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| Star Trek Voyager Vol. 6.4,
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| DVD,
Graham Bower,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F4
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Star Trek Voyager has come a long way since its early wilderness days, where every week brought a different (but very similar looking) spatial anomaly, Janeway was too busy pursuing her pretentious, Bronté inspired "holodeck novel," and the entire crews dialogue comprised of (apparently) meticulously research, yet entirely tedious techno-babble. Two years in to the series, with the ratings looking perilously low, the shows producers took the inspired strategy of hiring a pair of implausibly large, buxom breast, and squeezing them in to a tight, shiny silver all-in-one. It was this kind of inspired thinking that made Gene Roddenbury the man he is today (OK so he’s dead, but you get the point). Roddenbury was never afraid of a bit of crowd pleasing chauvinism, but after his death, the powers-that-be who took over his legacy got bogged down in their own brand of political correctness, that they bizarrely attributed to him – did they every watch the original series?
So, four years on, and Voyager is looking a good deal more entertaining. The silver clad, large breasted Borg, "Seven of Nine" has become a fantastic character, very much in the mould of the original series. "One Small Step" sees her struggling to understand human the human desire to explore. Since she’s been helping seek out new worlds and new civilisations for two years now, it’s surprising this has only now become an issue. Whilst the episode gets too sentimental, too early (typical for a show than never mastered the "piano moment" in quite the deft way "ER" relentlessly trots them out), it’s not short on entertainment. Indeed, in the cannon of spatialanomaly-based-episodes, it must rank pretty highly.
But the real crowd pleaser on this tape has to be "Dragon’s Teeth." Featuring the scene depicted on the tape’s fantastic cover art of a devastated city being attack from the skies as Voyager swoops through the atmosphere, this episode is not short of effects and dramatic moments. As Voyager stumbles across a network of subspace corridors that may substantially reduce the time it will take them to return home, they become embroiled in a battle where the traditional "goodie" and "baddie" roles are not clear. It’s fast pace, white knuckle action all the way, as Janeway struggles to establish the right allegiances the get her crew home, without compromising that all important "Prime Directive."
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