1- Tuvix-
http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-2/tuvix.html This episode is classic Trek moral dilemma when a transporter accident fuses Tuvok and Neelix into one person. The new resulting character is a completely believeable combination of both personalities. His integration into the crew and their pain when they finally find a way to change the error is felt very emotionally. His desperate plea to be allowed to live and the crew's pained reactions of being sympathtic but not wanting to lose the two seperate crew members is a great moment.
2 Timeless-
http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-5/timeless.html Holy shit! A great Harry Kim episode! Voyager has an experiamental "Slip Stream" drive that can get them back hope in one big jump and the crew is excited about it but Tom Paris thinks the drive will mess up. Harry, always one to want to get home ASAP figues out a way he says can fix the problems and he and Chakotay enter the slip stream ahead of Voyager and send them course corrections. Well it fucks up and Voyager crashesin mid-flight while Harry and Chakotay make it home. Harry becomes obsessed with fixing his error and they take years and become outlaws to go back to the site of Voyager's crash so they can fix the error through messeing with the time line. The ending with Harry's complete sense of frustration and desperation as he realizes he can't make the corrections necessary even after years of work to make Voyager reach home is great and then his great sense of joy at getting a message off to make sure Voyager doesn't ate least crash is great. The final scene of Janeway coming to a dejected Harry Kim wondering why they got knocked out of the stream and giving him a letter to Harry Kim from a future Harry Kim explaining it all is a GREAT and clasic Trek ending.
3- Scorpion Parts 1 & 2
http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-3/scorpion1.html and
http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-4/scorpion2.html
The introduction of Seven of Nine as Janeway makes a deal with the devil in The Borg to save themselves from a greater enemy. Part one's cliffhanger of the Borg cube dragging Voyager away asa Borg cubes get destroyed all around them was one hell of a cliffhanger and the intru=oduction of Seven of Nine sets up some great confrontations in the future bween her and Janeway as Seven grows and adapts to being without the collective.
4- Year Of Hell parts 1 and 2-
http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-4/yearofhell1.html and
http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-4/yearofhell2.html While somepeople don't like the "reset button ending I am not bothered by it. Watching what the crew of Voyager went through in these two episodes was one hell of a treat!
5- Prey-
http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-4/prey.html Two great Trek races the Hirogen and Species 8472 show up here as we get the first of many moral conflicts between Janeway and Seven as Seven disobeys Janeway and sacrifices a would members of Species 8472 to the Hirogen.
has a GREAT quote by Seven on her struggle for asserting her individuality and humnanity and her trying to grasp that concept while also having Janeway at the same time trying to impose limits.
"I believe you are punishing me because I do not think the way you do--because I am not becoming more like you. You claim to respect my individuality, but, in fact, you are frightened by it."
6- Living Witness -
http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-4/witness.html A very interesting look at how history can be distorted to fit the perceptions and preconceived notions of the people writing it.
7- Equinox parts 1 & 2
http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-5/equinox1.html and
http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-6/equinox2.html Janeway goes off the deep end sums this episode up. Voyager meets up with a Federation captain and crew with a smaller ship that has made it as far as them with less resources and then finds out that in doing so, they are killing off sentient lifeforms in order to boost their engines. The sense of rage at the betrayal to both Janeway and the Federation she has is an amzing site to see as she pushes the boundaries herself to catch them and the "renegade" Chakotay has to act as a balancing act to make sure she doesn't fully go off the cliff herself is a sight to behold.
8- One small Step-
http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-6/onesmallstep.html Voyager discovers the ship of one of the first manned missions to mars that dissappeared centuries ago that was swallowed up by a spatial anomoly that only appears every once in a greta while. The message is one I love on the worthiness of further space eploration and the flashbacks to the logs of that long ago captain are great. Also a good subplot as Chakotay teaches Seven the lessons of the importance of history.
9- Infinite Regress-
http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-5/infinite.html Jeri Ryan was able to shine in this episode showing off her broad range as an actor. basically a piece of borg technology that helps control some of Sevens brain functions is not functioning properly and needs to be replaced. This leads to Seven having to deal with the memories of the thousands of people she has assimiliated as a drone over the years. Her turns as a frightened 6 year old girl, a Klingon warrior, a human woman waiting to hear about her husband, and more were amazing. Especially good was her absolutely dead on turn as a Ferengi that had me in stiches.
10- Someone To Watch Over Me-
http://www.st-hypertext.com/voy-5/watchover.html There are very few attempts at romantic relationships in trek I enjoyed more than watching the doctor pine for Seven over the years. This episode explores the doc helping Seven explore the more initmate aspects of humanity and is quite good. It also has one of the best exchanges in all of Trek as while exploring sexuality she has an encounter with the volatile BeLanna Torres that is quite hilarious.
Torres: "How the hell do you know when we're having intimate relations?"
Seven : "There is no one on deck 9, section 12, that doesn't know when you're having intimate relations."
Damn funny stuff and delivered greatly by both actors.
Last edited by TheEnforcer at Jun 13 2004, 12:13 PM