A Meilon freighter deals with failing systems and an imminent internal explosion that will detonate its toxic waste and destroy everything within five light years. Their distress call is answered by Voyager. At the same time, B’Elanna is dealing with her temper; she destroyed the doctor’s holo-imager when he refused to take photos in engineering as part of his ‘A Day In The Life Of The Warp Core’ photo show. Her sessions with Tuvok don’t seem to be helping much. Voyager reaches the freighter area and finds escape pods, with only two remaining life signs. With their warp field destabilized by the Theta radiation, Voyager cannot outrun the imminent explosion; there is no choice but to reach the freighter and attempt to fix it. With the Meilon agreeing to help because they have no other choice, they join the away team of Chakotay, Torres, and Neelix (chosen for his Talaxian garbage scow experience). The away team faces the toxic atmosphere, failing bulkheads, and – even worse – a legend of a beast that thrives on theta radiation and is responsible for causing the damage. When Chakotay gets hit in the head by a big piece of metal, it’s up to B’Elanna to take over leadership. The beast is real and begins attacking the party, intent on continuing to destroy the ship and finalizing its revenge. With the ship about to explode, Torres tries to reason with the alien, which is actually a highly overexposed Meilon core worker, angry at being victimized. When reason does not work, Torres bashes him with a stick and is able to rescue the away team and get them beamed out just before the ship explodes.
At the end of the episode, we get to see B’Elanna’s very nice naked back as she steps into the sonic shower and washes away all the stress of the incident.
Nit#1: Why didn’t they use the doctor to go to those area of the Meilon freighter that were contaminated? Usually he comes in handy for these types of missions.
Nit#2: When B’Elanna begins to develop lesions, the Meilon commander offers to help her with medicine available on the ship. Chakotay orders B’Elanna to comply. The Meilon shoots her up with an evil looking dual syringe. Amazing that the same chemical fix that works for a different species like the Meilon also works – and did not kill – a human/Klingon.
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