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Star Trek: Voyager: Repentance (2001)
A solid episode, good ethical dilemmas, a bit heavy handed.
Solid performances, and parts of the script are predictable, but it is a decent treatment of several ethical dilemmas. Yes, they've been addressed elsewhere, numerous times, and some of the issues are handled with all the subtlety of of a framing hammer. But the acting is good, the script is solid, and the end isn't nearly as preachy as others have suggested. All in all, it's a better than average episode, and worth watching.
Star Trek: Voyager: Blink of an Eye (2000)
Good story, if you can ignore the time dilation inversion.
This is the second episode in which they make the same error in time dilation. I forget the name of the prior one, but Tuvok and Tom or Harry end up stranded on a high gravity planet for a few months with a woman who falls for Tuvok. Anyway, name isn't relevant.
Higher gravity slows time, yet in both these episodes they have time running much faster on the planet than on the ship, exactly the opposite what would occur in reality. The planet has a very high rotation rate, enough to cause addition time dilation, slowing time on the planet further.
That time dilation inversion is essential to both stories as it allows much more to occur on the surface than could otherwise be addressed in one or two episodes if time were "real time" for Voyager.
That aside, as others have mentioned it's a good story, not the usual space conflict. It explores the development of a society over many centuries, while Voyager watches.
Star Trek: Voyager: Sacred Ground (1996)
Solid sci-fi, looks at the differences in view between science and belief.
Lots of negative reviews, from people who failed to grasp the message of the episode. Science, for all its value, does not hold all the answers. Science is perhaps the most useful tool we've even found, but there are questions science can't answer, because they don't fit he model of repeatability and objective analysis. For some things, you must choose whether or not science is the only path, or whether another method is the appropriate path for certain things.
Star Trek: Voyager: Tuvix (1996)
Tom Wright is fantastic as Tuvix
As others have said, the "science" in this episode isn't even plausible, but the story is solid, and Tom Wright manages to capture the essence of both Tuvoc and Neelix, little manerisms, tone of voice, speech patterns, etc. So, if you can set aside the terrible science, and just enjoy the story and performances, it's really quite a good episode.
Star Trek: Voyager: Threshold (1996)
Not even close to the worst episode. Starts strong, goes off the rails.
Interesting premise, goes off the rails about 15-20 mins into the episode, never recovers. Despite that there are at least a dozen episodes in TOS that are worse, and another dozen in TNG that are worse. You have to suspend all expectations of plausibility and just enjoy the insanity for the last half of the episode.