Before watching this episode I'd heard that it was so bad that even the writers had disowned it so I was expecting a real turkey. It wasn't that bad however; it is by no means a great episode but I didn't think it was terrible either.
The story follows Tom Paris' attempt to break the transwarp barrier, something that was always considered impossible. He manages to do it however but when he gets back something is wrong with him. At first he seems okay but suddenly collapses and starts to mutate, at one point he appears to have died but much to the Doctor's surprise he recovers. We later learn that these aren't random mutations but highly accelerated evolution. During an attempt to delete all the mutate genes he escapes and kidnaps Captain Janeway and flees in the transwarp shuttle. By the time Voyager finds them they have both evolved into what look like giant salamanders and have even had off spring... luckily for them after they are cured the memories of what happened fade.
The story itself was good enough although it did have its faults; it is said that when they go at warp ten they are at every point in the universe simultaneously, if this is so it seems unlikely that they would end up a mere three days away from Voyager.
The story follows Tom Paris' attempt to break the transwarp barrier, something that was always considered impossible. He manages to do it however but when he gets back something is wrong with him. At first he seems okay but suddenly collapses and starts to mutate, at one point he appears to have died but much to the Doctor's surprise he recovers. We later learn that these aren't random mutations but highly accelerated evolution. During an attempt to delete all the mutate genes he escapes and kidnaps Captain Janeway and flees in the transwarp shuttle. By the time Voyager finds them they have both evolved into what look like giant salamanders and have even had off spring... luckily for them after they are cured the memories of what happened fade.
The story itself was good enough although it did have its faults; it is said that when they go at warp ten they are at every point in the universe simultaneously, if this is so it seems unlikely that they would end up a mere three days away from Voyager.