The Ocompa lived underground in a shopping centre

[CaptainWacky]

WHY?

 

[Cassie]

FOR CONVENIENT SHOPPING DUH!

 

[Dr Dave]

Bargain prices!

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

When you only live for 9 years, you don't want to waste a lot of that time looking for JUST THE RIGHT ITEM AT THE BEST PRICE.

 

[CaptainWacky]

The really stupid thing was that the females were only fertile once in their lives so could only have one child, which would mean the population would half every generation, WHICH WOULD MEAN THEY WOUlD ALL DIE OUT PRETTY FUCKING QUICKLY.

 

[Dr Dave]

And they could not steal babies BECUAUSE THEY WERE UNDERGROUND!

 

[CaptainWacky]

Maybe they always had twins.

 

[Dr Dave]

They would have to have more then one kind for sure.

 

[Cassie]

They didn't think them through very carefully.

 

[Dr Dave]

Well it was Star Trek Voyager...

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

They should have tried to have that character from that species with the transparent skulls instead.

 

[whisky]

Plus since the older ones looked like real older people, why shouldnt Kes have looked about 80 when she came back, rather than just looking like Kes on teh rag

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

It had only been two years, which would be 20 years for an Ocampan I guess, but still that would only age her from 25 to 45.

So she should have looked like Sandra Bullock or Melanie Griffith...basically the same, only with some crow's feet and huge-ass collagen lips.

 

[CaptainWacky]

It was cool how she was evil!

 

[Dr Dave]

Why was she evil again?

Did she get space pms like Janeway?

 

[Yub]

Yes it was basically space PMS.

 

[Dr Dave]

What else could it have been, I mean really?

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Lack of sex? I forget. The episode was a good idea but failed in the execution.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Umm, apparently she didn't enjoy her new "evolved" state and blamed Janeway for "encouraging her to grow" or some shit. She also forgot all the good stuff Janeway did for her until the very end of the episode where she watch a hologram her younger self recorded for her. Then she remembered she was good and fucked off back to Ocompa to manage the shopping centre.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Umm, apparently she didn't enjoy her new "evolved" state and blamed Janeway for "encouraging her to grow" or some shit. She also forgot all the good stuff Janeway did for her until the very end of the episode where she watch a hologram her younger self recorded for her. Then she remembered she was good and fucked off back to Ocompa to manage the shopping centre.

Ah. So it started out as an analogy for the Michael Jackson/Quincy Jones relationship, and ended as a ripoff of the Wizard of Oz-meets-Fellini's 8 1/2. If it were written on Red, White & Blue beer in a trailer.