It’s night shift on Voyager, and Harry’s the captain, what can possibly go wrong?
As if to answer that, a distress call is received. It’s coming from a planet with no life, Harry and the Doctor beam down to find a metallic object that looks like a missile that’s imbedded in rock. The Doctor is able to communicate with it (it’s like a bad Eddie... well an Eddie Murphy movie) and Harry brings it aboard to repair it’s memory. Yes, let’s bring the missile aboard! After attempting to repair it they eventually discover that it’s a bomb. Because that wasn’t shocking, they then have it take over the Doctor. Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb. The BombDoctor takes control of the ship and announces that he will continue on his original mission to destroy Salina Prime. To defeat the warhead they contact a merchant, who is a friend of Neelix, but he just wants the bomb himself and ends up being killed by it. However, once it’s memory has been repaired it seems the war has ended and it destroys itself and the other missiles on route.
This is quite simply one of the worst episodes I have ever seen of Voyager, I even miss the time travel ones. Even the usually great Doctor is annoying in this, especially at the start when he’s all about human rights for weapons of mass destruction. After all warheads have feelings too.
Just to cap the whole thing off, one of the Ensigns on the bridge thanks Harry for saving the ship “on behalf of the junior officers”! What?! He was the one who beamed the bloody thing on the ship in the first place.
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