The Disease

Trying to control someone on their personal time. Tut.

Starfleet is about exploring and is for all intents and purposes voluntary. Even if it wasn't... certain things in life and implicitly out of bounds of companies and whatnot. They have no say (if you remember to stand up for yourself) in your personal life especially when it has absolutely no effect on what the company is doing. Or in this case Starfleet. Harry engaging in his hormones on his own time did sweet FA bad to Voyager at all.

Have a spine in life and stand up for things that are none of other people's business and it will all work out.

Harry Kim has a romantic encounter that causes problems.

This is an okay episode with a typically unconvincing Star Trek love story. Garrett Wang and Musetta Vander do their best with the dialogue, but it feels a bit forced to me as always during episodic television.

The reaction of Janeway is one of the key dramatic aspects of the plot, but feels such a bizarrely OTT attitude it is funny. How someone stuck at the far side of the Galaxy can be risking their career is beyond my logic. I appreciate there is a command structure, as I work within a strict hierarchy, but I'm not sure if the writers realise the arrogance associated with lines about lowly ensigns not earning the right to question a captain's orders. Especially when so many command structures contain questionable ability at top.

That being said the romance and reaction of Janeway is by far the most engaging aspect of the story. The conflict between factions of the alien-the-week characters feels quite cliché ridden and make me zone out.

What lifts it above mediocre for me is some of the amusing banter between characters, particularly in the early scenes.

The quality of the visuals is also very good, with the opening establishing shot being one of the best examples in Star Trek. The filmmakers also make the most of Vander's striking screen presence to create some quite erotically charged moments that feel stronger than usual for the franchise.

Easily the best aspect of the writing is Seven of Nine's perspective on love. This is done a few short scenes of dialogue, but they work well for the story and her character development.

A well-told episode involving Harry Kim falling in love. Voyager is helping a group of Xenophobic aliens make repairs to their ship's systems when Harry Kim has an affair with a female on the other ship which is a major no-no. The intimate encounter has an unexpected effect on Harry's body and the whistle is blown, much to the disappointment of Captain Janeway.

What is nice about this episode and different from the previous "Harry Kim develops feelings for (insert random female here) this time the girl likes him back and he handles himself pretty well with her, with no awkward stumbling.

We soon learn that life on the Aliens ship is not enjoyed by all who are there and a secret separatist group is planning mischief.

This episode features some nice moments between Janeway and Harry, and it's a nice break-out show for Garrett Wang. It's just doesn't seem fare that Captain Kirk nailed half the female life forms in the Alpha Quadrant and never got any diseases, but Harry Kim gets lucky 1 TIME and ends up with the Delta Quadrant's version of the clap.

The camera work in this episode is really good. Many long tracking shots, one of which starts in the briefing room, goes to the bridge and ends in Janeway's Ready Room all in 1 shot. Very Cinematic.

Good episode to a point. Been going through watching 'Voyager' recently as I never saw the last few series in my initial viewing some years back. We, my sister and I, always thought 'v'ger' As we called it, was the weaker of the 'Treks' - But I'm quite enjoying them and think I was a bit harsh in my, many years earlier views... Anywhoo..

This episode was rather an odd ball one. Usually unflappable Ensign Kim - who after many heroics is still an Ensign... fall head over heals for a very pretty Alien engineer - They are found hanging out at what looks like her college dorm room at the beginning of the episode... Now Star Fleet has some proper regs about new aliens and whether one should get too familiar without medical advice etc but ya know 'feelings' etc - so all are sort of right as they go along - the Captain the Medical issues etc.. And Harry makes a big song and dance about his Alien lady... However the episode falls apart at the end, utterly and totally. After all the histrionics and Alien Engineer Tal gets her wish to leave her family ship - well she rather stay with here group of travellers then consider asking to go with Kim. And then we have Straight lased Ensign Kim who breaks regs for the women he loves so deeply etc - but he doesn't ask to go with her - nor does he ask her to go with him.... Bizarre... What? Does Kim think himself a Capi-tan Kirk, all of a sudden?? Anomalous episode! - surprisingly 'Seven' was able to unravel the malarkey to get a useful life lesson - lesser mortals like myself are still perplexed.

Harry is one of the most tiresome characters in this series. At one point, he tells someone that he has never done anything wrong during the entire time on Voyager. Well, he may not have been caught or his transgression may not have resulted in serious damage, but he routinely is out of line and careless. I mean, just a couple episodes ago, it is his insistence that they take an untested shuttle into a dangerous situation, and the entire crew gets killed. Of course, saved by time travel. Anyway, I wanted this episode to be over. The companion plot involves a big ship that pretty much keeps its crew totally in check until a rebellion forms.