Star Trek: Voyager 11:59 (1995–2001) watch online HD

This episode of Voyager was clearly trying to be something different and while it was different it didn't really work for me. Captain Janeway starts to look in to one of her ancestors who inspired her to join Star Fleet. We see the story of her ancestor Shannon O'Donnell in flash back as she finds herself stuck in an Indiana town when her car breaks down in the run up to news year's day 2001. She takes refuge in a book shop owned by one Henry Janeway who is the last person in town who hasn't sold his property to developers who wish to build the Millennium Gate tower, a building that will be a self-contained biosphere containing a large shopping mall amongst other things. Henry is not keen on change however and it looks as though the tower will have to be built elsewhere. As more details are revealed the captain learns that her ancestor wasn't quite the pioneer she thought and only had a relatively minor role in the tower's construction and was never part of the Mars exploration missions as she had been led to believe.

The weakness of the episode was largely down to the fact we knew Shannon would end up with Henry in the end due to his surname. It wasn't without its strengths though, it was nice that the Shannon was just a normal person not the leader in her field the captain believed as that would have been cliché.

My favorite Star Trek series are Enterprise and Voyager. I love voyager and am doing my first re-watch since it originally aired.

Everybody hates this episode, but I love it. It makes me long for 2000 which I took for granted at the time. I think this is a sweetest most interesting episode of the series. I love looking back in history. It does not bother me that Janeway's ancestor looks just her, but I guess I am a fan of Mulgrew. If we could all look back in to our past with this kind of clarity, with romanticized data filling in the holes, would be not do it? Where and what were my ancestors doing 300 - 400 years ago? What was life like back then? In this case, Captain Janeway is looking back to time that I actually lived in. That is just too cool. It is time travel but through stories passed down from generation to generation. I can classify exactly why, but I love it!

Yes, Voyager in not 99% destroyed in this episode as it is in most. This is not an action sequence story. It is a thought provoking story. Gene Roddenberry would have love it.

I didn't realize how underrated this episode was until I rewatched it. I know there's some illogical details about this episode but generally I love Shannon's story. Was Shannon sort of a pioneer? No. She had never been in space or taken part of the Mars project. But did she make a great difference to the history? All she did was managing to persuade her future husband to move his bookstore. It might seem insignificant to the entire history, but to a extent it had paved the way for The Millenium Gate project, which became the prototype of the Mars Colony. You don't really have to be the one who discovers the law of gravity to make a difference to the mankind. You can be the apple.

'what does this have to do with anything?'---Henry Janeway

This episode is among the slightest and easiest to skip of all the episodes of "Star Trek: Voyager". It's not necessarily bad but it does seem irrelevant and like filler.

The episode consists of folks talking about their family histories. Janeway decides to tell everyone about her great-great-great-great- great-etc. grandmother...a woman who, oddly, looks EXACTLY like Captain Janeway. I hate when movies show distant relatives who look EXACTLY like the present individuals--it's as bad a cliché as the identical cousins cliché! The story involves the woman's romance with a grumpy old guy (Kevin Tighe) and has just about nothing to do with the show in any way!

By the way, I am a stickler for details and in the beginning of the show Mr. Neelix is trying to show off how smart he is. However, BOTH things he says are wrong!! Qin is not pronounced 'kin' and the Great Wall of China CANNOT be seen from space--that's an urban legend. Two more reasons to hate Neelix...as well as the writer who didn't do their homework when they wrote this one.

I guess this is based on the premise that Janeway and the others have to have diversion, and a look at the past fulfills this as bit. Janeway had an ancestor, going back centuries, who had some function with NASA. It then tells how, after losing her job, she winds up in a small town that is about to get big. Except for a bookseller who refuses to sell his property to developers. It now becomes a rather maudlin story that really doesn't fit well with the Star Trek thing. It was entertaining at times, but filled with cliches and precious behavior.

Another review here made every point I would so I will keep this short and bitter. Boring, pointless, meaningless... The dialogue is trite and really difficult to endure. I watched this episode once and won't bother again. The premise about the millennium, I guess at the time was supposed to be involving, but considering the millennium didn't start for another two years (2001) this really was out of place, technically. It drudges on and there is no real point to the story. It lifts out completely and ads nothing at all to my appreciation of Janeway. Feel free to skip without missing anything. Its not like they even make a connection to Janeway, or tell us how it has any real significance to her; maybe if they linked it and showed a real unique or unexpected time-connection that could have made it better, or ad some mystery to it. Its just not there... fire whomever wrote this tripe. I can hardly remember what it was about; a bookstore or something. Just like I don't care for the 'Fair Haven' or really any major 'Holodeck' based episode on TNG or any of the them. I watch Star Trek to see spaceships and exploration of the 'Trek' galaxy. Not to see something that would have been rejected from 'Masterpiece Theatre' for being too dull.

This is a fairly boring and inconsequential episode. Overall, however, the thing it makes me wonder most is this: why does every starship seem to have nearly unlimited information about earth history?

Voyager apparently has access to 20th/21st century birth/death/marriage certificates, voter registration forms, census forms, &c. At least in TNG or DS9 that could be explained-away as them accessing the Federation network, but that's certainly not the case here, out in the Delta Quadrant. Anyhow, it is one of those silly little inconsistencies which makes this show so very weak.

I'd like to start this review by saying that I have never before written a film/TV show review on IMDb, or anywhere else that I can recall. I just don't have interest in doing so. The fact I have now taken the time to write one for this episode is a testament to just how bad this episode was.

I've always enjoyed Trek, from a very young age I watched TNG, and then DS9. DS9 was by far my favourite and some years ago I re-watched them all on DVD. But I was never able to get into Voyager. After having re-watched TNG I decided it was time to give Voyager another go. And it's not half as bad as I recall - it's not great and overall seems a bit wanting at times with rather 2D characters, but there are some great stories and overall I'm enjoying it.

Series 5 has been hard work, though. It feels like the whole series is filler with (virtually) no killer. The episode before this (the Doctor falling in love with Seven) was pretty poor - character development, particularly for the Doctor and Seven is interesting, but there was no B-plot. The ambassador who is essentially monk-like who ends up completely inebriated is not a plot, it's all utterly pointless. Still, I digress. Then came 11:59.

Dear, sweet Lord - 'dull' doesn't do it justice. It's mind-numbingly boring and, worse, utterly pointless. An important part of a TV show, especially one as long-running as Voyager, is that we have to care about the characters and be invested in them. This obviously happens over time and develops over time also. And that's where the problem with this episode lies: why do we care about Janeway's almost-400-year-old relative and her frankly boring story? We don't. It has no bearing on the events of the present (within Voyager), it doesn't explain anything or add anything to Janeway's character that we didn't already know. Which makes it entirely redundant.

I honestly couldn't watch it all the way through to the end, I was too bored. I should add that I'm someone who can happily watch a 6 part 1960s Dr Who story, so it's not my impatience that's the problem here.

Thankfully, I'm now watching the next episode (Relativity) and while I can't yet say how good it is, at least something is actually happening.