When you have an episode title like this I was guessing it was going to be about Harry's sex life, and sure enough. I honestly don't understand why Janeway is so upset about Harry sleeping with the alien lady in this episode. The suggestion that you need permission from your captain to have sex with an alien has never come up before or since in Star Trek and Riker is certainly glad for it. I guess they just wanted to have some tension in the episode, but when you have an entire scene devoted to Chakotay pointing out how dumb it is that you are punishing Kim for it you have a bit of a problem with the episode.
We open with Kim on some alien ship getting it on with a hot alien lady. Cut to the bridge of the alien ship where Janeway is working to repair it for some reason. The aliens are apparently super xenophobic but for no clear reason have allowed Voyager to dock to help them but we never really learn what Voyager is getting in return. Cut to Kim and the lady in her quarters. Kim is summoned to the bridge but she doesn't want to go. They arrive separately to help with the anti-matter transfer but something goes wrong. Also, Paris notices something is up with Kim. Back on Voyager he asks Kim whats going on but doesn't get much of an answer. That night Kim calls his lady friend but Tuvok notices. Paris manages to end the transmission before they figure out what is going on though since apparently contact with these aliens is forbidden or something. Later in astrometrics Kim starts glowing and Seven sends him to sickbay where he tells the Doctor who tells the captain.
Janeway is pissed and formally reprimands Kim. Which doesn't stop him from having a rendezvous in a shuttlecraft with his girlfriend. On Voyager Tuvok locates a stowaway. It seems the aliens live on a generational ship and don't allow anybody to leave but many want to. They return the refugee to his people and Tuvok notices Kim is gone. He is summoned back to Voyager along with his girlfriend who is apparently a terrorist or something. She made a virus or something that is what is damaging their ship. She offers to help fix it for some reason but it is too late and the ship breaks up. But Kim is still in trouble and still doesn't get to be with his lady friend again. But he does suffer the side effects of glow withdrawl for a few weeks.
Review: Having an episode premised on something that is so contradictory to the rest of Trek is a bit of a problem for me. Also Kim literally never gets to have nice things which is a bit of a bummer.
3 out of 10
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