Review of Nightingale

Star Trek: Voyager: Nightingale (2000)
Season 7, Episode 8
8/10
Harry gets to be a captain
10 May 2010
Warning: Spoilers
While Voyager is on a planet for repairs Harry Seven and Neelix are off in the Delta Flyer looking for fuel. As they are searching an alien ship appears and fires across the bows of the Flyer. It turns out they were actually targeting a cloaked ship in front of them. When that ship requests help saying they are transporting vital medical supplies Harry decides to help. After disabling the attacking ship's weapons Harry helps the stricken ship get back to Voyager although once there they find that the attackers are already there in apparently friendly discussions with Captain Janeway about getting needed parts. Once they depart Harry tells the captain about the attack and is given permission captain that ship back to its home world. On the way the cloak fails and they are immediately confronted by several ships. At this point he comes to the conclusion that they aren't in fact carrying medicine and it is in fact the cloaking device which is being transported. Back on Voyager there is a lighter plot thread where Icheb starts to think B'Elanna fancies him.

This was a good episode and Garrett Wang did a good job as Harry Kim, it was nice to see him get a chance to command a ship and have to make some difficult decisions. Guest star Ron Glass, better known as Firefly's Shepard Book, is impressive as the scientist on the ship Harry gets asked to captain. The secondary story added a bit of levity and was fairly funny if only a small part of the story.
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