When Voyager detects a warp signature they follow it to a planet hoping to negotiate for needed supplies, however they can't contact anybody on the surface and every time they try to beam down to the surface a storm starts up. Unable to transport Chakotay leads Tukok, B'Elanna and Neelix as they take a shuttle to the surface. Once down Cakoptay keeps seeing things which remind him an expedition he went on in the jungles of Central America with his father. Neelix is injured and beamed back to Voyager and after a storm hits Tuvok and B'Elanna beam back too, Chacotay loses his com badge and is stuck on the surface. He later meets an alien with a similar tattoo to his own and learns that this is one of the legendary Sky Spirits who visited tribe millennia before. In a secondary plot the Doctor gives him self a case of flu after Kes accuses him of not empathising with his patients, he programs it to last twenty nine hours but when he doesn't recover after that time he demands attention thinking his program is failing.
This was a reasonable episode which taught us a bit more about Chakotay, we learnt that he wasn't always the spiritual man we know and as a youth was uninterested in his heritage, but gained a greater respect for it after his father was killed. The sub plot was fairly entertaining Robert Picardo always puts in a fine performance as the Doctor and it is nice to see him get to do something different.
This was a reasonable episode which taught us a bit more about Chakotay, we learnt that he wasn't always the spiritual man we know and as a youth was uninterested in his heritage, but gained a greater respect for it after his father was killed. The sub plot was fairly entertaining Robert Picardo always puts in a fine performance as the Doctor and it is nice to see him get to do something different.