Category: Season 05

Stardate 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.

written 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.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 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.

written 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)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 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.

written 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)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 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.

teleplay 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)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 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.

teleplay 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

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 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?

written 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

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: The crew’s annual physicals reveal evidence of a most disturbing operation – at some point a year and a half ago, the Doctor performed an unorthodox neural surgery on Ensign Kim…but neither Harry nor the Doctor himself can remember such a procedure. When the Doctor tries to recover his lost memories, it seems that someone or something is continuing to tamper with his program, trying to keep him from recalling the incident in question. The Doctor sets his holo-imager to capture evidence of anyone breaking into the sickbay computers to alter his program further, and makes the shocking discovery that Captain Janeway is the one who is trying to derail his investigation.

teleplay by Joe Menosky
story by Eileen Connors
directed by Mike Vejar
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Nancy Bell (Ensign Jetal), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 52438.9: On an arid planet, scavenger Noss fends for herself against other hunters, all of whom have been stranded by this world’s unusual gravity well. Noss watches as another ship crash-lands violently on the planet, and reluctantly befriends its two pilots after one of them rescues her from the aliens. Even though these two newcomers are also alien to Noss, she finds herself falling in love with one of them, but for reasons she will never understand, her feelings will never be reciprocated. Noss must decide whether or not there is still any reason to aid these two wanderers. How can she warrant risking her life to help them when the one who calls himself Tuvok cannot comprehend her affection?

teleplay by Nick Sagan & Bryan Fuller
story by Jimmy Diggs, Nick Sagan & Bryan Fuller
directed by Terry Windell
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Lori Petty (Noss), Leroy D. Brazile (Young Tuvok), Paul Eckstein (Yost), Joseph Ruskin (Vulcan Master)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 52542.3: Voyager’s sensors detect a wormhole that qualifies as nothing short of a miracle – not only is the wormhole stable for the time being, but sensors and probes indicate that it will deposit Voyager directly into Earth space. Janeway is initially very suspicious, but this soon gives way to joyous anticipation of a return home. Only Seven of Nine retains any semblance of suspicion, an intuitive caution which is reinforced when she visually spots a ship trapped in the interior of the wormhole – even though the ship’s sensors aren’t picking it up. Seven thinks that something or someone is manipulating the crew’s expectations, feeding them exactly what they want to see and hear…but she isn’t prepared for the possibility that this force also has enough control over the crew to put their Borg skeptic out of commission.

teleplay by Robert J. Doherty
story by Bill Prady
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), W. Morgan Sheppard (Qatai), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green