Category: Season 04

Stardate not given: Voyager encounters a lone Hirogen ship adrift in space, with minimal life signs. An away team pays a brief visit to the derelict, finding the ship in ruins and only one member of its crew still barely alive. After the surviving Hirogen is brought aboard, it becomes apparent that his prey – which is also responsible for killing his fellow hunters – has penetrated Voyager’s defenses. The object of the Hirogen’s hunt is a rogue member of Species 8472, the race which almost defeated the Borg. Janeway realizes that she will need Seven’s help to return the creature to its home before more Hirogen arrive, but Seven’s instinct to regard Species 8472 as a mortal enemy may overpower her loyalty to Voyager.

written by Brannon Braga
directed by Allan Eastman
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Tony Todd (Alpha-Hirogen), Clint Carmichael (Beta-Hirogen)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 51658.2: Janeway strikes a deal with Kovin, a weapons dealer, to arm Voyager with a powerful isokinetic cannon, and assigns Seven of Nine to assist him with the installation. Seven, however, continues to prove difficult to work with, reacting violently when Kovin tries to correct her during an installation procedure. The Doctor is able to patch Kobin up qucikly, but his examination of Seven is derailed when she displays fear of the Doctor’s medical instruments and biobed enclosure. The Doctor helps her find a hidden memory – which turns out to involve Kovin restraining her, forcing regrowth of her Borg implants, and extracting them from her body. Janeway launches an investigation of Kovin, and he is anything but cooperative, even when evidence is found that supports his story. Is he an innocent man running from an accusation that could ruin him, or does he have something to hide?

teleplay by Bryan Fuller & Lisa Klink
story by Andrew Shepard Price & Mark Gaberman
directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Michael Horton (Kovin), Adrian Sparks (Magistrate), Michelle Agnew (Scharn)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: In World War II France, the leader of a resistance cell operates behind the scenes at her nightclub, worrying that her club’s singer – who also happens to be a weapons expert – is having second thoughts about working to free France of Nazi forces. Suspicions are heightened when the singer is shot down alongside a resistance messenger…but turns up unharmed shortly afterward. If the resistance doesn’t succeed in taking out a vital German radio installation, Allied Forces won’t be able to liberate their city.

On the eve of the critical espionage mission, the nightclub singer is the only one who realizes that she is Borg, the resistance leader is a starship captain, her bartender is a Vulcan, the message boy is a Talaxian, and the Nazis are actually the Hirogen, who have taken over a defenseless starship called Voyager to subject its crew to simulations of historical battles.

written by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by David Livingston
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Danny Goldring (Alpha Hirogen), Mark Deakins (Hirogen S.S. Officer), Mark Metcalf (Hirogen Medic), J. Paul Boehmer (Kapitan), Paul Eckstein (Young Hirogen), Peter Hendrixson (Klingon)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 51715.2: Janeway and Seven of Nine, free of the Hirogen neural implants which have been forcing their crewmates to relive World War II without any knowledge of their real identities, make their way through Voyager. Janeway hopes that she can talk the Alpha Hirogen into some sort of unconventional truce, only to discover that his views are unique among his race. Meanwhile, Voyager, already critically damaged, is further endangered because its own brainwashed crew and their holographic Nazi opponents are conducting a rematch of World War II throughout the ship.

written by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by Victor Lobl
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Danny Goldring (Alpha Hirogen), Mark Deakins (Hirogen S.S. Officer), Mark Metcalf (Hirogen Medic), J. Paul Boehmer (Kapitan), Paul Eckstein (Young Hirogen), Peter Hendrixson (Klingon), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 51775.2: Voyager encounters a damaged ship piloted by the alien Steth, who requests help. Paris tries to help Steth repair his spacecraft, and Steth returns the favor by stealing a sample of Tom’s DNA and reshaping himself in Tom’s image. Tom transforms into Steth’s alien body as his attacker assumes his role among the crew – and his role in Tom’s relationship with B’Elanna. To silence Tom, Steth sends him off in his newly-repaired ship, where Tom is apprehended by an armada who assume from his appearance that he is Steth. On Voyager, Steth quickly tires of being a mere helmsman and sets his sights on command – by assuming the physical form of the ship’s captain.

written by Robert J. Doherty
directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Dan Butler (Steth), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Daelen), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 51793.4: Voyager’s main computer mysteriously brings the ship to an abrupt halt, displaying the symbol of the Greek letter omega and waiting for Captain Janeway to intervene. The computer privately informs Janeway of a top-secret Starfleet directive involving an energy source capable of wiping out large portions of space. Starfleet has failed to harness the Omega energy source and has deemed it too powerful for anyone else to posess – hence Janeway’s orders to locate and destroy the source of Omega. Once she finally discloses these instructions to her crew, Janeway learns that the Borg have encountered Omega as well – and that their experiments with the volatile energy source were no more successful than Starfleet’s. But instead of a threat, Seven of Nine thinks of Omega as ultimate perfection – and a limitless energy source waiting to be harnessed.

teleplay by Lisa Klink
story by Jimmy Diggs & Steve J. Kay
directed by Victor Lobl
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Jeff Austin (Allos), Kevin McCorkle (Alien Captain), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 51813.4: A woman’s voice from a critically damaged ship calls out to Chakotay – even though he has no idea who she is. Rescued from her ship, Kellin promptly asks for asylum from her own people, warning that they will certainly come looking for her. Though suspicious of his guest, Chakotay listens as she recounts a story of how she previously sought the help of the crew in tracking down another fugitive from her world – and fell in love with Chakotay in the process. The genetic makeup of Kellin’s people prevents sensors from picking her up accurately, and keeps other races from retaining any memory of her. But just as Kellin once captured a runaway from her world, another member of her race has secretly boarded Voyager to retrieve her – whether she wants to go home or not.

written by Greg Elliot & Michael Perricone
directed by Andrew J. Robinson
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Virginia Madsen (Kellin), Michael Canavan (Curneth)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: The Doctor is activated several centuries after Voyager became involved in a war between two planets. Though Voyager and her crew are long gone, the Doctor’s recollections are sought by one historian – and condemned by others. The Doctor has become just one part of a museum which serves as a testament to one world’s holocaust and another world’s conquest, and not everyone wants to hear the hologram’s version of the story – a story which, in the museum exhibit, portrays Captain Janeway and her crew as bloodthirsty warmongers who took sides in the conflict.

teleplay by Bryan Fuller and Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
story by Brannon Braga
directed by Tim Russ
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Henry Woronicz (Quarren), Rod Arrants (Ambassador Dailith), Craig Richard Nelson (Tedran), Marie Chambers (Kyrian Commissioner), Brian Fitzpatrick (Vaskan Commissioner), Morgan H. Margolis (Vaskan Museum Visitor), Mary Anne McGarry (Tabris), Timothy Davis-Reed (Kyrian Spectator)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: Depleted of resources, Voyager limps into the vicinity of a class Y planet, known informally as a “demon” class planet. Though standard Starfleet procedure calls for total avoidance of the hostile environment of these planets, Janeway and the crew are left with no choice but to try to improvise a way to adapt the planet’s natural resources to power Voyager. Tom and Harry are the first away team to visit the planet, and they fail to report back. But the rescue team commanded by Chakotay finds both of them in perfect health – and capable of breathing freely in the deadly atmosphere of the planet. However, transporting the two back to Voyager almost proves fatal, leading the Doctor to believe that anyone who has visited this class Y planet can never leave it again.

teleplay by Kenneth Biller
story by Andrè Bormanis
directed by Anson Williams
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Alexander Enberg (Ensign Vorik), Susan Lewis (Transporter Technician), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 51929.3: Voyager arrives at a vast nebula, and trying to go around the gaseous structure would add months to the ship’s journey. But Janeway’s command to proceed into the nebula nearly meets with disaster as the crew begins suffering radiation poisoning. Janeway is forced to consider putting the entire crew in stasis and leaving Voyager in the hands of the Doctor and Seven of Nine, whose Borg shielding renders her immune to the radiation poisoning. Though Seven is undaunted by the exhaustive schedule of duties she must perform as the ship’s sole pilot and engineer for an entire month, she may be unprepared for the sense of isolation that she must endure – but is she really alone, or has someone else boarded Voyager?

written by Jeri Taylor
directed by Kenneth Biller
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Wade Williams (Trajis Lo-Tarik), Ron Ostrow (Borg Drone), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green