Boy goes to Delta Quadrant, boy meets girl, boy forgets girl, boy meets girl, boy forgets girl. Ah, that old story.
Voyager comes upon two cloaked ships in the midst of a battle (Special Effects took that week off then). One of the ships is damaged and an alien woman specifically contacts Chakotay for help. This is surprising not because she knows his name, but really... him? The alien woman is played by Virginia Madsen who, presumably being fed up with the Candyman, decides shows up on Voyager (doesn’t she know Tony Todd’s on Star Trek every other week?). Anyway, turns out she’s from a planet that nobody is allowed to leave and who other species can only remember for a few hours. She’d been on the ship before to seek out an escapee from her planet and fell in love with Chakotay but no-one could remember. This time she’s the escapee. So... she meets Chakotay and he can’t remember her? Shouldn’t that be the other way round?
For some reason Neelix was in this being a zen master to Chakotay and telling him all about the mysteries of love. Should he really be taking advice from someone who’s only girlfriend left him?
At one point in the Astrometrics Lab (where Seven appears to live now), Voyager’s route to the Alpha Quadrant is shown, which has to be made up because it’s in a straight line. Since when do they not take a detour every few days for a distress signal, anomaly, space mall or Harry Kim wants a new species to fall in love with?
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