OVEG Video: The Gift

[Sonnenburg]

The one where Seven enters and Kes leaves. This is my one hundredth video, apparently.

Video

[Bluewolf]

Good review as always Sonne and it's nice to see you get up to 100 videos.

It also shows how Voyager has a magical shuttle supply given how many are lost. Youd' think they'd run out after the first few crashes.

[Bounty]

It also shows how Voyager has a magical shuttle supply given how many are lost.

Out of its initial 4* it lost fifteen. The difference is made up by the shuttles built in Shuttlebay One on deck 9 3/4, between the redshirt cloning lab and the Starbucks.

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* Assuming it carries as many shuttles as the similarly-sized Constitution. More certainly wouldn't fit.

[Bluewolf]

Oh OK, that makes more sense. Thank you.

[Thanas]

I must say that The Gift was always one of the better Voyager episodes IMO. Because you got the feeling that something might change...only to be let down again.

[Drooling Iguana]

I find it odd that you did The Gift before Scorpion, though, considering that the former is basically a continuation of the latter.

[Junghalli]

I have to wonder how long it was (in-universe) between the shot of Seven still covered in all that Borg crap and the shot of her with all the implants out. Because apparently between them she had time to go from a shaved head to a full head of hair.

[Drooling Iguana]

I have to wonder how long it was (in-universe) between the shot of Seven still covered in all that Borg crap and the shot of her with all the implants out. Because apparently between them she had time to go from a shaved head to a full head of hair.

It wasn't mentioned in the review but in the episode the EMH mentioned that he did something to her scalp to make her hair grow super-fast.

[Kuja]

I find it odd that you did The Gift before Scorpion, though, considering that the former is basically a continuation of the latter.

It was a request.

[Ghost Rider]

Ah...the exit of Kes, the only thing that made Neelix somewhat tolerable. And really, more and more of your reviews point why I really never cared for Voyager. Especially when one thinks upon other of Trek's series.

[Kane Starkiller]

I always assumed that the actress demanding more money was the most likely reason Kes was cut from the show. It seemed unlikely that they would simply decide to loose her character of all. And they kept Larry over her. LOL

[tim31]

I have to wonder how long it was (in-universe) between the shot of Seven still covered in all that Borg crap and the shot of her with all the implants out. Because apparently between them she had time to go from a shaved head to a full head of hair.

It wasn't mentioned in the review but in the episode the EMH mentioned that he did something to her scalp to make her hair grow super-fast.

Deanna Troi went from a Romulan bowl-cut to long curly locks again by the end of the episode. It doesn't take much to imagine a bit of medtech that can increase hair growth rate. There is still, after all, a fashion industry by the 24th century.

[Patrick Degan]

Ah...the exit of Kes, the only thing that made Neelix somewhat tolerable. And really, more and more of your reviews point why I really never cared for Voyager. Especially when one thinks upon other of Trek's series.

I found nothing made that little rodent tolerable. We all know what our favourite V'ger moment is: Tuvok testing out his new "Kill Neelix" holoprogramme. I always like to imagine that one becoming the crew's favourite download.

[Drooling Iguana]

There was also the episode where he died for real. Unfortunately, he got better.

[Lusankya]

I have to wonder how long it was (in-universe) between the shot of Seven still covered in all that Borg crap and the shot of her with all the implants out. Because apparently between them she had time to go from a shaved head to a full head of hair.

It wasn't mentioned in the review but in the episode the EMH mentioned that he did something to her scalp to make her hair grow super-fast.

Deanna Troi went from a Romulan bowl-cut to long curly locks again by the end of the episode. It doesn't take much to imagine a bit of medtech that can increase hair growth rate. There is still, after all, a fashion industry by the 24th century.

For that matter, look at DS9. I can think of several episodes in which people are given surgery to look like a completely different species, which gets reversed by the end of the episode. Compared to that, growing hair is nothing. It's probably just an application of the same technology that goes behind dermal regenerators, except it's accompanied by ads starring local sports stars/actors talking about how it gave them a head of thick bushy hair that you can have too!

[Drooling Iguana]

Then, on the other side of things, we have Picard.

[Lusankya]

Just because anti-hairloss treatments exist, doesn't mean everyone will use it.

Picard probably just feels uncomfortable around hairdressers because they like to talk or something.

[tim31]

Well he was none too fond of Mr Mott, 1701-D's own version of Neelix. Fortunately, a Galaxy-class is a much bigger ship and if Picard was going to take advice from the embodiment of the word superfluous, it was at least going to have breasts.

[Gasphemer]

Just because anti-hairloss treatments exist, doesn't mean everyone will use it.

Picard probably just feels uncomfortable around hairdressers because they like to talk or something.

He puts up with everyone else talking all the time. He's actually a pretty nice fellow and I wouldn't deny the existence of hairdressers. Maybe Picard just liked the bald look. Hell, it's less maintenance than having hair all the time. More time spent being captain, and more time drinking tea- earl grey. Picard is practical, that's for sure.

[Patrick Degan]

Well he was none too fond of Mr Mott, 1701-D's own version of Neelix.

Now, that's not fair to Mr. Mott. Unlike the Rodent, at least Mott knew his place in the barber shop and stuck there.

[tim31]

Now I'm imagining Neelix in a smimilar position on the E-D, fronting up at senior staff meetings. There would be much tugging down the shirt.

[Terralthra]

Forcing existing follicles to produce hair faster is not the same thing as revitalizing dead follicles.

[Thanas]

Now I'm imagining Neelix in a smimilar position on the E-D, fronting up at senior staff meetings. There would be much tugging down the shirt.

I don't understand what those words are supposed to mean. Is it an Australian expression?

[Bounty]

Now I'm imagining Neelix in a smimilar position on the E-D, fronting up at senior staff meetings. There would be much tugging down the shirt.

I don't understand what those words are supposed to mean. Is it an Australian expression?

The TNG uniforms rode up, so Patrick Stewart developed the habit of tugging his shirt back down whenever he stood up. It became a trademark of the character to the point where the cast called it "the Picard Manoeuvre". Since he usually started tugging as he was getting up to address someone on the viewscreen, it generally signified he was about to go on a speech. Hence Tim31's joke.

[Thanas]

Ah, okay. Thank you for explaining.