And now a great episode? What the hell is going on? I don’t even know what to believe in anymore. Of course it might help that its told from the perspective of an alien archaeologists and Voyager doesn’t even appear for the first twelve minutes.
This episode follows Gegen, a Voth molecular paleontologist (who wouldn’t want that on a business card?) who also happens to be a biped that’s evolved from the dinosaurs. He’s trying to prove that they originally came from Earth but the Voth doctrine doesn’t account for this and so he finds himself charged with one crime, heresy against doctrine and heresy by thought... two crimes.
I like how basically both the Voyager crew and Gegen want to get to Earth, but for differing reasons obviously. Another thing is that this alien species actually seems real and three dimensional as opposed to others we’ve seen. They’re even much more technologically advanced than the Federation, at one point the entirety of Voyager is beamed into their ship, how’s that for belittling someone. But of all of Voyager did Gegen really have to kidnap Chakotay? Surely there are more memorable people he could’ve got than... um.. whatsisface.
Along with Projections and Death Wish (both second season), this is another episode I’d definitely recommend. So that’s 3 out of 65 so far, for those of you playing along at home.
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