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Star Trek Voy - Season 7 - Episode 03

Star Trek Voy - 7x03 - Drive

Originally Aired: 2000-10-18

Synopsis:
Paris and Torres compete in a race. [DVD]

My Rating - 6

Fan Rating Average - 4.67

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Problems
None

Factoids
None

Remarkable Scenes
- The teaser's little competition.
- Tom and Harry selling the idea of the race to Janeway.
- Tom's chat with Assan.
- The start of the race.
- The accident.
- Tom: "She's not a Borg, she's not a hologram, and she's not dead. Looks like you might have finally found yourself the perfect woman."
- Irina betraying Harry.
- Tom and Torres working out their problems.
- Tom and Torres discovering the bomb.
- Tom: "Will you marry me?" Computer: "Warp core breach in 15 seconds." Torres: "You're proposing now?" Tom: "It's as good a time as any."

My Review
A pleasant light hearted episode with only a minor contention resulting in Tom and Torres finally getting married. I much enjoyed the race and the marvelous eye candy sprinkled about. It was kind of a nice homage to Voy: Day of Honor that the marriage proposal required another extreme situation. The way the episode wove together the alien race event with Harry's women problems and the Tom and Torres conflict was quite nice as well. Overall very decent, slightly above Voyager's average.

The following are comments submitted by my readers.

  • From edward on 2014-04-04 at 12:30pm:
    It is a fun episode, although Harry Kim's "What the hell is going on?" is one of the worst deliveries of a line I've ever heard.
  • From parkbench on 2016-03-05 at 8:12pm:
    haha, i'm glad i'm not the only one who noticed that weird harry kim line. plus, while he's grown as an actor over the years, there was definitely a few awkward moments in this one.

    but yeah i'm a sucker for romance plots, even if they're hetero. how can you get better than a warp-core breach proposal???

    totally guessed that it was the nice-looking aliens who were sabotaging at that diplomatic meeting. a decent episode, very trek. not the best, but a decent voyager non sequitur, which is again, all you can hope for w voyager.

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