Star Trek: Voyager Reviews G

This is one of my posts where I “review” Star Trek episodes. I will be giving each one a star rating. I sometimes will make some comments about non-political parts of them that I like or don’t like. I’ll sometimes use the issues raised in the episode to discuss similar issues in real life. And I will sometimes simply high-light the progressive politics of ST. ST is in-line with the three original themes of this blog, as I explain in the first ST post where I offer some general thoughts about ST.

I’m not very familiar with The Original Series and there might be some small amount of material there that would affect what I say about Star Trek (i.e. how often religion is mentioned)

Lastly. multi-culturalism is such a pervasive theme in ST that I only comment on it when it goes beyond the norm (i.e. inter-species partners).


“Tattoo” See this for a plot summary.

The idea of aliens influencing the development of the indigenous people of the western hemisphere is something about which I’m not sure what to say. But the episode has a lot of good, important things to say about those indigenous people and how Europeans treated them.

I give it three stars out five.

“Cold Fire” See this for a plot summary.

A non-political episode, and not one I like much. I give it one star.

“Maneuvers” See this for a plot summary.

Although there were signs of this before, we learn that the Kazon society is sexist.

I give it three stars out of five.

“Resistance” See this for a plot summary.

A fairly good story about an authoritarian occupation of one race’s city by another race. The indigenous race are treated as a sub-class. There’s also some good stuff about the resistance to the occupation. For some reason it’s less inspiring than episodes of DS9 that involved democracy movements on Cardassia. On the other hand, the personal tragedy of the alien man who has lost his wife and his daughter to the state is fairly moving. It’s also made clear that the crew of Voyager are sympathetic to the resistance.

I give it three stars out five.