PATRON TIER LIST - VOY S2E4 - Elogium

D for dumb episode. Nothing furthered. Nothing lost. Just a nothing-burger. Kes and Neelix feel like a forced relationship in this episode.

D-tier. I just couldn't bring myself to care about this one. The only thing that saves it from an E is a strong performance from Jennifer Lien.

B may be for Babbies On Board, but this really isn't much more than a C.

low C. not the greatest and some very head scratching lore for kess and the ocompa if you think about it. the line "we appeared to have lost our sex appeal" stops it being a D.

So much of this episode makes me wince and yet so much of it I would be very sorry to never watch again. Call it a B.

Solid B-Tier. Nothing amazing, but nothing bad, and never boring.

For me, this episode is saved by the space creatures. That's what I remember the episode for, not the Kes stuff. The idea of Voyager accidentally ending up in a mating struggle and the idea that everyone's first instinct is to participate, until Chakotay goes "wait a minute. We're not trying to win this, we just need to get away, so what do we care if we have to pretend to submit to this guy?" I don't think that was necessarily the message that they were going for, but it's an interesting commentary on how we always have an initial instinct to just follow the expected behaviour and not "give in", regardless of whether we actually want to or not...

I guess it's not as bad as I initially thought... still not good

Sexy Voyager performs a mating ritual with a sperm...'whale' , and grown man Neelix is shocked to learn babies can in fact also be girls. He was so ready for a good peanut butter rub. D-lightful stuff....

I love this episode. I’m tempted to give it an S but I know it doesn’t deserve it. A it is then. Sweaty Kes is hot.

What's great about Star Trek is some people will think this episode is at least a C. But not me. This is trash. E. IDIC