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Anyway, what with all this вЂseeking new live, and new civilisationsвЂ™ Janeway letвЂ™s the sprog grow to term, and before you know it, 7 of 9 is teaching him how to be an individual and not a drone. Or at least thatвЂ™s what seems to be the case. New possibilities await now, and no doubt weвЂ™ll never see any of the old Delta Quadrant races weвЂ™ve seen to date now, like the Kazon, Vidiian or Borg! DroneДЄ classic Trek trope kicks this one off вЂ“ a transporter incident! For reasons that are, not well explained, the DoctorвЂ™s 29th Century mobile emitter and 7 of 9 make a baby Borg together. Naturally the crew tell her to naff off, and riding a wave of explosions they make it out of the void and into a whole new region of space, packed with systems. A win-win, rather than the win-lose at the CaretakerвЂ™s Array. Anyway, as something exciting is now happening, Janeway comes out of her sulk and in an effort to assuage her guilt over dumping the crew in the Delta Quadrant offers to stay behind to seal the rift, sacrificing herself so her crew can all get home AND the local Void population gets protected. This seriously pisses the Starfleet crew off, but as the Malon have access to a spacial-rift that could cut 2 years off their passage through the VoidвЂ¦they canвЂ™t just say вЂњNaughty pollutersвЂќ and call out Captain Planet. Sadly, halfway through this episode we encounter a Malon freighter captain who is using the Void to dump radiation, which is pissing off the humanoid lifeforms who live there no end. This radiation is so bad, I forgot to wear any clothes ItвЂ™s a wonder Harry Kim isnвЂ™t permanently shackled to his bed by now screaming вЂњ I died and then I wasnвЂ™t dead!вЂќ constantly, such is the paucity of the mental care of this vessel. Honestly, the Enterprise-D gets a councillor to help the EnterpriseвЂ™s crew deal with the slightest worry, the Voyager getвЂ™s WWI style reactions to mental disorders. Naturally, the Doctor tells him to pull his socks up and get used to it. Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, IвЂ™m off to my cabin to eatВ gagh!Д«onus points to the episode for giving Neelix nihiliphobia, for once IвЂ™m utterly with old gerbil-features. I know Starfleet only takes the best, but you really might expect a few more of them by now to have started suffering from all kinds of mental problems, that canвЂ™t be cured with a quick wave of the DoctorвЂ™s medical-bio-wand. That the Captain is essentially sulking in her cabin like a moody teenager for weeks on end, says something about the Voyager crewвЂ™s mental fitness that is rarely addressed. Paris plays Captain Proton (1st appearance for a much loved holonovel), Harry plays his oboe (for the 2nd time) and JanewayвЂ¦Janeway collapses into existential despair over her actions at the CaretakerвЂ™s array in the first place.

As the ship crossesВ the Void, an extensive region of utter darkness for months on end, the crew are dealing with the boredom in their own ways. Right, no more prevaricatingвЂ¦on with the season! NightДЄ rather lovely low key intro to the 5th season, which like Hope and Fear before it, actually addresses some of the longer term implications of the shipвЂ™s now 4 year+ voyage home. IвЂ™ve no hope left Harry will achieve any such thing, heвЂ™ll just keep on dying and being replicated for the remaining three years of the voyage home. Last time on Star Trek VoyagerвЂ¦ Well here we are again, happy as can be, only three seasons left to go before Janeway becomes a deranged Borg smashing Admiral, and Harry Kim gets any character growth.

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