Ambraven 
No, not the Picard one!
I prefer the real Star Trek Nemesis!
This episode aired in 1997 so five years before the TNG movie...
This is mind blowing to me for some reason.
The two are not likely to be related though.
Also I checked the date of release of First Contact. It was in 1996, so the idea of the borg queen comes from TNG, and you can't blame Voyager for it.
If anything the Borg have been rather well portrayed in Voyager so far.
I know I have written some concerns over the way the Borg are portrayed and used in Voyager but I think most of those issues were already there in TNG and First Contact.
Heck I think First Contact is the worst offender, although some issues might comes from as far back as Hugh's arc, notably when Lore got involved.
The bossy guy is cute.
Is this a "Predator" episode? (I have seen a screenshot of what I assumed his a Nemesis, and now we get low coast US army Vietnam soldiers.
The newbie is so dead...
Well if it's a Predator episode, the only one getting out of this is probably Chakotay.
Maybe I'm overthinking it but something feels off about associating Chakotay with a Vietnam war story somehow...
But worst is that in this story they obviously make the Vietnamese the Predators. I'm sure the Nemesis aren't evil in this story, so I'm sure it's not meant to be offensive but, I mean...
Also this means this is not a predator plot, they just used the esthetic to make the spectator think this is what it was, in order to subvert the expectations. Which would be fine if everything else didn't scream "This is space Vietnam".
Yeah sure... I don't know if Chakotay is playing dumb here, but there as been no communication with the other side. For all we know, what those guys are calling desacralization is the way the other honor the dead.
And even if it is desacralization... like... you guys obviously have been at war with each other for a long time, so them doing this shouldn't really upset you. I'm sure your side have done some of the same, since you insist on calling them "beast".
Not sure what the use of the word "nullify" signify.
Newbie dead... I called that one.
Also the tactic stupidities in this sequence were numerous.
Ok, I though the whole point of Neelix's arc in the previous season is that he knew nothing of the space were Voyager is now.
This is annoying that the writers forget character's history and arcs...
"Rest until the new light"
Can't you say morning like normal people?
I know they are aliens and have there own idioms, but they aren't actually speaking english, but this is how the universal translator interpret what they say, so I guess they are using weird phrasing on purpose.
The episode really want you to see the Nemesis as beast, huh...
At least until the reveal that they are in fact civilized and part of a war that is more symmetrical than it seemed at first glance.
Tuvok, casual lone hero.
Oh surprise! The Nemesis talk about the humans the same way the human talk about the Nemesis.
Come on Chakotay. You should be at least experience enough to know that dehumanization is only good at justifying atrocities.
Ok so Chakotay have been brain-washed...
This explain Chakotay's lake of judgement, if a bit easily.
In the end, the war still seems symmetrical, since the "predator" also use the word Nemesis to talk about his opponent.
In the end I would say, not a bad episode, though I think Chakotay should have put up more of a fight against the obviously biased narrative he was served. Yes, at the end they tell us they enhanced his emotions, but it makes it makes it annoying for most of the episode that he doesn't question the whole thing more.
I think it would have worked better with Tom, honestly.
The Vietnam parallel is unfortunate, but difficult to brush off. The episode ending on a "Well maybe both sides are bad actually" note doesn't help that much. And again... if the humans are the US army...
At least the episode specifically denounce what appears to be the US side of the propaganda.
In reality I think it's meant to denounce the processus of radicalization. And I think it does a good job at that.
The problem comes from the visual aspects of the story.