Star Trek meme: Day 16 - Favorite Voyager Episode

[lizbee]

Easy: "Counterpoint". In which Janeway plays mind games with a space fascist and wins in the sense that she saves her people, but loses in the sense that she hoped she was wrong about his sudden and inevitable betrayal.

It's not just a great script, and one of Voyager's perfect little standalone episodes, but it spawned a lot of good fic and a whole mailing list, which is where I first encountered some people who are still friends to this day.

(The script was by Michael Taylor, who also wrote DS9's "In the Pale Moonlight", and went on to work on BSG. The man likes his morally ambiguous space dramas, and I respect that.)



Day 17 - Favorite Trek Novel
Day 18 - Favorite Non-Aligned Race
Day 19 - Favorite Enterprise Episode
Day 20 - Character You're Most Like
Day 21 - Least Favorite Character
Day 22 - Favorite Trek Film
Day 23 - Best Trek Tech
Day 24 - Best Overall Space Vessel
Day 25 - Favorite Discovery Episode
Day 26 - Planet You Would Most Like To Visit
Day 27 - Character You Would Date
Day 28 - Name Your Own Starship
Day 29 - Favorite Trek Quote
Day 30 - Favorite Trek Series

Comments

[nostalgia]

I remember that being a good one.

[(Anonymous)]

Couldn't agree more. That episode is perfection... except for the bit where Tuvok is on the bridge during the denouement, standing there all telepathic and bold as you please, while Janeway and the Space Fascist pretend they're not playing each other.