I agree with the analysis in the review of Martin Hafer. The story of the episode falls apart when Chakotay believes 7o9, when she begins to ramble her conspiracy theories at him in a more and more shrill voice. The same with Janeway who listens to 7o9's ramblings moments later, again with 7o9 having a shrill paranoid voice, rambling aggressively into Janeway's face. The only logical conclusion of both Janeway and Chakotay would only have been to send her to sickbay due to her unhinged behavior. Instead they believe her and begin to mistrust each other? Aside the fact that 7o9 does not question her own judgement after she does a complete 180 on the theory she told Chakotay. Her character is intelligent enough to reflect, that if her 1st theory was wrong, her 2nd one might be false too.
This episode shows some horrible forced character behavior by the writers to get the story from A to B to Z, dismissing the inner logic of the characters and make them act nonsensical just because the economy of the story telling demands it. I am afraid the script simply wasnt ready for the shoot, but time demanded it to be produced anyways.
This episode shows some horrible forced character behavior by the writers to get the story from A to B to Z, dismissing the inner logic of the characters and make them act nonsensical just because the economy of the story telling demands it. I am afraid the script simply wasnt ready for the shoot, but time demanded it to be produced anyways.