Barge of the Dead: why does Tuvok have a batleth in his quarters? For a moment there I didn’t see Tuvok, I saw Tim Russ being a nerd and playing Klingon with a batleth and I am smiling so hard. It was supposed to be such a serious scene but I didn’t see the character.

B’Elanna curly hair is stunning. It makes her makeup look more natural to me.

I absolutely love the doctor and Seven singing Klingon drinking songs. I know I say that a lot but one of my all time favourite Star Trek scenes is Miles and Julian singing that song about the crusades when they were super drunk (someone told me the name of it at the time). But I’m the kind of person who sings drinking songs sober. Ao I get really into that. It’s my actual favourite thing.

Oh B’Elanna is just going to go do this anyway if Janeway doesn’t let her. It’s always B’Elanna in the hospital bed and Tom fawning over her. Also why was she on that away mission alone in the first place?

Here’s the thing about Voyager. I wouldn’t have liked this episode. Nothing really happened, B’Elanna is still having the same internal struggle, and we’ve seen it before. Except her mother added a new dimension to it, and it suddenly hit close to home. And the way she woke up and asked if Janeway was her mother and hugged her... I nearly cried. I mean the actual barge of the dead was corny to me. It felt very Bajoran prophets to me (which if you’ve been following me for awhile you’d know I’m not a fan of). But hearing B’Elanna blame her mother when it wasn’t necessarily her mother’s fault, and having that argument with herself, was very intense. It wasn’t just rejecting her Klingon side, because we’ve seen that before, it was those arguments about her family and whose fault it is.

Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy: this is one of someone’s favourite episodes (feel free to call yourself out you’ve told me this twice and I still forget your username) and I’m excited. The title is intriguing.

Is Tuvok crying? To be fair the doctor’s opera is quite beautiful. What an odd holoprogram to write. Oh it wasn’t even a real program.

Okay I’m not going to lie his first couple of fantasies made me kind of mad. He was just super arrogant. He is the chief medical officer! If that’s not good enough for you, acting captain isn’t going to be either. He was imagining situations where Janeway was dead or severely injured so he could take over. Not to mention imagining all the women fawning over him. Like the opera one wasn’t that bad. But the rest was pretty terrible.

I think the episode improves as the doctor actually takes pretend command. He suddenly understands that command requires more than just sitting in a chair and being a hero. That said his performance when he gets his footing is super awkward.

I didn’t like this as much as I think you guys did. I just missed the humor and it was kind of awkward for me. I wish we had a B story to break this up. I suppose we had the alien guy trying not to lose his job.

Alice: I had a lot of fun when Tom and Harry were trying to guess Tuvok’s age. I want more Tuvok!

Chakotay you do not have a full compliment of shuttles left. You’ve destroyed them all four times over and I don’t even know how many you started with.

I love that the field medic shouts “I got a pulse,” when he got the ship started. Oh the ship’s gonna be sentient isn’t it...?

When you see a strange woman on the ship, why not tap the com badge and shout intruder alert?

I have seen this plot before, it’s strikingly familiar. The first thing that came to mind was the Twilight Zone episode From Agnes, With Love.

Awe I’m not a hugger but I want to give Tom a hug. I liked this episode a lot. It was simple, no lasting consequences (except emotionally for Tom). But it was a really solid one-off story. And it left us open to some really cute moments for Tom and B’Elanna.

Riddles: I about jumped out of my skin when they panned to Tuvok sitting up.

Neelix was very sweet in this episode. I do wish we had seen a little more give from Tuvok in the end, that he had been a little more changed. Maybe he does end up enjoying baking or champagne. They did take something from him when they repaired the damage although I do think it was the right thing to do. In this case I believe there was reason to believe he wasn’t mentally able to make the decision to refuse treatment. And I do think that, were he mentally sound, he would prefer to be “more Vulcan.” He tried to do the emotional thing, and decided he didn’t like it. That’s how he found his way back to Star Fleet. That said I also kind of like that he came out mostly unchanged because it bothers me a little when the shows constantly harp on their Vulcans trying to make them more human. Vulcan isn’t bad it’s just not human.