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If you forget about the 'Swarm' itself, then it works in some ways. Janeway seems to step into the realm of madness in some places. If cutting through the territory of a powerful and hostile species (against her precious Starfleet Regulations forsooth) wasn't bad enough, detonating all those little ships clamped onto the hull made no sense. That would be like blowing up a hundred photon torpedoes next to the ship. Insane! Incidentally, it also seems to mark the start of the Tom and B'elanna romance, although we obviously don't know that yet. This may be a fairly rotten episode, but Robert Picardo did his best to try to save it. His version of Dr Zimmerman was an interesting contrast to the EMH, similar but different. Just about enough to redeem a star, I think. |
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Janeway seems to have gone bonkers and decides to violate the Prime Directive simply because they are "too far away from Starfleet to matter" and it would add 15 months to their journey to do otherwise. Basically, a rubbish premise to introduce the villain of the week, a large swarm of tiny ships which seem to repeal any attacks by random technobabble jargon. Voyager therefore, uses even more random technobabble to deflect the attack and save the day. On a side note, the Doctor seems to be losing his mind and a holographic version of Dr. Zimmerman is there to help. Kes lectures the holo-Zimmerman about the Doctor's right to live and hold on to his experiences and encourages him to expand his programming like the Doctor, only to shortly turn around and suggest that he kill himself to allow the Doctor to survive. All in all, utter rubbish. |
