Month: July 2012

Voyager loses a game of cat and mouse with the Kazon. The Kazon have never been an interesting villain. Seska has helped a little bit, but not enough. They just don’t have enough dimension to them. That makes the events here pretty shocking – all they needed as slightly better tactics to capture the ship?…

Dr Bashir tries to cure a Jem’Hadar punishment plague. The first real Bashir character piece in a while – he doesn’t get very many, either. Here we finally deal with his biggest flaw, his arrogance. But while there’s a nice bit in the middle where he questions himself, I got the impression that by the…

Chakotay and Janeway catch a fatal illness, and have to be left behind. An episode of (deliberately) two sections. There’s the ‘Tuvok disobeys orders to find a cure’ bit, and the ‘Swiss Family Janeway’ bit. The Tuvok sections are fairly by the numbers, although there is a nice action sequence towards the end where we…

A rouge Jem’Hadar group leads to the first joint Federation/Dominion operation. Finally we see a bit of a third dimension to the Dominion. There have been several Jem’Hadar episodes, but none of them have worked particularly well. Here it finally clicks, and we get a much clearer sense of what they believe. The use of…