Voyager s6e15 - Tsunkatse
Unfortunately, at least for me, it was the second-worst Voyager episode after the one LD infuriatingly confirmed to be canon. You know which one. I'm not even going to say it.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2024
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So what does it take to cross your personal threshold of bad Voyager episodes?
I see what you did there. Get out of here faster than warp 10 before I get really mad.
Dude, we're not warp capable yet. I doubt they can move faster than a pregnant lizard.
Flashback?
Don't make me hurt you.
I haven't even seen it, but I'm going to assume you mean salamander baby episode?
I'm not up on all of the Voyager stuff; it was one of the ST offspring that never resonated with me.
LD is constantly referring to other series; there's a vast amount of data to have to skim to guess which you think is the worst; which episode was it that you have allergic reaction to?
For the uninitiated, can you explain?
Episode spoiler:
spoiler
The Voyager crew discover a new type of dilithium (warp core fuel) that can make space ships go faster than the generally accepted limit of warp 10. No one has ever gone faster than that, but it will get the crew home instantly, instead of the 70 year journey it's currently facing.
One crew member, Lt. Tom Paris tests it out in a shuttle craft, gets to see "everything everywhere all at once" but then upon return quickly becomes allergic to water and oxygen.
The Doctor realizes he is evolving into something other than human before he escapes sick bay and kidnaps Captain Janeway for another faster than warp 10 experience. They end up on a swampy planet, turned into giant salamanders and by the time the crew finds them they have already produced three offspring.
The babies escape capture and presumably go on to sire a race of Janeway/Paris salamander creatures on a distant planet in the Delta Quadrant. Janeway and Paris get turned back into humans and they don't try breaking warp 10 again. IDK why people don't like it.
Oh, right... That one
You won't me say it. It's the word for the thing husbands are supposed to carry their bride over when they go home as a married couple for the first time.
I'm not going further than that.
The Brent Spiner TV series?
They're talking about "Threshold" regarded as one of the worst episodes in all of trek
I think prodigy confirms it as well
I’m not very good at Star Trek. Did he fight 7/9 in some sort of forced arena spectacle?
You are correct. Seven is captured and forced to fight in a sport called "Tsunkatse".
Here's the fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYUyTcoe0qw
You're clearly pretty good at Star Trek. So close.
It was the one where Chakotay keeps fighting in some weird boxing ring.
Edit: the episode was called "Tonkatsu" because that's what Neelix was cooking that day.
So close. That's the Fight. It was the episode where Tom broke the law to save that ocean planet
The episode was obviously called Tsunami
So close. It was the episode where 7/9 insecurities made her act all tough and mean, but the crew help her realize the "human" part inside her is warm and loving.
The episode was obviously call Tsundere.
So close. It was the episode where the Voyager space ship fires onto a ground target in a heavily forested area on an inhabited planet. The crew did not realize that they had entered a temporal distortion and traveled back to Earth in 1908.
The episode was called Tunguska
So close. That's the Travel, it was the episode where Kes comes back and wreaks havoc on Voyager. Janeway travels back in time, again, this time to deter Kes from doing something bad.
I don't remember the episode's Name
Excuse me sir but you are incorrect, in this one Seven and Tuvok are captured and Seven is forced to fight
Ah right and the guy telepathically implants violent thoughts which they accuse Seven of originating. Which she gets arrested for. And Tuvok figures it out. It was titled "Implanted Thoughts" right?
Through this whole thread, i'm reading all the comments exactly like this.
My dad watched. I missed a lot.
Also, I kinda dislike overused tropes and the "arena" one especially.
It wasn’t a high point for the franchise, that’s for sure.
I thought it was pretty good. The main bad guy was our darling Jeffrey Combs, and the grizzled mentor Hirogen that taught Seven was cool
Glad you enjoyed it, but to me it felt exceptionally cynical, even more so than other marketing inspired crossovers. The particular way the crew became so keen about wrestling for this one episode was so ingenuine.
Combs is always nice to see, of course.
And not once in that episode did we smell what the Rock was cooking
Smell-o-vision hadn't been invented yet.
But did he tell anyone to know their role and shut their mouth? Or at the minimum lay the smackith down on some non federation jabronis?
Showing his extreme acting range, there.
Goddam is the Rock still getting Bigger? How do you do this at 50? I can barely maintain weight
First step is being filthy rich. Second step is hiring the best trainers, diet coaches, probably doctors and maybe even plastic surgeons, to build up and maintain your physical condition. You know, average people stuff really
Or steroids. Carefully selected and dosed.
HGH