Ugh. Just ugh.
We start in the sickbay with Chakotay being delusional, which is the most interesting character trait he’s ever displayed, which really isn’t saying much. Then it flashes back to a holodeck program about his days when boxing in StarFleet Academy complete with TNG’s Boothby. The point of Boothby seems to be to say that Chakotay’s not letting the alien hit him enough, so that’ll be the Homer Simpson school of boxing. Voyager is then trapped in what is called Chaotic Space, they know this because the Borg have seen it before. Of course they have. It seems the aliens that live in this space are trying to tell Chakotay how Voyager can escape but the communication is confusing and making him doubt reality. So he has a vision quest to see what his people think! They eventually deciphered the messages and were able to get Voyager clear and Chakotay back to his boring self. At least I think that’s what happened, it really was quite confusing (and awful). Oh and the first thing Chakotay does after they’re back in normal space? Goes boxing.
The writer of this episode obviously would have rather written another Rocky movie since Boothby was just a late Burgess Meredith cipher (there wasn’t time now). I mean, they even had a montage in this, and unlike Team America we didn’t need one.
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