Voyager shows us how to stay hopeful even in the most hopeless situation. Eye of the needle really should be a bigger deal than it is. Voyager makes contact with a romulan ship through a wormhole that leads back to the alpha quadrant. The episode was created as a way to quickly get voyager back to the alpha quadrant in case the fans revolted against the shows premise. Eye of the needle season 1, episode 7 voyager torture. Like most new shows, the first few shows are a bit tentativewith characters still coming into their own and the shows not yet hitting their stride. Bader and bill dial and jeri taylor directed by winrich kolbe season 1, episode 6 production episode 107 original air date. Bader and bill dial and jeri taylor directed by winrich kolbe season 1, episode 6 production episode 107 original air. The cycle begins here, and the script for eye of the needle brilliant escalates each new development. Gizmodo ranked blink of an eye as the 46th out of 100 of the best of all star trek television episodes as of. Mar 01, 2016 on this weeks boldly going, we head to voyager for the romulan episode eye of the needle comment, like, subscribe and spread the word.
Do many star trek fans consider most vulcan characters unfit for command. The two ships must join together to make it back, facing treacherous. Voyager, this is my continuation of the episode 1x07 where the crew manages to make limited contact with the alpha quadrant through a very small wormhole. Voyager makes contact with a ship in the alpha quadrant, but it turns out to. There are solid comedy episodes like renaissance man. Blink of an eye is perhaps the last truly great episode of star trek. Eye of the needle sets a number of precedents for voyager none of them particularly. The episode was originally formatted as a teaser and five acts. Voyager is the first really, really good one in the series.
Voyager episode eye of the needle, airing 20 feb 1995. Voyagers visible presence has a great effect on the planets culture and technology, as centuries pass on the surface below. The show continues for seven years, so we know theyre not going to get home. Star trek online later that year, the voyager was part of the task force to push the borg out of fluidic space. Fyi emanations was the first episode of star trek i ever watched and it got me watching all the other shows. Eye of the needle by michelle erica green posted at january, 2004 1. I came across this star trek voyager fan fiction story about the letters written to the alpha quadrant by voyagers crew in the season one episode, eye of the needle. Season 1 season 2 season 3 season 4 season 5 season 6 season 7. When a wormhole presents itself to the crew of the voyager they get their hopes up, but its only the first season. Granted, voyager had not been lost for a very long time, and i imagine that many friends and family members of the crew didnt even know their loved ones were missing. Voyager, a story like eye of the needle should be an event. Voyager episode blink of an eye, voyager is stuck in orbit of a planet with a tachyon core which causes time on the planet to elapse at a much faster rate than normal. It should, at the very least, be a midseason finale.
In the episode, tom paris actually achieves this speed via a kind of transwarp technology developed for one of voyager s shuttles, resulting in weird consequences for the character and one of the star trek franchises most questionable products. There are effective homage episodes like author, author. And yet, here a romulan is, six episodes into the show. Its darker elements are the catalyst for so much of what makes it. Cory sticha discuss the dilemma of trying to convince an enemy to trust you about something completely improbable and desperately. The star trek franchise continues as the crew of the uss voyager follows a maquis ship into the badlands and ends up 70,000 light years from home. Eye of the needle when ensign kim finds a wormhole that might lead to the alpha quadrant, the crew believes they may have found a rapid route home. Though i think it would have been a more dramatic episode if it had aired later in voyagers run, eye of. Star trek voyager a thread for fans home theater forum. Although the opening to the tunnel in space proves too small for voyager to fly through, janeway decides to launch a microprobe into it to see whats on the other side. It premiered on upn on february 20, 1995 in this episode voyager discovers and explores the nature of a wormhole. Caretaker parallax time and again phage the cloud eye of the needle ex post facto emanations prime factors state of flux heroes and demons cathexis faces jetrel learning curve. Though i think it would have been a more dramatic episode if it had aired later in voyagers run, eye of the needle remains the best of the early.
The trek nation eye of the needle daily star trek news. Fastest form of travel in the star trek universe science. The crew has been scanning constantly for anomalies that might help us shorten our journey home. The book primarily pertains to the development of first season episodes caretaker and eye of the needle, but also included some limited information on later episodes from the first four seasons of the series. Voyager finally decides to shape up and get serious when the crew discovers a wormhole that leads to the alpha quadrantthats the good quadrant. A discussion in this thread got me thinking about something else about this episode. Voyager follow a maquis ship into the badlands, and one speciessaving decision later, find themselves in the delta quadrant, 70, 000 light years away from the alpha quadrant, the federation, and home. Vaughn armstrong, tom virtue, michael cumpsty, tarik ergin stardate. At the end of the episode eye of the needle, i say i would like to have a name, which i think is one of the. He would go on to make four more appearances in voyager, playing a borg, a vidiian, a hirogen and a klingon. Gizmodo ranked blink of an eye as the 46th out of 100 of the best of all star trek television episodes as of 2014. This is also his first time playing a romulan in a star trek series after having played klingons and cardassians in star trek. Harry kim discovers a wormhole which leads to the alpha quadrant. Out of the 16 episodes in the first season of star trek.
In the seventh episode of the first season of voyager, what a masterpiece. Even that image of picard having the borg needle inserted in his eye at the beginning of star trek. Enterprise in discussions of the franchises history and legacy, no matter how quietly influential the prequel series has become in terms of star trek beyond or star trek. Events on veridian iii, captain jeanluc picard is able to retrieve formerly lost captain james t. Voyager 19952001 is the third spinoff from the original star trek fourth if you count the animated series, but no one really does. Voyager there are good episodes that follow blink of an eye. Apr 19, 2018 indeed, it might even be possible to argue that blink of an eye is the last truly great episode of berman era star trek there is a tendency to overlook star trek. Eye of the needle went a long way toward underscoring the essential sadness and desperation of captain janeway kate mulgrew and her crew. The uss voyager remains in service under the command of rear admiral tuvok in 2409. In the episode, tom paris actually achieves this speed via a kind of transwarp technology developed for one of voyagers shuttles, resulting in weird consequences for the character and one of the star trek franchises most questionable products. While star trek as a whole is a wonderful franchise based on a great idea, its my view that by daring to do something different, and taking that idea in a totally new direction, voyager perfected it.
Eye of the needle season 1, episode 7 february 25, 2014. March 2020 also marked the release of her new book. The episode was also ranked as one of the top 10 episodes of star trek. Christie golden wrote a threenovel sequel to this episode, the dark matters trilogy, in which voyager once again encounters r. Ghost dance takes the tale much further and gets into the heart of.
This star trek spinoff won seven emmy awards and starred kate mulgrew as the first female captain. Voyager comes across a previouslyundiscovered wormhole, which holds open the possibility of getting the crew home. Yes, i would like to receive updates, special offers and other information from star. Eye of the needle is the seventh episode of the american science fiction television series star trek. Sep 29, 2014 eye of the needle really should be a bigger deal than it is. Block, lists this episode as one of the ten essential episodes from star trek. Eye of the needle voyager the secrets of star trek. Voyager was the first star trek series to use computergenerated imagery cgi, rather than models, for exterior space shots. Star trek has always been episodic, with each episode having a clear beginning, middle, and end, but this was difficult for voyager to maintain with the overarching conundrum that captain janeway and her crew were stuck in the delta quadrant on a journey home that would take seventyfive years. Its episode seven, so its never too early to do a maybe we can get home. The screenplay was written by bill dial and jeri taylor based on a story by hilary bader, and it was directed by winrich kolbe. Ive started watching voyager again from the beginning but only on season 1 so far. As cloak and dagger established the premise in which the author chose the character of romulan scientist telek rmor from star trek voyagers first season episode of eye of the needle and the events of that episode and has expounded upon them beautifully in this trilogy.
One of my favorite ones is in the episode the eye of the needle, which is early season one. On this weeks boldly going, we head to voyager for the romulan episode eye of the needle comment, like, subscribe and spread the word. Voyager encounters a wormhole which leads to the alpha quadrant, but when the. Uss voyager memory beta, noncanon star trek wiki fandom. With kate mulgrew, robert beltran, roxann dawson, jennifer lien.
Forgotten about eye of the needle which i thought was really good and really enjoyed emanations again. Eye of the needle and 10 related entities entities finder. Merritt butrick was kirks son david and tjon on the next generation, marc alaimo was a romulan on tng before becoming gul dukat on deep space nine, suzie plakson was worfs lover kehlayr as well as a. Voyager s premise is that a bunch of people are 70 years from home and feeling mighty lonesome. The novel also involves a human space ship observing the extremely rapid evolution of a society on a star about which. When the voyager crew encounters a wormhole and makes. Aboard the uss voyager, captain kathryn janeway notes in her log that ensign harry.
Voyager comes across a previouslyundiscovered wormhole, which holds open the. Eye of the needle is the seventh episode of the american science fiction. Voyager is a reference book which provides a behindthescenes look at the creation of star trek. In theory, you could go any place in the wink of an eye. Voyager s visible presence has a great effect on the planets culture and technology, as centuries pass on the surface below. In 2402, the uss voyager made first contact with the lorians, an avian species.
The wildly successful star trek franchise continues as capt. Feb 10, 2020 eye of the needle written by hilary j. Still, being able to inform them of what happened was a big deal. But that may be the least of the problems with this particular shortcut.