So this one starts off with Voyager running out of fuel (Deuterium for those who care) and having to go into Gray Mode. This seems to involve turning off lights if you’re not in the room and other things your parents told you when you were a teenager.
Anyway, Janeway orders research into synthesising an alternative fuel. Um, shouldn’t this have been done long ago when you still had fuel? Seven then finds a Demon Class Planet (with Astrometrics which she was ordered to turn off, well done Chakotay!) which has fuel but also is completely inhospitable to humans (kind of like Pizza Hut). When Harry and Paris travel to it and find they can only breathe the noxious fumes of the planet they realise things are a little weird. Unfortunately though they don’t leave them behind.
Obviously this plot wasn’t enough for the Voyager writers so they added a Doctor/Neelix Odd Couple bit where he moves into the sickbay with hilarious results! Did I say hilarious? Sorry, I meant predictable results.
Quite a bit of Harry and Paris chatting in this episode which is good, unfortunately most of it is more Vulcan racism. Remember kids, it’s not big and it’s not logical. Also so much for everyone getting along in the Roddenberry’s utopian future.
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