{"id":4895,"date":"2018-09-24T07:13:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T07:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/214-Alliances"},"modified":"2018-09-24T07:13:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T07:13:54","slug":"214-alliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/24\/214-alliances\/","title":{"rendered":"2.14 &#8212; \u201cAlliances\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p><strong>2.14 &#8212; \u201cAlliances\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plot:<\/strong> Repeated Kazon attacks lead some crew members to theorize that making an alliance with a Kazon faction will increase <em>Voyager&#8217;s<\/em> chances for survival. Problem: this tactic is against Federation rules. Will Janeway cave under pressure to pursue it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> I don\u2019t have much nice to say about this one. The Kazon are boring. The teleplay is talk, talk, talk; tell not show. The plan to ensure peace by backing a Kazon faction is ridiculous; Janeway&#8217;s temporary conversion to this line of thinking is unpersuasive. Despite their purported threat, the Kazon are not depicted as dealing from a plausible position of strength. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, the Emperor has no clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why bring in Seska but waste her by giving her almost nothing to do? To do so draws the sting of this character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The twist about the Trabe being untrustworthy has potential, but where is the acknowledgment that just by allying with them Janeway is threatening and insulting the Kazon? This is hardly a starting point for negotiations. It would be like trying to soothe Israel by first allying with Hamas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sunny jim was rolling her eyes at the speech at the end about Federation values. It\u2019s all very hamfisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A nitpick: I think Spock would be famous enough so that Tuvok would not need to explain him to Janeway using the phrase \u201cwhen I was young, a great visionary named Spock.\u201d The guy is still around, for goodness sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For all these complaints, the clearest sign that <em>Voyager<\/em> as a series has, at this point, lost its way may be the stripper-cam treatment of the exotic dancer featured in the background of the scene at the Kazon bar. I hope it finds itself again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.5 out of 5 helicopter attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Alliances_(episode)\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Alliances_(episode)<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        2.14 &#8212; \u201cAlliances\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-relive-the-majesty-voy-episode-threads","tag-kevin-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}