Time for discussion! What are your top three favorite episodes from Voyager Season One? Cheat sheet below:
1.1&2 — “Caretaker”
1.3 — “Parallax”
1.4 — “Time and Again”
1.5 — “Phage”
1.6 — “The Cloud”
1.7 — “Eye of the Needle”
1.8 — “Ex Post Facto”
1.9 — “Emanations”
1.10 — “Prime Factors”
1.11 — “State of Flux”
1.12 — “Heroes and Demons”
1.13 — “Cathexis”
1.14 — “Faces”
1.15 — “Jetrel”
1.16 — “Learning Curve”
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My ratings help here, as I find the Voyager episodes hard to remember (also, we started this season way back at the end of September). My highest episode rating was 4 stars, which I gave to three episodes. They are (alphabetically):
“The Cloud.” This early episode establishes Janeway’s love for coffee and dynamics for crew interaction which make the show bearable to watch in between inspired storylines.
“Heroes and Demons.” Harry Kim gets lost in a Beowulf simulation, in an episode which manages to have fun with the Holodeck and take the Emergency Medical Hologram (who names himself Schwietzer) to new heights and away from Sickbay.
“State of Flux.” The “Seska is a traitor” episode is one of several that successfully exploits the tension between the Federation and Maquis crews, with Chakotay’s loyalty caught squarely in the middle.
Honorable mention: “Learning Curve,” “Prime Factors.”
Interesting!
I liked:
“Time and Again”: I thought bringing the culture back to life and showing how the death of so many can turn on a dime and also the dangers of not understanding the complexity of technological/scientific forces one is messing with… well, it was moving in a way that a techno-babble-focused episode is not.
Heroes and Demons: SCHWEITZER! Just such great camp and character development. Harry’s fantasies are so boring until the doctor steps in! I also like that the alien was able to be reasoned with. This series has lots of kindly/misunderstood non-human-like aliens, which harks back to TOS.
Learning Curve: The scene where Chakotay throws a random sucker punch is just so shocking. You really feel for the situation he is in caught between two crews, probably for the first time in the series. Also, it’s fun to watch Tuvok growing in what has been evidently a weak area for him.
Honorable mention:
“State of Flux”: I like Seska much better as a villain!
This is great! You are reminding me what is great about ST (sometimes) and helping me appreciate episodes like “Time and Again” which overwhelmed me with technobabble (according to my notes, my overall recollection of the episode is not very fresh).
Yes, too much technobabble but it had some cute moments (the kid who knows the crew is lying about where they came from and Paris’s dynamic with him) as well as terrorists who had a point about the dangers of the technology but wanted to prove it in entirely the wrong way… to me it is better in hindsight as compared to what followed.
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