OVEG: Year of Hell, Part I

Description: Well Astrometrics is finished and now the crew can plot a new course home to cut five years off the trip. So they set a course through Zahl space. Once they arrive, there's a massive temporal shockwave, and the Zahl vanish; and the impotent Krenim now dominate this space. The Krenim have temporal weapons which fly through their shields because they have temporal flux (tech: they ain't really real, and that's about as scientific as you get). In order to fix things, Seven analyzes the energy pattern of the torpedoes and designs a special temporal shield; and it only costs Tuvok his sight. Quite a bargain.

Anyway, Voyager is seriously getting its butt kicked and the shield finally works. Then this really big weapon shoots a planet, and the Krenim ships shrink down to almost nothing. Voyager is unaffected, and realize something has happened. Wow. Things are very, very bad, and then the big ship comes. They steal away Paris and Chakotay and the ship falls apart, so everyone leaves.

Comments: Oh boy, this is why you need an expert when doing time travel stories. There's a complete mix up of cause-effect, plus the silliness of the remarks on board the time ship. "Haven't you learned after all these years not to view time through conventional eyes?" Oh you mean like using "years"? Isn't that conventional? Besides, why don't they age anyway? That makes zero sense. Aging is a cellular process that continues the same way ALL life processes continue. Saying you don't age is stupid.

Plus, I wish to voice a complaint on the overuse of phase and flux. Buy a friggin' thesaurus.

Special Silvermoose Commentary: Let's talk about Tuvok's blindness. What a curse, to spend so much time around Seven's boobs and never get to see them. Seriously though, why is he blind? He looked at the explosion in the jeffries tube. Why did he look at it? Was that logical? More importantly, why is he still head of security when he can't see what's going on?

Rating: 6

Best Moment: Janeway's standard hail. "Good day sir, have we offended you in some way?" No wonder complete strangers will just open fire on Voyager. They're the USS Rude.

Seven of Nine Moment: Offering to assist Tuvok with his personal grooming.

Stupid Neelix Moment: Neelix wanting Tuvok's advice on the dialogue of the intruder alert. "And you think you have difficulties."

Continuity Question: Okay, remember, Voyager chose this path because the Zahl control this space and are peaceful. But then the time changes and there is no Zahl, but Voyager changes too. Now, if they knew about the Zahl, shouldn't they have known about the Krenim? And how unbelievably dangerous going there would be? Apparently it was worth losing dozens of lives for this shortcut.

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