The first “bad guys” in Voyager still stands between the best of it

Many people get sick or injured Star TrekThis is the reason that the medical official is always a vital personality in a series, and why Sickbay is very important and often prefer a bridge of the championship. And part of that is this from time to time a trip It abandons the idea of ​​depicting chronic disease, for the better or worse, and the potential reality of characters who must face long -term care. But 30 years ago, today, Voyager Explore that with our presentation to one of the best repeated, repeated types that I got Seven season race.

Voyager He has a large number of repeated types of opponent, even though half of the offer gets a little on Borg for his interest. Early, there is a repeated threat waving on the horizon Various cason clansLater, we get the fake squares in Hirogen (service providers for the best Holodeck rings in a series in “The Killing Game”, but three decades ago, still early in the show race, we got one of the best show when “phage – – My first personal episode of Star Trekand Stir a love for lifeWe came to Vidiians.

A type of species that was pushed to the hall of the member harvest was paid by deadly pain and generations that give a episode for the first time its title, and Vidiians combine a large number of elements to make it such a convincing enemy, and eventually tragic margins. First, their appearance is a large part of the artificial action, the human tragic, the heinous human being destroyed by a disease that clearly and destroyed their bodies – completely creeping and uncomfortable to look at it. The second is that, until they are pushed to the maximum extent that we face first, at least somewhat understood in the reason for being the way the series explores more in their appearance in the future, but it is also present from the Get -the atmosphere in “Phage”. But “Phage” is also the Vidiian episode that is completely held, which makes them very frightening: the potential reality of what their actions are attached to others.

“Phage” opens as a routine task (that Neelix, in its usual way early VoyagerShe managed to disturb himself) to disturb himself) disastrously wrong when a myelix striker attacks a strange power device. But Neelix has not been fragmented, as the doctor quickly realizes: it’s Have his lungs removed?.

The following is really one of these early Voyager The scenarios that talk about the amazing potential of the series. There is a “person trying to deal with annoying Neelix” common things early VoyagerCertainly, even when these people are annoyed that they are dealing with a suddenly disabled colleague. But while the doctor works through the treatment of Stopgap after the Stopgap treatment, the chaos of complications makes dealing with the possibility of Neelix need to immediately and have an interesting and lifelong treatment even out of the body’s horror in its position. This is earlyand Voyager He is still struggling with the extent of resources that have been exposed to resources to tens of thousands of thousands of light tools from the same handles: the ship does not have energy or employees to spare it; The medical department, all is not concluded due to the damage Voyager In a quarter of the delta, it is largely the doctor who turns things on the wall to find out what the sticks in the treatment area have no date or understanding. Trying to preserve the types of members of the union without lungs for a long period of time will actually be a fleshy idea, but Neelix is ​​the only crew that the audience knows at this stage, as the treatment doubled more.

The fact that we are sitting with this struggle for most of the episode that you do not know how or why it happened – the nomination of the mystery of this new threat while we are already feeling out and exploring the show that puts this idea as a continuous plan – possible – just makes the horror of the idea remains more than that, while giving Neelix Some of the wonderful early descriptions beyond being a strange new foreigner. But for the sake of “phage” well-especially by the time of revealing the fourth effect of those who are Vidiians and what their deal-is still suffering from the issue that afflicts a lot of VoyagerThe best ideas, unlike the disease that will never disappear.

At the end of the day, Neelix must improve, regardless of the time this episode and his friends put in reconciliation with the pain of changing life, not because the story really requires it, but because of that Voyager‘s Extremely cross nature It means that, outside the wide fluctuations, there are still very few things in the display beyond a loop or two. Speed ​​to present Vidiians and move from being dark, threatening enemies to tragic, but tragic characters, they quickly prove that they can help Neelix get the alternative lungs and everyone can be on their way. The exhibition cannot maintain the existential challenge of the presence of a chronic sick personality, because everything should be revitalized after 45 minutes. The fact that both Neelix and Kes (ultimately donated, thanks to Vidiian processing technology) only have a unique lung for the rest of their projects in the show, perhaps once or twice, not in an important way. Because it is full of wonderful ideas as it is, “PHAGE” should affect its effect, then changed very much about the show, unlike the work as a turning point where the doctor decides to take KES as a medical staff support.

However, this effect is still perceived after 30 years: the strength of the idea, even knowing that it must be resolved in a much closer to it, still there, as with the first great impression that contradicts Vidiians. VoyagerA crew and the public in general. “Phage”, even early to Voyager“A trip to the house, still one of the best display versions in itself – even if that also means that he must stand as a guide on one of the permanent weaknesses in this process.

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