VOY - Flashback

This is apparently Voyager’s version of Deep Space Nine’s Trials and Tribble-ations. In this episode we get to see another angle on the events of Star Trek the Undiscovered Country; from the point of view of the Excelsior. The added perspective Flashback provides on the movie makes this episode thoroughly enjoyable. In fact, the plot of Tuvok’s repressed memory is completely overshadowed by that of the Excelsior’s journey to Kitomer. Another aspect of this episode that is worth mention is the interesting and very accurate observation that Captain Janeway makes about the Starfleet Officers of the 23rd century. Specifically, that Kirk and the others would be booted out of the 24th century Starfleet. The recreations of TOS movie era sets are quite accurate as are the recreations of sets that actually were in The Undiscovered Country. Flashback is Voyager’s homage to the Trek series that started it all, and was a fitting and enjoyable tribute to the original series.