So here we are at another finale and unlike recent ones it’s a standalone episode.
This starts with Janeway and Seven playing a shoot the ball game in the holodeck, the ball resembling a Skittle™. Though Seven argues with Janeway when she doesn’t win, I guess she didn’t taste the rainbow. A random alien, Arturis (Ray Wise) arrives on board and, not suspiciously at all, can decipher a Star Fleet message the crew have been studying for months. It turns out that the Federation have sent a state of the art ship with slipstream drive to them so that it’ll take months to get home. Of course they didn’t, this is the same Federation who were almost defeated by a probe talking to whales. It’s all revealed to be a trick by Arturis (Ray Wise playing a villain? Who’d have thunk it.), angry at Janeway for her part in the Species 8472 debacle. Seven and Janeway then have to cooperate Sesame Street style to defeat him. Ah, closure.
Finally one of Janeway’s decision comes back to bite her on the proverbial arse/ass. Though given the rest of her command and the crew deaths she’s getting off pretty lightly really. So long as she tames Seven then everything will be fine. Won’t it? Never mind that Seven didn’t even want to go to Earth but who can blame her, it seems quite boring in the 24th century, no crime or hunger. What the hell are their television programmes about?
So that’s another season done. About two or three actual good episodes this time, depending if you include the first part of a disappointing two parter. Now, how does that old saying go? Ah yes, “End of season four, brace yourself for more.”
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