The Delta Flyer, manned by Harry Kim, Neelix, and Seven, finds itself in the middle of a space battle, and Kim saves the lives of the medical team on one ship. They ask his help in escorting the crew and their vaccines back to their homeworld, stopping on the way to get approval from Janeway, who has in the meantime made contact with the Annari, the race that was firing upon the medical ship. Kim is excited by the opportunity for his first real command.
What the Annari don’t tell anyone, and what Kim doesn’t find out until later, is that the ‘medical’ vessel is actually a prototype cloaked ship, and that the ‘doctors’ on board are actually scientists who invented the cloak as a means to get food and supplies to their homeworld, which is blockaded by the Annari.
Kim loses some of his enthusiasm when a crewmember dies under his command and when he finds out he has been deceived, but he returns to lead the ship out of danger.
It’s a fast-paced, serious episode, and Kim is good – very sincere and believable in his expression of the desire to command. The best scene is probably the one between Kim and Paris – they really seem like friends, and there is real continuity in their friendship. The Icheb/Torres sub-plot seems like filler. The sad part is that once again Voyager suffers from the need to achieve dramatic change within one episode – so Kim micromanages and reacts poorly at the 20 minute mark, then changes personality after talking to Seven and becomes a real commander at the 30 minute mark.
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