Alice
- Episode aired Oct 20, 1999
- TV-PG
- 43m
Voyager takes on a "haunted" hot rod alien spacecraft with a possessiveness artificial intelligence that jealously bonds with Tom Paris.Voyager takes on a "haunted" hot rod alien spacecraft with a possessiveness artificial intelligence that jealously bonds with Tom Paris.Voyager takes on a "haunted" hot rod alien spacecraft with a possessiveness artificial intelligence that jealously bonds with Tom Paris.
- Voyager Ops Officer
- (uncredited)
- Starfleet Scientist
- (uncredited)
- Operations Division Ensign
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the beginning of this episode, Tom Paris and Harry Kim try to guess Tuvok's age unsuccessfully, and unfortunately Tuvok never reveals his real age. According to the Official Star Trek Chronology, the events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), which was also depicted in Flashback (1996) occurred in the year 2293. In "Flashback", Tuvok told Captain Janeway he was 29 years old when he served on the USS Excelsior, which would put his birth year at 2264. Assuming this episode took place in 2376 (Star Trek: Voyager (1995) takes place between 2371 and 2378), this would place Tuvok's age at 112 years during this episode.
- GoofsAs Voyager fires on Alice, the Doctor informs the Captain that she must stop because they are disrupting Tom's neural pathways. At this time, they had not made any sort of connection to Tom or Alice. There is no way for the Doctor to have that detail of information just from scanning a shielded ship.
- Quotes
Harry Kim: Bad day at the office?
B'Elanna Torres: Bad night with Tom Paris. - You're his best friend, right?
Harry Kim: So he tells me.
B'Elanna Torres: So maybe you can explain why every time he finds a new hobby, I go right out the airlock.
Harry Kim: I wouldn't take it personally. The Ferengi call it the Five Stages of Acquisition: Infatuation, Justification, Appropriation, Obsession and Resale. Seems like you've only got one stage left before he loses interest in that ship, and he's all yours again.
B'Elanna Torres: Until the next infatuation.
- ConnectionsReferences Christine (1983)
After Paris buys an old shuttle from a scrap dealer and brings it back into shape with a lot of work and sweat, the shuttle's AI appears to him as a human apparition and manipulates his thoughts. And of course this AI is female and the apparition is a good-looking woman who has Tom wrapped around her finger. The type of cinematic depiction reminds me of the DS9 episode "Afterimage", in which Ezri is only mentally connected to a former host, but he also supports her as a person - so that the viewer apparently doesn't get confused when she constantly talks to herself. Or even more so.
In any case, Tom's personality is changed by the shuttle's AI and in the end he is made to fly the shuttle to an energy fountain (or something). Apparently this is her home, although I wonder why an AI - which had to be programmed by someone and then built into this shuttle - would live in or come from some space nebula or whatever.
These constant episodes about crew members being possessed or manipulated by an alien force are also starting to get boring. This is also made fun of in the series Lower Decks. These types of stories are pretty frugal, because you can suddenly give a crew member completely different character traits and make him act contrary to his character. And after the exorcism, the crew member is completely back to himself as if nothing had happened. It has the advantage that you can forget all these events at the end of the episode, because there are no long-term consequences for the persons involved. Much easier than actual character development over multiple episodes and seasons.
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Details
- Runtime43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3