This is allegedly an episode about forming a new mini-Federation inside a giant space trap in order to escape with some friendly ships. We have reached the point in the show where every episode or two Chakotay and Tuvok show up in the ready room to tell the captain just how bad they think her latest idea is. And yes, everything works out this time for Voyager, but that is because they wrote it that way. Janeway won't let any one into her alliance that steals from others, fine, but she spies on her enemies, sabotages their engines risks the lives of her crew which hardly seems very starfleet. Well, the risking lives part maybe, but not the rest.
We open with Seven serving a meal she cooked to the crew who are loving the break from Neelix's food, but they are interrupted by the ship shaking. Voyager is sucked into some sort of void in space and immediately attacked. A bunch of their supplies are stolen, but afterwards they are contacted by some dude who I guess offers to help her steal stuff? But she says no, they are going to try and escape instead. They track the ship that robbed them down, but it has already been stripped by the dude she talked to at the beginning. She tracks him down and takes back there stuff but refuses to take anything extra. B'Elanna manages to salvage some parts and is surprised to find a wounded alien on board. While Janeway builds her mini-Federation the Doctor works with the stowaway and teaches him to talk using a pad. More of his people join them as the alliance builds. Janeway kicks out one ship for stealing stuff but is very down with the crew of a survey ship who devise a way to spy on any ship in the void. They eventually technobabble an escape plan but are attacked at the last minute. Somehow they beam the void aliens into the other ships (with shields up on both sides, so yeah, not sure how that worked). The aliens disable the hostile ships and Voyager escapes along with several other ships.
Review: This episode was way too preachy for my taste. Also it seems like taking stuff from people who are trying to kill you isn't an awful thing to do morally, but I guess I am no Janeway.
5 out of 10
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