Tom Paris comes into the possession of a derelict alien vessel from a trader's lot, calling it 'Alice'. It is quite ugly in actuality, they could have done better.
The ship features a neural interface that quickly adapts to Tom Paris, influencing his thoughts and behaviour. Needless to say he becomes a different person as he resorts to stealing parts from Voyager to get his repairs done. Alice has become a constant presence in the form of a woman that only Paris can see.
Can you imagine two alien technologies from opposite sides of the galaxy being compatible? But anyway ...
Eventually Alice is ready to leave Voyager for "home". Paris is by now so enmeshed with the alien technology that the Voyager crew have to employ some trickery to extract him.
Alice goes "home" into a 'particle fountain' and destroys itself.
One question ... why was this ship so intent on suicide? It is never mentioned, no one ever comments on how ludicrous and illogical this is.
And considering the ship was also haunting the trader, wouldn't he have been far more adept at finding parts for the ship and repairing it?
If all the ship wanted to do was kill itself in a spacial phenomenon then why was Tom Paris so necessary? And if it was why didn't the ship make the trader take it to the 'particle fountain' long beforehand?.
More to the point: the ship was capable of trapping B'Leanna Torres inside itself and attempted to kill her. The ship could do this on its own but it couldn't fly itself into a spacial phenomena? It needed to sacrifice a pilot for no good reason? Just illogical!
I do like this episode, but the ships sole intent to destroy itself, with no explanation of why, was a very weak plot device in my opinion.
The ship features a neural interface that quickly adapts to Tom Paris, influencing his thoughts and behaviour. Needless to say he becomes a different person as he resorts to stealing parts from Voyager to get his repairs done. Alice has become a constant presence in the form of a woman that only Paris can see.
Can you imagine two alien technologies from opposite sides of the galaxy being compatible? But anyway ...
Eventually Alice is ready to leave Voyager for "home". Paris is by now so enmeshed with the alien technology that the Voyager crew have to employ some trickery to extract him.
Alice goes "home" into a 'particle fountain' and destroys itself.
One question ... why was this ship so intent on suicide? It is never mentioned, no one ever comments on how ludicrous and illogical this is.
And considering the ship was also haunting the trader, wouldn't he have been far more adept at finding parts for the ship and repairing it?
If all the ship wanted to do was kill itself in a spacial phenomenon then why was Tom Paris so necessary? And if it was why didn't the ship make the trader take it to the 'particle fountain' long beforehand?.
More to the point: the ship was capable of trapping B'Leanna Torres inside itself and attempted to kill her. The ship could do this on its own but it couldn't fly itself into a spacial phenomena? It needed to sacrifice a pilot for no good reason? Just illogical!
I do like this episode, but the ships sole intent to destroy itself, with no explanation of why, was a very weak plot device in my opinion.