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breaks out the high explosives, phaser rifles, and even an old-fashioned Bowie knife for good measure to do some bug huntin' in "Macrocosm".

No particularly thorny moral dilemmas or other meaty topics being debated here, just Janeway in full Ellen Ripley/Sarah Connor mode as she fights to purge her ship of the "macrovirus" that's infected her crew - before the Taktak do so with considerably more collateral damage.

Dated late '90s CGI notwithstanding, the macrovirus is a rather terrifying alien concept, with a dash of body horror thrown in. The neck growths and the fly-sized viruses emerging from them are considerably more unsettling than the full-sized creatures.

I'd forgotten this episode had the Doctor's first away mission - or that they'd used Neelix's resort program as bait for the megaviruses to be destroyed by Janeway's antigen bomb (whose LED timer is even more dated than the CGI, I might add).