Repression
- Episode aired Oct 25, 2000
- TV-PG
- 43m
Security officer Tuvok investigates a strange series of attacks on Voyager directed at the former Maquis members.Security officer Tuvok investigates a strange series of attacks on Voyager directed at the former Maquis members.Security officer Tuvok investigates a strange series of attacks on Voyager directed at the former Maquis members.
- Sek
- (as Ronald Robinson)
- Prison Warden
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSeven of Nine, and later Janeway, mention that the ship is currently 35,000 light years from Earth. As Voyager started its journey almost 70,000 light years from home, that would mean they've managed to travel nearly halfway back since the events of "Caretaker," having drastically accelerated their journey in various ways along the way (Kes's "gift," the slingshot array, Borg transwarp technology, quantum slipstream, etc.).
- GoofsIn this story, a female Vulcan crew member is present. She was not in the episode 'Counterpoint' wherein the U.S.S. Voyager's telepathic crew members had to hide in the transporter pattern buffer.
- Quotes
[Tom has created a 20th-century movie theater on the holodeck]
Tom Paris: [handing B'Elanna a pair of glasses] These will make the images on the screen appear three-dimensional.
B'Elanna Torres: Let me get this straight: you've gone to all this trouble to program a three-dimensional environment that projects a two-dimensional image, and now you're asking me to wear these, to make it look three-dimensional again?
Tom Paris: Great, isn't it?
- ConnectionsFeatures Revenge of the Creature (1955)
In addition, some viewers don't seem to have fully understood who Teero actually made into a "Bajoriun candidate", so to speak. He didn't brainwash all members of the Maquis, just Tuvok. Using his special psychic abilities, Tuvok then transmitted his own manipulated thoughts through the attacks on the Maquis members of the crew using mind meld.
What's particularly bad about this episode is that you're left completely in the dark about what actually happened afterwards when all the Maquis members were in control of their own senses again. Janeway does not warn Starfleet about Teero - after all, more such messages could be sent - nor do there appear to have been any consequences for any crew member. From one minute to the next, Chakotay, for example, became the ringleader of a ship-wide rebellion. But in the end everything is forgotten and Janeway trusts him as her number one again. Anyone who can be so easily manipulated into falling back into the old Maquis traditions seems to have never really given up on their criminal past. As soon as the attacks on the Maquis members started, distrust was seen growing not only among Chakotay but also among the other Maquis members and Chakotay himself spoke of the Starfleet crew members of "Janeway's crew". Apparently most Maquis crew members have not really internalized the fact that they are now all serving on a Starfleet ship and are just one crew.
And please, dear science fiction authors: stop constantly including late 20th century and early 21st century references in your stories that take place hundreds of years in the future. I understand that as a viewer of today you build up a kind of emotional bond with the characters. But it is unrealistic and ridiculous. That would basically be like someone working on 17th century horse carriages in their garage and then driving them through a city of today - but in tails and frills, just like back then. And imagine if holodeck technology existed today and the first thing someone would program was an authentic 17th century theater. And then he would invite friends and colleagues to an authentic theater performance of that time, including food and drink of that era. Ridiculous. These references to the here and now are also constantly present in The Orville - from Kermit the Frog to Dolly Parton. Or does anyone remember Demolition Man with Stallone and Bullock?
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- Jan 29, 2024
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- Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(studio, also cinema scenes filmed in Gower Theater)
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- Runtime43 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3