Flashback
- Episode aired Sep 11, 1996
- TV-PG
- 46m
Captain Janeway participates in a mind meld with Tuvok, who relives his experiences on the U.S.S. Excelsior under the command of Captain Sulu at the time of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Co... Read allCaptain Janeway participates in a mind meld with Tuvok, who relives his experiences on the U.S.S. Excelsior under the command of Captain Sulu at the time of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).Captain Janeway participates in a mind meld with Tuvok, who relives his experiences on the U.S.S. Excelsior under the command of Captain Sulu at the time of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).
- Lt. B'Elanna Torres
- (as Roxann Biggs-Dawson)
- Helmsman Lojur
- (as Boris Krutonog)
- Science Division Officer
- (uncredited)
- Lt. Ayala
- (uncredited)
- Excelsior Crewman
- (uncredited)
- USS Excelsior Navigator
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- GoofsTuvok repeatedly states that the explosion of the Klingon moon took place three days before the final battle scene; however, in the movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), the explosion of the moon is stated to have taken place two months before the next scene in the film.
- Quotes
[Tuvok protests against Sulu's decision to rescue his comrades]
Captain Sulu: Ensign, you're absolutely right, but you're also absolutely wrong. You'll find that more happens on the bridge of a starship than just carrying out orders and observing regulations. There's a sense of loyalty to the men and women you serve with, a sense of family. Those two men on trial, I served with them for a long time. I owe them my life a dozen times over, and right now they're in trouble and I'm gonna help them. Let the regulations be damned.
Tuvok: Sir, that is a most illogical line of reasoning.
Captain Sulu: You better believe it.
- ConnectionsFeatures Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
So this episode was produced at the same time the great Homage to Trouble with Tribbles was being made for Deep Space Nine. As a Voyager episode, it is above average, as a 30th Anniversary(?) Trek Celebration, it is acceptable. A few story elements were slightly out of alignment, but overall, the whole episode was very well done.
So Tuvok is being buffeted by a recurring past memory - A Memory he never had. But what does this memory have to do with his memories of being on The Excelsior 80 years earlier, during the time of the Khitomer Conference and Kirk's incarceration by the Klingons? Well for that you would have to watch it.
What I will state here regards the recreation of the Excelsior Bridge. This is not the same huge Bridge Module that James B Sikking sat at the command chair of in "Star Trek III: The search for a better actress to play Saavik" - This is a Bridge with Captain Sulu in the chair. The Production Crew magnificently recreated the Hexagonal Pedestal which held Sulu's Coffee Cup - But now, we get to see that it was actually Vulcan Tea poured by Tuvok.
George Takei and Grace Lee Whitney reprise their roles as Sulu and Rand, who is now doing what Uhura used to do. We also have some of the rest of the same actors who were on that Bridge in Star Trek VI - Including Jeremy Roberts as "Lt. Valtane" and the Helm Officer, Helmsman Lojur (Boris Lee Krutonog) - We even have a visit from our old friend Micheal Ansara as KANG- Sitting comfortably on the Bridge of a Klingon D-7 Battle Cruiser recreated in all of it's glory. Except now, as in Deep Space Nine, he has his Brow Ridges like Worf- Who ever DID explain why some had ridges and some didn't in "Trials and Tribbleations".
So that Excelsior Bridge, merged with a few outtakes of the explosion of Praxis, gave us a believable recollection. Except that Valtane was standing on the Bridge with the rest of Sulu's Crew at the end of Star Trek VI, and not dead as he was in this episode. So I'll just assume Braga was writing Voyager as another Alternate Universe story like he liked to write about, one in which Valtane got Killed by an exploding conduit.
Other than that, well - We have to find a "Delta Quadrant" conundrum in which to explain why Tuvok must needs Mind Meld with Janeway - And as we had never seen a memory recollected by a Vulcan IN Mind-Meld-Mode, perhaps this is what it looked like. The Delta Quadrant Conundrum was pretty weak, but the Excelsior Backstory was not. But I won't remove any stars for Braga's Botching up of Canon Events. Overall, this was a better offering than some of other Voyager plots, which mostly involved some kind of "Plasmatic Energy" - Of which I wonder, is this Energy caused by Listening to "Butcher Baby" by The Plasmatics? I must have laughed myself silly the first time I heard this term used in Voyager.
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- Jun 6, 2013
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