There doesn’t seem to be any inherent danger in that episode, but here, Tuvok will not rest until he understands the motivation behind Suder’s action. Tuvok decides he wants to get inside Suder’s head by way of a mind-meld, a technique first shown to us in the Star Trek episode, “Dagger of the Mind,” wherein Spock has to unravel the mystery of the Tantalus Colony and the neural neutralizer. I see it as a serious design flaw where Vulcans are concerned.

This doesn’t sit well with Tuvok who, like Spock in “The Galileo Seven” cannot bridge the gap between logic and irrationality. After a little poking and prodding (with some forensic assistance from The Doctor), Suder confesses to the crime, but even more disturbing is that he had no reason to do what he did. They needed all the help they could get to fight the Cardassians. B’Elanna (Roxanne Dawson) tells Tuvok the Maquis don’t review resumes. It’s not a great case for Chakotay when he has a genuine, bonafide psychopath on his crew, and really he could’ve warned everybody.

When suspicion over the death of a crewman in Engineering points to Suder, Chakotay tells investigator Tuvok there was something about him that always made him uneasy. We never saw Dourif on the show before, and here he is! As a Bajoran, and one of Chakotay’s Maquis crew. Sometimes it’s such a left-field credit (as with Brad Dourif in this episode), it makes it difficult to not be surprised when it is eventually revealed. There’s a joke on Family Guy about how you know who the bad guy is going to be on any given episode of Law & Order by looking at the “Special Guest” credit. Be prepared to yield your entire being to it, to sacrifice your place in civilized life for you will no longer be a part of it, and there’s no return.” If you can’t control the violence, the violence controls you. “I can promise you this will not silent your demons.

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