This episode might have worked if Ensign Ballard had actually been a character with past with Harry Kim. But we have followed Harry pretty closely during the last few years and there was no sign of a girl he was in love with living across the hallway from him. When they had the episode on earth with Harry and his presumably ex-girlfriend it was fine since she was from his life before being stranded, but the events being referred to in this episode all theoretically took place during the events of the series. Also the subplot of Seven trying to be a mother to a bunch of drones is dumb. I hate Neelix, and he would be a way better parent than her.
We open with an alien in a shuttle fleeing from a larger ship which it disables and then calls Voyager. On Voyager one of the Borg children answers the call and then accidentally hangs up on the lady. Tuvok walks in and is pissed that the Borg girl was messing with the coms and he is clearly right. Seven comes back and explains that it is cool, the kids weren't alone that long. After a few minutes they finally learn of the stranded lady. It turns out she is a member of the crew who we have never seen before but was maybe in love with Kim. Well, he was in love with her apparently. She died and some aliens brought her back to life and turned her into one of them which is how they reproduce which makes literally no sense. She tries to fit in but discovers she is too alien now. Seven continues to be a terrible parent. The dead ladies also former dead family show up and demand her back. She says she doesn't want to go but then decides she does after they shoot at Voyager. Kim has a hard time saying good bye the end.
Review: What a boring episode that fails in a bunch of ways. Having aliens reproduce by reanimating corpses is trying too hard to be edgy scifi if you ask me. And making Seven be a mom is just dumb.
2 out of 10
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