Star Trek Voy - Season 1 - Episode 13
Star Trek Voy - 1x13 - Cathexis
Originally Aired: 1995-5-1
Synopsis:
An encounter with a nebula leaves Chakotay brain-dead. [DVD]
Problems
None
Factoids
None
Remarkable Scenes
- Harry Kim's mind wandering, and everyone suspecting he's possessed.
- The Doctor briefly describing his miracle cure.
My Review
Energy life form of the week attempts to take over the ship as food. Disembodied non-corporeal Chakotay saves the day. There's really not much else to this episode except for an introduction to Janeway's new holonovel, which serves absolutely no purpose for the plot in this episode seeing as how she's interrupted and she does not return to it. We will see it again though in future episodes. What we have here is an episode which utterly fails to make a point. There's really nothing wrong with the episode if you enjoy relative pointlessness. The original series did stories like this to death and I'm not eager to revisit them on Voyager.
The following are comments submitted by my readers.
Tuvok's rank insignia begins the episode as Lieutenant, which is wrong since he was never courtmartialed. Later, his rank is back to Lt. Commander. Then later still, it is back to Lieutenant. What's with this?
"energy life form of the week" -- enough said! I was re-watching season one; I wished I skipped this one. Wasted hour of my life.