This is the episode from when I first was watching where I became kinda certain this show was actually terrible. I hope I am wrong and that it gets better from here, but the idea of travelling so fast you are at every point in the universe at once and then returning back to exactly where you started is dumb. The idea of this turning you into a horny space lizard who knows the only way to make it is to kidnap the captain and turn her into another horny space lizard so the two of you can get it on is extra wow. To keep going a little it is suggested that Paris is turning into what humans are evolving into. Really??? We are evolving into space lizards without limbs capable of manipulating our environment? And it isn't like we need to wait millions of years to find out, they left behind their brood of baby lizards to maybe take over the galaxy someday.
The episode opens with Paris flying a shuttlecraft towards the transwarp barrier. He hopes to hit warp 10 with some sweet new dilithium they discovered, but as he gets close something goes wrong and the shuttle explodes. Luckily he is on the holodeck. Paris, Torres and Kim all head to the mess hall where they manage to figure out the solution. Janeway suddenly doesn't want Paris to go since there is a 2% chance he could die, but seriously, he is a good enough pilot that probably buys more than 2% chance of additional success and he talks his way on. The plan works and he disappears into subspace only to appear several minutes later unconscious in the shuttle. The logs show he succeeded and there is a dumb gag where the Doctor figures out he isn't unconscious, just sleeping despite everyone talking loudly around him.
Everything seems to be fine and Tom is pumped to be a hero. They start planning the next attempt when he collapses after drinking some of Neelix's coffee. It seems he is wildly mutating to the point where he can't breath our air anymore. The doctor puts him in a special atmosphere but he dies. But then for no apparent reason he comes back to life. And now he is a total jerk with two hearts and a swelling head. The Doctor comes up with a plan to expose him to radiation from the engine core and turn him back to normal but he escapes, kidnaps the captain, and steals a shuttle flying off at warp 10. They eventually catch up and find the shuttle on a planet and the captain and Paris are space lizards. And they have made a new race of baby space lizards. They get taken back to the ship and the Doctor saves them in no time turning them back to normal. Really the only part I really liked was Paris apologizing and the captain saying not so fast, in many species the female initiates mating.
Review: This episode is honestly pretty dumb. It fails to understand the following sciences: physics, astrophysics, genetics, biology, and ethics. I get that it was trying to be a strange TOS style ep, but it would have been a bad TOS ep as well.
2 out of 10
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