I’m watching Extreme Risk, in bright lighting the table is the same dark green. The same dark green as my defiant… funny, The enterprise D was kind of a light blue, on TV they look white… at least my La Sirena is red…
I agree that there are problems with just about every episode of Voyager, deep space nine and next generation, and enterprise don’t get me started on enterprise especially the last episode. You would think after spending 10 years on the enterprise Tripp would be able to avoid being coldcocked by alien gang bangers. But I always thought that they could have just made another Sim and they could have done the little operation that the first Sim thought of, to give him a regular lifespan.
But I always found it more enjoyable just to have some kind of level of suspension of disbelief I would suppose.
Favorite son? Of course, it’s ludicrous. That aliens would fly all the way to earth and impregnate harry’s mother and then fly back. But the enjoyable thing isn’t that Voyager crew, and Harry were both suckers. The enjoyable thing was seeing all of those Amazonian women, including Kristiana Lokken. Well, now that I think about it, she was the only really good one. But then again, those were mostly Stuntwomen, because you see Pat Tallman in there, too. She’s great.
it was also enjoyable to see Harry figure it out, and then be exposed to the corpse of that unfortunate guy… there were some truly horrific aspects to that… you get exposed to this possible culture that is “yours” and then you find out it is a lie and that they just want to use you to suck all of your juices out. Shudder.
And you have to remember who was in the inside man episode, that was the original Bok. But he was also Daemon Togg. Funny, Ethan was in that episode too… what was that actors name, Frank Corsento or something. That guy being in the episode made it swell.
And then Brocolli figures out how to out Ferengi them.
Now what was that other complaint, Bellana, being affected by a Vulcan pon Farr? Well, why the hell not? Vorick grabbed her by the head and sent violent sexual impulses right into her brain.
The effects were subtle at first, and then she was no longer being driven by any impulse she may have picked up from Vorick, at the end it was her own Klingon libido, and Ghod save Tom Paris!
So nah, it’s believable… you don’t even have to think about it that much, because of that initial violation by Vorick substantiates it.
I can’t even fathom the complaints about Unimatrix. It was great to see Beta Queen Susanna Thompson lose again… and she lost so badly that they had to bring back Alice Krige!
These are like my favorite episodes of Voyager and I suppose mostly because other people have knitpicked them to pieces on IMDb, some of the people over there are pretty illiterate. I know some of these complaints here are at least well thought out and not just “Discovery Sucks” (it does not especially season 2) but then again on the other side, you have this suspension of disbelief, which, if applied, then you can see a logical reason why a problematic episode would work.
Consider this, in The Raven, 7 of 69 is compelled to follow a signal to her parents ship.
Then, suddenly, after that, even though not much time was spent at that ship, they have access to all of the logs from that ship. Was Tom Paris downloading the logs while he was being bombarded by phasers from the Bomar? Or maybe Voyager did it, Tuvix was sneaky fast he saw logs, and he thought oh wow, I’m going to steal these… and then all of a sudden voyager has the complete history of Annika Hansen.
They should have made some effort to put that into The Raven, that there were logs and they should get them, instead of giving Gimli the dwarf screen time - maybe even 7 of 69, while rummaging around on the bridge of that beaten up ship, maybe she found a port that she was able to plug into. Now, if this were Battlestar Galactica, it would have been a USB port no doubt ha ha. But you have to think if she found logs she would have downloaded them and she could have done it quickly.
So there is always a way of suspending disbelief, even in the face of these unsurmountable… is that the right word? Insurmountable issues with episodes.
Now when you consider Fairhaven, who created that hollowdeck program? it was Tom Paris of course and is he Irish? He is about as Irish as national velvet was as a film…
And so he designed Fairhaven and the people in it with all kinds of mistakes, but so what? It was fun and it was funny.
