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- Episode aired Oct 18, 2000
- TV-PG
- 43m
Tom's sudden entry in an alien spacecraft race throws a wrench into B'Elanna's labored plans for a romantic holodeck getaway for two, threatening their relationship.Tom's sudden entry in an alien spacecraft race throws a wrench into B'Elanna's labored plans for a romantic holodeck getaway for two, threatening their relationship.Tom's sudden entry in an alien spacecraft race throws a wrench into B'Elanna's labored plans for a romantic holodeck getaway for two, threatening their relationship.
- Alien Pilot
- (uncredited)
- Voyager Ops Officer
- (uncredited)
- Alien Dignitary
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaB'Elanna plans a Holodeck holiday for her and Tom on Giedi Prime. This is the Harkonnen home world in the Dune series of novels by Frank Herbert. Giedi is here described is a lush paradise above and beyond even that of Risa, the pleasure planet often seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), which is ironic, since Herbert describes Giedi Prime as a polluted industrial wasteland.
- GoofsWhen Tom Paris makes B'Elanna recite 'nursery rhymes' In the Delta Flyer, he says that they got him through the academy. B'Elanna responds "you were expelled." This is not true. Tom Paris graduated from the academy; however, the character that Robert Duncan McNeill played in TNG The First Duty (1992), Nicholas Locarno, WAS expelled.
- Quotes
[Tom Paris wants to participate in a race, much against Tuvok's wishes]
Tom Paris: Captain, this race is more than just a sporting event. Until recently, this region was a war zone. Four different species fought for nearly a century to control it.
Harry Kim: Now, for the first time, they're competing peacefully, to commemorate the new treaty that ended the war.
Tom Paris: This race embodies everything the Federation values: a peaceful coexistence, free exchange of ideas...
Captain Kathryn Janeway: I think it's a great idea.
Tom Paris: [baffled silence] You do?
Tuvok: You do?
- ConnectionsReferenced in Star Trek: Lower Decks: Reflections (2022)
Tom and Harry have more chemistry when they're in a scene together than Tom and B'Elanna. There's just no spark between them. There's no infatuation and no love to be felt. In addition, neither character is what you would call complex or deep. Rather the opposite. Paris is always thinking about old cars or shuttles and is basically a man-child. And Torres is simply unsympathetic and constantly on edge. Janeway and Chakotay exude more hormones when they're together in intimate togetherness - purely professionally, of course - than Tom or B'Elanna. I sometimes ask myself who actually casts the actors in series like this and then comes up with the idea of making characters who don't fit together have a relationship.
And it's long become a running gag that Harry always falls for the wrong women. A hologram, a former Borg drone, the wrong one of two twins, a rioter on a generation ship, a dead woman brought back to life and now a terrorist. Finally give the boy a breather.
The race itself is pretty lame. The most entertaining part is Neelix's reporting. Tom and B'Elanna even have time to discuss their relationship problems while they're still in the race and should be concentrating on the track. In the end, they lose the race because this episode is actually about terrorism and not about the race itself. Sometimes a little less story would be better to give the plot some room to unfold. The writers should perhaps decide whether they want to make an episode about a space race, about Tom and B'Elanna's relationship problems or about extremists who want to sabotage the celebration of a peace alliance.
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- Runtime43 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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