Star Trek Voyager - The Complete Fifth Season
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Movie Reviews of Star Trek Voyager - The Complete Fifth Season
Movie Review: Very good season, with few errors
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed this season. I think my favorite episodes include "Dark Frontier" where we see the Borg complex and get to see a species being assimilated. I also really enjoyed "Timeless" where Chakotay and Kim are in the future trying to save their long-dead comrades. One episode that did have a pretty big error was "Course: Oblivion." In that episode it had been 11+ months since the crew visited the Demon Planet of season 4, 11 months heading towards home. When the duplicated crew started heading home (opposite direction of the Alpha Quadrant mind you) they are all dying. A few weeks out from home they almost run into the real Voyager and crew? That would seem that Voyager was just running around in circles for the better part of a year. Not to mention the fact that the last episode of season 4 "Hope and Fear" they use the quantum slipstream drive to get like another 10,000 light years closer to home. So just in case you haven't been paying attention, how was it possible for the real Voyager to be near the Demon Planet of season 4? Anyways, don't worry about this one error, it was the only one I found and the season was otherwise excellentMovie Review: Paint-by-number show continues...
Summary: 3 Stars
As mentioned, before in my other reviews of previous seasons, the start of the fifth season in the fall of 1998, co-creator Jeri Taylor left the show to spend more time with her family. After spending four years trying to make the show less of a boys club, it virtually left Brannon Braga to helm the final 3 seasons (though he would also depart before the start of the last season to begin work on the next spin-off series, Enterprise). Deep Space Nine was heading into its last season, so this would be the last year that two Star Trek shows would compete with each other. There was hope that those fans dedicated to DS9 would come over to Voyager full time. Thusly, once again, the series changed its tone. The stories would be more action, and less talk, but like the four seasons that had passed, the fifth continued its downward spiral of many pointless episodes with a few good ones thrown in to fool you. Of the first 10 episodes of the season, only Timeless, the series 100th episode, showed what Braga once was as just a writer. The script was well done, the direction from former TNG actor LaVar Burton is great (despite his ratings grabbing cameo) and showed us something that Garrett Wang had not been able to do since the series began, show that he really could act. Another bad element reared its head was in Thirty Days, in which Tom Paris is demoted in rank after disobeying orders. This, by now, appeared to be out place for the character- besides Tom's problems were mostly cleared up in Caretaker and really completely resolved by the middle of the series second season. To return to something that already had been elucidated just smacked of writers who had hoped you didn't remember the Tom character from those two seasons. The second half had the semi-good Counterpoint, which showed a Janeway that should have been. She was very bully like, especially when she kidnaps someone to get information. That was a bold Kirk move, and something akin to the "cowboy diplomacy" Picard once spoke about. And while Bride of Chaotica was just plain silly, it gave the actors a chance to break out of their confining roles as fascists. Even Mulgrew, while at first reluctant to don the costume of Arachnea, Queen of the Spider People, chews the scenery as only William Shatner as Kirk could. The rest of the season yawned on, with Dark Frontiers being the highlight of the season. And while at close scrutiny, you can see many plot holes -though the biggest has Seven's parents pursuing the Borg long before the Federation had contact with them in TNG episode Q Who, something that to this day remains muddled in conflict -the show works. Susanna Thompson makes a worthy predecessor as the Borg Queen; though it would've been better with Star Trek First Contact's Alice Krige as the Queen. The rest of season went on, with only Relativity being the highlight. A clever script -a clip show if you like- that featured the return of Captain Braxton from season three's Future's End. It was witty and filled with many nuances that only appear once in a while on this series. The season concluded with Equinox, the first cliffhanger since season three's Scorpion. Unfortunately, once again the story was fairly obvious and the characters all were so stereotypical (see Learning Curve), you could easily figure how this story was going to end. And while Ransom was an interesting character and resembled captains from TOS era, most of his crew, however, were just plain too creepy to be likable.Movie Review: One of the best seasons
Summary: 5 Stars
Night- don't remember
Drone- 2/10
Extreme Risk- 4/10
In The Flesh- 9/10
Once Upon a Time- 9/10
Timeless- 10/10
Infinite Regress- 10/10
Nothing Human- 6/10
Thirty Days- 3/10
Counterpoint- don't remember
Latent Image- 10/10
Bride of Chaotica!- 8/10
Gravity- 7/10
Bliss- 3/10
Dark Frontier, part 1- 4/10
Dark Frontier, part 2- 4/10
The Disease- 3/10
Course: Oblivion- 9/10
The Fight- 8/10
Think Tank- 1/10
Juggernaut- 6/10
Someone to Watch Over Me- 8/10
11:59- 10/10
Relativity- 10/10
Warhead- 4/10
Equinox, part 1- 3/10
10- absolutely wonderful
9- really great
8- great
7- very good
6- pretty good
5- good
4- okay
3- so-so
2- bad
1- very bad
The best episodes are: Relativity, 11:59, Latent Image, Timeless, Infinite Regress, In The Flesh, Once Upon a Time, Course:Oblivion
The worst episodes are: Think Tank, Drone, Equinox, part 1, Thirty Days, The Disease, Bliss
Movie Review: here is a list of special features read from the back cover
Summary: 5 Stars
7 DISC SET FEATURING OVER 20 HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT
INCLUDES THESE EXCITING, BRAND NEW FEATURETTES:
BRAVING THE UNKNOWN: SEASON FIVE - FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH CAST AND CREW WITH GUEST STAR JASON ALEXANDER. PLUS A CAKE CUTTING CELEBRATION FOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY!
VOYAGER TIME CAPSULE: B'ELANNA TORRES - FEATURES INTERVIEW WITH ROXAN DAWSON DISCUSSING HER CHARACTER AND DIRECTING EPISODES OF VOYAGER
VOYAGER TIME CAPSULE: TOM PARIS - ARCHIVE INTERVIEWS WITH ROBERT DUNCAN MCNEILL AND NEW INTERVIEWS WITH CAST MEMBERS DISCUSSING HIS CHARACTER AND DIRECTING EPISODES OF VOYAGER
THE BORG QUEEN SPEAKS - A RARE AND EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ACTRESS SUSANNA THOMPSON, WHO PORTRAYED THE BORG QUEEN IN THE TWO PART EPISODE "DARK FRONTEIR."
DELTA QUADRANT MAKE-UP MAGIC - MICHAEL WESTMORE DESCRIBES SEVERAL ALIEN MAKEUP DESIGNS THAT APPEARED THROUGHOUT THE SEVEN SEASONS OF VOYAGER
PHOTO GALLERY
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Movie Review: Beginning of the End For Voyager
Summary: 4 Stars
Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season was the beginning of the end for good story telling on Voyager. Although the seasons following Season Five still have many good stand-out episodes, this is the final season that told extremely well stories with one good episode after another, flowing into the next.
There are many great episodes that stand out in this season, far more than the poor performing sixth season to follow. This is my second-favorite Voyager season, right after Season Four.
Although this season originally didn't have any 2-part episodes, it did air a 2-hour movie called "Dark Frontier" which has now been separated into separate 2-part episodes.
Species 8472 returns for the last time in "In the Flesh" and finally opens communication with Voyager.
Naomi Wildman, who was born in the Second Season of Voyager, gets a new talented young actress, Scarlett Pomer, in "Once Upon a Time" which made way for the character to have numerous appearances from now until the end of the show's run.
Tom Paris gets demoted to Ensign in "Thirty Days" after betraying Janeway's orders. But don't worry, he gets his rank back in Season Six.
The episode "Bride of Chaotica" is a nice change of pace and has some funny scenes.
Season Five also aired the 100th episode, this allowed the show to go into syndication, which helped bring in more people to watch the show.
Unlike Season Four, this season has an explosive season finale cliffhanger called "Equinox".
WORST OF SEASON FIVE: "Nothing Human", "Counterpoint", "The Disease", "The Fight", and "11:59".