I seem to be liking far more episodes than I thought so far, we're still talking maybe two or three but even so. Maybe it's the Star Trek equivalent of Stockholm syndrome?
In any case this is a pretty good episode, let down a touch by it's B Plot. Why couldn't it just have had a main plot and that was it? No bloody A, no bloody B.
So the main story basically concerns how a killer with no motive ends up nearly unravelling Tuvok's Vulcan disciplines after a mind meld goes wrong. At the start of Trek whenever the meld was first introduced it was meant to be a rare, dangerous thing until they ended up doing it every other week.
Tim Russ is excellent in this and plays off Brad Dourif really well, especially in their latter scenes. I'm also glad there was no "quick fix" to the character of Suder ensuring that he'll be dealt with in the future.
Oh and Tuvok kills Neelix! Okay, it's just a holodeck programme but still, it was fun while it lasted.
In case you were wondering the B plot involved Paris running a gambling operation. Yeagh, that’s as exciting as it got, I mean who cares? I mean it’s not as if he was, oh I dunno, killing people.
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