While this episode starts promising when Janeway suddenly starts to see elements and characters from her holo novel appear on the ship and everyone first thinks she is just stressed and needs to rest, the end of this episode is really bad.
When the episode progresses the whole crew seems to see illusions and freezes in a catatonic state. One by one the crew is incapacitated by images in their minds. Only Kes and the doctor are left to save the day. Which they of course do. But the explanation at the end is rather unsatisfying. Obviously some alien played mind tricks on them because "he can". We never learn who he is and what his motivations are. Writing an episode with "Because I can" outcome is just lame, because then everything can happen and nothing has any meaning in the end.
When the episode progresses the whole crew seems to see illusions and freezes in a catatonic state. One by one the crew is incapacitated by images in their minds. Only Kes and the doctor are left to save the day. Which they of course do. But the explanation at the end is rather unsatisfying. Obviously some alien played mind tricks on them because "he can". We never learn who he is and what his motivations are. Writing an episode with "Because I can" outcome is just lame, because then everything can happen and nothing has any meaning in the end.