2.16 investigations

During the last few episodes, Tom Paris has been showing up late for duty shifts, and he has been answering Chakotay back. This time, he pushes Chakotay to the ground. Janeway sends Paris to the brig, and soon (through Neelix’ new TV show) we learn that Paris is leaving the ship to join a Talaxian convoy – he’s sick of Starfleet rules. Paris leaves, and is quickly captured by the Kaizon. Neelix gets wind of spy activities on Voyager that point to Paris as the villain, but it’s all a ploy by Janeway, Tuvok, and Paris to cast Paris as a malcontent – he’s with Seska to gain intelligence. He finds out who the real spy is and barely escapes. Neelix has to fight hand to hand with the spy, and he kills the baddie. Paris apologizes to Chakotay on Neelix’ show – but says it was kind of fun. Funny scenes as the doctor keeps getting bumped from his schedules appearances. I feel it was a bad decision to exclude Chakotay from the plot. He has not tried to defend his Maquis crew and in fact seems to go in the opposite direction.