UPDATE: Sorry, the link was mis-formatted and did not appear earlier.

The Agony Booth has been making its way through the various Star Trek TV shows in chronological order, doing two horrible episodes from each show. Now they’re up to the worst of the worst, the pitiful Star Trek Voyager episode, Threshold.

That’s the one where Paris takes a shuttlecraft…a SHUTTLE, mind you…to Warp 10, and doing so turns him into a lizard.

There are so many things wrong with that episode that I shudder when thinking of it.

I haven’t even read Agony Booth’s takedown of the ep yet, so I don’t know what they’ll say. Let me point out my problems with this episode:

** The Doctor figures out a method for saving the transformed lizard person. And the transformation takes time. That being the case, isn’t the downside of achieving Warp 10 solved? Go Warp 10, then take the cure. Voyager could have traveled home, sent everyone to Sick Bay, and ended the series.

** The side effect aside, the shuttle DID go Warp 10. If you do the impossible and get injured doing so, that doesn’t take away from the fact that you did the impossible. It’s not as if Chuck Yeager comes down with an awful case of hiccups and everyone calls his supersonic flight a failure!

** The offspring at the end of the episode are left behind on the planet. Isn’t that the biggest of no-nos for a Federation ship under the prime directive?

** Janeway somehow survives her transformation without medical help.

** Janeway and Paris end up the same despite Janeway being a long ways behind Paris in terms of when she begins her transformation. Perhaps the salamander form is the end point and Paris reached it, then waited for Janeway to reach that point before they mated. But isn’t it odd that it took only three days to catch up to Janeway and in that time she went from human to salamander that has already laid eggs and the eggs have hatched?

** Come on! You hit warp 10 and you turn into a lizard? What?