five thousand shades of blue
Thursday, May 31, 2001
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I finally got the chance to watch the
Voyager series finale. My initial reaction? Eh. Was anyone really surprised that they made it home? I was more than a little annoyed and disappointed when it became plain that they lifted the storyline straight out of "All Good Things" (the
ST:TNG series finale, which, IMHO, was vastly superior). By the time we got to Harry's speechifying (at the decision to blow up the Borg hub) we had irretrievably fallen into MSTing the show. When Voyager bursts from the Borg sphere (exactly when did and how did THAT happen?) we shouted out the Nestle Wonderball theme with glee.
Come on. Seven of Nine and CHAKOTAY? What are they smoking down at Paramount anyway?
As to the Borg hub concept: nicely and conveniently invented for this episode, and blatantly ripped off of B5's "jumpgate" concept (as I defined for Julie:"Jumpgates are an artificial construct that pull open wormholes, essentially, and allow for subspace travel between distant points in the galaxy." Sound familiar?). It also tends to nullify the information presented in the TNG episode where Q introduces the Borg to the Federation -- in which the essentially said that if not for Q's interference, the Borg would not have found the Federation/Earth for decades to come. (Hey, it's been a while, and I'm rusty on episode names.) Come on. They can jump between quadrants at the blink of an eye, but never noticed the Federation's presence in the Alpha Quadrant until Q pulled us into the deepest reaches of space? I suppose it could be argued (thanks, Julie) that the hub was built after that introduction just to get to the Federation, but it seems to me to be more like bad.. no, LACK of planning and continuity, and inconsistencies and a convenient plot device to get Voyager home. But then again, that's the Paramount / Berman way of doing things.
I betcha Roddenberry is spinning in his orbit.
Enterprise, the new show: oh Gods. Don't make me laugh. This show's gonna be a prequel to
ST:TOS, yet there's an Enterprise? Um, wasn't James T. Kirk driving the very first Enterprise? Methinks it was a freudian slip, as
Julie suggested, reminding us in the most blatant way that the Star Trek universe is their enterprise, their cash cow. I think I'm gonna be sick. Brace yourselves, folks, for even more inconsistencies and continuity errors!
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is
this just not enough…?
