Guest Cast:
- Basil Langton (The Caretaker)
- Gavin O'Herlihy (Jabin)
- Scott Jaeck (Commander Cavit)
- Angela Paton (Aunt Adah)
- Armin Shimerman (Quark)
- Alicia Coppola (Lieutenant Stadi)
- Bruce French (Ocampa Doctor)
- Jennifer Parsons (Ocampa Nurse)
- David Selburg (Toscat)
- Jeff McCarthy (Human Doctor)
- Stan Ivar (Mark)
- Scott MacDonald (Rollins)
- Josh Clark (Carey)
- Richard Poe (Gul Evek)
- Keely Sims (Farmer's Daughter)
- Eric David Johnson (Daggin)
- Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
Stardate 48315.6: A starship controlled by the Maquis mysteriously
disappears in the Badlands, a charged energy field near the demilitarized
zone, after being pursued by a Cardassian ship. USS Voyager, commanded
by Captain Janeway, is dispatched from DS9 to the Badlands to find out
where the Maquis ship went, especially since a Starfleet security operative,
Vulcan Lt. Tuvok, was aboard.
Arriving in the Badlands, the Voyager is
scanned by an unknown presence and then ripped out of the Alpha Quadrant
by a subspace phenomenon that causes heavy damage and kills many of the
crew. Voyager ends up in an unexplored part of the galaxy where the first
thing the crew sees is an enegry collection array. While repairs are being
made, Janeway and her crew are kidnapped from the ship via transporter
and deposited in a virtual reality, the inhabitants of which conduct experiments
on the Alpha Quadrant visitors and then return them - minus helmsman Ensign
Kim. Making contact with the Maquis crew commanded by Chakotay, Janeway
discovers that the same tests were forced upon the renegades and that one
of their member has also been abducted. A tenuous truce is arranged so
that both crews can recover their missing comrades. Ensign Kim and Maquis
engineer B'elanna Torres.
In the meantime, the crew of Voyager has been beamed to the planet
Ocampa, a barren wasteland of a world whose short-lived inhabitants live
underground. There they are attended to by the Ocampa, who have been instructed
by the Caretaker to look after the two visitors since they have somehow
become infected with a terminal illness. Voyager's crew track their missing
comrades to Ocampa and encounter the scavenger Neelix, who offers to be
the crew's guide through this part of space. His knowledge of the local
area is invaluable, such as the revelation that water is a rarity and is
valuable currency here. The crew is also introduced to the Kazons, who
roam the surface of Ocampa foraging a meager existence.
They hand over a captive Ocampa named Kes in exchange for some water from
Voyager. Shortly after Kes leads the crew to Kim and Torres, the energy array
shuts down after transmitting a final burst of power to Ocampa. The Kazons
make a gambit to claim the array for themselves, but Chakotay and Tom Paris,
a dishonored former Maquis member aboard the Voyager, battle the scavengers
off with their respective starships as Janeway and Tuvok beam to the array
and find the elderly and dying Caretaker, whose race accidentally destroyed
the Ocampa's ecosphere and then built the subterranean habitat and the power
array so the Ocampa could survive.
The Caretaker must be succeeded by another and has been trying to find a
replacement for decades, but so far all of those tested for their suitability
- such as Kim and Torres - have not proven adequate to the task. The
Caretaker decides to set the array to self-destruct to avoid allowing the
Ocampa to be enslaved by the Kazons. In the fierce battle with the Kazons,
Chakotay's Maquis ship is destroyed when he rams it into the lead Kazon ship,
which then collides with the array, disabling the self-destruct sequence.
Janeway beams back to the Voyager and destroys the array herself, though it
could have sent her and her crew back to the Alpha Quadrant. The Kazons swear
vengeance should they encounter Voyager again. With the surviving members of
the Maquis and Starfleet crews both safely aboard Voyager - and with Kes and
Neelix in tow - the ship sets a course back home, E.T.A.: 75 years...
Notes: This was easily the most troubled Star Trek series pilot
since "The Cage" was rejected in 1965 by NBC. Internal problems
in mounting Paramount's new network made the show's future uncertain as
to whether it would be a network production or syndicated. Academy Award-winning
French Canadian actress Genevieve Bujold then accepted the role of Janeway,
only to resign from the show three days into filming due to the hectic
pace of TV production and, according to some sources, a disagreement with
director Winrich Kolbe. At this point, forces within Viacom tried to exert
pressure to make Janeway a male character, having resisted the suggestion
of a female lead all along. Other voices in the executive ranks suggested
- since the other shows comprising Paramount's new network were even further
behind schedule than "Voyager" - that the ever more problematic
gestation of the fifth network should be ended, lest the network take to
the air and fail, taking dozens of new affiliate stations with it. In the
space of a week, Kate Mulgrew was cast for the role as production continued
with the cast and crew trying to maneuver around the lack of a captain
in the meantime. The theme for the show's opening titles was composed by
Jerry Goldsmith, who had scored the first and fifth Trek movies, the theme
from which was also adapted to serve as the score for Star Trek: The Next
Generation. (Goldsmith's latest entry into Trek's otherwise drab musical
canon later won the Emmy for main theme music in September 1995.) The show
premiered on schedule on UPN.
003 PARALLAX
- teleplay by Brannon Braga
- story by Jim Trombetta
- directed by Kim Friedman
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 48439.7: B'elanna Torres faces the prospect of a court-martial
after hitting Carey, the senior surviving member of Voyager's engineering
crew, and Janeway balks when Chakotay nominates Torres for the position
of chief engineer. Before a choice can be made, Voyager encounters a quantum
singularity that appears to have trapped a ship. After an attempt to snag
the distant derelict with the tractor beam, Voyager is forced to back off
as the crew hatches alternate plans to retrieve the other ship. At Chakotay's
insistence, Janeway includes Torres in the process, and B'elanna manages
to come up with a working theory that the other ship is Voyager, already
trapped in the singularity. If she can manage to free the ship from the
phenomenon, B'elanna may prove herself adequate to the task of becoming
Voyager's chief engineer.
Guest Cast: Martha Hackett (Seska), Josh Clark (Carey), Justin
Williams (Jarvin)
004 TIME AND AGAIN
- teleplay by David Kemper & Michael Piller
- story by David Kemper
- directed by Les Landau
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate not given: Exploring a planet which has very recently
been rendered uninhabitable by a global disaster, Janeway and Paris are
separated from the rest of their away team and somehow find themselves
in the same place, but hours before the cataclysm that consumed the planet's
entire civilization. Their attempts to remain anonymous while trying to
find a way back to their own present land them in the middle of a protest
against a polaric energy plant, which may be the cause of the world's destruction.
At first, Janeway is adamant that the Prime Directive be adhered to, but
when she discovers the possibility that her presence may have caused the
disaster in the first place, the captain decides to set aside Starfleet's
first rule.
Guest Cast: Nicolas Surovy (Makul), Jeff Polis (Nitot), Brady
Bluhm (Atika), Ryan MacDonald (Shopkeeper), Steve Vaught (Officer), Jerry
Spicer (Guard)
005 PHAGE
- teleplay by Skye Dent and Brannon Braga
- story by Timothy de Haas
- directed by Winrich Kolbe
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 48532.4: Searching for deposits of refinable dilithium,
Voyager stops off at a moon, where Chakotay, Kim and Neelix beam to the
surface. It turns out that this moon is not uninhabited. A group of aliens
there seem to have left a dilithium trail, and one of them attacks Neelix.
When the others come to his aid, Neelix's lungs have been removed, and
only some innovative but risky gambles taken by Voyager's holographic doctor
can keep him barely alive. The aliens flee the moon in their own ship,
and Janeway orders a pursuit. It turns out that the attackers are simply
trying to survive themselves, their species all but wiped out by a deadly
disease. Their only hope for survival is to take working organs from others
- and they cannot return to lungs to Neelix, for they have already been
used.
Guest Cast: Cully Frederickson (Deleth), Stephen B. Rappaport
(Motura), Martha Hackett (Seska), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
006 THE CLOUD
- teleplay by Tom Szollosi & Michael Piller
- story by Brannon Braga
- directed by David Livingston
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 48546.2: Investigating a nebula whose energy currents
could replenish the ship's engines and other systems, Voyager penetrates
the gases of the nebula, which turns out to be a huge life form. The ship's
entry injures the creature, and Voyager barely makes it back into open
space intact. Though it will further deplete the ship's energy reserves,
Janeway feels that the crew is obligated to return to the nebula-entity
and repair the damage caused by Voyager's intrusion.
Guest Cast: Angela Dohrman (Ricky), Judy Geeson (Sandrine),
Larry A. Hankin (Gaunt Gary), Luigi Amodeo (The Gigolo)
007 EYE OF THE NEEDLE
- teleplay by Bill Dial & Jeri Taylor
- story by Hilary J. Bader
- directed by Winrich Kolbe
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 48579.4: Harry's sensor sweeps for space anomalies
detect a wormhole which Janeway diverts Voyager off course to investigate.
Though a probe is able to determine that the wormhole leads homeward to
the Alpha Quadrant, the wormhole is too small to travel through. When the
probe is scanned by a ship on the other side, the crew begin using it as
a relay satellite and make contact with a Romulan ship. Though the Romulan
captain is skeptical of Janeway's claim that Voyager is in the Delta Quadrant,
he eventually realizes the truth and offers to help transmit messages home.
Later, B'elanna discovers a possible way to beam through the wormhole to
the Romulan ship, but this method of returning to the Alpha Quadrant is
halted by an unforseeable problem.
Guest Cast: Vaughn Armstrong (Telek), Tom Virtue (Lt. Baxter)
008 EX POST FACTO
- teleplay by Evan Carlos Somers and Michael Piller
- story by Evan Carlos Somers
- directed by LeVar Burton
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: Kim returns alone in a shuttle from a trip
to Benea which he made with Tom Paris. After getting entangled with a scientist's
wife, and by all accounts murdering the scientist in question, Paris has
been sentenced to relive the crime from the victim's point of view every
14 hours. Janeway, despite Tom's admittedly less-than-exemplary record,
needs to know for herself if Tom is guilty of the crime. When it turns
out that the Benean punishment is reacting badly to Tom's human physiology,
he is taken back to Voyager. Mysteries begin to pile up - why are the neighboring
warlike Numiri attacking Voyager? And who really committed to murder? The
answers can only come from one source - Tuvok must mind-meld with Paris
to experience the forced reenactment of the incident himself.
Guest Cast: Robin McKee (Lidell), Francis Guinan (Minister Kray),
Aaron Lustig (Professor Ren), Ray Reinhardt (Benean Doctor), Henry Brown
(Numiri Captain)
009 EMANATIONS
- written by Brannon Braga
- directed by David Livingston
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 48623.5: Investigating the possibility of a new element
detected in the rocky bodies comprising a planet's ring system, an away
team beams down to one of the asteroids and finds the ground littered with
dead bodies encased in a residual shell. As the away team conducts a visual
survey - at Chakotay's request to avoid desecrating the ritually-disposed-of
deceased - a subspace phenomenon occurs, prompting an emergency beam-out.
But when the away team transports back to Voyager, Kim doesn't return,
his place taken by a newly-arrived body. Harry finds himself among a race
of ritualistic people who believe he has returned from their afterlife,
and is constantly besieged with questions about "the next emanation."
An alien named Patera, in the meantime, is revived about Voyager. She finds
herself losing faith in the possibility of the next life, while Harry is
the subject of intense curiosity and study by Patera's people.
Guest Cast: Jerry Hardin (Dr. Neria), Jefrey Alan Chandler (Hatia),
Cecile Callan (Ptera), Martha Hackett (Seska), Robin Groves (Hatia's Wife)
010 PRIME FACTORS
- teleplay by Michael Perricone and Greg Elliot
- story by David R. George III and Eric Stilwell
- directed by Les Landau
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 48642.5: Voyager is intercepted by a ship from Sakarris,
an planet with an advanced culture renowned for its hospitality; Sakarran
magistrate Gath offers an extended visit to his planet, which Janeway accepts.
During this visit, Harry finds out that the Sakarrans have developed transportation
technology that could send Voyager at least halfway home, if not all the
way. But the Sakarrans have their own rule - much like Starfleet's Prime
Directive - that will not permit them to share this technology with less
advanced cultures. However, a faction on Sakarris is willing to exchange
a sample of their trajector with Voyager's crew in exchange for something
only the outsiders can offer. Janeway will not conduct an unofficial or
illegal exchange, but she finds out that there are those among her crew
who will.
Guest Cast: Ronald Guttman (Gath), Yvonne Suhor (Eudana), Andrew
Hill Newman (Jaret), Martha Hackett (Seska), Josh Clark (Carey)
011 STATE OF FLUX
- teleplay by Chris Abbott
- story by Paul Robert Coyle
- directed by Robert Scheerer
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: A visit to the surface of a habitable planet
becomes less than routine when a Kazon ship is detected nearby. All away
teams are recalled to Voyager, but Seska can't be found. Chakotay finds
her in a cave nearby, where the two of them are attacked by Kazons but
escape. The Kazon ship is sending a distress signal, and despite her own
misgivings and Neelix's warnings, Janeway sends an away team to the ship.
It is discovered that the Kazons somehow acquired some Federation technology
and suffered a fatal accident while trying to install it on their ship.
Other Kazon ships are on the way, and Janeway faces the possibility that
someone aboard Voyager has decided to ally themselves with the enemy.
Guest Cast: Martha Hackett (Seska), Josh Clark (Carey), Anthony
DeLongis (First Maje Kuloff)
012 HEROES AND DEMONS
- written by Naren Shankar
- directed by Les Landau
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 48693.2: As Voyager passes near a protostar, Janeway
and Torres try to beam some samples of its photonic material aboard. When
they try to enlist Harry's help in studying it, they find that he has disappeared
from the ship. Chakotay and Tuvok go to where Harry was last found - the
holodeck - and try to learn what happened to their comrade by interacting
with Harry's Beowulf holodeck program. Even Chakotay and Tuvok vanish when
Grendel comes to ravage the Hall Heorot. Someone needs to venture into
the holodeck to find where the missing crewmen are going, or if they're
still alive. Into Hrothgar's keep steps a new warrior, the only member
of Voyager's crew immune to the threat of being snatched out of the holodeck.
The affair of Grendel was made known to him on his native soil; space travelers
said that this hall, best of holo-scenarios, stands empty and useless to
all warriors after the evening light becomes hidden beneath the cover of
the sky. Therefore his people - or specifically Captain Janeway - advised
that he should investigate because they know what his strength can accomplish...but
can the holographic doctor grapple with something other than a medical
emergency?
Guest Cast: Marjorie Monaghan (Freya), Christopher Neame (Unferth),
Michael Keenan (Hrothgar)
Notes: Passages from Beowulf paraphrased above are from
the 1966 English translation by Prof. M.H. Abrams, based on F. Klaeber's
third edition in 1950; reprinted without permission. It seemed to make
some relevant sense at the time, and I thought it'd be vaguely amusing!
013 CATHEXIS
- teleplay by Brannon Braga
- story by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
- directed by Kim Friedman
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 48734.2: Tuvok and Chakotay barely survive an alien
attack within a dark matter nebula they were exploring. Chakotay is returned
to Voyager in a brain-dead state, but Tuvok recovers. After numerous acts
of sabotage prevent Janeway from taking Voyager into the nebula to investigate,
it becomes evident that an alien consciousness is loose aboard the ship,
moving from person to person in order to keep Voyager out of the nebula.
Another presence then makes itself known, this one hell-bent on taking
the ship into danger.
Guest Cast: Brian Markinson (Durst), Michael Cumpsty (Lord Burleigh),
Carolyn Seymour (Mrs. Templeton), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
014 FACES
- teleplay by Kenneth Biller
- story by Jonathan Glassner and Kenneth Biller
- directed by Winrich Kolbe
- music by David Bell
Stardate 48784.2: An away team left to explore a planetoid has
been captured by the phage-ravaged Vidiians, who are seeking alien genes
resistant to the disease for incorportation into the Vedeans' own genetic
structure. In one experiment, Vidiian surgeon Sulan splits B'elanna into
two entirely separate beings, one Klingon, the other human. B'elanna's
human side is timid and weak compared to her powerful warrior half, who
escapes from Sulan's lab. A gamble by Chakotay pays off in rescuing the
surviving crew members from the Vidiians, but B'elanna - despite her desire
to be free of her hot-tempered Klingon half - will die unless she is reintegrated.
Guest Cast: Brian Markinson (Sulan/Durst), Rob LaBelle (Talaxian
Prisoner), Barton Tinapp (Guard #1)
015 JETREL
- teleplay by Jack Klein & Karen Klein and Kenneth Biller
- story by Scott Nimerfro & Jim Thomton
- directed by Kim Friedman
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 48840.5: An alien ship contacts Voyager and asks for
Neelix by name; when the party seeking Neelix turns out to be a Haakonian
named Jetrel, Neelix reacts badly. Jetrel was a scientist who developed
the metreon cascade, an immensely powerful weapon that destroyed 300,000
Talaxians - including Neelix's family - during a war with the Haakonians
fifteen years ago. Jetrel announces that Neelix could be suffering from
a terminal condition resulting from minimal exposure to the metreon cascade,
and offers to try to study him to find a cure. But Neelix wants no part
of easing Jetrel's conscience.
Guest Cast: James Sloyan (Jetrel), Larry Hankin (Gaunt Gary)
016 LEARNING CURVE
- written by Ronald Wilkerson & Jean Louise Matthias
- directed by David Livingston
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 48846.5: After a Maquis officer named Dalby breaks
with procedure and replaces a faulty bioneural circuit without reporting
the malfunction, Janeway assigns Tuvok - himself a former instructor at
Starfleet Academy - to bring Dalby and a handful of other problematic Maquis
up to speed on Starfleet protocol. This task proves more daunting than
Tuvok could have imagined, since even the most worrisome Academy cadets
at least wanted to be in Starfleet. Despite an order from Chakotay to learn
the Starfleet ropes, Dalby and his fellow trainees are determined not to
learn a thing - until their lives depend on it.
Guest Cast: Armand Schultz (Dalby), Derek McGrath (Chell), Kenny
Morrison (Geron), Catherine MacNeal (Henley), Thomas Dekker (Henry), Lindsey
Haun (Beatrice), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
SEASON TWO
1995/1996
017 THE 37'S
- written by Jeri Taylor & Brannon Braga
- directed by James Conway
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 48975.1: Voyager follows a trail of spaceborne rust,
where the crew finds a centuries-old land vehicle from Earth drifting through
space. When Paris manages to start the old truck, Harry's curiosity about
its AM radio uncovers an equally ancient S.O.S. coming from a nearby planet.
Janeway, hoping that whatever brought the truck and the source of the distress
call to the Delta Quadrant could be found and used to send Voyager home,
orders a landing. A vintage airplane is found on the surface with an alien
power supply keeping the S.O.S. on the air, and eight alien-abducted humans
are found in stasis chambers also constructed by an alien intelligence.
The 20th century humans are revived, and Janeway finds that among them
is the long-lost pioneer female aviator Amelia Earhart. Also living on
the planet are the descendants of other abducted humans, now masters of
their world since they overthrew their forebears' kidnappers. Once all
parties are convinced that the Voyager crew are who they claim to be, the
opportunity to settle down on this Earthlike world is offered to the wayward
travelers.
Guest Cast: Sharon Lawrence (Amelia Earhart), David Graf (Noonan),
James Saito (Japanese Soldier), Mel Winkler (Jack Hayes), John Rubinstein
(John Evansville)
018 INITIATIONS
- written by Kenneth Biller
- directed by Winrich Kolbe
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 49005.3: Alone in a shuttlecraft preforming the Pakra,
a solitary ritual commemorating his father, Chakotay is attacked by a Kazon-Ogla
vessel. When he destroys the attacking craft and rescues the lone pilot,
he discovers that his opponent is a young boy trying to make his mark in
Kazon society by killing an enemy; the price of the boy's failure is ostracism
from his culture. Chakotay is faced with the dilemma of saving his own
life while righting the harm he has unwittingly done to the boy.
Guest Cast: Aron Eisenberg (Kar), Patrick Kilpatrick (Razik),
Tim deZarn (Haliz)
019 PROJECTIONS
- written by Brannon Braga
- directed by Jonathan Frakes
- music by David Bell
Stardate 48892.1: The holographic doctor's day is not off to
a good start. Automatically brought online by a red alert, he finds that
the ship has - according to the computer - been abandoned after a Kazon
attack. But this turns out to be wrong when Torres shows up to enlist the
doctor's help in aiding the injured Janeway on the bridge. Thanks to a
holographic projection system that can transfer the doctor to key parts
of the ship other than sick bay, he visits the bridge for the first time,
and is then off to the mess hall to help Neelix fend off a lone Kazon.
At this point, however, the doctor's grip on reality is loosened when he
finds that not only can he bleed, but according to every available tricorder
he is the only living thing on board Voyager. He begins to believe these
incredible things when a holography engineer named Barclay appears and
insists that the doctor is in fact Dr. Louis Zimmerman, a holo-programmer
trapped in a holodeck emergency simulation in the Alpha Quadrant.
Guest Cast: Dwight Schultz (Barclay), Majel Barrett (Computer
Voice)
020 ELOGIUM
- teleplay by Kenneth Biller and Jeri Taylor
- story by Jimmy Diggs and Steve K. Jay
- directed by Winrich Kolbe
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 48921.3: A strange energy disturbance detected by the
crew turns out to be a swarm of space-dwelling life forms whose electrophoretic
emissions cause sudden hormonal maturation in Kes. She spontaneously enters
the Elogium in preparation to have a child, which she desperately wants.
Neelix is troubled by the thought of becoming a father and seeks the advice
of Tuvok. Kes' condition causes Janeway to wonder about the implications
of raising families aboard Voyager, but the crew's immediate concern is
the dominant member of the swarm, which views the ship as a rival for mates.
Guest Cast: Nancy Hower (Ensign Wilder), Gary O'Brien (Crewmember),
Terry Correll (N.D. Crewmember)
021 NON-SEQUITUR
- written by Brannon Braga
- directed by David Livingston
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 49011.0: Harry Kim wakes up in San Francisco where
he finds himself in bed with his fiancee. He is a bright young Starfleet
engineer, and his friend Ensign Danny Byrd got his slot on the Voyager
which disappeared several months before, yet the last thing Harry remembers
is piloting one of Voyager's shuttles in the Delta Quadrant. His efforts
to make sense of the situation make his superiors suspect that Harry is
a Maquis spy. He discovers that he is an alternate timeline and finds allies
in strange places as he tries to return to his own reality.
Guest Cast: Louis Giambalvo (Cosimo), Jennifer Gatti (Libby),
Jack Shearer (Admiral Strickler), Mark Kiely (Lt. Lasca), Majel Barrett
(Computer Voice)
022 TWISTED
- teleplay by Kenneth Biller
- story by Arnold Rudnick and Rich Hosek
- directed by Kim Friedman
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate not given: On Holodeck 2, Kes' second birthday party
is interrupted by the news of a spatial distortion. As the crew scatters
to their duty stations, they discover that something has affected the inside
of the ship and the corridors seem to be shifting. It becomes impossible
to reliably get anywhere my standard means. Captain Janeway makes physical
contact with the anomaly and is rendered unconscious, leaving Chokotay
in command as an implosion ring continues to crush the ship. After exhausting
all other courses of action, the crew is left with the most unlikely option
of all.
Guest Cast: Judy Geeson (Sandrine), Larry Hankin (Gaunt Gary),
Tom Virtue (Baxter), Terry Correll (Crewman)
023 PARTURITION
- written by Tom Szollosi
- directed by Jonathan Frakes
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: As Tom Paris admits he's falling in love
with Kes, Neelix's jealousy starts to get the better of him. But with the
ship's food reserves down to 30% of capacity, the feuding pair are dispatched
to an inhospitable planet in hopes of procuring more food. But atmospheric
storms disable their shuttle, causing them to crash-land on "Planet
Hell" and cutting them off from Voyager. Trying to survive, they come
upon some hatching eggs and are faced with two additional dilemmas - helping
the newborn to survive and dealing with its returning mother.
Guest Cast: Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
024 PERSISTENCE OF VISION
- written by Jeri Taylor
- directed by James L. Conway
- music by David Bell
Stardate not given: Although Voyager is about to enter Bothan
space, the Doctor orders Janeway to relax with her holonovel to help her
deal with the stress of command. But the stress is magnified when she begins
to see items and characters from the holonovel outside the holodeck. Neelix
reports that not much is known about the Botha except that they are extremely
territorial and that many ships have disappeared without a trace in their
space. When the Botha rendezvous with Voyager, they launch an unprovoked
attack. As they maneuver to resist the attack, Voyager's crew are overcome
by hallucinations which disable everyone on the ship except the Doctor
and Kes, whose nascent telepathic powers enable her to resist the hallucinations.
The fate of the crew hinges on their ability to find a way to repel the
psychic attack.
Guest Cast: Michael Cumpsty (Lord Burleigh), Carolyn Seymour
(Mrs. Templeton), Stan Ivar (Mark), Warren Munson (Admiral Paris), Lindsey
Haun (Beatrice), Thomas Alexander Dekker (Henry), Patrick Karr (Bothan),
Marva Hicks (T'Pel)
025 TATTOO
- teleplay by Michael Piller
- story by Larry Brody
- directed by Alexander Singer
Stardate not given: While on a moon looking for polyferranide
deposits to reseal the warp coils, Chakotay sees an ancient symbol. The
last time he saw it was on a quest to Earth with his father, who explained
it was a blessing to the land left by descendants of the ancient Rubber
Tree People. Following a warp signature leads Voyager to a planet which
seems to use the weather to prevent their approach. Chakotay goes alone
to meet the planet's inhabitants and meets the people worshipped by his
ancestors as the "Sky Spirits." Meanwhile, aboard the ship, Kes
has noticed an appalling lack of compassion in the Doctor's personality.
She suggests that if he were ever sick, he would develop more empathy for
the sufferings of his patients. He accepts her challenge, but his confidence
is shaken by his experience with a 29-hour Livodian flu.
Guest Cast: Henry Darrow (Kolopak), Richard Fancy (Alien), Douglas
Spain (young Chakotay), Nancy Hower (Ensign Wildman), Richard Chaves (The
Chief)
026 COLD FIRE
- teleplay by Brannon Braga
- story by Anthony Williams
- directed by Cliff Bole
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: The remains of The Caretaker suddenly begin
to resonate with the life signs of another sporocystian life form and the
crew begins to search for what is apparently the other caretaker. They
find a smaller copy of The Caretaker's array with over 2,000 Ocampa aboard.
Kes meets with Tanis, who begins to teach her the traditions of her people.
He also speaks of Suspiria, a member of the Caretaker's race known as the
Nacene, who lives in a sub-space layer called Exosia. But when Voyager
finally encounters her, Suspiria wishes to destroy the ship in revenge
for the death of her companion.
Guest Cast: Gary Graham (Tanis), Lindsay Ridgeway (Girl), Norman
Large (Ocampa Man)
027 MANEUVERS
- written by Kenneth Biller
- directed by David Livingston
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 49208.5: While following a mysterious hail, Voyager
is attacked by a Kazon-Nistrim ship. With the help of Seska, raiders steal
a transporter module and escape. Embarrassed by the way Seska used him,
Chakotay goes off alone to recover the Federation technology. As the Kazon
sects gather for a final assault on Voyager, the crew makes a desperate
attempt to rescue their first officer.
Guest Cast: Martha Hackett (Seska), Anthony DeLongis (First
Maje Jal Cullah), Terry Lester (Jal Haron), John Geggenhuber (Jal Surat),
Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
028 RESISTANCE
- teleplay by Lisa Klink
- story by Michael Jan Friedman and Kevin J. Ryan
- directed by Winrich Kolbe
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: While buying tellerium on a planetary black
market, a landing party is attacked by the Mokran police force. While Tuvok
and Torres are taken into custody, Janeway is hidden by a member of the
Alsurian resistance. Caylem is a tired old man who has been completely
unstrung by the deaths of his wife and daughter in the struggle against
the Mokra. In his sorrow, he believes that Janeway is his daughter and
leads her into the heart of the Mokran defenses.
Guest Cast: Joel Grey (Caylem), Alan Scarfe (Third Magistrate
Augris), Tom Todoroff (Darod), Glenn Morshower (Mokran Guard)
029 PROTOTYPE
- written by Nicholas Corea
- directed by Jonathan Frakes
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: The crew beams aboard a damaged robot of
humanoid design and B'Ellana takes up its repair as a challenge. When she
manages to repair its power module, the robot asks her to produce more
power modules so that more robots can be created. When Janeway objects,
the robots kidnap Torres and threaten to destroy Voyager unless she cooperates.
But the Praelor turn out not to be the only robots in the quadrant.
Guest Cast: Rick Worthy (3947/Cravic 122), Hugh Hodgin (6263/Prototype)
030 ALLIANCES
- written by Jeri Taylor
- directed by Les Landau
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 49337.4: Under continuing attack from the Kazon, Voyager
seeks an alliance. But when talks with the Kazon break down, Janeway opens
talks with the Trabe, who are also trying to leave Kazon space. The Trabe
once oppressed the Kazon, but they seem to embody Janeway's ideas of Federation
principles and they propose a meeting among all parties - including the
Kazon. The meeting goes well until a ship opens fire upon the participants,
exposing a new threat and dissolving the peace process.
Guest Cast: Charles O. Lucia (Mabus), Anthony DeLongis (Jal
Cullah), Martha Hackett (Seska), Raphael Sbarge (Ensign Hogan), Larry Cedar
(Jal Tersa), John Geggenhuber (Jal Surat), Simon Billig (Crewman Jones)
031 THRESHOLD
- teleplay by Brannon Braga
- story by Michael DeLuca
- directed by Alexander Singer
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 49373.4: Torres, Kim, and Paris work as a team to cross
the transwarp threshold and travel at warp 10, a theoretical impossibility
which would allow the traveler to occupy all points in space simultaneously.
Though the attempt is successful, Paris' biochemistry undergoes a massive
change which causes him to mutate into a more evolved version of humanity.
The new Paris kidnaps Janeway and they both cross the barrier in the shuttle,
precipitating more changes in both of them.
Guest Cast: Raphael Sbarge (Ensign Hogan), Miron E. Willis (Rettik),
Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
032 MELD
- teleplay by Michael Piller
- story by Michael Sussman
- directed by Cliff Bole
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 49373.4: When Crewman Darwin turns up dead all signs
point to Crewman Suder, a former Maquis and a Betazoid, as the murderer.
Darwin even confesses, but when Janeway is loathe to either imprison him
for life or execute him, Tuvok tries to rehabilitate him using the Vulcan
mind meld. But entering the mind of Suder means that the murderer also
enters Tuvok's mind.
Guest Cast: Brad Dourif (Crewman Suder), Angela Dohrmann (Ricky),
Simon Billig (Crewman Jones), Majel Barret (Computer Voice)
033 DREADNOUGHT
- written by Gary Holland
- directed by LeVar Burton
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 49447.8: After coming upon a debris field, Torres realized
that it was caused by a powerful Cardassian weapon which had been brought
to the Delta quadrant by the Caretaker. Due to the jump, its navigational
system thinks that the Delta Quadrant's densely populated Rakosa 5 is its
target instead of the Cardassian fuel depot on Aschelan 5 in the Alpha
Quadrant. Unable to disarm the warhead, both Torres and Janeway face destruction
as they try to save the planet.
Guest Cast: Raphael Sbarge (Ensign Michael Jonas), Nancy Hower
(Ensign Wildmon), Michael Spound (Jonas' Kazon Handler), Dan Kern (First
Minister Kellan), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
034 DEATH WISH
- teleplay by Michael Piller
- story by Shawn Piller
- directed by James L. Conway
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: When the crew investigates a strange comet,
they accidentally beam aboard a renegade member of the Q continuum who
had been imprisoned for wanting to die. When Q comes to take him back,
the new Q requests asylum from Captain Janeway who convenes a hearing to
determine whether asylum will be granted. Although Q attempts to influence
the outcome, the Captain comes to a difficult decision on her own.
Guest Cast: John de Lancie (Q), Gerrit Graham (Q), Jonathan
Frakes (Commander Riker), Peter Dennis (Isaac Newton), Maury Ginsberg (himself)
035 LIFESIGNS
- written by Kenneth Biller
- directed by Cliff Bole
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: Voyager beams aboard a dying Vidiian woman.
The Doctor creates an image of her from the transporter pattern buffer
to stabilize her while he attempts a cure. She turns out to be a hematologist
who was traveling to a distant colony to help combat the Phage. In curing
her, the Doctor learns much about himself too.
Guest Cast: Susan Diol (Danara Pel), Raphael Sbarge (Ensign
Michael Jonas), Martha Hackett (Seska), Michael Spound (Jonas' Kazon Handler)
036 INVESTIGATIONS
- teleplay by Jeri Taylor
- story by Jeff Schnaufer & Ed Bond
- directed by Les Landau
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: We see the first episode of "A Briefing
With Neelix", an internal broadcast which Neelix hopes will improve
morale. But after speaking with Harry Kim, former editor of the StarFleet
Academy newspaper, he is inspired to investigate the departure of Tom Paris.
Tom's departure and his previous bad behavior were all a ruse to flush
out the person who was passing information to Seska and the Kazon. But
Neelix doesn't know this and jepordizes the whole scheme.
Guest Cast: Raphael Sbarge (Ensign Michael Jonas), Martha Hackett
(Seska), Jerry Sroka (Laxeth), Simon Billig (Ensign Hogan), Majel Barrett
(Computer Voice)
037 DEADLOCK
- written by Brannon Braga
- directed by David Livingston
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: The crew anticipates the arrival of Voyager's
first baby as Ensign Wildman goes into labor. But the expectations are
marred when a flotilla of Vidiian ships is spotted ahead. Janeway orders
a detour through a nebula, but that route causes severe damage to the ship.
Voyager becomes stranded when its antimatter supply begins to drain with
no explanation. Harry is killed when a hull breach opens beneath him and
he falls into open space, and Kes vanishes through an unknown portal. The
crew prepares to abandon ship, and Janeway finally decides to evacuate
the bridge when she sees an image of herself on the bridge, battered,
bleeding and running toward the turbolift. And for reasons no one can
explain, a duplicate of Kes has suddenly appeared on board. After an
investigation, it is revealed that the subspace anomalies within the nebula
caused a quantum-level duplication of the ship and crew. Torres establishes
communications with the other Voyager, but the two captains cannot find any
course of action that won't destroy one or both ships. When a Vidiian ship
arrives and the organ harvesters board Voyager and begin wiping out the
crew, only one option seems viable - setting Voyager to self-destruct. But
without the crew's help, the "other" crew could also perish.
Guest Cast: Nancy Hower (Ensign Wildman), Simon Billig (Hogan),
Bob Clendenin (Vidiian Surgeon), Ray Proscia (Vidiian Commander), Keythe
Farley (Vidiian #2), Chris Johnston (Vidiian #1), Majel Barrett (Computer
Voice)
038 INNOCENCE
- teleplay by Lisa Klink
- story by Anthony Williams
- directed by James L. Conway
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate not given: One of Voyager's shuttles has crashed on
a class-M planet and Tuvok is unable to prevent Ensign Bennet from dying
from his injuries. Tuvok notices that they are being watched by a small
child and introduces himself. Two other children emerge from the jungle
and they tell Tuvok that they have been left here to be killed by a creature
called the morrok. Meanwhile, Voyager is making first contact with the
Drayans, a highly civilized race that does not invite the potential cultural
contamination from other species. The first contact is diplomatic enough,
but it is made clear that Voyager and her crew are not welcome. When Tuvok's
presence with the children becomes a diplomatic incident, Janeway faces
the possibility of a hostile reaction to any attempt to rescue him.
Guest Cast: Marnie McPhail (Alicia), Tiffany Taubman (Tressa),
Sarah Rayne (Elani), Tahj D. Mowry (Corin), Richard Garon (Bennet)
039 THE THAW
- teleplay by Joe Menosky
- story by Richard Gadas
- directed by Marvin V. Rush
- music by David Bell
Stardate not given: Voyager approaches a ravaged planet, but
Janeway is surprised when a hail is received from an automated system.
The message describes the disaster that devastated the planet and the cryogenically
frozen handful of survivors. Janeway has the survivors beamed up, and Harry
determines that their minds are linked in a complex computer system. Some
of the survivors have not, in fact, survived, and the doctor suspects some
kind of trauma; it is also discovered that the frozen survivors should
have been revived long ago. Harry and B'elanna are linked to the computer
and pay a visit to the artificial reality that the survivors' minds inhabit.
It turns out to be a bizarre circus environment which is ruled by a malevolent
clown known as Fear, who intends to keep the remaining survivors trapped
in their interactive system to preserve his own existence. One of the captives
reveals that the cyrogenically frozen corpses were killed by Fear. Fear
allows Torres to leave the system, but Harry is its hostage. The doctor
is sent in to negotiate with Fear, but is unable to make any headway and
another of the survivors is killed when Fear discovers an attempt to shut
the system down. Finally, Fear agrees to an exchange of all of his hostages
for a new victim: Janeway herself.
Guest Cast: Michael McKean (Fear), Thomas Kopache (Viorsa),
Carel Struycken (Masked Clown), Patty Maloney (Midget), Tony Carlin (Survivor
#1), Shannon O'Hurley (Survivor #2)
040 TUVIX
- teleplay by Kenneth Biller
- story by Andrew Shepard Price & Mark Gaberman
- directed by Cliff Bole
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 49655.2: Tuvok and Neelix are sent on an away mission
to collect samples of vegetation from a nearby planet. When they are beamed
back up, a transporter glitch combines them into one being, a Vulcan-Talaxian
fusion that eventually calls itself Tuvix. Tuvix has the knowledge, memories
and personalities of both Tuvok and Neelix, from Tuvok's expertise and
logic to Neelix's quirky emotions and his love for Kes. Despite the crew's
concerns about their two comrades, Tuvix is perfectly healthy and resumes
both Tuvok's tactical duties and even some of Neelix's cooking. After several
weeks, the doctor comes up with a means of splitting Tuvix back into his
component parts, but Tuvix himself refuses to undergo the procedure. Janeway
struggles with the implications of a decision that could amount to executing
Tuvix to bring Tuvok and Neelix back, but Tuvix tries to convince the crew
that the captain is about to commit murder.
Guest Cast: Tom Wright (Tuvix), Simon Billig (Hogan), Bahni
Turpin (Swinn)
041 RESOLUTIONS
- written by Jeri Taylor
- directed by Alexander Singer
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: Janeway and Chakotay, infected with a virus,
are awakened from stasis and find themselves on the planet where they contracted
the illness. The doctor's research indicates that leving the planet would
prove fatal for them, and suggests contacting the medically advanced Vidiians
for help, having failed to discover a cure himself. Survival provisions
are sent to the planet, and Janeway hands command over to Tuvok and orders
him to give the Vidiians a wide berth for the crew's safety. As Janeway
and Chakotay adjust to life in their new home and outside of the formal
command structure to which they are accustomed, Tuvok orders the ship to
steer clear of a Vidiian convoy despite the protests of many of the crew.
A violent storm on the planet wrecks the equipment Janeway has been using
to conduct her own research on the virus, and she finally begins to resign
herself to the possibility that she and Chakotay may have to settle into
the roles of Adam and Eve. Tuvok finally consents to contact the Vidiians,
but despite the fact that the doctor's old flame Dr. Denara Pel offers
an antidote to the disease, her fellow Vidiians carry out a relentless
ambush on Voyager.
Guest Cast: Susan Diol (Dr. Denara Pel), Simon Billig (Hogan),
Bahni Turpin (Swinn)
042 BASICS - part I
- written by Michael Piller
- directed by Winrich Kolbe
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: Voyager receives a message from an automated
buoy sent by Seska, begging Chakotay to rescue her and the child she conceived
with his DNA from the Kazons. The crew come up with a variety of tactical
options in the likely event of a Kazon trap including holographic decoy
ships and help from a nearby Talaxian colony, and Janeway decides to assume
that Seska and the child are in actual danger. A Kazon life pod is discovered,
carrying Tiernah, one of Cullah's aides who has apparently fallen out of
favor with the Maje. He volunteers information on a safe path through Kazon
space which results in a number of minor hit-and-run Kazon attacks. Janeway
becomes suspicious when all the attacks focus on one seemingly unimportant
part of Voyager and orders the ship to double back on its course, only
to find a well-organized Kazon ambush. Tiernah detonates a kamikaze bomb
implanted in his own body, and the attacks render the ship completely helpless,
unable even to self-destruct. Suder, the Betazoid crewman who has been
confined for murder, goes into hiding in the ship's ducting. Tom Paris
takes a shuttle to go back and retrieve help from the Talaxians, but contact
with him is lost in the ensuing battle. Cullah and the Kazons board Voyager
with Seska in tow and take command of the ship. The entire crew is left
on a primitive planet without any technology, and Janeway can only watch
helplessly as the crew's only hope to reach home rises into the sky and
off into space under the control of the Kazons.
Guest Cast: Brad Dourif (Suder), Anthony de Longis (Jal Cullah),
John Gegenhuber (Tiernah), Martha Hackett (Seska), Henry Darrow (Kolopak),
Scott Haven (Kazon #1), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
SEASON THREE
1996/1997
043 BASICS - part II
- written by Michael Piller
- directed by Winrich Kolbe
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 50032.7: Janeway and most of the crew, abandoned with
none of their technology on the volcanic planet by the Kazon Nistrim, struggle
to survive against both the elements and a group of primitive cave-dwellers.
Aboard the captured Voyager, the Doctor and recovering sociopath Lon Suder
form an alliance to try to wrest control back from Cullah's boarding party
while Tom Paris seeks help from a distant group of Talaxians. Suder makes
the greatest sacrifice of all as he finds he must release the dark side
of his psyche in order to save the ship. Chakotay establishes the rudiments
of communication with the tribesmen on the planet. And Paris convinces
a reluctant Commander Paxim to use his Talaxian fleet in an attack which
depends on timing to avoid disaster.
Guest Cast: Brad Dourif (Crewman Lon Suder), Anthony DeLongis
(Cullah), Martha Hackett (Seska), Nancy Hower (Ensign Samantha Wildman),
Simon Billig (Hogan), Scott Haven (Tribal Leader), David Cowgill (Kazon
Engineer), Michael Bailey Smith (Kazon Crewman), John Kenton Shull (Kazon
Crewman), Russ Fega (Commander Paxim), Majel Barrett (Narrator/Computer
Voice)
044 FLASHBACK
- teleplay by Brannon Braga
- story by Juliann Medina
- directed by David Livingston
- also see "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"
- music by David Bell
Stardate 50126.4: With the crew excited at the prospect of a
new source of sirillium, Voyager approaches a Class 17 nebula gaseous anomaly,
but at the sight of it on the viewscreen Tuvok experiences a flashback
to what is apparently a traumatic experience in his youth. Yet it is not
an episode from Tuvok's past and the Doctor has no explanation, except
for the observation that Tuvok's neural synapses break down each time the
"memory" returns. When Tuvok begins to express concern over finding
cloaked Klingon ships "this close to Klingon space," he decides
to regress using the technique of the Vulcan mind meld, asking Janeway
to be his guide and counselor. She joins in his memory as an outside observer
to objectify the experience. Yet he does not return to the memory in question
but to a memory of his first deep-space assignment, 80 years previously
aboard the Excelsior. It is here that the source of the mystery lies, but
they are fighting time as Tuvok's neural synapses continue to degrade and
Janeway suddenly becomes a participant in Tuvok's memory and not just an
observer.
Guest Cast: George Takei (Captain Hikaru Sulu), Grace Lee Whitney
(Commander Janice Rand), Jeremy Roberts (Ensign Dmitri Valtane), Boris
Krutonog (Helmsman Lojur), Michael Ansara (Kang)
045 THE CHUTE
- teleplay by Kenneth Biller
- story by Clayvon C. Harris
- directed by Les Landau
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 50156.2: Harry Kim, disoriented and injured, finds
himself in a circle of brutal thugs, his new neighbors in an alien prison
camp. Harry finds help in the form of fellow prisoner Tom Paris, and they
begin trying to escape, but their efforts are hindered by rising tempers,
caused by implants that stimulate random, violent impulses. Janeway receives
word that Kim and Paris have been convicted of a terrorist bombing on a
planet they were visiting, and that the sentence - lifetime imprisonment
in an inpenetrable location - has already been carried out. Paris and Kim
find that the only escape possible from their prison is through a chute
that is protected by a lethal force field, but during an attempt to short
out the chute's defenses they are attacked and Tom suffers a severe stab
wound. The Voyager crew track down the real terrorists, but by the time
Janeway can win a confession and clear her crewmates' names, their cellmates
may have murdered them - or they may have killed each other.
Guest Cast: Don McManus (?), Robert Pine (Ambassador Liria),
James Parks (Pitt), Ed Trotta (Vel), Beans Morocco (?), Rosemary Morgan (Piri)
046 THE SWARM
- written by Mike Sussman
- directed by Alexander Singer
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: En route back to Voyager, the shuttle carrying
Paris and Torres is boarded by two unfamiliar alien lifeforms, who render
the Voyager crewmembers unconscious and then leave. Voyager recovers the
shuttle, but as the Doctor treats the badly injured Paris, he suffers from
an increasing memory loss that he first encountered while running an opera
program on the holodeck. Kes notices the Doctor's forgetfulness and alerts
Torres to the problem. One easy solution would be to completely reinitialize
the Doctor, but he would lose every memory of the past two years. Trying
to salvage the wealth of information and relationships the Doctor has established,
Torres calls up a holodeck diagnostic simulation of the Doctor's creator,
Dr. Zimmerman. In the meantime, Janeway's decision to stealthily pass through
the territory claimed by a hive of insectoid beings may result in Voyager
being destroyed by the aliens' sheer numbers.
Guest Cast: Robert Picardo (Dr. Lewis Zimmerman), Carole Davis
(Diva), Steven Houska (Chardis), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
047 FALSE PROFITS
- teleplay by Joe Menosky
- story by George A. Brozak
- directed by Cliff Bole
- also see Next Generation The Price
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 50074.3: The investigation of a possible wormhole reveals
signs of visitors from the Alpha Quadrant on a primitive planet. Chakotay
and Paris make an incognito visit to a location where sensors have detected
a replicator in use, only to find a village of humanoids who seem obsessed
with charging money for any goods or services, no matter how insignificant.
At the heart of this culture lie two Ferengi, stranded in the Delta Quadrant
since they were trapped by the Barzan Wormhole discovered by the Enterprise
seven years earlier. The Ferengi have come to this society as gods bearing
wisdom - the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition - but their true motive is to
exploit the native population for their own gain. Janeway sets a plan into
motion which involves Neelix masquerading as an envoy from the Grand Nagus.
But if his disguise fails to fool the Ferengi, he may find that these profit-mongerers
will do anything to keep their grasp on godhood.
Guest Cast: Dan Shor (Arridor), Leslie Jordan (Koll), Michael
Ensign (Bard), Rob LaBelle (Kafar), Alan Altshuld (Sandalmaker), John Walter
Davis (Merchant)
048 REMEMBER
- teleplay by Lisa Klink
- story by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
- directed by Winrich Kolbe
- music by David Bell
Stardate 50203.1: As Voyager ferries some telepathic Delta Quadrant
denizens from a colony to their home world, B'elanna experiences an intense
dream about a member of their race, even though the object of her fascination
is not one of Voyager's passengers. B'elanna's dreams take stranger turns
as they progress along a continuing path, telling her a specific story
from the past, from point of view of one of the passengers. Though allegations
of telepathic interference are denied, B'elanna finally encounters the
person whose memories have been transmitted to her - an elderly woman who
dies immediately after sending B'elanna the last of her experiences involving
a rebel faction of the aliens' population which was massacred for opposing
the government. B'elanna believes that the woman whose life she experienced
was murdered by someone trying to cover up the truth about the alien's
violent history - and since she now possesses the secret, she may be next.
Guest Cast: Bruce Davison (Jareth), Eugene Roche (Yathen), Charles
Esten (Jubrel), Athena Massey (Jessen), Eve H. Brenner (Jora Marel), Nancy
Kaine (Woman), Tina Reddington (Girl), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
049 SACRED GROUND
- teleplay by Lisa Clink
- story by Geo Cameron
- directed by Robert Duncan McNeill
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 50063.2: On a visit to a monastery on an alien world,
Kes and Neelix visit a shrine. When Kes approaches it, an energy field
knocks her out, and a government official informs the crew that Kes has
been punished by the world's ancient spirits for trespassing on holy ground.
Beamed to Voyager's sickbay, Kes is slowly dying and the Doctor can offer
no alternatives to save her. Janeway beams down to the planet to undergo
any voyage of discovery necessary to save Kes, but her path is less than
straightforward and may not yield any useful information.
Guest Cast: Harry Groener (The Magistrate), Becky Ann Baker
(The Guide), Estelle Harris (Spirit #1), Keene Curtis (Spirit #2), Parley
Baer (Spirit #3)
050 FUTURE'S END
- written by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
- directed by David Livingston
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate not given: A brief encounter with a vessel whose lone
occupant claims to be a Federation time scout from 500 years in the future
results in a fierce firefight. The future captain describes a cataclysmic
disaster in the 29th century resulting from an incident that Voyager is
about to initiate. The timeship is damaged in the ensuing battle and falls
back into the temporal rift through which it arrived, which also drags
Voyager in. Voyager is taken back to Earth, 1996, and faint signs are detected
of the timeship. Janeway, Chakotay, Paris and Tuvok beam down incognito
to search for the wayward vessel, but unknown to them their own ship has
been detected in orbit by an astronomy graduate named Rain Robinson. Rain
contacts computer magnate Henry Starling, who is in possession of the timeship
while its original occupant languishes on the streets of Los Angeles. Tom
and Tuvok make their way to Griffith Observatory to erase Rain's evidence
of Voyager's presence, but she catches them in the act and is hot on their
trail as one of Starling's employees attempts to kill them all. Janeway
and Chakotay break into Starling's office and discover that he has already
contaminated the timeline, using the timeship's technology to jump-start
the computer revolution. Starling finds the uninvited guests and threatens
them, but Harry, left in command of Voyager, rescues them just in time.
But Starling still has the timeship - and worse yet, Voyager's low-orbit
rescue run has been detected by cameras on 20th century Earth.
Guest Cast: Ed Begley, Jr. (Henry Starling), Sarah Silverman
(Rain Robinson), Allan G. Royal (Captain Braxton)
051 FUTURE'S END - part II
- written by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
- directed by Cliff Bole
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate not given: Tuvok and Paris enlist Rain's help in contacting
Voyager and setting a trap for Starling which involves pinpointing his
location to allow a transporter kidnap from a shuttlecraft. Starling, however,
has two tricks up his sleeve - the Doctor, equipped with a portable holo-emitted,
is his hostage, and he has a device to thwart the shuttle's transporter.
The shuttle's systems overload and the shuttle, piloted by Chakotay and
Torres, crashes in the Arizona desert, but the Doctor escapes as Voyager
takes over transport of Starling. Chakotay and B'elanna fall into the hands
of a cult militia group, but are rescued by Tuvok and the newly independent
Doctor. Starling escapes and launches the timeship despite Janeway's warnings,
but his scheme for Earth's future won't exactly unfold as planned.
Guest Cast: Ed Begley, Jr. (Henry Starling), Sarah Silverman
(Rain Robinson), Allan G. Royal (Captain Braxton), Brent Hinkley (Militia
#1), Clayton Murray (Militia #2), Susan Patterson (Ensign Kaplan), Christian
R. Conrad (Dunbar), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
052 WARLORD
- teleplay by Lisa Klink
- story by Andrew Shepard Price and Mark Gaberman
- directed by David Livingston
- music by David Bell
Stardate 50348.1: Voyager's crew barely manages to rescue three
occupants of a battle-damaged spacecraft, one of whom dies in sickbay immediately
after transport. When Voyager returns the survivors to their planet, an
official beams aboard and is killed by Kes, who also kills the transporter
chief and struggles with Janeway. Kes and the other refugees steal a shuttlecraft
and run for it. Kes' body has been taken over by Tieran, a power-mad dictator
who has developed the ability to transfer his consciousness into the minds
of others to insure his immortality. Tieran kills the rightful ruler of
his people and assumes power, trying to coerce the youngest heir into backing
his coup. The elder heir, Demis, has beamed aboard Voyager to coordinate
efforts to restore the original government, and despite his overtures of
war, Janeway still insists on trying to recover Kes in body and spirit.
Kes also intends to break free of Tieran's influence, but he proves to
be a formidable enemy.
Guest Cast: Anthony Crivello (Demis), Brad Greenquist (Ameron), Galyn
Gorg (Enori), Charles Emmett (?), Karl Wiedergott (Tieran), Leigh J. McCloskey
(Doctor), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
053 THE Q AND THE GRAY
- teleplay by Kenneth Biller
- story by Shawn Piller
- directed by Cliff Bole
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 50384.2: After the crew witnesses a supernova explosion
from a safe distance, Janeway retires for the evening, only to be wooed
in her quarters by Q, who claims to want to mate with her. Naturally, Janeway
rebuffs Q's every advance, and eventually a female member of the Q Continuum
appears, claiming that she is bonded to Q. As an argument ensues between
the Qs, more imminent supernovae are detected and Janeway orders the ship
clear of the destruction, but with so many stars exploding, Voyager can't
avoid all of the shockwaves. Just before the first wave hits the ship,
Q whisks Janeway into a representation of the Q Continuum in the context
of the American Civil War. Q explains that the Continuum is in the throes
of its own civil war, sparked by the death of a fellow Q he prosecuted
on charges that a Q suicide would imbalance their whole society. Q's desire
to mate with Janeway is the result of his belief that, from his past experiences
with Janeway and Picard, a hybrid child would introduce the omnipotent
Q to the nobility of humans. Caught in a civil war among immortal beings,
and hoping that her crew can enlist the help of the Q's scorned mate, Janeway
tries to negotiate a peace with the Q traditionalists...but she's unaware
that her attempt to open talks will do nothing more than deliver Q into
the hands of his enemies.
Guest Cast: John de Lancie (Q), Suzie Plakson (Q), Harve Presnell
(Q)
054 MACROCOSM
- written by Brannon Braga
- directed by Alexander Singer
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 50425.1: Janeway and Neelix return from a diplomatic
mission to find Voyager adrift and the crew unconscious, concentrated in
a few areas of the ship. They find evidence of alien lifeforms that can
punch their way through doors and equipment, and a chance encounter with
one of the aliens results in Neelix's disappearance. Janeway arms herself
as she tries to find out what has happened to her crew, and encounters
and kills another of the alien lifeforms, but not before she has been infected
by an insect-like airborne virus. She makes her way to sickbay and the
Doctor describes an ill-fated humanitarian mission that resulted in the
infection of the entire Voyager crew. The virus breeds as a microscopic
organism and grows to its insect-like size to leave its victims' bodies,
finally evolving into a monster-sized attacker that seeks out new prey.
Janeway must find a way to single-handedly rid Voyager of a scourge that
outnumbers her by a factor of billions to one.
Guest Cast: Albie Selznick (Taktak Consul), Michael Fiske (Garan
Miner)
055 FAIR TRADE
- teleplay by Andre Bormanis
- story by Ronald Wilkerson & Jean Louise Matthias
- directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino
- music by David Bell
Stardate not given: With Neelix pursuing a promotion, Voyager
stops at a trading port at the edge of the vast and uncharted Nekrit Expanse.
Although the ship's environmental control systems require Pergium for replenishment,
it seems to be unavailable until an old friend of Neelix turns up with
a plan to obtain some. But when this plan turns out to involve dealing
narcotics in dark passageways late at night, things begin to get out of
control.
Guest Cast: James Nardini (Wixiban), Carlos Carrasco (Bahrat),
Alexander Enberg (Vorick), Steve Kehela (Sutok), James Horan (Tosin), Eric
Charp (Map Vendor)
056 ALTER EGO
- written by Joe Menosky
- directed by Robert Picardo
- music by Paul Baillargeon
Stardate 50460.3: The crew begins an analysis of an unusual
phenomenon called an inversion nebula which might provide fresh insight
into the nature of plasma reactions. Harry falls in love with a holodeck
character and when Tuvok attempts to help him use Vulcan mind-control techniques
to overcome his infatuation with a computer-generated subroutine, the crew
discovers that the object of Harry's desires is actually an alien life
form which has used the holodeck to interact with the crew. But Tuvok's
attempts to help set off a cascade of jealousy which endanger the entire
ship.
Guest Cast: Sandra Nelson (Marayna), Alexander Enberg (Vorick),
Shay Todd (Holowoman), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
057 CODA
- written by Jeri Taylor
- directed by Nancy Malone
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: While on a planetary mission, the captain
and Chakotay crash and are killed by the Vidiians. Suddenly they are back
aboard the shuttle approaching the planet where they recognize the sense
of deja-vu. This time they recognize a Vidiian ship and attempt to outrun
it, but they die under enemy fire in space, and they loop back to the beginning
of the sequence once again. This time they make it back to the ship, but
Chakotay no longer has any memory of the time loop and Janeway has the
Doctor examine her. This time it turns out that she has the Vidiian phage
and is shocked when the Doctor euthanizes her against her will to keep
the phage from spreading to the crew. But she comes back yet again to the
shuttle with Chakotay where this time they fly into a bright spatial anomaly,
whereupon Janeway suddenly finds herself on the planet where she sees Chakotay
trying to revive another iteration of herself. They beam back to Voyager
where the Captain dies yet again. This time she meets her dead father as
the crew undergoes a period of mourning for their captain. But while her
father seems to be providing answers for her, it seems as if he has an
agenda of his own.
Guest Cast: Leo Cariou (Admiral Janeway), Majel Barrett (Computer
Voice)
058 BLOOD FEVER
- written by Lisa Klink
- directed by Andrew Robinson
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 50537.2: Large deposits of gallicite draw Voyager to
an abandoned planet for this material will enable a refit of the warp coils.
But while preparing for the expedition, Ensign Vorick comes under the influence
of the Pon Farr and declares his intention to take B'ellana as a mate,
attempting to force his affections on her. Although this results in a dislocated
jaw for Vorick, the physical contact seems to have caused a change in the
chief engineer resulting from a mating bond. As the odd triangle (which
includes Tom Paris) is resolved, the crew discovers that the planet is
not abandoned after all, but is inhabited by the Sakari, a race which has
developed camouflage to a high art to avoid their ancient enemies - the
Borg.
Guest Cast: Alexander Enberg (Vorik), Bruce Bohne (Sakari Leader),
Deborah Levin (Ensign Lang)
059 UNITY
- written by Kenneth Biller
- directed by Robert Duncan McNeill
- music by David Bell
Stardate 50622.4: While exploring the Nekrit Expanse in a shuttle,
Chakotay responds to a distress call which recognizes their Federation
signature, but when he goes to the surface to investigate he runs into
a firefight between rival factions. Meanwhile, Voyager runs into an abandoned
Borg cube adrift in space. It turns out that the people on the planet were
once a part of the Borg collective, but the link was severed about five
years previously and they fell into anarchy. A small group of the castaways
tries to enlist Chakotay's help to bring some order to the society, but
the Voyager crew is concerned that this action would re-awaken the Borg
ship.
Guest Cast: Lori Hallier (Riley Frazier), Ivar Brogger (Orum),
Susan Patterson (Ensign Kaplan)
060 DARKLING
- teleplay by Joe Menosky
- story by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
- directed by Alexander Singer
- music by Paul Baillargeon
Stardate 50693.2: The Doctor attempts to modify himself by adding
behavioral subroutines while the Voyager crew treats with the Mikhal Travelers,
trading supplies for information on the Nekrit Expanse. But while the Travelers
seem very helpful, and Kes becomes romantically involved with one of their
pilots, a strange series of changes begins to take place in the Doctor.
The new subroutines seem to have created an alter ego which is becoming
separate from the Doctor's normal personality. He begins to display a violent
jealousy over Kes' blossoming relationship, combined with the ruthlessness
to carry out his intentions. B'ellana's efforts to help modify his program
only brings the ship, crew, and especially Kes closer to danger.
Guest Cast: David Lee Smith (Zahir), Stephen Davies (Nakhan),
Noel De Souza (Ghandi), Christopher Clarke (Lord Byron), Sue Henley (Ensign),
Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
061 RISE
- teleplay by Brannon Braga
- story by Jimmy Diggs
- directed by Robert Scheerer
- music by Paul Baillargeon
Stardate not given: Neelix joins a crew attempting to help Nezu
colonists during a series of asteroid collisions. Voyager fails in its
attempt to vaporize an incoming asteroid and discovers that they're artificially
guided. When Neelix and Tuvok are abandoned on the planet just before the
next scheduled asteroid strike, they and some colonists use a maglift carriage
to climb an orbital tether to a point where they can contact the ship.
But one of the Nezu is determined to keep the others from passing on what
they know. As the carriage rises into the thinning atmosphere, they discover
what the real motivation behind both the asteroids and the surrounding
secrecy is.
Guest Cast: Alan Oppenheimer (Sklar), Lisa Kaminir (Lillias),
Kelly Connell (Ambassador), Tom Towles (Hanjuam), Geof Prysirr (Dr. Vatm)
062 FAVORITE SON
- teleplay by Brannon Braga
- story by Lisa Klink
- directed by Marvin V. Rush
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 50732.4: Ensign Kim fires without warning or explanation
on an alien ship. This startling action has apparently saved Voyager, but
Harry continues to "remember" things about a place he's never
been. When more Nasari ships appear to press the attack, Voyager is saved
by a Taresian vessel and escorted to their homeworld with the surprising
news that Harry is actually a Taresian - conceived in the Delta Quadrant
and taken to Earth for fosterage unknown to his human parents. The Taresians
bend over backwards to welcome Harry back to the fold, even preparing him
for their form of multiple marriage, but Harry and the crew sense something
amiss.
Guest Cast: Cari Shayne (Eliann), Deborah May (Lyris), Patrick
Fabian (Taymon), Kelli Kirkland (Rinna), Kristanna Loken (Malia), Christopher
Carroll (Alex), Irene Tsu (Mrs. Kim)
063 BEFORE & AFTER
- written by Kenneth Biller
- directed by Allan Kroeker
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate not given: "Grandma Kes" awakens surrounded
by people who claim they are her family, but whom she doesn't recognize.
She fades into unconsciousness and reawakens at a slightly earlier time
in her life. Although she remembers the experience, it apparently hasn't
happened yet for the rest of the crew. Confused and frightened, Kes continues
to experience the morilogium - the final phase of the Ocampan lifespan
- as well as the temporal effects of life-extension treatments in the Doctor's
experimental bio-temporal chamber. As the temporal effects grow more and
more out of control, Kes regresses through her entire life, seeing a 9-year
history of Voyager in reverse as she struggles to understand her situation
and how to stop what is happening to her.
Guest Cast: Jessica Collins (Linnis), Michael L. Maguire (Arnis),
Janna Michaels (young Kes), Rachel Harris (Martis), Christopher Aguilar
(Andrew)
064 REAL LIFE
- teleplay by Jeri Taylor
- story by Harry Kloor
- directed by Anson Williams
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate 50836.2: As the crew investigate the apparent destruction
of a Vostigye science station, the Doctor works on a program which has
created a family for him to interact with. He invites B'elanna and Kes
to join him in the holodeck for dinner with his new wife and children,
and they strike the chief engineer as being "ridiculously perfect."
B'elanna offers to help tweak the program a bit to bring it more in line
with the real experience of home life.
Guest Cast: Wendy Schaal (Charlene), Glenn Walker Harris, Jr.
(Jeffrey), Lindsey Haun (Belle), Stephen Ralston (Larg), Chad Haywood (K'Kath)
065 DISTANT ORIGIN
- written by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
- directed by David Livingston
- music by David Bell
Stardate not given: The Voyager crew are unwitting research
subjects after scientists of the Voth race, saurians who believe they were
the first intelligent beings to evolve in the Delta Quadrant, discover
the human remains of Voyager crewman Hogan and find a genetic pattern similar
to their own. When Gegen, the chief researcher, suggests that based on
these findings, the true origin of the Voth is Earth, their leader, Minister
Odala, deems him a heretic. To prove his theory, Gegen and his assistant
Veer track down Voyager, infiltrate the ship and take their next research
subject, Chakotay, hostage.
Guest Cast: Henry Woronicz (Gegen), Christopher Liam Moore (Tova
Veer), Marshall R. Teague (Hulak), Concetta Tomei (Minister Odala), Nina
Manton (Frola), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
066 DISPLACED
- written by Lisa Klink
- directed by Allan Kroeker
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 50912.4: As Nyrians begin appearing on the Voyager
at 9:20 intervals, crewmembers begin to disappear at the same rate. Although
the visitors seem peaceful, Janeway suspects an organized takeover. Her
suspicions are confirmed as the crew find themselves in a holographically
generated environment where they are held prisoner. The startling appearance
of a fellow prisoner from an adjoining "cell" makes them realize
how to move between areas of what turns out to be a giant ship filled with
different environments and a command center with an extremely long-range
transporter.
Guest Cast: Deborah Levin (Lang), Mark L. Taylor (Jarlath),
James Noah (Rislan), Kenneth Tigar (Dammar), Nancy Youngblut (Taleen),
Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
067 WORST CASE SCENARIO
- written by Kenneth Biller
- directed by Alex Singer
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 50953.4: Chakotay startles B'elanna by recruiting her
for a Maquis mutiny, and then proceeds to carry it out. Things get even
stranger when Seska turns up as one of the mutineers. Suddenly Paris walks
into the scene, revealing the fact that Torres is playing a holo-novel.
The experience was designed by Tuvok as a training exercise shortly after
the joining of the two crews when the security officer felt that a mutiny
was a real possibility. The fresh literary material is so intriguing to
the crew that many of them begin surreptitiously playing the program and
Janeway instructs Tuvok to write an ending and make it more than a training
exercise. But Seska had discovered the program before she defected to the
Kazon and she rewrote the subroutines to take her revenge on Tuvok for
having betrayed the Maquis back when they were still in the Alpha Quadrant.
Guest Cast: Martha Hackett (Seska), Majel Barrett (Computer
Voice)
068 SCORPION - part I
- written by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
- directed by David Livingston
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate 50984.3: As Voyager approaches the edge of Borg space,
they discover a narrow passage which is empty of Borg activity and decide
to try to thread their way through it in an effort to avoid confrontation.
But they suddenly realize that the reason for the lack of Borg activity
is the invasion of another species which apparently has no trouble at all
defeating the Borg cubes with bio-ships impervious to assimilation. A Voyager
away team visits a dying cube ship which has one of the alien vessels attached
to it. The crew manage to download the Borg's information on the new species,
named "8472," but Harry Kim is attacked by the pilot of the bio-ship
and is given a virulent infection which begins to devour him from the inside
out. While Ensign Kim fights for his life, a conflicted Janeway grapples
with the decision of either guiding her crew through the dangerous Borg
territory which is lined with a new mortal enemy or turning around and
ending all hope of ever getting home.
Guest Cast: John Rhys-Davies (Leonardo Da Vinci)
SEASON FOUR
1997/1998
069 SCORPION - part II
- Airdate: 9/03/97
- written by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
- directed by Winrich Kolbe
- music by Jay Chattaway
Stardate not given: Janeway strikes a deal with the Borg to
exchange the modified nanotechnology for a safe trip through Borg territory,
but almost immediately things go wrong. The Borg attempt to force Janeway
into a direct neural link to the Collective, but she instead demands that
the Borg choose a single drone to facilitate verbal communication, and
a female human Borg called Seven of Nine is appointed. An ambush by Species
8472 destroys the Borg cube containing Janeway, but she, Tuvok and a number
of Borg safely transport back to Voyager. The Borg quickly assimilate the
cargo bay which they have taken over, and Janeway must recover from injuries
she sustained in the attack on the Borg ship. When Seven of Nine demands
a change in the ship's course taking it into the heart of Borg space, Chakotay
decides to abort the newly-forged alliance with the Borg. Now the crew
faces the prospect of a Borg invasion from within, or a violent death at
the hands of Species 8472, unless Janeway and Chakotay can overcome their
differences of opinion regarding cooperation with the Borg.
Guest Cast: Jennifer Lien (Kes), Majel Barrett (Narrator)
070 THE GIFT
- Original Air Date: 9/10/97
- written by Joe Menosky
- directed by Anson Williams
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: Seven of Nine, isolated from the Borg Collective
and left behind on Voyager, begins a turbulent process of recovery in sick
bay. The Doctor believes that she can regain her human biology and identity,
but her assimilation during early childhood will make the process difficult.
Seven of Nine begins to experience seizures - the Borg's last line of defense
is to kill a drone before another species can try to gain an understanding
of its Borg technology. Kes miraculously destroys the offending Borg implant
through telekinesis, an ability with which she has not experimented for
two years. Seven of Nine reviles the crew's attempt to restore her humanity,
even making the accusation that Janeway's forced removal of her Borg enhancements
are no better than Borg assimilation. Tuvok resumes his meditative exercises
with Kes to focus her new abilities, but she begins to exhibit a terrifying
command over the structure of matter itself. Between Seven of Nine attempting
to regain communications with the Borg, and Kes' increasing lack of control
over her enhanced abilities, the crew may lose friends both old and new.
Guest Cast: Jennifer Lien (Kes)
Note: This is the final episode to feature Jennifer Lien as Kes.
071 DAY OF HONOR
- Original Air Date: 9/17/97
- written by Jeri Taylor
- directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: Voyager encounters a handful of ships carrying
the only survivors of a Delta Quadrant race which was all but wiped out
by the Borg, and Janeway agrees to the refugees' requests for supplies.
The reminder of the Borg's destructive power doesn't help the crew's perception
of Seven of Nine, who requests an assignment to engineering. B'elanna,
who is already suffering her way through the traditional Klingon Day of
Honor, doesn't welcome the former Borg, who has proposed using transwarp
flight to speed Voyager's journey. The transwarp experiment fails, forcing
B'elanna to dump the warp core into open space - and the Ketati refugees
take possession of the core before she and Paris can salvage it via shuttle.
And the Ketati would also like Janeway to hand Seven of Nine over to them
so they can settle old scores.
Guest Cast: Alexander Enberg (Ensign Vorik), Alan Altshuld (Ranen),
Michael A. Krawic (Klingon), Kevin P. Stillwell (Ketati), Majel Barrett
(Computer Voice)
072 NEMESIS
- Original Air Date: 9/24/97
- written by Kenneth Biller
- directed by Alexander Singer
- music by David Bell
Stardate 51082.4: Chakotay is stranded on a world torn by war,
his shuttle shot down by one of the aggressors. After a reluctantly friendly
Voray defender is shot down by the Kradin while trying to take Chakotay
back to his shuttle, the first officer has to adopt the Voray's indigenous
clothing for cover. That night, he is traveling with the Voray soldiers
to their base, in the hope that they will be able to contact Voyager, and
sees for himself the way the Kradin dispose of the Boray. Still wary of
involving himself in their way, Chakotay is forced to defend himself when
the nemesis ambushes his party, and escapes wounded while the rest of the
Boray fall in the attack. He makes his way to a nearby village and is cared
for until the Kradin attack there, too. On Voyager, Janeway has been offered
help in locating her first officer. An ambassador from one of the warring
races beams up to discuss the situation, an ambassador who is horrified
at the way his helpless people are being preyed upon by their merciless
nemesis...an ambassador of the Kradin.
Guest Cast: Michael Mahonen (Broam), Matt E. Levin (Rafen),
Nathan Anderson (Namen), Peter Vogt (Penno), Booth Colman (Voray Soldier),
Meghan Murphy (Karia), Terrence Evans (Ambassador Treen), Marilyn Fox (Marna),
Pancho Demmings (Kradin Soldier)
073 REVULSION
- Original Air Date: 10/01/97
- written by Lisa Klink
- directed by Kenneth Biller
- music by David Bell
Stardate 51186.2: Voyager receives a distress call from a hologram
aboard an alien ship who claims that his organic crewmates are dead. Naturally,
the Doctor takes a particular interest in this away mission and visits
the ship along with Torres. The hologram is a nervous wreck with a great
deal of hostility toward organic life forms, which manifests itself in
a conversation B'elanna. On Voyager, Seven of Nine is assigned to help
Harry with a new project, and Harry goes from dreading her company to seeing
her as viable female companionship, although the former Borg is only confused
by his flirtations (and scares him with her own direct approach to human
relationships). If the Doctor can escape his fellow hologram's murderous
obsession, Harry may need his help if Seven of Nine gets her hands on him.
Guest Cast: Leland Orser (Isomorph) and Spectrum, the holographic fish
Note: Tuvok is promoted to lieutenant commander at the beginning
of this episode, although he wore the rank insignia of a lieutenant command
through much of the first season.
074 THE RAVEN
- Original Air Date: 10/08/97
- teleplay by Bryan Fuller
- story by Bryan Fuller and Harry Doc Kloor
- directed by LeVar Burton
- music by Dennis McCarthy
Stardate not given: Seven of Nine has been experiencing vague
visions about the Borg, including the rather incongruous image of a shrieking
raven inside a Borg ship. While Seven tries to deal with these disturbing
episodes, Janeway opens negotiations with the somewhat paranoid Bomar race,
who only offer the Voyager crew a long, convoluted path through their territory.
The talks with the Bomar are made even more difficult when Seven of Nine's
Borg nature resurfaces and, after threatening to assimilate Neelix and
forcing her way into a shuttle, she escapes and flies right into Bomar
space. The Bomar consider Seven's unplanned journey - and Janeway's plans
for a rescue mission - to be hostile actions, but nothing can stop a Borg
drone when it is receiving a homing signal to rejoin the Borg collective.
Guest Cast: Richard J. Zobel Jr. (Chancellor Gorman), Mickey
Cottrell (Bomar Assistant), David Anthony Marshall (Father), Nikki Tyler
(Mother), Erica Lynne Bryan (Little Girl), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
075 Scientific Method
- Original Air Date: 10/29/97
- Written by: Sherry Klein & Harry Doc Kloor
- Teleplay by: Lisa Klink
- Directed by: David Livingston
- Guest Cast:
- Annette Helde (Takar)
- Rosemary Forsyth (Alzen)
The crew begins to exhibit strange medical symptoms and the Borg, Seven of
Nine, soon discovers the cause.
076 Year of Hell, part I
- Original Air Date: 11/05/97
- Written by: Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
- Directed by: Allan Kroeker
- Guest Cast:
- John Loprieno (Obrist)
- Peter Slutsker (Krenim Commandant)
- Rick Fitts (Zahl)
- Deborah Levin (Ensign Lang)
- Sue Henley (Ensign Brooks)
- Kurtwood Smith (Annorax)
Distressed at the loss of his family and an entire colony of his people by a
hostile alien enemy, Krenim leader, Annorax, has mastered time manipulation
and can obliterate history, making entire lifeforms and civilizations cease
to have ever existed. In this way, he hopes to restore his loved ones by
erasing the enemy that caused their deaths. His well-calculated plans are
thwarted by the incursion of the U.S.S. Voyager. Captain Janeway and her crew
come between Annorax and his plans, for which it seems he will make good on
his promise to destroy the starship.
077 Year of Hell, part II
- Original Air Date: 11/12/97
- Directed by: Mike Vejar
A crippled U.S.S. Voyager, structurally weakened and shattered beyond
operation, hides from the pursuing Krenim weapon-ship, in the conclusion of a
two part story. Most of the crew has abandoned the U.S.S. Voyager, leaving
only a skeletal staff and the determined Captain Janeway on-board. With whole
segments of the proud starship missing, and life-support systems failing,
Captain Janeway is adamant about defeating the Krenim or going down with her
ship.
078 Random Thoughts
- Original Air Date: 11/19/97
- Written by: Kenneth Biller
- Directed by: Alexander Singer
- Guest Cast:
- Gwynth Walsh (Nimira)
- Wayne Pere (Guill)
- Rebecca McFarland (Talli)
- Jeanette Miller (the woman)
- Ted Barba (Malin)
- Bobby Burns (Frane)
A visit to the homeworld of the Mari, a race of telepathic beings, gives the
U.S.S. Voyager crew a chance for some much-deserved "shore-leave." However,
these beings, who have forbidden violent thoughts as well as actions have
B'Elanna Torres arrested for involuntarily thinking of an angry retaliation
to an incident. Tuvok becomes involved in her case and makes a startling
discovery about the Mari.
079 Concerning Flight
- Original Air Date: 11/26/97
- Written by: Jimmy Diggs & Joe Menosky
- Teleplay written by: Joe Menosky
- Directed by: Jesus Salvador
- Guest Cast:
- John Vargas (Tau)
- Don Pugsley (alien visitor)
- John Rhys-Davies (Leonardo da Vinci)
Small and nimble alien spacecraft attack the U.S.S. Voyager, using high
energy transports to break through the ship's shields, scan its contents and
pluck off valuable equipment. Janeway and Tuvok beam down to the pirates'
homeworld in search of the ship's main computer. To their surprise, they find
Janeway's holographic Leonardo da Vinci, who becomes an essential part of
their plans to retrieve the goods and leads them to the pirate king, Tau.
080 Mortal Coil
- Original Air Date: 12/17/97
- Teleplay written by: Bryan Fuller
- Directed by: Allan Kroeker
- Guest Cast:
- Nancy Hower (Ensign Wildman)
- Brooke Ashley Stephens (Naomi)
- Robin Stapler (Alixia)
Neelix is preparing a shipboard feast on the eve of Prixin, the Talaxian
celebration of family, when he is asked by Chakotay to join him and Paris on
a shuttle mission. Neelix is all too glad to help, but the assignment proves
to be fatal for him. Upon the shuttle's return to the U.S.S. Voyager, Seven
of Nine, citing Neelix's diverse functions within the crew, applies Borg
technology to reactivate him. Alive and shaken by his death, Neelix questions
his assumptions about life -- and the promised afterlife -- as the Prixin
festivities commence.
081 Waking Moments
- Original Air Date: 1/14/98
- Directed by: Alexander Singer
- Teleplay by: Andre Bormanis & Kenneth Biller
- Guest Cast:
- Mark Colson (the Dream Alien)
- Jennifer Grundy (Ensign)
The Voyager crew is attacked by a species who occupy a parallel reality in
the human dreamstate. Only Chakotay, with his native knowledge of waking
dreams, knows how to lead a counterattack.
082 Message In A Bottle
- Original Air Date: 1/21/98
- Teleplay by: Lisa Klink
- Directed by: Nancy Malone
- Guest Cast:
- Andy Dick (EMH-2)
- Judson Scott (Rekar)
- Valerie Wildman (Nevala)
- Tiny Ron Idrin)
- Tony Sears (Starfleet officer)
In an attempt to communicate with Starfleet, The Doctor is transmitted
thousands of light years to an experimental prototype Starfleet vessel
overrun by Romulans.
083 "Hunters"
- Production Code: STV415
- Original Air Date: Feb. 11, 1998
- Teleplay by: Jeri Taylor
- Directed by: David Livingston
- Guest Cast:
- Tiny Ron as Alpha-Hirogen
- Roger Morrissey as Beta-Hirogen
Miraculously, the ship begins receiving messages, transmitted across the vast
distances over the same relay system, from relieved family and friends back
home. Voyager's crew is elated to finally hear from loved ones after so many
years. However, for Captain Janeway and others, their joy is tempered by
bittersweet news.
Many messages are still being held at the module. Voyager proceeds to the
alien craft to attempt retrieval of the remaining transmissions. Tuvok and
Seven of Nine are ordered to board a shuttle and inspect the craft. Before
they can, however, they are captured, beamed aboard an alien vessel and
trussed-up like animals as a rude introduction to the Hirogen, a hostile,
alien race of hunters. Living for the thrill of the hunt, the Hirogens have
targeted Voyager's crew as prey in their latest game.
084 "Prey"
- Production Code: STV416
- Original Air Date: Feb. 18, 1998
- Teleplay by: Brannon Braga
- Directed by: Allan Eastman
- Guest Cast:
- Tiny Todd as Alpha-Hirogen
- Clint Carmichael as the Hirogen Hunter
Voyager encounters a Hirogen ship, adrift, with a critically wounded Hirogen
hunter on board. Janeway orders that the alien be beamed into Voyager's
sickbay, despite Seven of Nine's warnings that the formidable Hirogen would
regard the crew as no more than prey to be hunted and killed. Janeway
disavows her concern and brings the Hirogen onboard. His presence brings even
greater danger when the creature that he has been hunting across space --
species 8247, lethal even to the Borg -- boards Voyager.
085 "Retrospect"
- Production Code: STV417
- Original Air Date: Feb. 25, 1998
- Story by: Mark Gaberman & Andrew Shepard Price
- Teleplay by: Bryan Fuller & Lisa Klink
- Directed by: Jesus Salvador Trevino
- Guest Cast:
- Michael Horton as Kovin
- Adrian Sparks as Magistrate
- Michelle Agnew as Scham
Kovin, an alien arms merchant, is on board the U.S.S. Voyager to barter his
impressive array of weapons with Captain Janeway. As installation of the
weapons will require a reconfiguration of the U.S.S. Voyager's schematics,
Janeway orders Seven of Nine to assist Kovin. Seven complies, if only to get
back into Janeway's good graces after their recent disagreements. However, an
altercation between Seven and Kovin brings the Captain to believe Seven is once
again non-cooperative - until The Doctor makes a discovery about Kovin and
Seven.
086 & 087 "The Killing Game, part I & II"
- Production Code: STV418
- Original Air Date: March 4, 1998 (both aired on the same night)
- Teleplay by: Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
- Directed by: David Livingston (Part I) & Victor Lobl (Part II)
- Guest Cast:
- Danny Goldring as the Alpha Hirogen
- Mark Metcalf as the Hirogen Medic
- Mark Deakins as the Hirogen SS Officer
- J. Paul Boehmer as the Kapitan
- Paul Eckstein as the young Hirogen
- Peter Hendrixson as the Klingon
Having invaded Voyager and discovered the many uses of the Holodeck, Hirogen
hunters have been playing a deadly game with Voyager crew members, putting
them through various scenarios in which they are being hunted down as prey.
One of the scenarios takes place in occupied France, with the Hirogen as Nazi
SS Officers chasing down Captain Janeway, Seven of Nine, Tuvok and Torres as
members of the French Resistance.
Implanted with subdermal transmitters, the crewmembers have no knowledge that
they have identities beyond the characters they are playing. Only the Doctor,
forced to mend the steady stream of wounded crewmembers to sick bay, is
conscious of the invaders. He soon figures out a way to disengage Janeway and
Seven of Nine, who then must begin to figure out how to defeat the Hirogen at
their own game.
088 "Vis-a-Vis"
- Production Code: STV420
- Original Air Date: 4/08/98
- Teleplay by: Robert J. Doherty
- Directed by: Jesus Salvador Trevino
- Guest Cast:
- Dan Butler as Steth
- Elizabeth McGlynn as Daelen
U.S.S. Voyager comes to the aid of an alien, Steth, who claims to be the test
pilot of a new spacecraft that has run into trouble. Paris, who has become weary
of being on the U.S.S. Voyager, volunteers to help him repair his ship. However,
Steth is able to copy Paris's DNA and swaps physical appearances with him.
Paris is then left behind in Steth's ship while the imposter takes over his duties
at the helm and leaves the real Paris behind. It isn't long before "Steth" is
confronted by Daelen, another alien who is seeking her original form. Back on
the U.S.S. Voyager, Janeway suspects something is wrong, but Steth assumes
her appearance and takes command.
089 "The Omega Directive"
- Production Code: STV421
- Original Air Date: 4/15/98
- Teleplay by: Lisa Klink
- Story by: Jimmy Diggs & Steve J. Kay
- Directed by: Victor Lobl
- Guest Cast:
- Jeff Austin as Allos
- Kevin McCorkle as the Alien Captain
The crew is mystified when Captain Janeway begins an important, though highly
secretive, operation in response to a strange subspace disturbance. Chakotay
finally compels her to tell the crew so that they may help. Janeway explains
that Voyager has detected a dangerous, unstable substance called the Omega.
The molecule has the power to destroy space and Starfleet's highly classified
operating order is to destroy the Omega whenever it is encountered. Seven of
Nine speaks out to say that the Borg believe the Omega can be captured and
neutralized for study, which puts her in conflict with Janeway's Starfleet
mission.
090 "Unforgettable"
- Production Code: STV422
- Original Air Date: 4/22/98
- Teleplay by: Greg Elliot & Michael Perricone
- Directed by: Andrew J. Robinson
- Guest Cast:
- Virginia Madsen as Kellin
- Michael Canavan as Curneth
Voyager encounters an alien vessel fleeing attack whose sole inhabitant is a
female alien asking for Chakotay to help rescue her. The startled Chakotay
leads an Away mission to the damaged ship to help the alien, Kellin, who
claims that she and Chakotay met before. Back on board Voyager, Kellin claims
to have been on the ship not very long ago and she fell in love with Chakotay.
Now fleeing her home planet's repressive government, she seeks asylum aboard
the starship. Chakotay, though drawn to her, doesn't know whether to believe
her or not.
091 "Living Witness"
- Production Code: STV423
- Original Air Date: 4/29/98
- Story by: Brannon Braga
- Teleplay by: Bryan Fuller
- Directed by: Tim Russ
- Guest Cast:
- Henry Woronicz as Quarren
- Rod Arrants as Daleth
- Craig Richard Nelson as Vaskan Arbiter
- Marie Chambers as Kyrian Arbiter
- Brian Fitzpatrick as Tedran
- Morgan Margolis as the Vaskan visitor
A curious holographic tableau is on display in a Kyrian Museum and the curator,
Quarren, explains to visitors how the intervention of the Voyager spacecraft
started an apocalyptic war on a planet inhabited by two species: the Kyrians
and the Vaskans. Ethnic rivalries between the two races are still uneasy, seven
hundred years after Voyager has come and gone, and some Vaskan visitors are
appalled by the Kyrians reconstruction of history based on a few recovered
artifacts. But more damaging information is on the way, when Quarren activates
a newly discovered device containing active data. This turns out to be the
holograph program for The Doctor, who soon finds himself on trial for war crimes
attributed to Voyager and its crew over seven centuries ago.
092 "Demon"
- Production Code: STV424
- Original Air Date: 5/06/98
- Story by: Andre Bormanis
- Written by: Kenneth Biller
- Directed by: Anson Williams
- Guest Cast:
With fuel dwindling to nothing, Voyager lands on a "demon" planet -- so- called
because its environment is toxic to human life -- to collect from its vast
deuterium lode. Both Tom Paris and Harry Kim are suited up in protective gear
and sent out to collect the precious deuterium, but return without their
protective suits. Instead, it is now Voyager's environment that is poisonous to
them.
093 "One"
- Production Code: STV425
- Original Air Date: 5/13/98
- Teleplay by: Jeri Taylor
- Directed by: Kenneth Biller
- Guest Cast:
- Wade Williams as Trajis Lo-Tarik
With the entire crew now in cryogenic sleep, and only the Doctor for company,
Seven of Nine is the only living being walking the ship's hallways. The long
and lonely journey through the nebula begins to play tricks on the former
Borg's mind as she experiences what humans call "hallucinations." An alien,
Trajis Lo-Tarik, also making his way through the nebula, asks to trade some
vital supplies, but his presence unleashes a series of events that Seven can't
decipher as to whether they are real threats -- or even if Trajis himself is
real.
094 "Hope and Fear"
- Production Code: STV426
- Original Air Date: 5/20/98
- Story by: Rick Berman, Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
- Teleplay by: Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
- Directed by: Winrich Kolbe
- Guest Cast:
- Ray Wise as Arturis
- Jack Shearer as Starfleet Admiral Hayes
The badly damaged encoded message received from Starfleet Command five months
ago is finally translated by Arturis, an alien passenger recently invited
onboard, whose species has a great affinity for language. The directive brings
Voyager to a spacecraft, emitting a distinctive Starfleet warp signature, but
totally unlike any Starfleet vessel known. With a propulsion system faster than
warp speed, the ship is capable of bringing the Voyager crew to Earth - crossing
60,000 light years - within just three months. The crew is elated, but Captain
Janeway expresses caution, even though they are all secretly hoping to be home
very, very soon
SEASON FIVE
1998/1999
095 "Night"
- Production Code: STV501
- Original Air Date: 10/14/98
- Teleplay by:
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- Guest Cast:
The crew of the USS Voyager is unsettled as a secluded and conflicted Captain Janeway reflects on the decision she's made along the mission and the consequences those judgements have had for them all. But soon the team of the USS Voyager encounters two never before seen alien species - a nocturnal alien and its foe, the Malon - and knows that one will not survive without their intervention. Knowing that coming to their aid makes a detour through dark, desolate space necessary, the captain alone must once again determine her crew's fate.
096 "Drone"
- Production Code: STV502
- Original Air Date: 10/21/98
- Teleplay by: Bryan Fuller, Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
- Story by: Bryan Fuller & Harry Doc Kloor
- Directed by: Les Landau
- Guest Cast:
- J. Paul Boehmer as Drone
- Todd Babcock as Lt. Mulchaey
There's a sudden emergence of a dangerous new lifeform aboard the USS Voyager - a
Superborg - after The Doctor's 29th century mobile emitter mysteriously fuses with
Seven of Nine's Borg nanoprobes.
"Extreme Risk"
- Production Code: STV503
- Original Air Date: 10/28/98
- Teleplay by: Kenneth Biller
- Directed by: Cliff Bole
- Guest Cast:
- Hamilton Camp as Vrelk
- Alexander Enberg as Vorik
- Daniel Betances as the pilot
Torres' crewmates are alarmed when she repeatedly engages in reckless activity including orbital skydiving. Meanwhile, after the USS Voyager directs its probe into a hazardous atmosphere, protecting it from a Malon freighter, Lt. Paris launches a newly constructed, all environment shuttlecraft, to retrieve it.
A new Starfleet vessel, the Delta Flyer, features an ultra-aerodynamic design with a Borg-inspired weapons system. Originally designed by Tom Paris as a warp-powered, ultra-responsive, twenty-fourth century "hot rod," it has traditional Starfleet design elements and some completely unique features - the result of the crew's diverse backgrounds.
"In The Flesh"
- Production Code: STV504
- Original Air Date: 11/11/98
- Teleplay by: Nicholas Sagan
- Directed by:David Livingston
- Guest Cast:
- Ray Walston as Boothby
- Kate Vernon as Archer
- Zach Galligan as Ensign Gentry
- Tucker Smallwood as Admiral Bullock
The USS Voyager discovers that Species 8472 has created a habitat simulation of Starfleet's San Francisco Yards, and are training their own to pose as humans to eventually invade Earth.
"TimeLess"
- Production Code: STV506
- Original Air Date: 11/18/98
- Teleplay by: : Rick Berman & Joe Menosky & Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
- Directed by: LeVar Burton
- Guest Cast:
- LeVar Burton as Captain Geordi LaForge
- Christine Harnos as Tessa
Fifteen years after the Starship U.S.S. Voyager crashes into a desolate ice planet, Commander Chakotay and former Ensign Harry Kim, sole survivors of the tragedy, steal the Delta Flyer from a Federation shipyard and return to the U.S.S. Voyager's frozen hull. Aided by Chakotay's striking love interest, Lieutenant Tessa Omond, Chakotay and Kim are hotly pursued fugitives with hope that somewhere embedded beneath the ice, they'll retrieve the only tools they believe can change the fate of their long-dead fellow crew members.
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"Infinite Regress"
- Production Code: STV507
- Original Air Date: 26/11/98
- Teleplay by: Robert J. Doherty
- Directed by: David Livingston
- Guest Cast:
- Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman
- Neil Maffin as Ven
- Erica Mer as Human Girl
Mysteriously, the U.S.S. Voyager comes upon a floating Borg Vinculum - a device that interconnects Drone's minds aboard a Borg vessel - which swiftly causes Seven of Nine to manifest personalities other than her own including that of a Klingon warrior, a Ferengi, and a six-year-old human girl. Janeway is crushed to learn that before Tuvok, The Doctor and she can intervene, Seven may be completely lost.
"Nothing Human"
- Production Code: STV508
- Original Air Date: 12/2/98
- Teleplay by: Jeri Taylor
- Directed by: David Livingston
- Guest Cast:
- David Clennon As Jad Mager
After Torres is stricken by a bizarre, injured alien that latches itself onto her body, The Doctor 
