Once Upon a Time
- Episode aired Nov 11, 1998
- TV-G
- 46m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
1.9K
YOUR RATING
Long-traumatized by the loss of his own family, Neelix balks at telling Naomi that her mother and others have gone missing on an away mission.Long-traumatized by the loss of his own family, Neelix balks at telling Naomi that her mother and others have gone missing on an away mission.Long-traumatized by the loss of his own family, Neelix balks at telling Naomi that her mother and others have gone missing on an away mission.
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Louis Ferreira
- Trevis
- (as Justin Louis)
Tarik Ergin
- Lt. Ayala
- (uncredited)
Phoenix Wong
- Voyager Command Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis is the only appearance of Holodeck characters Flotter & Trevis, but the doll of Flotter is seen occasionally in future installments.
- GoofsWhen the Delta Flyer was just about out of time to be rescued by Voyager the computer said that the oxygen would be depleted in 2 minutes. Even if they couldn't get to the Delta Flyer in time the away team could've gotten into environmental suits to escape that particular danger in the cockpit of the Flyer.
- Quotes
Neelix: Coffee, anyone? Captain?
Capt. Kathryn Janeway: No thanks, I've had enough. One more cup and I'll jump to warp.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Star Trek: Picard: The Impossible Box (2020)
Featured review
Sesame Street in space
This is an unnecessary filler episode, focusing on Naomi, ensign Wildman's daughter. The daughter miraculously is around 5-6 years old although she was born end of season 2 - after her mother was pregnant for over two years obviously...
Episodes about children are always tricky. Especially since Star Trek isn't a show for kids. Neither ensign Wildman nor her daughter are main characters or play any important role in the show. For example Alexander, Worf's son, was often shown in TNG episodes, but mainly to drive the story arc of Worf, to show his struggle in being a father of a son that doesn't value Klingon traditions. Or take Molly or Yoshi, the children of Miles O'Brien in DS9. They also were shown a lot to portray the family life of Miles and his relationship to his wife. Molly also had a full episode when she aged by 10 years. And Yoshi had its own story arc by being delivered by Kira which created a lot of awkward situations between Miles, Kira and Keiko.
But ensign Wildman is a side character, she has no story arc. That's why it is irrelevant (to speak in Seven of Nine's words) what happens to Naomi. She also has no story other than Neelix scaring monsters in her bedroom away. It would be another story if she would be a part of the acting crew like Wesley Crusher has been on the Enterprise. Not to mention Jake and Nog. But she is too young for playing a central part of the show.
This episode boils down to Neelix wanting to protect Naomi from the truth that her mother has gone missing in an away mission and might even be dead. He projects his own loss of his family and his pain he felt and still feels onto Naomi and wants to spare her a similar pain. It gets very odd when he even gets into a verbal dispute with Janeway, who wants to tell Naomi the truth but Neelix protests.
Naomi was born on Voyager, she has never met her father and has no other friends at her age to play with. She has witnessed devastating Borg attacks, dangerous space anomalies and unknown alien diseases on board. I think Neelix is just wrong when he keeps telling others how sensitive she is and that she needs to be protected and shielded by any bad news. He should have told her the truth right away - it is a matter of how you tell children worrying news and how to help them handling difficult situations afterwards. After all, Neelix wouldn't have to tell her that her mother died in a horrible accident on a barren planetoid but only that the contact to her broke off and the crew currently is assembling a rescue mission to search for her and the other missing crew members.
As a diversion and somehow main story Naomi plays a holodeck child's program that obviously is quite a popular series - Harry Kim played this as a child as well as Janeway. Those fantasy world scenes are quite dumb though to watch for adults. There is a water character, dressed in a blue tight dress, and a tree character, dressed like a tree of course - but without twigs and leaves. It is all colorful and childish. It's a crossover of Teletubbies, Sesame Street, the Muppets and Curiosity Show - because the kids have to solve puzzles and thus update the story and keep it going. All in all quite stupid with two annoying main characters - and Neelix even replicates a stuffed toy of the blue dude which looks really, really bad.
Episodes about children are always tricky. Especially since Star Trek isn't a show for kids. Neither ensign Wildman nor her daughter are main characters or play any important role in the show. For example Alexander, Worf's son, was often shown in TNG episodes, but mainly to drive the story arc of Worf, to show his struggle in being a father of a son that doesn't value Klingon traditions. Or take Molly or Yoshi, the children of Miles O'Brien in DS9. They also were shown a lot to portray the family life of Miles and his relationship to his wife. Molly also had a full episode when she aged by 10 years. And Yoshi had its own story arc by being delivered by Kira which created a lot of awkward situations between Miles, Kira and Keiko.
But ensign Wildman is a side character, she has no story arc. That's why it is irrelevant (to speak in Seven of Nine's words) what happens to Naomi. She also has no story other than Neelix scaring monsters in her bedroom away. It would be another story if she would be a part of the acting crew like Wesley Crusher has been on the Enterprise. Not to mention Jake and Nog. But she is too young for playing a central part of the show.
This episode boils down to Neelix wanting to protect Naomi from the truth that her mother has gone missing in an away mission and might even be dead. He projects his own loss of his family and his pain he felt and still feels onto Naomi and wants to spare her a similar pain. It gets very odd when he even gets into a verbal dispute with Janeway, who wants to tell Naomi the truth but Neelix protests.
Naomi was born on Voyager, she has never met her father and has no other friends at her age to play with. She has witnessed devastating Borg attacks, dangerous space anomalies and unknown alien diseases on board. I think Neelix is just wrong when he keeps telling others how sensitive she is and that she needs to be protected and shielded by any bad news. He should have told her the truth right away - it is a matter of how you tell children worrying news and how to help them handling difficult situations afterwards. After all, Neelix wouldn't have to tell her that her mother died in a horrible accident on a barren planetoid but only that the contact to her broke off and the crew currently is assembling a rescue mission to search for her and the other missing crew members.
As a diversion and somehow main story Naomi plays a holodeck child's program that obviously is quite a popular series - Harry Kim played this as a child as well as Janeway. Those fantasy world scenes are quite dumb though to watch for adults. There is a water character, dressed in a blue tight dress, and a tree character, dressed like a tree of course - but without twigs and leaves. It is all colorful and childish. It's a crossover of Teletubbies, Sesame Street, the Muppets and Curiosity Show - because the kids have to solve puzzles and thus update the story and keep it going. All in all quite stupid with two annoying main characters - and Neelix even replicates a stuffed toy of the blue dude which looks really, really bad.
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