VOY - Innocence

This episode deals with a very interesting concept, an alien species that ages backwards, theoretically setting the stage for what should have been an interesting episode of 'Trek'.
In reality, however, the writers of this episode failed to take advantage of the storytelling possibilities afforded to them by the nature of the Drayans. Instead of building the plot line around the nature of the Drayan's life cycle, they chose to write an episode basically about Tuvok teaching badly behaved, non-Vulcan "children" how to meditate. The writers did not even reveal how the Drayans age until the end of the episode. The result of these decisions, is that an epsode that could have been very entertaining and deep -- dealing with the nature of life, death and the aging process -- is turned into a rather boring epsode about whining "children" and bitching heads of government. This episode definitely had great potential, and could have been one of the best episode of Voyager's second seasion, if only the writers of this episode had chosen to make use of it.