Vis a Vis: I kinda love that Tom likes to work on old cars. It’s a great character detail, and those details are fascinating.

I don’t know why Tom doesn’t just say no to the doctor. I recognize the implication that he was once a premedical student, and therefore has some residual interest. But he clearly doesn’t want to do it, so why is he?

The Doctor was excellent in this, as always. Of course fake Tom’s story about his inferiority complex...

They did a good job of building up Steth into something really creepy. At first I totally believed him, and I thought he was doing a not terrible job at hitting Tom’s personality. But he failed to learn much about Tom’s duties before, which he tried but couldn’t access.

I like the last scene. That feels like the way Tom loves someone. And it makes me think about the different ways to love someone, how love is going to look different to different people in different groups. It makes me really happy, actually. It wasn’t the kind of cheering that you have when they kissed the first time. It was the subtle, quiet kind of love that actually exists.

The Omega Directive: ooh I’m in. This is a good conflict between 7’s and the captain’s ideology. Janeway is really curious, but she has a limit. 7 isn’t curious, but she’s industrious. She wants to learn so she can adapt, and she’ll go a lot further than Janeway.

Also gotta love Tuvok and Kim playing Kalto all night. The scene where they work on the torpedo is also pretty great. That said guys allow me to reassert the question: what exactly is it that Harry does? He’s like the universal assistant. Now he mostly works with 7 in astrometrics but he’s an expert in holo technology, warp theory and design (although let’s be honest- Tom, B’Elanna and Harry ALL seem to be experts in warp theory and design...). He does lots of sensor stuff, stellar cartography, weapons analysis and modification, etc. It just keeps going. He’s a universal assistant and a sort of bridge liaison to engineering. I love him but I just don’t get what ops is supposed to be.

This took a turn. I was more interested when it was just 7 and the captain who were in on the situation.

I loved 7 giving out new designations. That made my day I laughed so hard. But I don’t blame Harry for being completely infuriated.

I feel like Seven isn’t developing. She’s still having the same argument over and over again. She made a little progress in trusting Janeway but it was broken when she didn’t get what she wanted.

Unforgettable: I don’t believe a word this girl says.

This episode was kind of boring. I did like Tuvok trying to assign her to the mess hall. But I wasn’t really invested in the romance, I never hit a point where I trusted the girl, it wasn’t that shocking that there was a tracer on the ship.

This is another one of those things where, if I had seen it when it came out, and didn’t already know that Chakotay wasn’t getting a long term relationship, maybe I would have been more invested. But as it stands it was kind of boring, low consequence, not humorous or lighthearted, no real moral dilemma. So I just didn’t get much out of it.