The Doctor writes the great Holo-Novel. There’s a lot of different plot going on here! First, the Doctor turns out to be a terrible writer, who is lucky…
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Q’s back, looking for some baby sitting. Q must be the most unreliable plot device in Trek. Some episodes are great (*All Good Things* in particular), some are…
Seven tries to learn how to be a real girl. Or, to put it another way, Seven of Nine does exactly the same thing that Barclay got in…
The Voyager crew stumbles towards rescue. The idea of using the aliens to drive the action in this half of the episode was a good one. But it’s…
Almost all the crew is kidnapped and brainwashed to work in a factory. I’m a sucker for ‘[in media res](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_medias_res)’. This episode has a great mysterious start, with…
Voyager gets stuck in a hole. The plot’s nothing to write home about, but well delivered. In short, Voyager finds itself in a bad situation, and Janeway builds…
In a refreshing change of pace, rather than B’Elanna coming to terms with her Klingon heritage, Klingons come to terms with B’Elanna. Well, not refreshing. More ‘not as…
The Voyager runs into a strained death penalty story. The episode was off to a bad start when the writer forgot what the Prime Directive is. Hint: it…
B’Elanna comes to terms with her Klingon side. Again. As my summary suggests, I’m not exactly jumping for joy to return to such a well-trod well. We’ve had…
Chakotay and Janeway go on a tour of episodes past. It’s very hard to watch this episode without thinking about *Before and After*. That episode had an incredibly…