VOY: The Omega Directive

         This episode is very TNG in that they get strange orders that no one seems to want to keep an actual secret even though they are SUPER SECRET. Also, how is it violating the prime directive to stop a warp capable culture from destroying a quarter of the galaxies ability to travel at warp speed? Isn't that exactly the kind of thing Starfleet does all the time? Also, if you are trying to keep your super secret orders a secret why put the symbol that is the name of the dangerous molecule on the screen of every monitor on the bridge? Shouldn't it just send a secret message to the captain? Also, I am pretty sure this is one of those times where they meant to say particle but they just kept saying molecule instead. 
         We open with Seven waking up and getting ready to go to work with Harry. On the bridge they are hit by a shockwave and suddenly all their monitors have the omega symbol on them and Janeway rushes onto the bridge and orders that they stay put. Oh, and don't talk about this with anybody. Janeway goes to her ready room and reads up on the omega molecule that has been detected a few light years away. She starts giving out orders that don't make any sense to any of the crew but Seven who hears "Omega Directive" and her ears perk right up. It seems she has the knowledge of all the Starfleet captains who were assimilated so she knows what it is all about. Apparently these molecules are some kind of incredible energy source and the Borg spent centuries trying to track down but instead only managed to create them in an unstable way and they destroyed a whole bunch of Borg ships. Also it is some sort of religious thing for Borg since these molecules are so perfect. But they also have the side effect of making warp travel impossible in large parts of space when they explode.
         They track the molecules to an alien compound that has clearly been damaged in an explosion but there are survivors so Janeway leads an away team down. They find scientists who point them towards a containment field that still has a bunch of omega inside. Janeway is determined to destroy it no matter what but Seven wants to save the particles, but she does still keep working on the destruction plan as well. Eventually they come up with a containment/destruction system on Voyager and just in time because ships of the culture who built the facility show up and demand Omega back. But Janeway isn't giving it to them and flies off while Seven works on destroying the molecules. Just before she destroys them the become stable and form a complex structure which Seven watches before the molecules are destroyed. And then suddenly the aliens are friendly despite that not making much sense.

         Review: A fun scifi episode with some plot holes in the end, but overall a good episode. It is nice to see Janeway on the side of destroying the super weapon instead of determined to try and harness its power to get home or something.

6 out of 10