In the sixth episode of the second season of\u00c2\u00a0Voyager<\/i>, what. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Star Trek<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trigger Warning: For sexual assault.<\/b><\/p>\n
This episode really asks a lot of me.<\/p>\n
It asks me to accept that the crew is totally into Tom Paris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s skeezy and creepy bar, enough that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s become the go-to place to hang out when people want to socialize. I highly doubt that an environment that includes a pool shark who does nothing but bother people into shooting pool AND a woman who exists to aggressively pursue all men (and ignore all women) while sexually assaulting them is an ideal location for senior staff socialization.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m asked to accept that the Doctor, who is literally not programmed to have a sexuality, is straight and would keep kissing Sandrine.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m asked to accept that Neelix\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ongoing jealousy towards Tom Paris is entertaining. This plot never goes anywhere, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Neelix doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to ever learn, no matter how often someone tells him how to deal with his jealousy issues! What is this show doing to Neelix? He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not interesting this way, and his plot doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even bring out interesting shit in other characters.<\/p>\n
But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m asked to accept that a disorienting, creepy, and extended mystery can be resolved with a\u00c2\u00a0what-if<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0scenario. I will readily admit that watching Tuvok and B\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Elanna argue during the climax of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Twisted\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was brilliant and one of the very few character-heavy moments in the entire episode. It showed us how logic is not the savior that it is for Tuvok. And there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a power in the resolution of the conflict being\u00c2\u00a0nothing<\/i>. The crew members simply give up and let the energy field consume them. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an eerie ending because the\u00c2\u00a0Star Trek\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>universe never does this. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always a last-minute solution, but here, they all resign themselves to whatever fate awaits them after the ring passes over them.<\/p>\n
So what caused all this?\u00c2\u00a0WHO FUCKING KNOWS<\/i>. Janeway guesses that\u00c2\u00a0maybe<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0that was a sentient organism and it communicated through twisting physical space. But at no point do the writers ever commit to a single explanation. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m cool with open-ended plots; I like a good mystery; I do not need to be spoon-fed. But the spoon wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even near my face here. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like the show constructed an elaborate ice cream sundae and then chucked it into a volcano right as they finished. There is no satisfaction, catharsis, or resolution offered to the audience, and no one in the show seems at all bothered by this.<\/p>\n
Yeah, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buy it. This episode is sometimes a pretty fun experience, but that ending is infuriating. No, thank you.<\/p>\n
The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Twisted\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded\u00c2\u00a0here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – I am now on Patreon<\/a><\/b>!!! MANY SURPRISES ARE IN STORE FOR YOU IF YOU SUPPORT ME<\/a>. In the sixth episode of the second season of\u00c2\u00a0Voyager, what. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Star Trek.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,656],"tags":[615],"class_list":["post-5624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","category-voyager","tag-mark-watches-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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