Gäst skådisar:
Gwynyth Walsh som Nimira
Wayne Péré som Guill
Rebecca McFarland som Talli
Jeanette Miller som kvinna
Ted Barba som Malin
Bobby Burns som Frane

Under ett besök på en främmande värld råkar Torres smitta av sina våldsamma tankar på någon annan. Tyvärr kan inte denna andra
kontrollera såna tankar, utan mördar någon impulsartat.
Torres ställs som ansvarig för detta eftersom det var hennes tankar, och hon skall "rensas". Detta tänker inte Janeway acceptera utan
börjar undersöka själv, och Tuvok lyckas hitta en underjordisk grupp av människor som provocerar fram vissa tankar och sen sparar dom för att sälja vidare. Detta var fallet denna gången, så dom finner Torres oskyldig eftersom hon provocerats.
The end.

Roxann Dawson :
"What I love about B'Elanna is that she is flawed. She's got this temper. As much as she has become a better person since the beginning of the series, she still screws up, not that this is a complete screw up. It's very human to think negative things, but she definitely goes overboard in her images.
It's intersting, this whole discussion of thought police and what we are allowed to think and not think, and the kind of trouble that you could get in. It's actually kind of contemporary. [..] It's actually pretty minor. It's ainnocuous. It's somebody bumping into me at a market place, but because I have a temper my first instinct is to lash out until I realize that's an irrational thought.
But the thought is out there already. Because these people are very sensitive to these thoughts, that becomes a crime. It's very tricky. I think it brings up a lot of intersting issues."

Kenneth Biller :
"I'm very interested in the debate that goes on about violence in the media, and whether or not violence on television causes people to commit acts of violence. Thinking about that, a natural extension seemed to be this society in which people are responsible for their thoughts. Taking it even a step further, if you had a violent thought, you were responsible for the outcome, no matter who committed that. Naturally that would lead to one's having to create a telepathic society in order for that to even be an operative consideration.
B'Elanna seemed like the natural person to put into that predicament, somebody who is not in control of her thoughts, but struggles to control her behavior. In this society, thought, just controlling her behavior simply wasn't enough.
I also thought it was an interesting element to bring in this underground, red-light district. Like drug addicts, they traded in illicit thoughts and illicit material. It was a way to get into a lot of different issues in our society now, where I think that people are often considered not
responsible for their own actions. We make lots of excuses for people's behavior.
Also, I think that the more we criminalize and make things that may be natural for people illicit, the more people will do to get them, like in Prohibition. [tiden då alkoholm var förbjudet i USA på 20-30 talet som gav upphov till maffian, stoffs anm.].
That's a show that productionwise was really a big failure. That was our production design at its worst. It was one of those sets that really
looked like a set. We have a really hard time trying to do marketplace sets. I wasn't really happy with the episode the way that it came out, in terms of the production, but I enjoyed writing about those ideas and trying to make a relevant show."

Tim Russ :
"There's always going to be somebody who doesn't want to do what everybody else wants to do. In any individual society with freedom of thought or freedom of speech, people are going to exercise it.
It may not always be pretty, which is the trade-off for that kind of freedom. This [episode] dealing with thought crimes, and those who
are in power not being aware entirely of what was going on, was very intersting. I thought it was pretty cool, dealing with what's in people's minds, and using this stuff as a drug, as it were. The human desire, in fact, to alter reality, to alter one's state of mind, apparently that's something that we have inherent in us."
[om mind-melden]
"He had to, under the circumstances. This individual tapped into the primitive Vulcan veeneer. He was seeking that, and what he got was too much. He got to the core. What he was looking for was exactly what he found.
The Vulcan do have this in them, it's simply controlled. Tuvok used that to fight back against this individual to eventually bring him to justice. That kind of thing is always risky, as we demonstrated in 'Meld', I think it was a good point for us to bring up, because we
never really examined melding until Voyager. It was just something the Vulcans did.
We didn't know what it involved. It's extraordinarily risky. As a matter of fact, the Doctor commented upon it vehemently. He said that he objected to the fact that we take part in this type of practice, because it's dangerous, especially with other aliens.
If you do it with your own people, it's one thing, but with another alien, it's got to be a nightmare, because you don't know what you are
getting into. Spock had done it, and my character has done it, and paid the price on a couple of occasions. It's very, veru tough to do
that, and it's risky. We've normally ony done it to try to either extricate Voyager or himself out of a situation."

Än en gång bevisar författarna att dom absolut inte tittar på den tecknade serien "Ren & Stimpy" när Mari valutan heter... Renn!

Känner ni igen Gwybyth Walsh, som här spelar polisen 'Nimira'? Det är hennes urringning grabbar stirrar på när Klingonen B'Etor (med syrran Lursa) dyker upp! (TNG:"Redemption", "Firstborn", DS9:"Past Prologue" och Generation). Hon har även varit med i en del andra sci-fi grejer: "Alien Nation", "Sliders", "The New Twilight Zone" och TV serien "Robocop".

Neelix: "You use to be quite the ladies man..."
Paris: "Used to be?! [..] Are you trying to depress me?"

"Why would you like me to tug on your whiskers?"
- Brud till Neelix

Doc: "You can return to duty Lieutenant, though perhaps with one or two fewer violent engrams in that fiery head of yours."
Torres: "Don't worry Doc, therre are pretty more where those came from."
Doc: "Duelly warned"

7: "If you maintain a direct course to Earth and avoid all estranous contact with alies species, it would increase your chances of survival."
Janeway: "That would make a dull ride home."
7: "Captain?"

7: "Then we are in disagreement."
Janeway: "Good. I dread the day when everyone on the ship agrees with me."