I avoided this episode for years because "B'Elanna helps a young poet write a play after crashing another shuttle with Harry and awaiting rescue from Voyager"... it's impossible to overstate how boring and stupid this premise sounds.
It's certainly NOT for everyone, but this reminds me of TNG's "The Inner Light" in a very favorable way. It's mechanically similar in that a primary character is stranded in a very different world.
"The Inner Light" is far more serious than "Muse", but "Muse" manages a surprisingly emotional ending.
It was amazing to see Voyager's saga depicted in this Ancient Greek way. These plays actually work! The "gleaming cities of Earth", "shiny Voyager far from home." "Seven" warning the audience to say nothing or they will also be assimilated. Great stuff!
The poet even works in the Delaney sisters as an attempted (in story) plot point. In a meta sense, obviously the sisters were meant as a running gag. But the episode treats it in a plausible way from the point of view of Kellis.
I'm an old TOS and TNG person and didn't always love Voyager, but I would put this one up there as fine as the best of those shows.
It's certainly NOT for everyone, but this reminds me of TNG's "The Inner Light" in a very favorable way. It's mechanically similar in that a primary character is stranded in a very different world.
"The Inner Light" is far more serious than "Muse", but "Muse" manages a surprisingly emotional ending.
It was amazing to see Voyager's saga depicted in this Ancient Greek way. These plays actually work! The "gleaming cities of Earth", "shiny Voyager far from home." "Seven" warning the audience to say nothing or they will also be assimilated. Great stuff!
The poet even works in the Delaney sisters as an attempted (in story) plot point. In a meta sense, obviously the sisters were meant as a running gag. But the episode treats it in a plausible way from the point of view of Kellis.
I'm an old TOS and TNG person and didn't always love Voyager, but I would put this one up there as fine as the best of those shows.