Category: Voyager

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

Stardate 54058.6: Tom Paris and Harry Kim are giving the new Delta Flyer a shakeout cruise to ensure that it lives up to the specs of the original, which was destroyed during the Borg infiltration mission. Another ship pulls up alongside the Flyer, and the pilot challenges Tom to a drag race in space – a race which the Delta Flyer wins only over Harry’s protests. The other pilot’s ship develops a problem, and Tom and Harry have to beam her out of her ship to save her. As they work on repairing her vessel, she tells the Starfleet officers about a race in a neighboring sector – a race in which Tom is eager to enter the new Delta Flyer, even if it means sacrificing time with B’Elanna. The race commemorates a new and still delicate peace – but the contestants are about to find out that someone is hoping to end that peace. Will war consume the sector before Tom and B’Elanna patch their relationship up?

written by Michael Taylor
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by

Guest Cast: Cyia Batten (Irina), Benjamin Burdik (Assistant), Brian George (O’Zaal), Robert Tyler (Joxom), Patrick Kilpatrick (Assan)

Notes: Cyia Batten was one of the string of actresses who portrayed Gul Dukat’s daughter, Tora Ziyal, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. B’Elanna’s mention of Geidi Prime is an in-joke reference to the homeworld of the Harkonnen in Frank Herbert’s “Dune” novels. It isn’t really better than Risa…

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 54010.1: Tom and B’Elanna try out Tom’s new holodeck program – a mid-20th century movie theater – only to find Bajoran crewman Tabor comatose in the front row. Though still alive, Tabor has suffered an attack that left his skull cobwebbed with microfractures. Two more crew members soon suffer the same fate, and all three are former Maquis. Chakotay decides that the attacker must be a member of Voyager’s original Starfleet contingent, and puts his fellow ex-Maquis on alert (as well as ordering them to arm themselves). Rumors and paranoia run rampant as Tuvok tries to investigate the increasing number of assaults, but when B’Elanna and Chakotay become the next victims, these worries seem well founded. Tuvok’s obsessive quest to solve the crime wave ultimately leads him to conclude that he himself is the prime suspect.

teleplay by Mark Haskell Smith
story by Kenneth Biller
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Keith Szarabajka (Teero), Derek McGrath (Chell), Jad Mager (Tabor), Mark Rafael Truitt (Yossa), Ronald Robinson (Sek), Carol Krnic (Jor), Scott Alan Smith (Doyle), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Notes: The movie running in Tom’s Palace Theater holodeck program is Revenge Of The Creature, the real sequel to The Creature From The Black Lagoon. Revenge Of The Creature has also appeared in another popular SF series – it was the movie which opened Mystery Science Theater 3000’s eighth season, and boy, did it hurt. Guest star Keith Szarabajka played the sinister ex-husband of telepath Talia Winters in a second season episode of Babylon 5.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 54238.3: A routine comet-chasing expedition aboard the Delta Flyer is cut short by attacking aliens who have detected a “photonic insurgent” – an unauthorized hologram. In a last-ditch effort to keep the Doctor’s program from being decompiled, Seven of Nine downloads his program. But the price of concealing the Doctor within her Borg implants is a total subjugation of Seven’s personality, leaving the Doctor in charge of her body. The Doctor – in Seven’s body – must buy some time and release Ensign Kim from the aliens’ brig. In the meantime, Tuvok is suffering the early stages of the Pon Farr…and Tom’s solution of using the holodeck to ease Tuvok’s suffering simply attracts more of the aliens who are trying to eliminate “photonic insurgents.”

teleplay by Eric Morris and Phyllis Strong & Michael Sussman
story by Michael Taylor
directed by Robert Duncan MacNeill
music by

Guest Cast: Fritz Sperberg (Ranek), Megan Gallagher (Jaryn), David Starwalt (Captain #2), Marva Hicks (T’Pel)

Notes: This episode appears to have been inspired by the classic Red Dwarf episode Bodyswap (1989), and its mentions of warlike holograms set up the upcoming Flesh And Blood two-parter.

LogBook entry by Earl Green