And Voyager takes a nose dive again as the series fails to maintain its otherwise relentless mediocre course and plunges towards the atrocious in an episode that should have been named: and there be spiders..
Harry Kim gets to be made the main star which is almost worst then making Neelix the main star. Boring vs Annoying. Oh, the choice.
Kim gets into danger as spiders in the shape of women lure him down to get eaten for his genes.
Do I care?
No.
Remind me what makes Kim stand out again?
He likes to play music?
And?
Well, he likes to play music.
Anything else?
No.. not really.
Anyway.. some kind of race greets Voyager with powered down weapons and lowered shields, but they are arming their weapons in secret without Voyager knowing, except for Kim. Fire away he shouts. Nice that Voyager can or cannot detect this depending on what is needed for the moment. This level of bad writing, being super inconsistent, now even occurs in one episode. The bla bla buffers can detect a virus and cannot detect it. The computer cannot detect alien DNA and can detect it five minutes later. Oh, who cares.
That alien DNA turns Kim into spider fodder in a desperate attempt to make him interesting. It fails. He is left behind on a planet on which 90 percent of the populace is women. Nubile women, so those women tell Kim. This means then that ten percent men, I assume, hasn't been devoured yet? Anyway these spi.. women tell him he is actually an alien of their kind who returns home. Except he is male.. And they will eat him. Well, they didn't tell him that. They told him: You're home Kim.. and strangely enough turning into an alien does give you spots, but does not make you interesting.
From that moment on every time someone talked about these women I mentally substituted women with spiders. And i didn't even knew they were going to eat him.. It was just obvious they would.
In the mean time that species that got shot at by Voyager - thanks to Kim - is contacted by Voyager to ask them: why did intend to fire on us while pretending not to so we had to fire on you, so you could totally wreck Voyager when you finally did fire at us?
Cause we hate that other species!
Why?
Cause we do. And anyone having one of their species on board will be shot at. For no reason at all. Even if you would have superior firepower! Which Voyager never has, because the weapon systems are always the first to go offline in a battle.
For no reason you attack us but because you do not like those women. Because.. well why? Maybe to leave the viewer guessing?
So Voyager returns to the spider planet after having squandered the time on nothing. But this was just so they could find out that those spi.. women erected an impenetrable force-field around the whole planet to keep Kim in and Voyager out. Except that it is penetrable if you just plunge Voyager through some holes you made by modulating the shield or bi-polarize the emitters. Or inject a plasma stream into the warpcore. Oh man.. so many words that you can combine.
In the meantime a spi.. women ship is then on an intercept course so Janeway can shout: Battle Stations.
What does that mean anyway? Everyone is already behind the consoles they sit behind during the explosion scenes. Why shout this pointless line? Cause it sounds cool. Like shield down to whatever percent. Or establishing the cause of things after it has been revealed. We are being fired upon. Oh is that what cause the shaking of the ship and the lowering of the shield.
Anyway Kim.. finds out the spi.. are women.. or was it the other way around? He flees..Comes in one of the most silly pole fights ever and show he has nothing to his credit but playing music.
The spi.. women start to prepare him but he gets saved.
Oh my, wow that was exciting. They saved him..
Who?
Kim?
The music player?
Yes, him.
Say,... whenever did we see him play music?
Anyway Voyager flies off with the spidership hot on their tail when that other species makes in an appearance.. cause you know.. Script.
And while earlier into the episode that spider ship knocked out those other ships with one shot, now they can't. Cause script.
At the end Kim tells about the Sirens... if you missed the reference.. we just grab your head and smash you in a full bowl of the painful obvious.
Oh and he says: there was something exciting about having a new identity.
Yeah,, maybe you make for a more interesting character being a meal for spiders.
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