It had no bang. The character arcs are obvious from the outset – the notion that Tuvok might need to loosen up feels too much like an “easy” moral. [2] TV.com lists "Learning Curve" with a rating of 8.1 points out of 10 on 201 User reviews as of 2018. If Dalby had dared to hit Chakotay back, he’d likely be sent to the Brig. The Doctor discovers that the only way to kill the microbe is to heat the bioneural gel packs. Like a lot of the season before it, it’s a passable execution of what should have been a fantastic concept. ability; antimatter; apple; Bajoran; Bajoran frontier; bio-neural circuitry; bio-neural gel pack; Bolian; brick; brig; brill cheese; Burleigh, Lord; Burleigh's wife; Cardassians; Cardassian rapist-murderers; cargo bay; casualty; chafing; Chez Sandrine; Circassian fig; class M; contagion; crash course; cup; curriculum; Dalby's friend; Dalby's lover; damage; Davenport, Lucille; D'deridex-class; death march; Delta Quadrant; distress call; duty shift; duty station; emergency power; engine; environmental systems; evasive maneuvers (aka evasive action); Ferengi; fever; field training; heat; holodeck; holonovel; hull breach; humanitarian aid; inertial damper; "Janeway Lambda one"; Jefferies tubes; Kazleti; Kazleti homeworld; Keela flower; Kelvin; kilometer; Kobayashi Maru scenario; lap; Latin; latinum; Laurelian pudding; lead; logic; macaroni and cheese; magneton scanner; malfunction; manual override; Maquis; mathematics; mess hall; micro-resonator; Mister Vulcan; morale officer; murder; nacelle control system; Napinne; needlework; "Paris 3"; plasma burst; pool; putillo; rape; red alert; red giant; repair crew; rescue mission; result; sampler; schplict (grakel milk); senior officer; Sequence Beta 93; servicing system; simmering; Starfleet; Starfleet Academy; tea; temperature; trap; Tuvok's Academy students; Val Jean; varmeliate fiber; viscount; Vulcan; war games simulation; warbird, Romulan; Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. It is only available inside the BBC network. - not those of today. ", Director David Livingston plans a shot, involving Tuvok and Dalby, for this episode. This is a I do believe there is still room for the Maquis conflict on Voyager, but apart from the Michael Jonas arc and Season 7’s Repression, it always seemed a peripheral issue. Meanwhile, the "boot camp" continues. Lt. Tuvok is tasked with the job of putting some former Maquis crew members through … Neelix: It doesn’t explore these satisfactorily, but it does acknowledge them. What happens to the Maquis who don’t want to join Starfleet? There’s something deeply uncomfortable about the ease with which Learning Curve accepts all of these assumptions. If Dalby and his friends don’t want to serve in Starfleet, forcing them to serve is a very morally questionable act. However, despite this, Learning Curve seems as good a choice as any to close out the first season – and certainly a better choice than Brannon Braga and Jeri Taylor’s preferred candidate, The 37’s. It should be viewed in this context and with the Voyager learned a lot from The Next Generation, but it seems to have inherited its occasionally blindly idealistic attitudes towards the Federation and Starfleet. Roxann Biggs-Dawson (in the role of B'Elanna Torres) delivered a line that "summed up exactly what [fans] thought of the new show".[8]. Overall, the class is now compliant, if not holding back anger. It had no bang. meanwhile, Voyager is facing a crisis as well. It had no bang. After this deadpan delivery, Dalby bluntly tells Tuvok that he does not want to get to know him better nor be his friend. When Tuvok shares with Neelix that he is frustrated with the Maquis's unwillingness to adapt to Starfleet protocol, Neelix indicates that perhaps it is Tuvok who is being inflexible in his strict adherence to procedure, and that perhaps if he were to "bend the rules" a little bit, the trainees would respect him more. When Dalby (quite correctly) points out that Janeway isn’t going to lock them up for the rest of the voyage, Chakotay shows up to beat Dalby into line. For Tuvok's mandatory run through the ship's corridors, director, David Livingston was also given the opportunity to improvise upon the script. [14] Within the holodeck, special effects visual a Romulan spacecraft is shown. After calling out for Chell, they leave, leaving Tuvok standing in the cargo bay. However, it was almost immediately side-lined in favour of adventure-of-the-week storytelling. [14], "To Boldly Go: Essays on Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Universe", "Star Trek Auction Listings Archive - Item 9449", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Learning_Curve_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)&oldid=974525473, Short description is different from Wikidata, Television episode articles with short description for single episodes, Television episode articles with short description and disambiguated page names, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 August 2020, at 14:55. thousands of radio and TV programmes that are already available (As much as I love The Thaw and Meld and… for all its flaws… Tuvix.). "[12] Doux Reviews notes the reluctant trainees must choose between "..confinement in the brig or being punched.." but called the end "obvious but satisfying", giving it a rating of "one out of four recruits". Tuvok and the Doctor trace the infection to a batch of homemade cheese that Neelix has prepared. Page 88. 50s, you can navigate by issue. The Starfleet version puts the starship in a no win situation. In this episode Tuvok forces some of the Maquis crew into a Starfleet training program[1] and systems malfunction throughout the ship as the bio-neural gel packs begin to fail. Written by I want to show you something. “We always plan our closing episode rather carefully so that it builds to a climax, leaves people wanting to come back, and says something about the franchise. [8] Schematics used to construct the sets for this episode were among the items sold off in the It's a Wrap! [9] The producers of the show were disappointed that "Learning Curve" became the default season finale due to scheduling issues with the season, describing it as "a run-of-the-mill episode...it wasn't a cliffhanger. I’m waiting until next year to do the second season (barring the episodes that aired between the episodes produced in the first season block), and I am really dreading it. During the simulation, Voyager goes through a series of attacks by Romulan warbirds, before it is finally overpowered and shields start to buckle. He’s going to argue with Tuvok until he’s blue in the face…. It’s unfortunate they didn’t sign up, but compromises have to be made for the greater good. Tuvok responds that it was, but that he recently realized that there are times when it is desirable to bend the rules. Later in the mess hall, Dalby makes it clear to Chakotay that he wants to do things the Maquis way. It’s a special kind of show that we design. [11], Trek Navigator's Mark A. Altman gave the episode two and a half stars stating the episode "plays like a lightweight version of the same writers' "Lower Decks". Finally, Dalby gets into Tuvok's face, asking him to leave him alone. images and articles as well as the programme listings from the Radio According to The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, Brannon Braga was the only writer really pushing for a cliffhanger to the season, and The 37’s seems to be a bit of a mess because none of the staff knew what they wanted from the script. Lien