Tuvok collapses in pain when a suppressed memory begins to destroy his brain. It seems that Vulcans react physically to attempt to repress the memory. There is no treatment and can end in brain damage, unless Tuvok can mind meld with Janeway (his closest friend on the ship), and with her aide, begin to accept the memory into his consciousness. They travel back in time to the bridge of the Excelsior, one of Tuvok’s unspoken about former assignments, where the flamboyant, rule-ignoring Commander Sulu is peripherally involved in the events surrounding the sentencing and imprisonment of Kirk and McCoy (George Takei reprises his role as Sulu). At a certain point in the scenario, Tuvok always remembers the memory, which is of a little girl slipping from his hand and falling into a ravine. He cannot seem to discover where this memory comes from, and just before his mind is about to be destroyed, the doctor and Kes cure him, and realize that it is not his memory; it is a virus that passed from an Excelsior crewman to him, a virus that masquerades as a repressed memory and needs a human host to survive.
A clever idea, but somehow it does not involve us in what could be a good mystery, probably because there are no clues, and the Sulu sub-plot is too diverting. It’s great to see Sulu get a chance to be a Commander, but he does have a reputation for overacting, and in the first part of this episode he is a little out of control, overstating his lines and running around the bridge like a little boy. Damn he would have been good in the Kirk role (maybe as Kirku?).
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