I noticed that one reviewer felt that this two-part episode proved that this series was just as good as "Star Trek: The Next Generation". I don't know if that's meant as praise or an insult. I can only assume insult because the setting when this show begin REALLY sucks!! I love sci-fi--not seeing the Voyager crew as French men and women during the German occupation in 1944! Talk about contrived and stupid!! So, no matter WHY and what happens next, when the show began, I absolutely cringed.
So what's all this really about anyway? It seems that the Hirogen have taken over the ship and have oddly decided to place everyone in 1944 Occupied France. Why? I dunno...I guess Paramount just wanted to use their back lot as well as some German uniforms! Fortunately, not ALL the show is set in this period and it turns out that the crew are being sent into many different scenarios so that the Hirogen can assess the crew's abilities as prey. I really wish they'd NOT used the Nazis and just had a more arena-like setting where crew battled it out with a wide variety of species--that might have made a lot more sense. It's a shame, as the Hirogen were good ideas for villains but they are wasted here in this often ultra- silly two-parter.
By the way, I was a huge fan of the series "Enterprise", though it was a failure compared to other Trek shows. I think much of it was because this show ALSO made the mistake of having episodes (too many) where the enemies were acting out some stupid plot as Nazis in WWII Germany! The episodes without this gimmick were great...the Nazi ones cringe- worthy!