So far VOY has resisted the urge to have a holodeck gone wrong episode, but boy do they love teasing it. In this episode they even up the ante by installing holo-emitters all over the ship so now when things go wrong the will go wrong everywhere! Also the alien in this episode was creepy and threatening enough that I hope isn't the last we see of them. Much more interesting than the knock off Klingons known as the Kazon.
We open with Janeway running all over stressing out about just about everything. Neelix wants to talk to her about the Bothan's who territory they are approaching. Tuvok needs a half hour and Torres wants to show off the new holo-emitters in engineering, but when she makes the Doctor appear he is only a few inches tall. He is still in charge enough to order Janeway to go relax on the holodeck for medical reasons. She goes to her novel and finds the gentleman she is working for is in love with her, but before she can get very far she is called to the bridge. The are being approached by a Bothan vessel and she learns from Neelix that ships keep disappearing at the borders without explanation. The Bothan is lit in a way where you can't see his face and agrees to negotiate with them further.
Janeway goes to the mess hall but is startled when the cucumber sandwhiches from her holonovel are being offered for lunch. Neelix then serves her tea in an exquisite flower covered tea cup also from the novel. Janeway starts hearing voices from her novel and even sees the young daughter who insists her mother isn't dead. Janeway goes to Torres to see if the new holo-emitters are at fault, but it seems they aren't. Thing keep getting stranger when Janeway sees the daughter in sickbay and Kes can see her too, but then Kes somehow forces the girls spirit back into Janeway. Later Janeway is attacked by a knife wielding servant from the novel and removes herself from command.
Chakotay is confronted by the Bothan ship and Tuvok notices two other ships are cloaked nearby. They are attacked and Janeway rushes to the bridge but they are suddenly confronted by the Bothan, but he isn't the Bothan, he is Janeway's husband, Paris's father, and Tuvok's wife. Janeway sees that all the crew are falling under its sway and contacts Torres who starts working on a solution. Eventually Kes and the doctor are the only ones left and Kes has to go to engineering and finish Torres' plan. But she is confronted by Paris and then Neelix who both try to stop her. She fights back and is attacked with what feels like buring acid, but she forces that onto her attacker as well. After she fires the warp burst thing Torres came up with the alien is revealed and the crew return to normal. But when Janeway shows up and threatens the creature it tells her fine, but I am not actually here and disappears.
Review: I thought this was a good episode. Lots of excitement and good stuff from much of the cast. I remember kinda hating Kes's undefined powers the first time, but they seem fine on this watching. Kinda like how Spock's powers only came up when the plot demanded it, not when it would actually make sense.
7 out of 10
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