The Voyager Conspiracy

Dissatisfied with the increasingly inefficient way humans absorb and process information, Seven begins to download ship and mission logs into her brain via her neural implant. After cleaning the data and deleting all the cat videos, lunch photos, yoga and gym selfies, and people posing in front of sunflower fields, she tries to make sense of all this (dis)information in her echo chamber and soon begins to sense conspiracies around every corner and believes she is on the trail of something really big.

After accusing Janeway of rigging the vote on whether Voyager should use the caretaker's array to fly home, she accuses Chakotay of setting up a Maquis deep state on Voyager and pulling the strings in the background. A small but powerful elite at the top of Starfleet Command seems to be also involved, attempting to flood the delta quadrant with cheap replicator and warp coil technology in order to gradually gain territorial and military upper hand.

Luckily, Janeway manages to gain access to Seven through an emotional performance and convinces her that she has completely lost her way down the rabbit hole. Here Janeway shows once again that she is not only tough and decisive, but that she really cares about her crew.

This episode is a frightening 25-year-old forewarning of what the Internet and the flood of unfiltered information is doing to people today. Unfortunately, we are already far beyond the point where a clarifying conversation with a close person would lead to reason and truth again. Instead, people today also smell conspiracies everywhere and believe in some dark forces that undoubtedly hold the strings of their rather insignificant lives in their hands.

Seven of Nine downloads more information than she can handle, leading to a series of conspiracy theories forming in her mind.

Conspiracy-related sci-fi was in fashion at the time this episode was made (X-Files), and this seems like satire aimed at that theme.

It's not really done plausibly with it being Seven and also with Janeway/Chakotay taking her seriously. I guess it does highlight how conspiracy theories can spread. Sometimes information is dangerous in the wrong hands.

It would have been better if it were a different character than Seven of Nine acting paranoid, one perceived to be a bit less capable.

It is okay, but skip it if you like Seven and don't like to see her behaving irrationally, whatever the reason.

Seven is so machine -like, so why would her erratic behavior be something totally unusual. Granted, her information is amazing, but she begins to notice things, but her zealousness makes behooves them to check the facts. It takes the total change of trust between Chakotay and Janeway to give an credence to her findings. She is constantly downloading stuff into her personal database--why couldn't she be off base.

In this episode Seven of Sixty Nine goes on youtube and watches hours of videos made by waffling moronic nobodies who believe the man is out to get them, and of course they are the only one who knows about it. She then downloads all the conspiracy videos into her brain and it turns her into a conspiritard. She gathers so many youtube videos that she starts creating her own conspiracies about what Voyager is REALLY doing in the Delta Quadrant.

It then gets real silly when people start actually believing what she's blabbing about. She's clearly gone in the head, spewing nonsense and they're like "hmm maybe" instead of "Doctor, beam Seven to sickbay immediately and sedate her"

Anyways I enjoyed it for the most part, and rate it 7/69

I think "The Voyager Conspiracy" is one of the worst episodes of "Star Trek: Voyager". It just doesn't make a lot of sense but more than that, the characters simply react in ways that violate everything you've seen over the last five seasons. To me, this is very bad writing and would be akin to having Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz" turning tricks or "Superman" joining the Nazis!! Because of this incredible inconsistency, the folks who made this SHOULD have been awfully embarrassed.

Voyager finds some galactic weirdo who is working on some sort of catapult system in order to fly HUGE distances very quickly. While they are assisting, Seven of Nine begins putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with 147! She suddenly creates a bunch of insane theories and tells Chakotay that the Captain is working for an evil Federation/Cardassian alliance! Only moments later, however, she's telling the Captain that Chakotay and the Maquis are plotting and tells roughly the same story--but with the Maquis working with the Cardassians! None of these stories make any sense whatsoever and it's obvious that she is experiencing some paranoid delusions.

The delusions isn't the problem with this one. After all, SOMETHING making Seven paranoid is an interesting story idea. What IS the problem is that any of her nutty ramblings pick up traction! How could Chakotay doubt Janeway or vice-versa?! Why not laugh off Seven's theories and confront her about them?! NOT doing this make this an absolutely crazy and stupid episode. Overall, this is a very frustrating episode because the writer didn't respect his characters or the audience. A HUGE disappointment and a show that actually irritated me!