Category: Star Trek

Stardate 54556.4: Voyager plays host to a handful of advanced aliens whose ship is incapacitated. The visitors infuriate Janeway and her crew with their arrogance at the “primitive” nature of Voyager’s culture – until the Doctor, with whom the aliens are also less than pleased, begins to sing. Never having heard music before, the Komari suddenly become rapt fans of the Doctor, and quickly extend an invitation to Voyager to visit their homeworld. After giving a gala performance to the population of an entire world, the Doctor is tempted by their offer to leave Voyager permanently and become a full-time musical ambassador to their world. But while the Doctor makes hasty goodbyes to his crewmates, he underestimates the fickle nature of fame.

teleplay by Raf Green and Kenneth Biller
story by Raf Green
directed by Les Landau
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Kamala Lopez-Dawson (Tincoo), Ray Xifo (Abarca), Paul Williams (Koru), Marie Caldare (Azen), Nina Magnesson (Vinka)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: The Delta Flyer returns from a two-week mapping mission with a very cranky crew consisting of Chakotay, Neelix, Tom and Harry Kim. But upon their return, the Delta Flyer crew begin to suffer from hallucinations of a bloody battle – a battle in which there is no evidence of their participation. But Janeway’s concern grows as all four crewmen eventually recount their hallucinatory memories, which corroborate each other and create a consistent picture of the battle they fought – a battle in which they killed almost a hundred civilians. And the captain’s concern becomes horror as she, too, begins to remember having played a part in the carnage.

teleplay by Robin Burger
story by Brannon Braga
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: L.L. Ginter (Commander Sovdra), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Fleming Brooks (Soldier one), Joe Mellis (Young soldier), Susan Savage (Alien woman), Maria Spasoff (Female colonist), Robert Allen Colaizzi, Jr. (Dying colonist), David Keith Anderson (Crew member)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 53447.2: A visit to a civilized world provides a prime opportunity for shore leave. Seven and Tuvok plan to visit and study a nearby nebular phenomenon, while Janeway plans a similar away mission for some “relaxing” scientific discovery. But most of the crew is enthralled by the gladiatorial sport of Tsunkatse, in which two opponents vie for the prize – to be the only one left alive in the ring. Seven and Tuvok’s shuttle goes missing during their mission, and Chakotay and the others are horrified to find that their Borg crewmate is the next competitor in Tsunkatse. An attempt to beam Seven out of danger fails because she isn’t there – the fight is being broadcast from a remote location. Seven is being forced to do battle not only for her own life, but for Tuvok’s – and the savage competition may strip her of whatever humanity she has regained aboard Voyager unless her crew can rescue her.

teleplay by Robert Doherty
story by Gannon Kenney
directed by Mike Vejar
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Jeffrey Combs (Penk), J.G. Hertzler (Hirogen Hunter), The Rock (Champion)

Original title: Arena

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: Voyager receives a signal from an alien claiming to be the late Ensign Lyndsay Ballard, a junior engineering crewmember who escaped the notice of Captain Janeway until she died tragically three years ago. Ensign Ballard did not, however, go ignored by Harry Kim, who attended Starfleet Academy with her and kept his crush on her secret until she died. Every means of verification proves that she is who she says she is, though she is not and will never be human – she has been transmuted into a member of the Kobali race, which reproduces by reanimating the dead of other species and implanting them with new personalities. Very rarely, a revived person will regain memories of his or her previous life, as in Lyndsay’s case. But now the creatures who brought her back to life want her to rejoin them – and they’re willing to destroy Voyager to persuade her to return.

teleplay by Robert Doherty
story by Ronald Wilkerson
directed by Terry Windell
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Kim Rhodes (Ensign Ballard), Marley McClean (Mezoti), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Kevin Lowe (Q’ret), Manu Intirayni (Icheb), Kurt Wetherill (Azan), Cody Wetherill (Rebi), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 53753.2: A crew performance review turns up three junior crewmembers who have never seen away duty in their short Starfleet careers. Billy Telfer, a hypochondriac, spends far too much of his time in sick bay seeking help for imaginary afflictions. Bajoran Tal Celes doubts her own ability to do anything right at all, and is Telfer’s only close friend. Mortimer Harren, who works alone on the ship’s lowest deck, spends all of his days postulating new cosmological models of the universe – and no time at all socializing with anyone. Janeway decides to personally lead this mismatched trio of crewmembers on a routine exploratory mission…but when the mission turns out to be anything but routine, and Voyager is too far away to help, the captain is forced to rely on a very unpredictable and untried crew.

teleplay by Dianna Gitto & Joe Menosky
story by Dianna Gitto
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Jay Underwood (Harren), Michael Reisz (Telfer), Zoe McClellan (Tal), Kimble Jemison (Crewman), Tom Morello (Junction operator), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 53849.2: Voyager is confronted by an angry Telusian who demands that Janeway make reparations for a costly scam she pulled on his people – which naturally comes as a surprise to the captain. It turns out that a trio of skilled con artists have been swindling innocent people out of valuable resources and selling “Federation memberships” to those with the necessary funds. The Telusians aren’t “Captain Janeway”‘s only victims, either. Now the real Voyager crew must track down their impostors before an entire sector of civilized systems turns against them.

written by Robin Burger
directed by LeVar Burton
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Kaitlin Hopkins (Dala), Greg Daniel (Mobar), Francis Guinan (Zar), Dennis Cockrum (Orek), Ted Rooney (Varn), Timothy McNeil (Miner #2)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 53896.0: During a scouting mission aboard the Delta Flyer, the ship is thrown violently off-course. Harry Kim manages to get away in an escape pod, while B’Elanna crash-lands the Flyer on a planet populated by a primitive humanoid species. While the engineer is unconscious, a playwright named Kelis boards the wrecked ship and listens to the most recent log entries – and proceeds to write a drama about the lost sailing ship Voyager. But when Kelis next visits the Delta Flyer, B’Elanna is conscious. Kelis worships her as an all-powerful “Eternal” – but with the ship’s power reserves depleted, B’Elanna is all but powerful…and she must convince Kelis to help her repair the Delta Flyer enough to call for help without breaking the Prime Directive.

written by Joe Menosky
directed by Mike Vejar
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Joseph Will (Kelis), Kellie Waymire (Lanya), Tony Amendola (Chorus #3), Jack Axelrod (Chorus #1), Michael Houston King (Jero), Kathleen Garrett (Tanis), Stoney Westmoreland (Warlord), John Schuck (Chorus #2), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Notes: Tony Amendola may be best known to SF fans as Master Bra’tac, leader of the Jaffa resistance in Stargate SG-1.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: A small shuttle signals Voyager, and the lone occupant turns out to be a terribly aged Kes, from whom the crew has not heard since her ascension to a higher form of life. But the reunion is anything but joyous – when given permission to dock, Kes rams her shuttle into Voyager’s hull, blasts her way into engineering, kills B’Elanna, and fuses with the warp core. Drawing energy from Voyager’s engines, Kes then proceeds to send herself into the past, a mere two months after Voyager became stranded in the Alpha Quadrant. Embittered by years of incredible power she can barely comprehend, let alone control, the Ocampa intends to rewrite the past to prevent herself from suffering the same fate…even if it means murdering all of the friends she once had aboard Voyager.

teleplay by Bryan Fuller & Michael Taylor
story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
directed by John Bruno
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Jennifer Lien (Kes), Nancy Hower (Ensign Wildman), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Vaughn Armstrong (Vidiian captain), Josh Clark (Lt. Carey), Kurt Wetherill (Azan), Cody Wetherill (Rebi), Tarik Ergin (Security guard)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: Using a fortuitous stellar alignment, Starfleet is able to contact Voyager, sending a large packet of information to Janeway and the crew. The Doctor receives a message from Lt. Barclay, informing him that Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, the creator of the EMH, is dying from a degenerative illness. The Doctor immediately brainstorms possible treatments, drawing parallels between Zimmerman’s condition and the Vidiian phage, and devises a radical therapy involving Borg nanoprobes. But the Doctor is not merely content to make a prescription. He pleads with Captain Janeway to send his program to Jupiter Station in Earth’s solar system via the same data stream Starfleet used to contact Voyager. When he arrives, however, the Doctor is hardly welcomed as a medical mastermind. Despite his vast experience, he is regarded as an obsolete relic by his creator. Barclay pleads with Zimmerman to undergo the treatment, and even begs Counselor Troi to leave the Enterprise long enough to counsel the curmudgeonly genius. But Zimmerman would rather die than be treated by an “antique.”

teleplay by Robert Doherty & Raf Green and Brannon Braga
story by John Bruno & Robert Picardo
directed by Terry Windell
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Dwight Schultz (Barclay), Tamara Craig Thomas (Haley), Jack Shearer (Admiral Hayes), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi)

Original title: I, Zimmerman

Note: Shatner and Nimoy’s contributions to classic-era movies aside, this episode marked the first time a member of a Star Trek TV series’ regular cast contributed a storyline.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: As Voyager enters a class J nebula, Captain Janeway orders a pre-planned power shutdown to prevent the ship’s energy output from attracting turbulent discharges from the nebula. Seven, worried that the Borg children’s imaginations will alarm them unnecessarily, has not warned them of the power shutdown. She asks Neelix to keep the children occupied, and the Talaxian decides to hone his storytelling skills by turning the ship’s silent running into a ghost story. But as he spins his terrifying tale, Neelix soon discovers that his captive audience is already a step ahead of him.

teleplay by Mike Sussman and Kenneth Biller & Bryan Fuller
story by Mike Sussman
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Manu Intiraymi (Icheb), Marley McClean (Mezoti), Zoe MacLellan (Tal Celes), Kurt Wetherill (Azan), Cody Wetherill (Rebi), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Note: As in her previous appearance in Good Shepherd, Bajoran non-com Tal Celes is referred to as “Crewman Celes” – which contradicts the years of Bajoran surname-followed-by-given-name convention established in Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.

LogBook entry by Earl Green