Star Trek Voyager Episode Guide
SEASON FIVE (2375)
#95 "NIGHT"
Written by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
Directed by David Livingston
Guest Stars: Ken Magee as Emck, Steven Dennis as Night Alien, Martin Rayner as
Dr. Chaotica
Airdate 10/14/98
Stardate 52081.2
While traversing a endlessly night-like
void in space, Janeway's feelings of guilt over Voyager's predicament
prompt her to sacrifice herself for the rest of the crew.
The U.S.S.
Voyager has entered a desolate region of space with no star systems in
sight for two years, and the crew is slowly going crazy. The only activity in
this vast expanse is some high levels of theta radiation. With nothing to
distract her mind from its deepest thoughts, Janeway has retreated to her
quarters and is agonizing over her past decisions that brought the crew to the
Delta Quadrant. Suddenly, the ship loses power and is left in total darkness.
Once Kim and Tuvok
get back partial power, they determine that a dampening field caused the power
drain. Meanwhile, Paris is attacked by an alien in the holodeck, and Chakotay
encounters one in the corridor. When emergency power is activated, three alien
ships can be seen surrounding Voyager. They don't answer hails and begin
firing until a larger ship forces them to retreat.
The pilot of the
friendly ship, Emck, informs Janeway that thousands of the alien ships are
ahead, but he can lead Voyager through a spatial vortex that will take
them to the other side of the expanse unharmed. In return, he wants the alien
they have in sickbay. Janeway questions the wounded "night being,"
who is dying of theta radiation poisoning. He explains that his people were
living a peaceful existence in the void when the Malon began poisoning them. A
course is set to take him home, and soon Voyager is surrounded by his
vessels. As he is beamed back, the night alien pleads with Janeway to help them
close the vortex and protect their space.
The crew observes
the Malon ships are using the void as a dumping ground for their antimatter
waste. Janeway offers Emck the technology to purify their reactant, but he
refuses to cooperate because such innovations would put him out of business. A
decision is reached to close the vortex, but it has to be done from inside the
void. Janeway announces that the crew will proceed through the vortex while she
stays behind in a shuttle and closes it, but her senior staff refuses to carry
out orders to sacrifice her. Instead, they will close the vortex just after
entering it. It will cause a major shockwave, but they are confident Voyager
can make it to the other side.
As Malon ships
begin firing, both of Voyager's engines are taken off-line. They
continue toward the vortex to find a Malon freighter attempting to block their
path, but night alien ships attack and distract it. Voyager scores a
direct hit against the freighter then enters the vortex, deploying torpedoes to
seal the entrance. The shockwave carries them to the other side, and the vortex
is destroyed. Finally, Voyager emerges from the darkness into a star
field full of light and life.
#96 "DRONE"
Teleplay by Brian Fuller, Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Story by Bryan Fuller and Harry Doc Kloor
Directed by Les Landau
Guest Stars: J. Paul Boehmer as Drone, Todd Babcock as Lt. Mulchaey
Airdate 10/21/98
Stardate Unknown
The pupil becomes the teacher when a
highly advanced Borg drone is born on Voyager and Seven of Nine
instructs him in the ways of humanity.
As his away team
is beamed back to Voyager, some parts of the Doctor's mobile emitter
fuse together, so Torres takes it to the science lab. Unseen, the emitter
sprouts Borg implants. When Ensign Mulcahey enters the lab the next morning, he
is attacked by extraction tubules. Meanwhile, Seven's proximity transceiver is
activated, alerting her to a Borg presence on the ship. She finds Mulcahey in
the lab, along with a Borg maturation chamber containing a fetal drone.
Seven determines
that when she and the Doctor were transported, some of her nanoprobes infected
his emitter. It was assimilated, and the Borg used Mulcahey's genetic code to
create a lifeform. As it continues to mature at a rapid rate, the drone is
observed to be mostly human, with many implants. The emitter is part of his
central nervous system and gives him 29th-century technology. His connection
with the Collective is dampened, and Seven attempts a neural interface to give
him instructions. Instead, he tries to assimilate her knowledge.
Because a neural
link is too dangerous, the drone, who chooses "One" as his designation,
uses Borg data nodes to assimilate information. He quickly absorbs knowledge of
the ship's systems and begins expressing curiosity about the Borg. Seven fears
he will be tempted to seek out the Collective and refuses to answer his
questions. As she and One regenerate in their alcoves, the Borg pick up One's
signal and set a course to intercept Voyager.
When Voyager
detects the approaching Borg, Seven discovers that One's cranial implants
created a secondary transceiver to signal them. Janeway and Seven have no
choice but to describe to One the Collective's destructive mentality and
explain that with his technology, the Borg would be even more dangerous. The
Captain asks him to help strengthen Voyager's defenses, but One is
confused. He is intrigued by the Collective, yet he senses its evil. There is
no time left to discuss the matter, however, as a Borg ship approaches.
One hears the
voice of the Collective, but he chooses to save Voyager from
destruction. He beams to the sphere to interface directly and disrupt it from
within. When his superior technology accesses the navigation system, he steers
the sphere into a nebula, destroying it. One survives and is beamed to sickbay,
where he refuses to let the Doctor operate to save him because he knows the
Borg will keep pursuing him. He doesn't want to put the crew in danger, so he
allows himself to die.
#97 "EXTREME RISK"
Story By: Bryan Fuller & Harry Doc Kloor
Teleplay by Bryan Fuller, Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
Directed by Les Landau
Guest Stars:
Airdate 10/28/98
Stardate Unknown
While the crew races to construct a new
advanced shuttle, the need to test herself leads Torres down a path of
self-destruction.
When one of Voyager's
probes is pursued by a Malon ship, Janeway orders that it be steered into a gas
giant. After the Malon ship follows and implodes, it is obvious Voyager
cannot go in to retrieve the probe. Paris has conceived a new technologically
advanced shuttle — the Delta Flyer — that could withstand the giant planet's
atmosphere, and Janeway gives him permission to work with the rest of the crew
on building it. Meanwhile, Torres begins pulling away from the others. She
activates a holodeck simulation of battle with Cardassians but disengages the
safety protocols.
Another Malon ship
approaches Voyager, and Janeway is hailed by an alien named Vrelk. He
tells the Captain his ship is going to retrieve the probe, and she should stand
down. She ignores his threats until Seven of Nine, using neutrino beams to spy
on the Malon vessel, discovers they are building a shuttle of their own. It can
also withstand the giant's atmosphere, and it's scheduled to be operational
before the Voyager crew finishes their shuttle.
The crew steps up
the pace of construction, and Seven's intelligence shows they are in a dead
heat with the Malon to finish the vessels. When Torres runs a shuttle
simulation in the holodeck to check for a fatal flaw, she once again disengages
the safety protocol. The atmosphere of the gas giant begins to cause
microfractures in the shuttle, and Torres is knocked unconscious. Just before
the hull breaches, Chakotay arrives and freezes the program.
Once Torres is
taken to sickbay, the Doctor finds old wounds that went untreated. Chakotay
learns she has been running very dangerous holo-simulations without the safety
protocols. When confronted, she admits she has been testing herself, trying to
experience an emotion or feel pain. Ever since she and Chakotay received the Starfleet
message telling them their Maquis friends had been slaughtered, Torres has felt
numb. Suddenly, Voyager is attacked by the Malon, who are firing to
create a distraction as they launch their new shuttle.
Janeway is forced
to launch the Delta Flyer ahead of schedule and attempt to retrieve the
probe first. Torres persuades Chakotay to let her accompany the away team. When
the Malon begin firing charges at them, Seven's torpedo scores a direct hit,
forcing them to retreat. Once Kim locks a tractor beam onto the probe, the
shuttle begins losing structural integrity. Just as the hull breaches, Torres
creates an ingenious device to trap the incoming gas in a containment field.
The Delta Flyer returns to Voyager safely, and Torres is on her
way to feeling whole again.
#98 "IN THE FLESH"
Teleplay by Nicholas Sagan
Directed by David Livingston
Guest Stars: Ray Walston as Boothby, Kate Vernon as Archer, Zach Galligan as
Ensign Gentry, Tucker Smallwood as Admiral Bullock
Airdate 11/04/98
Stardate 52136.4
The Voyager crew discovers an
alien training ground for the infiltration of Earth.
Conducting a
surveillance mission of an alien structure, Chakotay finds himself on Earth at
Starfleet Headquarters. He is surrounded by aliens posing as humans, and
strikes up a conversation with one of the women, Commander Valerie Archer.
Later, when Chakotay and Tuvok are on their way back to the Delta Flyer,
an alien Ensign tries to detain them for being in a restricted area. Unwilling
to risk their cover being blown, they beam him back to Voyager.
When Janeway
questions him, the Ensign kills himself by releasing a toxin into his
bloodstream. The Doctor triggers a genetic reversion, and the body on the
biobed turns into a Species 8472 alien. Analysis of their ship's structure
shows the aliens are using a combination of holographic projection and particle
synthesis to recreate Earth and Starfleet Headquarters. The crew surmises it is
being used as a training ground for invasion of the Alpha Quadrant.
Seven discovers
Species 8472 has adapted to Borg nanoprobes. As she works to modify them,
Chakotay, Paris and Kim take the Delta Flyer back to the Earth
simulation so Chakotay can keep a date planned with Archer. He plans to use her
to find out more about the mission against the Federation. After Chakotay
leaves her quarters, Archer analyzes a DNA sample and discovers that he is
human. Once security is alerted, Chakotay is taken into custody.
Paris and Kim
notify Janeway of what has happened and pilot their shuttle back to Voyager.
The Captain sets a course for the alien ship, and is armed with modified
nanoprobes but is unwilling to use them unless provoked. When she threatens the
habitat leader — who is in the body of Starfleet groundskeeper Boothby — with
the Borg nanoprobes, he agrees to a meeting.
With both sides
gathered to discuss their differences, Janeway and Boothby find there is room
for negotiation. Judging from Voyager's collaboration with the Borg
against them, Species 8472 believed humans were a hostile force planning an
invasion. Janeway explains that her crew did not know at the time that the Borg
had started the war with their species; Archer then reveals that their Earth
simulation is only a reconnaissance mission. They feared humans as much as the Voyager
crew feared them. After agreeing to share technology as a first step toward
peace between their species, the 8472 beings return to fluidic space, and Voyager
continues on its journey home.
#99 "ONCE UPON A TIME"
Written by Michael Taylor
Directed by John Kretchmer
Guest Stars: Nancy Hower as Ensign Samantha Wildman, Scarlett Powmers as Naomi
Wildman, Wallace Langham
Airdate 11/11/98
Stardate Unknown
When Neelix comforts a little girl
whose mother is missing, it brings back painful memories of losing his own
family.
While Paris, Tuvok
and Ensign Wildman are on an away mission, their shuttle runs into an ion storm
and suffers severe damage. Voyager tracks their distress call to a
nearby planetary system, but another storm is blocking their path. As the crew
prepares to go after the Delta Flyer, Neelix is in charge of keeping
Ensign Wildman's daughter Naomi occupied and unaware of her mother's
predicament. When Paris finally crash-lands the shuttle onto a planetoid,
Wildman is seriously hurt.
Buried three
kilometers under the rock surface, Wildman is bleeding internally and needs
surgery. Back on Voyager, Kim tracks the Delta Flyer's coordinates
on the planetoid. There are no lifesigns, but rescue teams are dispatched to
the crater in search of the lost crew. Naomi is worried when her mother doesn't
call, but Neelix tries to distract her with a holodeck fairytale called
"The Adventures of Flotter."
The prospect of
telling Naomi that her mother is lost brings back sad memories for Neelix of
losing his own family. Although Janeway urges him to be honest with the little
girl, he wants to wait until the away teams find the shuttle. When Naomi wakes
up in the middle of the night and goes to the bridge in search of Neelix, she
overhears talk of the crash and the lost crew.
Neelix finds Naomi
in the holodeck with Flotter and Trevis, characters in the interactive
fairytale, and tries to comfort her about her mother's situation. He also tells
her about losing his own parents and sisters when he was very young. As their
life support system begins to fail, Paris, Tuvok and Wildman record goodbye
messages to their loved ones. Above them, Chakotay and Seven locate the shuttle
buried underneath the rock. A massive digging effort begins, but an ion storm
is approaching, and they don't have much time before it hits.
With two minutes
to go until their oxygen is depleted, the Delta Flyer crew hears the
rescue team digging above them. Kim is able to get a transporter lock on the
shuttle, and it is transported to Voyager just before the storm hits.
Once Wildman's injuries are treated in sickbay, she and Naomi are reunited, and
mother and daughter pay a visit to the "Forest of Forever" together.
#100 "TIMELESS"
Written by Jeri Taylor & Joe Menosky
Directed by LeVar Burton
Guest Stars: LeVar Burton as Captain LaForge
Airdate 11/18/98
Stardate 52143.6
Fifteen years after making a horrible
mistake, Kim attempts to rewrite history.
Chakotay and Kim
are on an ice planet investigating the crash site of Voyager. It is the
future, and the entire ship and crew are frozen inside a glacier. Once they are
beamed inside, Chakotay finds the long-dead Seven of Nine and summons the pilot
of his shuttle, Tessa, to transport her aboard. Kim uses Starfleet technology
to access Voyager's computer and activate the Doctor's program. When he
demands to know what has happened, Chakotay tells him they are there to change
history.
Flashback to the
crew celebrating the completion of Voyager's quantum slipstream drive.
The next day they will set a course for the Alpha Quadrant at a speed never
before imagined. However, Paris finds a phase variance in the threshold that
causes the slipstream to become unstable. Kim volunteers to take the Delta
Flyer a few seconds ahead of Voyager in the slipstream. He can map
it and send the phase variations back to the ship in time to make corrections.
Janeway agrees to take the risk and assigns Chakotay to fly with Kim.
Fifteen years
later, Chakotay and Kim explain to the Doctor what happened. Kim transmitted
the wrong variance, forcing Janeway to make an emergency landing that killed
the crew on impact. Kim and Chakotay made it back to Earth, but when Starfleet
gave up their search for Voyager, they decided they had to find a way to
correct their mistake. They stole a Borg temporal transmitter and the Delta
Flyer from Starfleet, and now they can use Seven's Borg interplexing beacon
to send a new set of phase corrections back in time to the crew. Just as
Chakotay downloads Voyager's sensor logs, a Galaxy-class starship
arrives in search of the thieves.
Captain La Forge
of the U.S.S. Challenger hails Chakotay and tries to talk him out of
altering the timeline, but Kim and the Doctor continue to work feverishly on
Seven's Borg implant. Once the Doctor pinpoints her time of death, they use the
temporal transmitter to send the phase corrections four minutes prior to Voyager's
crash. In the past, Seven receives and inputs them, but the slipstream
continues to collapse. Just outside of the Alpha Quadrant, Voyager
crashes onto the ice planet.
When Kim realizes his
phase corrections still didn't work, he doesn't have time to find his mistake.
Tessa disengages the Delta Flyer from the Challenger's tractor
beam, but the shuttle's warp core begins to breach. With only seconds to spare,
Kim transmits a phase correction to Seven that will disperse the slipstream
entirely, just as the Delta Flyer explodes. On Voyager, both the
ship and shuttle are thrown out of the slipstream, effectively erasing the
future. Later, Janeway informs Ensign Kim that a log entry was found encoded in
the transmission to Seven: a message "from Harry Kim...to Harry Kim."
#101 "INFINITE REGRESS"
Teleplay by Robert J. Doherty
Written by Robert J. Doherty & Jimmy Diggs
Directed by David Livingston
Guest Stars: Scarlett Powmers as Naomi Wildman, Neil Maffin as Ven, Erica Mer
as Human Girl
Airdate 11/25/98
Stardate 52188.7
Seven experiences the Borg version of
multiple personality disorder.
When the U.S.S.
Voyager encounters a Borg vessel's debris field, sensors also detect a Borg
neural interlink frequency. Meanwhile, Seven hears voices in her head that
cause her to change personalities. One minute she is a Klingon hunting for
food, and the next she is a little girl wanting to play a game. No one realizes
what is happening until Seven, acting as a Klingon, attacks Torres. She is contained
in a forcefield but becomes a little girl again. When she suddenly begins
speaking Klingon and turns on Tuvok, the Vulcan is forced to stun her with a
phaser.
Once in sickbay,
Seven's cortical inhibitor is suppressed so she will not react to the voices.
The Doctor discovers that Seven's implants are storing new neural patterns of
species the Borg assimilated. After arriving at the debris field, the crew
finds the source of the interlink frequency — a vinculum. A processing device
that interconnects the minds of drones, it is sending a damaged signal to Seven
and must be taken off-line. After Janeway agrees to beam it aboard so it can be
disabled, Seven finds an alien organism inside that attacks technology by
creating a virus.
Seven determines
that Species 6339 carried the virus in their bodies and spread it to the Borg
cube when assimilated. After her inhibitor begins failing, Seven experiences
even more new personalities and must be sedated. Torres and Tuvok target the
vinculum's transneural matrix with a dampening field, but it only adapts to the
technology and returns to full power. At that point, Seven's own neural pattern
is erased.
When Janeway
locates a Species 6339 vessel, their leader demands she return the vinculum.
They unleashed the virus to spread to all cubes, and they want to return it to
the debris field so the Borg will retrieve it. Janeway refuses to do so until
Seven has been cured, so Voyager comes under fire from the alien vessel.
Meanwhile, Seven's cerebral cortex is under incredible strain, and the Doctor
fears that he may never be able to retrieve her neural pattern. Tuvok decides
to engage in a Vulcan mind-meld to isolate her true self and guide it to the
surface.
As Tuvok enters
Seven's chaotic mind, he struggles to find her among the sea of screaming
people. He glimpses her being restrained by Klingons and other aliens, but he
can't reach her. In Engineering, Torres remodulates the dampening field and
finally manages to disable the vinculum. Once it is beamed out to space, the
alien vessel ceases its attack. All of the other neural patterns in Seven's
mind become dormant, and she and Tuvok return safely from their mind-meld.
#102 "NOTHING HUMAN"
Written by Jeri Taylor
Directed by David Livingston
Guest Star: David Clennon as Dr. Crell Moset
Airdate 12/02/98
Stardate Unknown
Torres is forced to put her life in the
hands of a mortal enemy — a Cardassian.
When Voyager
encounters a massive energy wave, the ship receives a download of information.
The crew tracks the wave's ion trail and finds a stranded vessel with a wounded
alien on board. Once the creature is beamed to sickbay, Torres finds that it
uses biochemical secretions to give commands. Suddenly, the alien attacks
Torres, puncturing her neck and secreting fluids into her bloodstream. Unaware
of how to extract the creature without harming Torres, the Doctor and Kim
create a hologram of a leading exobiologist named Crell Moset — a Cardassian.
In order to crack
the coded message downloaded to Voyager, the databanks from the alien's
ship must be accessed. However, the vessel destabilizes and explodes before
Seven of Nine can retrieve them. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Crell determine the
alien is using Torres as a life preserver by co-opting her vital systems. They
re-create Crell's laboratory in a holodeck so he can use his more advanced
tools to help Torres, but she objects to putting her life in the hands of a
Cardassian.
Unable to decipher
the alien's message, Janeway retransmits the signal on all subspace bands
hoping more of its species will answer the call. In Crell's laboratory, he and
the Doctor operate on a hologram of the alien and find nodes suggesting the
creature is a highly intelligent being. Crell decides the nodes are the best
place to administer a neurostatic shock, which will incapacitate the alien and
probably kill it. Later, the Doctor is shocked when a crewmember, Tabor, reacts
violently to Crell's presence on Voyager and calls the Cardassian a mass
murderer.
Tabor reveals that
during the Bajoran War, Crell used live subjects for his medical experiments
and killed hundreds of Bajorans. Although barely hanging on to life, Torres
refuses to let Crell treat her. She believes if she benefits from his research,
she will be validating his atrocious methods. However, the Doctor cannot remove
the alien without Crell's help, and Torres will die otherwise. Against many
moral objections, Janeway authorizes Crell to perform the procedure.
As the Doctor and
Crell work to extract the creature, Voyager is hailed by one of the
alien vessels. They lock the ship in a tractor beam, but Janeway senses they
only want their friend back and mean no harm. In surgery, the Doctor overrides
Crell's decision to kill the alien and instead administers a neural shock that
weakens its motor control without permanent damage. As its tendrils withdraw
from Torres, its metabolism is restored and it is beamed to the waiting ship.
Left to make a tough decision, the Doctor decides to delete Crell's program
from Voyager's database.
#103 "THIRTY DAYS"
Written by Scott Miller and Kenneth Biller
Directed by Winrich Kolbe
Guest Stars: Willie Garson as Riga, Benjamin Livingston as Perfect, Heidi
Kramer as Megan Delaney, Alissa Kramer as Jenny Delaney
Airdate 12/09/98
Stardate 52179.4
Paris is confined to the brig after
interfering with the affairs of an alien race.
Confined to 30
days in the brig, Paris composes a letter to his father explaining how he got
there. He flashes back to the day Voyager's sensors detected an ocean in
the shape of a planet. After Janeway communicates to the Monean leader, Burkus,
that her ship means no harm to his people, he and Riga are beamed onboard. They
explain that their people live underwater, farming sea vegetation and extracting
oxygen for their ships, but now it is losing containment, and they don't know
how to stop it. Paris requests permission to take the Delta Flyer to the
center of the ocean, where the gravitational currents are located, and
investigate.
After researching
the Moneans' predicament, Janeway tells Burkus the ocean will suffer a complete
loss of containment in less than five years. Meanwhile, deep beneath the
ocean's surface, the shuttle crew encounters an ancient field reactor
controlled by a core computer. As they upload information from it, the Delta
Flyer is attacked by an enormous marine creature discharging an electrical
current. It retreats when hit by a phaser, but the shuttle has already been
breached, and water begins pouring into the cabin.
Once the leak is
repaired, the shuttle crew determines the reactor core is unstable, so Paris
initiates a power transfer as a temporary solution. Reviewing the uploaded
information, he finds the ocean was once part of a landmass inhabited by a very
advanced civilization. They used a kinetic transfer system to draw the water
around the reactor, but it is not responsible for the containment loss.
Instead, Paris determines it is the Moneans' mining operation that is
destroying the ocean.
Janeway offers
Burkus several solutions that would make the refineries obsolete, but he only
plans to include them in a subcommittee report. Paris is distraught over the
ocean's destruction and feels Burkus doesn't understand the magnitude of the
crisis. Forbidden to disrupt the internal affairs of an alien race, Paris
instead convinces Riga to take the oxygen refineries off-line, and the two
commandeer the Delta Flyer.
Janeway
immediately orders Paris to cease his mission. When he refuses, she prepares to
modify a photon torpedo as a "depth charge" to stop him. Once they
reach the reactor, Paris and Riga launch their missile at the same time Voyager
fires. Paris' missile is deflected, and he is brought back to the ship and
reduced to the rank of ensign. Once he finishes the letter to his father, he
files it in his personal log to be sent when Voyager is within Earth's
range.
#104 "COUNTERPOINT"
Teleplay by Les Landau
Directed by Michael Taylor
Guest Stars: Mark Harelik as Kashyk, Randy Oglesby as Kir, Patrick McCormack as
Prax, Alexander Enberg as Vorik, Randy Lowell as Torat, Jake Sakson as Adar
Airdate 12/16/98
Stardate Unknown
Janeway falls for a man who may be
using her to take over Voyager.
Passing through
Devore space, Voyager is stopped for inspection. The Devore Imperium
considers all "gaharay," or strangers, to be suspect, and vessels in
their space must be searched. They are looking for telepaths, who they believe
break the cardinal rule of trust by reading minds. Janeway has rescued Brenari
refugees bound for a detention center and is hiding them in transporter
suspension.
A transport vessel
is waiting in a nebula to rendezvous with Voyager and take the refugees
to a wormhole leading out of hostile territory. Suddenly, the Devore inspector,
Kashyk, hails Janeway. Seeking asylum on her ship, he reveals he is aware of
the refugees she is hiding and that the wormhole is a trap to catch ships
smuggling telepaths. Voyager will be intercepted by a squadron unless
Janeway allows Kashyk to stay onboard and help her evade the Devore.
Although Kashyk
provides the crew with valuable information to use against his people, Janeway
keeps him under tight security in case the Devore are using him to find the
wormhole. They track down Torat, an expert on wormholes, who tells them the one
they are looking for is a random occurrence. He provides coordinates of the
last four appearances, and by applying an algorithm of subspace harmonics,
Janeway and Kashyk find the counterpoint — the site of the next wormhole.
Although the Devore use a scanning pulse array to track ships, Voyager's
power output will be lowered beneath the detection threshold and drift by the
sensors.
When the pulse
triggers a variance in Voyager's antimatter stream, the ship is
detected. Two warships approach, but Janeway plans to fight all the way to the
wormhole. Then, Kashyk announces that in order to guarantee the safety of the
crew and refugees, he is going back to his ship. The Brenari will hide once
more, and then he will lead an inspection team through Voyager before
the wormhole appears. Before Kashyk leaves, he and Janeway kiss.
Once Kashyk and
his inspection team board Voyager, Janeway secretly tells him they have
located the wormhole off the port bow and the refugees are in transporter
suspension. Kashyk immediately reveals that he has double-crossed her, and he
orders a proton torpedo fired at the wormhole to destroy it. However, after it
is fired, Kashyk realizes he is the one who has been betrayed. The real
wormhole is in another location, and the refugees have snuck away in shuttles and
traveled through it. Kashyk, not wanting the failure on his record, refuses to
report the incident and allows Voyager to resume its course.
#105 "LATENT IMAGE"
Story by Eileen Connors
Screenplay by Joe Menosky
Directed by Mike Vejar
Guest Stars: Nancy Bell as Ensign Jetal
Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman
Airdate 01/20/99
Stardate Unknown
Someone is trying to keep the Doctor
from remembering the incidents surrounding a crewmember's death.
As the Doctor
takes holo-images of the crew, he finds evidence of neurosurgery he performed
18 months ago on Kim. However, he doesn't remember it. The Doctor asks Seven of
Nine to help him run a self-diagnostic, but later he doesn't recall their
conversation. Someone has ordered a deletion in his short-term memory buffer,
and holo-images he took around the time of the surgery have been deleted. When
Seven restores them, a female ensign they don't recognize is pictured with
others in the crew, and one picture is of an alien on their shuttle.
Once Seven
restores some of his memories, the Doctor recalls pieces of events from the
pictures. When he remembers the alien boarded their shuttle and shot Kim and
Ensign Jetal, he immediately tells Janeway. She agrees to investigate but tells
the Doctor to deactivate his program for the time being. Before he does, he
orders the computer to take holo-images of anyone who accesses his files while
he is off-line and then reactivate him. Shortly, someone comes into sickbay to
delete more files. When the Doctor develops the holo-images taken, it is
Janeway.
The Doctor
confronts Janeway, who tells him that he was damaged during the incident with
the alien. It caused a conflict in his program, so she was forced to restrict
his access to memories of that period. The Captain refuses to tell him what
happened, and now that he is starting to remember, she plans to rewrite his
program. After Seven challenges her decision and she has had some time to think
about it, Janeway agrees to restore his memories.
Scenes from the
pictures come to life. The Doctor, Kim and Jetal were on a shuttle mission when
an alien ship attacked. Their shuttle was boarded, and the alien shot Kim and
Jetal. Once Voyager beamed them to sickbay, the Doctor discovered the
alien's energy pulse had remained in their neural membranes, and the only way
to save them was to isolate the spinal cord from the brain. There was only time
to perform one procedure, and the Doctor chose Kim.
After Jetal's
funeral, the Doctor began having a breakdown. Now that he has remembered
everything, he begins agonizing over the same question of how he could choose
one life over another. There is a battle going on between his original
programming and what he has become. The crew keeps vigil with him, hoping that
eventually he will forgive himself and learn to accept his decision.
#106 "BRIDE OF CHAOTICA"
Story by Bryan Fuller
Teleplay by Bryan Fuller & Michael Taylor
Directed by Allan Kroeker
Guest Stars: Martin Rayner as Dr. Chaotica, Nicholas Worh as Lonzak, Jim
Krestalude as Alien #1, Tarik Ergin as Robot
Airdate 01/ 27/99
Stardate Unknown
Janeway and Paris join forces to defeat
the evil Doctor Chaotica in order to save an extradimensional race as well as Voyager.
In the midst of
Paris' latest holodeck installment of "The Adventures of Captain
Proton," Voyager runs into a gravimetric force and stops. A layer
of subspace is acting as a sandbar and disrupting the ship's warp field. When
distortions appear in the holodeck, the crew believes they are random
fluctuations. However, while the program runs unattended, two men claiming to
be from the Fifth Dimension beam down and are questioned by Doctor Chaotica.
After one of them transports back to the distortion, Chaotica vows to destroy
their dimension.
When weapons fire
from the holodeck creates power surges on Voyager, Paris and Tuvok
investigate the Captain Proton simulation. A battle has taken place, and the
scenario's robot tells them invaders from the Fifth Dimension have entered
through a portal. Suddenly, photonic charges begin emanating from the
distortions, and Chaotica fires back with his death ray. As Paris and Tuvok
gather information from Proton's ship, they encounter one of the men from the
alternate universe.
Although they
explain that Planet X is only a photonic simulation with which he has
intersected, Paris and Tuvok can't convince the trans-dimensional alien that
Chaotica's army of evil is not reality. Paris suggests to Janeway that they
help the aliens defeat Chaotica so they will leave and Voyager can
resume course. Janeway will play the role of Arachnia, Queen of the
Spiderpeople, and charm her way into the villain's Fortress of Doom. Once
inside, she will deactivate the controls of the death ray and his lightning
shields, leaving Chaotica vulnerable to Proton's "destructo beam."
Posing as the
President of Earth, the Doctor convinces the alien that Captain Proton needs
his help. The alien agrees to cease firing and return to his realm once Proton
has defeated Chaotica. Meanwhile, Janeway's Arachnia almost has Chaotica
convinced to lower his shields when he becomes suspicious, and she is forced to
pull a ray-gun on him. He confines her to a containment ring and fires his
death ray on Proton's approaching ship. On the bridge, Torres realizes the
power surges from the holodeck are pulling Voyager deeper into subspace.
Arachnia has one
weapon left — her irresistible pheromones. She uses them to lure a guard into
setting her free and then kills all of Chaotica's men. Defenseless, the evil
doctor must deactivate his shields, allowing Proton to score a direct hit with
his destructo beam against the death ray and Chaotica. Then, the distortions
close, and Voyager is realigned with normal space. Another chapter of
"The Adventures of Captain Proton" comes to an end...or does it?
#107 "GRAVITY"
Story by Jimmy Diggs
Teleplay by Bryan Fuller & Nick Sagan
Directed by Terry Windell
Guest Stars: Lori Petty as Noss, Leroy D. Brazile as Young Tuvok, Paul Eckstein
as Yost, Joseph Ruskin as Vulcan Master
Airdate 02/03/99
Stardate 52438.9
Stranded on a desolate planet with a
beautiful female, Tuvok struggles to ignore the emotions his Vulcan master
taught him to suppress.
When Tuvok and
Paris crash their shuttle, their signal to Voyager is bounced back by
the distortion field that drew them into the gravity well. Stranded on a planet
stuck in a pocket of deep space, they meet a female named Noss. She is attacked
by an alien species of scavengers, but Tuvok overpowers them and befriends her.
Once she brings them to the wreckage of her ship, Paris reactivates the
Doctor's mobile emitter and brings him on-line to translate Noss' language. She
tells them she has seen many ships fall from the sky, but none have gone back
up.
As Noss learns
their language and begins communicating with them, Paris shares stories of Voyager
with her. When he notices that she likes Tuvok, he encourages his friend to
pursue his mutual feelings for her. However, Tuvok remembers his schooling with
the Vulcan master. He was taught that love is the most dangerous emotion, and
that all emotions should be suppressed.
Back on Voyager,
the ship is almost pulled into the sinkhole. When Janeway realizes the shuttle
must have succumbed to it, she prepares to send in a multispatial probe to
investigate. Suddenly, a vessel approaches, and they are hailed by Yost. He
informs them that eleven of his ships have been lost in the distortion, and it
will be sealed the next day. Chakotay locates the shuttle's distress signal,
but he also finds that Tuvok and Paris are experiencing a temporal
differential. A day to Voyager could mean weeks or months to them. In
addition, the planet's gravitational distress is increasing, and the sinkhole
is on the verge of collapsing.
After Tuvok and
Paris are ambushed by the scavenger aliens, Noss lovingly tends to Tuvok's
wounds. When she kisses him, he stoically rebukes her advances and hurts her
feelings. Later, Tuvok tries to explain to Paris that his time with the Vulcan
master trained him to ignore his illogical emotions. Meanwhile, Torres modifies
the probe into a transporter relay and manages to send a communication signal
to Paris and Tuvok's distress beacon. They receive the transmission telling
them a transporter beam will be sent in 30 minutes, which is a little over two
days in the differential. As they wait for their rescue, aliens surround them.
Tuvok and Paris
are barely able to fend off the photon grenades of the aliens before Voyager's
transporter relay beams them to the ship. Noss is taken to her homeworld, but
before saying good-bye, Tuvok employs a Vulcan mind-meld to show her the
feelings buried deep inside him.
#108 "BLISS"
Story by Bill Prady
Teleplay by Robert J. Doherty
Directed by Cliff Bole
Guest Stars: Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman, W. Morgan Sheppard as Qatai
Airdate: 02/ 10/99
Stardate 52542.3
The crew is in serious danger when all
of their dreams seem to come true and home seems closer in sight.
Seven of Nine
returns from a survey to find the crew has discovered what they think is a
wormhole leading to Earth. A probe detects Starfleet signals containing letters
full of good news to the crew. Although sensors detect erratic neutrino levels
in the wormhole, Starfleet says the flux is unimportant. Suspicious of
everyone's unfettered optimism despite signs the anomaly may not be all it
appears to be, Seven accesses Janeway's logs. At first the captain reports that
scans determined the wormhole was a deception, but in supplemental logs,
Janeway suddenly believes it is real.
When Seven locates
an alien vessel in the wormhole not detected by Voyager's sensors, she
hails it. The alien, Qatai, warns her that her ship is being deceived, but they
are cut off when Janeway routes power from the lab to another system. When
Naomi tells her everyone is acting strangely, Seven realizes they are the only
two unaffected by whatever is manipulating the crew. Soon, the crew is ordered
by Starfleet to take the Doctor off-line to avoid system interference, and to
put Seven in stasis to avoid attracting Borg attention while Voyager
passes through the wormhole.
As Chakotay
escorts Seven to her alcove, she tricks him and erects a forcefield to contain
him. With Naomi's help, she keeps security at bay while she transports to
Engineering and stuns Torres with a phaser. After erecting another forcefield,
Seven attempts to shut down the impulse drive to keep Voyager from
entering the wormhole. However, Janeway transmits a surge to the engineering
console that knocks Seven out.
Once they enter
the anomaly, the crew is unconscious. When Naomi wakes Seven, the two hail
Qatai and convince him to beam aboard. He explains the crew has been a victim
of psychogenic manipulation. They are inside a bio-plasmic organism, a beast
that consumes starships by telepathically preying on their crews' desires.
Qatai has been trying for years to destroy the creature, not always successful
at evading its deceptions.
After activating
the Doctor's program, Seven informs him that Voyager is being devoured
in the digestive chamber of the organism. Realizing that bodies are designed to
expel foreign objects, they plan to fire one of Qatai's tetryon-based weapons
at a pocket of antimatter released from Voyager's warp core. It creates
an unpleasant reaction that causes the beast to expel the two ships through its
esophagus. Once Janeway and the others regain consciousness, Voyager
resumes its course to the Alpha Quadrant, but Qatai returns to the beast,
obsessed with defeating it.
#109 "DARK FRONTIER, PART I"
Written by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
Directed by Cliff Bole
Guest Stars: Susanna Thompson as Borg Queen, Kirk Bailey as Magnus Hansen,
Laura Stepp as Erin Hansen, Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman, Katelin Petersen
as Annika Hansen
Airdate: 02/17/99
Stardate 52619.2
During a mission against the Borg,
Seven of Nine is lured back to the Collective.
After Voyager
manages to destroy a Borg probe, Seven finds data nodes filled with tactical
information among the debris. With it they locate a heavily damaged scout ship
nearby, and Janeway decides to plan a "heist" — invade the Borg
vessel while its defenses are down and take its transwarp coil, which will
shave 20 years off Voyager's journey. The crew will create a diversion,
then send an away team in to steal the technology. Hoping to find information
that will give them a tactical edge, Janeway assigns Seven to study her
parents' field notes that Voyager recovered from the U.S.S. Raven.
Once she begins
studying her parents' logs, Seven remembers their encounters with the Borg. She
was only a small girl at the time, but she vividly recalls their fascination
with the mysterious Collective. Meanwhile, Voyager catches up with the
scout ship. The sphere's shields and transwarp drive will be off-line for the
next 72 hours, allowing the crew only a short time to plan the mission.
During a
holographic simulation, Janeway and the others practice their mission down to
the second. They have only two minutes to disable the sensor grid and transport
the coil to Voyager before being detected. After leaving the holodeck,
Seven is unsettled by her close proximity to the Borg, even if it wasn't real.
When Naomi begins asking her questions about the Collective, Seven hallucinates
that the Borg have accessed her neural transceiver and know about Janeway's
plan.
Further memories
of her parents' mission reminds Seven of their arrogance in underestimating the
Borg, which eventually led to their assimilation. Based on the Hansens'
description of a bio-dampener in their notes, the team replicates the
technology in order to go undetected on the sphere. Asserting that she is
willing to risk her own well-being for the sake of the crew, Seven persuades
Janeway to assign her to the away team despite the Captain's reservations.
The mission goes
as planned until Seven once again hears the voice of the Collective luring her
back to the hive. In a sudden change of heart, she refuses to transport back to
Voyager with the others, and Janeway is forced to leave her before she
is assimilated herself. The sphere returns to Borg space with Seven onboard,
and the Borg Queen welcomes her back to the Collective...
#110 "DARK FRONTIER, PART II"
Written by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
Directed by Terry Windel
Guest Stars: Susanna Thompson as Borg Queen, Kirk Bailey as Magnus Hansen,
Laura Stepp as Erin Hansen, Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman, Katelin Petersen
as Annika Hansen, Eric Cadora as the alien
Airdate: 02/17/99
Stardate 52619.2
When Seven is recaptured by the
Collective in a plan to assimilate humanity, Janeway launches an all-out
mission to rescue her.
After being lured
back to the hive during Voyager's mission to steal a transwarp coil,
Seven is trapped on a Borg vessel. The Queen informs her that the Borg
"allowed" Voyager to liberate her from the Collective, but she
won't be turned back into a drone because they want to study her memories. With
her individuality intact, the Borg can look through her eyes to help them
assimilate humanity. Meanwhile, Janeway discovers that Borg signals were being
sent to Seven in her cargo bay alcove.
Determined to
rescue Seven, Janeway leads an away team in the Delta Flyer to find the
Borg sphere that took Seven away. They use the stolen coil to take the shuttle
into transwarp space, and incorporate multi-adaptive shielding based on the
Hansens' field notes from the U.S.S. Raven to go undetected by the Borg.
As Seven is given
her first assignment to assist in the assimilation of a species, she secretly
helps four of the individuals escape. The Borg Queen scolds her, saying that
her human emotions of compassion and guilt are weaknesses that are causing her
pain. However, when Seven pleads with her to let the getaway ship escape, the
Queen grants her request.
After the away
team follows the sphere into Borg space, Janeway prepares to send a message to
Seven through her Borg interplexing beacon. The Queen gives Seven a new
assignment — to assist in the programming of nanoprobes that will assimilate
humans. The Borg plan is to detonate a biogenic charge in Earth's atmosphere,
and Seven will be turned into a drone if she does not comply. Taunting her, the
Queen reveals that one of the drones standing next to her is Seven's father.
Suddenly, Janeway's signal comes through, and the Queen discovers it.
As the Borg adapt
to Voyager's shielding, Janeway is forced to beam to the vessel and
disable the shield matrix around the Queen's chamber. While Paris eludes the
other ships, Janeway confronts the Queen and orders Seven to leave with her. A
dispersal field is formed around the chamber to block the Delta Flyer's
transporter beam, but Seven tells the Captain to target the power node above
the chamber. This disrupts the Queen's command interface, and Janeway and Seven
are beamed to the shuttle. They quickly enter a transwarp conduit, but not
before a Borg vessel sneaks in behind them. On Voyager, Chakotay and
Torres fire a full spread of photon torpedoes at the conduit threshold,
collapsing it just as the shuttle bursts through. The Borg ship is destroyed,
and Seven is home again.
#111 "THE DISEASE"
Story By Kenneth Biller
Teleplay by Michael Taylor
Written by Kenneth Biller
Directed by David Livingston
Guest Stars: Musetta Vander as Tal, Charles Rocket as Jippeq
Airdate: 02/24/99
Stardate Unknown
Kim puts his future with Voyager
at risk when he chooses love over duty.
As Voyager
helps a generational ship of Varro repair their warp drive, Kim and a female
Varro, Tal, become attracted to each other. Knowing that Kim is violating
several rules of protocol, they sneak away to Tal's quarters to be together.
While they are making love, light flickers just below the surface of their
skin. Later, the luminescence returns to Kim's skin, and Seven insists he go to
sickbay.
When the Doctor
thinks he has contracted a virus, Kim confesses to his intimate relations.
Janeway is notified, and she orders him to stop seeing Tal. The Captain
believes that Kim has put the crew's relationship with the Varro at risk. After
Kim tells Tal the luminescence returned, she explains it is what they call
olan'vora, or the shared heart. The more time they spend together, the harder
it will be to part. He tries to leave, but they kiss instead. Meanwhile, Tuvok
and Neelix discover a Varro male hiding in one of the Jefferies tubes. When
questioned, he reveals he is seeking asylum on Voyager. He says many
Varro feel imprisoned on their ship and there are rumors of a violent movement
to leave it.
After finding
microfractures in Voyager's hull, Seven and Torres discover
silicone-based parasites are present. They are synthetic and believed to be an
act of sabotage. First planted on the Varro ship, now the parasites have
migrated to Voyager. On the shuttle, Kim and Tal secretly rendezvous and
fly to a nearby nebula. When Tuvok tracks them down, he informs them both to
report to Voyager.
A schematic for
the parasite was found on Tal's personal database, and she reveals the
dissident group is dismantling the Varro ship. The parasites are targeting the
linkage between segments, which will break off into separate ships and allow
people to choose whether to stay or go. When Janeway explains the decay will
cause decompressive explosions, Tal agrees to slow down the parasites long
enough for the ship to be evacuated. Janeway orders Kim to sickbay to treat the
bio-chemical bond he has developed with Tal, but he refuses. As they argue, the
Varro ship experiences structural breaches, and Voyager is unable to
separate from it.
With only minutes
before collapse, Janeway agrees to Kim's suggestion to extend Voyager's
integrity field around the Varro ship and buy them more time for evacuation.
Once completed, Voyager detaches, and the Varro vessel breaks off into
several separate ships. Their leader, Jippeq, is forced to let the dissidents
seek out their own path. After he and Tal say good-bye, Kim refuses to take
medicine for his lovesick condition, preferring to let the pain remind him of
the happiness he felt.
#112 "COURSE - OBLIVION"
Story By Bryan Fuller
Teleplay by Bryan Fuller & Nick Sagan
Directed by Anson Williams
Airdate: 03/3/99
Stardate 52586.3
As crewmembers begin dying, they make a
startling discovery about their true identities.
Just after she and
Paris say their wedding vows and prepare for a holodeck honeymoon, Torres
discovers a problem in engineering. After further investigation, she finds one
of the Jefferies tubes is losing molecular cohesion due to subspace radiation
from the warp drive. Suddenly, Torres becomes violently ill. When Paris brings her
to sickbay, they find several more crewmembers in the same condition.
The Doctor
diagnoses Torres with acute cellular degradation and explains that her
chromosomes are breaking down at the molecular level. Meanwhile, Chakotay and
Tuvok pinpoint an event that could have caused their problems. They encountered
a bio-memetic compound — the "silver blood" — on the Class-Y
"demon planet" they visited about a year earlier. When they left that
planet, the crew's DNA was copied, and duplicates of themselves stayed on the
planet to begin a new population. However, after the Doctor injects a
dichromate catalyst into her deceased body, Torres disintegrates into the
metallic compound. Chakotay and Tuvok realize they are all the duplicates, and
not the "real" Voyager crew.
Unwilling to
travel thousands of light-years back to the demon planet, Janeway plans to
forge ahead toward the Alpha Quadrant and hopes to find a solution to the rapid
degradation. When sensors detect a Class-Y planet, the crew readies the ship to
land, knowing that the planet's atmosphere is the only thing that may keep them
alive. However, a vessel suddenly appears that warns them to leave and begins
firing.
Voyager is unable to sustain the hits from the
firing ship and must retreat. When Janeway orders the crew to search for
another demon planet, Chakotay tells her they are questioning her command. The
crew is beginning to remember their existence before Voyager, and to
them, Earth isn't home. After Chakotay's neural pathways start to destabilize,
he dies in sickbay. Close to death herself, Janeway decides to turn the ship
around and set a course for the demon planet.
A few weeks away
from the planet, Janeway dies. As acting captain, Kim tries his best to hold
the ship together with the help of Seven — one of the only other remaining
crewmembers — and to fulfill Janeway's request to store the ship's database in
a signal beacon so at least the crew's accomplishments won't be forgotten.
Failing to accomplish that, Kim and Seven detect an approaching vessel. Kim
orders Seven to eject the core so they can drop out of warp and hail it. But
the force of doing so causes the ship to disintegrate, and the approaching
vessel — the real U.S.S. Voyager — comes across the mysterious debris.
Curious about the distress signal they were receiving, the real crew can only
make a note of the event in their log.
#113 "THE FIGHT"
Story By Michael Taylor
Teleplay by Joe Menosky
Directed by Winrich Kolbe
Guest Stars: Ray Walston as Boothby, Carlos Palomino as the Boxer Ned Romero as
Great Grandfather
Airdate: 03/24/99
Stardate Unknown
An alien race communicates with
Chakotay through hallucinations of himself as a boxer in the ring against an
unseen opponent.
As Chakotay lies
in sickbay, struggling to communicate with aliens with whom he is linked, he
flashes back to the events that brought him there. He is in a boxing holodeck
simulation when he is knocked out. Shortly after, Voyager is pulled into
chaotic space, where the laws of physics are in flux. Shear forces may destroy
the ship unless they redesign their sensors to work inside the disturbance.
Suddenly, Chakotay begins hallucinating and hearing voices from the boxing ring
calling to him. When he swings at Tuvok, he is subdued and taken to sickbay.
Voyager locates a ship adrift with no lifesigns
aboard. Its last distress call reveals the captain began hallucinating just
like Chakotay. The Doctor surmises Chakotay has a genetic marker for a
cognitive disorder, and the dead captain had a similar experience when the
protein insulation in his neural pathways was stripped. All of it is apparently
caused by chaotic space, and Chakotay insists on taking a vision quest to learn
more. Attached to a cortical monitor, he suddenly finds the aliens
communicating through him. They tell him Voyager entered chaotic space
through a trimetric fracture, and they must alter their warp field to escape.
When he can no
longer hear the aliens, Chakotay re-enters his vision quest at the suggestion
of the Doctor. He sees his grandfather, who suffered from the same auditory and
visual hallucinations to which Chakotay is predisposed. Scared of becoming a
crazy old man, he is continually pulled back to the holodeck boxing ring and an
unseen opponent named Kid Chaos. Stuck in the vision quest, Chakotay is suddenly
interrupted by the Doctor, who takes him back to sickbay.
In the
Astrometrics Lab, Seven of Nine finds a pattern in the form of an isolinear
frequency. Janeway realizes it is a nucleotide resonance frequency designed to
activate DNA. She believes the aliens may be on a perceptual wavelength unknown
to the crew, and their senses must be altered in order to communicate. Given
this chance to make first contact, Janeway allows Chakotay to go back to the
boxing ring, where he thinks the aliens are trying to tell him something.
Back in the ring
against Kid Chaos, Chakotay begins piecing together the instructions he is
receiving. His fear of losing control almost causes him to block out the
voices, but the Doctor convinces him he must give in to it. Once the aliens
tell him how to modify the deflector, Chakotay carries out the directions on
the Bridge as the graviton shear quickly increases. Suddenly, Voyager's
sensors set the correct course, and the ship is returned to normal space.
#114 "THINK TANK"
Story by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga
Teleplay by Michael Taylor
Directed by Terrence O'Hara
Guest Stars: Jason Alexander as Kurros, Jason Alexander as Kurros, Christopher
Darga as Y'Sek, Christopher Shea as Saowin, Steve Dennis as Fennim
Airdate 03/31/99
Stardate Unknown
A problem-solving alien comes to Voyager's
rescue, but his help has a steep price.
As Voyager
approaches a strange planetoid, the ship is rocked by its explosion and
enveloped in a cloud of methion gas. Suddenly, a Hazari vessel is upon them,
and Seven explains they are bounty hunters hired to capture alien crafts. When
Janeway eludes the ship and it doesn't follow, she soon learns why — there are
many reinforcements throughout the sector waiting to overtake Voyager.
Late at night, a strange alien pays a visit to Janeway and introduces himself
as the answer to her problem.
Kurros explains he
is part of a small group that seeks out problems to be solved. His "think
tank" believes Voyager's challenge with the Hazari can be handled
without weapons. When Janeway and Seven visit Kurros on his ship, they see his
incredibly advanced technology and meet the other strange lifeforms, each with
an intellectual specialty. Once Janeway agrees to do business with him, Kurros
reveals Seven is one of the items from Voyager that he wants as payment.
When Seven hears
the offer from the think tank, she talks to Kurros herself. He appeals to her
quest for perfection, but she declines to join his group. Soon, the Hazari
attack Voyager again, but Kurros gives Janeway some tactical advice that
forces them to retreat. When he tries to use that favor as leverage to convince
Seven to change her mind, Janeway realizes she now has two enemies on her
hands.
Once the crew
lures a Hazari vessel into Voyager's tractor beam, they download
information from the database and discover Kurros hired the bounty hunters.
Janeway explains to the Hazari alien that they are both being manipulated by
Kurros and convinces him to work with her in tricking the think tank. The crew
devises a plan to lure Kurros out of hiding by pretending Seven has decided to
join his group. She will then link with their internal communications array,
disrupting their systems and preventing them from functioning. After the ruse
is in place, the Hazari contact Kurros and persuade him to increase their
bounty to bring in Voyager.
Janeway tricks him
into believing Seven has left Voyager to join his think tank, but Kurros
soon senses a trap has been laid. When he forces Seven to link with his
telepathic technology so he can read her mind and discover Janeway's plan, a
carrier wave is transmitted via her cortical implant. This creates interference
and blocks his entire communications system. Once the think tank is decloaked,
the Hazari converge on it as Seven is beamed back and Voyager leaves at
warp speed.
#115 "JUGGERNAUT"
Story By Bryan Fuller
Teleplay by Bryan Fuller and Nick Sagan
Directed by Allan Kroeker
Guest Stars: Ron Canada as Fesek, Lee Arenberg as Pelk, Scott Klace as Dremk,
Alexander Enberg as Malon 3
Airdate 04/26/99
Stardate Unknown
The crew races against the clock to
prevent a catastrophic explosion, but is hindered by a creature that supposedly
doesn't exist.
When the U.S.S.
Voyager picks up a distress call, Janeway finds escape pods contaminated
with radiation. Two survivors, Fesek and Pelk, are beamed to sickbay as the
crew discovers the source of the radiation is a disabled Malon freighter.
During a mission to export their toxic waste, a leak forced them to evacuate.
Fesek explains that when the ship explodes, the waste will ignite and destroy
everything within three light-years. Before Voyager can travel to a safe
distance, its warp drive collapses. Now, the crew must board the Malon ship and
disable it.
With only six
hours to go before the storage tanks explode, Fesek, Pelk, Chakotay, Torres and
Neelix beam to the freighter. They plan to start in the least affected chamber
and clear a path to the control room by opening airlocks and decompressing the
ship. An inoculation created by the Doctor affords them a few hours of
protection from the radiation. While checking on a jammed airlock, Pelk is
attacked by a creature superstitiously believed to be created by radiogenic
waste.
Pelk tries to
convince the team that the creature exists, but they think he is hallucinating.
When he dies, Pelk is beamed to sickbay to determine his cause of death.
Meanwhile, Janeway prepares a contingency plan based on a nearby star. She
concludes the corona would absorb the radiation from the blast if the freighter
could be nudged close enough to it. On the freighter, as the team races through
the decks to the control room, an airlock opens and creates a sudden vacuum.
Everyone escapes but Chakotay, who is struck by flying debris and beamed to
sickbay.
As Torres works to
reinitialize the power matrix in the control room, the Doctor finds tissue
samples on Pelk that suggest a being is aboard the freighter that has adapted
to the radiation. From Astrometrics, Seven scans for a lifeform blended in with
the ambient toxins on the ship, and the creature is then revealed. Suddenly, it
closes in on the team in the control room as gas envelops everything. Neelix
and Fesek are attacked, but Torres keeps the creature at bay and realizes it is
a Malon core laborer.
The laborer
insists sabotaging the ship is the only way to make the Malon understand how
horrifying the radiation poisoning is to the men who sacrifice their lives
working on the core. As Voyager emits a series of tractor pulses to steer
the freighter into the star, the laborer uses maneuvering thrusters to disrupt
its course. Torres tries to reason with him, but ultimately she has to resort
to violence to stop him. At the last second, Torres, Neelix and Fesek are
beamed to Voyager before the freighter explodes into the star's
atmosphere.
#116 "SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
Story by Brannon Braga
Teleplay by Michael Taylor and Kenneth Biller
Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill
Guest Stars: Scott Thompson as Tomin, Brian McNamara as Jack Lansing, Ian
Ambercrombie as Abbot, David Burke as the regular guy
Airdate 04/28/99
Stardate 52647
The Doctor's interest in Seven's social
development becomes more than clinical.
As Janeway and
Tuvok leave for a diplomatic mission aboard a Kadi vessel, Neelix is left in
charge of the Kadi ambassador on Voyager. Meanwhile, the Doctor
determines that Seven needs the experience of dating in her socialization
training. When he takes her to a holodeck bar for some practice making small
talk with men, Seven buys a prospective suitor a drink in her usual dry manner.
Once Paris learns what is going on, he makes a bet with the Doctor that Seven
can't find a date for the Kadi ambassador's reception, and keep him for the
entire night.
Knowing he has his
work cut out for him, the Doctor tries to show Seven the importance of shared
interests with a potential date. When he discovers Seven has a beautiful
singing voice, the two engage in a duet of "You Are My Sunshine."
Once her interests are determined, Seven peruses the ship's manifest for a
suitable male and chooses a lieutenant whom she has worked with before in
Engineering. Startled by her directness, the crewmate agrees to meet her in the
holodeck for dinner.
When the Doctor
tells Paris about Seven's progress, he realizes the Doctor is infatuated with
her. The Doctor denies it, but he helps Seven fix her hair and pick out a dress
to wear. In the holodeck simulation, he plays the piano as Seven and her date
awkwardly navigate through a lobster dinner and a turn on the dance floor. When
Seven takes the lead and tears a ligament in the man's arm, the evening is cut
short, and she is ready to give up on dating altogether. However, the Doctor
persuades her to keep trying and takes her onto the dance floor for a lesson.
Seven and the
Doctor decide to attend the Kadi ambassador's reception together, and Seven
displays all of her newly learned social skills. This prompts Paris to admit
the Doctor has won the bet, which angers Seven. She accuses the Doctor of not
having a sincere interest in her development and storms out of the party. Meanwhile,
Neelix is losing control of the ambassador, who has had too much to drink and
makes a scene before passing out.
The ambassador has
a mighty hangover when his superior returns the next day, but he and Neelix
manage to cover up what has really happened. The Doctor prepares to tell Seven
about his feelings for her, but she comes to him first to thank him for his
guidance. She announces that she will no longer require his lessons because
there is not a suitable mate on board. Crushed, the Doctor hides his true
emotions and returns to the holodeck bar for a lonely piano tune.
#117 "11:59"
Written by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
Teleplay by Joe Menosky
Directed by Ron Surma
Guest Stars: Kevin Tighe as Henry, Bradley Pierce as Jason, John Carroll Lynch
as Moss
Airdate 05/05/99
Stardate Unknown
A look back at her ancestor's history
does not give Janeway the whole story.
As Neelix presses
Janeway for information about Earth's history, she reminisces about one of her
ancestors, Shannon O'Donnell. Shannon was in Indiana in December of 2000 when
she discovered a quaint downtown area about to be destroyed and replaced by the
Millennium Gate. The world's first self-sustaining civic environment, the Gate
had developers offering Henry Janeway a lot of money for his bookstore, but he
wouldn't sell. Through a chance encounter when her car broke down, Shannon and
Henry began working together to prevent the destruction of downtown Portage
Creek.
A database search
uncovers a picture of Shannon and her children, which Janeway wants to frame.
She explains that she grew up admiring Shannon and her bravery in building the
Millennium Gate, which became the model for the first habitat on Mars. Back in
2000, Shannon is approached by Gerald Moss, one of the developers who knows her
from her days of astronaut training at NASA. Knowing that Shannon recently lost
her job, Moss tries to lure her to his team as consulting engineer in return
for Shannon convincing Henry to give up his shop to the project.
Intrigued by the
experimental biosphere, Shannon tries to talk Henry into seeing the benefits of
the Gate. He will hear nothing of it, however, and Shannon leaves when the two
of them begin fighting. On Voyager, the crew trades stories of their
family history. When Janeway asserts that Shannon did work on all the early
Mars projects, Paris contradicts her. He is an expert on that subject, and he
is positive there was no O'Donnell working on those projects.
Further research
shows Shannon did not overcome any great obstacles to build the Millennium
Gate, as Janeway had believed. She was only a consulting engineer, and the sole
opposition she faced was Henry, who became her husband. As Shannon prepares to
leave town, and the Gate developers are about to move their plans to another
city, she suddenly returns to Portage Creek to talk to Henry.
Shannon reveals
she has come back to be with Henry. She wants to explore the future, but he
must be willing to leave the past behind. With only a minute to spare until
midnight of New Year's Eve and the deadline for the Millennium Gate project,
Henry agrees to rebuild his shop in the new biosphere. Janeway is disappointed
Shannon was not the courageous explorer she always believed her to be, but she
has no idea what her ancestor did for the town of Portage Creek, and a man
scared to face the inevitable future.
#118 "RELATIVITY"
Teleplay by Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan and Michael Taylor
Story by Nick Sagan
Directed by Nick Sagan
Guest Stars: Bruce McGill as Captain Braxton, Dakin Matthews as Admiral
Patterson, Jay Karnes as Lieutenant Ducane
Airdate 05/12/99
Stardate 52861.274
Voyager's future depends on Seven's success in
preventing the past.
It is Janeway's
first day aboard the U.S.S. Voyager. Seven of Nine, disguised as an
ensign, investigates a weapon on the ship and reports back to Captain Braxton,
who now knows where the weapon was placed but still needs to know when. After
Janeway is alerted to a chronoton flux, she almost discovers Seven, which would
contaminate the timeline. Braxton beams Seven from Voyager just in time,
but she is dead by the time she gets to his ship.
Braxton orders his
men to go back in time and retrieve Seven before Voyager explodes. This
is the third time they have tried to help Seven save her crew. On Voyager,
temporal distortions are fracturing space-time throughout the ship, making
people space-sick and causing bizarre paradoxes to occur. When Seven and Torres
investigate, Seven's ocular implant detects a device emitting the distortions.
Before they can take action, the hull begins to demolecularize. Janeway orders
the crew to abandon ship as two men materialize and beam away Seven.
Seven is once
again welcomed to the Federation timeship Relativity. It is 500 years in the
future, and Braxton wants to solve the mystery of who planted the weapon. His
crew has recruited Seven because of her ocular implant's ability to detect
irregularities in space-time. Once they persuade her to help them, Seven is
beamed to Voyager two years before she became part of the crew. The ship
is under attack from the Kazon, and Braxton believes this is the time a
saboteur boarded the vessel and planted the device. Seven is to find him and
stop him at all costs.
Seven checks the
ship and finds no sign of the weapon or the intruder. When Janeway detects a
chronoton flux and remembers the same thing happening two years ago, she
investigates and finds Seven, whom she recognizes from that first day on the
ship. Over Braxton's objections, Seven explains her presence on Voyager
and persuades Janeway to trust her seemingly implausible story. When they are
suddenly alerted to an intruder, they find Braxton himself planting the weapon.
Suffering from
temporal psychosis, this version of Braxton claims Janeway is responsible for
his exile stemming from his time travel. He suddenly jumps to two years
earlier, and Seven follows him. When he is trapped in a forcefield, Braxton
jumps five years ahead. By this time, Seven is suffering from having made too
many time jumps, and recruits herself in that time period to apprehend Braxton.
Once Seven and Janeway catch him, Janeway must go back to an earlier period of Voyager's
history to capture Braxton before he has a chance to place the weapon.
Meanwhile, the original Braxton is arrested for "crimes he will commit"
by his first officer, who takes command of the timeship and vows to clean up
the contamination in the timeline to prevent any of it from happening in the
first place. Seven is "reintegrated" and Janeway is urged to avoid
time travel as the two are returned to Voyager and back to normal.
#119 "WARHEAD"
Story by Brannon Braga
Teleplay by Michael Taylor and Kenneth Biller
Directed by John Kretchmer
Guest Stars: McKenzie Westmore as Ensign Jenkins
Airdate 05/19/99
Stardate Unknown
A weapon of mass destruction takes
control of the U.S.S. Voyager.
Answering a
distress call, the away team finds a device embedded in a rock that proves to
be a form of artificial intelligence. It has bio-neural circuitry and, with the
help of the Doctor's translating, reveals it is suffering from a technical form
of amnesia. The machine thinks it is an organic being, but once it is beamed to
Voyager, the Doctor explains what has happened. Scanning the planet's
surface, Janeway finds a crater filled with radiogenic decay and realizes they
have beamed aboard a weapon of mass destruction.
In sickbay, Torres
attempts to separate its bio-neural circuitry from the explosive, and download
its synaptic patterns into a holographic matrix. Suddenly, the weapon arms
itself, and Torres is forced to use an EM pulse to short it out. She and Kim
soon discover the machine has commandeered the Doctor's program. It now recalls
it is a long-range tactical armor unit, which was deployed at a target it never
reached. The machine, speaking through the Doctor's body, tells Janeway that
she will help him find his target, or her ship and crew will be destroyed.
After Janeway is
given new coordinates to follow, Neelix locates a merchant who may be familiar
with the weapon. He offers to disarm it with his transporter's dampening field
in exchange for full access to salvaging its parts for sale. Wary of handing
the weapon over to a stranger, Janeway refuses. When the merchant's ship tries
to get a transporter lock on the machine, it sends an antimatter surge back
through the beam and blows up the ship. Meanwhile, Seven realizes her
nanoprobes can be adapted to disable the weapon's circuitry.
Paris plans to
make the machine believe they are navigating a minefield. When Seven is brought
into sickbay pretending to suffer from burns, Tuvok will disrupt the Doctor's
program. This will give Seven enough time to inject her nanoprobes into the
weapon and disable it. Meanwhile, Kim and Torres retrieve lost data from the
weapon's memory files, which reveal its launch was a mistake. He thinks they
are deceiving him and refuses to abort. The plan fails, and Voyager is
suddenly surrounded by 32 self-guided weapons.
The machine is
ordered to transport off Voyager to the target, but Kim persuades him to
look for his people's confirmation code in the rest of his memory files. When
he confirms the order to cease his mission was valid, he tells the other
weapons to stand down. They cannot be diverted, so the weapon reconfigures his
bio-neural matrix and joins the others. Once he leads them to a safe distance,
he detonates and destroys them all.
#120 "EQUINOX, PART I"
Teleplay By Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
Written By Rick Berman, Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
Directed by David Livingston
Guest Stars: John Savage as Captain Ransom, Titus Welliver as Burke, Olivia
Birkelund as Gilmore, Rick Worthy as Lessing, Scarlett Pomers as Naomi, Steve
Dennis as crew member
Airdate 05/26/99
Stardate Unknown
Another Federation starship in the
Delta Quadrant brings trouble for Voyager.
Answering a
distress call, the U.S.S. Voyager crew finds the Federation Starship Equinox,
a vessel made for planetary research. Captain Ransom pleads with Janeway to
extend Voyager's shields over his ship, which is under attack. As the
shields are put in place, interspatial fissures erupt on several decks. Once a
rescue team boards Equinox, they find many crewmembers dead of a thermolitic
reaction. A few people are still alive, including Ransom, who explains that his
ship was also pulled into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker.
Hostile
aliens--flying nucleogenic lifeforms from another realm — are trying to enter
the two ships at every fissure point. At the current rate, Voyager will
be under full attack in less than two days. However, the aliens cannot survive
inside the ship's atmosphere, so the crew sets out to create a multiphasic
forcefield to trap the nucleogenic lifeforms and show them they cannot afford
to continue their assault. Meanwhile, Ransom and Burke secretly discuss that
they must hide their research lab and warp core from the Voyager crew.
Once Seven
determines how to create a security grid that will protect the ships, Janeway
decides it will be in everyone's best interest to abandon the Equinox
and concentrate all efforts on preserving Voyager. Ransom and his crew
prepare to steal Voyager's field generator and leave them behind. When
Seven and Tuvok discover the research lab aboard Equinox has been deliberately
contaminated with radiation to keep them away from it, Janeway sends in the
Doctor to investigate.
The Doctor finds
organic matter — from the nucleogenic lifeforms — which has been converted into
a crystalline compound. The compound can be used to enhance the Equinox's
propulsion systems. When Janeway learns that Ransom and his crew were planning
to kill as many of the creatures as it took to get home, she confines them to
their quarters and sets out to make contact with the aliens. Meanwhile, the
Doctor goes back to the Equinox research lab and summons their EMH, which looks
exactly like him. The Equinox Doctor explains that he created the conversion
technology after his ethical subroutines were deleted. Then, he disables Voyager's
Doctor and steals his holo-emitter.
Once the evil
Doctor frees his crew from confinement, they beam back to the Equinox.
Seven, who was onboard trying to disable their converters, is knocked unconscious.
Before the security grid can be put on-line, Ransom and his crew steal Voyager's
field generator. As the Equinox is set on course for the Alpha Quadrant
at warp speed, Voyager's shields go completely off-line, and the aliens
attack Janeway and the crew through fissures on all decks...
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