Welcome to the planet of seduction! Or something like that. The leader of the world seems way more interested in sleeping with Janeway than it just about anything other than not helping her. From the the name of the episode I guess the theme is supposed to be how crappy it feels to be not helped by someone else because of something like the prime directive, but that just doesn't work all that well for me. Sure they have the meeting where they discuss it, but so far VOY much like TOS has treated the prime directive as more of a tertiary advisory that an actual rule which makes this episode feel kinda hollow. It kinda reminded me of Omega Glory where Kirk goes off on the other captain for ignoring the prime directive, but it isn't like he has followed it up to that point really at all.
We begin with the ship receiving a distress call, but when they investigate they find a dude who insists it is they who are in distress and insists on bringing over some tasty food. Neelix only appearance in the episode is to first be pissed that someone is interrupting his terrible cooking but when he learns the dude is from Sikaris he is stoked since they are known to be very friendly. And since he has to be totally worthless he never bothers to mention that they are also super protective of their technology. Janeway agrees to visit Sikaris and sends the crew down for shore leave as soon as they arrive. Kim ends up finding a woman reading the weather with a harp and tells her a story which she is super into. She takes him to a transporter that carries them over half the distance back to home just so they can watch a sunrise, but Kim isn't into the sunrise, only the transporter.
Kim interrupts Janeway about to get it on with the leader of the planet with the news about the spatial trajector. They are both told though that the Sikarans won't share any tech that might hurt somebody. They return to the ship and have a meeting where they agree they can't violate the local laws, but maybe they can trade their stories for the tech. Janeway proposes this to the leader but he is really only interested in getting them to stay on his planet. Kim gets an offer though from another person on the planet to make the trade and after discussing it with his friends decides to take it to the captain who forbids it. However Kim and Torres decide to do it anyway. Just as they are about to leave they find themselves locked out of the transporter and are shocked when Tuvok walks it. But he isn't there to stop them, he is there to carry out the plan. He returns with the tech and Torres quickly realizes it will only work while they are near the planet and almost destroys the ship trying to make it work. Janeway is very disappointed in all of them for breaking orders.
Review: I can see where they were going with this and a good part of it does work pretty well, but it just failed to come together as an actually good episode for me. It seems like from what we have seen of Janeway so far she should have been the first to jump at the chance to get them over halfway through their voyage, but I guess it would have made this a short series.
5 out of 10
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