Voyager Review: Day of Honor
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Voyager Review: Day of Honor

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I will try to keep down my excitement while writing this review. Please bear with me.
The episode Day of Honor spends the first half hour building up, a not so uncommon thing. Part of this building up is a fight between Tom and B'Elanna. He's sick of her constantly pushing him away. In a sub-plot, the Voyager crew helps out the escaping members of an alien species that was ravaged by the Borg. The title comes into play part-way through the beginning when we discover that it is the Klingon Day of Honor, a day on which Klingons look at their behavior over the past year and see how they match up to other Klingons. Tom has been helping B'Elanna design a holodeck program for this event. After some resistence, she tries the program, but comes back out quickly, hating it. This only adds to what is quickly becoming the worst day of her life. Now, here's the problem: after Seven of Nine requests a duty shift in engineering, there is an accident the end result of which is the ejection of the warp core. It does no explode, so Tom volunteers to take a shuttle back to retrieve it. The catch, of course, is that the shuttle has suffered considerable damage and must have some repair work done on it. And who better to do repair work on the warp core than the chief engineer? Tom and B'Elanna arrive at the warp core and discover that our alien friends from earlier in the episode are there, attempting a salvage opperation. They get in a bit of a tiff, and our heroes are left in a shuttle that's busting at the seems. The only way out is to strap on those ever-attractive space suits and beam out into space. To abbreviate this lengthy plot explanation, there's a problem, and the oxygen level gets lowered. While coming close to losing consciousness, B'Elanna admits that she loves Tom, but was too afraid to say it. And the line we all saw coming, but still appreciated: "You sure picked a heck of a time to tell me." Just as they're fading out, Voyager comes to the rescue, beaming them aboard. Now, the review...
F I N A L L Y
They've been toying at this for nearly a year now. I'm soooo glad it finally happened. Now it's merely a matter of what to do next. Wonderful job by Roxanne Dawson, as well as Robert Duncan McNeil. It was a moment, if ever there was one. I also have to agree with the critics that Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine) brings something new and wonderful to the show. She's really good at the part.
If you know anything about my opinions of Voyager, you'll know what this episode is going to get without even looking at the number. But, just in case...
10

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