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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

False Profits

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50074.3: The investigation of a possible wormhole reveals signs of visitors from the Alpha Quadrant on a primitive planet. Chakotay and Paris make an incognito visit to a location where sensors have detected a replicator in use, only to find a village of humanoids who seem obsessed with charging money for any goods or services, no matter how insignificant. At the heart of this culture lie two Ferengi, stranded in the Delta Quadrant since they were trapped by the Barzan Wormhole discovered by the Enterprise seven years earlier. The Ferengi have come to this society as gods bearing wisdom – the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition – but their true motive is to exploit the native population for their own gain. Janeway sets a plan into motion which involves Neelix masquerading as an envoy from the Grand Nagus. But if his disguise fails to fool the Ferengi, he may find that these profit-mongerers will do anything to keep their grasp on godhood.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Joe Menosky
story by George A. Brozak
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Dan Shor (Arridor), Leslie Jordan (Koll), Michael Ensign (Bard), Rob LaBelle (Kafar), Alan Altshuld (Sandalmaker), John Walter Davis (Merchant)

Notes: Arridor and Koll have been stuck in the Delta Quadrant for a long time – ever since the unstable Barzan Wormhole stranded them there in The Price, an episode of the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation

LogBook entry by Paul Campbell with notes by Earl Green

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Remember

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50203.1: As Voyager ferries some telepathic Delta Quadrant denizens from a colony to their home world, B’Elanna experiences an intense dream about a member of their race, even though the object of her fascination is not one of Voyager’s passengers. B’Elanna’s dreams take stranger turns as they progress along a continuing path, telling her a specific story from the past, from the point of view of one of the passengers. Though allegations of telepathic interference are denied, B’Elanna finally encounters the person whose memories have been transmitted to her – an elderly woman who dies immediately after sending B’Elanna the last of her experiences involving a rebel faction of the aliens’ population which was massacred for opposing the government. B’Elanna believes that the woman whose life she experienced was murdered by someone trying to cover up the truth about the alien’s violent history – and since she now possesses the secret, she may be next.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Lisa Klink
story by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Bruce Davison (Jareth), Eugene Roche (Yathen), Charles Esten (Jubrel), Athena Massey (Jessen), Eve H. Brenner (Jora Marel), Nancy Kaine (Woman), Tina Reddington (Girl), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Sacred Ground

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50063.2: On a visit to a monastery on an alien world, Kes and Neelix visit a shrine. When Kes approaches it, an energy field knocks her out, and a government official informs the crew that Kes has been punished by the world’s ancient spirits for trespassing on holy ground. Beamed to Voyager’s sickbay, Kes is slowly dying and the Doctor can offer no alternatives to save her. Janeway beams down to the planet to undergo any voyage of discovery necessary to save Kes, but her path is less than straightforward and may not yield any useful information.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Lisa Klink
story by Geo Cameron
directed by Robert Duncan McNeill
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Harry Groener (The Magistrate), Becky Ann Baker (The Guide), Estelle Harris (Spirit #1), Keene Curtis (Spirit #2), Parley Baer (Spirit #3)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Future’s End – Part I

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: A brief encounter with a vessel whose lone occupant claims to be a Federation time scout from 500 years in the future results in a fierce firefight. The future captain describes a cataclysmic disaster in the 29th century resulting from an incident that Voyager is about to initiate. The timeship is damaged in the ensuing battle and falls back into the temporal rift through which it arrived, which also drags Voyager in. Voyager is taken back to Earth, 1996, and faint signs are detected of the timeship. Janeway, Chakotay, Paris and Tuvok beam down incognito to search for the wayward vessel, but unknown to them their own ship has been detected in orbit by an astronomy graduate named Rain Robinson. Rain contacts computer magnate Henry Starling, who is in possession of the timeship while its original occupant languishes on the streets of Los Angeles. Tom and Tuvok make their way to Griffith Observatory to erase Rain’s evidence of Voyager’s presence, but she catches them in the act and is hot on their trail as one of Starling’s employees attempts to kill them all. Janeway and Chakotay break into Starling’s office and discover that he has already contaminated the timeline, using the timeship’s technology to jump-start the computer revolution. Starling finds the uninvited guests and threatens them, but Harry, left in command of Voyager, rescues them just in time. But Starling still has the timeship – and worse yet, Voyager’s low-orbit rescue run has been detected by cameras on 20th century Earth.

Order the DVDswritten by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Ed Begley, Jr. (Henry Starling), Sarah Silverman (Rain Robinson), Allan G. Royal (Captain Braxton)

LogBook entry by Paul Campbell

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Future’s End – Part II

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Tuvok and Paris enlist Rain’s help in contacting Voyager and setting a trap for Starling which involves pinpointing his location to allow a transporter kidnap from a shuttlecraft. Starling, however, has two tricks up his sleeve – the Doctor, equipped with a portable holo-emitter, is his hostage, and he has a device to thwart the shuttle’s transporter. The shuttle’s systems overload and the shuttle, piloted by Chakotay and Torres, crashes in the Arizona desert, but the Doctor escapes as Voyager takes over transport of Starling. Chakotay and B’Elanna fall into the hands of a cult militia group, but are rescued by Tuvok and the newly independent Doctor. Starling escapes and launches the timeship despite Janeway’s warnings, but his scheme for Earth’s future won’t exactly unfold as planned.

Order the DVDswritten by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Ed Begley, Jr. (Henry Starling), Sarah Silverman (Rain Robinson), Allan G. Royal (Captain Braxton), Brent Hinkley (Militia #1), Clayton Murray (Militia #2), Susan Patterson (Ensign Kaplan), Christian R. Conrad (Dunbar), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

LogBook entry by Paul Campbell

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Warlord

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50348.1: Voyager’s crew barely manages to rescue three occupants of a battle-damaged spacecraft, one of whom dies in sickbay immediately after transport. When Voyager returns the survivors to their planet, an official beams aboard and is killed by Kes, who also kills the transporter chief and struggles with Janeway. Kes and the other refugees steal a shuttlecraft and run for it. Kes’ body has been taken over by Tieran, a power-mad dictator who has developed the ability to transfer his consciousness into the minds of others to insure his immortality. Tieran kills the rightful ruler of his people and assumes power, trying to coerce the youngest heir into backing his coup. The elder heir, Demis, has beamed aboard Voyager to coordinate efforts to restore the original government, and despite his overtures of war, Janeway still insists on trying to recover Kes in body and spirit. Kes also intends to break free of Tieran’s influence, but he proves to be a formidable enemy.

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story by Andrew Shepard Price and Mark Gaberman
directed by David Livingston
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Anthony Crivello (Demis), Brad Greenquist (Ameron), Galyn Gorg (Enori), Charles Emmett (Resh), Karl Wiedergott (Tieran), Leigh J. McCloskey (Doctor), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

The Q and the Gray

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50384.2: After the crew witnesses a supernova explosion from a safe distance, Janeway retires for the evening, only to be wooed in her quarters by Q, who claims to want to mate with her. Naturally, Janeway rebuffs Q’s every advance, and eventually a female member of the Q Continuum appears, claiming that she is bonded to Q. As an argument ensues between the Qs, more imminent supernovae are detected and Janeway orders the ship clear of the destruction, but with so many stars exploding, Voyager can’t avoid all of the shockwaves. Just before the first wave hits the ship, Q whisks Janeway into a representation of the Q Continuum in the context of the American Civil War. Q explains that the Continuum is in the throes of its own civil war, sparked by the death of a fellow Q he prosecuted on charges that a Q suicide would imbalance their whole society. Q’s desire to mate with Janeway is the result of his belief that, from his past experiences with Janeway and Picard, a hybrid child would introduce the omnipotent Q to the nobility of humans. Caught in a civil war among immortal beings, and hoping that her crew can enlist the help of the Q’s scorned mate, Janeway tries to negotiate a peace with the Q traditionalists…but she’s unaware that her attempt to open talks will do nothing more than deliver Q into the hands of his enemies.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Kenneth Biller
story by Shawn Piller
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: John de Lancie (Q), Suzie Plakson (Q), Harve Presnell (Q)

LogBook entry by Paul Campbell

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Macrocosm

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50425.1: Janeway and Neelix return from a diplomatic mission to find Voyager adrift and the crew unconscious, concentrated in a few areas of the ship. They find evidence of alien lifeforms that can punch their way through doors and equipment, and a chance encounter with one of the aliens results in Neelix’s disappearance. Janeway arms herself as she tries to find out what has happened to her crew, and encounters and kills another of the alien lifeforms, but not before she has been infected by an insect-like airborne virus. She makes her way to sickbay and the Doctor describes an ill-fated humanitarian mission that resulted in the infection of the entire Voyager crew. The virus breeds as a microscopic organism and grows to its insect-like size to leave its victims’ bodies, finally evolving into a monster-sized attacker that seeks out new prey. Janeway must find a way to single-handedly rid Voyager of a scourge that outnumbers her by a factor of billions to one.

Order the DVDswritten by Brannon Braga
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Albie Selznick (Taktak Consul), Michael Fiske (Garan Miner)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Fair Trade

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: With Neelix pursuing a promotion, Voyager stops at a trading port at the edge of the vast and uncharted Nekrit Expanse. Although the ship’s environmental control systems require Pergium for replenishment, it seems to be unavailable until an old friend of Neelix turns up with a plan to obtain some. But when this plan turns out to involve dealing narcotics in dark passageways late at night, things begin to get out of control.

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story by Ronald Wilkerson & Jean Louise Matthias
directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: James Nardini (Wixiban), Carlos Carrasco (Bahrat), Alexander Enberg (Vorick), Steve Kehela (Sutok), James Horan (Tosin), Eric Charp (Map Vendor)

LogBook entry by Paul Campbell

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Alter Ego

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50460.3: The crew begins an analysis of an unusual phenomenon called an inversion nebula which might provide fresh insight into the nature of plasma reactions. Harry falls in love with a holodeck character and when Tuvok attempts to help him use Vulcan mind-control techniques to overcome his infatuation with a computer-generated subroutine, the crew discovers that the object of Harry’s desires is actually an alien life form which has used the holodeck to interact with the crew. But Tuvok’s attempts to help set off a cascade of jealousy which endangers the entire ship.

Order the DVDswritten by Joe Menosky
directed by Robert Picardo
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Sandra Nelson (Marayna), Alexander Enberg (Vorick), Shay Todd (Holowoman), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

LogBook entry by Paul Campbell

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Coda

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: While on a planetary mission, the captain and Chakotay crash and are killed by the Vidiians. Suddenly they are back aboard the shuttle approaching the planet where they recognize the sense of deja-vu. This time they recognize a Vidiian ship and attempt to outrun it, but they die under enemy fire in space, and they loop back to the beginning of the sequence once again. This time they make it back to the ship, but Chakotay no longer has any memory of the time loop and Janeway has the Doctor examine her. This time it turns out that she has the Vidiian phage and is shocked when the Doctor euthanizes her against her will to keep the phage from spreading to the crew. But she comes back yet again to the shuttle with Chakotay where this time they fly into a bright spatial anomaly, whereupon Janeway suddenly finds herself on the planet where she sees Chakotay trying to revive another iteration of herself. They beam back to Voyager where the Captain dies yet again. This time she meets her dead father as the crew undergoes a period of mourning for their captain. But while her father seems to be providing answers for her, it seems as if he has an agenda of his own.

Order the DVDswritten by Jeri Taylor
directed by Nancy Malone
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Leo Cariou (Admiral Janeway), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

LogBook entry by Paul Campbell

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Blood Fever

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50537.2: Large deposits of gallicite draw Voyager to an abandoned planet for this material that will enable a refit of the warp coils. But while preparing for the expedition, Ensign Vorick comes under the influence of the Pon Farr and declares his intention to take B’Elanna as a mate, attempting to force his affections on her. Although this results in a dislocated jaw for Vorick, the physical contact seems to have caused a change in the chief engineer resulting from a mating bond. As the odd triangle (which includes Tom Paris) is resolved, the crew discovers that the planet is not abandoned after all, but is inhabited by the Sakari, a race which has developed camouflage to a high art to avoid their ancient enemies – the Borg.

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directed by Andrew Robinson
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Alexander Enberg (Vorik), Bruce Bohne (Sakari Leader), Deborah Levin (Ensign Lang)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Unity

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50622.4: While exploring the Nekrit Expanse in a shuttle, Chakotay responds to a distress call which recognizes their Federation signature, but when he goes to the surface to investigate he runs into a firefight between rival factions. Meanwhile, Voyager runs into an abandoned Borg cube adrift in space. It turns out that the people on the planet were once a part of the Borg collective, but the link was severed about five years previously and they fell into anarchy. A small group of the castaways tries to enlist Chakotay’s help to bring some order to the society, but the Voyager crew is concerned that this action would re-awaken the Borg ship.

Order the DVDswritten by Kenneth Biller
directed by Robert Duncan McNeill
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Lori Hallier (Riley Frazier), Ivar Brogger (Orum), Susan Patterson (Ensign Kaplan)

LogBook entry by Paul Campbell

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Darkling

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50693.2: The Doctor attempts to modify himself by adding behavioral subroutines while the Voyager crew treats with the Mikhal Travelers, trading supplies for information on the Nekrit Expanse. But while the Travelers seem very helpful, and Kes becomes romantically involved with one of their pilots, a strange series of changes begins to take place in the Doctor. The new subroutines seem to have created an alter ego which is becoming separate from the Doctor’s normal personality. He begins to display a violent jealousy over Kes’ blossoming relationship, combined with the ruthlessness to carry out his intentions. B’ellana’s efforts to help modify his program only brings the ship, crew, and especially Kes closer to danger.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Joe Menosky
story by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: David Lee Smith (Zahir), Stephen Davies (Nakhan), Noel De Souza (Ghandi), Christopher Clarke (Lord Byron), Sue Henley (Ensign), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Rise

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Neelix joins a crew attempting to help Nezu colonists survive a series of asteroid collisions. Voyager fails in its attempt to vaporize an incoming asteroid and discovers that they’re artificially guided. When Neelix and Tuvok are abandoned on the planet just before the next scheduled asteroid strike, they and some colonists use a maglift carriage to climb an orbital tether to a point where they can contact the ship. But one of the Nezu is determined to keep the others from passing on what they know. As the carriage rises into the thinning atmosphere, they discover what the real motivation behind both the asteroids and the surrounding secrecy is.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Brannon Braga
story by Jimmy Diggs
directed by Robert Scheerer
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Alan Oppenheimer (Sklar), Lisa Kaminir (Lillias), Kelly Connell (Ambassador), Tom Towles (Hanjuam), Geof Prysirr (Dr. Vatm)

LogBook entry by Paul Campbell