Repentance
- Episode aired Jan 31, 2001
- TV-PG
- 43m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
1.8K
YOUR RATING
Voyager rescues a prison warden and a set of prisoners that are scheduled to be executed testing their own ethical beliefs.Voyager rescues a prison warden and a set of prisoners that are scheduled to be executed testing their own ethical beliefs.Voyager rescues a prison warden and a set of prisoners that are scheduled to be executed testing their own ethical beliefs.
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Tim DeZarn
- Warden Yediq
- (as Tim deZarn)
Robert Axelrod
- Egrid
- (uncredited)
Michael Bailous
- Voyager Ops Officer
- (uncredited)
Tarik Ergin
- Lt. Ayala
- (uncredited)
Peter Scott Harmyk
- Crewman Thompson
- (uncredited)
Clay Hodges
- Benkaran Prisoner
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe novel "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess is a strong influence behind "Repentance."
- GoofsEarly in, a bowl gets thrown at a force field in the 'new brig', and bounces off. Later, The Doctor is holding a Padd and walks through a Force Field in the Med Bay. Though The Doctor is a Hologram, the Padd shouldn't have been able to pass through the force field.
- Quotes
[Iko takes The Doctor hostage]
The Doctor: I'm a hologram. I can't be harmed.
[Tuvok shoots his phaser through The Doctor and stuns Iko]
The Doctor: I think you proved my point.
- ConnectionsReferences A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Featured review
A good allegorical episode, but not quite a great one.
A number viewpoints on the nature of guilt and approaches to corrections are explored here in cursory, but thoughtful ways that needn't be reiterated here. What is interesting is that the A and B stories present us with two types of inmates to present these ideas, the first is a sociopath who is definitely guilty of his crimes, and the second is a model prisoner whose a member of an ethnic minority that is over represented within the society's penal system. The former explores neurobiology as it relates to culpability when it comes to violent crime, while the other introduces the idea of structural inequality in the criminal justice system.
The episode gives addresses the A story with an acceptable amount with intellectual rigor, while kind of unforgivably punting on the subject of bias in corrections in the B story. What makes the latter so infuriating is that idea is treated as naive by beloved characters whose skepticism serves as foreshadowing for a not terribly unpredictable twist. Systemic inequality was then and is now a far more pertinent subject for this type of allegory, and deserved better treatment than what happens in this episode.
Crime hawks will not be entirely satisfied with this episode. Abolitionists will be let down entirely. But those who never find themselves thinking about these issues at all may find themselves engaging with some new ideas here.
The episode gives addresses the A story with an acceptable amount with intellectual rigor, while kind of unforgivably punting on the subject of bias in corrections in the B story. What makes the latter so infuriating is that idea is treated as naive by beloved characters whose skepticism serves as foreshadowing for a not terribly unpredictable twist. Systemic inequality was then and is now a far more pertinent subject for this type of allegory, and deserved better treatment than what happens in this episode.
Crime hawks will not be entirely satisfied with this episode. Abolitionists will be let down entirely. But those who never find themselves thinking about these issues at all may find themselves engaging with some new ideas here.
- brianpnorton
- Feb 27, 2022
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Details
- Runtime43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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