In this episode with a premise very similar to Blink of the Eye (6th Season), Lori Petty is an Alien Chick stranded on a planet inside of a gravitational "Sinkhole".
While hours pass on Voyager, days and months pass on the surface of this Tank-Girl inspired Landscape.
This episode is unusual for it's "A B and C" stories. We have the story of Tuvok, The Doctor, Tom Paris and "Noss" surviving on a barren rock heap, the story of Voyager trying to figure out how to get them out while under an imposed time limit, and the story of Young Tuvok going through his first "Kolinahr", and learning how to live with but not lose or be controlled by his emotions. And we see here, as usual "Emotions Run Deep" in a Vulcan Soul- But are absolutely not absent.
It is not that Tuvok is not affected by Noss' (Petty) affections, but to act on them would betray not only himself but her as well.
The Voyager "Multi-Spatial Probe" is finally put to some good use here, and allows a solution for this conundrum.
In any Trek episode it is not the Technobabble solution to a dilemma that is important, but the heart of the story, which here focuses on Tuvok.
And the final scene between Tuvok and Noss is a brilliant and satisfying ending to this story. He could not just let her leave empty handed.
While hours pass on Voyager, days and months pass on the surface of this Tank-Girl inspired Landscape.
This episode is unusual for it's "A B and C" stories. We have the story of Tuvok, The Doctor, Tom Paris and "Noss" surviving on a barren rock heap, the story of Voyager trying to figure out how to get them out while under an imposed time limit, and the story of Young Tuvok going through his first "Kolinahr", and learning how to live with but not lose or be controlled by his emotions. And we see here, as usual "Emotions Run Deep" in a Vulcan Soul- But are absolutely not absent.
It is not that Tuvok is not affected by Noss' (Petty) affections, but to act on them would betray not only himself but her as well.
The Voyager "Multi-Spatial Probe" is finally put to some good use here, and allows a solution for this conundrum.
In any Trek episode it is not the Technobabble solution to a dilemma that is important, but the heart of the story, which here focuses on Tuvok.
And the final scene between Tuvok and Noss is a brilliant and satisfying ending to this story. He could not just let her leave empty handed.