The most curious thing about this episode is that if Belenna had been in it she would have reversed the plasma stream through the gravitational nodes and then enriched it with antimatter and injected into the teleporter stream to create a window through the electrostatic storm surrounding the moon. Then they would have teleported Tuvok and the kids out of their without issues. Pity Janeway and Kim didn't think of that one.
So now we have to deal with the story.
When rewatching old Star Trek series on Netflix you get to meet the good, the bad, the truly remarkable and the astonishing atrocious. That one episiode can have it all is possibly shown by Innocence.
First the good: Tuvok played by Tim Russ. I find him a believable Vulcan. Tuvok has crashed on some kind of moon where a group of children have been stranded too. We see him interact with these children, thus confronting him with the unruly and emotional. We learn a bit about the Vulcans and how they learn to control their emotions and become logical.
Now to continue I would have to reveal the clue of the episode, there is no other way. The clue is that the species the Voyager meets this time has a reversed aging process. Now this isn't revealed until the very end. In fact this is truly bad because the whole confrontation and what happens in the episode would not have occured if the leader of the species had told Janeway the moment tensions arose.
Now one can argue that they only became aware that the Voyager crew has a reversed aging process as compared to themselves near the end but we never see them go though these motions. In fact: it is just mentioned before at the final confrontation. Oh, they don't know we have a reversed aging process; the kid is 96 years old. Note the sentense? We have a reversed one. This assumes they accept that the norm is different from theirs. But how would a species that deliberately isolates itselfs, so we are informed, assume or know that they are abnormal?
But then we run into various problems. Does this reverse process also entail that they forget everything they learned? The kids act as kids do and show the usual neglect of experience and understanding. In fact they don't even know they come to die because they tell Tuvok that it is a monster who takes them away and the others of their kind are out to kill them. And when Tuvok goes to investigate he finds only the clothes of the kids in the cave they are too afraid to go into. Why did they go into a cave with a monster they feared? So where did the bodies go? I cannot but feel that there is none as to prevent Tuvok from discovering the bodies so he can determine they died of a natural process and not by the hand of a monster. But given the way the clothes are arranged this must have given him that clue anyway. They did not die a violent death.
What is truly bad about this series is that you see them try to make this tale work by bending everything out of shape. How truly convenient to the story that nobody was there to explain things to Tuvok. How interesting that there is apparently no guidance or buildings or anything to make the dying more convenient for the kids and tip Tuvok off? Why is it called dying anyway? How convenient that there is a storm around the moon that prevents everything from communications, teleporting to shuttle craft landing. And no Belanna tweaking the teleporter to teleport them out or in.
The whole episode can only work if the story if things conveniently happen. Too much things. And this is why the episode truly is atrocious, despite an interesting premise and the acting.
So now we have to deal with the story.
When rewatching old Star Trek series on Netflix you get to meet the good, the bad, the truly remarkable and the astonishing atrocious. That one episiode can have it all is possibly shown by Innocence.
First the good: Tuvok played by Tim Russ. I find him a believable Vulcan. Tuvok has crashed on some kind of moon where a group of children have been stranded too. We see him interact with these children, thus confronting him with the unruly and emotional. We learn a bit about the Vulcans and how they learn to control their emotions and become logical.
Now to continue I would have to reveal the clue of the episode, there is no other way. The clue is that the species the Voyager meets this time has a reversed aging process. Now this isn't revealed until the very end. In fact this is truly bad because the whole confrontation and what happens in the episode would not have occured if the leader of the species had told Janeway the moment tensions arose.
Now one can argue that they only became aware that the Voyager crew has a reversed aging process as compared to themselves near the end but we never see them go though these motions. In fact: it is just mentioned before at the final confrontation. Oh, they don't know we have a reversed aging process; the kid is 96 years old. Note the sentense? We have a reversed one. This assumes they accept that the norm is different from theirs. But how would a species that deliberately isolates itselfs, so we are informed, assume or know that they are abnormal?
But then we run into various problems. Does this reverse process also entail that they forget everything they learned? The kids act as kids do and show the usual neglect of experience and understanding. In fact they don't even know they come to die because they tell Tuvok that it is a monster who takes them away and the others of their kind are out to kill them. And when Tuvok goes to investigate he finds only the clothes of the kids in the cave they are too afraid to go into. Why did they go into a cave with a monster they feared? So where did the bodies go? I cannot but feel that there is none as to prevent Tuvok from discovering the bodies so he can determine they died of a natural process and not by the hand of a monster. But given the way the clothes are arranged this must have given him that clue anyway. They did not die a violent death.
What is truly bad about this series is that you see them try to make this tale work by bending everything out of shape. How truly convenient to the story that nobody was there to explain things to Tuvok. How interesting that there is apparently no guidance or buildings or anything to make the dying more convenient for the kids and tip Tuvok off? Why is it called dying anyway? How convenient that there is a storm around the moon that prevents everything from communications, teleporting to shuttle craft landing. And no Belanna tweaking the teleporter to teleport them out or in.
The whole episode can only work if the story if things conveniently happen. Too much things. And this is why the episode truly is atrocious, despite an interesting premise and the acting.