Star Trek: Voyager
1995-2001
Regular Cast |
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|---|---|
| Kate Mulgrew | Captain Kathryn Janeway |
| Robert Beltran | Chakotay |
| Roxann Biggs-Dawson | B'elanna Torres |
| Jennifer Lien | Kes (season 1-3) |
| Robert Duncan McNeill | Tom Paris |
| Ethan Phillips | Neelix |
| Robert Picardo | The Doctor |
| Jeri Ryan | Seven of Nine (season 4+) |
| Tim Russ | Tuvok |
| Garrett Wang | Ensign Harry Kim |
Season One
1995
001 & 002 "Caretaker"
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"
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.
004 "Time and Again"
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.
005 "Phage"
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.
006 "The Cloud"
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.
007 "Eye of the Needle"
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.
008 "Ex Post Facto"
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.
009 "Emanations"
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.
010 "Prime Factors"
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.
011 "State of Flux"
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.
012 "Heroes and Demons"
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?
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"
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.
014 "Faces"
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.
015 "Jetrel"
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.
016 "Learning Curve"
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.
Season Two
1995/1996
017 "The 37's"
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.
018 "Initiations"
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.
019 "Projections"
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.
020 "Elogium"
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.
021 NON-SEQUITUR
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.
022 "Twisted"
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.
023 "Parturition"
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.
024 "Persistence of Vision"
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.
025 "Tattoo"
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.
026 "Cold Fire"
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.
027 "Maneuvers"
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.
028 "Resistance"
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.
029 "Prototype"
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.
030 "Alliances"
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.
031 "Threshold"
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.
032 "Meld"
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.
033 "Dreadnought"
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.
034 "Death Wish"
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.
035 "Lifesigns"
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.
036 "Investigations"
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.
037 "Deadlock"
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.
038 "Innocence"
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.
039 "The Thaw"
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.
040 "Tuvix (a.k.a. Symbiogensis)"
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.
041 "Resolutions"
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.
042 "Basics (I)"
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.
Season Three
1999/1997
043 "Basics (II)"
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.
044 "Flashback"
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.
045 "The Chute"
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.
046 "The Swarm"
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.
047 "False Profits"
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.
Note:
Also see Next Generation "The Price"
048 "Remember"
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.
049 "Scared Ground"
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.
050 "Future's End (I)"
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.
051 "Future's End (II)"
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.
052 "Warlord"
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.
053 "The Q and the Gray"
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.
054 "Macrocosm"
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.
055 "Fair Trade"
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.
056 "Alter Ego"
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.
057 "Coda"
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.
058 "Blood Fever"
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.
059 "Unity"
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.
060 "The Darkling"
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.
061 "Rise"
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.
062 "Favorite Son"
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.
063 "Before & After"
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.
064 "Real Life"
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.
065 "Distant Origin"
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.
066 "Displaced"
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.
067 "Worst case Scenario"
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.
068 "Scorpion (I)"
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.
Season Four
1997/1998
069 "Scorpion (II)"
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.
070 "The Gift"
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.
Note:
This is the final episode to feature Jennifer Lien as Kes.
071 "Day of Honor"
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.
072 "Nemisis"
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.
073 "Revulsion"
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.
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"
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.
075 "Scientific Method"
The crew begins to exhibit strange medical symptoms and the Borg, Seven of Nine, soon discovers the cause.
076 "Year of Hell (I)"
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 (II)"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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 (I)"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
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"
There's a sudden emergence of a dangerous new lifeform aboard the USS Voyager - a Superborg - after The Doctor's 29th century mobile emitter technology mysteriously fuses with Seven of Nine's Borg nanoprobes.
An advanced male Drone is "born" and awaits instruction from the Collective. Also, debuting in this episode is "The Adventures of Captain Proton," Tom Paris' retro-Holodeck program that depicts him as a kitschy 1930's space hero.
097 "Extreme Risk"
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.
098 "In the Flesh"
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.
099 "Once Upon a Time"
As the U.S.S. Voyager searches for the crash-landed Delta Flyer and its crew, Lt. Paris, Tuvok, Ensign Samantha Wildman and Neelix help the littlest crewmember, Naomi Wildman, cope without her mother. Together, they are kept occupied by the odd character's in Naomi's storybook holonovel, the classic Adventures of Flotter, but Neelix soon decides that a starship is no place for a child.
100 "Timeless"
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.
101 "Infinite Regress"
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.
102 "Nothing Human"
After Torres is stricken by a bizarre, injured alien that latches itself onto her body, The Doctor creates another holographic physician, a Cardassian exobiologist named Dr. Crell Moset, to save her life. But Torres refuses treatment when it's learned that the physician engaged in unethical wartime medical practices.
103 "Thirty Days"
The oft-mentioned but never-before-seen bright, beautiful and fun-loving twin Starfleet Officers, Jenny and Megan Delaney, are finally featured both in their official capacities aboard ship and on the Holodeck as Lieutenant Tom Paris lives out his superhero fantasy in "The Adventures of Captain Proton." Jenny's more self-confident and outgoing than the somewhat timid Megan.
104 "Counterpoint"
As the U.S.S. Voyager rescues two families of telepathic alien refugees from the Devore Imperium, they are intercepted by a Devore squadron and boarded by inspectors searching for the defectors. Soon Kashyk, the lead Devore officer pleads with Janeway to grant him asylum.
105 "Latent Image"
While employing his holo-imaging device, The Doctor discovers that his short term memory buffer has been tampered with and fevently initiates an investigation to find the person or thing responsible for the corruption.
106 "Bride of Chaotica"
Armed conflict erupts when aliens from the Fifth Dimension mistake Lieutenant Paris' "Captain Proton" holographic novel for reality. The aliens consider the novel's main character, the evil Dr. Chaotica, to be a threat so they knock the U.S.S. Voyager's controls off-line. Janeway is forced to assume the role of the story's powerful Arachnia, Queen of the Spider People, and infiltrate Chaotica's Fortress of Doom. Meanwhile, The Doctor takes on the role of the novel's President of Earth to help the aliens defeat Chaotica.
107 "Gravity"
A shuttle carrying Tuvok, Paris and The Doctor disappears into a collapsing sinkhole and crash lands on a deserted wasteland. While the U.S.S. Voyager tries to rescue them from this risky area of space, the away team befriends Noss, an exotic alien woman who's also trapped on the planet. Soon, she falls in love with Tuvok and although it's illogical for a Vulcan, he finds himself attracted to her too.
108 "Bliss"
Finally, after five long years, an exhilarated crew of the U.S.S. Voyager finds a wormhole that will bring them back to the Alpha Quadrant. As the happy crew prepares to return to Earth, a skeptical Seven of Nine violates captain's orders and enlists The Doctor, little Naomi Wildman and an alien pilot, Qatai, to help her stop the ship from entering the wormhole.
109 & 110 "Dark Frontier"
After defeating a Borg vessel, Janeway launches an ambitious plan to steal a piece of Borg technology that could get the U.S.S. Voyager home. When the Borg detect her plan, they swiftly access Seven of Nine's neural transceiver and make her an "offer" she can't refuse -- rejoin the Borg collective or the U.S.S. Voyager and it's crew will be assimilated. Janeway must confront the Borg in their own vessel in order to rescue Seven, risking a possibly devastating confrontation with the Borg Queen!
111 "The Disease"
Without Starfleet medical clearance and in violation of interspecies protocol, Ensign Harry Kim has a passionate love affair with an exotic alien explorer, Derran Tal of the Varro species. But the escapade puts both the Voyager crew and the Varro species in Jeopardy when Kim and Tal become biochemically interdependent.
112 "Course: Oblivion"
Lieutenants Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres tie the knot but their holographic honeymoon is cut short by a phenomenon that breaks down the U.S.S. Voyager's infrastructure and disintegrates not only the ship but the crew.
113 "The Fight"
While the ship is caught in Chaotic Space, a zone where the laws of physics are in a state of flux, Commander Chakotay believes he's a 24th century boxer, The Maquis Mauler. Before long, he's going head to head with the Delta Quadrant's champion, Kid Chaos.
114 "Think Tank"
In the midst of a clash with the Hazari bounty hunters, Janeway is offered assistance from a "think tank," a small yet exotic alien ship containing disparate life forms, each able to communicate telepathically. Their spokesperson, Kurros, offers to help solve the dilemma with the Hazari, only in exchange for Seven of Nine as payment. When Seven declines their "offer," the think tank focuses on taking her by force.
115 "Juggernaut"
The U.S.S. Voyager rescues two crewmen from an abandoned, out of control Malon freighter that's about to unleash a theta radiation blast into the sector. Soon, Lieutenant Torres leads an away team to board the freighter and contain the poison - despite warnings from its crewman, Fesek and Pelk, about the Angel of Decay that wreaks havoc aboard the cargoship.
116 "Someone to Watch Over Me"
To broaden her knowledge of human behavior, Seven of Nine gets lessons from The Doctor on socializing and dating rituals. When they enter a holodeck simulation in Sandrine's nightclub, Seven not only learns the art of small talk, but how to slow dance and sing a song. Eventually, she makes a date with Lieutenant Lansing but it's The Doctor who falls in love with Seven. Meanwhile, during a tour to help facilitate a trade agreement with the monastic Kadi colony, Neelix unwittingly provides their ambassador, Tomin, with forbidden food and drink.
117 "11:59"
Captain Janeway reminisces about her ancestor Shannon O'Donnel, the first of her family's long line of explorers and one who helped build the Millennium Gate on Earth. As Janeway relates the story, the episode revisits the town of Portage Creek on New Year's Eve 1999, as Shannon O'Donnel (played by Kate Mulgrew) nears the deadline to convince the town's last holdout, local bookstore owner Henry Janeway, to approve the building of massive, half a mile high Milliennium Gate, a model for the first colony on Mars.
118 "Relativity"
In an episode that revisits Janeway's first day aboard the U.S.S. Voyager and then fast forwards 500 years beyond it when her ship is destroyed, Captain Braxton of the 29th century Federation Timeship Relativity contacts Seven of Nine to go back in time to solve the mystery of who planted the "temporal disrupter" which ultimately destroyed the U.S.S. Voyager. But when the new starship captain, Janeway, catches the mysterious Seven aboard the brand new U.S.S. Voyager, she detains her, an interference that could contaminate the time-line.
119 "Warhead"
After the U.S.S. Voyager receives a distress signal from an alien missile, Ensign Kim, Torres and The Doctor determine that it's a complex, damaged weapon with artificial intelligence and sentient consciousness. But when they beam this mysterious device aboard, it interlinks with The Doctor's program and through him, insists the U.S.S. Voyager enable it to fulfill its mission of mass destruction.
120 "Equinox (I)"
The U.S.S. Voyager finds another Federation starship lost in the Delta Quadrant, the science vessel U.S.S. Equinox, and helps it stave off an attack by creatures from another spatial realm. Captain Janeway now has a kindred spirit in its commander, Captain John Ransom, and helps him salvage his war-torn vessel so they can journey home together. But when The Doctor retrieves data from the U.S.S. Equinox research lab, Janeway learns the hard truth that Captain Ransom has seriously violated the Starfleet oath by commiting mass murder in the Delta Quadrant. When she strips him of his command and confines him to quarters, he and his crew manage to escape with the U.S.S. Voyager's advanced technology - and The Doctor and Seven of Nine as hostages aboard their ship.
Season Six
1999/2000
121 "Equinox (II)"
Stardate not given: As the subspace life forms attack Voyager's bridge, the Equinox warps away safely, protected by B'elanna's shield generator, which was surreptitiously beamed out of Voyager. Also kidnapped from Voyager are Seven of Nine, who refuses to cooperate with Ransom's murderous plan to return to Earth, and Voyager's EMH, whose mobile emitted has been stolen by the Equinox's identical doctor, acting as a spy aboard Voyager. When Ransom's attempt to resume his course toward the Alpha Quadrant is thwarted by Seven's sabotage of the Equinox's warp drive, the captain deletes the Voyager doctor's ethical subroutine, forcing him to operate on Seven to extract the necessary information to conduct repairs. On Voyager, Janeway becomes obsessed with bringing Ransom to justice, even to the point of stripping Chakotay of his rank and responsibilities when he protests her actions, and threatens to do the same to Tuvok. Contact is finally established with the aliens, who insist that the Equinox should be handed over to them - and Janeway startles her crew by acceeding to this demand. The crews of both ships are now at the mercy of commanding officers who have crossed the line.
122 "Survival Instinct"
Stardate 53049.2: Voyager docks at a gigantic Markonian space station and the crew engage in cultural exchanges with the station's population. While some of these exchanges cause security headaches for Tuvok - including petty crimes and Tom and Harry's ill-fated night on the town - the greater threat goes unnoticed. Three individuals who were formerly Borg drones - fellow members of Seven of Nine's unimatrix - slip aboard, attempting to force a connection with her. Survivors of a Borg scout vessel crash over five years before Seven joined Voyager, the three suffer a constant neural link forcing them to share every thought. Despite their individuality, they cannot explain this connection. But when Seven decides to assist them in retreiving lost memories, she discovers that she is responsible for the former drones' condition...and must now decide whether they should be returned to the Collective to extend their lives, or enjoy freedom at last for a few brief weeks.
Note: Marika's nose shows that she is a Bajoran, so shouldn't she swear to the Prophets instead of exclaiming "Oh my God"? The Borg are also effective at recycling - in her Borg form, Marika is wearing Hugh's eyepiece
123 "Barge of the Dead"
Stardate not given: B'elanna puts herself at great risk to retrieve Voyager's only remaining unmanned probe from an ion storm, which does more damage to her shuttle than it does to the probe. After an emergency landing, a piece of debris is found imbedded in her shuttle's hull - a piece of metal with the symbol of the Klingon Empire on it, which Chakotay presents to B'elanna. She disregards the object - which has been determined to be several centuries old - until it appears to bleed, and she hears voices speaking Klingon. This potentially important archaeological find inspires a Klingon celebration - and some odd behavior, at least from B'elanna's perspective. Tuvok, while demonstrating hitherto unknown prowess with the bat'leth, injures B'elanna with it and embarks on an uncharacteristically vehement lecture about her dishonor of her culture. During the party itself, B'elanna is helpless to watch as Klingon assassins appear in the crowd, slicing her crewmates down one by one. And then she is dragged to the Barge of the Dead, which ferries dishonored souls to Grethor, the Klingon hell - and B'elanna is not alone, for her mother arrives shortly afterward. But when B'elanna suddenly awakens in sick bay, it turns out that everything - even the crash-landing of the shuttle - was part of an elaborate vision, a near-death experience triggered by the real ion storm. B'elanna can only deduce that her mother has died, and it is now up to the engineer to retrieve her from Grethor and deliver her to the gates of Sto'vo'kor.
124 "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy"
Stardate not given: The Doctor files a grievance with Janeway, claiming that the crew is excluding him and treating him rudely. The captain is mystified by the hologram's uncharacteristic behavior, and numerous crew members notice that the Doctor is becoming inattentive, almost as if he is daydreaming. Unknown to his crewmates, the Doctor has altered his program to allow daydreaming, but something destabilizes his program and he begins to daydream at an alarming rate, even in the middle of vital duties. His imagination conjures up numerous unlikely scenarios, from the women of Voyager's command crew battling for his attention, to the destruction of an attacking Borg vessel by the "Emergency Command Hologram." Eventually, the Doctor's imagination is in constant overdrive, and Janeway relieves him of duty. But when the Doctor realizes that he is being tampered with by an inquisitive alien, will he be able to convince the crew that this potential threat is no figment of his imagination?
125 "Alice"
Stardate not given: Voyager happens upon a scrapyard in space operated by a gangly and gregarious alien called Abbadon. A trade agreement is quickly reached for several small items and technologies, until Tom Paris sets his eyes on a sleek (but very derelict) shuttle-sized vessel. Tom persuades Chakotay to offer Abbadon a few extra items in exchange for the ship - and the alien asks for suspiciously little in trade. Tom begins spending all of his off-duty time - and most of Harry's, too - restoring the mysterious ship to full working order, dubbing it "Alice" in honor of a cadet he lusted after in Starfleet Academy. Slowly, thanks to the little craft's direct neural interface with its pilot, Tom becomes more and more fixated on "Alice"...but what he does not realize until it far too late is that the ship is equally fixated on him.
126 "Riddles"
Stardate 53263.2: Tuvok is critically injured as he and Neelix return to Voyager from a routine diplomatic mission. As Tuvok lies comatose in sick bay, Deputy Investigator Nerok of the K'sath arrives to look into the incident. Nerok blames Tuvok's attack on the B'neth, legendary creatures whose existence is officially denied by the K'sath government. Nerok is eager to use this opportunity to prove the B'neth do exist, but the star witness, though recovering, is having to start over again mentally. Despite his frequent annoyance with the Talaxian in the past, Tuvok now turns to Neelix for support and guidance.
127 "Dragon's Teeth"
Stardate 53167.9: Trying to escape from an apparently hostile race guarding a series of time-saving wormholes, Voyager hides on a planet devastated by nuclear war. Seven locates a cryogenically frozen man and revives him. The survivor insists upon the revival of his fellow war victims, offering their help to Janeway as the guardians of the wormhole close in on Voyager. But all is not as it seems. The revived survivors, almost 900 years ago, were bombed into submission after centuries of using wormholes to attack and conquer other worlds. The freshly thawed-out Vodwar, though they try to conceal the fact at every opportunity, are the only surviving oppressors from that war. Their leader wishes to resume their reign of terror, beginning with a takeover of Voyager.
128 "One Small Step"
Stardate 53292.7: An unknown spatial anomaly nearly consumes Voyager. Seven of Nine recognizes the anomaly thanks to previous encounters with the Borg, but later study of the phenomenon reveals that it is still hauling the wreckage of Ares IV through the Delta Quadrant. Chakotay and Paris quickly devise a plan to retrieve Ares IV, but Seven of Nine insists on warning the crew of the dangers of attempting to explore a gravimetric ellipse. Trying to inspire her, Janeway assigns Seven to join the mission into the ellipse. But once the Delta Flyer is inside, B'elanna discovers that the anomaly is on course for a violent collision with a dark matter asteroid. Janeway orders Chakotay to abandon the salvage operation immediately, but he disobeys, ordering Tom to tow the Ares IV in a tractor beam. This decision slows down the Delta Flyer's escape enough to trap it inside the ellipse - lost to a total enigma...all hands presumed dead.
129 "The Voyager Conspiracy"
Stardate not given: Seven of Nine installs a new piece of equipment in her Borg alcove which allows her to assimilate data, log entries, records, and other information while she regenerates. But the overload of information is too much for her. At first, Seven is able to solve complex but obscure shipboard problems using information she has assimilated overnight. But then, still trying to process the enormous flow of data, Seven begins to formulate complex conspiracy theories concerning Voyager's mission, and she begins to make accusations - that Janeway intentionally stranded Voyager in the Delta Quadrant as part of a secret Federation plot to secure strategic alliances across the galaxy; that Chakotay and the other Maquis deliberately led Voyager into a trap set by their ally, the Caretaker; and that even Naomi Wildman is working for either the Maquis or Janeway's secret organization withing the Federation. By the time Janeway realizes what has happened and attempts to help, Seven has hijacked the Delta Flyer to escape what she can only see as a massive conspiracy to destroy one person...herself.
130 "Pathfinder"
Stardate not given: On Earth, Lt. Reginald Barclay, late of the Enterprise, has just been dismissed from Project Pathfinder, an unsuccessful attempt to achieve contact with the wayward Starfleet vessel U.S.S. Voyager. Barclay has had brushes with holo-addiction and hypochonrdia before, but his release from the Pathfinder project could be the blackest mark on his record - the introverted engineer has gone from researching ways to contact Voyager to spending all of his available time on the holodeck with simulations of the ship's crew, to the point that it interferes with his work. He even calls his old friend Deanna Troi for help. But even her counseling can't get Barclay's mind off of contacting Voyager's crew - and finally, he puts everything on the line and becomes an actual security risk to Starfleet to achieve his far-fetched goal.
131 "Fair Haven"
Stardate not given: Having met only limited interest with such holoprograms as Chez Sandrine's and The Adventures of Captain Proton, Tom creates a holographic replica of Fair Haven, Ireland. The uncomplicated - at least by 24th century standards - and pastoral setting meets with the crew's approval, and Captain Janeway finds herself fascinated by barkeep Michael Sullivan. When she discovers that Sullivan isn't as educated or outspoken as she would like, the captain simply changes his parameters (and deletes the character of his wife as well). After falling in love with Sullivan, Janeway is overcome with remorse and withdraws from the holodeck altogether. The rest of the crew is then left to deal with a man - albeit a holographic one - with a broken heart.
132 "Blink of an Eye"
Stardate not given: Voyager enters orbit around a greyish-blue oblate spheroid of a planet. This world's rotation is so accelerated that years pass on the surface in mere minutes of Voyager's time. The unusual gravitational properties of the planet trap Voyager in orbit, where it is spotted by the planet's population over hundreds of generations. Before the crew's eyes, civilizations rise and fall, technology advances from the bronze age to the space age, and the evolving society turns from curiosity about the vessel "permanently" fixed in their sky to hostility toward it. And at the exponential rate at which the planet's technology is emerging, its inhabitants will soon have plenty of spaceworthy firepower to enforce that hatred.
Note: This episode of Voyager is peppered with veterans of other SF franchises. Olaf Pooley guest starred as the mad Professor Stahlman in the 1970 Doctor Who Inferno seven-parter. Daniel Dae Kim shot this episode fresh from his brief stint as First Officer Matheson on the ill-fated Babylon 5 spinoff, Crusade. Obi Ndefo had a small guest role in the fourth season opener of Deep Space Nine
133 "Virtuoso"
Stardate 54556.4: Voyager plays host to a handful of advanced aliens whose ship is incapacitated. The visitors infuriate Janeway and her crew with their arrogance at the "primitive" nature of Voyager's culture - until the Doctor, with whom the aliens are also less than pleased, begins to sing. Never having heard music before, the Komari suddenly become rapt fans of the Doctor, and quickly extend an invitation to Voyager to visit their homeworld. After giving a gala performance to the population of an entire world, the Doctor is tempted by their offer to leave Voyager permanently and become a full-time musical ambassador to their world. But while the Doctor makes hasty goodbyes to his crewmates, he underestimates the fickle nature of fame.
134 "Memorial"
Stardate not given: The Delta Flyer returns from a two-week mapping mission with a very cranky crew consisting of Chakotay, Neelix, Tom and Harry Kim. But upon their return, the Delta Flyer crew begin to suffer from hallucinations of a bloody battle - a battle in which there is no evidence of their participation. But Janeway's concern grows as all four crewmen eventually recount their hallucinatory memories, which corroborate each other and create a consistent picture of the battle they fought - a battle in which they killed almost a hundred civilians. And the captain's concern becomes horror as she, too, begins to remember having played a part in the carnage.
135 "Tsunkatse"
Stardate 53447.2: A visit to a civilized world provides a prime opportunity for shore leave. Seven and Tuvok plan to visit and study a nearby nebular phenomenon, while Janeway plans a similar away mission for some "relaxing" scientific discovery. But most of the crew is enthralled by the gladiatorial sport of Tsunkatse, in which two opponents vie for the prize - to be the only one left alive in the ring. Seven and Tuvok's shuttle goes missing during their mission, and Chakotay and the others are horrified to find that their Borg crewmate is the next competitor in Tsunkatse. An attempt to beam Seven out of danger fails because she isn't there - the fight is being broadcast from a remote location. Seven is being forced to do battle not only for her own life, but for Tuvok's - and the savage competition may strip her of whatever humanity she has regained aboard Voyager unless her crew can rescue her.
136 "Collective"
Stardate not given: The Delta Flyer is captured by a Borg cube, and there is no escape for Tom, Chakotay and Neelix. Harry, trying to make adjustments in one of the Flyer's Jeffries tubes during the attack, is knocked out by an explosion and is left aboard. Voyager catches up with the cube quickly and disarms is with surprising ease. Seven of Nine beams aboard to find that only a handful of drones are running the cube - and all of these drones are no more than adolescents. Despite the skeleton crew aboard the Borg ship, the children take the three Voyager crew members hostage and demand repairs and supplies from Voyager in exchange for their safety. Harry awakens and makes covert contact with Voyager, and Janeway sends him on a mission to sabotage the cube and weaken the Borg children's position. In the meantime, Seven of Nine attempts to reason with these recently disconnected drones the way that Janeway once reasoned with her.
137 "Spirit Folk"
Stardate not given: The peaceful folk of Fair Haven have never questioned the unusual number of strangers who have entered their village. At least not until Tom Paris calls upon an unknown power known as "computer" to make some slight alterations to life in Fair Haven. The townsfolk don't take kindly to this hint of sorcery, and soon all of the strangers are persecuted - but Fair Haven's residents may gain the upper hand when another power, something called the "holodeck failsafes," leave the strangers at their mercy.
138 "Ashes To Ashes"
Stardate not given: Voyager receives a signal from an alien claiming to be the late Ensign Lyndsay Ballard, a junior engineering crewmember who escaped the notice of Captain Janeway until she died tragically three years ago. Ensign Ballard did not, however, go ignored by Harry Kim, who attended Starfleet Academy with her and kept his crush on her secret until she died. Every means of verification proves that she is who she says she is, though she is not and will never be human - she has been transmuted into a member of the Kobali race, which reproduces by reanimating the dead of other species and implanting them with new personalities. Very rarely, a revived person will regain memories of his or her previous life, as in Lyndsay's case. But now the creatures who brought her back to life want her to rejoin them - and they're willing to destroy Voyager to persuade her to return.
139 "Child's Play"
Stardate not given: The de-assimilated Borg children are settling into their life aboard Voyager, even participating in the ship's science fair. Icheb comes up with a particularly promising device capable of dectecting and predicting wormholes - something which could be put to immediate use on Voyager's journey back to the Alpha Quadrant. Captain Janeway has some other good news for Icheb - she has located his parents among the survivors of a race which has been ravaged by frequent visits from the Borg, and has set a course to take the boy home. Seven of Nine joins Icheb in resisting Janeway's plan to return him to his home, especially when he and the last of his people could be assimilated or killed in the next Borg attack. But what Janeway doesn't even consider for a moment is that Icheb's own people could pose a deadlier risk to him than even the Borg...
Note: Yes, that's Mark Allen Sheppard - the man who sweated away in anonymity inside the mask of Morn for seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine!
140 "Good Shepherd"
Stardate 53753.2: A crew performance review turns up three junior crewmembers who have never seen away duty in their short Starfleet careers. Billy Telfer, a hypochondriac, spends far too much of his time in sick bay seeking help for imaginary afflictions. Bajoran Tal Celes doubts her own ability to do anything right at all, and is Telfer's only close friend. Mortimer Harren, who works alone on the ship's lowest deck, spends all of his days postulating new cosmological models of the universe - and no time at all socializing with anyone. Janeway decides to personally lead this mismatched trio of crewmembers on a routine exploratory mission...but when the mission turns out to be anything but routine, and Voyager is too far away to help, the captain is forced to rely on a very unpredictable and untried crew.
141 "Live Fast And Prosper"
Stardate 53849.2: Voyager is confronted by an angry Telusian who demands that Janeway make reparations for a costly scam she pulled on his people - which naturally comes as a surprise to the captain. It turns out that a trio of skilled con artists have been swindling innocent people out of valuable resources and selling "Federation memberships" to those with the necessary funds. The Telusians aren't "Captain Janeway"'s only victims, either. Now the real Voyager crew must track down their impostors before an entire sector of civilized systems turns against them.
142 "Muse"
Stardate 53896.0: During a scouting mission aboard the Delta Flyer, the ship is thrown violently off-course. Harry Kim manages to get away in an escape pod, while B'Elanna crash-lands the Flyer on a planet populated by a primitive humanoid species. While the engineer is unconscious, a playwright named Kelis boards the wrecked ship and listens to the most recent log entries - and proceeds to write a drama about the lost sailing ship Voyager. But when Kelis next visits the Delta Flyer, B'Elanna is conscious. Kelis worships her as an all-powerful "Eternal" - but with the ship's power reserves depleted, B'Elanna is all but powerful...and she must convince Kelis to help her repair the Delta Flyer enough to call for help without breaking the Prime Directive.
143 "Fury"
Stardate not given: A small shuttle signals Voyager, and the lone occupant turns out to be a terribly aged Kes, from whom the crew has not heard since her ascension to a higher form of life. But the reunion is anything but joyous - when given permission to dock, Kes rams her shuttle into Voyager's hull, blasts her way into engineering, kills B'Elanna, and fuses with the warp core. Drawing energy from Voyager's engines, Kes then proceeds to send herself into the past, a mere two months after Voyager became stranded in the Alpha Quadrant. Embittered by years of incredible power she can barely comprehend, let along control, the Ocampa intends to rewrite the past to prevent herself from suffering the same fate...even if it means murdering all of the friends she once had aboard Voyager.
144 "Life Line"
Stardate not given: Using a fortuitous stellar alignment, Starfleet is able to contact Voyager, sending a large packet of information to Janeway and the crew. The Doctor receives a message from Lt. Barclay, informing him that Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, the creator of the EMH, is dying from a degenerative illness. The Doctor immediately brainstorms possible treatments, drawing parallels between Zimmerman's condition and the Vidiian phage, and devises a radical therapy involving Borg nanoprobes. But the Doctor is not merely content to make a prescription. He pleads with Captain Janeway to send his program to Jupiter Station in Earth's solar system via the same data stream Starfleet used to contact Voyager. When he arrives, however, the Doctor is hardly welcomed as a medical mastermind. Despite his vast experience, he is regarded as an obsolete relic by his creator. Barclay pleads with Zimmerman to undergo the treatment, and even begs Counselor Troi to leave the Enterprise long enough to counsel the curmudgeonly genius. But Zimmerman would rather die than be treated by an "antique."
Note:
Shatner and Nimoy's contributions to classic-era movies aside, this episode marked the first time a member of a Star Trek TV series' regular cast contributed a storyline.
145 "The Haunting Of Deck Twelve"
Stardate not given: As Voyager enters a class J nebula, Captain Janeway orders a pre-planned power shutdown to prevent the ship's energy output from attracting turbulent discharges from the nebula. Seven, worried that the Borg children's imaginations will alarm them unnecessarily, has not warned them of the power shutdown. She asks Neelix to keep the children occupied, and the Talaxian decides to hone his storytelling skills by turning the ship's silent running into a ghost story. But as he spins his terrifying tale, Neelix soon discovers that his captive audience is already a step ahead of him.
146 "Unimatrix Zero (I)"
Stardate not given: Seven of Nine reports a startling experience during her regeneration cycle, which the Doctor explains away as a dream. Moments after Tom Paris is reinstated to the rank of lieutenant, Voyager receives a distress signal - which goes dead a second later. Tracking the signal to its source, the crew finds a colony built on an asteroid...and destroyed by the Borg.
Seven's next regeneration cycle finds her in a verdant jungle again, greeted by a familiar man named Axum. He explains that Seven is not dreaming, but has been drawn to a virtual environment known as Unimatrix Zero. One in a million Borg drones has a recessive mutation which allows them to visit Unimatrix Zero while they regenerate. In this environment, the drones have individuality, their original appearance...and no memory of events there once they return to the Collective. But one drone no longer belongs to the Collective. Seven can retain her memory, and she promptly relays this information to Captain Janeway, who sees an opportunity to undermine the Borg once and for all.
Janeway mounts a bold offensive against the nearest Borg vessel, which is a heavily armored tactical ship. She reluctantly brings Tuvok and Torres with her on a mission to infiltrate the Borg ship - a mission which results in the destruction of the Delta Flyer just as its away team beams aboard the cube. But Janeway's team is quickly overcome - the captain, Tuvok and B'Elanna are all assimilated. Was this part of her plan?
147 "Unimatrix Zero (II)"
Stardate 54014.4 Thanks to the nanovirus prepared by the Doctor, Tuvok and B'Elanna are able to retain their identities and make their way to the central plexus of their Borg ship to distribute the individuality-preserving virus throughout the collective. They discover Janeway there, already hard at work on the problem, but when Tuvok suffers a momentary lapse - connecting his thoughts to the Collective - the Borg Queen detects his individuality. B'Elanna infects the central plexus with the nanovirus, but Tuvok succumbs to the Collective, becoming Three of Twelve. He not only betrays B'Elanna and Janeway, but he also surrenders Voyager's security codes to the Borg Queen, allowing her to launch a withering attack when Voyager catches up with the tactical cube to retrieve the Away Team. But Tuvok's sacrifice has not been in vain - in the time it takes Voyager to approach and retreat, thousands of Borg drones have regained their individuality and left the Collective. Seven of Nine returns to Unimatrix Zero reluctantly, still ambivalent about the recent revelations about her former relationship with Axum. The Borg Queen forces Janeway to extend an offer to the Borg in Unimatrix Zero, and to give orders to Chakotay via a hologram...but by the time that order is given, enough drones have been severed from the Collective to offer Voyager assistance in a full-scale rebellion against the Queen. But will that be enough firepower to rescue Janeway, Tuvok and B'Elanna before they all lose their individuality?
148 "Imperfection"
Stardate 54014.4 After extensive searching and numerous interruptions, contact is finally made with relatives of the former Borg youngsters who have been traveling aboard Voyager. Icheb decides to stay aboard the ship and help Voyager's crew return to Earth. Seven of Nine insists that Icheb's reaction to the children's departure is overemotional, but even as she says that, he notices that she is crying. Seven blames it on a malfunctioning Borg implant, which is confirmed when she visits the Doctor. She asks him to keep her condition confidential, but when she loses consciousness in the mess hall, the secret is out. The Doctor's diagnosis is now much more grim: the central cortical node that regulates all of her body's autonomic functions is failing, signing a death warrant for Seven. Janeway decides to scout through Borg wreckage to retrieve a cortical node from a dead drone, but the risky mission - and a close call with other scavengers - bears only a node that is of no use. As Seven gives up hope - and the Doctor and Janeway run out of ideas - Icheb proposes an ambitious alternative...one which the Doctor believes will sacrifice the young man's life to save that of his teacher.
149 "Drive"
Stardate 54058.6: Tom Paris and Harry Kim are giving the new Delta Flyer a shakeout cruise to ensure that it lives up to the specs of the original, which was destroyed during the Borg infiltration mission. Another ship pulls up alongside the Flyer, and the pilot challenges Tom to a drag race in space - a race which the Delta Flyer wins only over Harry's protests. The other pilot's ship develops a problem, and Tom and Harry have to beam her out of her ship to save her. As they work on repairing her vessel, she tells the Starfleet officers about a race in a neighboring sector - a race in which Tom is eager to enter the new Delta Flyer, even if it means sacrificing time with B'Elanna. The race commemorates a new and still delicate peace - but the contestants are about to find out that someone is hoping to end that peace. Will war consume the sector before Tom and B'Elanna patch their relationship up?
Cyia Batten was one of the string of actresses who portrayed Gul Dukat's daughter, Tora Ziyal, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. B'Elanna's mention of Geidi Prime is an in-joke reference to the homeworld of the Harkonnen in Frank Herbert's Dune novels. It isn't really better than Risa...
150 "Repression"
Stardate 54010.1: Tom and B'Elanna try out Tom's new holodeck program - a mid-20th century movie theater - only to find Bajoran crewman Tabor comatose in the front row. Though still alive, Tabor has suffered an attack that left his skull cobwebbed with microfractures. Two more crew members soon suffer the same fate, and all three are former Maquis. Chakotay decides that the attacker must be a member of Voyager's original Starfleet contingent, and puts his fellow ex-Maquis on alert (as well as ordering them to arm themselves). Rumors and paranoia run rampant as Tuvok tries to investigate the increasing number of assaults, but when B'Elanna and Chakotay become the next victims, these worries seem well founded. Tuvok's obsessive quest to solve the crime wave ultimately leads him to conclude that he himself is the prime suspect.
151 "Critical Care"
Stardate not given A few days after an alien pharmaceutical salesman makes a sales pitch aboard Voyager, it is discovered that the holographic Doctor's program has been replaced by an early backup copy. As Voyager begins to trace the path of the untrustworthy salesman, the real Doctor is activated in an alien hospital whose patients receive treatment based upon an arbitrary computer evaluation of their worth to society. The Doctor is whisked from Level Red, where patients lie dying in an unsanitary area, to Level Blue - a top-of-the-line medical facility where patients who are considered more valuable to society receive cutting-edge treatment. The Doctor has been sold to the hospital's administrators as a new piece of diagnostic technology, but instead of cooperating, he begins to steal medication from Level Blue to give to the impoverished patients in Level Red. But the Doctor's attempts to change the hospital's way of doing things may have tragic consequences.
152 "Inside Man"
Stardate 54208.3 The latest datastream transmitted from Starfleet to the Delta Quadrant is larger than usual. Harry extracts an entire holoprogram from the data, apparently supplied by Lt. Barclay of the Pathfinder project. Barclay's hologram - created in his own image - advises Janeway and the crew of a new way to create a quick, direct path to the Alpha Quadrant. But the hologram (whose personality displays far more bravado than its creator) seems to have a hidden motive...and it may no longer be serving Starfleet's - or Voyager's - best interests
153 "Body And Soul"
Stardate 54238.3: A routine comet-chasing expedition aboard the Delta Flyer is cut short by attacking aliens who have detected a "photonic insurgent" - an unauthorized hologram. In a last-ditch effort to keep the Doctor's program from being decompiled, Seven of Nine downloads his program. But the price of concealing the Doctor within her Borg implants is a total subjugation of Seven's personality, leaving the Doctor in charge of her body. The Doctor - in Seven's body - must buy some time and release Ensign Kim from the aliens' brig. In the meantime, Tuvok is suffering the early stages of the Pon Farr...and Tom's solution of using the holodeck to ease Tuvok's suffering simply attracts more of the aliens who are trying to eliminate "photonic insurgents."
This episode appears to have been inspired by the classic Red Dwarf episode Bodyswap (1989), and its mentions of warlike holograms sets up the upcoming Flesh And Blood two-parter.
154 "The Nightingale"
Stardate 54274.7: While Voyager undergoes some much-needed repairs planetside, Ensign Kim leads an expedition to find dilithium. But his seemnigly sleepy mission is interrupted by a conflict between two alien vessels. Harry is prepared to leave the area, citing Starfleet protocols about interfering with alien conflicts, when a distress signal from one of the ships forces him to become involved. Harry chases the attacking ships away, and he and Neelix board the remaining ship to aid the survivors, who claim to be on a humanitarian mission. The victims of the attack are in no shape to travel - their ship has been critically damaged, and their captain is dead. Harry takes charge and orders the ship back to Voyager's position. The ensign enjoys his taste of command, and his new crew seems to be genuinely inspired by his leadership. Even after discovering that Captain Janeway is negotiating for supplies with the race who attack his new friends, Harry insists upon commanding their repaired ship - dubbed the Nightingale - to their next destination. Janeway reluctantly agrees, and "Captain" Harry Kim is about to discover what she already knows...that commanding a starship can be an unforgiving and potentially fatal job, especially if your crew is lying to you.
155 "Flesh And Blood (I)"
Stardate not given: Voyager approaches a Hirogen space station which contains no signs of Hirogen life. Chakotay leads an away team to the station, finding dead Hirogen hunters in an elaborate holodeck environment which fools initial sensor scans. The lone survivor - a meek engineer who has masked his life signs - is terrified at the sight of Starfleet uniforms, and puts up a fight until Tuvok subdues him. Aboard Voyager, the surviving Hirogen tells Janeway about the modifications the Hirogen have made to her gift of holographic technology three years ago. The holograms used by the Hirogen as prey have developed the ability to learn, adapt, and think strategically. Another Hirogen vessel arrives, demanding the right of the hunt. Janeway offers to join them, feeling some responsibility for the situation, but she quickly becomes a witness to just how cunning the warrior holograms have become. The holograms nearly exterminate the Hirogen crew, and in the heat of battle the Doctor is kidnapped from Voyager. Iden, a hologram of a Bajoran officer who leads his fellow holograms into battle, asks for the Doctor's assistance in repairing some of their "wounded." But soon, the Doctor's visit becomes an exercise in persuasion as the charismatic Iden tries to make the Doctor a believer in his quest for freedom.
156 "Flesh And Blood (II)"
Stardate 54337.5: The Doctor has thrown his lot in with Iden and the renegade holograms, giving them the means to shake off Voyager's pursuit, but also giving them the means to kidnap B'Elanna, whose expertise the Doctor has mentioned many times. Iden continues his quest to find a homeworld for the holograms, but as that search becomes more dangerous with both Voyager and the Hirogen in pursuit, it soon becomes clear that Iden's charismatic idealism may blaze a trail of blood across the Delta Quadrant. When Iden crosses the line and kills an organic crew in an attempt to liberate their ship's holograms - which turn out to be rudimentary workers with no sentience or personality - even some of his own crew begin the question the nobility of his motives.
157 "Shattered"
Stardate not given: A temporal anomaly stops Voyager in its path, creating dangerous feedback in the warp core - which then lashes out into engineering and strikes Chakotay. The first officer is rushed to sick bay, only to wake up to find that the Doctor doesn't know what a mobile emitter is. A visit to the bridge proves to be even more surprising - Captain Janeway orders him arrested as a Maquis fugitive, even though she's surprised to see him since Voyager has yet to depart Deep Space Nine on the mission to retrieve the Maquis. The cargo bay is crawling with Borg drones, including a still fully assimilated Seven of Nine. The astrometrics lab is manned by Icheb and Naomi Wildman, both adults and running the ship since the death of the command crew. And in engineering, Seska and the Kazons have taken over the ship. Time has fractured Voyager into countless splinters of past and future - but the only one who can perceive this is Chakotay, so how can he prove it to anyone else and repair the timelines?
158 "Lineage"
Stardate 54452.6: A nasty turn in engineering leads to a momentous announcement for B'Elanna Torres - she is pregnant. She and Tom try to digest the news in private, but aboard the confines of a starship word gets out, and B'Elanna's crewmembers are bombarding her with everything from unsolicited parenting advice to requests to be godparents. B'Elanna, meanwhile, is suffering through her own private hell, fearful that - like her own father did when she was young - Tom was get fed up with the temperaments of a Klingon wife and daughter and abandon them both. But an unusual possibility presents itself when the Doctor uses genetic manipulation to correct a potential deformity - and B'Elanna sees a way to ensure that while Tom's wife may be half-Klingon, further genetic alterations could give them a completely human child. Tom disagrees, but B'Elanna will go to any lengths to give the child what she thinks is a "normal" life.
159 "Repentance"
Stardate not given: Voyager's quick response to an alien distress call turns into a crisis - the distress call is part of a trap. Eight convicts and their three guards are all disarmed in the process of transport, but this makes them no less dangerous. Despite a brief hostage situation, the prisoners are contained and Janeway adheres to the Prime Directive by offering to transport all of their guests to their original destination - and an appointment with a death sentence. But with everything to lose, the prisoners prove that they're not quite so conscious of the rules as Voyager's captain - and they're not ready to go quietly.
160 "Prophecy"
Stardate 54518.2: Voyager is attacked by a cloaked ship which turns out to be Klingon in origin. The Klingon crew is multi-generational, having set out on a religious quest to find a savior before the signing of the Khitomer Accord, and they don't take kindly to the arrival of a Federation starship. But they quickly cease hostilities when they meet B'Elanna and learn of her pregnancy, believing that her child is their savior. The Klingons even go so far as to sabotage their own ship, forcing Janeway to beam all 204 of them aboard Voyager. The crew is forced to share living quarters with the new arrivals, which causes no small amount of tension. But when the Klingons learn that B'Elanna is only half-Klingon, and that the father of her baby is a human, their spiritual fervor could turn deadly.
161 "The Void"
Stardate 54553.4: Voyager is pulled off-course into an enclosed void littered with the debris of hundreds of dead ships. Once inside, new ships are immediately attacked by other ships, and Voyager quickly becomes the latest target. Though the crew is able to defend the ship, its supply of deuterium is stolen, leaving only very limited warp capability. Other assailants descend upon Voyager like vultures, each one stating that survival in the Void requires nothing more than strength and viciousness. After a one-shot attempt to escape fails, leaving Voyager dead in space and barely able to defend itself, Janeway hatches a plan to establish a new balance of power by forming mutually advantageous alliances with other ships and crews trapped in the Void...but no one seems eager to join Janeway's Federation-in-miniature.
162 "Workforce (I)"
Stardate 54584.3: On the planet Quarra, it's another typical work day. The members of the labor force arrive at their jobs, perform their tasks, laugh with each other, fall in love, and receive frequent injections from their Quarren "employers," ostensibly to protect them from radiation. But one employee has troubling flashbacks of being aboard a starship, and he even thinks he recognizes a fellow worker as his Captain in these visions. But that woman - Kathryn Janeway - is settling comfortably into her work schedule, falling in love with another worker, and is blissfully unaware of the fact that she was once the captain of the starship Voyager. In the meantime, four of her colleagues still retain their memories and are working against time and overwhelming Quarren security to recapture their crewmates.
163 "Workforce (II)"
Stardate 54622.4: Chakotay is stranded on Quarra. Neelix has beamed back to Voyager with the brainwashed B'Elanna Torres, but with a heavy attack from Quarren security ships, Voyager has had to retreat (under the command of Ensign Kim and the Emergency Command Hologram). The first office manages to elude capture and meets with Janeway, who refuses to believe what he tells her about her true identity. But when the Quarren authorities finally capture Chakotay, and when Janeway's new love dismisses what Chakotay told her, the fate of Voyager's entire crew - whether or not they know who they truly are - lies in her hands.
164 "Human Error"
Stardate not given: Seven of Nine begins spending a great deal of time in the holodeck, simulating various social situations. But outside the holodeck, she is still her old self, showing no signs of her recent "practice" and still making every effort to avoid most shipboard social gatherings, including the baby shower for Tom and B'Elanna. But when massive energy discharges begin to explode in Voyager's path, threatening the ship and its crew, there isn't time for pleasantries anyway. Despite that, Seven continues spending every free moment on her "research," even opting to forego regenerating in her Borg alcove in favor of social simulations which are taking on a personal and even romantic dimension (including a simulation of a relationship with Chakotay). But is she ignoring more pressing duties that could help the crew escape its current predicament?
165 "Q2"
Stardate 54704.5: Q returns to Voyager, not having been encountered by Janeway and her crew since he begged Captain Janeway to be the mother of his child. Q managed to conceive a child without Janeway, and now that child is running into trouble with the Q Continuum. Q brings his son to Voyager in the hopes that the crew can teach the boy the qualities of humanity that Q has learned from Starfleet officers past. But the junior Q is undisciplined, bored, and has the same degree of boundless power as his father - and the resemblance of his antics to those of the Q of old are striking. But the younger Q's impetuous nature may turn deadly for Voyager if neither Janeway nor the elder Q can reign him in.
166 "Author, Author"
While the Doctor creates a working draft of his new holonovel, the U.S.S. Voyager prepares for "Operation Watson," whereby the ship will establish a two-way com link with Starfleet using a tachyon beam bounced off a quantum singularity.
Reginald Barclay and Admiral Paris from the Pathfinder project on Earth appear on the Astrometrics domescreen and tell Captain Janeway that the com link will only work for only 11 minutes a day. Three people can talk to their loved ones in the Alpha Quadrant for three minutes per day, so Neelix has the crew draw numbered isolinear chips. The Doctor draws number one, so he contacts a well-known Bolian publisher on Earth Ardon Broht of Broht & Forrester to discuss the holonovel which he had previously transmitted to him. Broht raves about the piece and wants to distribute it right away, but the Doctor insists on making revisions first. Later, the Doctor brags to Lt. Tom Paris about his conversation with the publisher, which raises Paris' curiosity about the hologram's opus. He convinces the Doctor to let him experience the holonovel, which he learns is titled "Photons Be free."
Paris finds himself in the role of the Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH) aboard the "Starship Vortex," and he sees that the first chapter starts out almost identically to the Doctor's own experience of being first activated. The other characters resemble the real crew, but altered slightly in their appearance for instance, Chakotay is a Bajoran. When Paris, as the Doctor, decides to treat a critical patient ahead of a bridge officer, Captain "Jenkins" (Janeway with black hair) enters Sickbay and kills the dying crewman, so that the bridge officer can now be created. Shocked at how the crew is portrayed, Paris tells B'Elanna Torres and Harry Kim about it, and they think he's overreacting. So Paris tells his crewmates to try it out themselves.
Torres experiences for herself how badly the "Vortex" EMH gets treated by the holo-crew, especially her own look-alike; Neelix, in the same role, is scolded and threatened by Captain Jenkins; and Kim becomes part of an escape plan with help from "Three of Eight." Finally, Janeway experiences the final chapter of the holonovel, where the EMH is brutally decompiled. She immediately orders the Doctor to report to her Ready Room.
The Doctor defends the piece, claiming it's a work of fiction with an important message. Janeway wonders if the Doctor sees himself as oppressed, but he explains he intended to draw attention to the plight of his "brothers" in the Alpha Quadrant, other EMH Mark Ones like him who have been condemned to menial tasks. Janeway asks him to consider how his writing makes his friends feel, but he won't compromise on his self-expression. When he returns to the holodeck to make final revisions, he finds the program altered with a holo-Paris as the narrator, and the story about the assistant to the Chief Medical Officer who has to learn to tolerate his overbearing manner and obnoxious behavior. Incensed, the Doctor confronts Paris about distorting his work. Paris assures him he kept the original intact, but was simply trying to make a point that someone running a program like that would think the characters were based on the real people. But what bothers Paris most is that the immature, selfish indulgent character that bears his likeness apparently reveals what the Doctor really thinks of him.
Neelix talks to the Doctor and helps him realize that by publishing his program, he may hurt the people he cares about, and he can make adjustments so that it's not so obviously based on Voyager without sacrificing his theme. But a rewrite will take weeks and the publisher is expecting a final draft tomorrow. Neelix tells the Doctor to give the publisher a call, and hands him his numbered chip. Broht is not happy to hear that the work will be delayed, but the crew is grateful to the Doctor for taking their feelings into account, and Paris agrees to assist with the revisions.
Meanwhile, members of the crew get to talk to family members they haven't seen in years. Kim's parents wonder when he's getting a promotion, and offer to write Captain Janeway a letter, which Harry strongly discourages. Torres begrudgingly agrees to talk to her father, who abandoned her when she was a child; during their awkward conversation, John Torres expresses regret and hopes they can get to know each other again. Even Seven of Nine uses her com time to contact her nearest living relative, an aunt on Earth; Irene Hansen tells Seven about how she was as a child, and calls her Annika.
Janeway receives an urgent message from Admiral Paris: He just learned from Barclay that the Doctor's holo-novel has been distributed and is being played in thousands of holosuites. The Doctor contacts Broht demanding a recall and a public apology, but Broht refuses. Janeway points out that authors have rights, but Broht responds that under Federation law, holograms have no rights.
After discussing legal options with Tuvok, Janeway decides to request a hearing to seek the same rights for the Doctor as any flesh-and-blood person. A Federation Arbitrator hears arguments from Broht and from the Voyager crew, who testify that the Doctor has demonstrated the traits of a "person" such as creativity, ambition, friendship and fallibility. After several days of arguments and deliberations, the Arbitrator announces he is not prepared to rule that the Doctor is a "person" under the law, but he is willing to extend the definition of "artist" to include the Doctor; therefore he orders all copies of the holo-novel recalled immediately. The Doctor apologizes to Janeway for the damage that's been done, but the crew encourages him to continue revising his work and to find a new publisher. Four months later, on an asteroid in the Alpha Quadrant where hundreds of EMH Mark Ones (all identical to the Doctor) are now mining dilithium, word gets around among the holograms that there is a very provocative new program in the holo-lab called "Photons Be Free."
167 "Friendship One"
Stardate not given: For the first time in seven years, the starship Voyager receives specific orders from Starfleet. The crew is to track down a 22nd century unmanned space probe which was last tracked in the vicinity of Voyager's current position. The probes last known location is discovered, but to Janeway's horror, its technology was analyzed by a Delta Quadrant race which reverse-engineered it - and used it to create potent weapons of mass destruction. Janeway must find a way to make reparations for an unforseeable mistake made before the Federation's Prime Directive existed - and when her away team become hostages, they may pay the ultimate price for mistakes made before the Federation's non-interference directive existed.
168 "Natural Law"
Stardate not given: A survey mission comes to an unexpected end when a shuttle carrying Chakotay and Seven encounters a powerful energy barrier surrounding a primitive world. The shuttle is nearly destroyed, and Chakotay suffers major injuries on impact. Worse, the barrier prevents any contact with Voyager, so help isn't on the way. Seven and Chakotay discover that the inhabitants of this world are not only intelligent, but imitative - after first seeing Chakotay, they tattoo themselves in a fashion similar to the first officer's facial ornamentation. But the primitives' behavior extends beyond the superficial. Chakotay and Seven worry that they may begin to understand, even duplicate, the technology of Voyager's shuttle. Seven sets about on a more determined effort to lower the barrier preventing Voyager from finding them. When she succeeds, only to find that someone else has been waiting for the barrier to come down so they can land, it appears that the tainting of the planet's indigenous people has only just begun.
169 "Homestead"
Stardate 54868.6: A First Contact Day celebration - commemorating the anniversary of humanity's first encounter with the Vulcans - is interrupted by an unexpected discovery. A colony of Talaxians has been detected living on a barren asteroid. Neelix is eager to visit them, as he may never get to see another of his own kind as Voyager speeds toward the Alpha Quadrant. But when the Talaxians greet the away team - including Neelix - with disdain for their weapons and "violent" way of life, the reunion doesn't go as planned. Neelix discovers that the Talaxians have been mining the asteroid for aliens who are practically using them as slave labor - and who intend to dispose of the colony by destroying the asteroid. Neelix attempts to persuade his fellow Talaxians that this situation warrants abandoning their traditionally pacifist stance on conflict, and even helps them strike the first blow against their overseers. But this is merely the opening volley in what is likely to be an ongoing fight - and Neelix may have to leave Voyager in order to continue helping his people.
170 "Renaissance Man"
Stardate 54890.7: Captain Janeway and the Doctor take the Delta Flyer to a medical conference, but when Janeway returns she orders Chakotay to prepare to eject Voyager's warp core...and giving another, more disturbing order, to find an M-class planet suitable for colonization in the Delta Quadrant. Unwilling to accept that the captain is abandoning Voyager's homeward journey without any explanation, Chakotay confronts her after more suspicious orders are given. Just as Chakotay realizes that Janeway has been replaced by a lookalike, the first officer is attacked and rendered unconscious. More suspicious orders are given to the crew, and Chakotay is also impersonated. But could the saboteur be one of Voyager's own?
171 "Endgame (I)"
Stardate not given: On the ten-year anniversary of the starship Voyager's return to Earth, Admiral Kathryn Janeway looks back bitterly at the tragic costs of the 23-year journey - the death of Seven of Nine, and the effect that death had upon the former Borg's husband, Commander Chakotay. A reunion of the surviving crew does little to lift the Admiral's spirits; the Doctor has married, Tom and B'Elanna's daughter is now a Starfleet officer, Harry Kim is now the captain of the U.S.S. Rhode Island, and Tuvok languishes in a mental institution, his mind wasted away by a neurological condition that could have been corrected had Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant sooner. Admiral Janeway decides to make a risky trip back in time to change history and speed her crew home.
172 "Endgame (II)"
Stardate not given: Voyager's sensors detect a possible high concentration of wormholes inside a dense nebula, and Captain Janeway decides to investigate. A near-collision with a Borg cube - obscured from sensors by the nebula's gases - changes her mind quickly, and Voyager retreats. A temporal rift forms near the ship, and a Starfleet shuttlecraft with armaments decades ahead of Voyager's own emerges, piloted by a woman who claims to be Janeway from sixteen years in the future. The elder Janeway outlines a daring plan to get the ship home ahead of schedule, using the weapons and armor technology of her shuttle to hold the Borg at bay. Voyager returns to the nebula, where the crew finds one of the Collective's huge transwarp stations, a nexus point of conduits that lead to every quadrant of the galaxy. Even though there's a high likelihood that one of those transwarp conduits could take Voyager back home, Captain Janeway orders a retreat over her older self's protests. The captain sees this as an opportunity to deny the Borg the means to launch future attacks on the Alpha Quadrant - which could leave Voyager stranded in the Delta Quadrant for years to come.