I've been watching Voyager through on Netflix for the first time since it was on TV "back in the day" and I was just watching Equinox parts 1 and 2...
And Wow! - Worst episode, ever!
(Said in the Simpsons comic book guy's voice, but I'm serious! 😯)
Part 1 was good, but I was disappointed that NONE of the Equinox crew went against them (unless and probably more unlikely, that story about losing 40 crew in an attack was a lie and the captain killed everyone on board who objected to his actions!)...
It's a pity that the blonde woman's reluctance hadn't been genuine and nor was the crewman's who Voyager's crew rescued from under the bulkhead shown to be a genuinely good person (pity they didn't leave him under the bulkhead!)...
It didn't give us any hope for their crew, but overall, I was enjoying the episode...
Going on to the second episode and wow! - who wrote this junk?! 😯 .
Someone who's never seen an episode of the show or surely any Star Trek for that matter!
So many plot conveniences, but in particular out of character moments, mostly for Janeway!
Firstly, I'm shocked that it only took two button presses to turn The Doctor into Mengilea, that he didn't offer ONE bit of resistance, while Seven made no appeal to his humanity (what little of it is locked away somewhere!)... and he showed no small traces on his own!
How Voyager's crew noticed anything wrong with the evil doctor on their ship (while I guess the writer did care to even focus on him being there, rather than having him send the Equinox one message...)
In the battle with the Equinox, firstly with their level of damage, they should have been defeated in seconds, not to mention when the previous episode had made clear how weak their ship was, it really was no match for voyager!
(it should have never made it that far in the first place!)...
But even with that, beyond Voyager's general superior capabilities in every department, there are many more that they overlooked - where was the Delta flyer?!...
Some episodes play up how powerful it is with its' Borg enhanced weapons in particular, but where was it during the battle and even to go after the Equinox (it should be able to beat the smaller Starship on its' own!)...
In the battle, the Equinox is down to thrusters only, then can suddenly go to warp, when Voyager which is designed to land on planets takes more damage than them and can't?! (And still doesn't send the Flyer after them!)...
B'Elanna's ex always being better than her is annoying and surely if he was that good, his crew wouldn't have become mass murders in the first place!
But the WORST thing about it are Janeway's actions!
She's annoyed, so bingo - she has no "ethical subroutines!"
IF she had "only" lowered the shields in the cargo bay and realised how crazy she was being when Chakotay challenged her, but no - she relieves him of duty and threatened to do the same to Tuvok!
Then threatening the alien vessel and agreeing to give the Equinox crew, bad as they are, to the dimensional aliens...
All in, she'd never act like that, no matter how wounded her pride was!
I still have 16 minutes left in the episode, but WOW, what will they have her do next?! - Nuke a planet because she spilled her coffee?!
This episode feels like a mirror episode and not in a good way (or like when the aliens who thought that Voyager's crew were evil told their story...)
I wish it was an alternate reality, as I don't see how Janeway or the writers can redeem her after this! - terrible 😯😐 .
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