Sunday 18 September 2011

Episode 83: Hunters



So despite being told off by some giant threatening aliens the Voyager crew go ahead with using the array (which looked oddly like every other array we’ve ever seen on the show) to receive their letters from home. Which obviously pleases the giant aliens who run the array. But hey, that’s not going to turn into a problem is it?

Well who can blame them for wanting all that bad news? Janeways dumped by email, Chakotay and Torres find out all their friends are dead and Kim is still waiting for that activation email from that NotHuman porn site he joined. Happy times all round! Only Paris has any sense to not actually want one.

Also instead of sending these very personal letters to each crewmember individually they get Neelix to deliver them on pads as it he’s giving out Valentine cards. Probably just so he can read them as he goes, I’m sure there’ll be no problem with that. Apparently the Federation did away with Data Protection or it’s one of the Secondary Directives no-one bothers with.

This episode was a strange one. It was as if they didn’t have the confidence to do an entire episode just with the crew getting letters from home and it’s ramifications so they stuck some nasty aliens in as an afterthought, which it really didn’t need. Perhaps the aliens could have received some letters too?

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