It’s a Kim episode and according to Garrett Wang this is the best one of his. So Kim doesn’t get any better than this, yes, another five seasons and we don’t reach the lofty heights of The Chute. Still, at least Paris punched him.
So in this episode Kim and Paris are held in an alien prison and have to defend themselves against the indigenous population, unfortunately the gangs are more West Side Story. They both have an implant in their head that slowly drives them both insane. So much so that he almost kills Paris, typical, takes an implant in Kim’s head before he’ll actually do anything interesting.
Meanwhile back on the ship Janeway’s demonstration of Star Fleet values was admirable. When trying to clear Kim and Paris of their made up terrorism charges she impounds a ship and the two people on board. So much for liberty. She’ll be disregarding the Prime Directive next... oh wait.
Having said all that, with it’s Star Fleet crewmember in a prison motif is very similar to so many other episodes, especially when you consider the killing/almost killing of Paris and the DS9 episode “Hard Time”. Needless to say it’s never a good thing to do a similar episode to DS9 (See Flashback).
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