This a good episode and did something even Lower Decks can’t, it showed us what people truly out of their depth would do in a starship emergency. The closest we have seen to this is in TNG when Picard had to talk the kid through saving himself from dying in a shuttle, and when Jake and Nog had to pilot the runabout home, but this really cranks the mess up nicely.
Oh, you didn’t mean “divert all power” you meant “divert all available power.” Let’s go to warp, *everyone from Lower Decks shouting at once.*
This got me thinking about how sometimes, not always (like going to warp from Earth’s surface with a cargo deck of whales), you can’t go to warp in a system, and now I think it relates to warping around suns. Like if you warp through a system in a straight line it is fine, but around a star is no bueno, especially if very close, unless you are a very skilled pilot.
The only thing I didn’t like is Janeway says the replicator is a matter synthesizer, not a matter-energy device. I don’t know who is pushing the shit to apples angle for replicators so hard.
On the flippy flop I love that we finally see a shuttle replicator, Voyager definitely has one as far as I’m concerned. I don’t think it should look like a bunch of 3D printing dumb arms, but A+ for finally giving us one good extrapolation of TNG tech in new Trek.
Also, the best part, the kid thinking the Federation and Janeway are too good to be true despite thinking she is kind of trustworthy, that’s gold. Really makes the whole debacle work for me in a way it could not have otherwise. Also none of them are used to freedom so it makes sense they kind of just fall in line despite not wanting too. That’s the best part of the show, the little character choices based on their shitty lives but not being shitty people.
