Voyager investigates the aftermath of an explosion on an M class planet.
This is an okay episode with a strong premise and decent character development.
I like the Prime Directive issue that Paris and Janeway have to deal with and the sci-fi concept used to frame it is a good idea. Unfortunately the plot unfolds mainly using characters explaining what is going on with plenty of technobabble. Plus it suffers from the presence of an irritating child, which is not the young actor's fault, he was given annoying character traits by the writers.
The characterisations of Janeway, Paris, Kes, and the Doctor are established well, particularly Janeway. Katie Mulgrew gives a strong lead performance, whilst Robert Picardo and Jennifer Lien also do well in their scenes. Robert Duncan McNeill is entertaining but his emotions feel slightly forced at times.
Visually there are obvious budget constraints on the production as there is very little effort made to distinguish the setting as anywhere other than California populated by humans in brightly coloured clothes.
For me the timing of this as a temporal story following the previous episode is somewhat questionable.
This is an okay episode with a strong premise and decent character development.
I like the Prime Directive issue that Paris and Janeway have to deal with and the sci-fi concept used to frame it is a good idea. Unfortunately the plot unfolds mainly using characters explaining what is going on with plenty of technobabble. Plus it suffers from the presence of an irritating child, which is not the young actor's fault, he was given annoying character traits by the writers.
The characterisations of Janeway, Paris, Kes, and the Doctor are established well, particularly Janeway. Katie Mulgrew gives a strong lead performance, whilst Robert Picardo and Jennifer Lien also do well in their scenes. Robert Duncan McNeill is entertaining but his emotions feel slightly forced at times.
Visually there are obvious budget constraints on the production as there is very little effort made to distinguish the setting as anywhere other than California populated by humans in brightly coloured clothes.
For me the timing of this as a temporal story following the previous episode is somewhat questionable.