"David E. Sluss" wrote:
> C Y N I C S
> O
> R Star Trek: Voyager: "Spirit Folk"
> N as reviewed by David E. Sluss
> E
> R copyright (c) 2000 Tiger Bay Publishing
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> GOOD NEWS OF THE WEEK: Finding anything good in this episode is a
> difficult chore, and perhaps the only one to be found is the portrayal
> of B'Ellana this week. Since she's the only character who showed up
> with a brain, I know that seems like damning with faint praise. But
> she is perhaps the only character in Star Trek history to have even
> suggested that the power be cut off to a malfunctioning holodeck. She
> was also the only member of the senior staff concerned with the safety
> of real people more than preserving the crew's "relationships" with
> the fictional people of "Fair Haven." This is the only reason the
> episode received any points at all. Well, that and the fact that I
> need a little room at the bottom of the scale in case things get any
> worse.
How about 7 of 9 pointing out that the Fair Haven characters are just
holograms, not real people?
