I am not sure if the title refers to the hologram's revulsion for humanity or Kim's revulsion for actual contact with a female member of the species. And yeah, I get that having Seven of Nine suddenly turn all sexy on you would be a huge shock, but come on. Torres and Paris seem to be moving towards an actual relationship in a way the rest of the crew seems to not be able to do themselves. Also I really enjoyed having the holodeck gone wrong take place due to some actual fault of the users rather than just some excuse about a patch of radiation or something. It is interesting the way the Doctor clearly understands some of the frustrations about not being taken seriously even if he doesn't share the sociopathic urge to kill.
We open with a holographic character cleaning up the remains of the crew of a starship that evidently suffered a violent end. Afterwards he heads to the bridge and puts out a call for help stating that his crew was killed in an accident and that he needs help. Cut to Voyager where Tuvok is being roasted/promoted to lieutenant commander. Afterwards Paris manages to corner Torres who tries to appologize for declaring her love before Paris just comes straight in for a kiss. They are interrupted by the Doctor who informs Paris that he is now the second most trained medical crew now and will be taking duty shifts in sickbay. They are called to the bridge by the distress signal from the opening. The Doctor is super excited to get to go before the captain even agrees to send him but he manages to convince her to send him and Torres. The ship sets off on some unrelated mission while Torres and the Doctor look for the lost hologram.
They find the ship but it seems empty. The first clue it isn't is when the hologram flickers out while sneaking up on Torres and the Doctor and drops the hammer he is brandishing menacingly. He seems resistant to letting Torres help him with his program but eventually agrees to show her what she needs and also that she shouldn't go to the bottom deck since it is flooded with radiation. He hits it off with the Doctor loving the talk of being treated as equals to carbon based crew. Back on Voyager Kim is assigned to work on the astrometrics lab with Seven which he finds uncomfortable since she hit him in the back of the head with a wrench the last time they worked together. But things go well, too well in face as Harry finds himself falling for Seven.
Back on the damaged ship Torres has a nasty run in with the hologram who tells her how much he hates carbon based lifeforms. She checks and finds that the lower decks are just fine so she gets the Doctor to distract him while she investigates. She finds the bodies of his murdered crew members just as the hologram figures out the ruse. He tries to kill her by putting his hand into her chest as she manages to turn him off. On Voyager Kim tries asking Seven to go to the holodeck with him and she realizes he is trying to seduce her and is totally down to give it a go. Which of course terrifies Kim who flees. Torres heads back up to the bridge and finds that the hologram is still alive. He disables the Doctors mobile emitter and hits Torres in the head with a hammer. She manages to flee to a broken cable leaking the kind of energy you need to kill and hologram and barely escapes with her life.
Review: This episode does a good job coming up with a broken hologram who is clearly too dangerous to be allowed to exist, but who you can empathize with for his mistreatment by his crew. Also damn Paris has his love game so much better together than Kim.
6 out of 10
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