We’re still not sure for whom this episode was intended. Fans absolutely hate it. Those involved in the production disown it. The cast despises it. It consistently ranks among the worst installments in the franchise’s history. “Threshold,” the 1996 episode of Star Trek: Voyager , is an hour of television with no real purpose. Bereft of logic, there is no lesson learned and the consequences of the episode are never mentioned again. If this were Friends , it would be known as “The One Where Tom Paris Mutates Into a Salamander and Spawns with Captain Janeway.” And it also happened to be the episode that hooked me on Star Trek. I encountered “Threshold” when I was nine-years-old, at the height of my pre-pubescence. It hit the trifecta for elements that excite pre-teen sci-fi fans: Brazen scientific exploration, the freakshow factor, and weird implied sex scenes. My folks were in the other room so I watched the show as though the TV were covered in a brown paper
Over-caffeinated and underpaid. Go America. Go Dodgers.