“Revulsion”

Harry is one smooth guy

Harry is an idiot! If I was him, and Seven said to me "Do you wish to copulate?", I would have said: "Yes please, but not here. How about my quarters?!". Seven's body...hmmm... as Q2 said: "Perfection"!

they might have salvaged this episode by having Doc react the opposite way and thus setting the stage for 7x20 Author, Author.

- Leland Orser's performance is perfectly on-target, and that, for me, saves the episode from being mediocre (disturbed individuals seems to be his specialty, though he did play the very different role of Colonel Lovok in DS9's "The Die is Cast").

- It's kind of stupid that when the Doctor recruits Paris he doesn't mention Kes' name, he just says that he needs a new assistant.

- I think the reason they probably changed the airing order is that Seven of Nine didn't appear in "Nemesis" and they wanted to show more of her at the beginning of the season. The production order definitely makes much more sense.

Chakotay cracking up at the end of his scene with Harry is hilarious.

I suppose we could see this episode as the beginning of the 'holo-arc' that continues almost to the end of the series, in that it's the first time we see another 'sentient' holographic entity, and note the Doctor's reaction to them.

If it wasn't for the B-story this would be a worthless episode. There doesn't appear to be any real motivation behind the mad hologram and his actions are all to predictable as you say. Add the fact that Leland Orser's performance, while adequate for some I'm sure, is over the top and just too damned creepy for me. Not to mention the fact that his voice is about nineteen different shades of annoying.

On the other hand he'd be perfect on a show like Dexter. As a blood slide.

Yes, the two weaknesses were showing the murders first and the doc's lack of reaction. We didn't need the preview -- one look at Orsen told us the story. And we missed some nice character development not knowing more about the doctor's reaction other than his decision to lighten up. But there were so many other gems I'm surprised you didn't give it the full three stars.

This wasn't anything special, but it was good. Being a fan of horror films I liked the slasher-esque hologram plot. His dialog and his insanity was nicely done, as was his murderous rampages. It felt like the writers (and actors and directers etc.) were paying a homage to all the slasher greats.

The character interplay was very nice and reminds us why we tune into this crews' adventures every week. I hope to see more of Seven and Harry together. His shining optimism and unfaltering humanity could be pushed to the limit by Sevens' struggles to seperate herself from her ingrained Borgness, and she could be 'saved' from darkness by the blaring light of Harrys' humanity providing that she doesn't break his spirit in the process....well this is what I'd like to see if they pursue a Seven and Harry pairing, even if it was to stay in the form of friendship.

I'd give this good but not excellent episode a 3/4.

I'm catching this episode now on a quiet post-call morning but I have to say....

After Dejaren's outburst to B'Elanna about how, among other things, he's ashamed to be made in her (organics') image, I can't say I understand why she's willing to stick around on this ship. As she says, he's a lunatic, and even without the dramatic irony of the teaser, I would have gotten myself off that ship without delay. Why she's willing to stick around yet alone snoop around the mysterious lower deck is beyond me.

@Josh Yeah I totally agree. I had the same thought watching this episode. It also struck me as odd that B'Elanna would try to strike a hologram. I guess it sort of makes sense since it's possible for a hologram to be struck in some combat simulations...

Overall I liked this episode, some interesting ideas and good performances all around.

Despite its predictability near the end of the main plot, this is a nice character outing with some great guest performances and a hilarious subplot that is worth the price of admission alone.

Regarding the supposed "non-reaction" by the Doctor; he was there to help Torres after a near fatal heart injury caused by Dejaren plus witnessed her getting clobbered upside the head with a tool before being attacked himself. It seems reasonable enough to me that that would be grounds for his reaction or lack thereof (whether or not Doc felt Dejaren could be fixed).

The scenes involving Kim and Seven ranged from mildly amusing to outright hilarious and further proves Ryan's capabilities as an actress. The understated dry wit and comedic timing were superb. Wang's performance as a nervous schoolboy was surprisingly effective and made for the pairing of these two a smart decision.

All in all, not quite up to par with the last several episodes but it is definitely a worthwhile showing.

3 stars.

No mention of Kes when Doc goes looking for her replacement. Her name isn't dropped at any point. This is disappointing to me. I've complained about this before, but the fact that Doc has apparently accepted the fact that Kes is gone and he's moving on without missing a beat annoys me.

I thought this was another outstanding episode.

Leland Orser does a wonderful job giving us a whack-job hologram.

Roxann and doc are central to this one so I know it's going to be good right off the bat.

It was pretty creepy and graphic for a Star Trek episode.

The 7/Harry time was side splitting. Just HILARIOUS!!

I also like how Chuckles is starting out this new season. Very strong.

I'll go a tad bit higher and rate this a 3.0 episode. I probably should give it a 3.5 but I've ranked the last 5 episode that high or higher so I might be soaring a bit here :-)

I can't speak for anyone else, but the Doc's lightheartedness at the end almost (but only almost) works for me. The Doc was getting very close to Dejaran, and felt very sympathetic to Dejaren's plight. He, like Dejaren, felt a great deal of animosity towards the organics when the show first started. He, like Dejaran, was treated like an object at first. And I think he, like Dejaren, has a feeling of superiority compared to organics. And while he has certainly been treated much better of late (even being present and at the head table for Tuvok's promotion), he might still be feeling some resentment towards the rest of the crew. Perhaps, with his only friend just recently leaving the ship, general unpleasantness could be circulating around whatever passes for the Doc's brain. So yeah, for the first half of the show, the Doc was feeling closer to Dejaren than anyone else around. Then he finds out that all of those feelings, all of that empathy he had with Dejaren, turned out not so wonderful. The Doc's new best friend turned out to be a homicidal nutcase. And what's worse, the nutcase's purported reasons for being homicidal were all things that the Doc also felt to some extent. That, right there, could be an eye-opener. And could be enough for the Doc to try to completely rework his attitude.

After all, how often are youths told to stay away from a toxic environment? Unbeknownst to the Doctor, Dejaren was a very toxic environment. And so, upon introspection, the Doc decided a change in attitude was in order. Rather than feel superior to his crewmates, he would need to start feeling empathy for them. He would need to start identifying with them more. Hence, the joking and such.

The problem is, of course, that it's precisely the wrong thing to do. After all, showing empathy towards your fellow man by tossing an uncomfortable joke out there doesn't seem the best way to do it. And showing a break from the thinking that caused that craziness by, well, pretending to be the same crazy... not smart. Ah well, maybe it's just the Doctor not being human, good enough excuse as any I guess. But if that was in fact the reasoning they had for having the Doc joke at the end, it could have been done better.

It also probably would have been better if the Doctor was the one to Terminate Dejaren instead, to give him a bit more closure and possibly give a bit more serious of an ending. Still, it was a decent enough episode.

So the psycho hologram says that all the people on his ship are dead and neither the Doc nor Torres think of asking where the bodies are.

Also, the psycho tells the Doc that they were killed by a deadly virus that spread from person to person. That suggests that it's contagious and airborne and Torres is at risk. But no one thinks of that.

As for Harry, the clueless 14 year old virgin, I'm even more creeped out by him trying to eventually get Seven to fuck him than I was about Neelix and Kes. Yes, Neelix is a pedophile, but perhaps the Ocampa species are built for pedophilia, considering their short life span.

But Seven is human. She was assimilated by the Borg when she was 6 years old. This means that, sexually speaking, she has the personality of a 6 year old. Human pedophilia grosses me out, even though she technically has the body of an adult.

Oh yeah, and why was the psycho hologram grunting when moving the dead body in the first scene? Holograms don't get physically tired, nor do they strain muscles.

John,

lol .... good one.

John,
Never thought I'd be defending Neelix, but he is not a pedophile. Because of the way the Ocampa lifespan works, Kes at 1 or 2 was physically and mentally like a 20 year old human - regardless of her chronological age. Since they only live 9 years, should he wait until she is 9-12 years in the grave before getting involved with her? :)

I think Jammer got this one wrong. This isn't "The Quality of Life" with Holograms. It is a character episode for The Doctor, but Dejaren isn't shown to give us more compassion for holographic life, but rather to show the difference between well-developed holographic lifeform like The Doctor, and a twisted, unsocialized, patholigical holographic life form like Dejaren.

If anything, I would compare this more to "Datalore". We get to see why The Doctor is unique, even from other holographic life. It's also interesting that The Doctor's first away mission is one in which he encounters life so different than his own. That's a Voyager staple, for sure. In fact, my working theory is that everyone in the DQ is an ass, and next week's "The Raven" will validate this further.

The 7of9 stuff is awkward. Would any man really say no in Harry's situation? That whole scene could've been scripted better.

All in all, 3 stars for me.

I haven't said this much since the early series of TNG, but this was an excellent premise that suffered from fairly poor delivery. The concept of a disturbed hologram, and the Doctor's reaction to that, could have been really interesting. But instead we got a low budget slasher with some scenery chewing to boot.

The Seven/Harry story on the other hand was light but well-handled. There is a very dry wit developing here that is welcome - and her frankness in the face of Harry's bumbling made for a hilariously uncomfortable scene.

Overall though - "This could get tedious" indeed. 2 stars.

I like this episode just fine--but mostly because all the acting in it is very good. If it has a fault, it's the writing.

But my main comment is that Jeri Ryan is such a wonderful actress, and this is the first episode where we really get to see how good she is. And that makes me angry. Stuffing her into that ridiculous T & A suit is insulting. I am glad that she was able to transcend her obvious purpose and show us what she is capable of.

I agree about the suit and especially the heels.

Anyone else notice the nifty tracking shot early on, from when Tuvok stops talking to when the distress call comes in? Pretty sophisticated!

I saw what was coming the moment they introduced that hologram. This was Anthony Perkins in space. He did act the part well. And I knew long before it was revealed that he had murdered his crew.

The Harry/Seven thing was funny, but a throwaway since they didn't end up sticking with it.

Your the nastiest. dirtiest scum if the earth...uh,,,no offence' lol
quite humorous and predictable
Just ignore the seven of nine garbage

Utter bilge, this episode. Irredeemable.

I want to punch Harry in the face.

I wouldn't call an abused hologram going insane and killing his whole crew "light." But it's not a great episode by any means. Dejaren's craziness is telegraphed from a mile away; in the teaser, really, because what other hologram acts and talks like that? Leland Orser turns in a good performance but they should have had him dial it back and, you know, maybe not done the scene where he's dragging a bloody corpse across the floor. The added suspense of us not being sure what's wrong with this character would have made for a stronger episode.

The Harry and Seven scenes were surprisingly good, actually. And the Harry and Paris scene, and hell, even the Harry and Chakotay scenes weren't bad. That's rare. Seven's outfits, especially this early one, were a slap in the face to Jeri Ryan and the viewers. "LOOK SEE?! LOOK SEE?! Borgg chik iz teh HOTTORZZZZ111! Plz 4 teh love of Grod watch r show!!!" That is the level of thought that went into this. Lowest common denominator. Ryan's acting, however, is golden. This is like a lot of Voyager episodes: potentially great, but settles for average.

John: "As for Harry, I'm even more creeped out by him trying to eventually get Seven to fuck him than I was about Neelix and Kes. Yes, Neelix is a pedophile, but perhaps the Ocampa species are built for pedophilia, considering their short life span.

But Seven is human. She was assimilated by the Borg when she was 6 years old. This means that, sexually speaking, she has the personality of a 6 year old. Human pedophilia grosses me out, even though she technically has the body of an adult."


Christ John, I honestly believe you may have some issues to work out.

"Anyone else notice the nifty tracking shot early on, from when Tuvok stops talking to when the distress call comes in? Pretty sophisticated!"

That was done well. :)

I disagree about the anecdote that Tom and Harry shared in the opening. It was another bit of childishness by Tom in particular, those pranks are only funny to elementary school students. I was happy when Janeway brought it back to a mature conversation.

2 stars. Meh. This episode very barebones. The A story just went through the motions and just sat there. The Middling B story with Kim and Seven didn't do anything for me.

It is in an episode like this where TNG-lite seems appropriate. TNG in its heyday got right down to business without pointless teasers and it's episodes were solid from start to finish. voyager on the otherhand resorted to this lightweight fluff and uninteresting plots. TNG had a gravitas that Voyager had briefly before jettisoning it for very silly inconsequential stories

I think the main idea here is that the Doc is initially taken in by and sympathetic to Dejaren because he relates both to Dejaren's feelings of persecution and also to some extent with his disgust with the biological life forms around him. We get the Doctor's smug mockery of the Tom/B'Elanna relationship, for instance, as well as his general distaste with Tom as slovenly individual and the one he regrets to have to work with in sickbay. Dejaren's madness seems to stem in part from the difficulty dealing with being persecuted by a large group of people (whether that's on racial lines, as is sort of the "isomorph vs. biological beings" metaphor, or even being bullied or isolated for unrelated reasons, like personality) is that either he could respond by viewing himself as inferior to the bio-bags who keep him locked away, or he could start to view their treatment of him as unfair and start to develop resentment and an angry feeling of superiority. The Doctor's managing to demand fair and equal treatment was a difficult arc for him and is not really over, and even there it relied partly on the Doctor having a good attitude, partly on having someone like Kes who was willing to fight for him, partly on the Voyager crew's willingness to extend him certain rights, and partly on blind luck, as with the mobile emitter dropping out of the future. Dejaren is a bit of a might-have-been ending to the neurotic doctor if things had gone a bit differently, though exaggerated beyond what is actually likely for the Doc, who is also programmed with the Hippocratic Oath. I like that the subplot with Harry and Seven also acknowledges on some level the ickiness of biological life forms, so that Seven also plays a bit of a Doctor outsider-to-humanity role and her flat, matter-of-fact reaction to the biological reality of copulation makes Harry deeply uncomfortable; he needs to be bought dinner first, to try to put a bit of a line between him and the bodily functions at the heart of his inappropriate crush. While the Doctor gets to the "well, maybe I should be more accepting of messiness" ending and so we see that he has "learned his lesson" not to be too superior about his biological friends, I think the episode really needed to have the Doctor confront Dejaren in the climax instead of having B'Elanna be the one to best him in order to make what was really a pretty slow-moving story have a real character payoff. It's also notable that neither the Doc nor B'Elanna seem to bother investigating whether Dejaren's official story checks out for a long time, which is strange since if he's telling the truth, how do they know B'Elanna won't contract this mysterious illness?

The subplot ties in with the main plot obliquely (as I said) and I think having some sort of in-universe acknowledgment of the sex appeal that was one of the reasons for the introduction of Seven as a character and *certainly* of her improbable attire is probably appropriate rather than the coyness the show usually does. Ryan is good as always. But Harry's hapless reaction to her feels incomplete and not all that funny, though I can't quite put my finger on why. The scene with Tom really does seem strange given Tom's dialogue in Day of Honor (and the fact of Harry's willingness to overlook Tom's past when they first became friends), and I feel like it would have been better to give B'Elanna that scene, though of course it would require either swapping someone else out to accompany the Doc on the away mission or moving things around to other episodes.

It's an ep I actually enjoy talking about slightly more than I enjoyed watching it; I think it was unsatisfying and slow, but with some interesting elements. 2 stars.

So Seven knows everything the Borg know? Is that it? How can that be? I wouldn't think every single drone would remember everything the Borg knew once they were separated from the collective.

Voyager finds a ship full of dead people, with a hologram sending a distress call, and they drop off Torres and the Doc and leave. See you later! Hope everything works out while we are gone! Bye! Silly.

Why would this maintainence hologram have a full personality and emotions and be sentient and all that if they just have him locked in a room to clean out antimatter waste? The people who made him would be sadists if they did that, and probably deserved to die. And why are there emitters all over the ship for him if he never leaves that room anyway? And why would he go insane? He's a program. Unless he was programmed to go insane. How would he know how to create a holographic fish? He's pretty advanced for an antimatter waste disposal hologram. Makes no sense.

And as other's said, the hologram guy says everyone died of a virulent plague, but they don't ask one single question about it, or worry that Torres might get it. Torres can't go to the lower deck because of antimatter radiation supposedly, but the Doc could, so why wouldn't he investigate? And once he went all mental on Torres, they would have left immediately and waited for Voyager to get back. All that is very stupid.

Torres shut down all the emitters, but somehow forgot some I guess(?) and so the hologram shows up again, and he is still able to go anywhere in the ship. So what did Torres shut down exactly?

If hologram guy reached in and grabbed her heart somehow, and punctured it, she would not be walking around and acting all normal, she would be dead. Yet after that, and being clobbered in the head with a hammer, she can still run around and stuff.

And when Voyager gets back, they just leave the ship there and take off I guess, since no one says anything about it. Like maybe trying to contact the homeworld of the ship or investigating this species or this advanced hologram or their ship or anything. Nope, they just fly away.

The stuff with Seven and Harry was alright, but Wang can't act to save his life.

2 stars.

Jammer: "Leland Orser's performance as the maniacal Dejaren is commendable in its energy. (It's also surprisingly similar to what he's done before. I've only seen him in one other role: a minor character in David Fincher's Seven, where he played a peripheral victim to a rather ghastly crime. He brought a severe sense of nervousness and torment to that role, and it's a characteristic that has carried over into Dejaren.)"

It's kind of funny that the above holds true even if you replace "David Fincher's Seven" with "Jean-Perre Jeunet's Alien: Resurrection".

“Tom's...snide comment about Seven having "assimilated enough people" seems to conflict with his attitude in "Day of Honor" when he said "everybody has a past." Consistency, anyone?”

The appeal to consistency would only be valid if normal, flawed human beings always acted in a logically consistent manner. Since they don’t, I don’t really see the problem.

Furthermore, Tom’s offer of friendship to Seven in “Day of Honour” and his joke about her assimilating lots of species’ is entirely consistent with his characterisation as basically a nice guy who likes to take the piss a lot. Sure, the joke itself (note that it was referenced by Harry as such, who immediately reprimands Tom for joking too much) was a bit close to the bone and mean, but it doesn’t automatically signify he has no sympathy for Seven. Especially as the point behind the joke was an appropriate observation.

The Dejaran character ruined this episode for me -- just found him too annoying and the idea of a mad killer hologram brutally killing its human shipmates was one I couldn't give a shit about. Plenty predictable with Torres ultimately zapping Dejaran -- think we've all seen this sort of thing many times before.

I liked the B-plot of Harry and 7 and their awkward moments as well as Paris and Chakotay's contributions. Some decent VOY comedy here. This is a good continuation of the integrating 7 into the ship's crew arc and Harry, the lovestruck fool, does a good job just being himself. And they were working on an important project too -- the astrometrics lab.

But with Dejaran flipping out on Torres and then her not being able to get her point through to Doc (putting everything so politely) -- itnearly gets her killed. It was as if it was setting up for her to go through some Friday the 13th / Scream nonsense. And what's a real letdown is it's hard to take any of Dejaran's complaints about how his organics treated him since he's gone psycho and we know that from the opener. A much better episode for sentience among holograms is "Flesh and Blood".

The part where Dejaran tries to rip out Torres' heart (or something like that) -- this really was farfetched. How should she be even able to then deactivate him and continue the fight? It was just silly.

Too bad the episode focused on the meaningless plot of the psycho killer hologram as I thought it was cool that some new roles were being established on the ship with Paris helping Doc, Tuvok's promotion and even Neelix as ambassador. Paris and Torres follow up their romance too. So there was some good continuity and prospects for things going forward set up here.

Can't quite get to even 2 stars for "Revulsion" so 1.5 stars it is for me. The psycho killer hologram -- was his plan to lure whoever to fix his system and then kill them unless they were holograms...and then what? I suppose the episode needed to have something to it other than just daily life on the ship and developing working relationships with 7. I just found the Dejaran hologram character too irritating and the A-plot unoriginal, farfetched and predictable. But there's all kinds of potential with the 7 character.

Had some of your basic horror movie contrivances, as in, why does our heroine go into the dark basement with her high heels on? But you either like the genre or you don't. Our killer was definitely sufficiently creepy.

I thought the beginning, with Tuvok, set the tone . . . Tuvok being tweaked about his robot like nature, but showing a dry sense of humor at the end of the scene, telling them all to "live long and prosper."

Seven displays, and talks about having, a sense of humor, and then Doc does this as well. The ep puts Tuvok, Doc, and Seven all in the same bag, and in general, explores what it means to be human as opposed to lacking in humanity and empathy.

Kept me entertained, some laughs and some character development. I'm in for the next one.

On paper the A plot actually kinda reminded me of DS9's excellent Chimera, although it's handled with none of the grace of that episode. Dejaren is just never sympathetic in the way the story needs him to be, and the Doctor never has to make any kind of difficult decision with regards to him, since it's B'Elanna who turns him off both times.

Harry's flirtations in the B plot are fine at first, but he starts coming off as a bit of a creep in a way that I don't think was intended. I did like Seven's very straightforward response though, she's just adding a whole new dimension to the show that I'm very much enjoying.

I should also mention that the Tom/B'Elanna romance is really working for me. McNeill and Dawson have great chemistry, and the writers have actually put the work in to get us here, instead of just deciding on the fly that they'd get together and compressing it to a single episode.

The premise has plenty of potential, but unfortunately we end up with a result that could've been more.

As some have already pointed out, the story and the distressed hologram should've been written/played with more subtleness - I believe it could've been up there with the best, was it more a psychological thriller instead of a classic slasher.

I also agree that the over-eager Doctor in the beginning didn't fit well with the no-f^cks-given Doc in the second half.

A part from that it's a very solid episode with no real weak spots. The B'Elanna/Tom relationship is being handled very satisfactory, both actors with terrific performances that add nuance to respective character.

3 Stars, so far season 4 is killing it.

This was a bad episode. Not horrible by any means but it just could not get any more middle of the road and uninspired. It wasn’t quite at that level where it’s so boring that just watching it feels like homework but it was flirting with being that bad. Seeing Harry Kim squirm was kind of entertaining. Oh and Paris kissed B’lanna. That’s about it. Next.

I liked it, mainly on the strength of Dejeren's actor. I completely believed that he was a slave tortured to the point of insanity, which made me pity him even when he was ranting hysterically or trying to murder Tores. If he were a human enslaved and tortured by holograms, would we even consider him a villain for destroying those holograms?

The Tuvok roast in the beginning was a wee bit cringey.

I think the rumors are true... Harry always goes for impossible women, yet when given an easy opportunity for the hottest lady in the quadrant, he gets cold feet.

Because his true crush is on... Tom Paris.

"Revulsion" had excellent production values and I thought it was particularly effective. I really couldn't stand 'sicko hologram dude'....at all. He was completely gross. But my real gripe is with the EMH on this occasion, let me tell you. He let us all down with his nonchalance just at the time when warm-blooded sentient life forms everywhere needed him most. I actually said aloud "bust him to buck-private" (and believe when I say that I am a Robert Picardo fan and that I think that the character of the Doctor is great)...but man, the EMH was really completely asleep at the wheel and left poor Torres completely exposed.

No 'Cracker Barrel gift card ' for the EMH this year. I've had it! Episode really got my blood up.

The set and color design for this episode is quite special. Once we move to the alien ship, we get an almost monochromatic color scheme, with lots of blacks and deep greys, against which the white of Dejaren's skin seems to dramatically pop.

Back on Voyager the cinematography is similarly better than usual; it's more brooding than is typical, with new red shadows and red lights in a couple rooms (most notably Chakotay's office).

Other standouts are Dejaren himself, powerfully acted by Leland Orser. He's a flesh hating hologram, tired of servitude, a cool concept which gives his murders some originality.

As Jammer points out, however, the direction is atrocious in the final third of the episode. There's no imagination here, no energy, and the whole thing is cut in the most lazy way possible.

Kim's little arc with 7of9 has also not aged too well. It has a sleazy quality, the audience asked to leer at 7of9 via Kim.

I've noticed 7of9 has a similar hairstyle to season 1 Janeway. Was this intentional?

@Brian (December 20, 2015)

"Never thought I'd be defending Neelix, but he is not a pedophile. Because of the way the Ocampa lifespan works, Kes at 1 or 2 was physically and mentally like a 20 year old human - regardless of her chronological age."

I agree. And I didn’t think I’d ever defend Neelix (the most annoying character in any incarnation of Star Trek) either.

As misconceived as the Ocampa and Neelix's relationship with Kes both are, it does seem a little off-base to frame it as pedophilia. After all, what if Sarek married Amanda when she was younger than would count as sexual mature for a Vulcan woman? It doesn't seem like pedophilia would apply in that circumstance.

I got a very strong Christian Bale “American psycho” vibe from Dejaran. He even looks like him. Also, h found seven’s acting during the Harry “sex” discussion to be off. It’s not consistent with how her character has acted throughout the whole series. The little high pitched inflections made her seem like another person.

Definitely a three-star episode.

In all these years, not one word about the glorious uninterrupted shot during Tuvok's reception?
Voyager plots can sometimes be middling, but every once in a while, we get these random cinematic gems. It really serves to keep me watching.

Anyone attracted to voluptuous womem would have been delighted with an evening of awkward but increasingly animalistic passion with 7...
Really! Mine own "little Harry" is "standing at attention" just imagining this. But this is VOY, not an HBO sitcom

I think some of the above comments are a little harsh on Harry. He clearly had more than a physical crush on her. There was an emotional component to it, witness his mini-spat with Paris in the sickbay scene, so when confronted with an offer for empty sex he wasn't able to go through with it. Most people with an emotional crush would not be able to do it under these circumstances.

That's a good thing, incidentally, I doubt even fuckboi Riker could have gone through with it. However she may _look_, she's essentially a child.

There could have been a reasonable message in that plot about consent and the "company of equals" (see Riker in "The Vengeance Factor") if the writers had played it for more than cheap laughs at Harry's expense.

Poor Harry, only four more years of being the butt of the joke. Did he get a single serious episode aside from "The Chute?" I thought Wang was really good in that one and deserved meatier scripts.