WHY WE LIKE IT: The Loom are pretty cool monsters.
WHY WE DON'T: It's about everybody but our core team.
REVIEW: If you liked Wesley's guest appearance in Part I, it's more of the same and quite amusing. However, most of this episode is about Voyager's reaction to events, with the crew fighting the Loom (no one we know is erased from history, but Janeway almost seems to), sending people down to the out-of-phase planet to find the kids (where Ma'jel is eventually minted as a proper member of the Protostar group), and Janeway getting into action in just her gray tank top (see Macrocosm for her first real turn as Ripley). It's fun and action-packed, but I still miss our main cast, y'know?
Wesley's scheme is to use a device to find the one timeline where the kids complete all the goals (there are none, except with Ma'jel), and though Janeway acts as a momentary blocker, she eventually lets him send them to the Protostar and Chakotay's location (how long has he been stranded there, though?). Then he blows up the planet with space, time and thought, and I'm sure he's fine, somewhere, somewhen. Wesley is surprisingly game to let Ma'jel get erased, however (and that would have been a big mistake), so it's Dal who pushes the right button and proves the hero. It reminds me that Dal and Wes have a lot in common, or used to. Both had Starfleet aspirations as teenagers, and from what Wesley seems to imply AND the future Dal sees in the data stream, it seems his ambitions, like Wesley's, are not to be.
I know the show wasn't picked up for a third season (it hardly even got picked up for this one!), but will its finale leave us in suspense, or are these the building blocks of a proper series' ending? Only one way to know - on to the back half!
LESSON: Lava lamps will never go out of style.
REWATCHABILITY - Medium-High: The kids do a lot of standing around and talking (or being talked to), but Voyager's crew fills the hole with lots of action.
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