Jellyn’s Collection of Curiosities

Summary: The crew is in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

Kes is only now turning 2? I thought she was older than that.. I should’ve made a note of it when I wrote up Elogium.

The birthday cake is really pretty. Although it looks like fondant and while I like fondant, I think I’d rather have gobs of frosting.

Why is a necklace worth two weeks of replicator rations? Takes more energy to make jewelry than food?

You can’t repeat the word ‘phenomenon’ like that without making me think of Muppets singing!!

Ooo, fudge cake.

Maybe I just want cake.

Oh, security guy, who keeps talking. That’s not good news for you, dude. Stop running into the main characters and go hide!

‘sweeting’ is a cool term of endearment.

Apparently all roads lead to Holodeck 2.

Did anyone try the jeffrey’s tubes?

Ah, now Kim suggests it. And the CC tells me it’s spelled Jefferies Tube.

*snickers* Actual acting. Janeway asking Chakotay if it’s okay if Neelix helps him with the tracking. The body language, the look. Perfect.

This is my type of episode. Something weird is going on, and they have to figure out the limits of that weirdness. What’s weird? What’s normal? What are the new rules we’re operating under? Plus, it’s all taking place on the ship. So we get to see glimpses into life on a starship that maybe we haven’t seen before.

Neelix’s jealousy is getting tiresome though. Well, no, it started off tiresome.

Of course Neelix wandered off.

All of this walking around is rather slow. They should get out some hoverboards or golf carts or something.

They all keep ending up back in the holodeck. Even Kim and Tuvok, who weren’t there originally. And yet the rest of the crew _isn’t_.

I can’t say I understand this twisting of the ship and how that put quarters on different decks right next to each other.

Seriously? Seriously? They’re standing around arguing whether or not they should do something to try to stop it in the next 3 minutes? Considering they don’t have any other ideas, and very limited resources, there probably _isn’t_ anything they could do in 3 minutes anyway. So maybe Tuvok just started the argument to give them a diversion. A way to pass the time until they meet their Doooooooom.

The Tivo says the argument wasted a minute and a half. And, now another minute while Tuvok and Chakotay air their grievances with each other and kiss and make up. Another minute while various people talk things out. Another minute while Torres and Chakotay pray.

I wonder how much a gigaquad of information is.

You know, now that I’ve thought about it for a few minutes..

It’s really arrogant to think that your reality is the _right_ reality and/or the _best_ reality. You think you’re better off back on Voyager? You think Voyager is better off with you back on Voyager? You think the universe is better off with you back on Voyager? Even Paris isn’t necessarily better off back on Voyager, until the part where you get him killed.

Because, look, eventually someone in Starfleet is going to listen to you. Especially if you stop running around like a madman. And you can tell them Voyager is in the Delta Quadrant. And maybe that won’t be particularly helpful, but it’s _something_. And you can tell them about the Romulan guy who was sent back with a message. Maybe that won’t come to anything. Maybe it didn’t happen without you and Paris there. But, hey, it’s something, isn’t it? It’s not nothing!

And there’s other things you learned that you could tell people. Like those bio-whatever gelpacks should be kept away from stinky cheese.

And your fiancee would have you around. And you wouldn’t be stuck in the Delta Quadrant. And Paris wouldn’t be stuck in the Delta Quadrant.

And, hey, you know what, knowing that Tuvok was a Starfleet spy would’ve been proof of something, wouldn’t it? And you could’ve dished the dirt on everyone on the Maquis ship (who survived to get on Voyager in any case). Might’ve gone a little way towards convincing them you weren’t a Maquis spy. See the part above about someone eventually listening to you.

So, really, dude, you should’ve stayed where you were. You shouldn’t have dissed this new reality just because it wasn’t what you were used to.

And now, to bed. Maybe I’ll wake up in a shuttlecraft.

Summary: Harry’s washed ashore on Earth, with no way to get back to where he came from. But he’s hoping, with Tom’s help, that his next leap, will be the leap home. Except, that, technically, he _is_ home. So it’s a weird choice he makes to go back to Voyager. That’s home now, is it?

So Harry’s dreaming. What else is new? If it’s not a holodeck simulation, it’s someone tripping on something. Because, heaven forbid, they have to go have adventures with aliens, on alien planets.

I’m surprised his girlfriend appears to be someone he lives with, or at least spends his nights with. The impression I got was it was just someone he was seeing, going out with. He doesn’t seem to worry about being faithful for very long; dating the Delaney sisters and whatnot. Which is I think what gave me that impression.

Vulcan mocha? Extra sweet? That doesn’t sound at _all_ logical!

Ah, at least the fiancee thing is new. I guess time would have passed, so maybe they weren’t as far along in their relationship when he left.

*scrolls back, or, well, the Tivo equivalent* The memorial service was two months ago. But I guess they could’ve waited awhile before holding one. So it’s been no less than two months, but possibly more.

Now he just told her to pretend they hadn’t seen each other for ‘months’.

She’s got a cute nose in profile.

I think it’d freak me out to try to sleep in a bed in a big open apartment like that with the giant windows. Even if you could cover the windows with blinds (which I see rolled up at the top) or tint them with awesome Federation technology.

“Tom.”

“Who the hell are you?”

And that’s where they cut for a commercial? Did we really expect Paris would have any other reaction upon seeing Harry?

Cute mysterious guy in the bar.

I guess knowing the security access codes doesn’t even count as a ‘shred’ of evidence?

Anklet? That’s the best they can do? That they put on /over/ his pants, so how secure is that?

Oh, I wondered if I was supposed to recognize that guy in the bar. Like I was supposed to remember what the coffee guy looked like.

I think it’s a little weird that the alien dude has an accent. Nobody at Starfleet has one. Maybe it’s drilled out of them at the Academy? Clearly the guy with the foreign accent isn’t even human. Silly foreigners.

What’s the point of tampering with the anklet and then running? Wouldn’t it make more sense to get to a transporter, or a huge crowd scene, or something and _then_ tamper with it? So you have a chance of getting somewhere they won’t find you? Rather than being hot on your heels from the get-go!

And, anyway, he’s wearing a combadge! There’s no gps locator in that?

Yea, so convenient Paris has a portkey site-to-site transporter that he can hold in his hand. How does that even work? And what rubbish security they have in Starfleet! Let’s let anyone beam in anytime they want.

Oh, well, at least security _noticed_ the beaming in. And it’ll take them another 20 seconds to get there. Because it’s not like you couldn’t beam in, plant a bomb, beam out, and watch it explode from a safe distance while security is still 15 seconds away from getting there.

It’s not clear to me that the shuttlecraft was destroyed or lost, but I think it was. So I’m going to count that as 2 down. It was called ‘Drake’, so we’ll see if it shows up again.

Summary: Elogium = Ocampan Pon Farr

If you’re going to smooch in a turbolift, at least hold it so the first officer doesn’t catch you at it.

This is apparently the ‘spring is in the air’ episode. Though Neelix should be more worried about the doctor than Paris when it comes to Kes. And why is Chakotay suddenly worried about ‘fraternization’? Paris and Kim were hooking up with the Delaney sisters since like episode 2. And there was another couple he felt sure would disembark on that Amelia Earhart planet.

Okay. Kes eating the pretty beetles is a little strange.

The flagellating space thingees are going to eat them!

What’s up with that blond woman whose shown up in several scenes now? Chakotay gonna hook up with her?

I think Janeway’s a _little_ too interested in Kes and her procreation.

Neelix is so worried about taking care of a baby, but it would be at least half Ocampan. It wouldn’t be a baby baby for very long.

Oh, okay, the space thingees don’t want to eat them. Just mate with them.

If Ocampans live to about 9, then the odds that they’d have a parent around to do the feet-rubbing aren’t very good.

Tuvok: It appears we have lost our sex appeal, Captain.

I’m sure that line has been used in more than one fanvid.

Ah, here’s the blond chick. I guess she’s not for Chakotay.

Whoa, dude, wait, how long have they been in the Delta Quadrant? She only just found out she’s pregnant? Surely it’s been more than a month or so!! Well, wait, maybe she’s not human…

Maybe.. she looked pretty human.

I wonder if this episode was for ratings week, with all the sexx0r!

Summary: The holographic doc goes on a trippy trip with Broccoli.

The EMH is activated in sickbay and nobody’s on board the ship. You know, now that we know he can be transferred to the holodeck, how does he ever know when he’s actually in sickbay or when he’s in the holodeck in the middle of a simulation or holonovel? That it just looks like sickbay. That the computer didn’t just tell him no one was on board, as part of the holoprogram? Hmmmmm?

In fact, that may be the case. I don’t really remember this episode.

Why do they have desks? The doctor has this swivel console, laptop-looking thing apparently attached to his desk. He might set a PADD or even two down there. But what else is a desk for? To hold photos or knicknacks? You apparently don’t have the flotsam and jetsam of a desk of today. Papers, books, paperclips, pens, staplers, mice, usb drives, etc etc. So why have a desk? Why not just a chair?

It seems more and more like a holoprogram of some sort, because we’re focussing on the doctor. We’re not anywhere he’s not, even though there’s apparently other people still on board. But perhaps that’s just all too easy to guess from the title of the episode.

Of course it could also all be a dream.

Hrm. I thought the Doctor had picked a name for himself. He picked Livingston and then gave it up. But then I thought he’d picked something else and we just hadn’t heard what it was yet. And of course I thought he’d picked Zimmerman. But just now he reacted to the name as if it was his creator’s and not even possibly his own. So did he pick a name yet or not? And was it Zimmerman or not?

Barclay says it’s all a simulation — Voyager, the crew, everything. You know, like how certain television shows try to end the entire series?! So at least we know that isn’t the case, since it’s not the last episode.

Well, so, it was sort of both. The holodeck and a dream.

And Kes is cruel to ask him if he’s sure he’s the EMH on Voyager. When he just got done piecing his identity back together!