When Voyager finds a broken robot floating in space B'Elanna is determined to get it working again, at first she can't think what to do, as its power supply is very different to anything she is used to dealing with. After a late night she discusses it with the Doctor and comes up with a solution. Once working again the robot seems grateful and explains that only 'The Makers' can create or repair power cells. He tells her how their makers are now extinct so he, and robots like him, can't be repaired when their power units fail. He asks B'Elanna to help them create a prototype for a new robot that they will be able to repair themselves. She is keen to help but Captain Janeway refuses as it would be a breech of the Prime Directive. When told the Robot kidnaps B'Elanna and takes her to its ship where it demands that she builds the prototype or they will destroy Voyager. While Voyager is making repairs after an engagement with the Robot ship another ship come and attacks the first. Robots also man this one; it turns out that the two groups of robots have been fighting ever since they killed their creators because they had tried to end the war. When B'Elanna realises that she has created a robot that will give one side the ability to create as many robots as they wish she must destroy her work.
This was a pretty good episode with plenty of action and some moral dilemmas. I quite liked the robots' primitive appearance; it gave then a classic sci-fi look one might expect in a film from the '50s. Roxann Dawson but in a good performance as B'Elanna, making the viewer empathise with the choices she had to make.
This was a pretty good episode with plenty of action and some moral dilemmas. I quite liked the robots' primitive appearance; it gave then a classic sci-fi look one might expect in a film from the '50s. Roxann Dawson but in a good performance as B'Elanna, making the viewer empathise with the choices she had to make.