As usual when it looks like something really good is about to happen to Harry Kim it turns out to be some sort of trick or trap. This time he thinks he has found is true home in the Delta Quadrant, a planet of almost all women several of whom will be his wife so he can reproduce and spread his children to across the stars or something. But of course it turns out they are actually a bunch of black widows who will kill him to extract his genetic information (not sure why this part is necessary) and then make a bunch of all female babies. Not shockingly it seems he was infected on the planet of the tricky bar dwellers where the Doctor went crazy a few episodes earlier.
The episode begins on the bridge where they are in a part of space that seems super familiar to Kim for no apparent reason. Suddenly the come across a ship with seemingly peaceful intent but Kim takes control of the weapons and opens fire without warning. A battle ensues with both sides eventually breaking off after taking serious damage. Torres is burned in the the incident and Kim and relieved of command for what he did. He heads to sickbay and breaks out with a rash resembling a childhood illness he suffered from. Feeling terrible about the attack, the next day he comes to the captains ready room to apologize and accept whatever punishment she is going to give but she tells him he was right. Tuvok checked the sensor logs and the ship was about to open fire and Voyager didn't even have shields up. Soon three more enemy ships show up and they start running but won't be able to stay ahead for long. Kim without warning brings up a star chart and tells them to head to a planet in a system they haven't visited yet and they arrive just ahead of the enemy ships. Luckily another ship flies up from the planet and disables all three of the attackers.
They contact the planet and learn that that Kim is actually from their planet and sure enough, they all have spots like him. Also they are all women. They beam aboard and give a DNA sample to the Doctor who confirms Kim has their DNA. They claim their species reproduces by sending out males to secretly impregnate women all across the galaxy and that it implants a drive to explore and find home in them. Kim beams down to learn more and Voyager flies out to contact the ships who attacked. The attackers claim the locals are dangerous liars and no one ever returns from there. Kim though gets a warm welcome and meets a guy who is about to be married to his three wives. Kim participates in his marriage which involves the man getting tied up and led away.
That might Kim is making out with one of his wives to be when she knocks him out with some kind of plant extract. He wakes up and is still totally down but wants to contact Voyager and freaks out when they won't let him. It turns out the planet has some sort of protective field they have turned on and also the Doctor learned the DNA thing was a trick, Kim was infected by a retrovirus two episodes earlier. Kim manages to escape from the two women in his room and finds the married dude drained and dead on his wedding bed. The women attack Kim with clubs but Voyager manages to beam him out just in time.
Review: The damsel in distress in Voyager seems to end up being Kim more often than not which isn't a disaster per say, but it does get kinda old. The link they make in the end to the sirens of old is a bit too on the nose for me, but it does make sense that they were thinking about them when they wrote the ep.
5 out of 10
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