| In this episode, Tom Paris was thrown in the
brig for thirty days because he disobeyed the captain's direct order and
endangered the crew when he took the Delta Flyer on a raid into an alien
colony. After finding an ocean in space, Janeway found that the ocean's
gravitational field was weakening. She informed the alien inhabitants
and offered to help. Tom Paris took the Delta Flyer to the core of
the ocean and discovered an ancient gravity generator that was overloading
due to the alien's oxygen extraction process, which was destroying the
ocean. When the alien representatives took the news lightly, Tom
Paris took a more radical action. He along with one of the aliens attempted
to destroy the alien's oxygen extracting complexes so they would be forced
to use the replicator technology Voyager offered them. Janeway was
barely able to stop Tom Paris in time, she almost had to destroy and Delta
Flyer and Paris with it. As punishment, Tom Paris was reduced in
rank to ensign and assigned thirty days solitary confinement in the brig.
I enjoyed this episode, especially the underwater scenes (maybe itís just because I like submarines). This episode was well paced and interesting. I like the way the writers ended it. I felt that Tom Paris deserved to be successful in destroyed the mining complexes but it was best that he wasn't. Reviewed by: Andrew Luby
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Andrew's Rating: 8.5 |
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