2.10 — “Cold Fire”

2.10 — “Cold Fire”

Plot: Voyager encounters Suspira, an all-powerful entity who is the mate of the Caretaker being which the ship encountered in the series premiere. Surprisingly, it lives on a satellite array filled with Ocampans. Meanwhile, Kes receives training to wake up her latent mental powers.

Thoughts: They threw the kitchen sink into this episode. Out of place Ocampans, a super space douche with the power to send Voyager home, and Kes developing mental super powers. Because sure, mental powers. She’s like a Jedi, except her power only works on coffee. Kes’ earnestness and desire to learn and improve is the most watchable element of the episode.

I watched most of the rest thinking, what is this in service of? Kes gets a really good offer to live with her people and develop her skills, but they turn out to be jerks who just want to kill everyone, so she doesn’t go (duh). The Suspira entity is confused enough by Janeway that it doesn’t to want to kill everyone, but it doesn’t want to help either. In the end, what heppened, and what did we learn?

I cringed when Harry claimed to use the instruments to detect an energy surge 10 light years away. The volume of space in that light cone would be astounding. Yeah right, Harry.

The gory scenes are there to keep us awake. Bleeding eyeballs, cooking Tuvok’s brain. There is a boy who cried wolf problem with all these unsettling images.

2.5 of 5 meditation lessons.

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