At 05:38 PM 5/24/01 -0400 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>I didn't even bother to watch the Voyager finale, actually - was it
>any good?
Not particularly.
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Basically, in her old age, Janeway becomes an old, and broken woman.
Despite all her experiences, she is now willing to violate the temporal
prime directive and pass up crippling the Borg, so as to avoid Chaokotay
and 7-of-9 dieing during the long 23-year journey home. As is usual with
Star Trek, no justification is given for Janeway abandoning her principles,
other than the fact that they needed a plot device.
Naturally, broken Janeway finds redemption in an incredibly risky plan that
results in *both* crippling the Borg, killing the Borg queen, and getting
Voyager home safely by the end of the episode. Incredibly, despite all
that, the episode was almost utterly devoid of serious dramatic tension -
so badly was the thing put together.
JDG
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