It must have been strange to grow up in Germany in the 1950's never sure what your parents and grandparents may have done before and during WWII. This episode is similarly about a culture that seems to be totally civilized and forward thinking but that only a generation before committed an act of genocide against a fairly large portion of their population and now totally covers it up. The fact that about half the episode takes place in a dream/flashback sequence is going to make it easy to sum up at least.
We open with Voyager ferrying some Enaran passengers back to their homeworld. They have offered to share some of their power conservation tech with Voyager and things seem to be going well. Harry has even attracted the attention of a young enaran woman and the two leave together to have dinner. That night Torres has a super sexy dream about sleeping with an enaran man and realizes she is an enaran in the dream. She sleeps past the beginning of her shift and gets woken up by Chakotay. She tells him a little about her dream and he promises not to tell anyone else. There is a party the next night where Janeway is clearly super into an enaran guy, their leader named Jor Brel who shares his memories of how to play a musical instrument with her and she is super into it. B'Elanna stays home and sleeps though and the dreams continue and she learns her lover is part of a minority group called the regressives who are being relocated to a colony away from the rest of the population for refusing to use modern tech.
The dreams start hitting her in the day time and she collapses and is taken to sickbay. The Doctor is able to discover that they aren't dreams, they are someone else's memories that are being sent to her somehow. In the dreams she realizes her father is not actually going to save the regressives, instead of being resettled they are being murdered. She tries confronting him but he talks her into turning her lover over and knows that he is sent to his death. She finds the woman who is sending her the memories but she dies while sending the last of it. Torres confronts Jor Brel in front of the rest of his people and he denies it, but a young enaran woman later agrees to receive the memories. Janeway breaks off all ties with the Enarans, but won't take any further action.
Review: I thought this was a really cool scifi plot with some good twists along the way. This one kinda lacks a B story and instead just has some segments to show us how seemingly awesome the enarans are so that when we realize what they have done it has extra impact. I feel like Kirk would have done more than just break off ties, but it isn't really clear what they could do other than what they did.
6 out of 10
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