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** And the saddest part is, Picard's biggest argument back when he was defending Data was that declaring Data non-sentient would set a bad precedent! (More on this below.)

* In a previous episode, some living deuterium goop replicated Voyager's crew because they wanted sapience. That's all well and good. Then comes followup episode "Course: Oblivion", where the writers only seem to remember the words "shapeshifting goop" from the original script. To elaborate, the same living goop somehow replicates a fully functional, warp capable, EMH-equipped, fifteen deck, 700,000 metric ton ''anti-matter powered'' '''starship'''. And no, they didn't build it, the deuterium goop literally formed itself into a working starship. *BANG* Another point is the replicants themselves. The first two replicants copied didn't know what they were at first, but the Harry Kim replicant caught on. After the entire crew is replicated, they clearly realize what they are since they don't seem pissed Voyager is abandoning them. Then, against all logic, this crew of replicants, including the original Kim replicant, ''forget they're replicants''. Furthermore, it was a point that the original replicants could only breathe the totally inhospitable vapor that passed for atmosphere on their planet, yet these replicants go around breathing human air like it's nothing. Then they go back to breathing an approximation of the death air with no transition. *BANG BANG* The episode didn't even have any point, either. The replicants somehow built a spiffy new warp drive that killed all of them due to radiation harmful to their kind, ended up flying back to find Voyager, and died before they could make it. It amounts to a footnote in Janeway's logs.

** This episode has some [[Mind Screw]] in it, but here goes: Chakotay is a descendant of [[Mayincatec|a South American Indian tribe]] who relocated ''en masse'' to a planet which, as of the start of ''Voyager,'' is in Cardassian space. He had set his cultural heritage aside before entering Starfleet before entering the Maquis, but he owns and carries a medicine wheel anyway. In this episode, he is brought back to the religion of his people by the deities of that religion and goes on a vision quest. His religion is treated as ''real'' and true - only people of his heritage can fully subscribe to it, but it has power behind it. Even the Bajoran Prophets were shown to be [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] before they were treated as gods; there is no such unmasking here. And his doing this quest is plot-critical -- it's this or coma, pretty much.

** It says his ancestors had ''no culture'' until the aliens gave it to them. Human beings create culture by virtue of being human beings -- we couldn't stop doing it if we wanted to. But, for these people to have a complex and true religion, it has to have come from aliens?! And why is no one on the ship even tempted to go after these beings for what they did to these people? If the Q had tried that on a civilization and gotten caught, then there would be hell to pay...