When Voyager was first broadcast, we didn't yet have the Fediverse... we had Usenet. I saved a little sample reaction to "Threshold".
From: [email protected] (Carlos May)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.startrek.voyager,alt.slack,alt.fan.tito,alt.sex.extraterrestrial
Subject: Re: Is Star Trek Voyager a comedy??
Organization: Planet Of The Frogs [email protected] wrote:
[snip...]
: When the Shuttle hits Warp 10, all of a sudden, the Ensign
: and Captain Janeway are "everywhere" (sounds like the Infinite
: Improbability Drive to me) and they "evolve ten million years".
: Finally the Enterprise locates the missing Ensign and Captain.
: They are lizards or newts or something and Janeway has just given
: birth to a bunch of little newts.
@allstartrek
Yeah, that was sorta pandering. I mean, like what Star Trek
fan HASN'T fantasized about knocking up Captain Janeway then watching her give birth to a litter of salamanders?
@allstartrek
: The crew takes Janeway and
: her common-law-husband back to the Enterprise (but they leave
: her babies on the planet -- HOW HORRIBLE!!).
Yeah, I think they are setting up what will be the major
themes of the next season:
Janeway's ever growing angst about her lost lizard babies.
She suffers post-partem depression, and her starfleet uniforms
are stained by her copious breastmilk which the tikes are not
there to suckle.
The ecological disaster that the mutant lizards cause
on the planet they were left on, and so the Voyager is being
hunted as criminals by every civilization on the quadrant.
The lizard kids grow up quickly and embark on a quest for their lost mama. A repeated plot devise has them narrowly
saving the Voyager from being vaporized by the Interplanetary
Eco-Crimes Tribunal.
One of the lizards goes through a time-warp to try to
prevent Voyager from getting lost in the first place. He
finds himself stranded on a desert planet with James T. Kirk, so he pelts Kirk with Styrofoam boulders.
--F.
6/6 #AllStarTrek
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