I have no idea how Netflix decides which two part episodes to leave divided and which to combine. Previously I thought that if it was a season ending cliffhanger they would leave it divided, but this mid season divided two parter proves that guess wrong. This one is going to be particularly hard to judge since I have never seen part 2, but the first half managed to be interesting enough to keep me going. I have to say I totally get Harry's objections to being put under the command of a hologram, but then again his last command didn't exactly work out all that well. I guess technically Chakotay told him and the Doctor to "work it out" but I think we all know what that means. Also, always fun to get to see a less emotionally under control Tuvok. I suspect the aliens had no idea what they were getting into when they brainwashed a Vulcan.
We open with Janeway reporting for work on a large industrial world. She goes by her name but doesn't seem to recall anything about being a captain. She gets to work on some sort of fusion machine thing but makes a mistake which sounds an alarm. She is rescued by a man named Jaffen but the two are soon scolded by Seven who is the new plant efficiency supervisor. Tom manages to talk his way into a bar job while Janeway and Tuvok are taken in for inoculations. Janeway accepts them but Tuvok has to be restrained. Meanwhile on the Flyer Kim is sick because Neelix talked him into drinking some foul meat juice drink while Chakotay looks for Voyager. On Voyager the Doctor is alone attempting to keep the ship running all by himself and seems to have changed into a red uniform. He gets an intruder alert signal but is relieved to find that it is Chakotay and Harry. The Flyer was gone when Voyager was stricken so the Doctor tells Chakotay the whole story. They were hit by a mine and then flooded with radiation. Janeway and the crew abandoned ship on escape pods after activating the Emergency Command Hologram protocols. They start repairs and also working to find the missing crew.
Back on the planet Tuvok is having flashbacks of his old life and tries to talk to Janeway about it but she has no memory of it and rebuffs him. Janeway and Jaffen start dating as Tom starts to hit on B'Elanna every chance he can get, even though she doesn't seem interested. Back on the ship they have tracked their crew down but when they contact the planetary officials they are told that their crew all now happily have new jobs, oh, and no, you can't talk to them and we have a planetary forcefield so fuck off. Chakotay gets disguised as an alien and along with Neelix they get jobs on the planet after flying down in Neelix's shuttle. Harry and the Doctor are left to bicker of who is in charge. Tuvok meanwhile manages to mindmeld with Seven before being dragged off by security. Chakotay and Neelix quickly learn the crew don't remember them and come up with a plan to "rescue" Torres. She, not remembering them, screams when Neelix grabs her and beams out but they can't get Chakotay since Voyager is now under attack.
Review: A tense cliffhanger but they have laid the seeds of their eventual escape I suspect with the mindmeld. I kinda skipped over the Janeway romance stuff, but she agrees to marry Jaffen, I guess only being a captain is keeping her from falling head over heals for some dude.
6 out of 10
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