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- Episode aired May 5, 1999
- TV-PG
- 46m
Capt. Janeway recalls her ancestor, Shannon O'Donnell, with great reverence, but historical records don't back up the family story.Capt. Janeway recalls her ancestor, Shannon O'Donnell, with great reverence, but historical records don't back up the family story.Capt. Janeway recalls her ancestor, Shannon O'Donnell, with great reverence, but historical records don't back up the family story.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis episode was inspired by an undeveloped Q episode for Star Trek: Voyager, thought up by John de Lancie who played Q, and was originally to have included a recurring character from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Guinan.
- GoofsNeelix erroneously states at the beginning of the episode that the Great Wall of China is visible from space. This mistaken belief dates to well before satellites were even invented.
- Quotes
[Janeway has learned that important facts about one of her ancestors are incorrect]
Chakotay: [handing Janeway a data PADD] Ship's status report.
Captain Kathryn Janeway: Let me guess: the holographic engineer is having problems with her program, Neelix the Cardassian cook is low on supplies, Seven of Twelve is regenerating, and Captain Chakotay is doing just fine. Just wondering how they'll piece together OUR lives a few hundred years from now.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Star Trek: Enterprise: Carbon Creek (2002)
I don't understand how people can say this is a throwaway episode. If you care about the characters in the series and want to get more of a glimpse into their past histories, especially the Captain's, then this is worth checking out. It's also a very timely episode as part of it deals with a pretty hot topic at the time of it's airing - the turn of the millennium. I had to double check if this was actually made in 2000 or 2001 and not 1999 as Janeway's ancestor talks about Y2K in the past-tense the way it pretty much actually went down.
Its refreshing that there isn't some calamitous situation on the ship and yet it still turns out to be a good learning experience for multiple characters, especially Seven in her progress of relearning what it means to be human, but even more-so Janeway when it comes to the how ancestry and legends can influence a person to become who they are, and that even one simple, right choice can be just as important and influential as a lifetime of work.
Strangely, I'm in the minority both when it comes to enjoying this episode, and when it comes to my dislike of the preceding episode. As I thought, any chance of the budding out-of-nowhere and shoehorned growing romantic relationship between the Doc and Seven in the previous episode is completely ignored in this one, as if the previous episode didn't even happen, thankfully (I laughed when Seven responded to the Doc's input about his "ancestry" with asking Paris why he hadn't spoken yet). It was just an excuse to have a weak retelling of Pygmalion anyways. At least this episode can be considered an original story they actually had to write, like most good Star Trek episodes.
- oninagiinochi
- Dec 15, 2021
Details
- Runtime46 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3