Someone To Watch Over Me
- Episode aired Apr 28, 1999
- TV-PG
- 46m
As The Doctor guides Seven into the unfamiliar social realm of dating, Ambassador Neelix suffers an alien monk who overindulges.As The Doctor guides Seven into the unfamiliar social realm of dating, Ambassador Neelix suffers an alien monk who overindulges.As The Doctor guides Seven into the unfamiliar social realm of dating, Ambassador Neelix suffers an alien monk who overindulges.
- Holographic Bar Patron
- (uncredited)
- Lt. Ayala
- (uncredited)
- Crewman Timothy Lang
- (uncredited)
- Courting Klingon
- (uncredited)
- Courting Klingon
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaRobert Picardo and Jeri Ryan did at least some of their own singing, including the duet "You Are My Sunshine."
- GoofsWhen Seven of Nine sings the vocal exercise with the Doctor, the display screen shows a "simple melody." The letters say that the melody consists of the notes "A C E C D B A G A." This does not correspond to the music notation displayed on the screen, which shows the melody containing C sharps and G sharps. Seven sung it as such.
- Quotes
B'Elanna Torres: [reading Seven's study of her and Tom from a PADD] 'Stardate 52647, 1400 hours: Subjects quarrel in corridor outside female's quarters. Male returns with twelve flowering plant stems, species rosa rubifolia, effecting a cessation of hostilities. Stardate 52648, 0300 hours: Intimate relations resume.' - How the hell do you know when we're having intimate relations?
Seven of Nine: There is no one on deck nine, section twelve, who *doesn't* know when you're having intimate relations.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Train 48: Episode #1.102 (2003)
Neelix is suffering a monk (perhaps a novice) who is outside the monastery, and is now indulging, to an excess, on everything he cannot have back home. This is treated in a very "laughing" and jovial manner, unfortunately that should not have been the case, and it only cements the series itself into being rather flippant about religion. A few lessons could be learned from Deep Space Nine. Instead of the story trying to understand why this novice is overindulging, or perhaps even trying a way to merge the two stories is never approached. What we have is 30 minutes of a fun A story while we suffer through the rest of the episode's B story.
Merging the two could have been easy. A novice who is frightened of making his final vows goes "off the deep end" into over indulgence to curb his fear. The doctor who cannot bring himself to tell Seven that he has fallen for her. Both suffering from a fear of moving forward. Neelix could have offered his experiences to the monk in order to help his decision. Then while trying to recover from intoxication the Doctor and the monk have a one on one. It is this one on one that allows both to move forward. However the monk succeeds at his decision the Doctor is still hesitant.
I understand that to a lot of fans this episodes is on their top list. It's not skippable, but if you are watching on DVD you can fast forward over the monk parts. They are irrelevant to the story.
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- Oct 9, 2021
Details
- Runtime46 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3