There are much better versions of this story elsewhere in the Trek canon. This one is extremely light on the exploratory side, sticking with a paranoid/horror atmosphere right from the first moments of Janeway's holo-novel intro all the way to the end. The dialogue also violates the rule, "Show, don't tell," several times, such as when a crewman tells the captain, "We're entering the nebula," when that fact would be obvious even to a parakeet. The previous episode, "Heroes and Demons", was a much more fulfilling alien-contact story.
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There are much better versions of this story elsewhere in the Trek canon. This one is extremely light on the exploratory side, sticking with a paranoid/horror atmosphere right from the first moments of Janeway's holo-novel intro all the way to the end. The dialogue also violates the rule, "Show, don't tell," several times, such as when a crewman tells the captain, "We're entering the nebula," when that fact would be obvious even to a parakeet. The previous episode, "Heroes and Demons", was a much more fulfilling alien-contact story.