No, the title of this episode doesn’t refer to the act of watching Voyager, in fact it couldn’t be further from it for this one. For you see it stars The Next Generation’s favourite antagonist Q! And it’s actually a very good story! I guess that’s why I’m using all these exclamations!
Basically it involves a Q who wants to die, thus bringing the familiar Q to Voyager for a courtroom battle to decide on if he gets to live... or die. No talking pies were involved unfortunately. It was nice of the Q Continuum to agree to this but then there wouldn’t be a story otherwise.
Aside from Janeway and Tuvok there was very minimal involvement from the rest of the regular Q... sorry, crew in this as it really was driven by the necessity of the story. The two of them plus the two Q’s had a good rapport and Janeway and Q’s relationship was sufficiently different from that of his and Picard’s, not so much though it didn’t come off like in Deep Space Nine. I did feel though, the scene where Q brings people who’s lives were affected by the other Q (including TNG’s Commander Riker) wasn’t really needed.
Now to the fact that Q can send Voyager home, it was handled fine here but how often can they bring the character back without it being implausible? Though again Janeway puts her conscious first and condemns her crew to life in the Delta Quadrant. What is it with this crew and doing the right thing anyway?
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