It's certainly one of the better B'Elanna episodes in a way, her anger management course continues. But she isn't reduced to being an engineer, angry Marquis, or a hot-head. Parts of this episode are from Worf's playbook: a person in between two worlds, at odds with both her paternal and maternal side. It's one of the few times, B'Elanna actually shows some degree of character development.
I like the Klingon mythology. It's all very Wagner-ish. It's a great take on Klingon culture, religion and what the after-life may look like (Neelix discovers there's nothing waiting for him - B'Elanna thinks that she has discovered quite the opposite).
PS: the alleged romance between Tom and B'Elanna is still not very credible. I can't feel much chemistry between them.
Since I do like Klingons I liked this episode, too. Reminds me a bit of the episode where Neelix discovered that there is nothing after death. But this time it's reversed for B'Elanna.
I get it that she doesn't know what everyone expects from her but that this is also something she brings upon herself. I can relate to that. It brings some much needed explanation about the attitude she displayed so far. She wasn't one of the better developed characters thus far.
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Nice to see some proper Klingon stuff on this show, and a decent character-focused story for B'Elanna. It's feels like it needed to be a bit more ambitious than it was, and making Klingon hell just be the set of Voyager reeked of budget-saving and took me right out of the episode. The hallucination sequences were done pretty well.
Much like the previous episode, it feels like there was decent attention paid to character development here. There were certainly much worse ways the Ron Moore could have ended his Star Trek writing career. It's a shame that this isn't all that memorable, but it does its job.