Episode 6: The Cloud

This episode features a space anomaly which needless to say doesn’t really say anything new, in fact, it’s more a combination of bits of previous episodes so I’ll leave that part and just say it wasn’t the best.  Though it does result in a great rant from Neelix about how they have to “find some space anomaly today that might rip it apart!".  I know I used the word “great” and “Neelix” in the same sentence but he was pretty much the focus of all the good parts.  Was nice to actually see Kes and him interacting as if they were in a relationship.  Janeway’s dismissal to him after he wants to leave the ship was pretty good too.  Iindeed I actually didn’t mind him in this episode, well, until he appointed himself Moral Officer. 

As you may have guessed the character stuff was the saving grace of this episode.  Janeway and Chakotay bonding over him teaching her to find her animal guide was a nice touch.  I wasn’t that keen on the new Chez Sandrine set which seems to be Voyager’s equivalent of TNG’s Ten Forward.  Probably didn’t help it featured Janeway inexplicably potting four balls from break in pool, but the character bits in those scenes didn’t feel right.   

Also Kim was being annoying again, especially to Tuvok earlier in the episode.

I’ll leave you with the best moment of the episode, the Doctor (quelle surprise) when commenting whether the ship did harm to the anomaly "Let's see, you ran your ship through it, fired phasers at it, and blew a hole in it with a photon torpedo. I'd say it's a pretty good chance that you did some fairly significant..."