241: Leola Root Seeds, Anyone?

Course: Oblivion.   Things are looking up for the Voyager crew at the beginning of the fifth-season episode "Course: Oblivion," from the wedding of Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres to an enhanced warp drive. But that all changes when the ship and crew begin losing their molecular cohesion, only to discover that they are, in fact, merely biomimetic duplicates of the real Voyager ship and crew, created a year before when Voyager landed on the aptly named "Demon Planet."   In this episode of To The Journey, hosts Zachary Fruhling and Suzanne Williamson (or perhaps their biomimetic duplicates; you be the judge!) discuss the merits of "Course: Oblivion." From the minutiae of the wedding of Fake-Tom and Fake-B'Elanna to the existential burdens of being a biomimetic duplicate, Zachary and Suzanne wrestle with  whether "Course: Oblivion" is as riveting as they recall and whether "Course: Oblivion" is really just one big metaphor for our finite human lives.   Chapters  Intro (00:00:00)  Distinguished Melting Neelix (00:03:27)  What about Harry Kim? (00:07:28)  Warp Cores Are Like Cats (00:10:13)  Who Is Ensign Harper?! (00:12:21)  This Episode Is a Metaphor for Life (00:18:02)  Goo People and an Enhanced Warp Drive (00:20:54)  Tom with a Tommy Gun (00:25:07)  Not as Riveting as We Remember (00:30:14)  Goo Gone (00:34:40)  Closing (00:37:49)   Hosts  Zachary Fruhling and Suzanne Williamson   Production  Suzanne Williamson (Editor) Zachary Fruhling (Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) Bruce Lish (Associate Producer) Joo Kim (Associate Producer) Richard Marquez (Associate Producer) Patrick Carlin (Associate Producer) Norman C. Lao (Associate Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Brandon-Shea Mutala (Patreon Manager)