Mastodawn

In reality I think it's meant to denounce the processus of radicalization. And I think it does a good job at that.

The problem comes from the visual aspects of the story.

In the end I would say, not a bad episode, though I think Chakotay should have put up more of a fight against the obviously biased narrative he was served. Yes, at the end they tell us they enhanced his emotions, but it makes it makes it annoying for most of the episode that he doesn't question the whole thing more.

I think it would have worked better with Tom, honestly.

The Vietnam parallel is unfortunate, but difficult to brush off. The episode ending on a "Well maybe both sides are bad actually" note doesn't help that much. And again... if the humans are the US army...

At least the episode specifically denounce what appears to be the US side of the propaganda.

Ok so Chakotay have been brain-washed...

This explain Chakotay's lake of judgement, if a bit easily.

In the end, the war still seems symmetrical, since the "predator" also use the word Nemesis to talk about his opponent.

Oh surprise! The Nemesis talk about the humans the same way the human talk about the Nemesis.

Come on Chakotay. You should be at least experience enough to know that dehumanization is only good at justifying atrocities.

Tuvok, casual lone hero.

The episode really want you to see the Nemesis as beast, huh...

At least until the reveal that they are in fact civilized and part of a war that is more symmetrical than it seemed at first glance.

"Rest until the new light"

Can't you say morning like normal people?

I know they are aliens and have there own idioms, but they aren't actually speaking english, but this is how the universal translator interpret what they say, so I guess they are using weird phrasing on purpose.

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Ok, I though the whole point of Neelix's arc in the previous season is that he knew nothing of the space were Voyager is now.

This is annoying that the writers forget character's history and arcs...

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