I like the type of episodes that isn't your typical "time-travel", "the-captain-outsmarts-aliens", "time-travel", "the-Voyager is-in-a-battle-for-it's-life", "time-travel" type of episode. It seems much more creative to expand on the characters than to rehash the same plots. I call that the FUGITIVE AFFECT. Does anyone remember the old TV series called The Fugitive (1963-1967)? Not the movie with Harrison Ford, but the series with David Janssen. You can't get the full affect of the hopelessness of episode after episode and season after season of this innocent man running and running and running from the authorities and trying to catch the "one armed man" who was always just out of his grasp by watching the movie. It was just too short. Star Trek Voyager is very much like The Fugitive in that they never reach their goal until the very last episode of the last season. The Fugitive took only 4 years to achieve its goal whereas it is taking Voyager seven seasons to get to its goal. It is just refreshing to get a few episodes about something other than the crew fumbling through the universe trying to get home.
Review of Barge of the Dead
