11:59
- Episode aired May 5, 1999
- TV-PG
- 46m
Capt. Janeway recalls her ancestor, Shannon O'Donnell, with great reverence, but historical records don't back up the family story.Capt. Janeway recalls her ancestor, Shannon O'Donnell, with great reverence, but historical records don't back up the family story.Capt. Janeway recalls her ancestor, Shannon O'Donnell, with great reverence, but historical records don't back up the family story.
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Lt. Ayala
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis episode was inspired by an undeveloped Q episode for Star Trek: Voyager, thought up by John de Lancie who played Q, and was originally to have included a recurring character from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Guinan.
- GoofsNeelix erroneously states at the beginning of the episode that the Great Wall of China is visible from space. This mistaken belief dates to well before satellites were even invented.
- Quotes
Henry Janeway: You know, I was born in the wrong millennium.
Shannon O'Donnell: I'll stick with the modern age.
Henry Janeway: The classical age. Greatest literature mankind ever produced.
Shannon O'Donnell: No antibiotics.
Henry Janeway: Families that take care of one another.
Shannon O'Donnell: No cars.
Henry Janeway: Air you can breathe.
Shannon O'Donnell: No telephones.
Henry Janeway: What a pleasure.
Shannon O'Donnell: Shorter lifespans.
Henry Janeway: Lives that were worth living.
Shannon O'Donnell: No cold beer!
Henry Janeway: There you got me.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Star Trek: Enterprise: Carbon Creek (2002)
This episode is among the slightest and easiest to skip of all the episodes of "Star Trek: Voyager". It's not necessarily bad but it does seem irrelevant and like filler.
The episode consists of folks talking about their family histories. Janeway decides to tell everyone about her great-great-great-great- great-etc. grandmother...a woman who, oddly, looks EXACTLY like Captain Janeway. I hate when movies show distant relatives who look EXACTLY like the present individuals--it's as bad a cliché as the identical cousins cliché! The story involves the woman's romance with a grumpy old guy (Kevin Tighe) and has just about nothing to do with the show in any way!
By the way, I am a stickler for details and in the beginning of the show Mr. Neelix is trying to show off how smart he is. However, BOTH things he says are wrong!! Qin is not pronounced 'kin' and the Great Wall of China CANNOT be seen from space--that's an urban legend. Two more reasons to hate Neelix...as well as the writer who didn't do their homework when they wrote this one.
- planktonrules
- Feb 27, 2015
Details
- Runtime46 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3