Message in a Bottle Review ST VOY S4 E14

Star Trek: Voyager Season 4 Episode 14 "Message in a Bottle" explained. Join me as I review and recap an overrated comedy episode, I mean it's good but no where near top 5 best of the show good, I mean come on. That being said, it is a watershed episode for the series as it's the first time Voyager officially makes contact with Starfleet. And the chemistry and comedic timing between Robert Picardo and guest star Andy Dick is done really well. The problem is having the Romulans be the villains doesn't actually make sense for the time line. It would have made way more sense for it to be Cardassians, given that at this time the Federation is at war with the Cardassians and they've been a major villain on Voyager in the past, so it seems to me the only reason it was the Romulans was TNG fan service and that's not a good reason at all. Come see my first reaction as I breakdown the episode and attempt to give my in depth analysis

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0:00 Intro / Synopsis

2:30 A Serialized mini arc

13:35 Should have been the Cardassians, not the Romulans

24:43 The EMH Mark 2 Comedy

35:56 Trying to create a back up Doctor

41:34 Patreon Comments

59:54 Rating

1:02:03 Outro