This felt like one of the most generic Trek episodes I have ever seen. I guess it isn't a terrible idea but it had some many twists and turns that it seems like it lost track of the point. Also I am about 90% sure that at the end of the episode Tuvok was left behind with the hostile aliens under bombardment from orbit in a hopeless situation. Janeway says something about flying away for two days which on top of them hitting warp as soon as they clear the atmosphere makes me think they really didn't have time to save their chief of security. This is especially odd after such a Tuvok heavy episode yesterday.
We open on some planet where a city is being bombarded. Two aliens make their way to a room full of stasis pods and go to sleep for a planned 5 years. On Voyager they encounter some sort of subspace corridor full of junk. Inside they encounter hostile aliens who seems more friendly when Voyager just wants to leave. When they make their way out they find they are 200 light years closer to home in just a few minutes travel. But any thought of working with these guys, the Turei, is spoiled by them insisting on boarding Voyager to destroy all traces of the corridors from their computers. Voyager flees and finds a planet with a radioactive atmosphere and heads in for a landing. On the surface they find vast dead cities that have been wiped out 900 years earlier and detect life signs below the surface. Janeway leads an away team which finds the Vaadwaur still sleeping in their pods. Seven wakes one up for no clear reason and they are forced to take him to sickbay.
The man named Gedrin explains that his people were the ones who found the corridors but the Turei wanted them and tried to wipe out the Vaadwaur when they couldn't get the secrets from them. The Vaadwaur hid in the stasis pods hoping to come out a few years later and find a new home. He convinces Janeway to wake up the rest of his people and assist them in finding a new home in exchange for information on the corridors. Everything seems to be going great but they have a hard time finding a good planet since the Borg have expanded a lot in this part of space. Eventually the Vaadwaur leader decides to screw the plan and take Voyager instead but luckily Neelix found some old fold stories about them being evil and warned Janeway. Janeway avoids the first attack with help from Gedrin who heads to the surface with Tuvok to help the Turei target the Vaadwaur base. Voyager escapes but seems to leave Tuvok behind. Oh well.
Review: This episode is a little too busy with plot twists to actually have a plot that makes much sense. I can see how the idea for the episode seemed like a good idea, but they just didn't execute very well.
4 out of 10
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