Unimatrix Zero

The Haunting of Deck Twelve

Life Line

Seven gets more airtime in this episode than the last two combined as she works to delete unnecessary Doc functions to make his program downloadable to Starfleet. Doc loses his singing voice (thank you Seven), his ability to do the wild thing, and several other traits. The process of reducing Doc to a downloadable format seems to be enjoyable for Seven and unnerving for Doc. With his program reduced, it's off to the Jupiter station for Doc.

Barclay brings Doc to Zimmerman who spends an inordinate amount of time dissing Doc for being an outdated hologram doctor. After a quarter episode of bickering and positioning, Doc gets to treat the maestro. Seems all the contempt for Doc stems from Zimmerman failing to sell Starfleet on the Mark IV hologram doctor. Zimmerman feels the presence of Doc is a constant reminder of his biggest failure (and greatest triumph). Troi gets some airtime with Barclay during this course of the episode to complete the Next Gen link.

To make a long story short, Doc shoots Zimmerman with nanoprobes (a nanoprobe a day keeps the doctor away) and he gets much better. Doc fires back to Voyager and all is well in Docland. But, Janeway gets a communiqué for Starfleet asking her to detail any casualties (like Ensign Vorik maybe?), how the Maquis crewmembers are doing, and related drivel on Voyagers travels. The Maquis question puzzles the Captain and Mr. Borg feels this will surface again in a season seven episode.

Fury

Muse

Seven was on for less than thirty seconds on the bridge during the obligatory command staff shots for all the principle characters not highlighted in the episode.

Live Fast and Prosper

Half a Borg Head

Ok, now back to the episode in which our dynamic duo is duped by a new race of aliens resulting in the data bank of the Delta Flyer being downloaded for use in a con game. Mr. Borg questions how easy this was to do and what type of security is it to have a schematic of the ship and its weapons in a vehicle used in away missions. If it was this easy for two aliens to gain all this knowledge then why did the Kazon not obtain the same information when they commandeered numerous shuttles as well as Voyager?

With the downloaded information, Dala and her buddies fly ahead of Voyager and start ripping off other alien species pretending to be part of the Federation in the Delta Flyer. Dala portrays Janeway and her crew becomes Tuvok (Mr. Borg misses Tuvik) and Chakotay. Under the flag of the Federation, they put together trade deals and then hit warp speed when they are to keep up their end of the bargain. When the real Voyager heads into the areas that the fake crew has swindled, trouble starts. Seems the ripped off species want to be paid-off for goods stolen by the fake crew.

After capturing Dala (AKA Janeway), the writers pull a little twist by having her escape and run into the Flyer to head stage left. When she meets with her posse, Tom pops out with the Doctor to setup the next surprise. When Dala transports over to her crew, they immediately head for the loot but an unanticipated surprise happens next. Seems the Doctor is impersonating Dala and Voyage is close by to pick up the offenders and their treasure. As the episode ends, our dynamic duo put a scam over Doc to prove they are still idiots.

Were was Seven; she was on the bridge for a whopping 20 seconds of screen time.

Good Shepherd

Child's Play

1 of 4 puts up a strong front about not wanting to be with his parents on the technologically depressed planet. After a dinner on Voyager with his parents, he quickly changes that tune and prepares to be reassimilated by his parental units. (After Neelix says it's nice to see the family interacting, Seven gives him an Oscar winning "I'd assimilate you if you were not such an alien dork look")

Seven admits to the Captain that she felt her parents let her down by subjecting her to the dangerous Borg. Janeway seems surprised to hear her say this and is able to put 2 and 2 together to understand the protective nature of her current actions.

After 1 of 4 makes the pilgrimage home, Seven is awaken from her regeneration by the little Borg girl (3 ½). 3 ½ can't regenerate because she misses 1 of 4 and spits out the news that he was taken by the Borg in a ship containing just him. This runs counter to the story given by the father of his being assimilated on the planet surface. After going over the damaged Cubes records, she confirms this story and bumps Janeway out of bed to give her the news. Meanwhile, on the planet surface, 1 of 4 's parents sedate him and prepare to fire him into space as a Borg appetizer.

Janeway contacts the family to confirm Seven's findings only to find 1 of 4 gone and a very belligerent mother telling her to stay out of their business. Voyager scans the horizon and finds the ship carrying 1 of 4 heading toward a portal used by the Borg. Seems he has been engineered to be a biological weapon to infect the Borg and reduce their chances of plundering the planet which just happens to be near a Borg conduit. After giving chase, they are able to transport 1 of 4 to the ship just as a Borg sphere exits the portal. The five minute shuffle also includes; Voyager getting caught in a tractor beam; Seven coming up with a plan to beam a photon torpedo to 1 of 4 's ship; the Borg sphere inhaling 1 of 4 's ship; Borg sphere losing a good part of its structural integrity when torpedo ignites; Voyager getting free of tractor beam; 1 of 4 and Seven in a touching reunion; 1 of 4 telling Seven he does not hate his parents for using him as a weapon. By Mr. Borg's count, this is the second biological weapon against the Borg. The first biological agent infected the Vinculum. Remember the episode (Infinite Regress) were Seven goes through all the personalities of the assimilated victims?

Ashes to Ashes

Spirit Folk

Ala the Moriarty character in the Next Gen episode, the Voyager crew finds the townsfolk of "Fair Haven", who we met a few episodes before, think they are real. Seems the program has been left on a little longer than it should causing the characters to become thinking sentient creatures. After Tom turns Harry's girl into a cow as a prank, the people of "Fair Haven" feel they have been invaded by fairies (it is an Irish town we are talking about). When the holo characters begin questioning the Voyager crew that visit the town on their odd behavior, the Captain orders B'Elanna, Tom, and Harry to fix this problem.

Our threesome find the characters have become thinking creatures that defy simple reprogramming. Not wanting to lose the characters memories, the Captain orders Tom and Harry to enter the holo deck and reprogram the characters. Seems the panel to do this is in the bar and our dynamic duo is captured by the holo characters that fire a shotgun blast to the panel disabling their ability to escape the program. (Mr Borg note: if the safety was on when the two were captured, how did the shotgun blast disable the panel and then cause the safety protocols to go off-line?)

The two end up in the church held as fairies that must be cleansed from the town. At this point the Captain could kill the program or risk the lives of Tom and Harry to extract them and leave the program in tack. She chooses to send Doc in to free the boys which backfires putting all three characters in peril. But, the Captains holo lover, played by the bartender, steals the Doctor's holo device and gets into Voyager; meets the Captain; confronts her over his ability to think; is won over by the Captain; and returns to "Fair Haven" just in time to save everyone from being burned alive in the town square.

The conclusion of the episode revolves around the fact that "Fair Haven" will survive with its townspeople realizing the uniqueness of the Voyager crew that visit the town.

Where was Seven in all of this mess? Well she gets a little over a minutes screen time helping to sort the programming out.

Collective

The Seven Bunch Theme Song

Here's the story of a lovely Borg,
Who bringing up five slightly damaged Borg,
All of them had implants, like their mother,
The youngest one with metal curls.

It's a story of a Captain named Janeway,
Who was busy with four little poker-playing crewman of her own,
They were men trapped together in the Borg cubes hold,
Yet they were all alone.

Till this one day this Borg met with this Captain,
And they knew that it was much more than a hunch.
That this group would somehow form a collective,
That's the way they all became Seven's Bunch.
Seven's Bunch, Seven's Bunch
That's the way they became Seven's Bunch.

Tsunkatse

UPN enlists its major shows in a cross-promotional blitz for the network savior "WWF Smackdown" this week and Voyager lands "The Rock" to the cast of this episode. Voyager's crew is on shore leave at the beginning of the episode and the "Tattooed Terror"(Chakotay) of "The Fight" episode fame sits in an alien arena with B'Elanna watching a rock head and a Hirogen duke it out to the delight of the alien crowd that looks like they just hit the happy hour at the Star Wars cantina.

Back on board the ship, we find Neelix has fallen asleep on a tropical beach and has been severely sunburned by the planets dual suns. As Neelix concocts a remedy for the sunburn, we learn that Seven and Tuvok are preparing to explore a nearby nebula rather than partake of shore leave. As Seven prepares for the trip, Tom enters her alcove to pester her about bringing too much material for her trip. This chapter appears to have been written to give the Tom character airtime as it seems out of place for the episode in general. But, we do learn that B'Elanna carries a stuffed Toby the Targ animal on all away missions lasting over a day (Mr. Borg observed that Robert Duncan McNeil looked like he was forced to say the line as he did it with very little emotion).

As Seven heads down the hall, Doc tries to commandeer her for a trip to the cultural centers on the planet. Seven puts a kibosh on his plan and heads out into the deep black sea with Tuvok. As Seven and Tuvok engage in the competition of not speaking to each other, an alien ship approaches; disables the shuttles systems; beams an explosive device on the shuttle; and captures our dynamic duo. If you ask me, this pair needs to bring reinforcements on their trips, this is the second time these two have been captured (remember the little side trip that went array in "Hunters"). It seems Seven and Tuvok are very easy to capture on away missions. The only thing easier to catch in this quadrant is a bad cup of coffee in Neelix's kitchen.

When Seven wakes, she finds herself the captive in the belly of an alien ship surrounded by a multitude of aliens preparing for combat. A battered Tuvok is returned to the cell (I guess going to defuse the alien bomb on the shuttle was a bad idea) and is used as bait to force Sevens participation in the gladiator games. Match one is against "The Rock" who plays on all his signature WWF moves in his cameo battle with Seven. Meanwhile stunned fight spectators Chakotay, Neelix, and Harry try to beam her from the arena on the planet surface only to find they are holographic projections. Seems the real gladiators are on a traveling ship that beams the fights to various planets in the system.

On the fight ship, Seven is befriended by the champion Hirogen who trains her to fight. When the bell rings for her death match, she is surprised to see the Hirogen as her opponent. Seems he no longer wishes to live in the confined quarters of the ship and fight. Meanwhile back at the ranch the crew plots the course of the fight ship and proceeds to its location to reel in Seven and Tuvok. Now here is the part Mr. Borg does not get, Voyage has been exposed and picked up a boatload of technology yet uses phasers to blast away at the fight ship. Seems to me they could have used another weapon in their arsenal to disable this ship with puny phasers. I mean the ship is severely damaged in their attack and if not for the Delta Flyer saving the big ship could have been lost. Seems like a lack of continuity by the writers in factoring in all the technology they have assimilated. Now back to the story - Tuvok, Seven, and the Hirogen are beamed back to the ship just in time to save the Hirogen from a savage beating by Seven. Seven ponders her humanity when she considers that she almost killed him, but then again, he is a Hirogen and they did mess with the crew in "Hunters", "Prey", and "Killing Game" Parts 1 & 2.

Virtuoso

Blink of an Eye

Fair Haven

Pathfinder

Doesn't Starfleet have some sort of psychological screening process? I seem to remember Wesley going through an intense psychological screening test as a part of being admitted to Starfleet Academy. Anyway, it seems that Barkley has taken a turn for the worse in becoming a little more nuts since we last saw him in First Contact. Kudos to Picard for pawning Barkley off on a different assignment. Perhaps Dwight is preparing to reprise his role as "Howl'n Mad Murdock" on an A-Team reunion.

I am comforted to see that Starfleet is sparing no expense on helping Voyager. Maybe they could send out a ship or two to meet them part way? Perhaps we will be seeing the crew sporting new uniforms in the coming weeks as a result of Starfleet downloading data to Voyager.

Back to Barkley, if he were known to suffer from Holodeck Addiction, you would think his Holodeck usage would be monitored and restricted. After all, would they just give a drug addict the keys to sickbay?

I was touched by the communication between Paris's father and Janeway. She was a real sport in not telling daddy what a bad boy Tom has been in the Delta Quadrant. Maybe she just figured that he might not be as anxious to help get Junior (and the rest of her crew) home if she busted on him.

Where was Seven you may ask? She got about five-minutes of airtime in what can only be called a cameo red-shirt appearance.

One Small Step

Let me set you up about this episode before I get into the review. First, it was directed by Robert Picardo. Second, Robert Picardo is a big fan of the Mars Millinnum Project which invites students to design a prototype colony for mars. Their web site is at http://www.mars2030.net/ .

And now the rest of the story…(even if history is irrelevant)The basic scenario of this episode revolves around the exploits of a space anomaly that bears a striking resemblance to a flaming walnut. It seems the flaming walnut hurtles through normal space jumping out sporadically from another layer of space (which must be pretty crowded with species 8472, the alternate universe and every other conceivable creature or race that has popped up in Voyager's space the past six years) to gobble-up whatever is in its way. When Voyager first encounters the walnut, Seven saves Voyager from becoming a midnight snack by using her Borg training to make Voyager unpalatable for consumption. When a data check is done on the anomaly, the crew finds out the walnut ate the first Mars space vehicle sent by earth to explore the red planet.

The revelation that the walnut ate the probe fires up Chakotay who happens to be a Mars trivia buff. After Seven applies some Borg technology to the Delta Flyer, Seven along with Tom and Chakotay make their way to the walnuts core. Upon entry to the center of the nut, they find it filled with all kind of space junk including an intact Mars spacecraft. Being the fun loving explores they are, it is decided that the ship must be boarded to glimpse a piece of history. Seven is elected to make the trip over in her stylish space suit for a closer look. What does she find you may ask; the ship has become the tomb of the astronaut captured by the nut. Seems the astronaut has withered on the vine in his suit but has left a video log of his last days for Seven to retrieve.

Meanwhile, the walnut has created some bumps for the Flyer that sends everyone into the Star Trek Shuffle and results in Chakotay getting a bump on his head. It also appears the Flyer may be trapped in the core. After a Seven vs. Chakotay square off over procedures, with a little insubordination thrown in, Voyager again risks its very existence in pulling the Flyer from the grip of the nut. As you would expect, the extraction was successful and the crew sends the recovered astronaut out into space ala "Wrath of Khan" style minus the bagpipes. As the astronaut torpedo heads into the sunset, one can only wonder if another Genesis planet lies in its path (although this guy was a prune compared to a slightly radioactively baked Spock).

Trivia Question: What did Seven want to be before she was assimilated? Answer: A ballerina

The Voyager Conspiracy

In this Seven runs amok episode, Seven finds that assimilating a large amount of data while regenerating equals trouble. Seems our drone has decided she can't keep up with current events due to Janeway's requirement of ten hours of overtime each workweek. To compensate for the continuous adjusting of the communications reflector, Seven downloads a library of information into her brain while she regenerates. As this data transfer is going on, Voyager encounters a strange contraption built by an alien that accidentally drifted into a wormhole and ended up in this neck of the woods. Seems the contraption is a catapult that should allow him to rebound back to his people and shave off several light years in travel.

As usual, Janeway jumps at the opportunity to get a little closer to home since the series may have only one season left. That's when Seven steps in to apply a little cold water on this party. Seems the alien's contraption uses a component that could have come from the Caretaker's array. She feels the contraption may be a trap set for Voyager using the Caretaker's technology.

Seven's second revelation is that it was preordained by Starfleet to strand the ship in this quadrant to establish military ties in the area. She approaches Chakotay to explain her reasoning concluding Starfleet is attempting domination in the quadrant through Voyagers adventures. Upon further review of the assimilated information, she heads to Janeway with a Maqui twist on the story and before you can say 'there will be no more Next Gen movies', Seven appears to be putting Janeway and Chakotay on a collision course. Even the Borg are pulled into this blackhole as Seven believes Starfleet placed her with the Borg and then sent Voyager to retrieve her.

In the end, Seven gets a slap of reality when Janeway and Chakotay figure out her reasoning has as many holes in it as a block of Swiss cheese. Everyone has a good laugh about it as they use the catapult to jump at least two episodes closer to the Alpha Quad and Seven shuts down her power learning sessions to stop her insanity.

Dragon's Teeth

The episode begins with Voyager speeding down some type of space corridor filled with space junk. All of a sudden the ship is under attack just because they are in this Babylon 5-style hyper-space. Seems they are trespassing and are evicted by the alien race controlling this space superhighway (seems the Voyager got a 200 light-year boost making it more likely they will reach home space this year). After getting an escort to normal space, the alien ship demands the right to board Voyager and wipe the computer banks of all information on this anomaly. In this episode, Janeway denies them access, unlike last year when she allowed that group that hunted down Chakotay's girlfriend and then wiped the computer of their existence (Can't we all just get along?). After a little fly-by shooting by the alien ship, Voyager heads to a planet that has an environment not conducive to the bad alien's ships.

After landing on the planet (yes you read correctly, they actually land on a non Demon class planet) an away team heads to investigate an underground chamber of cryogenic units holding a race of aliens introduced in the first chapter of this episode. Our drone Seven gets giddy when she figures out how to decompress one of the chambers as Janeway and the others explore. Before you can say "Don't push that button", one of the aliens is breathing and talking the Kings English in no time. The Captain is not happy Seven defrosted her new buddy but brushes her anger aside quickly to interrogate their new friend. Seems these Rip Van Winkles have been on the rocks for over 800 years. When the defrosted alien sees Seven, he asks if she is Borg. After a positive reply, he says his people meet and dealt with the Borg in the past (giving you the impression they kicked our tail ends). Janeway feels they may be of assistance in combating an armada of alien ships circling the planet. Seems the "Old Kids on the Block" had stockpiled ships and weapons along with saving themselves.

When Neelix meets their new friend he recalls his ancestors equated foolish to the name of his people. Neelix is not sure why but I will tell you it is because we find out this is a warrior race that use to harass everyone in the galaxy. To trust them was to be taken advantage by them. After some more research, he confers with Seven to help further his hunch of trouble. When Seven and Neelix present Janeway with the facts (these guys and gals use to be the pirates of this quadrant constantly raiding other planets and using the hyper space tunnel as a getaway), she decides Voyager needs to leave these losers behind and head for a safer ground. As a crippled Voyager heads into space, the 800-year-old fleet heads after it with guns blazing. Even 800-year-old technology proves damaging to the Voyager (this ship could be damaged by a BB gun in the right hands).

The first defrosted alien helps Voyager give information to the fleet above to get through the blockade. Meanwhile the bad aliens are fighting the other aliens allowing Voyager to escape. In the end, Janeway confronts Seven to get her to realize the damage she may have caused by not following away team protocol. Seven gives her the patented who cares look as the episode ends.

Riddles

Riddle me this, why do we get an almost complete rehash of the Tuvik episode? If Mr Borg were Tim Russ, he would be kicking some writer butt on the Paramount lot for their lack of ability to create an episode for his Tuvok character. In this episode an alien weapon substitutes for the transporter as Tuvok is again scrambled to create a character with emotions. Come on now, this is science fiction, if the writers have trouble creating a two dimensional episode for this character, just write in some personality into him even if it does not fit the Vulkan standard quo and move on.

Complaint number two; the teaser infers this will be a Tuvok comedy episode and then only delivered a brief chapter exploring this side of the new Tuvik.

Complaint number three; Neelix, Neelix and Neelix (enough said)

Complaint number four; Seven does not get enough screen time(this is a Seven Web Page)

Alice

Tom Paris Episode Quiz

1. Your ship approaches what appears to be a collection of derelict ships and assorted parts. As Captain your first concern should be:

a. Gun the engines full speed ahead to make contact with this floating junkyard.
b. Bypass this mess and proceed on the coarse to Earth.
c. Scan the debris and determine if any weapons appear to be concealed in the wreckage and then proceed to site if it appears useful items may be traded or salvaged.

2. The debris field is an alien trading post and you must chose a crewmember to barter for possible useful exchanges of complex critical parts. Which one of the crew do you pick from the list below?

a. Harry
b. Neelix
c. Seven

3. Voyager is short of energy for the critical and backup systems. As you scan the list of trade items you find an alien ship that affords Voyager no useful advantages. As second in command you:

a. Decide it can be recycled as a simulator ride to entertain the crew on Space Vegas Casino night.
b. Trade valuable parts to obtain the ship as a toy for one of your crewmen.
c. Decline the chance to trade for the ship reserving items that would have been traded for critical system backups.

4. Working on the derelict ship, an unidentified woman pops up next to you claiming to be part of the ship you are working on. When this happens, you should:

a. Decide it's neat to find a new buddy in space and keep this to yourself.
b. Go where no man has gone before with your new friend
c. Report this immediately to command staff.

5. Your fiancée decides to see what's taking up all your time. You decide to take her to the ship, which is also, vying for your affection. You feel this is a good move because you:

a. Like a little competition in your love life.
b. Enjoy a good catfight occasionally.
c. You are a complete idiot.

6. The evil ship has taken a known troublemaker on your crew and is heading into a space anomaly that will mean the loss of the crewman. As captain, you decide to:

a. Do everything in your power to save him.
b. Hope the crewman can get out of the mess himself.
c. Pop a Romulan Ale and watch him turn into a million tiny atoms.

Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy

Doc's daydreaming causes some interesting events...Mr.Borg will review sometime before the new millennium.

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Barge of the Dead

Hi Ho Hi Ho it's off to Gre'Thor we go da da da dum da da da dum Hi Ho Hi Ho.....

B'Elanna meets the "Barge of the Boring Klingon Dead" in this eternally dreary episode in which we get a front row seat on the train (ok it's a ship) heading to Gre'Thor (Klingon Hell). How do we get to Klingon Hell you may ask; easy, just have a bumpy shuttle landing on Voyager and pick up a Klingon artifact stuck to your shuttle (in your dreams). That's what B'Elanna did and it seemed to transport her into Hell as fast as a transwarp drive on one of Tom's new ships. Note to Seven fans: Seven gets diced by a Bat'tleh in the opening sequence which immediately tips us off this is a dream sequence

Why is she in Hell, well it seems her mother is stuck there due to B'Elanna not fully embracing her Klingon heritage. It's up to Miss B to correct this or mom will spend an eternity with Neelix in a condo in Hell. We meet mom on the barge heading out over the sea of lost Klingon souls and let Mr. Borg tell you this is not a cruise to the Bahamas, but it is no way the "horrific barge of dishonored souls" mentioned in the press release for the episode. A cruise ship with backed-up toilets is more distressful than this ship of fools. Other than the poor guy jumping overboard to a fiery death or something thereabouts, this cruise to nowhere rambles aimlessly along.

When B'Elanna finds she was entered Hell by dreaming, it's off to the Captain to get permission to have Doc use a rubber mallet to induce another dream sequence to save mom. The Captain hesitates and then allows Doc to put B in la-la land and back to Hell we go. After an epic struggle with the gatekeeper and the realization that being Klingon is not that bad (after finding out Neelix would be her hell mate meaning she would have to eat his food for the rest of her stay in hell), mom heads to Sto-vo-kor and all is well.

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Survival Instinct

(Sing to the tune of Gilligan's Island)

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this galactic port
Aboard this tiny sphere

The mates were a mighty borgified men (and a woman)
The Seven Skipper brave and sure
Many passengers set sail that day
For a three-hour tour, a three-hour tour

The atmosphere started getting rough
The tiny sphere was tossed
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The sphere would be lost, the sphere would be lost

The sphere set ground on the shore of this
Uncharted muck filled, dark, tree lined planet
With Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, and Two
Here on Seven's Isle

So this is the tale of our castaways
They're here for a long, long time
They'll have to make the best of things
It's an uphill time

The Four, Five, Six and their Seven, too
Will do their very best
To make the non-survivors comfortable
As they disassemble them in this tropic swamp nest

No drones, no vinculum, no collective
Not a single luxury
Like Space Robinson Ca-rusoe
It's primitive as can be

So join us here each week, my drones You're sure to get a smile
From Seven and her stranded castaways
Here on Seven's Isle
(Mr. Borg 1999)

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Equinox II

In this continuation of Voyager versus a mutated cousin of "Ghostbusters" Slimer, Janeway and crew have their hands full fending off the cute little creatures bent on sliming every human they can. As the crew of the Equinox breaks out of the brig and exits stage left, Voyager seals all the temporal holes and races to catch the pirate ship

Seven gets a first class ticket on the pirate ship when she is administered a vicious blow to the head by an Equinox crewmember when they break from Voyager. When she awakes, she is taken to Captian Ransom for a little chat concerning her changing sides but she refuses. Things get a little more heated for Seven when Ransom finds out she has encoded the Warp drive to not allow them to use the new "Slimer Super Octane Fuel" to put the ship in turbo speed. Seven will not provide the code to unlock the drive (a call to the Federation Help Desk could have solved this problem) so the decision is made to dismantle Seven's Borg parts to get the code. First, Ransom must solve the Doc swap (the bad Equinox Doc is on Voyager and good Doc is on the Equinox) which he does by turning good Doc's ethical routine off. Doc will now gladly dismantle Seven to get the code that seems to take almost the entire episode to even get close to completing his task. Meanwhile on Voyager, two Equinox crewmen are captured wandering on a planet for food, drink, or just because the script had to have a chapter were the crewman could be conveniently captured. Janeway plays a Captain on 10 for toughness and threatens to feed one of the crewmen to Slimer if they don't reveal Ransom's plans but Chakotay disregards the Captain's orders and saves the crewman. Mr. C gets sent to his room for being bad and that's it for him in the episode until the end when there is a very quick makeup session with the Captain.

Janeway captures the alien vessel of the race that introduced the Slimers to the Equinox crew and forces them to call the Slimers for a one on one talk. To appease the Slimers, Janeway agrees the Equinox and crew can be taken by them as repayment for being bad Federation citizens.

Back on the Equinox, Doc is still working on dismantling Seven to get the code. Intertwined in this operation is a little duet between Doc and Seven that brought tears to Mr. Borgs bionic eye (not really). Ransom then sees a Seven/Slimer combo in one of his alien induced biomechanical hypnotic sequences. Mr. Borg had a problem in that the Seven in the dream is deBorgified and asks what's up with that.

In a fifteen minute "let's end this episode" suffule, Voyager catches and destroys the Equinox with Ransom after a quick mutiny by Ransoms second when Ransom has a change of heart on what he has done. Some Equinox crewman including Doc and Seven are beamed back to the ship. Good/Bad Doc stops Bad Doc from sending the Equinox, Voyager's shield frequency codes (another security flaw in this ship…why does Doc have access to these codes?). The Slimers slime a bunch of Equinox crewmen as the ship is destroyed with Ransom on board. Seven and Doc recount their duet and Seven promises to fix Doc's program so it is not as easy to hack the ethical routines. The Captain makes up with Chakotay and laments Ransoms fall from grace and a very beat-up Voyager heads into next weeks episode needing a big cleanup job.

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