whim. That was the story passed through generations and retold through holographic re-enactments to visitors at a Kyrian museum, a historical […]
[Retro Review] Timeless. Voyager S5E06
Voyagers mission was to find a way home. And Harry Kim found one. Using found slipstream technology as well as time sensitive components to make it work, Kim proposes a risky plan to build the drive and race the crew home. When his space bestie Tom points out it's a stupid plan due to variables they haven't been able to counter, Captain Janeway give sit the rubber stamp anyway on the condition Chakotay fly ahead in the Delta Flyer with Kim so they can feed back course corrections so Voyager doesn't explode. Thankfully, it doesn't explode. Yet fifteen years later, Chakotay and Kim are the sole survivors of the mission; the Flyer being small enough to navigate the slipstream variances while Voyager was thrown out of the stream and crash landed on an ice planet, killing the entire crew. Now […]
[Retro Review] Scorpion; Voyager S3E26 & S4E01
There's not a Star Trek show that hasn't been put on a pedestal or picked as the definitive of the franchise for it's overall perfection. Though in reality, few few have been great from the word go. From the shaky grounds of the Next Generation's early years to awaiting Sisko finding his beard, most branches of the Star Trek tree have felt like an experiment until they find that one piece of the puzzle that was missing. For Voyager, that piece of the puzzle was Scorpion. Fresh off their reinvention in First Contact, the Borg are still known as one of the Federations biggest threats; a near unstoppable hive mind void of compassion or emotion as they adsorb entire cultures into their shared collective; a deadly cybernetic virus wiping out individuality to serve their single minded purpose of expansion. As […]
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