Star Trek: Voyagers premise was both its greatest boon and its biggest curse.
From the get go, the episode plays with this rise and fall of hope and reality.
On the surface, the episode might feel like that aforementioned fallacy.
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And what Eye of the Needle shows to give us that is downright fascinating.
We never learn if their early hope in Telek RMor was justified.
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