After finishing this episode I thought to myself that it was actually a slightly above average episode. Certainly the best so far. And then it hit me, Neelix isn't in it at all! Also it is a fairly cool scifi episode which not at all shockingly involves some time travel. I guess since he is security guy, not science guy I should excuse Tuvok for being a bit of an idiot, but when he suggested that the wormhole has a 25% chance of hitting the alpha quadrant it was too much. A wormhole could go literally anywhere in the universe, so the odds might be just a bit worse than that Mr. Vulcan. (DAMN IT, THAT IS A NEELIX LINE)
The episode opens with the discovery of a wormhole, but unfortunately it is only 30 centimeters across. They send a probe in, but it gets stuck. Just as they are giving up hope though the detect that the probe is being scanned from the other side. In sickbay Lt. Jerkface is trying to impress Kes with how awesome he is at working out despite getting hurt all the time doing it. He totally ignores the doctor and offends Kes in the process. In briefing Torres comes up with a plan to use the probe as a relay to send a message to the ship on the other side. She gets to work with Kim and they get it to work. They even manage to send a voice transmission but are kinda bummed out when it turns out they are talking to a Romulan. They come up with a plan to at least send messages home though so that is something. Kes meets with Janeway about the doctor and points out that since he is going to be their only doctor the whole way home he needs to be treated like a member of the crew.
There is another problem as well, it seems the Romulans are probably on a covert mission and are unwilling to believe even that they are in the Delta Quadrant. Janeway eventually convinces the other captain to talk, though he won't give his name. They manage to get visual communications working and convince the Romulan to try and convince his government to send their messages, but for some reason they decide they can't send them through unless they know they will be transmitted which seems silly. Janeway does manage to also find time to meet with the doctor and tells him to think of himself as a member of the crew and agrees to let him be in control of when he is turned on and off. Torres figures out that they can beam using the probe as a relay and Janeway convinces the Romulan to let them try. Tests work and the Romulan captain agrees to beam to their ship as a test, but when he arrives Tuvok drops a bomb, the wormhole goes across space AND time, the Romulan is from 20 years in the past. He does agree to send take their messages though and send them when the time is right, but after he leaves Tuvok does it again pointing out that he died almost ten years before their mission left.
Review: An actual story with people acting in ways that make sense for their characters plus no Neelix and this is a decent episode. Still has a few issues, but a solid:
6 out of 10
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