Almost five days without Trek seems like an eternity these days, but I did get to listen to the Mission Log episodes for the TOS movies so that at least kept my mind in the right place. It is always a bit of a bummer when I see a character I know makes it through the series die early on in an episode because it spoils the fact that he somehow gets saved or replaced or whatever which wouldn't have been true the first time through. I like that it wasn't time travel this time, the time loop of destruction in TNG was cool but we didn't need to do it all over again. I am not sure how I feel about the parallel Voyagers, shouldn't one of them have been from the Mirror Universe or something? Also, does it seem at all reasonable that the Doctor would insist that Ensign Wildman attempt natural delivery for 8 hours before going for the fetal transport? Especially when the baby has spikes coming out of her forehead.
The episode opens with Neelix obnoxious demanding the extremely pregnant Ensign Wildman work on parts of his kitchen equipment that require her to bend over extremely uncomfortably. So much so that she goes in to labor. On the bridge they are all eagerly waiting for the baby to be delivered when they detect a large group of Vidiian ships surrounding several of their planets. To hide from it they fly into a plasma drift. The delivery isn't going well and it gets worse when the babies head spikes damage Wildman's uterus and the Doctor beams the baby out. But just then the lights flicker in sickbay. It seems something is draining energy from the engines and Torres is ordered to delivers a series of proton pulses to get things going, but before she is ready the pulse appears out of nowhere and the ship takes massive damage sending casualties to sickbay while the doctor struggles to keep the baby alive.
Another proton burst tears a hole in the hull and Kim rushes out to try and seal it with a portable shield generator. Efforts aren't going well though and the even worse, in sickbay the baby is dying. The breach in the hull keeps widening and while trying to fix it Kim is blown out into space. While trying to help Kes disappears into nothingness while Torres looks on. She realizes there is a rift of some sort there and throws some debris through and in the process detects breathable atmosphere on the other side. On the bridge a new hull breach opens up and Janeway struggles to save the ship but sees a ghost version of the crew as she evacuates to main engineering. Suddenly we are on the undamaged ship and Janeway 2 as I am going to call her sees a ghost of herself. On this ship the proton bursts are going well and we see Kim looking into what the captain saw. Also we see a healthy baby in sickbay.
Kes made it all the way through though and tells them what happened on the other side. They figure out that this ships proton bursts are damaging the other ship and that they are somehow in the same place but different universes or something. Kes 1 returns to her Voyager and Janeway 2 works with Torres 2 on a way to communicate. They manage to work it out and come out with a technobabble solution, but it doesn't work. Janeway 1 decides the only thing to do is destroy her ship but 2 talks her inton waiting a few minutes. Suddenly the Vidiians show up for Voyager 2 and find it unable to defend itself. They clamp on and drill their way in and start killing main cast members left and right. Janeway 2 realizes the only way to save things is destroy her ship now, but not before sending Kim 2 through the portal along with Baby 2. The blast destroys the Vidiian ship and frees Voyager 1 to move on (after presumably extensive repairs).
Review: I really enjoyed this episode despite the kinda goofy premise. They played it straight, but like O'Brien in DS9, from this point forward we have a Kim from a different timeline/universe/phase of reality.
7 out of 10
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