No spatial anomalies, no time travel and no just out of reach wormholes. Are we even sure this is an episode of Voyager?
At the start of the episode Seven is doing a study on mating rituals by following Torres and Paris around. For some reason Torres doesn’t take kindly to this. You’d think she should just be thankful that someone can stand to be in the same room as her. The Doctor after hearing of this thinks that Seven should begin dating and that he should teach her. However before anyone can say My Fair Lady, Paris bets him he won’t succeed. Meanwhile a puritanical Kadi ambassador, Tomin (as played by Kids In The Hall’s Scott Thompson), comes aboard. One of the first things he does is ask for spicy food, kind of like me after a night out. The Doctor starts Seven off with a slideshow presentation and before she can remember how to assimilate people they move to the holodeck. By this point the Doctor realises that he’s fallen in love with her himself (well along with half the Delta Quadrant). Despite this he is able to get her ready for the reception for the ambassador. By this point however Tomin has moved onto hard liquor and makes a fool of himself. Which is a shame as I wanted him to start on meth next. The Doctor at the end decides never to tell Seven of his love as unrequited love is the best for stories.
I actually did find myself smiling and even laughing at the episode and not in a sneering way. I mean yes, it’s a romantic comedy but I guess because it’s the Doctor and Seven at the heart of it that helped. Even the B story with the ambassador was quite amusing.
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