I admit I am not really sure where they are going with the whole plot about Paris being an outcast or whatever. Although to be honest it seems like it is mostly a Paris/Chakotay fight. I did enjoy seeing Torres having to question some of her past decisions, they are often hesitant to have much bad in the past of the former Maquis characters, but honestly there were terrorists/freedom fighters and people like that break eggs to make omelets. Also the unstoppable super weapon was right out of TOS only I feel like they would have cut it closer than one minute until the ship is destroyed before blowing it up.
The episode opens with the ongoing saga of Ensign Wildman being pregnant and she discusses the difficulty in naming the child with Kes and the Doctor. She is called to her station as they detect debris from a destroyed ship. The ship was extremely tough and probably unmanned, but the weapons signature is Cardassian, and Torres knows why. Apparently she broke onto a Cardassian super weapon and reprogrammed it to destroy a Cardassian weapons depot but it disappeared in the same part of the badlands that Voyager and Chakotay's ship did so presumably it ended up here. It is a very powerful weapon not only capable of doing great damage to a planet but also capable of defending itself from just about any opponent. It is now aimed at a populated planet that resembles its target. Torres beams over though and gets it to shut down after convincing it that it is in fact in the Delta quadrant.
After she beams back though it turns back on and heads towards its target. They hail the missile and get a message it Torres' voice that it believes she has been compromised and will now not take orders from her. Janeway contacts the planet being targeted and they of course think it is all Voyagers fault and plan to send out forces to defend themselves, but they clearly aren't up to the task. Torres finally gets back on the missile but it shuts down life support. She is able to get a Cardassian backup program to run, but that only buys a little time. The probe destroys most of the local ships before they retreat. Janeway tells the leader of the world that she is going to destroy Voyager to stop the missile and begins evacuating everyone but Tuvok and herself. At the very last minute Torres gets into the missiles core and manually blasts a hole with a phaser. She is beamed out just in time and Janeway stops the autodestruct with one minute to spare.
Review: A tense episode that works pretty well. As I mentioned above the Paris stuff seems a little too much like the set up to a different episode, but it doesn't badly interfere with this one.
7 out of 10
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