On her worst ever day in the whole 7-year Stretch of "Star Blecch: Voyeur".
Part I: An Unemployed Borg
Seven wants a Job. She asks Chakotay, who orders B'Elanna to put her up in engineering. But B'Elanna is not having a good day, not only is this the The Klingon "Day of Honor", Tom Paris is sniffing about like a Vulcan in Pon-Farr.
Part II: In the Soup Line
Voyeur is accosted by the Bag Ladies of the Delta Quadrant, the Caatati (Caatati Captain played by Alan Altshuld "Lumas"). Of course Janeway wants to give them a sandwich, but they want the whole Kitchen! And to top it off, Lumas sees the newly-Humanized Seven and gets all uppity.
Part III: Salami and Painsticks, please
B'Elanna is encouraged by Neelix to take part in her Day of Honor Holodeck Program after all, but when she gets there she beats the crap out of the guys who were supposed to beat HER up and then poke her with Painsticks. Not good, Not good. Worf would have loved that, but B'Elanna is more like Key'Hlar than Worf. And then she "alienates" (Or rather Klingon-ates) Paris who helped her make the Program.
Part IIII: "The Wreckening"
Then Seven-of-69's Trans-wart Experiment in Engineering goes haywire and Voyeur's leaky Warp Drive has to be dumped. When B'Elanna and Paris go to pick up the ejected core, the Caatati had already stolen it. Had enough yet, B'Elanna? Nope, cos when they use the shuttle to try to pry the warp core from the Catatonici's ship, the Catatonici reverse the prying-beam on her and it destroys the shuttle, leaving her and Paris drifting around in space with no way to contact Voyeur and just a few hours of air.
Part IIIII: "Seven" Reasons why you should employ your pet Borg
Seven should wear a blue suit with an S on the front. And a cape. Cos the Caatati come back to Voyeur with warp-core in tow intending to Blackmail Janeway with it to get more Sandwiches, and maybe a few cups of Java and some apple pie while they are at it. So Seven figures out a Borg way to give them the ability to feed themselves, so they don't have to panhandle every ship in the Delta Quadrant anymore. So Seven to the Rescue, Everybody Happy Nowadays, and they even get to save B'Elanna and Tom.
The End, or not.
Not bad, this is the first Voyeur Episode without the benefit of Kes and her Magic Brain-Powers. I think it was a shame letting Jennifer Lien go the way they did, they should have kept both her and Seven. Personally I liked her a lot, and I think she became a very good actress in her last season. But it was the right thing to do to bring Voyager into Borg Space and bring on a Borg Crewoman, and Seven is still part Borg. This allowed her to interact with the Evil Borg Queens, Susanna Thompson and the Big Borg Queen Alice Krige in later episodes. Although I liked Voyager before this change, I liked this change especially as it pumped new life into the series.
In B'Elanna's Klingon Brawl Scene, you can't tell the swap between Stuntwoman Leslie Hoffman and Roxann Dawson, they had similar faces, so it looks like B'Elanna all the time. Ironically, in the Deep Space Slime Episode "What you Leave Behind" she is the one who took the fall down the stairs when the Jem'Hadar kill off Julianna McCarthy (Garak's Neela).
Overall a highly interesting episode this is, it is the first of the Seven vs B'Elanna and B'Elanna vs her Klingon Heritage shows, she has to battle both of them. This is when the dichotomies really start.
But on top of that, this episode shows Janeway not thinking straight, acting without weighing all of the potential consequences. See here, Voyager has just survived Species 857-6309 and The Borg. So what does she do after Kes flings them 9,000 Light-Years past the main bulk of Borg Space? She encounters a race of desperate Bag-Ladies who will do anything to survive, and does not consider that they would be hanging around nearby to pick up more crumbs, which they do when they steal Voyager's Warp Drive. And Janeway only sends ONE shuttle to retrieve it, she should have sent at least three.
But I suppose if Janeway didn't have lapses in Judgement like this on occasion, there would be no good stories like this.
Oh yeah, somebody was complaining about the apparent superfluity of shuttles that Voyager has. Even though they get destroyed constantly. This gets dealt with, but not in this season. Did you ever consider that Voyager has the ability to repair them, or build new shuttles? We have seen Voyager land on a planet and repair their Warp Nacells, repairing a shuttle or building a new shuttle would be very easy compared to that. And, there is an entire episode centered around building a brand new shuttle: the Delta flyer. And we even saw the Delta flyer get blown up several times, but we know that even after it was blown up, it was recovered and rebuilt. Just because they don't show Voyager recovering an exploded shuttle, does not mean that it never was done. With replicator technology building a shuttle "out of thin air" would be rather easy. End it is not actually "out of thin air", it requires energy to build a shuttle. Or provide water or air. Or food. Provided Voyager has sufficient warp drive energy? They could build anything, repair anything. We can even do this in today's technological age with 3-D printers. Provided there is energy and material to build whatever we wish out of "thin air". There would have to be material to be used to create the shuttles as well, but I imagine any material easily found on a planet could be used.
*(Or, is that, "Roc-Egg Blood Pie"? I never got that straight, the spelling I mean)
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