| Review : |
A very weak effort - if effort can be used to describe something that appears to have been so carelessly put together. A series finale should be the culmination of themes and plotlines. Yet in this episode events were driven by a piece by multiple technologies never before even hinted at (time travel, invulnerable armor, Borg-busting torpedoes... a really pathetic deus ex machina device), a love story that appeared out of nowhere, and Janeway's obsession to prevent something (the death of 7of9 that didn't even happen during the series!). Even accepting the plot, I find future Janeway to be an entirely reprehensible character - to save 7of9 and some other crewmen who are never named, she is willing to destroy decades of the continuum and destroy everyone created during that period. Take Tom and Torres's daughter for example (though many people at the party would also serve) that Janeway USED to get the time travel device (because they exist now in this episode!). That daughter is essentially murdered by Janeway because now she will grow up on Earth, experience entirely different events, and grow up as an entirely different person. |
