This episode isn’t too bad, which surprised me, but then it’s helped by a Doctor ‘B story’. In fact the part of the story that I was most disappointed was the crew back on the ship.
The main story deals with Chakotay, both the present 42 year old and flashbacks to his 15 year old self. These deal with his and indeed all Indian heritages with the finding of the Sky Spirts, which they worshipped, in the Delta Quadrant (Is there any part of the Alpha Quadrant that isn’t 70,000 light years away?). It was interesting though to get part of Chakotay’s back story and wasn’t as boring as I assumed it would be.
In the amusing co-main story of the evening the Doctor “infects” himself with the flu to show the humanoids how to cope. I like the team of Kes and the Doctor and it’s a pity I haven’t seen them as much as I’d like so far. Kes is far better with the Doctor than she is with Neelix and to be fair the opposite is true of Neelix.
At one point Chakotay becomes left behind on the planet as Tuvok and Torres escape and despite that fact storms seem to appear in response to their presence Janeway decides to rescue him, by landing the entire ship. If there’s one thing that one man’s life is worth it’s approximately 160 other people.
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