Hey, kids, we're back! And in an episode totally unlike the last episode, in which Voyager caused itself to be stuck in a black hole, this time around (for the THIRD episode!) Voyager causes itself to cause a world to go apocalyptic, leaving behind rifts that take Janeway and Paris into the past (no, no, just ... trust that that made sense).
Proving time and again that it's possible to hit a new low, Voyager is the gift that keeps on giving. This track features Michael T Bradley (as usual) and guest riffer Kaisha Medford. As usual, the telepathic plant Frondy provides synch lines. This includes both NTSC and PAL formats.
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Comments
I'm trying to catch up on writing reviews for iRiffs I watched awhile ago, and as I sit here typing up this review, I see that this has a rating of about 3. I don't understand this. I consider this iRiff track even funnier than the iRiffs done for the previous two episodes of Voyager. I do think that *Voyager* gets worse with each episode, but if you're going to watch ST:Voyager then these riff tracks add a lot of fun to it. As I said in the review for "Parallax", I hate scifi shows with time-travel themes, so not only does Voyager do time-travel for their second episode, they do another time-travel script for the third episode. Yes, I hate this show. ___p___
Ice on Mars has done some voice-impersonations of various actors for the other two episodes, but for this episode he comes up with what I consider the perfect riff for so many episodes of Voyager. There's a few times where someone will rattle off a bunch of totally mind-numbing techno-babble, and Michael follows it up with an impersonation of Janeway saying (in a whiny voice), "And that totally makes sense. Shutup!". That line by itself kills me. This is also the episode that introduces the idea that Kes has some kind of psychic powers, and yet the riffers point out that most every "OOO SPOOKY PSYCHIC POWER!" incident in this episode is really about something that is utterly obvious. ___p___
I also like this particular episode for a line that the holographic doctor says: "Seems I found myself on the voyage of the damned". Oh how true, how true! ___p___
Well, I'll give this another 5-star rating, but maybe I just find these funnier than most people do. I can't imagine why anyone would rate this under 4. There's plenty of riffs here, and a variety of riff-tactics used. Maybe someone missed what some of the riffs were referencing, at which point the riffs wouldn't make any sense. But I thought all the riff lines were very good. ___p___
Ice on Mars again teams up with a new guest riffer for this riff track, and keeps Frondy (spelling?) the blood-thirsty telepathic plant around for syncing. All the technical details are handled well. Once again I bought the episode from iTunes, and for this episode the riff track does keep in sync for the entire episode.
Very funny iriff. Many laugh out loud moments.