Here we have the Voyager cast’s equivalent of casual Friday.
Voyager runs into an anomaly or ‘subspace sandbank’, as Torres puts it, and can’t move causing problems on the ship. Some photonic aliens break through into Voyager and because they appear in the holodeck and are galactically stupid they think Paris’ Flash Gordon pastiche program is real. This leads them to start attacking the villain Chaotica despite the Tuvok and Paris’ protestations that it’s as real as Chakotay’s spirit animals. Naturally the holodeck can’t be switched off because well, it’s the the holodeck so the crew come up with a convoluted plan to convince the aliens to leave which involves Janeway becoming Queen Arachnia the Spider Queen, getting married to Chaotica and the Doctor being the President of Earth. Which of course succeeds and everyone lives happily ever after. Except the aliens who are mourning fifty of their dead.
When most of the replicators are down Janeway goes to the mess hall and asks Neelix to get her some coffee. This involves him walking to his replicator and asking for it. Get it your damn self, I thought slavery was abolished in the Federation.
I suppose I can’t really complain about this episode, I mean it’s purposely supposed to be camp and stupid and it did so admirably.
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