Episode 8: Ex Post Facto

So here we are at Season Three Episode Fourteen, A Matter Of Perspective already.  No wait, this is a Voyager Season One episode masquerading as it for obvious reasons.  Couldn't we have had Yesterday's Voyager instead?  Interestingly the original idea for the episode was an alien race who added the first and last memories of the victim to the perpetrator as punishment.  This would’ve made a much better story than shoehorning it into a whodunit.

So anyway, Riker... sorry, I mean Paris and Kim end up down on a planet with a scientist and his wife, I'm sure you can guess who got who.  Bizarrely though Kim isn't actually annoying in this episode either, probably to do with the fact his bubbly freshman personality wasn’t evident much after he’d been tortured.

Tuvok was probably the best written character in this episode though showing himself to be good as investigator.  A Vulcan of all people, who knew?  However his investigation was the more interesting part of the episode, even if it did go a bit Agatha Christie towards the end.

I was intrigued by Janeway's 'impartiality' in war between the two planets which involved sneaking to one planet then eventually flying the entire ship into orbit, while ignoring the other planet entirely.  Also, Chakotay's Maquis tactic to confuse the alien ships wasn't exactly the Picard Manoeuvre, actually it wasn’t even the Wesley Manoeuvre either.