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If my departure is any punishment, you are quite right, my character reading is not too brilliant.

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Voyager rewatch s2 ep7: Parturition

Another episode where I thought 'oh no!' when I realized which one it was. Honestly this ep feels more like an episode of Saved By the Bell than Star Trek, but I guess they can't all be good.

In this one, Slater Tom Paris develops a crush on Kelly Kes and Zack Neelix is, like, totally jealous, and the two boys get into a fight at The Max the mess hall. But then Mr. Belding Captain Janeway assigns them as lab partners on an away mission together, and tells them they better work out their differences so they can get a good grade have a succesful away mission. While working on their school project the away mission, they find an abandoned puppy baby space dinosaur, and the two boys bond while caring for the adorable puppy baby space dinosaur. Slater Tom realizes that Zack Neelix is the one Kelly Kes really loves, and that he respects his friend too much to steal his girl. They end up best buds again, and they get an A on their science project!! get back to Voyager alive!! They high five at the end! Neelix offers Tom some of his special bird gland juice as a mark of his esteem!

They really did a teen sitcom plot as an actual Star Trek episode.

And they expected it to resolve a serious story arc, no less! And the relationship it was supposed to fix wasn't even that of the main characters in the episode! Choices were certainly made here, but they were bad ones.

For starters, I hate how Kes is being passed around to nearly every male character on the show to be his lust object du jour. That would be bad enough if she were older, but considering both the character and the actress are the youngest of all the characters/actors, it's extra gross and infuriating. And with all this time devoted to these dumb high-school romantic shenanigans, she spends most of her screen time crying over how much they've hurt her, while also placating their feelings. It's really sexist, and I just don't know why the writers wasted so much time going down this road.

I could barely believe my ears with the gross misogynist dialog in this episode. The Doctor telling Kes she should be flattered to have two guys fighting over her?! Are you kidding me?? Tom saying he'll never try anything with Kes because he respects Neelix?! Um, no?! The line should be because he respects KES, because she chose Neelix! This dudebro attitude that women are just commodities to divvy up between themselves is not something that Star Trek should be espousing, ever. It was already a backward attitude in the 90s when the show was made, and it's way beyond offensive for now, let alone the 24th century. And then Tom asks Neelix's permission to be friends with Kes(!!) and I want to gag some more- because even when Neelix says (as he should) that he doesn't choose Kes's friends for her, it rings hollow, because he's already gone on jealous tirades forbidding her to see people before.

I think it was actually really disingenuous to write Tom as being in love with Kes, since it's clearly an attempt to justify and downplay the seriousness of Neelix's appalling behavior. Constantly spying on your significant other, accusing them of cheating with everyone they talk to, telling them you don't want them to see certain people, picking fights with their friends in an attempt to drive them away, all of which Neelix does, over and over- these are all forms of emotional abuse, which is never justified. That this is being presented as normal relationship behavior on any show, let alone one that's supposed to be progressive, is insane. How anyone can watch this stuff and think it's cute or funny rather than horrifying is totally beyond me.

The worst part of it all was the utter lack of awareness that this episode should not have been about Tom at all, it should have been about Kes. Neelix's problem was never with Tom, he was just a convenient excuse. Having Tom assure him he's not a threat would never change Neelix's behavior, because Neelix invents new excuses every day- he's already accused Kes of cheating with at least four other people- even if he accepted Tom's word, he'd just move on to another scapegoat because the underlying problem is still there. Neelix's problem was always his own insecurity and possessiveness, and Tom was not the person Neelix needed to square things away with, Kes is. She's the one recieving the brunt of Neelix's anger and suspicion every day, she's the one who deserved to confront him, she's the one who deserved an acknowlegement from him that he is in the wrong, and that he believes her. Having Neelix acknowledge that he believes another man's word doesn't do anything to change the fact that he still doesn't believe his own girlfriend's word. Their relationship can never be fixed if he trusts some random guy he works with more than he trusts her.

If this episode was supposed to redeem Neelix or Tom, it failed miserably, because all it does is show that they're both super misogynists who think of women as objects, don't respect women's choices, or believe what women say. And that sucks, honestly. Both of them have good qualities that would have made them perfectly likeable characters, but then the writers bog them down in this. Why? A lot of the stuff Tom said in that scene was actually good stuff that would have marked a nice turning point for his charcter in nearly any other episode, with any other storyline, but no, it has to be spoiled by this macho nonsense. Siiigh.

Everything in this episode was a disappointment- the baby dinosaur, though well made and sophisticated for it's day, just looked silly and like a doll. Even Captain Janeway's hair wasn't cute this time- my beloved Gibson Girl bun hair, we hardly knew ye! Chopped off and given blonde highlights far too soon! (Please just let Kate Mulgrew stay auburn, is that so much to ask?)

The only good joke in this was when the Doctor said that Kes usually likes when he talks about autopsies- make a story about that! Show Kes being a weirdo little freak who wants to dissect dead stuff, have her decide she wants to go to medical school someday! Just give her some plot that doesn't revolve around a man, and stop making her a prize to be won in some man's story, I'm begging.

Tl;dr: Some of the most insanely sexist crap I've ever seen in a Star Trek episode, it didn't earn the resolution it was trying for at all, because it fundamentally misunderstands how both storytelling and interpersonal relationships work.

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OPINION: Simple =/= Lazy

Whenever something is simple, it's often blanketly seen as lazy or low effort by detractors. Those who are family with my page know that I vehemently hate whenever those terms are used for movies or TV shows. I also think it's wrong to assume anything that's simple is automatically lazy. It's time we're reminded that these are vastly different terms and should not be used interchangeably, less we as a society continue to be misinformed.

We take for granted the many tools, programs, recipes, and instructions that are simple. The keyboard format in which most computers have is simple and easy to figure out. The 5 simple machines (screw, lever, pully, wheel&axel, and wedge) are basic by design. Making a simple bowl of cereal is something so easy even a child can do it. We as people have always made things simple, as far back as the caveman days. It wasn't out of laziness or lack of thought, but rather for the sake of necessity. You know before 911 was invented we had do dial a 7 digit number to call the cops or an ambulance? And this was back in the mid-20th century, where instead of the iPhone we take for granted now, we had the painfully tedious rotary phone. What's worse is if you didn't have the number memorized, you had to rely on the phone book. See how complicated all that is? Making the emergency phone number just 3 digits was so simple, yet so genius. It has saved countless lives and was a big help for police officers responding to crimes in a more timely manner. Simplicity out of necessity is what makes life less difficult than it already is.

While we like our everyday devices to be simple out of necessity, it seems to be a different matter when it comes to our entertainment. A movie or a show being simple is often seen as a negative and one that screenwriters should avoid if they wish to dazzle critics. I'm all for taking risks, taking chances, and getting messy (comment if you got that reference 😉), I don't think it's an inherent bad thing to want to tell a simple story. A story that has a clear beginning, middle, and end, where the characters start their journey at point A and end it at point be, beat the bad guy, and live happily ever after is simple, yes, but lazy? Absolutely not. What I just described to you was something that opens the door to a wide range of different possibilities, where the only limit is your imagination. This basic story structure has had variants that date back to when we told stories via shadow puppets. While the narrative is simple, that doesn't mean it leaves no room for creativity. Case in point, The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Now, I'm not some pretentious dolt who believes critics are wrong for not liking a movie when their opinions are just as valid as my on. The reception to the Super Mario Bros Movie, however, did seem to highlight a common problem with online criticism. This notion that the movie should've taken more risks and be more than just a 92 minute long advertisement for a video game franchise. I understand if a lot of critics were either bored or indifferent with the film as a whole. I can not, however, side with the notion that the movie would've been better if it was more complex. If they were to have made the movie more complex with longer scenes focusing on the characters having their own subplots or if it was about Mario and Luigi struggling financially and trying to earn enough money to pay their mother's medical bills (or something of the sort), it would take away from the other important aspects of storytelling. Aspects such as good pacing, creative world building, engaging characters interactions, clever and organic dialog, strong vocal performances, an impressive score, and dazzling visuals. Again, I understand if most critics were left cold by the film as a whole, but I don't agree with generally concensus that a complex, bold and risky script is inherently better than a straightforward and to the point script.

It's okay if one chooses the simpler option over the challenging one. Simplicity is how we, as people, are able to process information in a concise and fair manner. It's also how we get devices and recipes we take for granted every day. This also applies to the entertainment we consume. Movies and TV shows are supposed to be escapist entertainment that provides the audience with a good time. To conclude, I leave you with a quote from the late great Steve Jobs.

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Don't Change Your Job, Change Your Mindset

Don't Change Your Job, Change Your Mindset

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