"Warhead" may be the single most idiotic episode of Voyager. First of all, it absolutely defies all logic that the crew was unable to ascertain that the devise at the heart of the episode was a weapon of mass destruction until well after they had beamed it on board the ship.
Second, why they succumb to the Doctor's absurd request that they try to "save" this so-called "sentient being" (the warhead had built in to it an artificial intelligence that allowed it to communicate with the Doctor...hardly sentience, but, instead, simply a very low level self-awareness), is beyond reason.
Instead of immediately beaming the warhead off the ship and putting it a few million miles behind them, they choose to try to further communicate with it, in order to find out where it is from and where it was going. IT'S A BOMB! Who cares?!?!?! Granted, Picardo gives a nice performance, but the premise of the episode is so utterly ridiculous, it doesn't save the episode from its own lack of internal logic.
Second, why they succumb to the Doctor's absurd request that they try to "save" this so-called "sentient being" (the warhead had built in to it an artificial intelligence that allowed it to communicate with the Doctor...hardly sentience, but, instead, simply a very low level self-awareness), is beyond reason.
Instead of immediately beaming the warhead off the ship and putting it a few million miles behind them, they choose to try to further communicate with it, in order to find out where it is from and where it was going. IT'S A BOMB! Who cares?!?!?! Granted, Picardo gives a nice performance, but the premise of the episode is so utterly ridiculous, it doesn't save the episode from its own lack of internal logic.