S6E5
Alice
⚠ Spoiler alert This recap gives away what happens in this episode.
Episode Summary & Review
Summary
Tom Paris persuades Chakotay to allow him to buy a shuttle from a space junkyard. While repairing it, the shuttle, which Tom names “Alice,” begins to gain control over Tom’s mind. The sexy female persona turns the space shuttle into an obsession of Tom’s, and it convinces him to cannibalize Voyager’s parts.
Our Take
A middling hour that feels like a leftover TNG premise, with Tom seduced by a talking ship that nobody else finds suspicious until it’s way too late. The creepy cockpit interface effects work better than expected, and Robert Duncan McNeill sells the obsession, but the plot moves exactly where you know it will. Fine background viewing, nothing more.