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OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-09-30 02:16pm
by Sonnenburg
The one where Seven enters and Kes leaves. This is my one hundredth video, apparently.

Video

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-09-30 02:47pm
by Bluewolf
Good review as always Sonne and it's nice to see you get up to 100 videos. :D

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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-09-30 03:06pm
by 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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-09-30 03:12pm
by Bluewolf
Oh OK, that makes more sense. Thank you.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-09-30 06:27pm
by 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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-09-30 06:33pm
by 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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-01 02:00am
by 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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-01 02:17am
by Drooling Iguana
Junghalli wrote: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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-01 05:07pm
by Kuja
Drooling Iguana wrote: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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-01 05:22pm
by 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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-01 06:55pm
by 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

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-02 01:14am
by tim31
Drooling Iguana wrote:
Junghalli wrote: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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-02 02:48am
by Patrick Degan
Ghost Rider wrote: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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-02 03:28am
by Drooling Iguana
There was also the episode where he died for real. Unfortunately, he got better.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-02 05:11am
by Lusankya
tim31 wrote:
Drooling Iguana wrote:
Junghalli wrote: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!

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-02 05:32am
by Drooling Iguana
Then, on the other side of things, we have Picard.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-02 05:37am
by 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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-02 07:32am
by 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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-06 07:11pm
by Gasphemer
Lusankya wrote: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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-06 10:02pm
by Patrick Degan
tim31 wrote: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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-07 03:36am
by 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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-07 08:11pm
by Terralthra
Forcing existing follicles to produce hair faster is not the same thing as revitalizing dead follicles.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-09 02:42pm
by Thanas
tim31 wrote: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?

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-09 02:51pm
by Bounty
Thanas wrote:
tim31 wrote: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.

Re: OVEG Video: The Gift

Posted: 2009-10-09 02:54pm
by Thanas
Ah, okay. Thank you for explaining.