The Doctor starts losing his memory, meanwhile Voyager must deal with crossing a hostile alien race's border without triggering their overwhelming defense force.
This episode does a great job of balancing humor and pathos. There are genuine moments of emotional intensity - the fear of the swarm going after Voyager, the sadness of The Doctor forgetting Kes and later experiencing holographic Alzehiemer's. Then there are also light-hearted and some outright funny scenes such as the holographic Dr. Zimmerman, the Doctor's opera experimenting on the holodeck, and some flirtatious banter between Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres. This is the funniest episode of Voyager so far in my watch-through.
I find all the main characters here to be clicking with each other, in a story that has emotional nuance. Just a great mix of sci-fi concepts, action, philosophy, and character interactions. My only grumble is the intense technobabble that fixes The Swarm issue went over my head, that could have been a little tighter. The tech fix for The Doctor is a good example of how technical issues on the ship should be fixed and explained to the audience - that one felt genuine, earned, and clever.
This episode does a great job of balancing humor and pathos. There are genuine moments of emotional intensity - the fear of the swarm going after Voyager, the sadness of The Doctor forgetting Kes and later experiencing holographic Alzehiemer's. Then there are also light-hearted and some outright funny scenes such as the holographic Dr. Zimmerman, the Doctor's opera experimenting on the holodeck, and some flirtatious banter between Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres. This is the funniest episode of Voyager so far in my watch-through.
I find all the main characters here to be clicking with each other, in a story that has emotional nuance. Just a great mix of sci-fi concepts, action, philosophy, and character interactions. My only grumble is the intense technobabble that fixes The Swarm issue went over my head, that could have been a little tighter. The tech fix for The Doctor is a good example of how technical issues on the ship should be fixed and explained to the audience - that one felt genuine, earned, and clever.