Special Agent Matti
It's been a while since there's been an ethics show on Voyager, they've all been action/adventure so far this season. Not that I have anything against action/adventure episodes - quite the opposite, in fact - it's just that all meat and no potatoes makes for a dull meal.
While Crell is merely a HUI (Holographic User Interface - I think I just invented a new acronym!), he still represents the knowledge which was allegedly discovered through wartime atrocities. At this point discerning Trekkies should read in Doctor Mengele and his experiments on Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, pregnant women, twins and other undesirables.
B'Elanna's point is that she spent a lot of years fighting against people like Crell. The Doctor's point is that she will die if she doesn't accept Crell's treatment. Tabor's point is that his entire family was used by Crell as Bajoran guinea pigs (Whew! Them Bajorans is mighty uppity: it's no wonder the Cardies got their scaly butts kicked). The second best part is that no-one can prove any of it. The first best part is that everyone has to make tough decisions and everyone will have to live (or die) with those decisions.
Of course, B'Elanna doesn't die. They've already killed off one regular cast member on Voyager and they don't have any spare actors to replace a non-Human brunette female. This is a nice, meaty episode that pokes its fingers into the pie normally reserved for those on Deep Space Nine.
If you want to know what happens in the end...
PS: I advise that any attempt at having an alien attach itself to a cast member is doomed to failure. Alien did it first, best and last. Do not attempt this at home. Or 60,000 light years from home. In space, no-one can hear you scream.
PG (Low level violence, adult themes)
VHS rental and retail: 8 April 1999
The captain decides that a live Chief of Engineering with a (bigger) chip on her shoulder is more important than a dead one with her morals intact. Janeway orders the procedure to be carried out, but leaves the problem of the holo-Doctor's holo-Exo-biologist's continuing existence up to the holo-Doctor. Just when you thought things couldn't get any murkier...