Gravity
- Episode aired Feb 3, 1999
- TV-PG
- 46m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
1.9K
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Stuck on a planet within a spacial "sinkhole," Tom pressures Tuvok to take an alien woman who fancies him for his own.Stuck on a planet within a spacial "sinkhole," Tom pressures Tuvok to take an alien woman who fancies him for his own.Stuck on a planet within a spacial "sinkhole," Tom pressures Tuvok to take an alien woman who fancies him for his own.
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Paul Eckstein
- Supervisor Yost
- (as Paul S. Eckstein)
Chuck Borden
- Alien Marauder
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- GoofsTuvok states that the crew complement of Voyager is 152. This is where it stood at The 37's (1995); in the three seasons and plus since, Kes has left, anywhere from 17 to 25 crewmen have been killed, and only Seven of Nine has been added to the crew (by contrast, Paris mentions that they are 50,000 light-years from the Alpha Quadrant, which takes into account the 20,000 light years Voyager has traveled since the beginning of the series).
- ConnectionsReferences Star Trek: Voyager: Alter Ego (1997)
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Forced romance without any chemistry
I don't like this episode. Tom tries way too hard to talk Tuvok into loving a woman he doesn't 't want to love. Tom acts like a jerk and obviously he cannot think of anything else than women, feelings and love. And he still neither understands Tuvok and Vulcans in general, nor does he respect Tuvok's wishes and the fact that he is a married man and doesn't want to interact romantically with other women.
The first speech Tom makes, after they were just stranded for a short while, was pathetic. He wants Tuvok not only to abandon all hope of being saved but basically forces him to fall in love with that woman finally and build himself a new life with her. Tom is such a dick in this episode.
And this woman? First, she wears some leather clothes on a deserted and hot planet. And second, she speaks and acts like a child. She throws herself at Tuvok and also forces him to love her! Imagine this episode would have been made in 2024 and it would have been reversed: A stranded male just offensively kisses a woman and begs her to return his feelings and love her. This would have caused an outcry, a man forcing his feelings onto a woman and pushing her into returning them. Toxic masculinity. Really, really bad.
I felt zero chemistry between Tuvok and Noss. Nada. It all boils down to this woman being lonely on a planet for years. And the second best man she sees stirs up feelings in her and she can't help herself but jump right onto him although she must have realized by that time already, that Tuvok has no feelings at all and thus no feelings for her. I didn't feel any sympathy for this woman or compassion that Tuvok rejected her.
The only redeeming factor of this episode is the backstory of Tuvok and how he learned to suppress his emotions. The rest is utter garbage and if I were Tuvok, I would refuse to ever go on away missions with Tom again to avoid being stuck in another lecture about Vulcans and emotions. I'd rather pick Neelix and listen to his stories about the importance of leola roots in Talaxian cuisine than to Tom's lessons about love.
The first speech Tom makes, after they were just stranded for a short while, was pathetic. He wants Tuvok not only to abandon all hope of being saved but basically forces him to fall in love with that woman finally and build himself a new life with her. Tom is such a dick in this episode.
And this woman? First, she wears some leather clothes on a deserted and hot planet. And second, she speaks and acts like a child. She throws herself at Tuvok and also forces him to love her! Imagine this episode would have been made in 2024 and it would have been reversed: A stranded male just offensively kisses a woman and begs her to return his feelings and love her. This would have caused an outcry, a man forcing his feelings onto a woman and pushing her into returning them. Toxic masculinity. Really, really bad.
I felt zero chemistry between Tuvok and Noss. Nada. It all boils down to this woman being lonely on a planet for years. And the second best man she sees stirs up feelings in her and she can't help herself but jump right onto him although she must have realized by that time already, that Tuvok has no feelings at all and thus no feelings for her. I didn't feel any sympathy for this woman or compassion that Tuvok rejected her.
The only redeeming factor of this episode is the backstory of Tuvok and how he learned to suppress his emotions. The rest is utter garbage and if I were Tuvok, I would refuse to ever go on away missions with Tom again to avoid being stuck in another lecture about Vulcans and emotions. I'd rather pick Neelix and listen to his stories about the importance of leola roots in Talaxian cuisine than to Tom's lessons about love.
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- Runtime46 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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