YMMV / Star Trek Voyager S 5 E 18 The Fight

• Bizarro Episode: Let's put it this way: when Mark Oshiro reviewed all the Voyager episodes, he was fond of saying "Keep Voyager Weird" because he admired the show's willingness to explore more outlandish concepts than other Trek shows. And yet this episode was too surreal even for him.
• Fanservice: Chakotay in a muscle shirt with his bangs combed down is considered a saving grace of this episode, for certain fans.
• Fan Disservice: Shirtless Chakotay getting a massage...from Neelix.
• Ho Yay: The opening scene, where Tom is restraining a panicking Chakotay. The way they touch each other is...pretty difficult to read as heterosexual. The concern Tom shows for Chakotay throughout the rest of the episode only adds fuel to the fire.
• Padding: The original cut of the episode came in way under-length, forcing the production team to hastily write and film a bunch of Flash Forward scenes. Not only are they pointless, they're actively detrimental to the story, since they spoil just about everything in the opening minutes.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Despite its reputation as one of the worser episodes (if not the absolute worst) of Voyager, many fans actually will agree that a lot of the material regarding Chakotay's backstory did have some potential, which was lost thanks to the finished episode's excessive levels of Mind Screw and Padding, on top of a generally jumbled story structure.