This was a poor choice for a penultimate episode. I can think of 4 or 5 episodes from the season that would have been better suited for such a position in the season. If this episode really needed to be used, it would have been better a few episodes earlier.
The doctor is forced into performing tasks, at best, unfriendly to the Voyager crew, and at worst, down right nasty. Stranding the whole crew in the delta quadrant just to save 1 person. I thought the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few (or one).
The aliens are a poor imitation of a second rate Ferengi with no dress sense, and even worse appearance. They behave in a way that the Ferengi did in early TNG episodes, before DS9 fleshed them out better. It just seemed that they dragged up a new race, they'd shown a few episodes earlier, and just hung them out to dry.
Overall, a poorly written, and not much better performed episode.
The doctor is forced into performing tasks, at best, unfriendly to the Voyager crew, and at worst, down right nasty. Stranding the whole crew in the delta quadrant just to save 1 person. I thought the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few (or one).
The aliens are a poor imitation of a second rate Ferengi with no dress sense, and even worse appearance. They behave in a way that the Ferengi did in early TNG episodes, before DS9 fleshed them out better. It just seemed that they dragged up a new race, they'd shown a few episodes earlier, and just hung them out to dry.
Overall, a poorly written, and not much better performed episode.