Star Trek Voy - Season 3 - Episode 24
Star Trek Voy - 3x24 - Displaced
Originally Aired: 1997-5-7
Synopsis:
Voyager is pirated by an alien race. [DVD]
Problems
- Why didn't Janeway steal the translocator instead of "disabling" it?
Factoids
- This episode confirms the last episode's crew count at being 148.
- The translocator has a range of ten light years.
Remarkable Scenes
- Torres and Tom arguing in the teaser.
- Torres asking hostilely asking Harry if she's in fact hostile. Irony.
- The doctor: "Welcome to sickbay. Take a number."
- Chakotay sabotaging the ship.
- The doctor, regarding Torres reconfiguring him: "Then I can begin my new career as a tricorder."
- Torres disabling the doctor's speech during her and Tom's argument.
- Torres: "Klingons have much less tolerance for the cold than humans do." Tom: "I thought that was the Cardassians?" Torres: "They just complain about it more."
- Janeway taking over the translocator.
My Review
The extraordinary is becoming routine. This episode is totally boring. Only the basic premise is actually interesting; taking over a starship with a long range transporter, making it look like an innocent anomaly. Speaking of this transporter, one would think that a transporter with 10 light years range would be something Janeway might want to appropriate for her troubles. Oh well. A decent premise with an annoying execution. An extra point for some good scenes with the doctor as well as Torres and Tom.
The following are comments submitted by my readers.
How could they communicate with the alien with no communicator? ;-)
Well obviously voyager's prison guards had them in some way, ya hairsplitter.
This episode has to be the writers' ultimate fantasy - not only is it a holodeck episode, the alien ship has holodecks everywhere! The writers must've been creaming in their pants while they were writing this. It's like mega-mega hoo-haw holdeck extravaganza. How can they top this? How about a wormhole full of holodecks, and each holodeck leads to another wormhole full of holodecks, which leads to another...
Paris and Torres in the frozen world: the acting, makeup, set design... pretty much everything looked so fake. I never believed for a second that they were even slightly chilly. And when they phasered the ice above the aliens to make it crash down on them? Ooof. Awful.