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Star Trek: Voyager reviews — season 7

Star Trek: Voyager — 7x09 — Flesh and Blood, Part I

Synopsis

Voyager's holo-technology comes back to haunt them.

Remarkable scenes

  • The doctor pressing Chakotay to let him take a shuttle to attend the symposium.
  • Seven shutting down the hologrid, revealing the hirogen bodies.
  • The doctor: "I'm a doctor, not an engineer." Count 35 for "I'm a doctor, not a (blah)" style lines, which McCoy was famous for.

Review

I was a little annoyed that Voyager seems to be vastly more powerful than Hirogen ships now, a big change since Voy: Hunters. Holographic rights are the center of attention in this episode and Janeway puts forth a remarkably Draconian view on the subject. Finally, the doctor makes an amazingly stupid decision, betraying his crew like that. Flaws notwithstanding, this was a fairly successful action episode. It was nice to see that not all Hirogen are hunters; not all Klingons are warriors likewise. While this is a fun action episode with a fair amount of eye candy spread throughout, the flaws do add up and I can't justify giving it any higher a rating.