The spoiler period is over, so I am deleting the spoiler lines....
 JPH>> Summary:  Chakotay is stranded on a planet where a war is
 JPH>> happening between human-like people and "predator" looking aliens.
 JPH>> At first resisting, Chakotay finds himself drawn into the conflict,
 JPH>> identifying with the human like people.
 JPH>> The punch line here is that the human-like people have brain
 JPH>> washed Chakotay into hating the aliens.  None of what Chakotay
 JPH>> experienced up until the final battle was real.  The rest was all the
 JPH>> brainwashing techniques of the human-like people.  Chakotay begins to
 JPH>> get free of their influence but still reacts with hatred to the alein
 JPH>> ambassador who helped the Voyager recover him.
 JPH>> My Take:  This episode was a wondeful set up.  The use of
 JPH>> language for the human-like people was especially clever and neat.
 JPH>> But the punch lime was a total, lame, weak cop-out.
 AK> The episode hinted that perhaps there were no good or bad people in the
 AK> conflict, just two sets of people at war with each other.
The often untrue stereotype is that the familiar is good, the unfamiliar
is bad; the attractive is good, the ugly is bad.  AS the TOS episode
name said, "Is there no truth in beauty?"  In Nemesis, the people
who looked like monsters were the "good guys" in the war -- as best we
can tell.
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