This Is the Best Scene inStar Trek: Voyager‘s First Season

30 years ago today, the ending of 'Prime Factors' wrote a check that Voyager's episodic nature could rarely cash–but it was still worth writing anyway.

March 20, 2025 · 1 min · 94 words · Christopher Hughes

Star Trekhas always found great strength in the episodic format.

But again, this is an episodic story, and its nine episodes intoVoyagers journey.

Theyrenotgoing to get home, and Prime Factors knows it, but it plays with the idea.

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Things dont just go bad, they go about as near to catastrophic as they could be.

And Kate Mulgrewjustkillsitin response.

Everything has to be.Star Trek: Voyageris an episodic show, after all.

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But that is just not what kind of showVoyageris.

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