So twelve episodes in there is a pretty good episode in this season after all. True, it isn’t exactly an original concept, in fact Star Trek’s already done it but you take what you can get.
Voyager comes across a planet that revolves at 58 revolutions per minute, so like Somalia? Ah, satire. So time it seems passes on the planet much faster with a second their being a day on Voyager. I think I’ve experience that. Voyager is pulled in towards the planet and becomes trapped in orbit. Meanwhile on the planet, the inhabitants, who have been worshipping the new star as a god move to trying to contact them. Oh no, an entire civilisation based on Voyager. And to think I complained about Barclay. On Voyager a message from the planet comes through and the crew have a meeting to discuss it, despite the sender being dead for hundreds of years. Ah yes, the Prime Directive. The Doctor is sent down to the planet and comes back to Voyager moments later having been on the planet three years, having lived with a woman and looked after a son. Anyone else think he was a little annoyed to return? Eventually a capsule from the surface arrives but because they don’t return to the planet for years they join the rest of the Delta Quadrant and declare war on Voyager. The capsule eventually returns to the planet with the older astronaut watching the night sky as Voyager finally leaves.
The Doctor has some nice bits in this one, like a comical scene with the Doctor and the astronaut discussing the planet’s sports and then a touching part where he asks him if he knows anything of his son.
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