Voyager is a weird show for shore leave—the crew is exploring a previously unknown quadrant of space and trying to get home, so they can’t really just kick their feet up and relax on a nice planet somewhere. Instead, the series gave its crew digital hideways in the form of several holodeck programs throughout the show. Early on we had Chez Sandrine, a French pool bar, and we eventually got Neelix’s take on the Paxau Resort, a tropical hotel. But perhaps the most infamous and fun of all is the short lived 19th-century Irish village of Fair Haven.
I’ve previously said that “Fair Haven” was a bad episode, because Captain Janeway gets very horny for one of the holo-townspeople and alters his subroutines to be the ideal paramour, including the iconic line of her telling the holodeck to “delete the wife,” but I have grown and matured as a Star Trek fan since then, and can happily declare: this is extremely good, actually.
Voyager is a weird show for shore leave—the crew is exploring a previously unknown quadrant of space and trying to get home, so they can’t really just kick their feet up and relax on a nice planet somewhere. Instead, the series gave its crew digital hideways in the form of several holodeck programs throughout the show. Early on we had Chez Sandrine, a French pool bar, and we eventually got Neelix’s take on the Paxau Resort, a tropical hotel. But perhaps the most infamous and fun of all is the short lived 19th-century Irish village of Fair Haven.
I’ve previously said that “Fair Haven” was a bad episode, because Captain Janeway gets very horny for one of the holo-townspeople and alters his subroutines to be the ideal paramour, including the iconic line of her telling the holodeck to “delete the wife,” but I have grown and matured as a Star Trek fan since then, and can happily declare: this is extremely good, actually.