Written By: Jeri Taylor
Directed By: David Livingston
Rating: ** (out of 5)
This is quite a good Deep Space 9 episode that . . . hang on a second. This isn�t a Deep Space 9 episode, this is a Voyager episode! Stupid me! How could I have made this mistake? Oh well, lets start again:
B�Elanna is used as a host by a dying alien lifeform. Doc consults a holographic version of a Cardassian Physician. The Cardassian is discovered to have tortured its patients, B�Elanna refuses to be operated on.
That�s better, sorry about that mistake. :-)
�Nothing Human hits its first snag very early in the episode. The whole idea of consulting a hologram here is ridiculous. Firstly, how could Harry have created Krell so easily? In �Message in a Bottle� it was stupid enough he even attempts to do this. Lucky he failed. But here Harry succeeds with flying colors.
And even worse Krell, the hologram, contains some memories of the Cardassian scientist. Ridiculous as that is, why did Voyager even have this file in their databanks? How does the hologram, which isn�t real, effect anyone? It�s a hologram! It�s not sentient. This hologram experiences sentient properties the second it�s activated, how? Doc has had years to get to his state of intelligence.
Every single bit of holographic mumbo-jumbo in �Nothing Human� is worthless. So the end result is, who cares? Who cares about the moral issue? Who cares about the alien? Who cares about B�Elanna? Who cares what happens?
�Nothing Human� is infuriating because of how obvious these stupid mistakes are. Why do the writers even bother about doing this. If this is the kind of stuff they want to do, than get the crew home. What�s the point in �stranded 75, 000 light years from� when the writers don�t take that into consideration?
But as this is, with the holo-crap stuff, the episode is . . . good. Yes, that�s right. �Nothing Human� presents a good moral dilemma for the crew. The debates about it, barring the holo-crap arguments, are well thought out and interestingly played out.
Krell Moset is wonderfully acted by David Clennon . He reminds me a lot of Gul Dukat by the friendly but untrustworthy way he has of putting things.
The Teaser was so funny!! Poor Doc, you must feel sorry for him, no one wants to be rude to him, but he�s just so annoying! I loved Tuvok�s, �Chakotay seems to have disobeyed a direct order� remark when Chakotay doesn�t go to Yellow Alert to get out of the Doc�s boring holo-images.
�Nothing Human� is a waste of a Voyager episode. But it could�ve been a brilliant DS9 episode. There is nothing that could�ve been added, its what should�ve been taken away that�s the problem.