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With all the negative Star Trek News fans to bear it recently, it is important to remember good times.
The best time in Star Trek will be our favorite nodes forever.
The nineties!
The nineties of the last century were the Golden Era Trek, with many successful trips and three different series.
It runs from 1995 to 2001, Star Trek: Voyager The last of this series was, as well as the last TV effort in Star Trek to get seven full seasons.
Despite many attempts, no offer has been accomplished since then.
over time VoyagerNot only did it grow to the extent that Captain Janouway is now a coffee and seven of nine loved characters pressed by fans to get their own series.
Star Trek: Voyager He had a rise and a decline, but the biggest show occurred in one specific episode.
Best episode of Star Trek: Voyager
“Moderation” is a story that might be – a harsh glimpse into what Voyager Its crew could have become abandoning their principles.
It was broadcast in the first show of the fifth season and the first show in the sixth season in 1999, and this Clifhanger, consisting of two parts of its fans, came during the period of stopping the show in the same way Next generation“The best in both worlds Part 1 and 2” was a decade ago.
Five years before the events of the episode, Al -Ittihad Championship Voyager They were stranded in a remote galaxy by the Chargé d’Affaires, an entity who left them facing a 70 -year trip.
Designed to support Starfleet values, VoyagerThe crew create a path to the ground.
Without their knowledge, another union ship, moderationThey were cut off by the Chargé d’Affairs.
Nova scientific ship with a crew of only 78, moderation He had a limited arms and a maximum speed of Warp 8, compared to VoyagerBold class design, which is proud of 141 crew personnel, advanced weapons and a maximum twisting speed 9.975.
Contrary to what is better Voyagerthe moderation The crew chose a darker path, but this is not clear at first.
when Voyager Facing moderation After five years in an enemy area, they found a ship that was beaten by mysterious strange forces.
These attacks on nucleosin with multi -dimensional rusts, which were filmed with the leading CGI, consumed an integral part of the episode’s budget for its ethereal design. the moderation It is chaos, its crew is destroyed.
“Tell me if my legs are still present.” This raw line, was completely improvised by actor Rick Worth as crew, Noah Lesning.
Another crew jumps from debris, and violently shoots the invaders who are not present before the collapse, while the remaining survivors are almost shocking.
the moderationThe dilapidated interior, inspired by the submarine war films like Dress the preliminaryIt contradicts sharply with VoyagerAesthetic Starfleet virgin, focusing on despair.
Janeway and its crew are happy with great happiness to find another union ship in the quarter of the Delta, jumped to help their fellow officers Starfleet, and will work to reform their ship and work to develop a defense against the attackers.
the moderationCaptain, Rudolph Ransum (played by John Savage), an officer in Starflete who has previously respected, claims that they do not know why they were targeted by these creatures.
The truth is much darker: Ransom crew discovered that multi -dimensional creatures can be killed and converted into superpower for payment.
Abandoning the rules and morals of Starfleet, they were slaughtering foreigners to accelerate their journey to the home.
The ransom defends despair – motivation, death, destruction – but VoyagerThe crew, led by Captain Janouway (Kate Molgro), rejects his excuses.
When Janeway tries to arrest them, moderation The crew escapes, harmful Voyager And leave them vulnerable to revenge foreigners.
Jeanway was angry. On the two islands, it risked the life of its crew to stop the ransom, threatening to kill moderation The staff to obtain information, reduces its first officer, Chakotai, from service when he challenges her near orders.
This Janeway was darker, at the time a bold exit from its diplomatic base. Kate Mulgrew takes advantage of this, as she made one of her most involved shows, while actors are thrived on a text that gives everyone a moment.
In the past, Mulgrew admitted that her heart was not always in her work. She struggled with personal issues throughout most of the show production, and there was a conflict between her and Jerry Ryan, which often explodes tension on the group.
But for these rings, the scene chewed. Janeway becomes fans who are unavoidable-a revenge trading for revenge, causing Captain Kirk to be dumping on his shoulder.
The book, Braanon Braga and Joe Minuski, deliberately directed this The original series“Energy, and its grounding in VoyagerClasses.
The most sub -subtivable plot of seven of nine (Jerry Ryan) and the doctor (Robert Picardo), a student and teacher, is a prisoner on moderation.
Ransom rewrites the doctor’s program, and turns the therapist into a serious world. While the doctor is tormented by seven, he digs in her brain in a procedure that he can kill, he treats her to sing “dear Clemine” as a sick dizziness.
Director David Livingstone chose this popular song because of its strange simplicity, a decision at the last minute that became creative. He hesitates in depth moderationAmazing intestine, seven voices forced to sing to sweet harmony while killing her best friend, unforgettable.
By the end of the episode, nothing is safe. The barrier explodes, breaking relationships, not everything forgives.
I resulted. “Moderation” was decisive and encouraging, and praised its extensive performance, moral complexity, and cinematic quality.
1999 TV guide It is called a review “Voyager In her show, “While opinion polls in the early 1990s, Trekweb ranked among the best series.
Its legacy lasts, with the fans still discussing the morals of Janeway and the arrangement of “moderation” alongside “the year of hell” and “Scorpio” VoyagerThe best hours.
The episode was greatly affected later a trip Offers, with Star Trek: MiracleTheir book cited the exploration of moral gray areas as an inspiration for the 2024 season.
Directed by David Livingstone, “Moderation” appears to be an epic feature instead of a TV episode. This is part of the reason for continuing to work well, after decades.
But at the time, the show network did not want to show, to achieve this. UPN, which will continue to interfere with, destroy and cancel Star Trek: Enterprise, insisted that they prefer independent episodes over the series to attract ordinary viewers.
However, the previous success in Star Trek Voyager’s Season 4 Multi-Parter, “Year of Hell” gave the book and Livingston the financial lever to bargain for a more ambitious story-based story.
A a trip The veteran with 62 episodes across the concession, and the Levingstone also pushed and got a longer shooting schedule than usual. He had 10 days to work in each episode, instead of 7 usual for photography in each episode.
Use Levingstone portable cameras and dim lighting, inspired by Dress the preliminaryFor a brave cinematic feeling that would work within the budget restrictions and time.
The actors’ team was widely trained to show emotional density, with a million and brutal interconnections against their joint theatrical backgrounds to improve their confrontations.
For Kate Molgro, the episode was one of her most prominent career. In 2003 Star Trek DVD, called it “The episode in which we all brought our A A game,” Livingston classifies among his favorite experiences in his career.
“Moderation” is not only VoyagerIt is the best episode – it’s a glimpse of what the series could be if it is allowed to pay the border.
Many of the “Hell Year” cite the fourth season as the height of the series, but the “Hell Year” was the beginning of the beginning VoyagerRisks. He indicated a willingness to break from VoyagerOften a fixed formula, which is a mentality that peaks with “moderation”.
Moderation picks up Voyager In its most accurate, explore what is happening when the example of Septellite collapses under pressure.