![]() Tell me, Admiral, while you were sitting on Deep Space Five waiting for us to show up, did you actually walk around and interact with the refugees? Did you see the misery in their faces, the fear in their eyes? Did you help patch up the wounded, stand by the bedside of the dying, say a prayer for the dead? Or did you sit isolated in your quarters grumbling over the inconvenience? The Prime Directive was created by men and women, no better or worse than any of us, and I respectfully submit that if our hands are so completely tied by it that we sit around impotently, then we have to seriously reconsider what the hell it is we're all about. We're talking about showing compassion for fellow living beings. It's a guide for day-to-day interaction with developing races so that we don't have umpty-ump Starfleet officers running around playing god by their own rules. ![]() In this television show, part of the Star Trek franchise, a Federation ship is stranded on the opposite side of the Galaxy as Earth in the late 2300s. ![]() " The Prime Directive, Admiral, last time I checked, did not first appear on the wall of Starfleet Headquarters in flaming letters accompanied by a sepulchral voice intoning, Thou Shalt Not Butt In. 'Deadlock' is the 37th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 21st episode of the second season. Not to conquer you with weapons, or with ideas. We explore our lives day by day, and we explore the galaxy, trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge. The plot: Unbeknownst to the crew, the mysterious properties of a plasma cloud replicates the Voyager such that there are two ships with two crews, both exactly. We are constantly searching, not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions. It is the unknown that defines our existence. But, it occurs to me, that Janeway could have sent more than just Kim and, morally, should have let as many as possible jump ship. I'm sure you remember Harry Kim and Wildman's baby dying aboard one ship and being replaced from the other before that ship self-destructed. Sisko: That may be the most important thing to understand about humans. In s2e21 Voyager is doubled, creating 2 identical overlapping ships and crews. In fact, the game wouldn't be worth playing if we knew what was going to happen.Īlien 2: You value your ignorance of what is to come? From the episode stardates for Voyager, the series started on Stardate 48315.6, while the episode in question, Deadlock, took place on 49548.7 - a difference of 1233.1 units, making the 18-month half-Ktarian pregnancy fit the time frame pretty well. With each new consequence, the game begins to take shape.Īlien: And you have no idea what that shape is until it is completed? ![]() You try to anticipate, set a strategy for all the possibilities as best you can, but in the end, it comes down to throwing one pitch after another, and seeing what happens. He might swing and miss, he might hit it. To celebrate Voyager's 25th anniversary, here are the 15 best episodes.Sisko: Every time I throw this ball, a hundred different things can happen in a game. And the crew seemingly didn't mind too much about taking detours to explore and map this unknown area of space instead of doing what normal humans would - less sightseeing, more getting this 75-year journey underway as soon as possible and without distraction.ĭespite Voyager's uneven feel, when the show hit its stride, it produced some of the most entertaining hours the genre has ever seen. ![]() Sadly, Voyager never fully embraced the full potential of that core conceit, leading Voyager to spend a big chunk of its seven-season run feeling like " Star Trek: The Next Generation lite." The ship was usually always fixed the next week if the previous one had it under attack or badly damaged. Starfleet personnel mixing with former officers/current members of a resistance group known as the Maquis promised great, "only-on- Star-Trek" conflict - coupled with a ship stranded from the usual resources and aid afforded Kirk and Picard’s Enterprises. Resilient, Janeway was unyielding in her efforts to get her untested crew home after they were zapped to the uncharted Delta Quadrant, 75 years away from Earth. Star Trek: Voyager was a series with a great premise and stories that somewhat frequently - but not always - lived up to it.Ģ5 years ago today, Voyager premiered with the two-hour pilot "Caretaker" and forever changed the franchise with its introduction to the first female Captain, Kathyrn Janeway (a perfect Kate Mulgrew). ![]()
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