Voyager has to shut all their power down to go into a space cloud. Paris and Kim think it looks scary despite it being Space Cloud Stock Image #67. Due to this, the Borg children won’t be able to sleep in their alcolve and might be scared. Seriously. So Neelix tells them a scary story to pass the time. Unfortunately it wasn’t “There’s going to be a seventh season of this.”. The scary story is about Voyager from months before collecting Deuterium in a cloud. The ship keeps getting shaken by turbulence so they leave as they don’t have seatbelts but unbeknownst to them there’s a stowaway. The children keep interrupting the story but unlike Fred Savage in the Princess Bride they aren’t funny. Back in the story, things start to go wrong on the ship, most importantly Janeway can’t get any coffee and there isn’t any in a nebula. They try to repair the affected systems but it seems to be jumping from place to place. It soon becomes clear it’s an alien after nebula gas is released in various areas of the ship. Seriously, if this sounds boring it’s not half as bad as the episode. The lifeform came from the nebula (see TNG’s Lonely Among Us) and is trying to get back unfortunately they when they do take it back, the cloud has gone. Alien goes batshit insane but eventually agrees to Janeway finding another one. Back in the present, she does.
Basically this was a run of the mill ‘alien takes over the ship’ story which they tried to turn into something original via the ghost angle. Didn’t succeed.
Janeway talks to Voyager in this one a couple of times. Item #573 in my series People On Voyager Have Space Madness.
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