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(More customer reviews)The "Voyager" crew has a surprise second birthday party for Kes (Jennifer Lien), which is nice since Occampans do not have too many of those. But during the festivities the ship is surrounded by a strange spatial distortion, which not only shuts down most of the systems but also appears to change the structural layout of the starship. The next thing we know Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) cannot find her way back to the Bridge, B'Elanna (Roxann Biggs-Dawson) keeps getting lost on the way to Engineering, and everyone is getting frustrated and confused. Meanwhile, the spatial distortion keeps growing smaller, threatening to crush "Voyager." When Janeway ends up being knocked unconscious it is up to Chakotay (Robert Beltran) to take command and find a way to save the ship and crew. However, this does not sit too well with Tuvok (Tim Russ).
Episode 19, "Twisted" (Story by Arnold Rudnick & Rich Hosek & Arnold Rudnick & Rich Hosek, Teleplay by Kenneth Biller, Aired October 2, 1995) is yet another in a long line of "Star Trek" episodes in which something strange is happening to the ship and the crew has to solve the mystery and save the day. However, it breaks the mold in two significant ways. First, the crew fails to solve the mystery, at least not in time to do anything about what is happening. Admittedly, this is a flip on normal expectations, and when we realize the crew has indeed exhausted its bag of tricks it is something of a minor shock. Second, and more importantly, "Twisted" is an episode where character interaction and development takes on more significance than the solving of the mystery. The key is Janeway being out of action, because this is what allows the simmering tension between Chakotay and Tuvok to boil over. Remember, the "Voyager" Security Chief had infiltrated Chakotay's team when the First Officer was captain of a Maquis raider and just because Janeway trusts them both is no reason for either of them to follow suit.
The payoff comes at the end of the episode when the crew essentially pairs up to face what they think is an inevitable death. Ultimately the mystery was just an interesting contrivance to set up these poignant vignettes. This might seem like the long way around to get to this point, but since it comes as a surprise that the episode reaches this point, you have to agree it works well as a set up. The result is not a classic episode of "Star Trek: Voyager," but certainly well above average.
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