Ah a pretty good episode at last. And it doesn’t really have anything to do with time travel, scifi or anomalies. Well the B story does but I’ll treat it with the contempt it deserves.
Basic story is the Doctor in his continual mission to become more human every day starts his own holodeck family. As they’re too perfect and sycophantic, Torres offers to shake things up a little in the programming. Probably in revenge for The Darkling and who can blame her. What’s great is that the family start out like a humourous 1950’s sitcom family and then the story turns and becomes more serious and emotional. Even the fact it’s only a holodeck family is focused on at one point when the Doctor can’t deal with it anymore and turns them off.
One of the surprising things about this one is Tom Paris. He’s actually back to his best before he started annoying me There’s a nice scene between him and Torres (even if she is reading Klingon Porn. Klingorn?) plus he gives the Doctor sage advice. Whether this lasts is another matter entirely. Probably as much as the space tornadoes. Speaking of which...
As I hinted the B story consists of the Voyager crew trying to take energy from space tornadoes. Yes, I like saying space tornadoes. But anyway it filled the episode I guess.
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