Saturday, May 10, 2008

5.23 11.59

Janeway shares the story of her great-great-great-grandmother, who was personally aided in the building of the Milennium Gate, a year 2000 self-sustaining biosphere. But as Neelix and Seven delve further into history, they discover her ancestor’s role may have been blown out of proportion. Through flashbacks (with Janeway playing her ancestor), we find out that her real role was to fall in love with a book shop owner, the last holdout against the building of the Milennium Gate in his small town, and eventually to convince him that the gate isn’t all bad.

The truth disillusions Janeway, but the crew convinces her that her ancestor is to be revered, if not necessarily for what she did herself, then just for the fact that she inspired Janeway to enter the space program.

I suppose the point is that while history may tell that her role with unimportant, in reality, Janeway’s original version of events was more correct.

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