Voyager Rewatch – Tattoo
Summary: Chakotay has flashbacks in the jungle.
Well, the title alone wasn’t enough for me to know it was about Chakotay. But it didn’t take long for me to realize it. And, oh yes, Chakotay’s dad is Zorro’s dad!
Seriously, the doctor can’t even give her a painkiller? His only answer is ‘live with it’ followed by ‘we’ll decrease the sensitivity of the nerve if we have to’. He’s seriously got no pain blockers that he can give a pregnant woman?
And then Kes says he’s never been sick or in pain in his life, and that’s not true. Since there was at least one episode where him feeling pain was a big issue. Was it the trippy one where he thought he was the real Doctor Zimmerman?
Make a note. If you ever might get lost in the Delta Quadrant, bring extra shuttlecraft. They’re always having trouble transporting to these places.
So Chakotay was accepted to Starfleet at 15? That seems young. I guess I assumed the human kids would be 17-18 at least.
And how the frell did that emergency beam-out work? Without generating a storm?
Um.. ancient tribe on Earth in Central America who have head bumps?
Now a storm blows up and Tuvok has no explanation? How about the transport you just did a few minutes ago? You know, the thing you thought was causing the storms before?
Another emergency beam-out right in the middle of the storm. So why couldn’t they beam them _into_ the storm?
Oh yea, Kes, look all innocent. I know it was you that reprogrammed the doctor’s flu.
That shuttle is gone. Let’s see if they get it back.
Somehow I don’t think it’s Starfleet protocol to get naked in a jungle to try to make contact.
Going to land Voyager, huh? Did they officially run out of shuttlecraft? Or can the Captain not land on a planet unless she lands the entire ship?
Now Voyager’s trapped in a cyclone. You’d think she would’ve learned a thing or two about landing on planets after losing so many shuttlecraft.
Well, Chakotay, if you hadn’t taken off your combadge, you wouldn’t be having troubles communicating with them!!
Randomly, they’ve found the shuttle now.
Okay, so I realized that, duh, if he had his combadge, they would’ve been able to talk to him and beam him out. So he must’ve lost it. So after the ep was over, I jumped back to see if it had gotten damaged. But it seems like he just lost it when the tree branch landed on him. But his tricorder is still working, because he scans for the shuttle. Can’t he scan for his combadge? Even if it wasn’t (for some reason) emitting a signal, it should be the only concentrated bit of gold in the near vicinity.
Am I overthinking things? :)
And it struck me that Chakotay’s all ‘we’ve changed, etc’ and then the away team that comes in to rescue him with phasers at the ready are all non-humans. (Well, Torres is half. And speaking of, you’d think she would’ve been needed on the ship to repair any damage the storm caused or to re-re-route the power.)
Anyhow, the end.
K Said,
August 13, 2010 @ 10:55 pm
Yeah, this episode really did not make much sense.
But we know from TNG that the minimum age to attend Starfleet Academy is 16, but you can take the tests when you’re 15.