Tuvok and Neelix (the worst travel companion) are together in one of the plentiful shuttles Voyager has because we’ve never seen that before. Tuvok discovers a cloaked entity accessing the computer before he’s attacked and lapses into a coma. Neelix takes him back to Voyager and Janeway discovers this might be the mythical Ba’neth after a visit from a local diplomat, whom they go in search of. Neelix stays by Tuvok’s bedside to presumably drive him further into the coma but he awakes nonetheless and has lost his memory. Without his memory he is unable to help with locating the Ba’neth and can’t help at all when questioned. But he’s able to help Neelix in the kitchen and becomes his friend. His Wikki Fruit Sundae being a particular success, presumably he got the recipe from the internet. Janeway asks Tuvok again about what he saw on his tricorder and he puts the cloaking signal on a cake. Thus they are able to find the Ba’neth and save Tuvok. Neelix of course is sad and Tuvok is his usual self but gives him an answer to a riddle that he decided wasn’t logical at the start of the story. Hurrah for character growth.
My friend and I discussed for a minute the riddle that bookends the story (How is an ensign is able to survive on a planet for a year with only a calendar because he eats the “dates”) and how it is logical within the logic of the riddle. However then I realised we’d probably spent more time on it than the writers.
The best thing however about this entire story is Tim Russ and his acting when he’s lost his memory. He really is too good for this show.
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