Series: Star Trek: Voyager
Season 3, Episode 2
Original Air Date: September 11, 1996
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Tuvok has a mental breakdown on the bridge accompanied by flashbacks to letting go of a girl before she fell from a precipice, an incident he doesn't remember. Janeway mind-melds with him in order to help probe the past. We go back to his days on the USS Excelsior where he served under none other than Captain Hikaru Sulu.
"Flashback" pushes hard on the nostalgia button. We get both Sulu and Janice Rand in Undiscovered Country-era uniforms. We get Kang. It was all in honor of Star Trek's 30th anniversary and the homage was effective.
But that's really it. What else is there here? "Flashback" gets a lot of love on best-of lists but I don't see it. The memory anomaly is all explained away with technobabble. It was just a gimmick, a device to get to Sulu with no real value of its own. The acting's good. The background development for Tuvok is good. It's fun without being meaningful. I want meaningful.
Acting Notes
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Jeremy Roberts played the role of Lt. Cmdr. Dmitri Valtane, the same character he played in Undiscovered Country. "Flashback" was his third and final Trek appearance. He was born Jeremy Thompson in Birmingham, Alabama, September 18, 1954. Other television appearances include CSI: Miami, Xena: Princess Warrior and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Other films include Sister Act and Blackout.
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