Sacred Ground

Sold episode except that it is a science vs faith plot which runs counter to the whole universe. The cornerstone of Star Trek, in it's resurgence, was science and humanity but this episode takes a few previous hints at spirituality in this series to an extreme. There's a scientific explanation for the problem but no-one other the Doctor and Kes seem to want to accept that. Kind of sad that the franchise would allow a Star Fleet Captain of a cutting-edge vessel would sink to this level even if you accept the incredibly banal and simplistic plot: Give up on logic and knowledge and you will find a cure... as a base allegory this works OK in the sense that sometimes we have to have faith in something to succeed but it pins that faith on religion instead of humanity. That's the simple reason this episode fails the Universe: it alludes that faith in the unknowable is somehow superior to faith in ourselves.