The Varros and Voyager have formed an uneasy alliance. The suspicious Varros have allowed the Voyager crew to effect repairs on their ship. In exchange, Janeway hopes to gain an ally and perhaps trade some technology. But all Harry Kim wants is some sexy alien booty, despite the fact that he is violating a 3 centimeter thick book of alien interaction protocol. He’s discreet, but his body isn’t; it becomes luminescent after having a sexual encounter with ‘Tal’. Seven notices; the doctor is obliged to tell the captain. The captain feels obliged to formally reprimand Kim. But Harry is in love with Tal, and once again he sees her and is caught. His impassioned speech to Janeway about love, and the inclement destruction of the Varros ship, is enough to distract her. Apparently, the huge Varros generational ship does not consist of one big happy Partridge Family; some of the race would like to dismantle the ship and head out on their own. Voyager helps them to avert casualties as the ship is dismantled and little sections head out where they want. Harry says goodbye to Tal and decides to deal with the downside of lovesickness without chemical help, prompting both Janeway and Seven to hold him in awe.
Nit#1: It’s interesting how hard Janeway comes down on Kim for an inter-species relationship, considering that just a few episodes ago she was performing a tonsillectomy with her tongue on the Devoran inspector.
Nit#2: How dare Janeway say she treats all crewmembers alike (this is in response to the always on-target Chakotay’s questioning of Janeway’s choice to put an official reprimand on Kim’s record). If I recall, back in an episode called ‘Hunters’, Janeway didn’t even ask Seven to spend a day in the brig, even though she beamed a member of species 8472 to certain death aboard an Hirogen ship!
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