What is This About?

“When you try to tell The Story – he breaks warp ten, starts shedding skin, he kidnaps The Captain and then he becomes One with The Universe, [he and Janeway] are salamanders, and have a baby – it sounds ridiculous.

What is this about? 

Before you can even start to tell The Story you have to find The Moral. What is the simplest point of this episode? 

Once you can say that in a sentence then that is what the episode is about. 

To me […] the whole warp ten [challenge] and salamanders and all of that frosting was about Paris trying to find some sort of salvation outside himself and ultimately realising that he had to find his own self worth from within. 

Here is somebody who thinks he's got to break warp ten and prove to Everybody, His Father and Himself that he can do this outside thing, but ultimately your happiness comes from within.”

“Some of the fans sort of questioned the science of it. Some of this anger was misplaced, I thought. 

A lot of the ire seemed to be caused by the fact that we stated no one had ever gone warp ten before, and people flooded us with letters saying, 'That's not true, in the original series they went warp twelve and warp thirteen.' 

We should have had a crawl before the episode explaining all this, but it really was a recalibration of warp speed.

It is not one that took with the audience. The fact that we were turning people into salamanders was offensive to a lot of people and just stupid to others."