Strange New Worlds Fixed A Bad Star Trek: Voyager Episode 24 Years Later

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Summary

"Lost in Translation" in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds improves on Voyager's "The Fight" by executing the concept of communication with non-corporeal aliens more effectively.
Uhura in Strange New Worlds is a better central character than Chakotay in Voyager. She seeks understanding and connection, interpreting the alien messages as cries for help.
"Lost in Translation" is structured more thoughtfully than "The Fight". It presents a mystery with a satisfying conclusion, centered around Uhura's emotional journey and improvement over Voyager's lackluster episode.

24 years after one of the lowest-rated and most incomprehensible episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, an episode from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 fixed it. The two shows are separated by a century and 70,000 light years, with Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) leading USS Voyager's 24th-century journey through the Delta Quadrant and Captain Christopher Pike's (Anson Mount) USS Enterprise exploring a final frontier that's much closer to home in the 23rd century. But these two Star Trek shows are linked together by a type of alien with a unique communication style that appeared in both.
In Star Trek: Voyager season 5, episode 19 "The Fight", Commander Chakotay (Robert Beltran) struggles with what appears to be an attack on his mind from non-corporeal aliens that exist in chaotic space, where the rules of physics can shift at a moment's notice. The aliens attempt to communicate with him by altering his brain structure, which causes hallucinations that he refuses to pay attention to, fearing that he'll become a "crazy old man" like his grandfather was. It's only when he undergoes a voluntary vision quest that he can begin to understand them, as the aliens use images of familiar faces to deliver their message.
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