just enough to not know quite how to take any of Neelix's statements (you are spot on about his capacity for lying)
As I mentioned on your journal, I rewatched the pilot of Voyager for the first time since its premiere and was left one hundred percent unsurprised that I didn't tune in next week, but I couldn't help noticing that Neelix is introduced agreeing to do something for the crew which he does with completely ulterior motives—and good ones—which works out in the end, but might have worked even better if he had bothered to let anyone from the Alpha Quadrant in on the fact that he was counting on their replicator and transporter technology to get the job done. There were a lot of things out of focus about that episode, but that detail felt right.
There's no possible contextual justification. There's simply the cost, and how you live with it.
Yes. And it's done so well that the episode never feels like it's withholding information in order to create that space of isolation, because on some level it doesn't matter. It wouldn't matter even if we knew what had happened. Nothing could have deserved the metreon cascade.
I really want more of the Neelix that we see in this episode and I don't know if we'll ever get it, but I'm only early in season two out of seven, so who's to say!
Keep me posted! Fingers crossed.
In other news of Voyager, since my entire relationship with this show is already based around watching episodes of random interest, I am seriously considering watching all the ones written by Bryan Fuller, because I hadn't realized until a few nights ago that he started his career writing for Star Trek and going by titles—"Mortal Coil," "Course: Oblivion," "Barge of the Dead," "The Haunting of Deck Twelve"—he sounds like he has always been extremely on brand for himself.
P.S. Is that an icon for Tracy Grammer's "Mother I Climbed"?
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As I mentioned on your journal, I rewatched the pilot of Voyager for the first time since its premiere and was left one hundred percent unsurprised that I didn't tune in next week, but I couldn't help noticing that Neelix is introduced agreeing to do something for the crew which he does with completely ulterior motives—and good ones—which works out in the end, but might have worked even better if he had bothered to let anyone from the Alpha Quadrant in on the fact that he was counting on their replicator and transporter technology to get the job done. There were a lot of things out of focus about that episode, but that detail felt right.
There's no possible contextual justification. There's simply the cost, and how you live with it.
Yes. And it's done so well that the episode never feels like it's withholding information in order to create that space of isolation, because on some level it doesn't matter. It wouldn't matter even if we knew what had happened. Nothing could have deserved the metreon cascade.
I really want more of the Neelix that we see in this episode and I don't know if we'll ever get it, but I'm only early in season two out of seven, so who's to say!
Keep me posted! Fingers crossed.
In other news of Voyager, since my entire relationship with this show is already based around watching episodes of random interest, I am seriously considering watching all the ones written by Bryan Fuller, because I hadn't realized until a few nights ago that he started his career writing for Star Trek and going by titles—"Mortal Coil," "Course: Oblivion," "Barge of the Dead," "The Haunting of Deck Twelve"—he sounds like he has always been extremely on brand for himself.
P.S. Is that an icon for Tracy Grammer's "Mother I Climbed"?