So Torres finds a robot in space and wants to help him reproduce, what could go wrong with that? Well everything according to Captain “Buzzkill” Janeway and makes the series 837th mention of the Prime Directive. It’s hard to believe other Star Trek series went whole episodes without talking about it. Sometimes it’s almost as if she’s using it as an excuse when she doesn’t want to do something but... nah, that can’t be it.
Needless to say Torres has to form some kind of friendship with this unfeeling homicidal automaton, hey she did the same with Tuvok in the last episode why not here? Of course this leads to more unsubtly from Voyager in the form of a metaphor for being a mother to this new prototype she’s forced to build. Janeway doesn’t help mind you when she has her patented pep talk with Torres at the end of the episode. It’s not killing your child, it’s destroying an insane robot! Thankfully she didn’t order her to make any paintings or poems this time.
Unlike everyone else ever, including the people who made this episode, I quite liked this one. True the robots were just people in suits but then I liked that, plus I like Doctor Who so that’s maybe where I get that from. Plus you just can’t go wrong with crazy robots fighting a war long after their makers have died, by their hand. Especially when the robots have a ship that has far more firepower than anything Voyager can withstand. It’s about time, I was beginning to think everyone in the Delta Quadrant has only just progressed passed slings and arrows.
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