| Review : |
As I mention in my review of VOY: Tsunkatse, the idea of boxing has always seemed extremely barbaric to me. Too often in Trek we see the writers shoving their favourite sports in our faces - DS9 did this a lot with baseball, which I am not convinced exists outside of the USA (the only country to have a "world series" that doesn't involve other countries). Here we have boxing, which has precisely bugger all to do with space, starships or trying to get home. I maintain that Chakotay started out strongly at the beginning of season 1, why did they let his character slide? I suppose it's better than giving him another "Native American" episode - if he has that background, this should come across somehow in every episode as it's a part of him, it doesn't just lie fallow and suddenly take over for an episode. |
