Star Trek’s showrunners eventually relented, and the only scenes in the episode shown in black and white were memory sequences, part of a bizarre plot twist in which Tom Paris is wrongly framed for murder and then finds himself re-living the victim’s final moments.
Indeed, these scenes are so vivid that one can’t help but wonder what would have happened if the entire episode had been “post-mortem law.” was It was shot in this style. Eventually, the show would return to this well a few years later when Tom Paris took part in Captain Proton’s holonov, which had himself and everyone else in the holodeck appear in black and white.
Above all, this Star Trek: Voyager The episode’s mostly black and white narrative reveals just how experimental the show was in its early days.
The irony, of course, is that the spinoff would ultimately gain a reputation for playing it safe compared to the more daring shows. Deep Space NineCompared to that groundbreaking show, Voyager There was no way to actually win, but with a visionary like Pillar, they could at least find a way to slow down the loss.
