I know they try to excuse Chakotay in the end of this episode, but it seems like he is an extremely poor judge of character and should probably not be first officer, but whatever, he can teach Janeway to spirit quest. Also for once Neelix wasn't the one who set them up in a trap so I guess that is good? Neelix is still my least favorite part of this episode though for not understanding that the crew don't want to eat garbage. The joke that he is a bad chef got old about one episode in and has gotten to the point where it is pretty much the worst part of the show in every episode it is featured. Want to keep moral up? Get rid of the dude who has no useful local tips and makes everyone on the ship sick with his lack of taste.
We open with the crew on a planet to gather horrible tasting roots for Neelix when Kim and then Tuvok discover that there is another ship in orbit. They prepare to beam the crew up but one of them is missing. Chakotay goes after Seska and finds her in a cave along with a bunch of Kazon. She seems to be hiding though so Chakotay trusts she is a victim and helps her escape. That night Seska shows up in Chakotay's quarters with some mushroom soup she made for him. She also tries to seduce him after he gets upset that she stole food (to be fair I think it was a mercy stealing if it was from Neelix). Just then they get a distress call from the Kazon ship they detected earlier and when they arrive they find the crew are all either dead or incapacitated. An away team beams over and finds all but one of them dead, but whats worse is the source of the explosion seems to be a console with Federation parts. In a turbolift Janeway discusses it with Tuvok and Chakotay and they agree the most likely explanation is they have a traitor on board and suspicion immediately falls on Seska.
Torres comes up with a plan to retrieve the console but Seska has a different idea. To keep her from either sabotaging the mission or making it look like she is guilty Chakotay tells Seska to stay on board Voyager. She heads straight to sickbay and learns the surviving Kazon is in bad shape and needs a blood transfusion which is when we learn Seska never gave a blood sample. Instead of staying on board Seska beams over to the Kazon ship but messed up whatever she was trying and ends up in sickbay where they learn she is actually a Cardassian. Two more Kazon ships show up and the captain convinces Janeway to let him beam over to see the injured Kazon but instead of helping he kills the dude with a poisoned ring. Janeway uses her strong language again rather than doing much about it. Torres manages to get the equipment back and discovers it is clearly from Voyager and even which parts where taken. Tuvok sets up a trap to find out if it is actually Seska behind the problem and it is. She does have one more trick though and beams off Voyager onto a Kazon ship.
Review: First of all I am glad to have only had to spend one episode typing Seska which I invariably type as Sisko. This turned out to be a better episode than I thought when it opened and while I am annoyed with Janeway for letting the murderous Kazon go this time it isn't clear what other options she had.
6 out of 10
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