Episode 10: Prime Factors

The start of this episode is promising, opening as it does with some of the crew in the mess hall mocking Kim for his uselessness with women.

Later on Kim's almost going to prove them wrong by actually getting off with an alien chick but then ruins it with science.  And after months in the delta quadrant Janeway's going to get some too, Kim barges in and ruins that too with his seemingly endless pursuit of unfeasible ideas to get back home.  Harry Kim: Professional Alien Cockblocker.


The main alien reminded me of a rather bored Bond villain rather than a leader of a race of pleasure seeking aliens which didn't help the episode but amused me.


I did like that the reason the Voyager crew couldn't get home this week was because of this races own set of binding laws, maybe it should've been called Prime Directive 2: The Irony of Kirk's Gold.  Of course the fact that no-one in the Federation seems to care about their own Directive it comes as no surprise there are similar people who are the same among the aliens. 


I also liked the transporter that worked over fourty thousand light years, they could've kept that in one or two more shows.  Or even why didn't malfunction and transport them another fourty thousand light years in the opposite direction?  It's not as if, it would have affected them getting home eventually.

The main thing that let the episode down though was that after Tuvok, Torres et al disobey orders they effectively have nothing happen to them.  Janeway just gives them a stern talking to, that'll learn 'em.