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1.0 out of 5 stars
Pathetic!, October 6, 2002
This review is from: Star Trek - Voyager, Episode 32: Threshold [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Tom Paris, Harry Kim and B'Elanna Torres have joined forces to figure out a way to break warp 10. They solve all the problems related to transwarp drive and Paris prepares to make the first warp 10 flight. The doctor tells Captain Janeway that the biometric readings are abnormal in Paris and suggests that Harry Kim make the flight instead of Tom. Paris pleads with the captain to let him make this flight and she decides to grant him the honor. When Paris reaches warp 10 in his shuttle, he disappears off sensors. He eventually returns and reports that he experienced the sensation of being everywhere in the universe at once; that he was aware of everything at the same time. Data is downloaded from the shuttle and it proves that Tom really was everywhere in the universe as Harry discovers 5 million gigaquads of information in the data banks of the shuttle. A few hours later, while in the mess hall drinking coffee with Torres, Tom collapses. In sick bay the doctor discovers Tom's bio-chemistry is changing; that he is mutating. Despite the doctor's efforts, Tom dies because of the mutations. Later, Paris comes back to life while still in sick bay but continues to mutate. The doctor tells the captain that Tom's DNA is re-writing itself. New organs have appeared and others have disappeared. His personality is erratic and deranged. The doctor thinks he can restore Tom and while attempting treatment, Paris escapes. He captures Janeway and takes her with him on a shuttle. He increases the shuttle's speed to warp 10 and they disappear. Three days later, Voyager finds the shuttle on a planet. The doctor tells Chakotay and Tuvok that Paris has evolved into a future stage in human development. Tom has evolved into this stage in 24 hours when it should have taken millions of years. On the planet, Chakotay and Tuvok find Paris and Janeway are both now lizard-like creatures. They also discover that Tom and the captain have had babies as these creatures. The lizards are stunned and taken aboard Voyager where the doctor finally eradicates all traces of the mutant DNA and restores Janeway and Paris to their original form. This is, without a doubt, the worst episode in Voyager's 7-year run! A human being evolving into a lizard-like creature and then being restored back into a human and all of this is supposed to happen because they went faster than usual in a space shuttle? The writers were really `out to lunch' on this episode! The only highlight is a scene toward the end where Chakotay and Tuvok find out that the lizard Paris and Janeway have had lizard babies. Chakotay tells Tuvok he doesn't know how to put this event into the ship's log and Tuvok responds that he can't wait to read it. I did manage a chuckle on that scene. Aside from that, this episode is a complete bust. I actually felt sorry for the actors who had to do this storyline. How embarrassing for them. In rating this video, I didn't even want to give it 1 star but you have to in order for the review to be published.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
stupidest of all star trek episodes, June 10, 2002
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This review is from: Star Trek - Voyager, Episode 32: Threshold [VHS] (VHS Tape)
first off, i love star trek. i have been a faithful fan of star trek since the mid sixties. there are extremely few shows i didn't like. i even have all the cartoon shows. but, this episode defies all sense of logic!!! com'on the warp 10 speed is a barrier? in the original star trek the enterprise hit warp 12 in an episode. in TNG in the first season the galaxy class ship went somewhere along the lines of warp 100 when they went through 2 1/2 galaxies in just a few minutes!! and yet here they say that warp 10 is the warp barrier to ultimate speed!!!and that i you hit warp 10 you'll be everywhere at once!! give me a break!! ...and if that isn't bad enough, Tom Paris evolves in to a giant salamander! it seems to me he de-evolved. this show should have never been made. it goes against all other episodes of star trek in any version!!!the only reason i gave it a rating of 1 and not zero is because of Robert Duncan McNeils acting. ... if you want to watch an episode of de-evolution watch the episode of TNG where because of barkly everyone(except Data of course) de-evolves to some lower life form where Worf becomes real scary creature hunting down Picard. that episode had me on the edge of my seat!!!!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A good idea for an episode but it goes horribly astray, July 18, 2003
This review is from: Star Trek - Voyager, Episode 32: Threshold [VHS] (VHS Tape)
"Star Trek: Voyager," Episode 32, "Threshold" (Story by Michael DeLuca, Teleplay by Brannon Braga, Aired January 29, 1996) focuses the character of Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) and the two key aspects of his character: his recklessness and his need to find redemption. Paris has completed a series of simulations on the holodeck and wants to take his shuttlecraft on a real test flight to break the transwarp threshold. Flying the "Cochrane" (of course), Paris reaches Warp 10...and disappears. The vessel reappears and when Paris is beamed to sickbay he appears to be okay. But then things start to go wrong when Paris later collapses and one of the "Voyager" crew beams information about the transwarp flight to the Kazon. In sickbay the Doctor (Robert Picardo) discovers Paris's' organs and mutating and failing. When Paris dies, only to begin breathing again a few hours later, the Doctor discovers the pilot now has two hearts. However, the mutations continue to accelerate and Paris is now subject to violent episodes of paranoia. Now, the initial premise of "Threshold" fits in the grand tradition of the idea that there are some things human beings were not meant to tamper with and although the obvious parallel would be to Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier, you can go all the way back to the Bible stories of the Tower of Babel and, of course, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. However, I never liked the accelerated genetic mutation idea on "Star Trek," going back to when the "Enterprise" crew changed into weird animals and back on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (Geordi had something similar happen in another episode). My willing suspension of disbelief does not work in both directions: I can agree with the changes caused by the mutation, but the changing back always strikes me as the writer punching the reset button. However, "Threshold" adds insult to injury with the payoff for the episode in terms of what happens between Paris and Captain Janeway. What were they thinking? Kate Mulgrew should have shot this one down. So mark this down as a good idea gone horribly astray and try not to take it seriously when you watch it.
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