YOUTUBE - Cold Fire | Star Trek Fans First Time Watching Voyager

I really want to like this one more than I do - Kes getting to shine again, with more 'power creep' being revealed, and a little body horror thrown in for good measure, solid stuff. But yeah, 'Neil Breen' brings it right down. A lot of '90s TV sci-fi suffered from 'c-grade guest actor' syndrome.

Ya knowwww... I realized, watching your reaction, that this is typical VOYAGER to me. It has all these elements I like, characters whom I either genuinely like (the Doctor) or like on paper ("Yeah, Tuvok is how a Vulcan should be," "Yeah, Janeway is a great captain and a great female lead") and whom I should care for and about, involved in a story that I "should" like, yet added all together, it somehow falls flat. I realized this a while back when I realized that VOYAGER is really the only TREK series (right up through DISCOVERY and STRANGE NEW WORLDS, btw, lest you think I'm not including "new Trek") that I haven't gone back and rewatched since I first saw it. The series as a whole just leaves me lukewarm. Something was missing. The whole is less than the sum of its parts. Sorry. But I am at least enjoying this revisit through your reactions.

the best thing to come of this episode was calling annoying guest actor of the week "dr. paul stubbs" as a title. imo every trek season should have an honorary dr. paul stubbs, and also dr. paul stubbs himself should lose that title to somebody else for his season.

Elrond is a short lived elf this time :)

I never realized Gary Graham was on Voyager too. That was a wild trip!

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Nice horror-esque episode, with Kes doing some old fashioned horror screaming. The name Suspiria has to be a nod to the horror classic by that name, and the little girl is giving Poltergeist vibes.