Well, this a strange and quite schizophrenic episode.
Voyager’s arrived at a void where there are no planets, stars or even time travel. Janeway copes by shutting herself off from the crew to deal with the guilt of stranding them in the Delta Quadrant in the first place and everyone else is at each others throats. Now this is good! Of course it can’t last so by the middle of the episode aliens fighting each other turn up, one with the location to a spatial vortex. Oh and there’s a musical interlude with Harry playing his saxomophone on a deserted bridge. I’m not even kidding on that last one.
The teaser opens with Paris and Kim playing a black and white 1940s style Holodeck programme. This confirmed two things for me. DS9 did this better with Bashir and O’Brien and also Kim is the damsel in distress. I also liked Chakotay’s response when it looked like the Holodeck may fail. “The last thing we need is a broken holodeck.” Um, no it isn’t.
As I mentioned the start is a cool concept which we’re told will take them two years. So naturally it’s a disappointment when Janeway and the crew’s back to normal by the end of the episode. So back to normal that Janeway uses the line “Time to take out the garbage.”. Welcome to season five everybody!
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