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Star Trek Voy - Season 7 - Episode 13

Star Trek Voy - 7x13 - Repentance

Originally Aired: 2001-1-31

Synopsis:
Voyager transports prisoners. [DVD]

My Rating - 4

Fan Rating Average - 5.44

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Problems
- Why didn't Voyager share the results of the doctor's research with the Nygeans so that future birth defects could be corrected before they become a problem?

Factoids
None

Remarkable Scenes
- Seven of Nine's valiant escape.
- Tuvok shooting the prisoner through the doctor.
- The doctor: "This is a Federation starship, not the barge of the dead."
- The doctor curing the neurological disorder in Iko's brain which caused him to be violent.
- Iko ending the prisoner revolt, proving he's changed even to the warden.

My Review
An episode dealing with prisoner ethics. Is an eye for an eye wrong? Should the death penalty be exacted on murderers? What if it's discovered that the murder was only committed due to mental illness? And what if that mental illness can be cured? The episode doesn't much deal with these issues other than skimming over the obvious. It's obvious Iko should not have been executed. And it's obvious that people like him should be cured. Unfortunately, no attempt is made to check to see if any of the other prisoners suffered from this condition, nor did Voyager share this medical finding with the Nygeans for some reason. Instead we get character drama, some pointless action, and more of Seven feeling guilty about being formerly Borg. I would have preferred an episode less unoriginal, but the one we got wasn't too bad.

The following are comments submitted by my readers.

  • From Tallifer on 2011-05-10 at 6:10am:
    This episode was well done: it handled the questions of guilt, injustice, capital punishment, restitution and revenge, the rights of victims and convicts.

    Just as it is obvious to the reviewer that Eeko should not have been executed, it is equally obvious to me that he was justly executed: and the episode presented both cases fairly. Imagine being that family sitting there, exposed in front of a crowd of strangers and being pressured to forgo the justice previously granted them.
  • From conor on 2012-05-22 at 8:40pm:
    "This is a Federation starship, not the barge of the dead." doesn't this count for "I'm a doctor, not a (blah)" style lines, which McCoy was famous for.
    because you have used this example close to this before

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