When I first watched Voyager with my roommate he said, "Y'know... Yeah... Yeah, we're just gonna skip this one..." and we did... and now I know which episode it was.
I put it on the list of Voyager episodes for a friend of mine who is watching Voyager first per another friend's suggestion. We know it's bad but his reaction will be priceless.
omg yes for some reason on tv it was replayed a good amount of time so I've seen that episode a lot so I knew exactly what it was when I saw the first bits.
@@QuantaStarfire Seven was such an interesting character for me in hindsight. Back then I was a teen and didn't think much of it. Now, later, I'm very much impressed how a character who's sex-appeal was an obvious major point (I mean... skin-tight onesies like that? XD) became one of the most interesting characters. To me, Seven is just one step behind the Doctor in that regard. And then the rest of the cast behind those two :D
I actually grew up on Star Trek in general. I have seen every episode of Voyager when I was a kid. Robert Picardo as The Dr was an absolute gem throughout the series. In my opinion, he's the Patrick Stewart of Voyager. That one actor that said Yes, when they were confident he was going to say No. And let him ad-lib the majority of his lines throughout the entire show. Because the writers could not figure out how to make him compelling. So, Robert Picardo did it himself.
When the salamander bit came on my brain blanked so hard that I heard the windows error sound and the only way to process that was to audibly go "ex-fucking-scuse me?"
God, I HATED Neelix. I would've jettisoned him out an airlock after about a week. Janeway sort-of annoys me too. I loved TNG and DS9, I also enjoy TOS quite a bit, but Voyager just didn't click for me.
@@dark2023-1lovesoni I get what you mean but was meant to be different to other series. Too much focus on doing the "right" thing. To hell with that. Get home. Don't get known hostile aliens on board (Borg). Get home. Neelix had good points but yeahe could be a pain. It's like they needed him to make food. Why teach an alien foods from another quadrant. Red flag was when he lied when they met him to save Kes.
Star Trek 2009 is an Oscar winning movie. But to be fair. there are a lot of people involved in filmmaking and even if anything else is bad we should appreciate good work
I keep forgetting about that because my brain absolutely cannot believe it, and when I finally show this episode to my girlfriend, I'm going to spring this knowledge on her as the end credits roll.
That's nothing. A legitimate doctor wrote a scientific paper detailing the science in this episode as his experiment and got it published in an actual journal.
Two things: 1- Absolutely love the intro! Hope it sticks around will will be looking for their credit at the end 2- I hate and love the fact that as soon as Paris appears at 1:09, I knew *exactly* what episode we were looking at lol
Voyager isn’t “the worst” series, it’s just bipolar, you never knew if the next episode would be great, eye rolling, or hysterical cringe. For how nuts this episode is, it tried to tell a story. And I love it for how memorable it ended up
@@metronicmagician1816 Sadly the writing room did not allow a lot of risks to be taken, there were a lot of cool episode ideas shot down, and they were regularly told to pull episodes back into... well... this... They managed to make some great episodes anyway, but it was a constant fight and a few cases of them sneaking it in while the executive was away trying to make DS-9 worse.
@@SheezyBites I was talking more in general than just with Star Trek (though I see why that could be mixed up). I’d prefer a show that did crazy stuff and had things fall flat over a show that was more consistent but was just ok
Yea...that's usually one reason why people get married..I know in this day and age many people might not ever get married and thusly never understand it...and some are married and have absolutely nothing in common with their partner..which means the relationship is a sham, a scam... So really I must question your logic and reasoning, do you not understand marriage or do you think everyone has arranged marriages?
@@jamesmeppler6375 Because every relationship I've had in the past has been with some humorless psycho. It has nothing to do with logic and more to do with personal experience. I've only had one good relationship that lasted a year for me and we both agreed to remain friends and we still talk frequently today
That intro animation was spectacular, as was the video. As someone who has never seen Star Trek, you had me completely enthralled even with no connection to this series. Can't wait to see the video on Disco Elysium, that's honestly something of a dream
Voyager's supreme lack of character development is really what turned it down for me. Kim remaining an Ensign throughout the ENTIRE SERIES was honestly kind of depressing considering how valuable he proved for the crew. Compare this to DS9 where characters can not only develop, but chance fundamentally. Really bizarre how two series from the same IP airing in the same eras can end up so fundamentally different from each other.
Tbf, the fact the Ensign Kim was stuck as an Ensign the entire series did come up several times as a point of frustration for him. He even acted out a few times because of it. Neelix was a shame though. His arc ended too early, there was hardly anything else to do with him after he confronted the monster that nuked his planet. After that he was basically just a mascot, he kinda played the role of Guinan now and then but without any of the wisdom or intrigue that made her interesting.
Honestly doctor is legitimately a reason to watch all of voyager. He is an utter gem, and by far the best character in that show, and definitely sits in the top 5 for all Star Trek.
I knew you would pick this is the worst episode because everybody picks this as the worst episode, they're not wrong, and luckily you're incredibly funny and your editing is good
Thanks Up. I needed those belly laughs! 💜 (As a Trek fan who saw all 80s & 90s shows, this is gold!) Robert "The Doctor" Picardo has YT channel btw. 80s comedy & horror legend!
This is amazing. Can't wait for you to cover Deep Space Nine. It has its own share of some weird episodes. Ranging from a weird ear goblin becoming a communist, to a Pyschic alien parasite that feeds off a person's creativity. Yes, those things happen at DS9.
@@localhearthian2387 TBH by DS9 S1 standards Skip Along Home is fine and the gag being that, as Trek viewers, we expect the game to be dangerous when it isn't is a good one.
Voyager is actually an insanely good show with a better level of average episode quality than Next Gen, but like all shows it's got it's fair share of garbage episodes. I think people don't like Voyager because it wasn't Next Gen.
I didn't like Voyager, but I LOVED DS9. I just thought the characters in Voyager were a bit bland. In DS9 you have amazing character after amazing character. Even Julian Bashir developed into an interesting character.
I loved watching voyager growing up, i still go back to rewatch it but as soon as you called paris beeffam I forgot his actual name for the rest of the video XD
I re-watched the whole of Voyager (yes I've seen it all twice) on Netflix. As punishment every time I log in to Netflix I'm greeted with Voyager auto playing, for some reason the sound of the transporter plays at max volume. After many many hours of trying I have given up trying to get rid of this and accepted my fate that voyager is eternal.
My family absolutely hate watching sci-fi with me cause this is basically how I act breaking down how silly it is. I actually can suspend my disbelief but at this point it's like a family meme and I have to annoy them.
Unironically I think my most controversial opinion is how highly I rate Voyager it's a favorite, it's the one I watch to enjoy and I do advise you watch all of it, for one to enjoy the spotlight episodes for the doc and also because I assure you, there are way worse episodes than this. That may be exactly why I love it because I laugh at the joke and the acting but also gain genuine attachment to some characters.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the episode where they bumped into Amelia Erhart in a 1930s pickup in space, or the one where Janeway had security escort alien cheese to the sickbay. I gained a new respect for that actress, I can't imagine how hard it was to deliver that line with a straight face.
I'm watching the series with someone who's never watched it all the way through, and we're loving it so far, but I can't Wait for their reaction to this episode. Excellent video!
Yes Voyager Has its... "Issues" But really if you can live with the quicks its actually a very nice show (i am totally unbiased and didn't watch the show as a kid)
Honestly I thought it was neat. I'll still default to TNG and I think DS9 had better character development, but Voyager still held its own and all in all was a pretty solid series.
What a strange thing. I was just thinking about one of my favorite episodes of Star Trek TNG today. The one where the crew goes back in time on the holodeck to the '30s or '40s and it malfunctions. The best recurring joke is about how Data is South American.
Been a huge fan for a while and these Star Trek reviews really blew my jorts off. I've never liked a video so fast in my entire life. If you ever do another one of these again, even randomly, you'd soar to the highest echelon of content on this site without a doubt.
I am posting this less than a minute into the video and I feel I am about to be carried over the threshold into an episode perfect for drunken heckling with friends.
It says something about this show that I was worried this might be a _different_ episode where Tom Paris blows up a test ship that I hadn't seen. The show had its moments, but was also filled with so many bad moments you have to wonder which one will come up next.
Warp 10 was only "infinite speed" in that episode. The Enterprise-D went over Warp 10 and it used the same warp scale as Voyager. The TOS Enterprise went over Warp 10, but supposedly the warp scale changed.
the Warp 10 it "infinite speed" was actually one of Gene roddenberry ideas and the enterprise-D thing is not true . so it happened twice once in the "traveller" and a second time in the two final episodes "All Good Things..." . in the "traveller" it was technically infinite velocity but it was controlled by emotions of the traveller and Wesley so it acted different to the uncontrolled version we saw in this stupid episode . in "All Good Things..." it was in a fake Q future so be scale might be different or Q is probably just making it up. and in "Time Squared" they talked about the possibility of travelling faster than warp 10 and that you would travel back in time
So apparently it's an unpopular opinion, but Voyage is my favorite Star Trek series. I love the concept, and it has some of the best episodes like the "Year of Hell" which you could watch on its own and I think anyone would enjoy. But yeah, this episode is a real... umm... well it was a thing.
Every time I get a notification that a new video is up, it's an absolute delight... but dang, what I would do for a podcast of you and Yahtzee just riffing and being cynical on video games and other nerdy stuff
I like to think that they successfully invented the "go at infinite speed and be everywhere at once" drive but the impossible complexity of navigating at infinite speed means they always end up travelling for 15 hours only to end up half an hour down the road.
I think the internet has fried my brain. I thought I recognized Beefam, so I went to google to find his name. So I typed in and searched for "Star Trek TNG Beefam". Obviously that didn't work, so I closed the tab and moved on. Now, five hours later, he was rocking around in my head again so I went to google him again... AND I TYPED BEEFAM AGAIN. DAMN YOU BEEFAM
God, can’t wait for you to get to Picard. All the garbage with none of the charm! Even finding one funny thing to say about it would be a Herculean feat. :D
I can recall watching the first series way back on the 90s, with excited hope. Boy that was painful😅 how that ship managed to survive 7 years/series in the delta quadrant still baffles me to this day.
The gags in the first 2 mins had me dead I think this might be the best comedic anything for Voyager. I don't think it deserves better and you did a great job.
"What I'm becoming will probably be better than who I was" To be fair Tom "Beefham" Paris does kinda have a point there. He's kind of the walking example of no where to go but up.
I hope you know this episode is celebrated everyday on the date it originally aired and the actors from the show often still make comments on twitter and such on the fanart and messages people produce yearly. It's called "Threshold Day"
I now wish that they had captured the baby salamanders, turned them back into humans (because they would still have human-ish dna, because Janeway and Paris did too) and the voyager series continues with these three new children on the cast
Great video as always. Whitty and energetic. You could have called him Porkins because he porked his way halfway across the galaxy. That's not a reference to just this episode but the other 171.
As soon as I saw Paris's face, I knew what episode it was. Space lizard Paris and Janeway. I really hope you keep making these!!! You can do "Move Along Home" from DS9! or almost any other Voyager or Enterprise episode!
As strange as it is, my family prefer Voyager over DS9, due to overall concepts. They both have merits in my opinion, but DS9 has a lot less episodes like this.
*Video Request:* Full Fallout 3 New Vegas Review. You've mentioned in many vids how much you like the game, and even did a video on porting New Vegas to VR: but your channel doesn't have an actual review of Fallout 3 New Vegas - please make one.
My favorite ridiculous thing about star trek is how they revealed that the reason every alien species looks like humans is because some species eons ago "seeded the universe with their dna." I can't stop imagining them just showing up, seeing no life on a planet, than just fuckin' jerking off on some rocks and then leaving XD
It might be lame, but it's better than the real reason - "most of the aliens on this show are actors with various bits of prosthetics glued to them because we're a TV show with a budget and schedule to keep and this is cheap."
I also heard that it's because life on M-Class planets all evolves in a similar way because that's the most efficient form for life to survive in those conditions. Basically life-forms in similar environments will evolve is similar ways, with only minor variations. They even gave this idea a science-y sounding name, but fucked if I can remember it...
@@FuglyStick I never said it was lame. I was just saying that its a funny image to think of an alien race landing on a planet and collectively splooging on the barren surface than fucking off
@@MiosPantiesconvergent evolution is the real life term for different species evolving into similar forms or behaving in similar ways despite being only distantly related
I've heard of this episode in the context of its ending, but I still had no clue this was it until the "it's them" line. I had no idea it was fucking mental from start to finish, with no *reason* for their transformation.
This is one of the only episodes I remember from the show, I liked it a lot. I was like 12 at the time it aired, but I still feel like it's kinda cool even after watching this video.
Heh, try looking into TOS episode Miri, where Kirk not only hits on a developmentally 13 year old 300 year old, but finishes the episode with a zinger of "I don't date old women"...
As someone who absolutely loves Voyager. At least someone mentions it for once. Honestly as a Trekkie I feel like I can never talk about the schematics of the Delta Flyer or the journey of Seven of Nine or the Doctor's need to understand more then just his standard medical programming. Or How Janeway was such a hardass but genuinely cared so much for her crew... and black coffee..No one ever knows what I'm talking about 😂.
When I first watched Voyager with my roommate he said, "Y'know... Yeah... Yeah, we're just gonna skip this one..." and we did... and now I know which episode it was.
I put it on the list of Voyager episodes for a friend of mine who is watching Voyager first per another friend's suggestion. We know it's bad but his reaction will be priceless.
As a Voyager fan, I approve this action, some things are better left unwatched, this episode is one of them
Growing up watching Voyager, I never realized how absolutely bonkers these plots must be to a newcomer.
This one especially. As soon as he mentioned Voyager I called out: Oh no not the salamander sex episode!
i remember watching this at like ten and loving it, still do.
This was bonkers to me when I first saw it, and Voyager was the last series I watched
The TV Guide summaries were something else.
Whoever works at Netflix captioning the episodes must delight in their apt summary
All it took was seeing Tom Paris in a blowing up ship and I knew exactly which episode was going to get covered. Excellent choice sir
I think you mean Beefam
omg yes for some reason on tv it was replayed a good amount of time so I've seen that episode a lot so I knew exactly what it was when I saw the first bits.
Honestly, The Doctor, which is just a hologram in the show, is the best part of Voyager
In a galaxy of nonsense, he was a sarcastically logical bright star
I feel like he would bristle at the phrase "Just a hologram" lol
Robert Picardo and Jeri Ryan basically carry the entirety of Voyager on their backs.
Eh, you can get more of him in season 5 of Stargate Atlantis, without all the baggage of Voyager's... *this.*
@@QuantaStarfire Seven was such an interesting character for me in hindsight. Back then I was a teen and didn't think much of it. Now, later, I'm very much impressed how a character who's sex-appeal was an obvious major point (I mean... skin-tight onesies like that? XD) became one of the most interesting characters. To me, Seven is just one step behind the Doctor in that regard.
And then the rest of the cast behind those two :D
I can confirm the doctor is the absolute best character of voyager
@Глеб Сальманов Joe. Doctor Joe. And it took him 33 years to decide on that.
nah, it´s Q. Always will be. JdL is unbeatable!
Computer, deactivate iguana
The Doctor, Seven and B'Lanna were the best parts of Voyager by far.
The Doctor, Seven, and Naomi Wildman are my favorites.
You can't explain the reptile sex jokes Trekkies make to normal people.
We had to *suffer* for that cursed knowledge.
How many of you guys became scalies because of it?
@@HolyDemonSnap I'll have you know I'm just a regular furry with a hologram lady partially based on the doctor.
@@IoFoxdale Blessed. :V
No.
@@deaconschwartz7674 YES
I think this episode was actually struck from canon because it broke some important in universe rules on top of being terribly written
Sadly, Lower Decks has confirmed it was canon
And the world is at peace
@@KoboldbardJaneway also mentioned it in Prodigy.
The non canon bit is hitting warp ten I think. Due to the way warp scale works.
The salamander baby’s are absolutely canon.
@@IoFoxdale yeah I think they argued that they DIDN'T hit warp ten and instead messed the whole thing up causing an unrelated issue
Threshold is the best episode of voyager because it makes me feel anything other than boredom and, occasionally, "is that The Rock?"
You! 🫵
Voyager is the LEAST fun Trek series by far.
Take that back right now
yeah that makes sense that you would have that opinion
lmao yea
I actually grew up on Star Trek in general. I have seen every episode of Voyager when I was a kid.
Robert Picardo as The Dr was an absolute gem throughout the series.
In my opinion, he's the Patrick Stewart of Voyager. That one actor that said Yes, when they were confident he was going to say No.
And let him ad-lib the majority of his lines throughout the entire show. Because the writers could not figure out how to make him compelling.
So, Robert Picardo did it himself.
Fun fact, the actors for Beefam and "we've hit a wall" host a rewatch podcast, and it was mentioned this episode won an Emmy for Outstanding Makeup.
When the salamander bit came on my brain blanked so hard that I heard the windows error sound and the only way to process that was to audibly go "ex-fucking-scuse me?"
I had the same experience except I started cackling madly and going: wat?? Wat??
He went so fast he turned into a salamander
that delighted giggle when he mentions his wife making the awards - 1st place most adorable supportive couple
Absolutely adore that animated intro
It’s so goddammed we’ll made
animated sequence was a paid actor
Same
AI has come a long way
It's fucking beautiful
Scientifically accurate episode, if you were to be everywhere in the universe at once then you too would become a horny salamander.
I don't have to be everywhere in the universe at once to be a horny salamander.
'Dramatically removes glasses' My God!
Calling Neelix 'Fish Head Man' whilst wearing the rubber mask. A true laugh out loud moment 🤣
God, I HATED Neelix. I would've jettisoned him out an airlock after about a week. Janeway sort-of annoys me too.
I loved TNG and DS9, I also enjoy TOS quite a bit, but Voyager just didn't click for me.
@@dark2023-1lovesoni I get what you mean but was meant to be different to other series. Too much focus on doing the "right" thing. To hell with that. Get home. Don't get known hostile aliens on board (Borg). Get home. Neelix had good points but yeahe could be a pain. It's like they needed him to make food. Why teach an alien foods from another quadrant. Red flag was when he lied when they met him to save Kes.
I always thought of him as a rodent at least that's what Q calls him.
You racist! 😂
Fun fact: the sentence Emmy Award winning episode 'Threshold' is completely truthful and accurate.
(Yes this episode won an Emmy for best make-up)
Star Trek 2009 is an Oscar winning movie. But to be fair. there are a lot of people involved in filmmaking and even if anything else is bad we should appreciate good work
I keep forgetting about that because my brain absolutely cannot believe it, and when I finally show this episode to my girlfriend, I'm going to spring this knowledge on her as the end credits roll.
@@ComradePhoenix please leave out the "won the award for make-up" part and make her guess the reason.
That's nothing. A legitimate doctor wrote a scientific paper detailing the science in this episode as his experiment and got it published in an actual journal.
Two things:
1- Absolutely love the intro! Hope it sticks around will will be looking for their credit at the end
2- I hate and love the fact that as soon as Paris appears at 1:09, I knew *exactly* what episode we were looking at lol
Voyager isn’t “the worst” series, it’s just bipolar, you never knew if the next episode would be great, eye rolling, or hysterical cringe.
For how nuts this episode is, it tried to tell a story. And I love it for how memorable it ended up
Voyager at the same time has some of the best and some of the worst episodes of star trek
Honestly I’d take the more bipolar style this show had. It just allows for risks to be taken.
@@metronicmagician1816 Sadly the writing room did not allow a lot of risks to be taken, there were a lot of cool episode ideas shot down, and they were regularly told to pull episodes back into... well... this... They managed to make some great episodes anyway, but it was a constant fight and a few cases of them sneaking it in while the executive was away trying to make DS-9 worse.
What is the best VOY episode?
@@SheezyBites I was talking more in general than just with Star Trek (though I see why that could be mixed up). I’d prefer a show that did crazy stuff and had things fall flat over a show that was more consistent but was just ok
Love the new intro, an amazing way to immortalize Sid 😸 Also, yeah, have to agree on this episode
The fact that your wife made those awards for this joke shows me that she shares your sense of humor 😂
Yea...that's usually one reason why people get married..I know in this day and age many people might not ever get married and thusly never understand it...and some are married and have absolutely nothing in common with their partner..which means the relationship is a sham, a scam...
So really I must question your logic and reasoning, do you not understand marriage or do you think everyone has arranged marriages?
@@jamesmeppler6375 Because every relationship I've had in the past has been with some humorless psycho. It has nothing to do with logic and more to do with personal experience. I've only had one good relationship that lasted a year for me and we both agreed to remain friends and we still talk frequently today
That intro animation was spectacular, as was the video. As someone who has never seen Star Trek, you had me completely enthralled even with no connection to this series. Can't wait to see the video on Disco Elysium, that's honestly something of a dream
"clearly you deserve FIRST PLACE" had me cackling for like a minute straight
"...except for the Bajorans who are really really attractive" you got me there 🤣
if you dont have food for decades and work in concentration camps you look awesome i suppose
Nana Visitor was and is an absolute smoke show.
Voyager's supreme lack of character development is really what turned it down for me. Kim remaining an Ensign throughout the ENTIRE SERIES was honestly kind of depressing considering how valuable he proved for the crew.
Compare this to DS9 where characters can not only develop, but chance fundamentally. Really bizarre how two series from the same IP airing in the same eras can end up so fundamentally different from each other.
And be promoted to what exactly? There isn't exactly any upward mobility here unless someone above you dies
Kim came all the way back from the Delta Quadrant just in time to be assigned ensign duties for Captain Nog.
Tbf, the fact the Ensign Kim was stuck as an Ensign the entire series did come up several times as a point of frustration for him. He even acted out a few times because of it.
Neelix was a shame though. His arc ended too early, there was hardly anything else to do with him after he confronted the monster that nuked his planet. After that he was basically just a mascot, he kinda played the role of Guinan now and then but without any of the wisdom or intrigue that made her interesting.
*Guy who's never watched Voyager and thinks promotions are the only important factor*
@@IoFoxdale fr tho
Honestly doctor is legitimately a reason to watch all of voyager. He is an utter gem, and by far the best character in that show, and definitely sits in the top 5 for all Star Trek.
Glad to hear it, I didnt quite enjoy what I saw so far of voyager, but gotta pull through so I can get more doctor, he genuinely had charm😂
@@Elenrai yeah his growth as a character is so fun to watch
I can't wait for us not to get one on DS9 because it's the pinnicle of human media creation
Finally a man who speaks sense
Looks like someone forgot about the time Worf became a prude terrorist.
@@UpIsNotJump Do "Move Along Home." I dare you.
I knew you would pick this is the worst episode because everybody picks this as the worst episode, they're not wrong, and luckily you're incredibly funny and your editing is good
Thanks Up. I needed those belly laughs! 💜 (As a Trek fan who saw all 80s & 90s shows, this is gold!) Robert "The Doctor" Picardo has YT channel btw. 80s comedy & horror legend!
This is amazing. Can't wait for you to cover Deep Space Nine. It has its own share of some weird episodes. Ranging from a weird ear goblin becoming a communist, to a Pyschic alien parasite that feeds off a person's creativity. Yes, those things happen at DS9.
Pretty sure Profit and Lace wins the worst DS9 episode award by a mile.
@@IoFoxdale Allermeraine... that is all
@@localhearthian2387 TBH by DS9 S1 standards Skip Along Home is fine and the gag being that, as Trek viewers, we expect the game to be dangerous when it isn't is a good one.
Welcome to Voyager where the doctor (Robert Picardo) saves many an episode.
Holy sh*t that opening animation is amazing.
Voyager is actually an insanely good show with a better level of average episode quality than Next Gen, but like all shows it's got it's fair share of garbage episodes. I think people don't like Voyager because it wasn't Next Gen.
I didn't like Voyager, but I LOVED DS9. I just thought the characters in Voyager were a bit bland. In DS9 you have amazing character after amazing character. Even Julian Bashir developed into an interesting character.
Better on average than season 1 and 2 of TNG, but the later seasons kill voyager
I think even the show runners referred to this episode as, "we know it was ridiculous, let's never speak of it again".
Good lord… this channel is like the definition of “quality insanity.” Everything is just… phenomenal.
I loved watching voyager growing up, i still go back to rewatch it but as soon as you called paris beeffam I forgot his actual name for the rest of the video XD
I re-watched the whole of Voyager (yes I've seen it all twice) on Netflix. As punishment every time I log in to Netflix I'm greeted with Voyager auto playing, for some reason the sound of the transporter plays at max volume. After many many hours of trying I have given up trying to get rid of this and accepted my fate that voyager is eternal.
Thank you Upisnotjump for another absolute masterpiece filled with masterful screenwriting and screaming fish masks.
My family absolutely hate watching sci-fi with me cause this is basically how I act breaking down how silly it is. I actually can suspend my disbelief but at this point it's like a family meme and I have to annoy them.
Unironically I think my most controversial opinion is how highly I rate Voyager it's a favorite, it's the one I watch to enjoy and I do advise you watch all of it, for one to enjoy the spotlight episodes for the doc and also because I assure you, there are way worse episodes than this. That may be exactly why I love it because I laugh at the joke and the acting but also gain genuine attachment to some characters.
that intro song reminds me of Bubba & Stix for the Genesis. "funky space reggae" love it!!
I'm surprised you didn't mention the episode where they bumped into Amelia Erhart in a 1930s pickup in space, or the one where Janeway had security escort alien cheese to the sickbay. I gained a new respect for that actress, I can't imagine how hard it was to deliver that line with a straight face.
I'm watching the series with someone who's never watched it all the way through, and we're loving it so far, but I can't Wait for their reaction to this episode. Excellent video!
Yes Voyager Has its... "Issues" But really if you can live with the quicks its actually a very nice show (i am totally unbiased and didn't watch the show as a kid)
Honestly I thought it was neat. I'll still default to TNG and I think DS9 had better character development, but Voyager still held its own and all in all was a pretty solid series.
10:37 "I don't remember very much about knocking you down and then knocking you up."
What a strange thing. I was just thinking about one of my favorite episodes of Star Trek TNG today. The one where the crew goes back in time on the holodeck to the '30s or '40s and it malfunctions. The best recurring joke is about how Data is South American.
The Big Goodbye. One of the best eps in Season 1, and that's a short list.
@@Corbomite_Meatballs that's the one! I almost didn't believe you when you said season 1, because of how good I remember it being lol
Been a huge fan for a while and these Star Trek reviews really blew my jorts off.
I've never liked a video so fast in my entire life. If you ever do another one of these again, even randomly, you'd soar to the highest echelon of content on this site without a doubt.
I am posting this less than a minute into the video and I feel I am about to be carried over the threshold into an episode perfect for drunken heckling with friends.
It says something about this show that I was worried this might be a _different_ episode where Tom Paris blows up a test ship that I hadn't seen. The show had its moments, but was also filled with so many bad moments you have to wonder which one will come up next.
The awesomeness of golden era Star Trek will never fade!
Warp 10 was only "infinite speed" in that episode. The Enterprise-D went over Warp 10 and it used the same warp scale as Voyager. The TOS Enterprise went over Warp 10, but supposedly the warp scale changed.
Yes, but when the D went over Warp 10, it was with the power of friendship and mind thoughts...they didn't do it to have lizzard secks.
the Warp 10 it "infinite speed" was actually one of Gene roddenberry ideas and the enterprise-D thing is not true . so it happened twice once in the "traveller" and a second time in the two final episodes "All Good Things..." . in the "traveller" it was technically infinite velocity but it was controlled by emotions of the traveller and Wesley so it acted different to the uncontrolled version we saw in this stupid episode . in "All Good Things..." it was in a fake Q future so be scale might be different or Q is probably just making it up. and in "Time Squared" they talked about the possibility of travelling faster than warp 10 and that you would travel back in time
So apparently it's an unpopular opinion, but Voyage is my favorite Star Trek series. I love the concept, and it has some of the best episodes like the "Year of Hell" which you could watch on its own and I think anyone would enjoy.
But yeah, this episode is a real... umm... well it was a thing.
Same, I love Voyager.
Every time I get a notification that a new video is up, it's an absolute delight... but dang, what I would do for a podcast of you and Yahtzee just riffing and being cynical on video games and other nerdy stuff
Damn I love the animation at the beginning...Looks great👍
10:53 I like the realization and all of the unseen stuff what that smile represents
The Doctor really is one of the best parts of Voyager, consistently. He has a good arc.
I like to think that they successfully invented the "go at infinite speed and be everywhere at once" drive but the impossible complexity of navigating at infinite speed means they always end up travelling for 15 hours only to end up half an hour down the road.
A gem and delight as always. Keep up the good fun work mate!
I think the internet has fried my brain. I thought I recognized Beefam, so I went to google to find his name. So I typed in and searched for "Star Trek TNG Beefam". Obviously that didn't work, so I closed the tab and moved on. Now, five hours later, he was rocking around in my head again so I went to google him again... AND I TYPED BEEFAM AGAIN.
DAMN YOU BEEFAM
10:21 This episode doesn't need your awards. It won an Emmy!
Exactly this episode was what convinced the jury
I guess it shows the state of TV that year.
I mean, the Emmy it won was actually rather deserved.
Just wasn't one for writing or acting :D
God, can’t wait for you to get to Picard. All the garbage with none of the charm! Even finding one funny thing to say about it would be a Herculean feat. :D
I have not laughed this hard about anything in a long while, thank you for this
I can recall watching the first series way back on the 90s, with excited hope. Boy that was painful😅 how that ship managed to survive 7 years/series in the delta quadrant still baffles me to this day.
Voyager has some of the most entertaining episodes either good or bad.
The Get to Heaven album art at 9:06 is life for me, man! Love to see Everything Everything. And good video too. :)
The gags in the first 2 mins had me dead I think this might be the best comedic anything for Voyager. I don't think it deserves better and you did a great job.
"What I'm becoming will probably be better than who I was" To be fair Tom "Beefham" Paris does kinda have a point there. He's kind of the walking example of no where to go but up.
Love your work ❤
I hope you know this episode is celebrated everyday on the date it originally aired and the actors from the show often still make comments on twitter and such on the fanart and messages people produce yearly. It's called "Threshold Day"
ok that intro is beautiful, also woo more star trek, never watched it but glad to see more from you!
“And they’ve made babies, babies, tiny human salamander infinite speed time traveling backwards evolution fish babies why!?”
The animated version of this episode was even crazier.
The w h a t
@@Bug_Bugger I second t h a t
I now wish that they had captured the baby salamanders, turned them back into humans (because they would still have human-ish dna, because Janeway and Paris did too) and the voyager series continues with these three new children on the cast
Ah, yes, Emmy awarding winning Star Trek Voyager episode, Threshold.
Great video as always. Whitty and energetic. You could have called him Porkins because he porked his way halfway across the galaxy. That's not a reference to just this episode but the other 171.
sounds like "what's the difference" to me 6:51
As soon as I saw Paris's face, I knew what episode it was. Space lizard Paris and Janeway. I really hope you keep making these!!! You can do "Move Along Home" from DS9! or almost any other Voyager or Enterprise episode!
As strange as it is, my family prefer Voyager over DS9, due to overall concepts. They both have merits in my opinion, but DS9 has a lot less episodes like this.
*Video Request:* Full Fallout 3 New Vegas Review.
You've mentioned in many vids how much you like the game, and even did a video on porting New Vegas to VR: but your channel doesn't have an actual review of Fallout 3 New Vegas - please make one.
My favorite ridiculous thing about star trek is how they revealed that the reason every alien species looks like humans is because some species eons ago "seeded the universe with their dna." I can't stop imagining them just showing up, seeing no life on a planet, than just fuckin' jerking off on some rocks and then leaving XD
It might be lame, but it's better than the real reason - "most of the aliens on this show are actors with various bits of prosthetics glued to them because we're a TV show with a budget and schedule to keep and this is cheap."
I also heard that it's because life on M-Class planets all evolves in a similar way because that's the most efficient form for life to survive in those conditions. Basically life-forms in similar environments will evolve is similar ways, with only minor variations. They even gave this idea a science-y sounding name, but fucked if I can remember it...
@@FuglyStick I never said it was lame. I was just saying that its a funny image to think of an alien race landing on a planet and collectively splooging on the barren surface than fucking off
@@MiosPantiesconvergent evolution is the real life term for different species evolving into similar forms or behaving in similar ways despite being only distantly related
totally forgot about part 1 untill the intro.
now the memories are coming back.
oh boy I guess we're in for a treat.
Intro?! The editing!!! My man you've improved!
When I started I was really hoping you picked this episode. Although, there are plenty of runner ups.
My explanation for evolving a wrinkled forehead is that the brain becomes so wrinkled that the skull changes shape to adapt to it.
God that intro tickles my brain. How the alarm syncs to the beat is just 👌
i keep coming back to watch these star trek reviews I could listen to Mat review every episode
That intro was absolutely smashing!
I've heard of this episode in the context of its ending, but I still had no clue this was it until the "it's them" line.
I had no idea it was fucking mental from start to finish, with no *reason* for their transformation.
This is one of the only episodes I remember from the show, I liked it a lot. I was like 12 at the time it aired, but I still feel like it's kinda cool even after watching this video.
Oh man I’ve not watched your videos for like 6 months, I’m so glad I’m back and also what a cool intro too 🙂
"I don't know this character's name because I haven't seen much of this program"
Sir you're sitting in a star trek themed set of your own creation
pressing up KEY and not jumping is an ABSOLUTE NITEMARE
I had to chuckle at Harry Kim's little celebratory 'Yes.' wiggle for warp 10. I'd be looking around asking if Tom was now inside all of us.
I did an absolute spit-take when it turned out they were salamanders and just magically had it undone in the next scene. Excuse me, what?!
As soon as I saw Tom saying "Warp 5!.." I just stopped and went "NO. NONO NOT THIS EPISODE. PLEASE."
Phish-lizard-person haunts my nightmares.
1:16 That's okay; we've got you covered. That was Nicholas Locarno.
Heh, try looking into TOS episode Miri, where Kirk not only hits on a developmentally 13 year old 300 year old, but finishes the episode with a zinger of "I don't date old women"...
As someone who absolutely loves Voyager. At least someone mentions it for once. Honestly as a Trekkie I feel like I can never talk about the schematics of the Delta Flyer or the journey of Seven of Nine or the Doctor's need to understand more then just his standard medical programming. Or How Janeway was such a hardass but genuinely cared so much for her crew... and black coffee..No one ever knows what I'm talking about 😂.
currently watching this with my family, we laugh about Janeway and Paris' kids everytime we see the two characters together
Weird. This didn't show up on my feed, but I'm subbed. Glad the algorithm randomly recommended it.
Warp 10 sounds like the infinite improbability drive but with salamanders instead of whales