As Neelix's cooking sickens Voyager itself, Tuvok runs the four most problematic Maquis malcontents through a Starfleet-style boot camp.As Neelix's cooking sickens Voyager itself, Tuvok runs the four most problematic Maquis malcontents through a Starfleet-style boot camp.As Neelix's cooking sickens Voyager itself, Tuvok runs the four most problematic Maquis malcontents through a Starfleet-style boot camp.
Roxann Dawson
- Lt. B'Elanna Torres
- (as Roxann Biggs-Dawson)
David Keith Anderson
- Ensign Ashmore
- (uncredited)
Johnetta Anderson
- Holographic Bar Patron
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Captain Janeway tells the two holonovel children that she hopes to be a friend to them as well as a governess, Henry replies in Latin, "In ullam rem ne properemus." This means in English "Let's not rush into anything."
- GoofsWhen Ensign Kim reported all communications are down, Captain Janeway immediately calls Engineering over the com system. If communications were down at that moment she shouldn't have been able to contact Lieutenant Torres.
- Quotes
B'Elanna Torres: Get the cheese to sickbay. The Doctor should look at it as soon as possible.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force (2000)
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Lower Maquis Decks
How does a piece of cheese cause Tuvok to take a small group of Maquis "students" under his "wing"?
You'll have to watch this to find out. Crewman Dalby (Armand Schultz - Vanilla Sky) is a Maquis crewman who was just going about his business, mainly, fixing things when they needed to be fixed without checking on if the repair process itself would cause even more inconvenience. It does, and it interferes with something that the Captain is doing- which turns this into a huge, shipwide issue that Tuvok has to deal with.
This thing about checking with your superior before doing any random fix-it job, this is that tiny little thing called "Starfleet protocol", which basically rubs Maquis crewmen the wrong way. The very beginning of this episode is the textbook example of why, on a starship, not just a starship but on any military vessel, you can't just do things that you perceive need to be done. The chain of command has to be checked with to make sure that the planned operation does not turn into a catastrophe. This is true with the US military as it is here in Starfleet.
But on Voyager we don't exactly have the ideal crew situation. Because that small Maquis vessel that Chakotay flew into the Kazon/Trabe ship in the Pilot Episode? Which was so small that we originally thought had only four people crewing it, had possibly 30 Maquis inside.
We had seen those ships before on TNG and in Deep Space Nine, and in those shows they always appeared to be 4-man vessels.
So now, in Voyager, we find out that this particular Maquis ship had many more people inside of it.
Ok, so we just have to accept it, then.
We had been meeting a lot of these people in the previous episodes. So it just comes down to suspending disbelief and agreeing that those ships could hold many more people, maybe they were "Tesseract" ships, like the ship from the future that they found in "Enterprise"- much larger on the inside than it appeared on the outside.
So... crewman Dalby, after being confronted by Tuvok, makes "protocol" into a new Maquis dirty word... which then makes it also Chakotay's problem.
So a Maquis "Lower Decks Club" has to be formed.
Which included: a Bolian (Derek McGrath) as the talkative Crewman Chell... A Bajora, Crewman Gerron (Kenny Morrison, who was Atreyu in The Never-Ending Story II)... A girl with a festive bandana (Catherine MacNeal as Crewoman Henley), as well as Dalby.
These have become Tuvok's new students. But Tuvok is at an impasse with himself because he is frustrated at his inability to be able to teach these kids a single thing. Everything that he attempts, fails miserably.
But what we have here is a pretty good story about how something that was merely an inconvenience turns into a shipwide emergency focusing on these four "students", eventually becoming a bonding experience that neither they, nor Tuvok, ever expected.
I think it is unfortunate that we were introduced to these characters in this way but we only ever saw crewman Chell ever again. They could have and should have been used more, especially in the episode where the Seska hologram takes over the ship... or the episode where the disgraced Vedek programs Tuvox's brain from the Alpha quadrant, who then uses Tuvok to ignite a small Maquis rebellion on the ship... there was even an episode where Janeway takes on a small Lower Decks Club of her own, needless to say that there were also the crewmen left over from the starship Equinox.
But this episode was merely a 1st Season interlude. Not too many dire things had happened to Voyager... Yet. In this episode the focus is the Maquis lower decks but also on one of Neelix's big cooking blunders.
What is hilarious about this episode is that the small thing that Neelix attempted to do revealed a severe design flaw with those double blasted "Bio-Neural Gel Packs", The Starfleet engineer that thought up the tech did not consider that things having biological "circuitry" can get sick, and the pack would need to be able to recover from that illness the same way a person would recover from it.
Fortunately a solution was thought of by the Doctor, but how in 57 inferno blazes can Be'elana make it happen?
You'll have to watch this to find out. Crewman Dalby (Armand Schultz - Vanilla Sky) is a Maquis crewman who was just going about his business, mainly, fixing things when they needed to be fixed without checking on if the repair process itself would cause even more inconvenience. It does, and it interferes with something that the Captain is doing- which turns this into a huge, shipwide issue that Tuvok has to deal with.
This thing about checking with your superior before doing any random fix-it job, this is that tiny little thing called "Starfleet protocol", which basically rubs Maquis crewmen the wrong way. The very beginning of this episode is the textbook example of why, on a starship, not just a starship but on any military vessel, you can't just do things that you perceive need to be done. The chain of command has to be checked with to make sure that the planned operation does not turn into a catastrophe. This is true with the US military as it is here in Starfleet.
But on Voyager we don't exactly have the ideal crew situation. Because that small Maquis vessel that Chakotay flew into the Kazon/Trabe ship in the Pilot Episode? Which was so small that we originally thought had only four people crewing it, had possibly 30 Maquis inside.
We had seen those ships before on TNG and in Deep Space Nine, and in those shows they always appeared to be 4-man vessels.
So now, in Voyager, we find out that this particular Maquis ship had many more people inside of it.
Ok, so we just have to accept it, then.
We had been meeting a lot of these people in the previous episodes. So it just comes down to suspending disbelief and agreeing that those ships could hold many more people, maybe they were "Tesseract" ships, like the ship from the future that they found in "Enterprise"- much larger on the inside than it appeared on the outside.
So... crewman Dalby, after being confronted by Tuvok, makes "protocol" into a new Maquis dirty word... which then makes it also Chakotay's problem.
So a Maquis "Lower Decks Club" has to be formed.
Which included: a Bolian (Derek McGrath) as the talkative Crewman Chell... A Bajora, Crewman Gerron (Kenny Morrison, who was Atreyu in The Never-Ending Story II)... A girl with a festive bandana (Catherine MacNeal as Crewoman Henley), as well as Dalby.
These have become Tuvok's new students. But Tuvok is at an impasse with himself because he is frustrated at his inability to be able to teach these kids a single thing. Everything that he attempts, fails miserably.
But what we have here is a pretty good story about how something that was merely an inconvenience turns into a shipwide emergency focusing on these four "students", eventually becoming a bonding experience that neither they, nor Tuvok, ever expected.
I think it is unfortunate that we were introduced to these characters in this way but we only ever saw crewman Chell ever again. They could have and should have been used more, especially in the episode where the Seska hologram takes over the ship... or the episode where the disgraced Vedek programs Tuvox's brain from the Alpha quadrant, who then uses Tuvok to ignite a small Maquis rebellion on the ship... there was even an episode where Janeway takes on a small Lower Decks Club of her own, needless to say that there were also the crewmen left over from the starship Equinox.
But this episode was merely a 1st Season interlude. Not too many dire things had happened to Voyager... Yet. In this episode the focus is the Maquis lower decks but also on one of Neelix's big cooking blunders.
What is hilarious about this episode is that the small thing that Neelix attempted to do revealed a severe design flaw with those double blasted "Bio-Neural Gel Packs", The Starfleet engineer that thought up the tech did not consider that things having biological "circuitry" can get sick, and the pack would need to be able to recover from that illness the same way a person would recover from it.
Fortunately a solution was thought of by the Doctor, but how in 57 inferno blazes can Be'elana make it happen?
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