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Star Trek: Voyager reviews — season 7

Star Trek: Voyager — 7x10 — Flesh and Blood, Part II

Synopsis

The renegade Holograms abduct Torres.

Remarkable scenes

  • Voyager hiding in the wake of a Hirogen ship.
  • Tom regarding following the Hirogen ship's rear end: "Not exactly the scenic route is it?" Chakotay: "We're not here for the view."
  • Torres: "It may be the warriors who get the glory but it's the engineers who build societies."
  • Iden revealing that he's the center of a religion he created.
  • Voyager's sneak attack on the Hirogen.
  • The holograms hunting the Hirogen on the surface.

Review

Okay, so Voyager is a bit more careful about fighting Hirogen ships now. They seem to be a little more threatening too. Maybe the ship Voyager defeating last episode was just a weaker model or something. The issues the first part thoroughly failed to deal with are tackled here. Janeway finally realizes that much of this situation is her fault and the doctor realizes the idiocy of his decision. Additionally, part two loses none of the nice action and none of the nice eye candy. As a result of all this, part two is quite a bit more successful. The only negative aspect to the story is Iden, who turned into a megalomaniac. It would have been a much better episode if Iden and his followers weren't so clearly portrayed as bad guys. And the whole "rescuing the mindless holograms" scene was just unnecessary. The two episode as a whole probably would have been better if it were compressed into a single episode, simply removing the bad elements.