I admit that when in the opening of this episode Kes told Neelix she was breaking things off I thought to myself, "about damn time." But of course it would be silly to assume the characters on this show are capable in any way of actually doing things that are obviously good for them so it is actually because she is being possessed by Vigo the Carpathian I mean some alien warlord guy. Once again proving how much more interesting Kes is than Neelix her mental powers come into play as does her relationship as a pupil of Tuvok's mental discipline. The whole body swapping villain trope is pretty played out in my opinion, but this stories gender swap at least makes it interesting. Maybe more than two seconds of the previous host being alive to establish who they were might have been nice, but whatever.
We open on the holodeck where Neelix has created a new recreation program but Paris and Kim find it kinda dull. Until they add some bikini clad ladies and a steel drum player that is. But then all senior officers are called to the bridge, they have come across a badly damaged ship with only three people left alive on board. All three make it over by one of the men dies on the operating table. Kes makes friends with the woman, the widow if the dead man, and even breaks up with Neelix when he tries to go on a date with her. The two survivors are happy to be returned to their planet but when a representative of the Autarch beams aboard Kes pulls out a gun and shoots the guy along with the transporter chief. Janeway gets knocked out and the three escape onto a shuttle that they also beam off the ship. We quickly learn that the dead guy transferred his mind into Kes and is using her along with her mental powers to try and take over his planet.
The son of the sitting Autarch beams over the Voyager which is good because his father is killed by Kes only a short while later and she siezes the title of Autarch and starts consolidating power. She is having problems keeping her old self put away though and keeps having headaches. Despite the son's insistence that Kes is gone they come up with a plan to send Tuvok down to put a neural inhibitor thing on Kes to drive the other mind out but her improving psychic abilities let her detect that he is there and she has him arrested. While interrogating him Tuvok manages to grab her and bring Kes back to the surface but the warlord pushes him away. Kes pushes ahead with her plans to consolidate power but is increasingly loses touch with reality. Janeway and company manage to mount a rescue attempt and despite the warlord fleeing into another body they manage to destroy him and put the son of the autarch into power.
Review: A solid episode with an standout performance by Jennifer Lien. Episodes like this make me wish we had more Kes episodes and fewer Neelix eps.
7 out of 10
Monday, August 8, 2016
Sunday, August 7, 2016
VOY: Future's End, Part II
While I thoroughly enjoyed the first half of this episode the second half felt a little bit lacking. I think a fair portion of my problem stems from this being compressed from an original four parter down to the existing two parter so some of the parts like Chakotay and Torres getting captured felt a little rushed. Also, didn't the militia guy state that several black cars and a helicopter were approaching? When it turns out to just be Tuvok and the Doctor I kinda wondered what was going on. In fact had a mysterious aircraft crashed in the Arizona desert I would like to think that the feds would show up to see what happened. Which brings up another point, do they really expect us to believe that a 1996 cell phone worked on a remote desert road? I know they are calling up to Voyager, but did they modify them to transmit directly or is it somehow rigged to use the network to connect?
We begin with Paris working with Sarah (I know the characters name is Rain, but especially in this episode she seems to just be acting as herself plus the occasional line about being a scientist). Tuvok shows up with breakfast as Paris' attempt to rig up a locator beacon fails. Instead they head to the observatory to send a signal from there. Starling meanwhile now has the Doctor and is determined to torture information out of him, but despite being able to give him pain it doesn't seem to be working. He gets a call from Sarah, she wants him to personally come pick her up but of course he doesn't trust her. He shows up anyway and doesn't fall for the ploy of getting into her van but they manage to grab him anyway despite his attempts to block the transport beam. There is a struggle in the car where the Doctor manages to stop the goon, but totally fails to grab the phaser from the guy causing many problems later. Side note, Starling gave the Doctor a mobile transmitter he uses for the rest of the series.
To actually get Starling Chakotay and Torres had to fly in low with a shuttle and while they get him and send him on to Voyager their ship is damaged and crashes in the desert. They get captured by survivalist militia dudes who think they are evil federal agents. Janeway yells at Starling and leaves him behind a forcefield in sickbay but he uses a satellite to beam back to his lab where he prepares to leave in the time ship. In an obvious ploy the head goon is sent out with a truck with a fake timeship signature and gets super obviously tailed by Paris and Sarah. The militia dudes are freaking out and call for back up. But "some black cars and a helicopter" show up to save the day, but for some reason it is just Tuvok and the Doctor. After some one liners they save the day and manage to get the shuttle working in time to save Paris and Sarah. But of course the timeship was in LA the whole time and Starling takes off in it. The captain manages to manually launch a torpedo at the last second saving the day. Just then another time rift opens and the same guy from the 29th century tells them they were detected as an anomaly in the future and will be sent back to where they were. Janeway tries to get them sent home instead but gets told, "nope, temporal prime directive." Oh snap!
Review: This half felt a lot more rushed and like some parts got mixed up in the compression. Still a lot of fun overall although Sarah Silverman felt even more like she was just playing the comic version of herself than the character, but it didn't hurt too much. I am adding a point for the stone cold shut down of Janeway in the end of the episode.
7 out of 10
We begin with Paris working with Sarah (I know the characters name is Rain, but especially in this episode she seems to just be acting as herself plus the occasional line about being a scientist). Tuvok shows up with breakfast as Paris' attempt to rig up a locator beacon fails. Instead they head to the observatory to send a signal from there. Starling meanwhile now has the Doctor and is determined to torture information out of him, but despite being able to give him pain it doesn't seem to be working. He gets a call from Sarah, she wants him to personally come pick her up but of course he doesn't trust her. He shows up anyway and doesn't fall for the ploy of getting into her van but they manage to grab him anyway despite his attempts to block the transport beam. There is a struggle in the car where the Doctor manages to stop the goon, but totally fails to grab the phaser from the guy causing many problems later. Side note, Starling gave the Doctor a mobile transmitter he uses for the rest of the series.
To actually get Starling Chakotay and Torres had to fly in low with a shuttle and while they get him and send him on to Voyager their ship is damaged and crashes in the desert. They get captured by survivalist militia dudes who think they are evil federal agents. Janeway yells at Starling and leaves him behind a forcefield in sickbay but he uses a satellite to beam back to his lab where he prepares to leave in the time ship. In an obvious ploy the head goon is sent out with a truck with a fake timeship signature and gets super obviously tailed by Paris and Sarah. The militia dudes are freaking out and call for back up. But "some black cars and a helicopter" show up to save the day, but for some reason it is just Tuvok and the Doctor. After some one liners they save the day and manage to get the shuttle working in time to save Paris and Sarah. But of course the timeship was in LA the whole time and Starling takes off in it. The captain manages to manually launch a torpedo at the last second saving the day. Just then another time rift opens and the same guy from the 29th century tells them they were detected as an anomaly in the future and will be sent back to where they were. Janeway tries to get them sent home instead but gets told, "nope, temporal prime directive." Oh snap!
Review: This half felt a lot more rushed and like some parts got mixed up in the compression. Still a lot of fun overall although Sarah Silverman felt even more like she was just playing the comic version of herself than the character, but it didn't hurt too much. I am adding a point for the stone cold shut down of Janeway in the end of the episode.
7 out of 10
Saturday, August 6, 2016
VOY: Future's End
Star Trek: The Voyager Home on the Edge of Forever. To say that this episode contains references to previous Trek would be a bit of an understatement, but at the same time it is hard to not enjoy getting to see 1996 LA through the eyes of Star Trek so while I may have some issues with some of the originality, I don't have any problem with the entertainment value. Of course all Neelix wants to do is rot his brain on soap operas, what else could he be useful for? Of course Paris is there to seduce the scientist lady (played by an already way over the top (and not always in a good way) Sarah Silverman). As much as I was just complaining about too much being lifted from other Trek, I did enjoy the line about stone knives and bearskins from City.
The episode opens in the year 1967 where a hippy is interrupted at his camp fire by the apparent crash landing of some sort of spaceship. Back on Voyager the captain is interrupted from her tennis practice by a red alert, a rift in spacetime has opened in front of the ship. Inside the rift is a small ship with a Federation signature that opens fire on them. They manage to disrupt the weapon and are hailed. The ship is from the 29th century and is there to stop them from destroying solar system at that time, but Janeway isn't going to take the guys word for it and allow her ship to be destroyed so they fire back and both ships and drawn into the portal. After some camera shaking they find themselves in orbit around Earth in the year 1996.
They detect some sort of subspace signature and beam down to the LA boardwalk and find it coming from a homeless guy. Cut to the Griffith Observatory where a SETI scientist has detected the ship in orbit and after a phone call to the obvious villain CEO Starling she can't resist sending a reply signal to Voyager. Janeway and Chakotay follow the homeless guy while Tuvok and Paris steal a car and head to the observatory. Janeway figures out that the homeless guy is the timeship captain from the 29th century and he tells her about Starling stealing his ship after he beamed out before it crashed. He then has to run from the cops though leaving Janeway and Chakotay to track down Starling. Paris and Tuvok find the lab where they were detected from and after stealing all the data they wipe the drive, but not before running into Sarah Silverman who is the scientist who found them. She chases after when she realizes they destroyed her computer but one of Starlings goons opens fire with a phaser forcing them to flee in her car.
Janeway manages to break into Starlings office and get into his computer system learning that he has been mining the timeship for tech and slowly releasing it. Also the ship is in a lab adjacent to his office but before they can steal it and get out he arrives knowing all about them. He tries to hack Voyager and gets a bunch of data before Kim and break the link and beam out Janeway and Chakotay, but to do so he has to fly into the atmosphere and right over LA. We close on the bridge of Voyager and the new TV obsessed Neelix shows them a video that just was shown on local news of Voyager flying right over the city.
Review: I really enjoyed this one despite it being maybe a little too similar to some previous famous Trek time travel stories. Still a fun one to watch though and my favorite from this season so far.
7 out of 10
The episode opens in the year 1967 where a hippy is interrupted at his camp fire by the apparent crash landing of some sort of spaceship. Back on Voyager the captain is interrupted from her tennis practice by a red alert, a rift in spacetime has opened in front of the ship. Inside the rift is a small ship with a Federation signature that opens fire on them. They manage to disrupt the weapon and are hailed. The ship is from the 29th century and is there to stop them from destroying solar system at that time, but Janeway isn't going to take the guys word for it and allow her ship to be destroyed so they fire back and both ships and drawn into the portal. After some camera shaking they find themselves in orbit around Earth in the year 1996.
They detect some sort of subspace signature and beam down to the LA boardwalk and find it coming from a homeless guy. Cut to the Griffith Observatory where a SETI scientist has detected the ship in orbit and after a phone call to the obvious villain CEO Starling she can't resist sending a reply signal to Voyager. Janeway and Chakotay follow the homeless guy while Tuvok and Paris steal a car and head to the observatory. Janeway figures out that the homeless guy is the timeship captain from the 29th century and he tells her about Starling stealing his ship after he beamed out before it crashed. He then has to run from the cops though leaving Janeway and Chakotay to track down Starling. Paris and Tuvok find the lab where they were detected from and after stealing all the data they wipe the drive, but not before running into Sarah Silverman who is the scientist who found them. She chases after when she realizes they destroyed her computer but one of Starlings goons opens fire with a phaser forcing them to flee in her car.
Janeway manages to break into Starlings office and get into his computer system learning that he has been mining the timeship for tech and slowly releasing it. Also the ship is in a lab adjacent to his office but before they can steal it and get out he arrives knowing all about them. He tries to hack Voyager and gets a bunch of data before Kim and break the link and beam out Janeway and Chakotay, but to do so he has to fly into the atmosphere and right over LA. We close on the bridge of Voyager and the new TV obsessed Neelix shows them a video that just was shown on local news of Voyager flying right over the city.
Review: I really enjoyed this one despite it being maybe a little too similar to some previous famous Trek time travel stories. Still a fun one to watch though and my favorite from this season so far.
7 out of 10
Friday, August 5, 2016
VOY: Sacred Ground
The writers of this episode seemed to really want to act like they are good science people and that spirits and all that aren't real but also wanted to write an episode about how spirituality is awesome and real. This leads to a somewhat problematic episode to say the least. Also I am going to take whole point off for Neelix being super annoying in this episode starting with the first thing we see him doing is touching an ancient shrine still being actively worshiped with is dirty hands. It is too bad the spirits didn't decide to punish him, maybe we could have gotten him off the show...
We open with the crew on shore leave and on a tour of a local shrine on a friendly planet. Kes and Neelix wander off bored and while Neelix manhandles the art on the walls Kes decides to stroll into what turns out to be a forbidden shrine protected by some sort of energy field. Torres threatens to storm the place if they can't get permission to come back and scan but luckily they beam up to the ship where Prime Directive expert Janeway actually decides to take a diplomatic approach for once. The government leader is sympathetic but refuses to intervene or even to force the monks to meet with Janeway. They do learn though that there is a ritual the monks go through that somehow allows them to pass through. After some research they find an old story of a king whose son did the same thing as Kes who petitioned the monks to let him go through the ritual since he was responsible. The monks are intrigued by Janeways request and agree to let to try. The Doctor puts an implant in Janeway to try and learn what is happening and sends her down.
Janeway encounters who she assumes is a maintenance worker repairing a light and offers to help only to learn the woman is her guide. I am going to skip forward here a bit, basically they go through a series of tests directly stolen from Kung Fu movies. Janeway gets some kind of venom in her and starts hallucinating and the Doctor thinks something from it is the key but it doesn't work. Janeway is disappointed and realizes that the fact they kept telling her the ritual was meaningless was literally true. She goes back and is told she has everything she needs to save Kes and realizes she just has to go back into the shrine full of confidence or something. She does over the objections of pretty much everyone and saves the day.
Review: I am not in any way opposed to a show featuring magic or religion or whatever, but if you do go for it. This seemed like maybe two writers were bickering over where they wanted to go or something and it kinda turned into a mess.
3 out of 10
We open with the crew on shore leave and on a tour of a local shrine on a friendly planet. Kes and Neelix wander off bored and while Neelix manhandles the art on the walls Kes decides to stroll into what turns out to be a forbidden shrine protected by some sort of energy field. Torres threatens to storm the place if they can't get permission to come back and scan but luckily they beam up to the ship where Prime Directive expert Janeway actually decides to take a diplomatic approach for once. The government leader is sympathetic but refuses to intervene or even to force the monks to meet with Janeway. They do learn though that there is a ritual the monks go through that somehow allows them to pass through. After some research they find an old story of a king whose son did the same thing as Kes who petitioned the monks to let him go through the ritual since he was responsible. The monks are intrigued by Janeways request and agree to let to try. The Doctor puts an implant in Janeway to try and learn what is happening and sends her down.
Janeway encounters who she assumes is a maintenance worker repairing a light and offers to help only to learn the woman is her guide. I am going to skip forward here a bit, basically they go through a series of tests directly stolen from Kung Fu movies. Janeway gets some kind of venom in her and starts hallucinating and the Doctor thinks something from it is the key but it doesn't work. Janeway is disappointed and realizes that the fact they kept telling her the ritual was meaningless was literally true. She goes back and is told she has everything she needs to save Kes and realizes she just has to go back into the shrine full of confidence or something. She does over the objections of pretty much everyone and saves the day.
Review: I am not in any way opposed to a show featuring magic or religion or whatever, but if you do go for it. This seemed like maybe two writers were bickering over where they wanted to go or something and it kinda turned into a mess.
3 out of 10
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
VOY: Remember
It must have been strange to grow up in Germany in the 1950's never sure what your parents and grandparents may have done before and during WWII. This episode is similarly about a culture that seems to be totally civilized and forward thinking but that only a generation before committed an act of genocide against a fairly large portion of their population and now totally covers it up. The fact that about half the episode takes place in a dream/flashback sequence is going to make it easy to sum up at least.
We open with Voyager ferrying some Enaran passengers back to their homeworld. They have offered to share some of their power conservation tech with Voyager and things seem to be going well. Harry has even attracted the attention of a young enaran woman and the two leave together to have dinner. That night Torres has a super sexy dream about sleeping with an enaran man and realizes she is an enaran in the dream. She sleeps past the beginning of her shift and gets woken up by Chakotay. She tells him a little about her dream and he promises not to tell anyone else. There is a party the next night where Janeway is clearly super into an enaran guy, their leader named Jor Brel who shares his memories of how to play a musical instrument with her and she is super into it. B'Elanna stays home and sleeps though and the dreams continue and she learns her lover is part of a minority group called the regressives who are being relocated to a colony away from the rest of the population for refusing to use modern tech.
The dreams start hitting her in the day time and she collapses and is taken to sickbay. The Doctor is able to discover that they aren't dreams, they are someone else's memories that are being sent to her somehow. In the dreams she realizes her father is not actually going to save the regressives, instead of being resettled they are being murdered. She tries confronting him but he talks her into turning her lover over and knows that he is sent to his death. She finds the woman who is sending her the memories but she dies while sending the last of it. Torres confronts Jor Brel in front of the rest of his people and he denies it, but a young enaran woman later agrees to receive the memories. Janeway breaks off all ties with the Enarans, but won't take any further action.
Review: I thought this was a really cool scifi plot with some good twists along the way. This one kinda lacks a B story and instead just has some segments to show us how seemingly awesome the enarans are so that when we realize what they have done it has extra impact. I feel like Kirk would have done more than just break off ties, but it isn't really clear what they could do other than what they did.
6 out of 10
We open with Voyager ferrying some Enaran passengers back to their homeworld. They have offered to share some of their power conservation tech with Voyager and things seem to be going well. Harry has even attracted the attention of a young enaran woman and the two leave together to have dinner. That night Torres has a super sexy dream about sleeping with an enaran man and realizes she is an enaran in the dream. She sleeps past the beginning of her shift and gets woken up by Chakotay. She tells him a little about her dream and he promises not to tell anyone else. There is a party the next night where Janeway is clearly super into an enaran guy, their leader named Jor Brel who shares his memories of how to play a musical instrument with her and she is super into it. B'Elanna stays home and sleeps though and the dreams continue and she learns her lover is part of a minority group called the regressives who are being relocated to a colony away from the rest of the population for refusing to use modern tech.
The dreams start hitting her in the day time and she collapses and is taken to sickbay. The Doctor is able to discover that they aren't dreams, they are someone else's memories that are being sent to her somehow. In the dreams she realizes her father is not actually going to save the regressives, instead of being resettled they are being murdered. She tries confronting him but he talks her into turning her lover over and knows that he is sent to his death. She finds the woman who is sending her the memories but she dies while sending the last of it. Torres confronts Jor Brel in front of the rest of his people and he denies it, but a young enaran woman later agrees to receive the memories. Janeway breaks off all ties with the Enarans, but won't take any further action.
Review: I thought this was a really cool scifi plot with some good twists along the way. This one kinda lacks a B story and instead just has some segments to show us how seemingly awesome the enarans are so that when we realize what they have done it has extra impact. I feel like Kirk would have done more than just break off ties, but it isn't really clear what they could do other than what they did.
6 out of 10
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
VOY: False Profits
I remember watching The Price about a year ago and thinking it was odd that they trapped those Ferengi in the Delta Quadrant but didn't really think of it again until now. Quark certainly toyed with the idea of travelling to an undeveloped world and ruling it as a god a couple times so this certainly falls in line with what we already know about Ferengi. Also it is good that they are clearly the DS9 version of them rather than the more ratlike and ineffective Ferengi from TNG. Apparently Ethan Phillips was sick the week the shot this episode which explains his relatively restrained performance, which honestly is probably why I found that I actually liked him in this episode.
We open with the crew discovering a wormhole that seems to open on the other side in the alpha quadrant, but it seems to be unstable in this side. As they look around they find a world with a bronze age civilization, and also the signature of a replicator being used. Paris and Chakotay are sent to investigate and after being greeted by the hotel manager from Ghostbusters they find that the profit obsessed society is being run by two Ferengi who have set themselves up as gods. It seems there was a local legend about two prophets coming from the sky and performing miracles and they were happy to fulfill that role. Back on the ship they figure out that these two were the ones trapped in the Delta quadrant when they flew through a wormhole in a TNG episode.
The two "prophets" are beamed up to Voyager where Janeway promises to return them for justice (they have a plan to reopen the wormhole from this side and get home) but the Ferengi point out it would devastate their society to just have them disappear so for some reason Janeway sends them back down. Neelix gets disguised as another Ferengi and sent down as the representative of the Grand Nagus which fools the two for a while, but they decide the only option is to kill him. Neelix gets out and convinces the Ghostbusters guy that he is the final pilgrim from the legend and he along with the two others will ascend to the heavens when three new stars appear in the sky. On queue Voyager makes three lights in the sky at which point the villagers decide to burn the ferengi including Neelix. Just in time Voyager beams them to safety but the ferengi steal their shuttle and accidently get back through the wormhole sealing it behind them of course.
Review: I enjoyed this episode overall despite it being a bit silly. Clearly they were playing it for laughs and it mostly works in that way.
6 out of 10
We open with the crew discovering a wormhole that seems to open on the other side in the alpha quadrant, but it seems to be unstable in this side. As they look around they find a world with a bronze age civilization, and also the signature of a replicator being used. Paris and Chakotay are sent to investigate and after being greeted by the hotel manager from Ghostbusters they find that the profit obsessed society is being run by two Ferengi who have set themselves up as gods. It seems there was a local legend about two prophets coming from the sky and performing miracles and they were happy to fulfill that role. Back on the ship they figure out that these two were the ones trapped in the Delta quadrant when they flew through a wormhole in a TNG episode.
The two "prophets" are beamed up to Voyager where Janeway promises to return them for justice (they have a plan to reopen the wormhole from this side and get home) but the Ferengi point out it would devastate their society to just have them disappear so for some reason Janeway sends them back down. Neelix gets disguised as another Ferengi and sent down as the representative of the Grand Nagus which fools the two for a while, but they decide the only option is to kill him. Neelix gets out and convinces the Ghostbusters guy that he is the final pilgrim from the legend and he along with the two others will ascend to the heavens when three new stars appear in the sky. On queue Voyager makes three lights in the sky at which point the villagers decide to burn the ferengi including Neelix. Just in time Voyager beams them to safety but the ferengi steal their shuttle and accidently get back through the wormhole sealing it behind them of course.
Review: I enjoyed this episode overall despite it being a bit silly. Clearly they were playing it for laughs and it mostly works in that way.
6 out of 10
Monday, August 1, 2016
VOY: The Swarm
I actually typed Beyond in the title accidentally before going back and correcting it with the title of today's episode. And it isn't like Beyond is a dead on copy of The Swarm, but it does borrow liberally in terms of a swarm of tiny ships that each have a few soldiers on board who clamp on to their enemy and the deposit the soldiers on the inside. What keeps them from feeling super similar though is the fact that the titular swarm is really more of a B story to the actual story about Kes trying to save the Doctor from total memory loss. This involves both the efforts of the crew but also another version of the creator of the Doctor in this case embodying the EMH diagnostic program.
We open with Paris and Torres in a shuttle together and Paris can't resist hitting on her, but she isn't interested. They are looking for anomalous energy signature and after hours of looking they find one, a tiny ship which latches onto their hull and two aliens beam over and blast them. On the ship the Doctor working on an opera with another hologram who he finds insufferable. The two injured crew return but the Doctor isn't himself and has trouble treating them. Torres helps to diagnose him and finds his program is failing from being on so long. In briefing Neelix explains that he has heard of these aliens but all he knows is they are super hostile and don't like anyone in their space. The problem is the space they claim is huge and will take months to get around. Janeway decides to just go for it, but with a bit of planning. They plot a route through the thinnest part of their space and come up with a plan to mask themselves and it seems to work.
The Doctor is seriously starting to lose all his memory and they don't want to just reset him so Kes and Torres come up with a plan to graft the part of his program that works from the diagnostic program into the Doctor to try and stabilize him. On the bridge they are flying through the hostile region at high warp when they encounter a huge swarm of the ships. None of them seem to notice them though but eventually they find a freighter and for some reason decide to investigate. They only find one alien and he dies as soon as he is aboard but one of the swarm ships was on his ship and the whole group are suddenly very interested in Voyager. They break through the shields and are only defeated by the best technobabble in the galaxy in some sort of feedback loop. The procedure on the Doctor stabilizes him, but he seems to have lost his memory. He doesn't know who Kes is, but as he gets back to work he starts singing the opera song from the opening.
Review: The A story about the swarm was kinda weak. Could have used a bit where they get trapped on a planet with a madman and a black and white refugee who helps them salvage an old ship to save the Yorktown. Oh wait... But seriously, the story with the Doctor seemed a lot more interesting than the whole swarm deal.
5 out of 10
We open with Paris and Torres in a shuttle together and Paris can't resist hitting on her, but she isn't interested. They are looking for anomalous energy signature and after hours of looking they find one, a tiny ship which latches onto their hull and two aliens beam over and blast them. On the ship the Doctor working on an opera with another hologram who he finds insufferable. The two injured crew return but the Doctor isn't himself and has trouble treating them. Torres helps to diagnose him and finds his program is failing from being on so long. In briefing Neelix explains that he has heard of these aliens but all he knows is they are super hostile and don't like anyone in their space. The problem is the space they claim is huge and will take months to get around. Janeway decides to just go for it, but with a bit of planning. They plot a route through the thinnest part of their space and come up with a plan to mask themselves and it seems to work.
The Doctor is seriously starting to lose all his memory and they don't want to just reset him so Kes and Torres come up with a plan to graft the part of his program that works from the diagnostic program into the Doctor to try and stabilize him. On the bridge they are flying through the hostile region at high warp when they encounter a huge swarm of the ships. None of them seem to notice them though but eventually they find a freighter and for some reason decide to investigate. They only find one alien and he dies as soon as he is aboard but one of the swarm ships was on his ship and the whole group are suddenly very interested in Voyager. They break through the shields and are only defeated by the best technobabble in the galaxy in some sort of feedback loop. The procedure on the Doctor stabilizes him, but he seems to have lost his memory. He doesn't know who Kes is, but as he gets back to work he starts singing the opera song from the opening.
Review: The A story about the swarm was kinda weak. Could have used a bit where they get trapped on a planet with a madman and a black and white refugee who helps them salvage an old ship to save the Yorktown. Oh wait... But seriously, the story with the Doctor seemed a lot more interesting than the whole swarm deal.
5 out of 10
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