This is a fun episode with some seriously dumb sciency stuff. The idea of a virus being huge is one thing. Sure, they aren't actually alive and therefore presumably not actually intelligent. But lets actually totally put that aside for a moment. WHY CAN THEY FLY AROUND? I know they make a buzzing sound like a bug, but they don't seem to be flapping any wings or anything like that. So what are they flying? The fly sized versions we can't see very well, but the huge ones seem to only float with magic. Also it is totally unclear what the virus is supposed to do to people and even more so why they get huge. Also, why is the cure distributed by a bomb? And how did it get distributed around the ship without the environmental controls working.
We open with Janeway and Neelix negotiating with a goofy race of aliens who do a kind of interpretive dance as a form of communication. When they get back to where the ship was supposed to meet them it is gone, and not just that, when they detect it there is something badly wrong. They track down Voyager which is adrift and no one is answering their hails. On board things are going poorly, main power is off and environmental controls are failing. It seems everyone stopped doing what they had been up to about 11 hours earlier but where they are is a mystery. They see a shadow of something fleeing and flow where they find that it melted through the floor of the transporter (they never explain how it can just melt through bulkheads, sure it has slime but that doesn't melt people and the spike doesn't seem up to the job). They head to the bridge in a turbolift but something bangs into the lift and a tentacle bursts through and sprays Neelix.
They have to go through Jeffrey's tubes and Neelix is getting sick. Janeway leaves him to get a med kit and something attacks him. He is gone when she returns so she heads to engineering to get guns and stuff to go full Ripley. She eventually finds her way to sickbay where the Doctor narrates a long series of flashbacks where he explains that they got the virus from a mining colony and it got into the gel packs on the ship (never explained how it got from the transport buffer where it is literally just data to a physical place) and infects Torres from there. The Doctor managed to make a cure but is too terrified of his mobile emitter getting damaged to try and use it. For some reason he and Janeway split up heading to environmental controls to spread the cure around but the Doctor gets trapped and Janeway has to be an action star and save the day which she does by making the cure into a bomb. Oh, the aliens from the cold open show up and try to destroy the ship but that doesn't really go anywhere.
Review: This was both very silly from a science perspective and also pretty poorly paced out. The flashback segment was way too long and the final showdown felt kinda rushed.
4 out of 10
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