Voyager Reviewed! (by a pedant) S4E21: THE OMEGA DIRECTIVE

Seven finds religion.

[Unlimited_Lives]

Today's thought experiment: Give me your reasons why the Borg would refer to Omega as "number 2" (or number 10 if it was decimal, or 16 if it was hexadecimal). Basically, why isn't it 1?

[phillipfry]

Voyager be like "Oops, I guess we started a war with another species on behalf of the Federation, oh well" **flies away** **explosion in the background**

[CamMcGinn]

"Science thingy" gave me the biggest laugh ive had in a while.

Mate, I fucking love you and these awesome layperson reviews. ❤

[comentedonakeyboard]

Having all Computer Screens on the Ship blocked by an Omega sign (potentialy during a crisis) is just another "brilliant" idea by Starfleet.

[wendyheatherwood]

I'm thinking perhaps Janeway should have made a deal with the scientists making the omega molecules: We understand you desperately need power, but what you're doing is insanely dangerous, and we're saying this as people that sometimes let teenagers play with antimatter and design our ships bridges to look like big targets, so instead here's everything we know about non-suicidal methods of energy production and we'll even give you a really big battery and one of our industrial replicators to get started.

Sure, it's a massive breach of the Prime Directive but as Omega overrides that and it would give them an option that isn't the subspace death particle/molecule/whatever, who cares?

[captainyossarian]

Unlimited Lives' The Omega Directive review drinking game:
Every time you hear "...just in case you had forgotten this was a Seven of Nine episode." or variation, take a drink.
Every time Harry is deservedly mocked, take a drink.
Also great outro, I especially love the great screenshot of Janeway in mid-blink.

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0:59 The best way to keep your super secret, super important, Prime Directive overriding orders secret is to flash up a symbol on every console!? Can’t the computer just page Janeway to go to her laptop?

1:14 if I may be pedantic, that’s not the ready room, it’s the main turbolift to the bridge as she enters from almost directly behind the captain’s chair. Then she unlocks the computer and goes to the ready room.

3:00 Seven says in this scene that the Borg lost “29 vessels, 600, 000 drones” to Omega. Compare that to “Scorpion” where they lost 312 vessels, 4 million drones AND 8 planets to Species 8472. We already dealt with them, so Omega should be a doddle, right!?

These people that created Omega particles are meant to be pre-warp but have spaceships with weapons that are a match for Voyager, had the resources and knowledge to do all the Omega stuff to start with and the scientist guy seemed remarkably unphased after seeing multiple alien species in his lab? Or did I miss something?

13:25 Yet they did nothing to stop these aliens making more Omegas. So in a couple episodes Voyager could find itself unable to use warp after a strange subspace explosion emanating from behind them…

[zephyr]

The Omega directive softlocking the ship unless released by the captain is extremely amusing to me.

Starfleet actually implemented a feature that, if the captain is killed or incapacitated, will brick the entire starship until help arrives.
Now realise that if Janeway had died in any of the numerous random events since they got stranded, everyone on Voyager would be doomed to die drifting in space on a useless ship showing an Omega symbol on all it’s monitors forever.

Well done Starfleet. I didn't think you could get any lower than designing ships powered by antimatter bombs that have zero malware protection or sending civilians and children into space battles against the Borg.

[Mecharnie_Dobbs]

8:42 If I were that species, I wouldn't consider it a waste of resources, to locate an Omega research station on a plannet other than the one I live on.

[ssm]

Loved the review. Your right I think Janeway didn't see Seven as a human.

[Mecharnie_Dobbs]

11:11 Clearly these alien ship designs prioritize moving as fast as one can without access to warp capabilities, whereas Voyager is over-reliant on warping and can barely move without it.

[lutzderlurch]

In a universe filled with mostly hydrogen, stars and hydrogen-rich gas giants, the „oh no we have no energy source!!!!“ angle ist utter bullocks

[RememberTheChase]

This is another one of my favorite episodes! Love the review! And ironically I'm not sure if janway was treating seven as inhuman or just respecting that technically seven is from a whole nother culture, so profoundly different that they really are a different species regardless of being made up of hundreds of different species.

[BintyMcFrazzles]

I thought Seven calling the crew members numbers was hilarious. I think that was what the writers were simply after.

"Because fuck subtlety." 😅

[JordanElliottMcClure]

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[sanddagger]

4:01 There is a meme where Tuvoc doesn't want random aliens to call them friends and this fits in perfectly with it.

[PSjustanormalguy]

Did you notice right at the start, Seven typos the stardate, starting with 15 instead of 51..

[KertaDrake]

You know, it would actually be hilarious if the molecules actually were easy to stabilize, but it only works if you create a stupidly-dangerous amount of them so they can form that nice, neat, shape.

[sanddagger]

14:40 this is actually the start of a sort of rebellious phase in Kim that culminates in him getting the whole crew killed in the 100th episode "timeless"
Hooray, Kim will finally be getting some character development, in the complete opposite direction of his previous morals.
He wants to get home asap because he is just sick life in the delta quadrant.
While Tom is getting married and having the time of his life, Kim can't even get a date with another human or a promotion from Janeway, yet he still gets more responsibilities like managing the night shift.
It also plays a part in the final episode where he tries to convince the rest of the crew to sneak into a borg wormhole hub.
It's a little late, but at least they finally did something with his character.

[amylaneio]

Kim not wanting to take orders from Seven makes sense when you find out that the lines were originally written for B'Elanna, but were switched last minute when Roxann Dawson went into labor early, so couldn't participate in the episode anymore.