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5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best Voyager episodes., June 26, 2000
This review is from: Star Trek - Voyager, Episode 20: The 37's [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is one of the coolest Voyager episodes, where they find Amellia Airheart and many other people from 1937 that had been abducted from earth and never seen again. This is a must see for any Trekkie.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The dumbest "Voyager" episode, August 1, 2001
This review is from: Star Trek - Voyager, Episode 20: The 37's [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is the single worst episode of "Voyager" -- what "Spock's Brain" is to the original "Star Trek". What a stupid idea -- aliens drag Amelia Earhart halfway across the galaxy for no apparent reason; the crew finds a 1937 truck floating in space(with it's AM radio still functioning after 400 years!); they get to a planet where Earhart is in suspended animation; wake her up; and then -- NOTHING HAPPENS! Nothing, except a dumb debate about whether they should stay or go. No action, tedious, pointless. Fortunately, "Voyager" reached it's bottom early, with this debut to its second season and got better from here. Don't waste money on this -- any other episode would be a better purchase.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The "Voyager" crew solves the mystery of Amelia Earhart, June 20, 2003
This review is from: Star Trek - Voyager, Episode 20: The 37's [VHS] (VHS Tape)
So, there you are on the good ship "Voyager," stuck in the Delta Quadrant 70 light years from home and feeling pretty sorry for yourself. What could be worse? Well, an answer to that question is provided in the premier episode of the second season of "Star Trek: Voyager." Episode 20, "The 37's" (Written by Jeri Taylor & Brannon Braga, Aired: August 28, 1995) begins with the starship encountering a pickup truck from the Earth circa the 1930s. The trail leads to a planet where "Voyager" actually lands on the planet (remember when the ship was preserving energy because they are in the middle of no where?). There an Away Team discovers eight human beings in cryo-statis units. When they are revived the crew discovers these people were kidnapped by aliens in 1937 and that one of them is the famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Sharon Lawrence) and her co-pilot Fred Noonan (David Graf). Another mystery solved by the friendly people at Starfleet. Of course the revived earthlings want to know where they are and what happened to them and being told that they were abducted by strange visitors from another planet 400 years earlier is met with disbelief. Apparently aliens in need of slave labor raided the earth and brought back hundreds of humans (this extremely wasteful use of energy for such limited returns makes landing "Voyager" on the surface of a planet seem like a stroke of genius in comparison). Ultimately it turns out that what "The 37's" is about is that, in the grand tradition of premier episodes of a show's second season, the "Voyager" crew gets to rededicate itself to the mission going home. All things considered, this is the long way around to make that particular point. Furthermore, the episode continues the tradition of less than stellar "Star Trek" stories from various series in which we find 20th century human beings alive and well in the Star Trek universe. The point of having Amelia Earhart be one of the humans is not really exploited to great effect and the entire affair ends up being something of a silly diversion from the task at hand.
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