As for audiences and critics, they had been a bit combined on “Ex Publish Facto:” the episode had some nice character moments, however each womanizer Paris and the noir parts felt misplaced, and the entire thing felt prefer it cribbed an excessive amount of from The Next Generation episode “A Matter of Perspective.”
Michael Piller disagreed with the comparability, although it’s doable he was so near his beloved noir episode to see that it wasn’t all that authentic.
It’s additionally doable, in fact, that Piller had absorbed the knowledge of Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon for writing his beloved noir episode: “Don’t fear concerning the story’s goofiness.” Truthfully, can anybody consider a greater guiding philosophy for Voyager?