Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Star Trek VGR Episode 33 - Dreadnaught

"A highly advanced Cardassian AI missile that had been reprogrammed by B'Elanna Torres is found in the Delta Quadrant."

I would say that this must be one of the best episodes so far. Very creative. So years ago when Torres was a Marqui with Chakotay, they found this super powerful Cardassian AI missile. This thing is the size of a small ship and can basically devastate a planet. In a controversial move Torres reprogrammed it to seek out the Cardassians. Then they never see the thing again.

Fast forward to the present. They are now in the Delta Quadrant and they find this missile flying through space. It is headed straight for a populated planet. Torres beams to the missiles control room and tries to deactivate it, but her initial safe guards prove too strong. I enjoyed how she converses back and forth with the missile.

Torres is having a tough time trying to deactivate this thing. She figures that she will have to basically beat herself in a battle of the wits. Meanwhile Janeway makes the decision to crash Voyager into the missile, thus stopping it but also killing themselves. Before she could do this, B'Elanna finally stops the AI system by shooting a wire with her phaser...yeah very anticlimactic. Nonetheless, it was well done. Also, it is revealed that Jiminy Crickett is betraying them to the Kazon.

33 down 139 to go

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