It's fascinating to watch these facsimiles having the exact personalities and having the same arguments the real ones would have. Paris really stands out. Once he learns the truth, he reasons- accurately- that he's a fake, Janeway etc are fakes. And he is 100% spot on. Earth is no home for these fakes. And Janeway is her usual obstinate self.
It's also humorous to consider if the ship we saw every week was always the real Voyager.
The downside is how crazy the idea of the silver goop duplicating not just the crew and their personalities, but also the ship. The goop can mimic computers with all electronics and functionality intact, can mimic a reactor core. That's all crazy, but it gets exponentially worse when the ship starts bending and flexing. Rice falls through the floor. How could all this hardware continue to work at all?
It's also humorous to consider if the ship we saw every week was always the real Voyager.
The downside is how crazy the idea of the silver goop duplicating not just the crew and their personalities, but also the ship. The goop can mimic computers with all electronics and functionality intact, can mimic a reactor core. That's all crazy, but it gets exponentially worse when the ship starts bending and flexing. Rice falls through the floor. How could all this hardware continue to work at all?