Star Trek: Voyager Reviews Z

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).

There are several episodes in VOY that involve the question of whether or not holograms are alive, and/or feature conflict between holograms and organic beings. I’m going to ignore that part of VOY, it’s a bit too philosophical, and comparing the maltreatment of holograms to the maltreatment of, for example, Black people in America, seems stupid. Although I kind of make an exception for The Doctor (it’s impossible to be a fan of ST and not do that) I lean towards saying that holograms are not life forms, but I don’t feel like going into it.

This is the review I had to skip earlier because the DVD was not working. Fortunately with these episodes, chronology is not very important.

“Once Upon A Time” See this for a plot summary.

A non-political episode, but one of my favorites. I give it four stars out of five.

“Timeless” See this for a plot summary.

A non-political episode but a very good one. I like the idea of two crew members getting home and years later trying to help the others. And it’s cool to see Geordi LaForge from The Next Generation..

I give it four stars out of five.

“Infinite Regress” See this for a plot summary.

A non-politcial episode. I like how Ryan has to act multiple characters.

I give it three stars out of five.


“Nothing Human” See this for a plot summary.

This episode is about a Cardassian doctor who experimented on Bajorans during the Cardassian occupation of the latter’s planet(s). Kind of like Nazi Dr. Mengele in the Concentration Camps. More specifically, it’s about whether or not medical knowledge developed from such experiments should be used. I’d say the information should be used, but the people who did the experiments should be treated like the criminals they are and sentenced to life in jail.

I give it three stars out of five.