When a ship approaches Voyager and asks to talk to Neelix he is mortified to learn that the person sending the message was the man responsible for the death of his family as he invented the weapon that killed everybody on their home world. This man, Dr. Jetrel has some bad news; as Neelix went home shortly after the attack he may be suffering from a fatal disease and after a check up he confirms that Neelix is indeed infected. As a form of atonement for his part in the attack Jetrel claims to be trying to find a cure at to this end he says they need to go to the Telaxian moon where he plans to extract particles from the atmosphere. Once he has the particles it becomes apparent that Jetrel has not been telling the entire truth, if he had been he wouldn't have deactivated the Doctor or tranquillised Neelix... the only question is what exactly is he planning to do that he couldn't tell anybody about. Jetrel's arrival on Voyager also makes Neelix confront his own demons; he had been keen to blame Jetrel for his family's death but also feels guilty as he lied when he told people he was away fighting with the Telaxian military, in reality he refused to serve believing it was an unjustified war.
This was a pretty good episode which examined some of the moralities of war, was Jetrel evil for making this weapon when we don't know if his race started the war or were just defending themselves, watching it I was sure that his cascade weapon was a metaphor for the atomic bomb. Ethan Phillips did a good job as Neelix, The situation gave him a chance to portray a greater acting range as Neelix was understandable not his usual jovial self. Without spoiling it I will say that I thought the episode had a good ending.
This was a pretty good episode which examined some of the moralities of war, was Jetrel evil for making this weapon when we don't know if his race started the war or were just defending themselves, watching it I was sure that his cascade weapon was a metaphor for the atomic bomb. Ethan Phillips did a good job as Neelix, The situation gave him a chance to portray a greater acting range as Neelix was understandable not his usual jovial self. Without spoiling it I will say that I thought the episode had a good ending.