They say that if you want to see how well media gets anything look at something they cover that you understand well and you will see that they understand almost nothing particularly well. And I am not saying I am an expert in pregnancy, but I am starting to learn enough for this episode to seem a bit silly. I guess it does make sense that B'Elanna's self loathing would come up again when she got pregnant, but they have done at least two episodes specifically about her getting over her self hatred already, do we really need another one? Also, I am not sure why Tom and B'Elanna thought their baby would stay secret, Icheb and Seven aren't exactly known for their tact or understanding of human cultural traditions.
We open with a shockingly friendly B'Elanna getting about her day until she collapses in engineering. Icheb scans her and finds a possibly hostile life form inside, her, Seven looks at the tricorder and tells the Doctor Torres is pregnant. Both she and Tom are surprised since it is allegedly hard for humans and Klingons to have kids despite all the evidence to the contrary in the various series. Tom starts stressing out and goes to Tuvok for guidance, Torres starts having flashbacks to childhood and really freaking out. Things get worse when the Doctor generates a hologram of the baby and B'Elanna sees that she has ridges on her forehead. Torres comes up with a plan to alter the babies DNA so she won't look Klingon but sells it to everybody as trying to deal with health issues. They all say no so she reprograms the Doctor and seals herself in sickbay until Tuvok forces to door open. In the end they decide it was all just pregnancy hormones and she and Tom work out their differences and she is allegedly ok with being Klingon again.
Review: In case it wasn't obvious from my super brief summary I thought this episode had some serious issues. Not much happens, which I would excuse if it also had good character development, but none of it really worked well for me.
3 out of 10
No comments:
Post a Comment