Q2

When Q's son becomes reckless and uncontrollable, Q places him in Captain Janeway's care for a week.

Predictable but fun episode. They already did this episode in Next Generation. Q's kid is out of control and must be taught a lesson in responsibility.

Q takes away Jr's Q powers. Q 2 takes the Delta flyer without permission to another sector, as he knews he is failing at humanity and wants to hide and have fun, too.
Icheb is seriously injured when an alien attacks.

Janeway tell Junior that the only way to help Icheb is go back, apologize to the alien, and accept punishment and try to persuade the alen to tell Voyager's Doctor how to cure Icheb.

Turns out it was Q pretending to be the alien. He just wanted to see if his son had learned a lesson, and became more than he was. Q2 gets his powers back and Q takes a few years off Voyager's trip home.

I like!

Q2: (to Janeway) I like you, Aunt Kathy. You've got gumption.

Q2: Scan, scan, scan... that's all you people ever do! I've been through every deck on this ship and do you know what I've seen? Bipeds pushing buttons, bipeds running diagnostics, bipeds replacing relays. When are you going to do something interesting?!


Janeway: I'm not a parent.
Q: Maybe not in the biological sense, but you're certainly a mommy to this crew. Just look how quickly you housebroke that Borg drone!

When Q2 seals Neelix's mouth shut, it's similar to what Charlie did in the Original Series episode >Charlie X to the woman in the corridor.

Keegan de Lancie (Q2) is the real life son of John de Lancie (Q).


Author, Author

A means of direct communication is established with Voyager allowing each crew member to speak with family and friends. The Doctor sends a holo-novel for publication based on a lost starship with a doctor who is treated like a slave, which causes controversy among the members of the ship.

The book is called Photons Be Free.

The Voyager crew see it and are upset because it makes them look evil.

The Doctor soon realizes he made a mistake writing and getting it published.

The publisher releases it without permission from the Doctor, citing that he is a hologram and not a real person, thus has no rights.

Hearings are conducted and the Doctor is not granted human status... yet. However, he is given the right over his artistic creation. All copies of the book are recalled.

At show's end we see several Doctor look - a likes working in a mine, and one makes an allusion to the book.

I guess someone forget the Next Gen episode, " Measure Of A Man " ?

Still, it was a very good epsiode. I enjoyed it.

"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your

death bring you the peace you never found in

life." - Tuvok.