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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Drone

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: A freak shuttle encounter with a cloud of active plasma necessitates an emergency evacuation. The Doctor’s mobile holo-emitter and some of Seven of Nine’s Borg nanoprobes are fused in the beam-out, resulting in a new life-form. With its immense adaptive Borg capabilities and its advanced 29th century technology, the new Borg drone proves to be amazingly intelligent and almost friendly in a child-like way, though Seven is troubled by the drone’s curiosity about the nature of its Borg “ancestors.” Unfortunately, another aspect of the drone’s heritage – the signal which links it to the Borg collective – alerts the collective to its presence and Voyager’s location, and a deadly family reunion becomes imminent.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Bryan Fuller, Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
story by Bryan Fuller and Harry “Doc” Kloor
directed by Les Landau
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: J. Paul Boehmer (One), Todd Babcock (Lt. Mulcahey), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Deep Space Nine Season 07 Star Trek

Chrysalis

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Jack, Lauren, and Patrick – three of Dr. Bashir’s fellow genetically-enhanced “mutants” – bring their friend Sarina to DS9 in hopes that Bashir can operate on her and bring her out of her fifteen-year cataleptic state. The operation is a success, and Sarina blossoms, much to the delight of Bashir, who finds himself falling in love with her.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Rene Echevarria
directed by Jonathan West
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Tim Ransom (Jack), Faith C. Salie (Sarina), Hilary Shepard-Turner (Lauren), Michael Keenan (Patrick), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Randy James (Officer)

Notes: Sarina and the rest of the genetically-engineered savants were introduced in Statistical Probabilities in season 6.

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Extreme Risk

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: An unmanned experimental probe from Voyager attracts the unwelcome attention of Malon scavengers, who try to hijack it in mid-flight. Hoping to dissuade the Malon, Janeway directs the probe into the hazardous atmosphere of a nearby gas giant. But the Malons aren’t dissuaded from their prize, driving their freighter right into the planet’s atmosphere to their deaths. As Paris prepares an entirely new breed of shuttlecraft – hopefully capable of withstanding the enormous pressures of the atmosphere – a second Malon vessel arrives, its captain ready to avenge the loss of his predecessors. With the engineering challenges inherent in a new shuttle design, Voyager’s crew needs B’Elanna like never before…but B’Elanna is indulging in dangerous pursuits of her own.

Order the DVDswritten by Kenneth Biller
directed by Cliff Bole
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Hamilton Camp (Controller Brelk), Alexander Enberg (Vorik), Daniel Betances (Pilot), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Notes: B’Elanna’s orbital skydiving suit is modified from a costume originally created for Star Trek: Generations; at the beginning of that movie, a sequence showing Kirk skydiving from orbit and landing in a field near a waiting Scotty and Chekov, was to be seen, and in fact much of the footage needed was filmed but later dropped.

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Deep Space Nine Season 07 Star Trek

Treachery, Faith, And The Great River

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Having received a coded message from a Cardassian informant, Odo goes to meet him, but instead meets Weyoun, who makes the astonishing statement that he has decided to defect to the Federation. On the way back to DS9 with the Vorta, Odo learns that this is actually the successor clone to the Weyoun he has known – and that another Weyoun has been activated and is demanding that his predecessor commit suicide. Meanwhile, O’Brien gets a lesson in the art of scrounging parts and navigating the “Great Material Continuum,” from Nog.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by David Weddle & Bradley Thompson
story by Philip Kim
directed by Steve Posey
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Jeffrey Combs (Weyoun 6 and 7), Casey Biggs (Damar), J.G. Hertzler (Martok), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Max Grodenchik (Rom), Salome Jens (Female Changeling)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

In The Flesh

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: A surprising discovery is made in a most unexpected place – a spaceborne artificial environment which perfectly recreates the grounds and facilities of Starfleet Academy, complete with such beloved faces as Boothby the groundskeeper. When Chakotay and Tuvok bring one of the Stafleet officers from the “Academy” back to Voyager, however, they discover that this isolated outpost of humans is, in fact, a staging and training area for Species 8472’s eventual invasion of the planet Earth.

Order the DVDswritten by Nick Sagan
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Kate Vernon (Archer), Ray Walston (Boothby), Zach Galligan (Ensign Gantry), Tucker Smallwood (Admiral Bullock)

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Deep Space Nine Season 07 Star Trek

Once More Unto The Breach

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Worf is approached by Kor, who, despite his status as a Dahar Master, is now without family or influence in the Empire, but wants a command so he can spend his last days as a warrior. However, Martok, who hates Kor, only grudgingly allows him to serve as third officer on Martok’s ship in a five-ship raid into Dominion/Cardassian territory. During the raid, Kor relives an old battle and is ridiculed by the crew, including Martok. Will he get one last chance to redeem himself?

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Ronald D. Moore
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: John Colicos (Kor), J.G. Hertzler (Martok), Neil Vipond (Darok), Nancy Youngblut (Kolana), Blake Lindsley (Synon)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Once Upon A Time

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: On an expedition, the Delta Flyer shuttle is unable to avoid a violent ion storm, and crashes into a planetoid. Paris, Tuvok and Ensign Wildman are trapped when the Delta Flyer’s landing buries it several kilometers beneath the surface. As the shuttle’s crew prepares for the worst, Neelix is left with a dilemma of his own. Ensign Wildman’s young daughter Naomi has been left in his care, and even though Naomi is aware that her mother has been out of contact for a longer than usual period of time, Neelix insists on diverting her from the truth. When Naomi grows impatience with Neelix and goes to the bridge for herself, she discovers a grim rescue effort is in progress to find her mother’s shuttle. Now, despair could be the greatest enemy for both mother and daughter.

Order the DVDswritten by Michael Taylor
directed by John Kretchmer
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Justin Louis (Trevis), Nancy Hower (Ensign Wildman), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Wallace Langham (Flotter), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Deep Space Nine Season 07 Star Trek

The Siege Of AR-558

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: The Defiant goes on a supply run to AR-558, a body in the Chin’toka system which is the site of a Dominion communications array that the Jem’Hadar are trying to regain control of. The war-weary troops there have lost two thirds of their original numbers, including their commanding officers, and Sisko decides to stay and take charge. Ezri and Kellin are able to reprogram the Jem’Hadar’s antipersonnel mines to use against the enemy, but when the attack comes, what price will be paid for victory?

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Raymond Cruz (Vargas), Patrick Kilpatrick (Reese), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Annette Helde (Larkin), Max Grodenchik (Rom), Bill Mumy (Kellin), James Darren (Vic Fontaine)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Timeless

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 52143.6: After creating a new slipstream drive for Voyager – thanks to Seven’s Borg technology – Janeway and the crew are ready to give the new drive its test flight. Tom and Harry are certain that they’ve spotted a potentially fatal flaw in the slipstream drive, but Harry proposes a quick fix that involves flying point ahead of Voyager in the Delta Flyer. The powerful new propulsion system brings Voyager within parsecs of the Alpha Quadrant in a matter of minutes – and then fails disastrously, slamming the ship into a class L planet and killing everyone except Harry and Chakotay, who are aboard the Delta Flyer. It is a tragic loss from which neither of them will ever recover.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
story by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by LeVar Burton
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Christine Harnos (Tessa Omond), LeVar Burton (Captain Geordi La Forge), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Deep Space Nine Season 07 Star Trek

Covenant

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Kira is visited by her old friend and teacher, Vedek Fala, who gives her a red crystal. It is a homing transponder which is activated, causing her to be beamed by a Dominion transporter to Empok Nor, where a community of Bajoran pagh-wraith worshippers has settled, led by none other than Gul Dukat. Dukat tries to convince Kira to join his followers, but she wants nothing to do with them or the pagh wraiths. When the first child born to the community turns out to be half-Cardassian, Dukat claims it’s a miracle, then attempts to kill the mother. Rather than let his followers learn the truth, he decides to lead them to suicide.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Rene Echavarria
directed by John Kretchmer
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Marc Alaimo (Dukat), Norman Parker (Vedek Fala), Jason Leland Adams (Benyan), Maureen Flannigan (Mika), Miriam Flynn (Midwife), Mark Piatelli (Brin)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Infinite Regress

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: A chance encounter with the remains of a destroyed Borg vessel has an unusual effect on Seven of Nine. The former drone experiences brief flashes of many of the personalities assimilated into the collective of the shattered ship. The vinculum of the Borg ship, the piece of equipment which connects a particular vessel’s local collective, is found intact, and efforts to dismantle it instead turn up evidence of deliberate tampering – and Seven’s condition worsens. A powerfully-armed alien ship arrives, challenging Janeway for possession of the Borg vinculum, and these new visitors don’t care if Seven lives or dies. After all, their attempt to virally infect and destroy a Borg ship has proven successful…so what’s the life of one more drone?

Order the DVDsteleplay by Robert J. Doherty
story by Robert J. Doherty and Jimmy Diggs
directed by David Livingston
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Neil Maffin (Alien), Erica Mer (Human Girl), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Nothing Human

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Voyager is struck by a forceful energy field which does little damage and deposits information in the ship’s computer. Janeway decides to investigate the source of the energy wave, finding a badly damaged ship with a curious, non-humanoid life form aboard. The creature attaches itself to B’Elanna, nearly killing her in the process, and the Doctor is unable to remove the creature without destroying its victim. The Doctor creates a hologram of famed Cardassian exobiologist Krell Mocet to assist in the desperate fight to save B’Elanna, but both B’Elanna and a young Bajoran crewmember remember Mocet for his war atrocities during the Bajoran occupation. Making matters worse, the slowly dying B’Elanna forbids the Doctor to allow Mocet’s assistance in a surgery that could save her life. The question of whether a former torturer’s research should be used to save one crewmember soon divides the crew.

Order the DVDswritten by Jeri Taylor
directed by David Livingston
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: David Clennon (Krell Mocet), Jad Mager (Ensign Tabor), Frank Welker (Alien voice), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Thirty Days

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 52179.4: Voyager encounters a planet without a surface, a spherical construct consisting of a global-sized ocean and a gravitational containment field to maintain its planetary shape. The planet’s inhabitants, the technologically advanced Moneans, cautiously visit Voyager and reveal a problem with their aquatic world – the containment field is failing and it’s falling apart. With a few modifications to the Delta Flyer, Paris is able to take an away team into the ocean to examine the enormous reactor whose power prevents the sphere of water from dissipating completely. But the Moneans didn’t build this reactor and they don’t understand it – and their very presence in the planet’s vast ocean may be the cause of the instability.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Kenneth Biller
story by Scott Miller
directed by Wilrich Kolbe
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Willie Garson (Riga), Benjamin Livingston (Burkiss), Heidi Kramer (Megan Delaney), Alissa Kramer (Jenny Delaney), Warren Munson (Admiral Paris), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Original title: Down Deep

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Star Trek: Insurrection

Star Trek: The Next GenerationOn the planet Ba’ku, a small ringed world tucked away into a dangerous expanse of gaseous clouds known as the Briar Patch, a team of Federation and Son’a scientists observe the seemingly simple Ba’ku people from the safety of a cloaked observation post. But Data, who has been assigned to the project, makes a discovery that changes his status from member of the research team to hunted fugitive. Data destroys the cloaking device, revealing the observers to the Ba’ku, and attacking the Son’a command ship. Starfleet Admiral Dougherty, at the urging of the Son’a leader Ru’afo, contacts the Enterprise and demands Data’s schematics. Captain Picard is alarmed by the news of Data’s behavior, and decides to set the Enterprise on a course for Ba’ku to investigate personally. Picard and Worf – visiting during a break in his duties aboard Deep Space Nine – manage to capture Data and bring him back to the Enterprise, but questioning him reveals more surprises. Hidden beneath a lake on Ba’ku, a Starfleet ship with a huge holodeck awaits to take the small populatuion of 600 Ba’ku away from their home, leaving the rings of their world to be mined by the Son’a for their unique restorative properties. The rings have made the Ba’ku nearly immortal, and they will die if removed from their planet. And, to Picard’s disgust, Ru’afo has the cooperation of Admiral Dougherty – and, the admiral claims, the entire Federation Council – in his venture to relocate the Ba’ku by force.

Having befriended the Ba’ku during his visits to the planet, Picard decides that it may be necessary to abandon his Starfleet career to save them. His crew joins him in his fight to preserve the Ba’ku, but Ru’afo has other ideas, and is quickly tiring of the Starfleet procedures that Admiral Dougherty insists upon following. Riker and Geordi take the Enterprise on a course out of the Briar Patch to contact the Federation without the interference of the nearby gases, with Son’a attack ships in hot pursuit with orders to shoot to kill. Meanwhile, Picard and the others try to lead the terrified Ba’ku to a safe haven, avoiding Ru’afo’s attempts to kidnap them via transporter. On the way, a critical discovery is made, revealing the real reason the Son’a are trying to conquer the Ba’ku – and revealing that Dougherty has gotten the Federation involved in a centuries-old struggle to the death…

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazon's Unboxscreenplay by Michael Piller
story by Rick Berman & Michael Piller
directed by Jonathan Frakes
music by Jerry Goldsmith

Cast: Patrick Stewart (Picard), Jonathan Frakes (Riker), Brent Spiner (Data), LeVar Burton (Geordi), Michael Dorn (Worf), Gates McFadden (Beverly), Marina Sirtis (Troi), F. Murray Abraham (Ru’afo), Donna Murphy (Anij), Anthony Zerbe (Admiral Dougherty), Gregg Henry (Gallatin), Daniel Hugh Kelly (Sojef), Michael Welch (Artim), Lorella Cuccarini (Ensign Perim), Mark Deakins (Tournel), Breon Gorman (Lt. Curtis), Max Grodenchik (Security Officer), Stephanie Niznik (Ops Officer), D. Elliot Woods (Starfleet Officer #1)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Counterpoint

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: As it passes through the territory of the Devore, Voyager must frequently stop and allow the Devore to search it. The aliens’ government searches all visitors to keep telepaths from escaping their grasp, but unknown to the Devore, Janeway has already granted asylum to several telepaths aboard Voyager. Kashyk, the commanding officer of the Devore inspection teams, confides his desire to defect to Janeway, who not only gives him passage aboard her ship, but her heart as well. But is Kashyk really abandoning his people – or is his defection too good to be true?

Order the DVDswritten by Michael Taylor
directed by Les Landau
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Mark Harelik (Kashyk), Randy Oglesby (Kir), J. Patrick McCormack (Prax), Alexander Enberg (Ensign Vorik), Randy Lowell (Torat), Jake Sakson (Adar), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Original title: Refugee

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