Star Trek: Voyager (TV Series) Remember (1996) User Reviews

An obvious parallel to the Holocaust, the 'disappearance' of the Armenians and other atrocities.

[planktonrules · 8/10 · 17 February 2015]

Throughout much of our last century or so, quite a few horrific mass murders have occurred. The Nazi holocaust, the Soviet purges, Rwanda, the slaughter of the Armenians and more testify to the fact that the last 100 years have been an abysmal track record for mankind. So, it's not at all surprising that the writers for "Star Trek: Voyager" would take on the topic of genocide themselves.

When the show begins, Voyager has just made a new friendship with some very nice pilgrims who they are taking back to their home planet. Everything is sweet and nice and life looks quite fine for everyone. In the midst of this, Torres begins having very sexy dreams--very realistic and sexy dreams. Perhaps these dreams are the result of the crew's interactions with this new race--one that has heightened psychic powers. However, when this movie-like series of dreams turn ugly and violent and talk of mass murder, Torres realizes that someone is trying to covertly pass on to the Federation that this 'nice' race has a past that is anything but nice!

This is a clever episode and manages to both entertain and say something of significance. Worth seeing.

One of Roxann Dawson's best

[snoozejonc · 8/10 · 5 December 2022]

B'Elnna Torres experiences intense dreams that may or may not be connected to a group of telepathic passengers.

This is a very good episode with a strong performance from Dawson.

The plot unfolds nicely with an air of mystery initially, before certain dark revelations are made that push quite serious issues into the spotlight. This transition is handled very well by the writers and filmmakers, who use the character of Torres superbly to tell the story and react to its key events. Much of the credit has to go to Dawson for an engaging performance. Bruce Davidson gives a tremendous support.

It is difficult to end this type of story in a cinematic way because it is someone reflecting on events that have already happened and the crux is that they are not forgotten. 'The Inner Light' of TNG is the classic example of a similar premise done incredibly well. 'Remember' is not at that level because you felt Picard actually lived that other life, but it finishes in a way that makes you feel Torres has done something important after the experience.

Dreams of genocide

[Tweekums · 7/10 · 10 August 2010]

While taking a group of aliens called the Enarans back to their home world Harry takes a liking at a beautiful woman and B'Elanna starts having dreams that cause her to oversleep and be late for duty. In these dreams she is somebody else and is in a relationship with an Enaran man, he is not one of the people being transported by Voyager though. As the dreams continue it becomes apparent they are more than dreams but are in fact memories being passed an telepathically passed on by one of the Enarans called Korenna to expose the genocide of a group known as Regressives many years before, when confronted the Enarans deny all knowledge of it but one is willing to share the memories to learn for herself. As for Harry's love interest; unusually she didn't turn out to be a danger to him as is usually the case, which made a nice surprise, in fact she was the Enarans who was willing to see the same memories B'Elanna had seen.

This was a decent if not great episode; Roxann Dawson is good as B'Elanna and the story was intriguing even though it wasn't action packed. While the message was a little heavy handed there is nothing wrong with being critical of such behaviour. The way the story ended with B'Elanna passing on the memories was pretty good; better than what she said being believed without question.

Genocide

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 22 August 2018]

This is an age-old story. A supposedly peaceful planet has a history of destroying those who do not act as they do. They are rounded up and sent to colonies where they eventually disappeared. This is all seen through the mind of Torres, who has had these things implanted in her subconscious. This is certainly one of the most erotic of the series. These telepaths seem so sweet and well intentioned. There are signs at times that they can overuse their powers. Interesting offering.

Keeping those hands clean.

[thevacinstaller · 9/10 · 13 July 2021]

A wonderful episode -

It is clearly a commentary on burying past crimes by investing a false history done in a manner where I (the viewer) am part of the experience. This is a clever way to design this episode because I am on the inside looking out so it carries far more impact.

I appreciated that the Enarans are not portrayed as frothing at the mouth psychopaths ----- They are portrayed as rational people who are 'helping' the 'Regressives' by removing them from progressive society. This is how unimaginable crimes and indoctrination flourish.

Moving onto a bit of subtlety ----- The Enarans are clean freaks and used lack of hygiene as a tool of persecution and this societal traits continues on Voyager with Neelix showing the space marbles that the Enarans use to disinfect their hands. The Enarans have blood on their hands despite the obsession they have with keeping them clean (subconscious guilt perhaps?) and I appreciated how this scene ties in to the overall story.

Janeway shuts down Torres outrage but in a touching scene she does give her the opportunity to attempt to get through to Harry Kims short term gf. I am left with hope by the end of this episode since the Enarans have the ability to transfer experience telepathically this historical cover up could become widespread knowledge quickly.

I wish we had this telepathic ability. It would be pretty crazy to be able to experience the lives of our ancestors hundreds (thousands?) of years in the past. Historical events would be passed down from generation to generation. That would be insane!

This is just a real jem of an episode.

Memory/History

[CharoleaWood · 10/10 · 23 April 2023]

Roxanne Dawson is incredible in this astonishing episode.

I don't really have anything to add that these other positive reviews haven't already stated, but I'm reminded of a quote from X-Files episode "The Blessing Way", said by Floyd Red Crow Westerman playing the character Albert Hosteen:

"There is an ancient saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it.

"My people have come to trust memory over history.

"Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth.

"Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise.

"Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth."

Essentially a rewrite of TNG episode Violations

[maddyjames-501-172593 · 2/10 · 27 December 2019]

I don't really understand another reviewer's commentary on how this episode is a 'parallel to the Holocaust,' - I think that's quite a grand statement to make, as most of the episode really doesn't focus on mass murder.

If I think if anyone else has seen the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode 'Violations' (1992) with a group of aliens who have telepathic abilities and who are entering the minds of various crewmembers without consent and damaging them. Eve Brenner stars as one of the aliens.

This episode of Voyager has a group of aliens who have telepathic abilities and who are entering the minds of one crew member without consent and damaging them. Eve Brenner stars as one of the aliens.

Honestly, I don't know what they were thinking with this episode. The 'story by' is Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky, who were both working on TNG at the same time, so they must have known they were re-using their own plots for the show.

The difference between 'Violations' and 'Remember' is the ending. Rather than being a sociopath who gets off on violating the minds of others (parallels to rape is clearly drawn within the episode), 'Remember' has an elderly woman who is trying to tell someone (B'Elanna) about the past horrors of her ow past and her society. This is where another reviewer feels this is a parallel to the Holocaust. However, I would argue strongly against this - the horrors are really only barely alluded to, and only in the last fifteen minutes. Most of the memories are more focused on the romance between a man and the woman giving B'Elanna the memories.

I would happily argue - and have, in various papers, that DS9 can easily be treated as a parallel to the post-war Holocaust, as seen with the Bajorans trying to recover from the Cardassian occupation. I would happily argue that this is something that Star Trek actually did very well - there's a wonderful episode, 'Duet,' that highlights this. In fact, years ago, I wrote a blog entry on just this:

Anyway, back to the Voyager episode. In this episode, the 'violation' that B'Elanna is experiencing - which is causing brain damage - is easily forgotten, unlike the TNG episode that directly addresses the fact that someone's mind is being entered and altered by someone else without consent.

There is an attempt to distinguish the ending, to make a statement about ignoring dark pasts, about reconciling wrong decisions, etc., but if that was really what they were trying to do, it could have been done in a way where that wasn't tacked on the end in the last 1/3 of the show, and could have been done in a way that didn't include rewriting a previous episode of a show they are technically spin-offs of.

In short, this is a poor re-write of a relatively forgetful episode of TNG - one that only tries to half-heartedly to distinguish itself 2/3 of the way in with vague and poorly executed fluff. Don't waste the 45 minutes, there's nothing redeeming in this episode at all.