"A group of humans from the 1930s are found in stasis on a seemingly abandoned planet, including the lost Amelia Earhart."
I really enjoyed this episode. One of the things that I always wanted Star Trek to do is tie-in the UFO craze of 20-21st century Earth. They have done this several times, but I am never satisfied by it. Well, I'm still not satisfied but I like when they bring it up nonetheless. In this case, an Alien race named the Briori came to Earth in the 1930s and abducted 300 people and enslaved them (I would have liked if they showed a Briorian and had them look like a typical "gray"). Among them are Earhart and Fred Noonan (played by Tackleberry from Police Academy...still can't take this actor seriously). At some point the Humans rose-up and overthrew their captors, now they inhabit the planet...over 100,000 of them. They have three magnificent cities and good civilization. Some of the original abductees lie in stasis (Amelia, Noonan etc), they keep them as a shrine.
For some reason Voyager can't beam down, so they decide to land Voyager on the planet. It's an odd gamble by Janeway considering nobody knows how to physically land the ship. If anything ever happened to the ship, it would mean that they would never find a way home. Anyhow, the effects looked pretty good, considering it's old CGI. The episode pretty much consists of the crew trying to convince Amelia and Fred that they are currently in the future. In the end, the colonists offer to let the Voyager crew stay and live there. Some take up the offer, but the core group denies it. There are many flaws to this episode and people seem to find it hacky, but I liked it.
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I bet Fred Noonan was a phenomenal actor... but yeah, he'll always be Tackleberry. And that's ok with me. Through seven films, he was the only one who was always funny. R.I.P.
(Is he dead?)
I actually had to look that up... He died in 2001! I knew something terrible happened that year.
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