This Is the Best Scene in Star Trek: Voyager‘s First Season

Star Trek has always found great strength in the episodic format. Sure, the classic shows all dabbled in serialized elements, and some of them excelled in those elements the further they played with them, like Deep Space Nine did in its back half. There’s a reason that, when Trek was revitalized for the streaming age in a predominantly serialized form, fans bristled (and then turned to point at modern examples that leaned into bucking that trend, like Strange New Worlds, as a “return to form”). For generations, Trek has prided itself on that episodic nature, that you can tune in at any point in a season, in a series, watch an adventure, and get out, and you’ve had everything you’ve needed—and hopefully got a killer story along the way. It might be fair for many people to say, then, that episodic storytelling is where Star Trek is at its best. But sometimes those disparate selves, even in the classic heyday of the franchise, could brush up against each other and create interesting, and ... Read full article.