10 Star Trek Episodes That Seriously Deserve A Second Chance

10. Resistance

Resistance is an oft-forgotten episode of early Star Trek: Voyager, guest starring Oscar-winning actor Joel Grey. It was also the first story that Michael Jan Friedman and Kevin J. Ryan sold to the franchise, both of whom going on to produce tonnes of content from that point.

The story was described by all involved as a 'Don Quixote' type episode. Grey's Caylem, an older man with trouble accepting reality as it is, mistakes Janeway for his long-deceased daughter. He struggles to fight for a resistance that has been crushed, unable to do anything else.

The episode hangs on the performances, with both Grey and Mulgrew delivering on all fronts. Lisa Klink, who was given the task of writing the teleplay - only a month into her tenure with Star Trek - was asked by the production staff how she felt about Janeway pretending to be a prostitute in one scene. She argued that Janeway was the kind of person who would think nothing of doing whatever it took to safeguard her people.

The episode, which had begun life as a B'Elanna story, features a strong b-plot that sees both she and Tuvok kidnapped and tortured, with them beginning to understand each other much better.