OVEG: Resolutions

[Sionnach Glic]

New Voyager review.

Dear God....Janeway naked.....

[Tyyr]

Physically Kate Mulgrew isn't an unattractive woman. She's no Diane Lane but she's not a dog either.

It was her character that made your dick wanna shrivel up and retreat back up in your body.

[kostmayer]

Now why couldn't they get Diane Lane to play Janeway?

[Mark]

Not many people realize that Kate Mulgrew (spelling?) played two roles in this episode. She played Janeway AND the monkey.

[Tyyr]

I hated that episode.

Mostly for the bait and switch with her and Chakotay in the coffins.

[Mark]

I detested that episode as well. So friggin' stupid.

[Lazar]

Cheesy romance novel storyline, plus Indian stereotypes, plus monkeys? Ah, pure win. Some things that occurred to me:

- We've already established that alien planets will produce sapient species that look just like humans, but now they're producing identical copies of all of our primate species? I guess that might make some kind of sense IU, but the idea of planets 70,000 light years away being populated with carbon copies of all of our wildlife makes my suspension of disbelief hurt. At least when they used a pig as a targ on TNG, they put some makeup on it.

- How horribly stereotypical and generic Chakotay is. He can only offer advice in the form of hackneyed, insipid "sayings of my people"? Did they think it would be too controversial to give him a specific tribal identity?

- You're having a meeting of the ship's senior staff to discuss important matters. Why in the hell are the ship's cook and the cook's girlfriend / nurse / gardener there?

[Tyyr]

- How horribly stereotypical and generic Chakotay is. He can only offer advice in the form of hackeneyed, insipid "sayings of my people"? Did they think it would be too controversial to give him a specific tribal identity?

I'd put money on the writers not being aware there are differences from tribe to tribe.

[Mark]

Trying to do that "combo character" thing again. Sulu was supposed to represent all of Asia. Guess they thought they'd try it again with the Native Americans.

[Tyyr]

Except with Sulu they didn't constant have him dropping, "my people" bits of trivia. He was just a crewman who happened to be Asian. Chakotay acted like an Indian who just happened to be a Starfleet officer.

[Mikey]

Trying to do that "combo character" thing again. Sulu was supposed to represent all of Asia. Guess they thought they'd try it again with the Native Americans.

IDK... I never got any vibe except "dyed-in-the-wool American of Japanese descent" from Sulu. Chakotay, on the other hand, couldn't be identified at all as far as a specific nation. In fact, he showed traits of NAN's from two different continents, for crying out loud.