Talk:Tattoo (episode)

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[edit] Which language

I know they try to avoid naming the tribe Chakotay belongs to, but what langauge was his father speaking? Was it a real langauge?

Who knows? Amazing, though, how forty-thousand years pass and the language hasn't changed a bit... standard Chakotay crap. They romanticize and simplify 'native' into some sort of New Agey thing, and, as if that wasn't racist enough, they say Native Americans were so stupid they needed ALIENS to bring them to civilization. 68.228.91.250 10:41, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removed

Removed the following nitpick and similarity.

• In the scene located in Chakotay's quarters where he explains his native peoples' story of the Rubber Tree People to Janeway, Robert Beltran can be seen "corpsing" as he moves off camera. Kate Mulgrew, obviously aware of what Beltran is doing off camera, begins to smile while still in shot. The edit then cuts back to Beltran again. For the remainder of the scene, Beltran can clearly be seen holding back an urge to laugh. This inability of the editors to use shots devoid of "corpsing" actors is perhaps an indication of the difficulty Beltran had in conveying the Rubber Tree dialog in a serious manner.
• Although this episode aired well before the TV series Lost, they share many of the same elements: flashbacks centered around one of the characters; a near-mystical jungle in which one of the characters must face an aspect of his past; the characters running through the jungle in a storm, only to be separated; the characters being separated by the sight of someone in the jungle; unseen "Others" (in this episode, the Sky People) in the distance; visions; use of the phrases "one of us" and "one of them;" the planet being protected, even as the island on Lost is protected; and, of course, there is the fact that Voyager itself is "lost" in the Delta Quadrant.--31dot 20:35, 12 September 2008 (UTC)