Star Trek - Voyager, Episode 33: Meld (1995) Review

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(More customer reviews)In Episode 33, "Meld" (Story by Michael Sussman, Teleplay by Michael Piller, Aired February 5, 1996), "Star Trek: Voyager" finally gets around to really dealing with Tuvok (Tim Russ) as a Vulcan. A crewmember is found dead in Engineering and the Doctor (Robert Picardo) discovers he was murdered. As Security Officer Tuvok investigates and his suspicions fall upon Suder (Brad Dourif), one of the Maquis. When physical evidence points to his guilt, Suder confesses, explaining that he killed the other man because "I didn't like the way he looked at me." This motivation does not compute to Tuvok, who continues to interrogate Suder about the murder. But when Suder cannot explain his violent outburst he agrees to let Tuvok do the good old mind meld. The Vulcan not only wants to understand this act of violence but hopes that some of his sense of self-discipline will help Suder to control himself in the future. Of course as we all know from Picard's legendary mind meld with Sarek, such exchanges go in both directions.
"Meld," as you would expect, comes down to the performances of both Tim Russ and Brad Dourif. Obviously Russ gets to really brake out of the straight laced mold into which Tuvok is poured, but Dourif, one of the great psychotics of recent vintage, is almmost as important to the story. Yes, I would agree that Tuvok should have expected some of the risks to himself in attempting this particular mind meld, but as "Star Trek: Enterprise" has repeatedly reminded us, your average Vulcans are extremely arrogant people (and underscoring that Spock was only half-Vulcan). Consequently, Tuvok's sense of self could well contain this tragic flaw, although with all his interactions with humans on "Voyager" he really should have known better. In the final analysis, "Meld" is an above average episode on the strength of the memorable performances more than the storyline, but the stor

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