Vis à Vis

Episode aired Apr 1, 1998
TV-PG
46m

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

1.5K

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Robert Duncan McNeill and Robert Picardo in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Action Adventure Sci-Fi

Tom Paris befriends an amiable alien, unaware he's a serial form-exchanger who switches appearances and troubles with others without permission.Tom Paris befriends an amiable alien, unaware he's a serial form-exchanger who switches appearances and troubles with others without permission.Tom Paris befriends an amiable alien, unaware he's a serial form-exchanger who switches appearances and troubles with others without permission.

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6.5/10

1.5K

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Robert Duncan McNeill and Roxann Dawson in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Robert Duncan McNeill and Dan Butler in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Robert Duncan McNeill in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Dan Butler and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

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Trivia
The design of Steth's ship was later re-used in The Voyager Conspiracy (1999), Drive (2000), Workforce (2001), and Workforce: Part II (2001). It also appeared once in the unrelated space series Firefly (2002).

Goofs
Ensign Kim mentions having a golf match with Ensign Kaplan, but this character was killed in the previous season in Unity (1997).

Quotes
[the Doctor analyzes Paris's 20th century automobile, after Paris refuses to resume his duties in sickbay]
The Doctor: Medieval safety constraints... internal combustion system producing lethal levels of carbon monoxide. Hmm... I stand corrected. This may be just what you need to get you back to sickbay.

Soundtracks
Star Trek: Voyager - Main Title
Written by Jerry Goldsmith
Performed by Jay Chattaway

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7/10

Sort of like a much, much more subtle version of "Turnabout Intruder"

One of the dumbest episodes of the original "Star Trek" series was its final show, "Turnabout Intruder". In it, a crazy woman trades bodies with Kirk against his will. The idea wasn't bad, but watching William Shatner overacting like a menopausal woman on crack was hilariously bad. Here in "Vis À Vis", however, they took a very similar plot but made it work much better--mostly due to much subtler acting.

When the show begins, Paris is acting a bit like an irresponsible jerk-face. However, when the ship encounters a seemingly nice alien (Dan Butler), Paris makes a new friend--or so he thinks. Soon, however, this alien steals Paris' body and creates all sorts of havoc.

If the alien sounds familiar, it's because Butler played Mad Dog on "Frasier" and you probably heard him there. Overall, well worth seeing though not exactly brilliant.

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