“The Devourer of All Things, Part II”

Favorite quote so far: "You don't like it when I match my weapons to your phase variance? Then come get me and tell your friends."

This really should have just been the second part of the previous episode. That said, there were a few more fun turns here. The Voyager getting involved gave an excuse for Ma'Jel (I think I have her name spelled right this time) to link up with the other kids, be adorable with Zero, and have the show essentially confirm she's a core part of the gang now. I remain annoyed at how she's being played so far from stoic, but I'm otherwise enjoying her character.

Also, Janeway finally has something to do here, as does her first officer, Tysess. As soon as the bald redshirt beamed down, I knew he was a goner. I had some quibbles with how the "time devouring scavengers" attacked Voyager (since they were dematerializing folks left and right, but other people seemed to remember it still), but it was a small quibble in an otherwise pretty excellent conclusion to the two parter - and the entire first half of Season 2.

Golden opportunity missed by the writers:

Janeway after the Loom attack: "Is there a reason I remember Voyager being crewed by only a handful of people?"

Wesley: "Let's just say you and my mom might get along."

The return of bad ass tank top Janeway made me so very happy!

This is so damn good.

@ Karl

I hear you on Ma'Jel not being animated as stoic enough, but I think that may be a result of it being an animated show. Vulcan expressiveness as played by actors in live action is subtle. Probably too subtle for this animation style. I can see how that would be a problem for getting an audience (especially a younger audience) to connect with the character. And if they can't connect, then the character doesn't "work" at all.

I like her. She's a good addition. I'm okay with it.

Another WOW episode. Slightly weaker than part I, but not very much. I really like that Rok's technobabble has some definite scientific or at least potentially scientific foundation. Discovery just didn't care about science, but in this show they manage to stick in little tidbits in an entirely natural way. Rok is probably my favorite character. I agree with Jeffrey's Tube about the "looseness" of Maj'el's Vulcan attitude, although I didn't think I'd ever hear the term "Vulcan intuition" said by anyone.

I think the reason Tyess remembered the lost crewman was that he was right there when it happened and it was only a few minutes ago. I expect him to begin forgetting pretty soon, especially if he starts thinking about another subject.

Are the scavengers real beings that can be destroyed with enough firepower? I had thought they weren't really, but the ep seemed to imply that they were.

A BUNCH of the Voyager crew being erased from history is pretty brutal for a kids' show. I'm not sure we've seen the hero ship take that many losses all at once since Damage in Enterprise.

@The Queen:
I think the reason Tysess remembers the redshirt is he turned on the arm band before the redshirt was erased. The arm band is some kind of protector from time paradoxes.

@Jess - totally agree. I wish they circled back to that where the blue guy pointed out just how many people were lost and Janeway has to realize all those she didn't realize probably died right in front of her.

@Daya - Yeah, your explanation makes more sense than mine. I hadn't noticed that detail.

Is it just me, or do those timeline monsters look very much like the sentinels from Matrix, part I? (I mean the real-life robots attacking the submarine before Neo resurrects.)

"do those timeline monsters look very much like the sentinels from Matrix"


Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of, too.

I think some of the ideas used in this two-parter come from a fairly crappy Trek novel trilogy called "Coda." Wesley, the monsters and some other stuff. The trilogy was used to kill off the Trek novel-verse that had been running for the last 20 years to make room for the Nu Trek continuity.

I binge watched the first 10 episodes of season 2 today. I didn't really care for it. The time travel stuff carried over from season one goes on for several episodes and still isn't over. The search for Chakotay is going to last for two freakin' years. These last two episodes are probably my least favorite of the series so far. I never need to see Wesley Crusher again. Especially not this manic wacky version.

By this point it's clear that they aren't making a show for young kids. The plot is way to complex (muddled?) and there is quite a bit of stuff that only has significance for long time Trek nerds. I would be fine with that except that the characters are all still written like it's a silly preteen show; loud and overly exuberant.


I liked the idea of a holographic Janeway, but now the show feels like a Voyager sequel. I wish they had just kept the kids away from the Academy and let them do their own thing in the Delta Quadrant.

One last complaint: the one character that I thought was interesting visually, Zero, gets transformed into a boring green guy. First he/she/it loses its job as resident science...thing...and now it gets turned into a human just so he can have a girlfriend. Maybe they'll do something interesting with it, I don't know. I do know that it probably won't be as cool as a Medusan living in a flying Magic 8-ball.