Friday, June 12, 2015

Star Trek VGR Episode 18 - Initiations

"Chakotay encounters a Kazon youth who is on an initiation rite; to earn his name by killing an enemy or to be killed in the attempt."

I liked this one too. The Kazon youth goes up against Chakotay in an aerial battle and loses. Instead of dying, he is saved by Chakotay which brings him great shame. They are then captured by the Kazon and Chakotay is forced to kill the kid. Instead, him and the boy escape. Neelix steps into a bigger role and negotiates with the Kazon for Chakotay's release...basically he blackmails them. An away team goes to retrieve Chakotay but they are double crossed by the Kazon... Meanwhile Chakotay offers to let the youth "kill him" in order to gain his name. Everyone eventually beams the hell out of there.

The young Kazon was played by Aaron Eisenberg, who was great as always. People thought that he looked to much like Nog, but that didn't bother me. He was excellent.

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