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Star trek: Voyager 1.04a - Eye of the needle

Stardate 48579.4
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Optimism runs high on Voyager when Harry Kim discovers a wormhole. Exploring the phenomenon, hoping it will lead back home to the Alpha Quadrant, the crew discovers it is only thirty centimetres wide. Undeterred, they try to send a voice message but only succeed in contacting a Romulan ship...

Persons of interest

Kate Mulgrew .... Captain Kathryn Janeway
Robert Beltran .... Commander Chakotay
Roxann Dawson .... Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres
Jennifer Lien .... Kes
Robert Duncan McNeill .... Lieutenant Tom Paris
Robert Picardo .... the Emergency Medical Hologram
Ethan Phillips .... Neelix
Tim Russ .... Lieutenant Tuvok
Garrett Wang .... Ensign Harry Kim
Majel Barrett .... USS Voyager computer voice
Vaughn Armstrong .... Commander Telek
Tom Virtue .... Lieutenant Baxter
Michael Cumpsty .... Lord Burleigh
Carolyn Seymour .... Mrs Templeton
Lindsey Haun .... Beatrice
Thomas Alexander Dekker .... Henry
Hilary J Bader .... Storywriter
Bill Dial .... Screenwriter
Jeri Taylor .... Screenwriter
Winrich Kolbe .... Director

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Being only seven episodes into the first season, you know that Voyager isn't going to get home, but it's such a well constructed and acted story that you'll want to watch it, anyway.

All the ongoing problems with being stranded in the galactic boondocks with a mis-matched and below-complement crew keep ticking over, adding grist to the mill. We also get to learn little titbits about various crewmembers (the ones who aren't going to die next week, anyway), and it's nice to see people who will become important later floating around in the background now.

The highs and lows of discovering a wormhole that leads back to the Alpha Quadrant (however improbable that is) are well presented in a tight little story. The wariness of the Romulan Commander is as wary as a Romulan Commander can be and still retain any ounce of empathy. Definitely worth watching (I have always enjoyed the Romulan sub-plots, right from The first).