VOY: Warhead

         Things are are cool about this episode: Harry Kim gets to not be the worst in this episode and even saves the day in the end (although he created the crisis he averts). Things are dumb: why would you ever put an actual AI into a warhead? Especially one that distrusts its own orders. If you are going to make a weapon you plan to be able to stop maybe don't do that. Also bad: don't name the episode warhead if you want the audience to not know what the mystery device you are beaming on board actually is. 
         We open with Paris replicating anniversary gifts for B'Elanna and running into Harry making a coffee run. It seems Harry has been taking over the night shifts lately to get some command experience. On the bridge things seem to be going smoothly until they get a distress call from a planet. It is automated so Harry changes course and wakes up Chakotay. The first officer agrees he did the right thing and sends Kim on the away team along with the Doctor. They find a machine embedded in a rock emitting sounds that the Doctor can decode. It seems it is an AI of some sort and thinks it is alive. The Doctor talks Harry into beaming it onto the ship where they turn it on and start talking to it before realizing it is a warhead. They come up with a plan to transfer it to a holomatrix but that means turning off the bomb but as soon as they do it takes over the Doctor and arms itself threatening to destroy the ship if they take it to its destination. 
         Janeway doesn't have a lot of choice but works hard to stall. While a plan is worked on to disarm the device Harry gets it to dig into its own memory where it finds an order to disarm but refuses to check to see if it has the confirmation codes insisting this must be a trick of some sort. They manage to fool the warhead into letting Seven into sickbay to treat a fake wound but it doesn't work. To make matters worse its fellow warheads show up to help get it to its destination (which makes absolutely no sense BTW). Harry finally manages to convince the bomb to check for the confirmation code and it accepts that it has been ordered to stand down but realizes the other bombs won't listen so they beam it into space so it can destroy the other warheads.
         
         Review: I like the idea for this episode in theory but much of it didn't seem to make much sense. I totally skipped the part where they tried to get information or something from the parts dealer. It just didn't end up having anything to do with the story which is pretty much my whole point.

5 out of 10