Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series) Day of Honor (1997) User Reviews

A bad day for B'Elanna

[Tweekums · 8/10 · 14 January 2010]

The ship's chief engineer B'Elanna Torres is not having a good day. It is the Klingon "Day of Honour" and her friends are encouraging her to take part in the ceremonies associated with that day, she is less keen however. Eventually she takes herself down to the holosuite to start the ceremony but soon changes her mind and leaves after flooring the Klingon leading the ceremony. Things don't get much better when she turns up for work and is ordered to take Seven of Nine onto her engineering staff even though she doesn't trust her.

While this is going on the Voyager encounters a group of refugees who's home planet was assimilated by the Borg, while the Voyager can't give them everything they need Janeway offers them what food, medicine and fuel they can spare. Shortly after they depart the engineering team attempt to open a "trans-warp conduit" so they can travel much faster however things go wrong and the ship is forced to dump the unstable warp core leaving it in a worse situation than before. While the crew attempt repairs B'Elanna and Tom take a shuttle to retrieve the core only to find the refugees have already got to it and refuse to give it back. When B'Elanna tries to take it back from them they open fire and both her and Tom are left floating in space with limited oxygen in their space suits... will they be able to survive long enough for Voyager to get repaired and come looking for them? I really enjoyed this episode as it included some tense action scenes and a sense of danger with some good character driven scenes; this was clearly B'Elanna's episode and Roxann Dawson did a great job in the role.

Growing pains...

[planktonrules · 7/10 · 20 February 2015]

This episode is about growing pains, as B'Elanna and Seven of Nine are having difficulties. B'Elanna is struggling because a Klingon holiday, the Day of Honor is approaching but she really is neither Klingon nor Human...and since coming to Voyager, she's becoming more and more in touch with her human roots. So, standing around and zapping yourself with pain sticks and other macho Klingon rituals seem stupid to her. As for Seven of Nine, she needs to find a place for herself aboard this new ship. But when she begins working in engineering, a disaster takes place and folks wonder is she might have done this deliberately and she cannot be trusted. You see a lot of character development here and it's definitely a transitional episode in many ways. What's next? See the show.

Helping out the space jerks

[thevacinstaller · 7/10 · 7 August 2021]

The Caatati really get my blood boiling. I would occasionally get this company that would call me up to purchase an add in their magazines and they 'claimed' the money went to help troubled teenagers. I said yes once and then I said no the second time ----- the wicked witch on the other end of the phone attempted to suggest I don't care about troubled teenagers and I was a horrible human being for not giving them money. Manipulative BS!

I'm not captain of the Voyager but if I was I know that I would conduct holodeck experiments of trans warp drive before attempting the real thing. What could possible go wrong? Well, as it turns it out this situation ended up being an ice breaker for Torres to open up about her love for Tom Paris. I enjoyed the space suit scenes --- it was a nice change of scenery.

SO9 learns a valuable lesson about feeling better about yourself by doing a good deed for a bunch of manipulative space refugee jerks. My employee's mom does this crazy act of kindness where she will pay for the meal of people behind her in a drive thru ----- sometimes there is a level of kindness I just can't seem to get behind.

Was B'Elanna grumpy because she could not profess her love for Tom Paris or was it related to her disapproval of barbaric Klingon culture practices of eating live animals and cutting each other with swords?

Does it actually feel good to help out jerks? I'm willing to conduct an experiment but my life experiences suggests I would not feel better about myself. I suppose the fact that she was part of the group who assimilated the Caatati could be considered special circumstances.

The Crew and Newness

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 29 August 2018]

Seven is becoming a really important part of the crew, but is still learning how humans function. She is integral on several levels here. But Torres makes it hard for her to help out. Of course, there is suspicion when it comes to the Borg. The key other issue is a race of beggars who want sacrifices from Voyager that will disrupt their intentions. Tom and B'Allana are sent out to get the warp core back which these guys have commandeered. There is a disjointedness to this episode but it could be that in the wake of the past excellent ones, it's hard to keep up the pace.

Rokeg* Blood Pie-in-the-face for B'Elanna

[XweAponX · 10/10 · 23 September 2013]

On her worst ever day in the whole 7-year Stretch of "Star Blecch: Voyeur".

Part I: An Unemployed Borg

Seven wants a Job. She asks Chakotay, who orders B'Elanna to put her up in engineering. But B'Elanna is not having a good day, not only is this the The Klingon "Day of Honor", Tom Paris is sniffing about like a Vulcan in Pon-Farr.

Part II: In the Soup Line

Voyeur is accosted by the Bag Ladies of the Delta Quadrant, the Caatati (Caatati Captain played by Alan Altshuld "Lumas"). Of course Janeway wants to give them a sandwich, but they want the whole Kitchen! And to top it off, Lumas sees the newly-Humanized Seven and gets all uppity.

Part III: Salami and Painsticks, please

B'Elanna is encouraged by Neelix to take part in her Day of Honor Holodeck Program after all, but when she gets there she beats the crap out of the guys who were supposed to beat HER up and then poke her with Painsticks. Not good, Not good. Worf would have loved that, but B'Elanna is more like Key'Hlar than Worf. And then she "alienates" (Or rather Klingon-ates) Paris who helped her make the Program.

Part IIII: "The Wreckening"

Then Seven-of-69's Trans-wart Experiment in Engineering goes haywire and Voyeur's leaky Warp Drive has to be dumped. When B'Elanna and Paris go to pick up the ejected core, the Caatati had already stolen it. Had enough yet, B'Elanna? Nope, cos when they use the shuttle to try to pry the warp core from the Catatonici's ship, the Catatonici reverse the prying-beam on her and it destroys the shuttle, leaving her and Paris drifting around in space with no way to contact Voyeur and just a few hours of air.

Part IIIII: "Seven" Reasons why you should employ your pet Borg

Seven should wear a blue suit with an S on the front. And a cape. Cos the Caatati come back to Voyeur with warp-core in tow intending to Blackmail Janeway with it to get more Sandwiches, and maybe a few cups of Java and some apple pie while they are at it. So Seven figures out a Borg way to give them the ability to feed themselves, so they don't have to panhandle every ship in the Delta Quadrant anymore. So Seven to the Rescue, Everybody Happy Nowadays, and they even get to save B'Elanna and Tom.

The End, or not.

Not bad, this is the first Voyeur Episode without the benefit of Kes and her Magic Brain-Powers. I think it was a shame letting Jennifer Lien go the way they did, they should have kept both her and Seven. Personally I liked her a lot, and I think she became a very good actress in her last season. But it was the right thing to do to bring Voyager into Borg Space and bring on a Borg Crewoman, and Seven is still part Borg. This allowed her to interact with the Evil Borg Queens, Susanna Thompson and the Big Borg Queen Alice Krige in later episodes. Although I liked Voyager before this change, I liked this change especially as it pumped new life into the series.

In B'Elanna's Klingon Brawl Scene, you can't tell the swap between Stuntwoman Leslie Hoffman and Roxann Dawson, they had similar faces, so it looks like B'Elanna all the time. Ironically, in the Deep Space Slime Episode "What you Leave Behind" she is the one who took the fall down the stairs when the Jem'Hadar kill off Julianna McCarthy (Garak's Neela).

Overall a highly interesting episode this is, it is the first of the Seven vs B'Elanna and B'Elanna vs her Klingon Heritage shows, she has to battle both of them. This is when the dichotomies really start.

But on top of that, this episode shows Janeway not thinking straight, acting without weighing all of the potential consequences. See here, Voyager has just survived Species 857-6309 and The Borg. So what does she do after Kes flings them 9,000 Light-Years past the main bulk of Borg Space? She encounters a race of desperate Bag-Ladies who will do anything to survive, and does not consider that they would be hanging around nearby to pick up more crumbs, which they do when they steal Voyager's Warp Drive. And Janeway only sends ONE shuttle to retrieve it, she should have sent at least three.

But I suppose if Janeway didn't have lapses in Judgement like this on occasion, there would be no good stories like this.

Oh yeah, somebody was complaining about the apparent superfluity of shuttles that Voyager has. Even though they get destroyed constantly. This gets dealt with, but not in this season. Did you ever consider that Voyager has the ability to repair them, or build new shuttles? We have seen Voyager land on a planet and repair their Warp Nacells, repairing a shuttle or building a new shuttle would be very easy compared to that. And, there is an entire episode centered around building a brand new shuttle: the Delta flyer. And we even saw the Delta flyer get blown up several times, but we know that even after it was blown up, it was recovered and rebuilt. Just because they don't show Voyager recovering an exploded shuttle, does not mean that it never was done. With replicator technology building a shuttle "out of thin air" would be rather easy. End it is not actually "out of thin air", it requires energy to build a shuttle. Or provide water or air. Or food. Provided Voyager has sufficient warp drive energy? They could build anything, repair anything. We can even do this in today's technological age with 3-D printers. Provided there is energy and material to build whatever we wish out of "thin air". There would have to be material to be used to create the shuttles as well, but I imagine any material easily found on a planet could be used.

*(Or, is that, "Roc-Egg Blood Pie"? I never got that straight, the spelling I mean)

Nice episode apart from Torres being a big annoying and the pacing being a bit slow

[brianjohnson-20043 · 7/10 · 7 September 2021]

This episode is ok. It is a mix bag that would be a shame to skip. It provides some good character development for Seven, and the Torres and Paris relationship.

The episode has an interesting alien encounter and conundrum. The makeup for this alien species is very good. The directing seemed solid. I just wished some of the pacing was a bit faster and that Torres' sorrow was quicker.

Overall I think the 7.5 out of 10 score is about right.

The Continuously Inept Captain Janeway

[spasek · 7/10 · 6 March 2021]

Don't get me wrong, but I actually like Captain Janeway, for the most part. But of all of the members of the crew who seems to consistently put lives in danger, Janeway is usually at fault. And in this episode, she does it again.

While I admire Janeway's desire to be compassionate and helpful, she too often neglects to keep her guard up. She fails to understand that as the captain, the lives of everyone else on that ship, are in her hands. That was one thing that I always loved about Kirk and Picard. The safety of their crew members was almost always paramount.

Janeway forgets a basic rule when dealing with desperate people: give them a handout, and they'll come back for more. Also, desperate people are always dangerous. And, of course, her inability to take precautionary steps indirectly puts Torres and Paris in danger.

What saves this episode from another "Janeway catastrophe" is Torres still coming to terms with her Klingon heritage, as well as her time spent with Tom Paris, and also Seven of Nine beginning to interact and take her place among the crew.

I will say that I agee with Kate Mulgrew's issues with Jeri Ryan's character being a sexualized character. What exactly is the point of putting her in the super-tight silver suit? No other crew members are/have been required to wear something like that. It also doesn't belong in Star Trek unless it's an alien who's trying to purposely seduce someone. Some adolescent member of the Voyager writing team obviously convinced everyone else to go the superficial route. It simply doesn't work at all. And seeing her walking among everyone else, she stands out, and not in a good way. Obviously, Jeri Ryan is a very attractive woman with all of the attributes to boot, but this was not the right place to showcase them.

Along with other reviewers my biggest issue with this episode is how Janeway got completely played and taken advantage of in allowing the aliens to get exactly what they wanted, and at great expense. As I stated above: Neither Kirk or Picard would have allowed that. Neither would Sisko.

Visually superb, but the writing lacks subtlety

[snoozejonc · 7/10 · 17 March 2023]

Seven of Nine is assigned to engineering to work with Torres.

This is a good episode with strong character moments.

There is a healthy focus on Seven once again, which this is a highlight of the episode. For me all the best scenes of dialogue involve this character adapting to life on Voyager and Jeri Ryan does a great job. The way she glares at people intensely works so well.

There is however one scene towards the end involving Seven I think is ruined by one line from Janeway about random acts of kindness. The writers give Janeway an slightly arrogant attitude regarding the altruism of the Voyager crew in this one and this line in particular stands out.

The B'Elanna Torres arc is slightly hit and miss in my opinion. I like the concept of the Klingon day of honour and it works for the character to take stock of her life. I love the visuals in the spacesuit scenes and have respect the production team for depicting them so realistically.

I struggle though in some episodes with the Paris/Torres romance, especially in the early days when to me it feels quite forced. It grows on me with time, but here and in others the characters have a tendency to over explain every feeling and for me it kills the chemistry. No fault of the actors, who both do a great job.

For me it's a 6.5/10, but I round upwards.

This episode bugs...

[dcobbimdb · 5/10 · 11 January 2017]

Giving it 5/10 on the positive end because there are some pivotal moments in it and it's at a somewhat crucial time considering the loss of Kes and the gain of Seven, amongst all the other changes.

The thing that bugs me so much in this episode is the alien race who appear like homeless, helpless scavengers, begging for food and Voyager provides as much as they can, but then they come back when they have the home field advantage and have Voyager out numbered and crippled without it's core. If not for the convenient diplomatic solution what ending would have come from this? Yeah way to go writers....

In truth I wish they ignored or blown their arse out of the water, that might have satisfied me, I hate the way this episode ends. So self righteous and selfless it's rubbish... I'd love to believe that we or anyone would be that way but in truth it's total nonsense. That alien race deserved nothing more than a phaser up the arse period.

I Wish Captain Sisko Was Here

[beanslegit · 5/10 · 11 February 2021]

This episode shows more of Captain Janeways inability to ignore a single plea for help even when it is Voyager who really needs help, and even when it constantly gets Voyager and all it's crew into serious trouble. Sisko would have told these space beggars where to go, and just maintained his current misison, which Janeway constantly forgets about: GETTING HOME! He also would have smeared them across time and space if they got in his way or threatened his ship.

There are some nice interactions between Paris and Torres, and some decent writing in parts and of course a bigger role for the new member of the crew, 7 of 9. It will be intriguing to see what she does in future episodes as she's instantly more interesting than Kes ever was. Maybe it's her formidable assets clouding my judgement at this time but I think she's an excellent addition to the crew.

Overall I would watch this one for continuity's sake, but I'm getting quite sick of Janeway's oft ill fated generosity when they haven't encountered any return on it in their whole ordeal in the Delta quadrant. They lose shuttle after shuttle, and ensign after ensign but still the good Captain instantly trusts every alien race with a sob story (and they pretty much all have one)

Yet another shuttle craft...

[moakin2005 · 5/10 · 7 February 2019]

How many does the Cochrane's loss make it now? Seems a bit absurd, this limitless number of shuttle craft.

Klingon honor drivel again

[tomsly-40015 · 5/10 · 27 December 2023]

One redeeming quality of Voyager has been that there is no Worf on the ship, they are not in Klingon territory and we don't hear lectures about honor, warriors, dying in battle and Kahless. It has been a good thing, that B'Elanna didn't care for Klingon traditions so far. But now she is talked into celebrating the Klingon day of honor by Paris and Neelix and once she is lost in space with Paris and about to die, she regrets that she hasn't been more honorable yada yada yada.

And here we have it again: After Kes blew up a shuttle in the last episode, Paris and B'Elanna don't want to fall behind and blow one up themselves. I really wonder how many shuttles Voyager carries. And don't even start with industrial replicators! They have to ration food from replicators to save energy. And once Kim replicated a clarinette, he had to save rations for a full week to be able to use the energy of the replicator for such an item. Replicating and assemblding a new shuttle would take them weeks and bind a lot of tech personnel. We never have seen anyone working on shuttles and we also never have seen any large scale industrial replicators on board the ship.

In this episode a transwarp test fails and B'Elanna has to eject the warp core to prevent an explosion. After everything is under control, she and Paris take a shuttle to retrieve the warp core but run into a space ship that fires at their ship. B'Elanna and Paris get into EV suits and beam themselves into space before their shuttle explodes. Naturally they come closer while being alone in space and B'Elanna tells Paris that she loves him. While the oxygen runs lower by the minute they wait for Voyager to rescue them. In the meantime Voyager crew has to cope with an ungrateful alien race that they have given food and supplies. But those greedy aliens returned the favor by rallying more ships and threating to destroy Voyager unless they hand over all their supplies. Janeway should have just opened fire at this point to send a message. But she of course has mercy and with the help of Seven of Nine they are able to give them a tech device with which they can power their own replicators. Problem solved and everyone is happy ever after.

Should have been a 2 part episode.

[tim-39369 · 3/10 · 29 December 2023]

The ending is super disappointing and unexplained (like MANY other episodes of voyager). I truly hate when it leaves so much to the imagination. Also it portrayed belana pretty terribly. I wonder if this episode was written by someone different than the others because it just didnt make any sense in how it ended and much of the episode left me feeling confused and disliking almost every character. Unusual to me. It is an episode worth watching at least if you love trek as much as me. And now i will just ramble for a bit because the review is required to have a minimum character count and theres only so much i can say without spoilers!