This is a really silly episode that gets kinda dumb the few times it tries to be more serious. I thought Jeri Ryan did a really good job at portraying the Doctor in control of her body. It was one of those thing where she was so obviously not her that it started worrying she would get caught. But I guess when you look like Jeri Ryan the men in charge of holding the prisoners may be a bit easier to distract than they might otherwise be. There was a bit more Doctor indulging himself bits than I really needed, but overall it was more fun than obnoxious.
We open with Kim, Seven and the Doctor on an away mission in the Flyer when they are attacked by the Lokirrim. Apparently they hate photonic life forms and demand to search the Flyer. They open fire when the Harry says no and bring the Flyer in with a tractor beam. They claim to have erased the Doctors program but we are made to believe he is in the mobile emitter. However Seven is acting rather odd and we quickly learn she transferred the Doctor into her as a way of protecting him, and he is having the time of his life. After driving Harry mad for a while with how into experiencing everything he is, Seven gets taken to the Flyer by the head of the Lokirrim ship. She/he talk Ranek, the captain, into letting her use the replicator to make food and then drink. The get drunk and have a generally great time for hours. When she finally gets the mobile emitter from Ranek and returns the Doctor to it Seven is horrified by how the Doctor used her body, and I can see why.
Back on Voyager Tuvok is having pon farr symptons again (despite not enough time having passed, but whatever) and Paris has to take care of him. Luckily Paris is experienced with programming holodecks and gets Tuvok a holographic version of his wife who can take care of his needs. On the Lokirrim ship Seven/the Doctor manage to get the codes to the shields and transmit them to Voyager. But when Voyager arrives Ranek doesn't want to give up and is badly hurt in the confrontation. The Doctor shows up using the emitter though and talks him into letting him save Ranek's life. In the end they don't give up their hate of photonics, but maybe think about it a bit. Oh, and Seven shows up in sickbay to enjoy a meal with the Doctor.
Review: The serious parts of this episode flopped pretty bad and the lack of dealing with the moral implications of how the Doctor used Seven's body felt kinda odd, but overall not a bad episode.
6 out of 10
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