Lucia Lorenzi is back to analyze another Janeway-centric episode with me! You can read Lucia’s writing at Rabble.ca and her own blog, and follow her on Twitter @empathywarrior. Her comments are in bold. So several years into Voyager’s time in the Delta Quadrant, the crew finally gets performance reviews. Lord knows what Chakotay was doing if not paying …
“Not unlike her 23rd century counterpart, Bibi Besch was also a working professional and single mother. From the time she made her stage debut as a young actress in New York, Bibi never stopped working. She spent her early career in regional theater, on and off-Broadway and as a regular on TV soaps. After moving …
Number One was born and bred for her job. I had developed my own backstory for her that on her planet, she was raised in a litter, so she was raised for her job. But she had heart. I think you’d have found as she developed that she would have showed that heart. There would …
This is just a graphic I made from a quote I liked by Camille Saviola, interviewed at StarTrek.com in 2014.
[Winn] wanted power and she was ambitious. She was sort of a Margaret Thatcher in space, or, as I used to say, I was the Pope in space. People would say, ‘Oh, you’re doing Star Trek. Who are you playing?’ I’d say, ‘Think the Pope in space, except she’s like an ancient Pope, from the …
July 20: Wishing a very happy birthday to Merri Howard, who made a huge impact behind the scenes on Trek, as an assistant director on TNG and producer on TNG, Voyager and Enterprise. Fun fact: Beverly Crusher’s maiden name was even established as Howard in her honour! According to Merri Howard: I worked on Trek …
“Conundrum” has a simple and slightly hard-to-swallow plot: an alien wipes the crew’s memory and poses as their incredibly bland First Officer MacDuff, in an attempt to convince the Enterprise crew to use their ship’s advanced weaponry to destroy a rival alien command centre. Sadly for him, he failed to account for Federation principles of …