Concerning Flight (VOY)

About this episode

The hosts discuss the Voyager episode 'Concerning Flight', highlighting its plot holes and character dynamics.

When pirates beam away Voyager's computer core and the Doctor's mobile emitter, **Janeway** ends up chasing them to an alien world where her holographic **Leonardo da Vinci** — now powered by the stolen emitter — believes he's been kidnapped to America. The man who has the computer core? Leonardo's new patron. His name is **Tau**. **Dom Bettinelli**, **Jimmy Akin**, and **Fr. Jason Tyler** go through "Concerning Flight," the 11th episode of Voyager Season 4, and the verdict is unanimous: this is a middle-of-the-road episode saved entirely by **John Rhys-Davies**. They dig into the behind-the-scenes story, in which the episode's writer wanted a Leonardo-centric adventure and was overruled — a decision that reportedly made the writer hate the final product. The plot holes are significant. Voyager's computer core was apparently unencrypted and unpassword-protected. There was no backup. And yet the ship somehow navigates vast distances of space for 10 days while "almost none of the ship's crucial systems work." The panel has thoughts. Beyond the plot holes, the conversation goes wide. There's a close read of the Doctor's characterization here (not good — he's more interested in ship…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, Fr. Jason Tyler

Topics covered

• Voyager episode review
• Star Trek analysis
• characterization
• plot holes
• Leonardo da Vinci

Keywords

• Star Trek
• Voyager
• Leonardo da Vinci
• John Rhys-Davies
• episode review

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