In this episode Neelix recovers after being clinically dead, brought back to life with the help of Seven's Borg technology. His faith is shattered by the experience, not being reunited with his family as he expected.
We see in this story writer Bryan Fuller's interest in the afterlife which become a prominent feature of Dead Like Me, and Pushing Daisies. Here there is the feeling that Neelix is experiencing the loss of his soul - he has been brought back to life, but feels like an automaton.
As Bryan Fuller is the writer, the quality of the script is very high. Overall though, the story has a somewhat constrained use of the crew and is maybe not as good as some of the other episodes in this excellent season for that reason, but interesting nonetheless as an early piece of work by this marvellous writer.
We see in this story writer Bryan Fuller's interest in the afterlife which become a prominent feature of Dead Like Me, and Pushing Daisies. Here there is the feeling that Neelix is experiencing the loss of his soul - he has been brought back to life, but feels like an automaton.
As Bryan Fuller is the writer, the quality of the script is very high. Overall though, the story has a somewhat constrained use of the crew and is maybe not as good as some of the other episodes in this excellent season for that reason, but interesting nonetheless as an early piece of work by this marvellous writer.
