In the seventh episode of the second season of\u00c2\u00a0Voyager<\/i>, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two men and a baby! Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Star Trek<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Well, at least the show has dealt with the most irritating plot thus far. So that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good, right? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hoping that means we never have to see it again because it is so uninteresting. I talk a lot about tropes here \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for better or for worse \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and this one is full of them. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s virtually not an original plot idea in here, which isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always a bad thing. Sometimes,\u00c2\u00a0Star Trek<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0gives me a fantastic story that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s littered with tropes. Hell, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re inescapable for the most part, and I find that as a writer, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all in how you use them.<\/p>\n
But in the early scenes of this episode, I felt exhausted. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just so bored by the idea of two men fighting over a woman, especially when that woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s struggle is a billion times more fascinating than anything the dudes do. Honestly! As soon as The Doctor got Kes to admit that dating in her culture was nonexistent, I was instantly drawn to her story. The Ocampa pick a single mate and are with them for life. Thus, Kes knows nothing of flirting or how to pick up on the signals from others.<\/p>\n
Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s your episode. RIGHT THERE. Have someone teach Kes about body language! Flirting! Sexual attraction! Social contracts! It could be wacky! Throw the Doctor in, too, and I guarantee you, the shenanigans would not end. Instead, the writers focus this whole disaster on Tom and Neelix. No.\u00c2\u00a0No<\/i>. N O ! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a good idea! The bickering can sustain an episode for like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 five minutes. Tops. Otherwise, the story just drags. We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even meet the adorable lizard alien until the halfway point, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only saving grace of their plot. Of course, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a huge trope as well. (I HAVE READ SO MUCH FANFICTION WHERE AN OTP MUST SUDDENLY TAKE CARE OF A CHILD. I AM SURE YOU BELIEVE ME.) Through the power of adversity, Tom and Neelix reconcile their differences and become friends, and when they return to\u00c2\u00a0Voyager<\/i>, where Kes has been LITERALLY CRYING OUT OF TERROR AND ANXIETY, they ignore her and continue being best buds and no one comforts her and the story is only about bros being bros and THIS IS SO BORING.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s over, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad this plot was dealt with, and I am eager to move on.<\/p>\n
The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Parturition\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN) 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 seventh episode of the second season of\u00c2\u00a0Voyager, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two men and a baby! 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-5625","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\/5625","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=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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