In this episode of Star Trek Voyager the crew saves Tom Paris from an alien evil doppelgänger and they use the newly discovered coaxial warp drive to make it back to the alpha quadrant .... .... wait a sec, that didn't happen at all...
That's right folks ---- The alien doppelganger was about to activate the newly installed coaxial warp drive on the voyager shuttle but was stopped and then the Voyager crew all collectively forgot that they had a working coaxial warp drive system installed in said shuttle.
I try to not be a debbie downer about such plot conveniences but the main plot of this show is about getting back home. How in the world was this missed in the writing room?
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The episode itself is alright. Tom Paris is having a midlife crisis and is one step away from buying a Harley when the plot happens and he learns to appreciate the banality of existence when his entire identity is taken away. It's .... interesting (?) to explore a starfleet officer just being totally bored with flying around the universe. Perhaps if it was actual depression I would have found it more captivating? When I was younger I aspired to be a world famous author but after a semester of college, I remember looking around the class room and knowing that at least 62% of my fellow classmates are superior writers to me ------ Do you want to watch a TV show that explores that? No.
Come on Tom, get it together ---- You get to pilot a space ship and you are dating the most consistently good star trek voyager female actresses. Sure, you are responsible for the deaths of 3 other pilots and you did try to cover it up ---- but that's old news man. We haven't even touched upon that since Season 1.
That's right folks ---- The alien doppelganger was about to activate the newly installed coaxial warp drive on the voyager shuttle but was stopped and then the Voyager crew all collectively forgot that they had a working coaxial warp drive system installed in said shuttle.
I try to not be a debbie downer about such plot conveniences but the main plot of this show is about getting back home. How in the world was this missed in the writing room?
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The episode itself is alright. Tom Paris is having a midlife crisis and is one step away from buying a Harley when the plot happens and he learns to appreciate the banality of existence when his entire identity is taken away. It's .... interesting (?) to explore a starfleet officer just being totally bored with flying around the universe. Perhaps if it was actual depression I would have found it more captivating? When I was younger I aspired to be a world famous author but after a semester of college, I remember looking around the class room and knowing that at least 62% of my fellow classmates are superior writers to me ------ Do you want to watch a TV show that explores that? No.
Come on Tom, get it together ---- You get to pilot a space ship and you are dating the most consistently good star trek voyager female actresses. Sure, you are responsible for the deaths of 3 other pilots and you did try to cover it up ---- but that's old news man. We haven't even touched upon that since Season 1.