Unforgettable
- Episode aired Apr 22, 1998
- TV-PG
- 46m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
1.8K
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An alien woman from a closed world seeks asylum aboard Voyager, claiming she's been there before and that she and Chakotay were lovers, but no one remembers her.An alien woman from a closed world seeks asylum aboard Voyager, claiming she's been there before and that she and Chakotay were lovers, but no one remembers her.An alien woman from a closed world seeks asylum aboard Voyager, claiming she's been there before and that she and Chakotay were lovers, but no one remembers her.
Roxann Dawson
- Lt. B'Elanna Torres
- (credit only)
Tarik Ergin
- Lt. Ayala
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirected by Andrew Robinson who played Garak on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).
- GoofsWhilst examining Kellin in Sickbay, the Doctor visually diagnoses a "tibular fracture." The two bones in the lower leg are the tibia and the fibula. Any injury would therefore be either a "tibia fracture" or a "fibular fracture." There is no such thing as a "tibular fracture."
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Maybe a new flirting technique: "We were in love once, don't you remember?"
Well, the story itself sounds promising: A woman claims that Chakotay and her were in love but no one on Voyager remembers her. Then Chakotay falls in love with her again but loses her a second time.
To make this story work though, the writers had to come up with lots of unbelievable explanations. Like the pheromone this species produces which wipes the memory of each other species they encounter. Or the computer virus that erased all evidence of her in the systems.
First: There are life forms on board of Voyager that this species never encountered before: Humans, Vulcans, Klingons... even a former Borg drone. Yet we should believe that this memory erasing pheromone works on all of those species (what a marvelous evolution). Apparently on the doctor, too.
Second, obviously this species messes with the computer, too, to plant a virus there that erases each and every information about them. What sane captain, chief of security, chief of operations or chief of engineering would allow a stranger to tamper with Voyager's systems? And wouldn't Seven of Nine remember something due to her Borg implants or are they suddenly connected with the ship's computer? By the way: this computer virus thing, that has to work on a completely unknown alien operating system was stupid in Independence Day already. And don't even start with other non-digital traces: Written letters, DNA residue on objects etc.
And how comes, they haul the damaged alien vessel in, which is equipped with cloak technology that allows firing under cloak (something not even Klingons or Romulans were capable of) and also has advanced proton cannons that cut through shields, but don't try to investigate this technology and make use of it? Also no one tries to research this species, their pheromones, their personal cloaking ability, their unique culture. Janeway claims that they are explorers but yet, they hardly explore alien life forms in their entirety. Aren't there some xeno-biologists on board, or anthropologists, linguists, bio-technologists...?
As others already pointed out: I also did not feel any chemistry between Chakotay and Kellin and I doubt that both would have fallen head over heels in love with each other.
It also hurts to see how Chakotay just watches when the tracer shoots an energy beam at Kellin. Why didn't he use his phaser or jumped at him?
And Kellin tries to convince Chakotay for several days that they both were in love after the first time they met. She puts quite a lot of effort into it - romantic settings, the right situations, good storytelling. And then, after her memory was wiped by the tracer, Chakotay tries to convince her that they were in love and he takes about a minute or two to do so, just standing there without any romantic feelings at all. Not even an injured dog would have jumped into his arms to be rescued by him after that sort of emotionless of speech. He completely blows it there. But that's Voyager: You can't keep a love interest for more than one episode because viewers are too dumb obviously to remember all those new characters that might play a role in future episodes.
To make this story work though, the writers had to come up with lots of unbelievable explanations. Like the pheromone this species produces which wipes the memory of each other species they encounter. Or the computer virus that erased all evidence of her in the systems.
First: There are life forms on board of Voyager that this species never encountered before: Humans, Vulcans, Klingons... even a former Borg drone. Yet we should believe that this memory erasing pheromone works on all of those species (what a marvelous evolution). Apparently on the doctor, too.
Second, obviously this species messes with the computer, too, to plant a virus there that erases each and every information about them. What sane captain, chief of security, chief of operations or chief of engineering would allow a stranger to tamper with Voyager's systems? And wouldn't Seven of Nine remember something due to her Borg implants or are they suddenly connected with the ship's computer? By the way: this computer virus thing, that has to work on a completely unknown alien operating system was stupid in Independence Day already. And don't even start with other non-digital traces: Written letters, DNA residue on objects etc.
And how comes, they haul the damaged alien vessel in, which is equipped with cloak technology that allows firing under cloak (something not even Klingons or Romulans were capable of) and also has advanced proton cannons that cut through shields, but don't try to investigate this technology and make use of it? Also no one tries to research this species, their pheromones, their personal cloaking ability, their unique culture. Janeway claims that they are explorers but yet, they hardly explore alien life forms in their entirety. Aren't there some xeno-biologists on board, or anthropologists, linguists, bio-technologists...?
As others already pointed out: I also did not feel any chemistry between Chakotay and Kellin and I doubt that both would have fallen head over heels in love with each other.
It also hurts to see how Chakotay just watches when the tracer shoots an energy beam at Kellin. Why didn't he use his phaser or jumped at him?
And Kellin tries to convince Chakotay for several days that they both were in love after the first time they met. She puts quite a lot of effort into it - romantic settings, the right situations, good storytelling. And then, after her memory was wiped by the tracer, Chakotay tries to convince her that they were in love and he takes about a minute or two to do so, just standing there without any romantic feelings at all. Not even an injured dog would have jumped into his arms to be rescued by him after that sort of emotionless of speech. He completely blows it there. But that's Voyager: You can't keep a love interest for more than one episode because viewers are too dumb obviously to remember all those new characters that might play a role in future episodes.
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- Runtime46 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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