Okay, let’s start with the good news. Um... oh yes, it’s the last story to feature Janeway’s holonovel. So now the bad news or as I like to call it, the rest of the episode.
We see at the beginning Janeway being crabby to everyone instead of her normal touchy feely approach to captaining which they could’ve done a bit more with before the Doctor ordered her to take time off. If only it were that easy in real life, most businesses would run on skeleton staff.
So she goes to her holonovel but then things from it start appearing in the ship and before we can say "epidemic" the entire crew is affected by these mind visions and it's up to Kes "call me Jean Grey" to save the day.
One thing, the part where each of the crew sees someone they love to bring them into a trance, so the alien could take over the ship... or something? Why did Paris see his father, if there's one person you can ignore it's someone saying how rubbish you are. Well presumably Kim must've managed it.
This episode, like so many, wasn’t tragically poor but again wasn’t good and didn’t seem to be about anything. The episode felt like a decidedly empty experience.
Lastly they apparently had an ending for the holonovel for another episode but never used it because nobody liked it. Why ever not? There's nothing I like better than turning on Star Trek to see how the Captain gets on in the latest video game and not their adventures in space (and time, but that's Voyager for you).
They should have her take part in some holonovels in space and have some good adventures. Maybe the Delta Quadrant (1 of 4).
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