Episode 9: Emanations

So Voyager finds a new element in a planet's rings - I won't even go into THAT.  Turns out the new element is from alien bodies which are appearing there and then eventually appear on Voyager.  Halfway through the episode the alien bodies were still appearing on Voyager, eventually Torres decides that's because of the Warp Core or something.  Janeway orders the ship to travel half a light year and lo and behold the situations fine again.  Surely it wouldn't have taken a Particle Physicist to think that if she'd have done that earlier there wouldn't have been a problem?

Oh yeagh, and Kim ends up transported to another planet which is something to do with the death and philosophy.  To be honest the main point that the Star Trek universe is somehow someone elses afterlife didn't even occur to me until I read up on the episode afterwards because let's face it if someone, you know, transports in a type of machine I'm gonna think think they... wait for it... transported there.  But that's the Voyager writing staff for you.

So despite Kim 'dying' he's in pretty much the entire episode so that happened.  But never mind all that at the end of the episode despite Kim feeling fine and them being lost in unfamiliar space, alone against the galaxy Janeway orders him to have two days off so he can "write about it, if you feel like it.  Paint.  Express yourself in some fashion." - How did the Kazon, never mind the Borg not ahnilihate these people?

I leave you with a theme I shall come back to from time to time; What the hell is an Ensign doing on the senior bridge staff anyway?