"John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>At 05:38 PM 5/24/01 -0400 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
> >I didn't even bother to watch the Voyager finale, actually - was it
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>Not particularly.
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>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.
The ending was extremely poor, with no denouement. That would be acceptable
had anything before it successully built up the tension or conflict; without
it the episode was left as just the final nail in the vacuous coffin that is
Voyager.
After 7 seasons of watching Janeway say "screw the prime directive" at every
opportunity - except when it would get the ship home - I have to admit that
it was nice to see her older self actually say pretty much those words.
About the only good thing about the episode was the the technobabble about
the TransWarp conduit network, which fleshes out a big tech issue dating
back to TNG. Gotta update my FAQs! :)
Joshua
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