Not a bad episode, but also not the strongest. It is nice to get a Paris episode every once in a while and for once when he is getting up to trouble it really isn't his fault. Well, not entirely his fault. Alice picked well both in terms of someone willing to violate the rules but also someone who really is passionate about flying. It seems like maybe the rest of the crew should have figured something was wrong a little earlier, but then we wouldn't have had much of a story. Also Janeway seems a little too hesitant to believe B'Elanna's story about the ship attacking her. Maybe your chief engineer knows the difference between an accident and an assault.
We open with Paris and Kim trying to figure out how old Tuvok is and both failing. They are interrupted by a large fleet of unknown ships, RED ALERT!!! Oh wait, it is just a junk yard. They find a trader happy to do business and everything seems fine other than Paris spotting a shuttle sized vessel and falling in love. He talks them into buying it for him and along with Harry spends every waking moment working on it. The ship has a neural interface and Paris names her Alice. They eventually get the ship to turn on and Paris connects to the neural interface and things start to get weird. He replicates the uniform the ship's old pilot had and he starts ignoring everyone around him in favor of spending time with Alice. He goes to Chakotay for some spare parts but gets turned down. When he returns to the shuttle bay Alice is there waiting for him, this time in the form of a woman.
She talks Paris into stealing the parts from around Voyager that he needs to complete repairs. In engineering Torres notices the missing parts and goes straight to the shuttlebay. She enters Alice looking for Paris but the door seals and the air drains out. Tom walks in just in time to save her but she heads straight to the captain. Paris realizes something is wrong and tries to head to sickbay so Alice gives him terrible pain until he agrees to do what she says. Paris escapes in Alice and lets her plug into his organs. Janeway tracks down the junkyard guy who sold the shuttle and convinces him to give them information. On Voyager he tells them the shuttle is haunted but his version of Alice appears and tries to kill him. The Doctor saves his life and he agrees to help.
They finally track down Paris by figuring out the course he plotted in astrometrics. It leads straight to a particle fountain and when they arrive Alice is trying to talk Paris into flying straight in. The Doctor figures out a way to send B'Elanna into Tom's head. She and Alice fight but Torres convinces Tom to not resist the bringing down his shields. Kim manages to beam Tom to safety just before the shuttle is destroyed. Paris apologizes to B'Elanna and that's a wrap.
Review: Not bad, but the whole, "Tom loves being a mechanic more than any person" thing has been done before. Also, I know Kirk loved his ship, but Tom REALLY loves this ship.
5 out of 10
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