tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781870463849113009.post4812295501056066205..comments2024-03-15T04:29:00.751-04:00Comments on W.L. Swarts Reviews The Universe: The Rescue Of The Voyager Crew From The Soap Opera Of The First Part Is “Workforce, Part II”W.L. Swartshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09974654586026013850noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781870463849113009.post-79430065711610726732013-02-16T13:07:34.800-05:002013-02-16T13:07:34.800-05:00Interesting take on the two-parters! I think, for...Interesting take on the two-parters! I think, for my preferences, I would add Deep Space Nine's "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost" and "Improbable Cause"/"The Die Is Cast" and "In Purgatory's Shadow"/"By Inferno's Light." :) I recall being especially disappointed whenever a first and second part really told two different stories - TNG's "Descent 1 & 2" standing out at my best example. I am so happy they didn't make "Relics" a two-parter! :)<br /><br />As for "Workforce," I found myself pleasantly surprised by it.<br /><br />Thanks for reading and thanks for the comment!W.L. Swartshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09974654586026013850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1781870463849113009.post-58947170585500791342013-02-13T19:01:14.045-05:002013-02-13T19:01:14.045-05:00Hi,
This story was enjoyable, I always appreciate...Hi,<br /><br />This story was enjoyable, I always appreciate to see the crew in an unfamiliar territory. The sets of the factory are amazing and realistic. And this time, this is a Captain Janeway's lovestory that is really believable (not like in Season 5's Counterpoint).<br /><br />But when it comes to two-part episodes, I always find that the episode could have been more intense and straight to the point if it was made as a one-part episode only.<br /><br />What I love in series is to see how the writers come up with very different stories and I think that since the Next Generation, they used this excuse to make two-parters in a not so suttle way to avoid inventing new stories : it's a win-win situation for them : it increases easily the number of episodes of the show without getting too many headaches thinking about new stories to come up with. And it certainly saves them a lot of money too, I'm sure.<br /><br />And there are really not so much two-part episodes that are that so action-packed that they have no place for filler scenes in Star Trek. In those kind of episodes you always get bored at one moment or another except in maybe : <br /><br />- STC's The cage<br />- TNG's Unification, Time's arrow, Chain of command<br />- DS9's Way of the warrior, The search, Past Tense<br />- VOY's Scorpion or<br />- ENTERPRISE's ShockwaveDanielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00649622666635020638noreply@blogger.com