You know, if they just kept flying at high warp instead of stopping at every nebula and anomaly along the way maybe Voyager would have been able to leave Seska and the Kazon-Nistrim long behind. But no, they just keep showing up to cause trouble. Now to be fair it is clear the writers wanted to establish consistent opposition character, but in a show where they are moving all the time it just doesn't make much sense. It also seems like they are trying to keep the Chakotay/Torres relationship simmering on the back burner. I don't recall of they become a thing eventually, but I will keep an eye on them.
The episode opens with Chakotay and Torres returning to the bridge from a hoverball game to news that they have detected a hail that appears to be coming from a Federation source. It seems to be coming from a beacon and is of course a trap. The Kazon show up and use a weapon that punches a hole in the shields just large enough to let a small Kazon vessel to blast through and burrow into Voyagers hull. Three Kazon spring out and manage to evade Tuvok and make it to the transporter room where they steal a transporter core and beam off the ship. Chakotay hits them with a tractor beam to stop their escape and they are hailed by the Kazon leader Culluh. He refuses to give them back the stolen part and we see why, he is being assisted by now transitioning back to Cardassian Seska. She taunts Chakotay and then uses a trick to disable the tractor beam and escape.
They start working on a plan to either retrieve or at least destroy the transporter core while Culluh tries to press his advantage and convince the leaders of another Kazon faction to join him. It fails and when Voyager catches up they find the bodies of the other leader and his guard floating in space with the signature of a transporter still in them. The next day Chakotay is gone, it seems he has stolen a shuttle and gone after Seska. Chakotay manages to get close enough to beam himself onto the Kazon ship but his shuttle is captured. He destroys the transporter core and activates a beacon instructing Voyager to not come looking for him. Seska tries to interrogate Chakotay into giving her the command codes but it doesn't work. Culluh pushes until Chakotay passes out, but it still doesn't work.
Janeway ignores Chakotay and comes after him any way. Unfortunately the Kazon ship is still more than they can handle easily and things start going poorly. On the Kazon ship Culluh has some other Kazon leaders there and has told them he has Voyagers command codes so they better join him, but he is lying and it becomes super obvious when his ship is suddenly under attack. Janeway comes up with a plan to stop the fighting and has Culluh and the other Kazon in the room beamed aboard and their weapons neutralized. She trades them for Chakotay and the shuttle. In the finals scene we see Janeway scolding Chakotay for going off on his own like that, but since she doesn't want to demote him there isn't much she can do.
Review: A fairly average episode which would have been better without having the damn Kazon around still. Also it seems like Janeway should have done something about Chakotay stealing the shuttle, but whatever.
5 out of 10
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
VOY: Cold Fire
I had completely forgotten that the Caretaker from the pilot was supposed to have had a mate somewhere out there who could get them home in theory. Apparently it was mentioned there as a way of giving themselves an out if needed, but it never got used. They are also buidling up Kes' powers more and more. If I recall correctly when she finally leaves the show it is by becoming a being of pure energy and sending the ship hundreds or thousands of light years closer to home.
The episode opens with Kes training with Tuvok and then being late to her shift working for the Doctor as a result. While they are working the remains of the caretaker start vibrating and when Torres is called in she realizes it is reacting to another being of its kind which reminds them that the caretaker spoke of his mate who left many years earlier. Tuvok being the cautious one starts working on a toxin to use on this second caretaker if necessary while the ship follows its energy to another array. The station opens fire as it is scanned revealing thousands of Ocampa on board. One of them hails Voyager and initially refuses to talk but is convinced otherwise when Kes is brought to the bridge.
The Ocampan man named Tanis is convinced to come on board and after a brief meeting with Janeway gets to be alone with Kes. He tells her the other caretaker, named Suspiria, has extended their lives and trained their mental powers. He demonstrates by making all the plants in the hydroponics bay bloom at once. Alone we see Tanis talking to Suspiria and promises to deliver Voyager to her. Tanis offers to take Kes back to the station with him to live there but she needs time to thing about it. Tanis also contacts Suspiria for them. He starts training Kes' powers and she is able to move objects with her mind and even boil tea. She tries showing her new powers to Tuvok but loses control and burns him badly. He recovers though and insists that the two keep training together.
Tanis keeps trying to train Kes in the dangerous side of her powers and gets her to destroy her plants which really upsets her. There is some sort of energy field in engineering which they realize is Suspiria. Janeway tries talking to her but Suspiria doesn't want to talk, she wants to kill Janeway and destroy Voyager for killing her mate. At the same time Tanis lashes out and hurts Neelix which prompts Kes to attack him mentally which distracts Suspiria long enough for Janeway to use Tuvok's toxin on her. Suspiria is trapped but Janeway lets her and Tanis go to show that they mean no harm (never mind the toxin bit). Kes' powers seem to decrease after Tanis leaves, but Tuvok promises to keep working with her.
Review: A fairly bland episode without anything particularly wrong with it. I guess partially I am getting sick of them travelling vast distances only to keep running into the same races again. Also despite saying it was smaller it was clearly the same effect shot of the caretaker array from the pilot so that didn't seem all that awesome.
4 out of 10
The episode opens with Kes training with Tuvok and then being late to her shift working for the Doctor as a result. While they are working the remains of the caretaker start vibrating and when Torres is called in she realizes it is reacting to another being of its kind which reminds them that the caretaker spoke of his mate who left many years earlier. Tuvok being the cautious one starts working on a toxin to use on this second caretaker if necessary while the ship follows its energy to another array. The station opens fire as it is scanned revealing thousands of Ocampa on board. One of them hails Voyager and initially refuses to talk but is convinced otherwise when Kes is brought to the bridge.
The Ocampan man named Tanis is convinced to come on board and after a brief meeting with Janeway gets to be alone with Kes. He tells her the other caretaker, named Suspiria, has extended their lives and trained their mental powers. He demonstrates by making all the plants in the hydroponics bay bloom at once. Alone we see Tanis talking to Suspiria and promises to deliver Voyager to her. Tanis offers to take Kes back to the station with him to live there but she needs time to thing about it. Tanis also contacts Suspiria for them. He starts training Kes' powers and she is able to move objects with her mind and even boil tea. She tries showing her new powers to Tuvok but loses control and burns him badly. He recovers though and insists that the two keep training together.
Tanis keeps trying to train Kes in the dangerous side of her powers and gets her to destroy her plants which really upsets her. There is some sort of energy field in engineering which they realize is Suspiria. Janeway tries talking to her but Suspiria doesn't want to talk, she wants to kill Janeway and destroy Voyager for killing her mate. At the same time Tanis lashes out and hurts Neelix which prompts Kes to attack him mentally which distracts Suspiria long enough for Janeway to use Tuvok's toxin on her. Suspiria is trapped but Janeway lets her and Tanis go to show that they mean no harm (never mind the toxin bit). Kes' powers seem to decrease after Tanis leaves, but Tuvok promises to keep working with her.
Review: A fairly bland episode without anything particularly wrong with it. I guess partially I am getting sick of them travelling vast distances only to keep running into the same races again. Also despite saying it was smaller it was clearly the same effect shot of the caretaker array from the pilot so that didn't seem all that awesome.
4 out of 10
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
VOY: Tattoo
Star Trek has always loved the idea of alien species travelling the universe seeding planets with either genetics or knowledge and this is one about the latter. Presumably when they gave Chakotay his tattoo they planned to come back and explain it and this is where that happens. I am not actually sure if they are implying that some of the sky spirit people stayed behind on earth since the people in the jungle he ran into as a youth seemed to have non-human head ridges that made me think they were aliens, but maybe they were supposed to be the unpolluted inheritors? They were supposed to have been changed in some way by the sky people so maybe that is the deal with the ridges.
The episode with Chakotay scouting for mineral deposits when he sees a symbol that sends him into a memory of the same symbol when he and his father visited their relatives who lived primitive lives in the jungle. At the time he resented his father for bringing him to such an uncomfortable place. Back on the ship the doctor is being his usually uncaring self and it is getting to Kes. She tells him because he has never experienced disease or illness he has no empathy. Chakotay discusses what he found with the captain and tells her his people believed in sky spirits who made them who they were. When a warp trail is discovered leaving the moon they follow it. Where it leads them is an M-Class planet that both has no life signs but also has the energy signature of a place with technology. Whenever they try to beam down a lightning storm forms at the location stopping the transport so Chakotay flies down in a shuttle with Torres, Tuvok and Neelix.
On the surface Chakotay finds an orchid he recognizes and the sound of a red tailed hawk brings him into memory again. On the same trip with his father they heard a hawk calling and his father could understand the bird, but he couldn't. The same hawk attacks Neelix and he is beamed back to the ship where a now ill Doctor treats him. The Doctor has made himself ill to prove a point to Kes and is even more irritable than normal as a result. The away team meanwhile discovers a series of structures and Chakotay makes them all lay down their weapons. Tuvok objects but does it anyway. As soon as they do a storm picks up and they rushed back towards the shuttle but Chakotay gets knocked up by a tree and Tuvok beams up with Torres.
When Chakotay wakes up he remembers being with his father again and meeting his relatives who lived in the jungle. His father received the tattoo he wears from them. While he searches the jungle Janeway decides to land the ship to find him but as they attempt it a huge storm shows up and threatens to crash the ship. Chakotay finds shelter in a cave where he runs into the sky spirits. They are aliens with the same tattoo that he wears and luckily they have a working universal translator. Their leader explains to Chakotay that his people traveled to Earth many times and taught his people, but the last time they visited they found none of his people left. Chakotay explains that the people of Earth have finally learned to live with nature and the storm around Voyager disappears at the last minute. Chakotay tells the sky spirit about leaving his father on bad terms but that this has helped him make peace. On the ship the Doctor is freaking out that his inless isn't going away but eventually Kes admits to having modified the program on purpose to make it last longer.
Review: A good background episode with a kinda cliched alien visitation story. Chakotay is one of the stronger characters though so he manages to make this a good episode despite its limitations.
6 out of 10
The episode with Chakotay scouting for mineral deposits when he sees a symbol that sends him into a memory of the same symbol when he and his father visited their relatives who lived primitive lives in the jungle. At the time he resented his father for bringing him to such an uncomfortable place. Back on the ship the doctor is being his usually uncaring self and it is getting to Kes. She tells him because he has never experienced disease or illness he has no empathy. Chakotay discusses what he found with the captain and tells her his people believed in sky spirits who made them who they were. When a warp trail is discovered leaving the moon they follow it. Where it leads them is an M-Class planet that both has no life signs but also has the energy signature of a place with technology. Whenever they try to beam down a lightning storm forms at the location stopping the transport so Chakotay flies down in a shuttle with Torres, Tuvok and Neelix.
On the surface Chakotay finds an orchid he recognizes and the sound of a red tailed hawk brings him into memory again. On the same trip with his father they heard a hawk calling and his father could understand the bird, but he couldn't. The same hawk attacks Neelix and he is beamed back to the ship where a now ill Doctor treats him. The Doctor has made himself ill to prove a point to Kes and is even more irritable than normal as a result. The away team meanwhile discovers a series of structures and Chakotay makes them all lay down their weapons. Tuvok objects but does it anyway. As soon as they do a storm picks up and they rushed back towards the shuttle but Chakotay gets knocked up by a tree and Tuvok beams up with Torres.
When Chakotay wakes up he remembers being with his father again and meeting his relatives who lived in the jungle. His father received the tattoo he wears from them. While he searches the jungle Janeway decides to land the ship to find him but as they attempt it a huge storm shows up and threatens to crash the ship. Chakotay finds shelter in a cave where he runs into the sky spirits. They are aliens with the same tattoo that he wears and luckily they have a working universal translator. Their leader explains to Chakotay that his people traveled to Earth many times and taught his people, but the last time they visited they found none of his people left. Chakotay explains that the people of Earth have finally learned to live with nature and the storm around Voyager disappears at the last minute. Chakotay tells the sky spirit about leaving his father on bad terms but that this has helped him make peace. On the ship the Doctor is freaking out that his inless isn't going away but eventually Kes admits to having modified the program on purpose to make it last longer.
Review: A good background episode with a kinda cliched alien visitation story. Chakotay is one of the stronger characters though so he manages to make this a good episode despite its limitations.
6 out of 10
VOY: Persistence of Vision
So far VOY has resisted the urge to have a holodeck gone wrong episode, but boy do they love teasing it. In this episode they even up the ante by installing holo-emitters all over the ship so now when things go wrong the will go wrong everywhere! Also the alien in this episode was creepy and threatening enough that I hope isn't the last we see of them. Much more interesting than the knock off Klingons known as the Kazon.
We open with Janeway running all over stressing out about just about everything. Neelix wants to talk to her about the Bothan's who territory they are approaching. Tuvok needs a half hour and Torres wants to show off the new holo-emitters in engineering, but when she makes the Doctor appear he is only a few inches tall. He is still in charge enough to order Janeway to go relax on the holodeck for medical reasons. She goes to her novel and finds the gentleman she is working for is in love with her, but before she can get very far she is called to the bridge. The are being approached by a Bothan vessel and she learns from Neelix that ships keep disappearing at the borders without explanation. The Bothan is lit in a way where you can't see his face and agrees to negotiate with them further.
Janeway goes to the mess hall but is startled when the cucumber sandwhiches from her holonovel are being offered for lunch. Neelix then serves her tea in an exquisite flower covered tea cup also from the novel. Janeway starts hearing voices from her novel and even sees the young daughter who insists her mother isn't dead. Janeway goes to Torres to see if the new holo-emitters are at fault, but it seems they aren't. Thing keep getting stranger when Janeway sees the daughter in sickbay and Kes can see her too, but then Kes somehow forces the girls spirit back into Janeway. Later Janeway is attacked by a knife wielding servant from the novel and removes herself from command.
Chakotay is confronted by the Bothan ship and Tuvok notices two other ships are cloaked nearby. They are attacked and Janeway rushes to the bridge but they are suddenly confronted by the Bothan, but he isn't the Bothan, he is Janeway's husband, Paris's father, and Tuvok's wife. Janeway sees that all the crew are falling under its sway and contacts Torres who starts working on a solution. Eventually Kes and the doctor are the only ones left and Kes has to go to engineering and finish Torres' plan. But she is confronted by Paris and then Neelix who both try to stop her. She fights back and is attacked with what feels like buring acid, but she forces that onto her attacker as well. After she fires the warp burst thing Torres came up with the alien is revealed and the crew return to normal. But when Janeway shows up and threatens the creature it tells her fine, but I am not actually here and disappears.
Review: I thought this was a good episode. Lots of excitement and good stuff from much of the cast. I remember kinda hating Kes's undefined powers the first time, but they seem fine on this watching. Kinda like how Spock's powers only came up when the plot demanded it, not when it would actually make sense.
7 out of 10
We open with Janeway running all over stressing out about just about everything. Neelix wants to talk to her about the Bothan's who territory they are approaching. Tuvok needs a half hour and Torres wants to show off the new holo-emitters in engineering, but when she makes the Doctor appear he is only a few inches tall. He is still in charge enough to order Janeway to go relax on the holodeck for medical reasons. She goes to her novel and finds the gentleman she is working for is in love with her, but before she can get very far she is called to the bridge. The are being approached by a Bothan vessel and she learns from Neelix that ships keep disappearing at the borders without explanation. The Bothan is lit in a way where you can't see his face and agrees to negotiate with them further.
Janeway goes to the mess hall but is startled when the cucumber sandwhiches from her holonovel are being offered for lunch. Neelix then serves her tea in an exquisite flower covered tea cup also from the novel. Janeway starts hearing voices from her novel and even sees the young daughter who insists her mother isn't dead. Janeway goes to Torres to see if the new holo-emitters are at fault, but it seems they aren't. Thing keep getting stranger when Janeway sees the daughter in sickbay and Kes can see her too, but then Kes somehow forces the girls spirit back into Janeway. Later Janeway is attacked by a knife wielding servant from the novel and removes herself from command.
Chakotay is confronted by the Bothan ship and Tuvok notices two other ships are cloaked nearby. They are attacked and Janeway rushes to the bridge but they are suddenly confronted by the Bothan, but he isn't the Bothan, he is Janeway's husband, Paris's father, and Tuvok's wife. Janeway sees that all the crew are falling under its sway and contacts Torres who starts working on a solution. Eventually Kes and the doctor are the only ones left and Kes has to go to engineering and finish Torres' plan. But she is confronted by Paris and then Neelix who both try to stop her. She fights back and is attacked with what feels like buring acid, but she forces that onto her attacker as well. After she fires the warp burst thing Torres came up with the alien is revealed and the crew return to normal. But when Janeway shows up and threatens the creature it tells her fine, but I am not actually here and disappears.
Review: I thought this was a good episode. Lots of excitement and good stuff from much of the cast. I remember kinda hating Kes's undefined powers the first time, but they seem fine on this watching. Kinda like how Spock's powers only came up when the plot demanded it, not when it would actually make sense.
7 out of 10
Monday, July 4, 2016
VOY: Parturition
This episode seems to exist to get rid of the second most annoying Neelix plot thread so far, his rivalry with Paris over who can court Kes. First of all, she just turned two, so this whole thing is creepy to start with, and second of all it kinda seemed to just show up out of the blue this season. Suddenly Neelix's crisis every single episode is that he is jealous again, oh no!!! The plot about finding the reptile alien baby is kinda silly, but it works in a very TOS kind of way. Although as Kirk stated, humans naturally are disgusted by reptiles or something like that, so why is Paris so into this creature?
We open with Kes training to pilot a shuttle with Paris on the holodeck. Things get rough and she ends up in his arms. Paris shows up at Kim's quarters while he is practicing clarinet and tells him he is in love with Kes. Next the two are back to back in the mess hall with Neelix staring Paris down. Kes leaves and Neelix throws a plate of food at Paris. Paris throws a plate at Neelix and the two wrestle to the ground, only to be summoned immediately to the captains ready room. She needs Paris to fly Neelix to a planet they found to look for food and she doesn't want any guff from either of them.
The two fly down together but of course crash. They snipe at each other the whole time and on the surface there is a gas that makes their skin itch. There are no plants to speak of and they find a cave and seal themselves in. After some more fighting they hear a sound and when they investigate they find three large eggs, and one hatches before their eyes. Inside is a reptile baby about the size of a human baby. At the same time Voyager is attacked by an unknown alien ship while trying to mount a rescue. The ship seems more interested in blocking their way to the planet rather than aggressively attacking.
Paris and Neelix struggle to keep the reptile baby alive and finally realize the gas that is making their skin crawl is what the baby needs for nutrition so they take it outside and start compressing the stuff into a hypo spray. They repeat the myth over and over again about a mother bird not coming back for a baby that has been touched. Totally not true BTW. Eventually the alien ship flies in and sends an adult reptile down to collect the child. Neelix and Paris wait to be sure the baby is accepted before beaming up to Voyager. Oh, and somewhere along the way the talk about Kes and agree Neelix can date her and Paris will be her friend. No, she doesn't get a say silly.
Review: A Neelix heavy episode is never going to be my favorite, but this one manages to not be totally awful. The crap about baby birds really irritated me though so I am going to rate this one below average.
4 out of 10
We open with Kes training to pilot a shuttle with Paris on the holodeck. Things get rough and she ends up in his arms. Paris shows up at Kim's quarters while he is practicing clarinet and tells him he is in love with Kes. Next the two are back to back in the mess hall with Neelix staring Paris down. Kes leaves and Neelix throws a plate of food at Paris. Paris throws a plate at Neelix and the two wrestle to the ground, only to be summoned immediately to the captains ready room. She needs Paris to fly Neelix to a planet they found to look for food and she doesn't want any guff from either of them.
The two fly down together but of course crash. They snipe at each other the whole time and on the surface there is a gas that makes their skin itch. There are no plants to speak of and they find a cave and seal themselves in. After some more fighting they hear a sound and when they investigate they find three large eggs, and one hatches before their eyes. Inside is a reptile baby about the size of a human baby. At the same time Voyager is attacked by an unknown alien ship while trying to mount a rescue. The ship seems more interested in blocking their way to the planet rather than aggressively attacking.
Paris and Neelix struggle to keep the reptile baby alive and finally realize the gas that is making their skin crawl is what the baby needs for nutrition so they take it outside and start compressing the stuff into a hypo spray. They repeat the myth over and over again about a mother bird not coming back for a baby that has been touched. Totally not true BTW. Eventually the alien ship flies in and sends an adult reptile down to collect the child. Neelix and Paris wait to be sure the baby is accepted before beaming up to Voyager. Oh, and somewhere along the way the talk about Kes and agree Neelix can date her and Paris will be her friend. No, she doesn't get a say silly.
Review: A Neelix heavy episode is never going to be my favorite, but this one manages to not be totally awful. The crap about baby birds really irritated me though so I am going to rate this one below average.
4 out of 10
Saturday, July 2, 2016
VOY: Twisted
A very scifi episode that was probably pretty cheap to produce, but not in a bad way. By having the ship be twisted around itself in ways that aren't visible to the crew it has them running around the hallways looking lost where they usually look so at home. Neelix isn't awful in this one, but going from his gag being that he is a terrible cook to a gag about him being jealous all the time is kinda lame. It also gives some of the crew a chance to open up with each other in ways we don't usually see which is probably my favorite scene.
We begin on the holodeck where Kes walks into a darkened version of Paris's bar only to have the lights come on and a yell of, "surprise!" It is a surprise birthday party and most of the senior staff are there. Cut to the bridge where Kim tries to convince Tuvok into letting him off early so he can visit the party and Tuvok actually plays along, but then they run into a spacial anomaly. Tuvok calls Janeway but the comms fail and his message gets super distorted. The anomaly collapses into them and Kim gets sent to find the captain. Tuvok tries flying out at warp but it fails. The captain sends Torres to engineering and heads to the bridge, but none of them end up where they planned. In fact the all end up back on deck 6 at the holodeck. Paris accidentally found engineering so he tries to take Torres there so she can set up a site to site transport, but it just sends them back to the holodeck.
The spread out with tricorders to map the new topography and try to find the bridge. Kim and Janeway go through the Jefferey's tubes but the captain gets her arm stuck into a zone of distortion and then passes out. They all end up back in the holodeck again and Torres has a plan to overload the warp core to get them blasted out. But it doesn't work and it looks like they are going to die. Torres struggles to come up with a new plan and Tuvok suggests maybe everything they are trying is making things worse so maybe they should just sit and let it happen. They all say their goodbyes to each other but after the field collapses they are all back to normal.
Review: A solid episode with good character bits. Not super noteworthy and it would have been cool if they had slightly better effects for some of it, but overall it works.
6 out of 10
We begin on the holodeck where Kes walks into a darkened version of Paris's bar only to have the lights come on and a yell of, "surprise!" It is a surprise birthday party and most of the senior staff are there. Cut to the bridge where Kim tries to convince Tuvok into letting him off early so he can visit the party and Tuvok actually plays along, but then they run into a spacial anomaly. Tuvok calls Janeway but the comms fail and his message gets super distorted. The anomaly collapses into them and Kim gets sent to find the captain. Tuvok tries flying out at warp but it fails. The captain sends Torres to engineering and heads to the bridge, but none of them end up where they planned. In fact the all end up back on deck 6 at the holodeck. Paris accidentally found engineering so he tries to take Torres there so she can set up a site to site transport, but it just sends them back to the holodeck.
The spread out with tricorders to map the new topography and try to find the bridge. Kim and Janeway go through the Jefferey's tubes but the captain gets her arm stuck into a zone of distortion and then passes out. They all end up back in the holodeck again and Torres has a plan to overload the warp core to get them blasted out. But it doesn't work and it looks like they are going to die. Torres struggles to come up with a new plan and Tuvok suggests maybe everything they are trying is making things worse so maybe they should just sit and let it happen. They all say their goodbyes to each other but after the field collapses they are all back to normal.
Review: A solid episode with good character bits. Not super noteworthy and it would have been cool if they had slightly better effects for some of it, but overall it works.
6 out of 10
VOY: Non Sequitur
I did manage to watch this yesterday, but the internet was particularly unavailable last night so I am writing both yesterday's episode and today's all at once. So it may get a bit rushed. Both of these episodes felt like fairly classic episodes with this one feeling rather TNG/DS9 and the following episode much more TOS. This is by far the most Kim-centric episode in the series so far and honestly I liked it more than I expected. Kirk and Picard and honestly Janeway are so self confident that they would have handled this very differently. It is fun to see the science nerd guy get brought out of time and have to figure a way out.
The episode opens with Kim awaking on earth in bed with his fiance. He is startled and not sure what is happening but every body insists he has a big meeting that day. He gets out the door and runs into a barista who hands him a coffee and sends him on his way. He goes to the meeting which turns out to be for a bunch of admirals and he is there specifically to explain a system he designed, but when the time comes he calls off the meeting. He stops by his office and figures out that he is working on a new runabout and that a friend of his got stuck on Voyager instead of him. He has to ask the barista for directions back to his apartment and his fiance is distraught that he walked out on his meeting, and even more that he doesn't think he should be there. He uses his command codes to access the personnel records for Voyager and learns Paris wasn't on board either.
Kim heads to France and finds Paris in the bar he recreated on Voyager and tries to talk him into helping, but Tom isn't having it. When he gets home there are security agents there who take him in for questioning. It seems they don't appreciate him using what appears to be stolen codes to get access to records and even less like him visiting convicted treasonist Tom Paris. They don't believe his story and he is forced to wear a tracking anklet. He runs into the Barista again who is apparently an alien sent to keep an eye on him. It seems he ran into one of their time strands and ended up in a different reality. He gives Kim a copy of the data on where the strands are.
At home Kim tampers with his anklet which alerts security and he flees through the streets. Just as he is caught Paris shows up and knocks the security guy out. The two escape to Kim's office and Kim releases his test runabout. The two beam to it and barely escape for space dock only to be chased down by a much larger ship. Kim stalls in and realizes he needs to do a transport to nowhere to make it work. The runabout is destroyed but Kim finds himself back in his timeline and gets rescued, but Paris.
Review: A fun fish out of water episode that gives us a lot of back story on what Kim is so desperate to get home to.
6 out of 10
The episode opens with Kim awaking on earth in bed with his fiance. He is startled and not sure what is happening but every body insists he has a big meeting that day. He gets out the door and runs into a barista who hands him a coffee and sends him on his way. He goes to the meeting which turns out to be for a bunch of admirals and he is there specifically to explain a system he designed, but when the time comes he calls off the meeting. He stops by his office and figures out that he is working on a new runabout and that a friend of his got stuck on Voyager instead of him. He has to ask the barista for directions back to his apartment and his fiance is distraught that he walked out on his meeting, and even more that he doesn't think he should be there. He uses his command codes to access the personnel records for Voyager and learns Paris wasn't on board either.
Kim heads to France and finds Paris in the bar he recreated on Voyager and tries to talk him into helping, but Tom isn't having it. When he gets home there are security agents there who take him in for questioning. It seems they don't appreciate him using what appears to be stolen codes to get access to records and even less like him visiting convicted treasonist Tom Paris. They don't believe his story and he is forced to wear a tracking anklet. He runs into the Barista again who is apparently an alien sent to keep an eye on him. It seems he ran into one of their time strands and ended up in a different reality. He gives Kim a copy of the data on where the strands are.
At home Kim tampers with his anklet which alerts security and he flees through the streets. Just as he is caught Paris shows up and knocks the security guy out. The two escape to Kim's office and Kim releases his test runabout. The two beam to it and barely escape for space dock only to be chased down by a much larger ship. Kim stalls in and realizes he needs to do a transport to nowhere to make it work. The runabout is destroyed but Kim finds himself back in his timeline and gets rescued, but Paris.
Review: A fun fish out of water episode that gives us a lot of back story on what Kim is so desperate to get home to.
6 out of 10
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