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Not a bad effort, but mistimed. I happen to know a lot about clinical depression, and it can have some effects like this. However, it is a long-term condition, and this seemed to come out of nowhere. The timeline of this does not make sense either, depressive episodes tend to happen either just after a traumatic event or around its anniversary. Perhaps this should have been placed a few episodes after "Message in a Bottle". Still, Roxann Dawson gave a fairly convincing performance, so fair enough. I like the Delta Flyer, an acknowledgement of all the shuttles lost and replaced over the last five years and a reference to Seven's idea of building a better support craft. However, she must be a bit of a TARDIS; she is 15m on the outside and 21m on the inside. I'm not quite sure if she fits through the shuttlebay door, but that doesn't stop her being a decent little spaceship. As for the rest of the story, fairly solid stuff, but nothing special. |
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Not bad, but not great either. The webmaster of this site thinks that this episode would have been better suited in the fourth season, and while I agree I wont take a mark off the episode for that, mainly because Roxanne Dawson was pregnant in season four and this episode would have been an issue for her then. The episodes story line is pretty solid although I really think B'Elanna's resolution of her issues could have been handled more in depth, and more intelligently instead of the "focus on the job" attitude here. Chakotay's could have had a bit of a bigger role as well, considering that he is B'Elanna's closest friend and a fellow Maquis, but it does make sense that he is the one to drag her into the program and make her face her demons. I would have liked to see some more reaction from Chakotay too, but the writers didn't put it in. Robert Beltran does good with what he's given though. |
