Category: Season 07

Stardate not given: Seven of Nine begins spending a great deal of time in the holodeck, simulating various social situations. But outside the holodeck, she is still her old self, showing no signs of her recent “practice” and still making every effort to avoid most shipboard social gatherings, including the baby shower for Tom and B’Elanna. But when massive energy discharges begin to explode in Voyager’s path, threatening the ship and its crew, there isn’t time for pleasantries anyway. Despite that, Seven continues spending every free moment on her “research,” even opting to forego regenerating in her Borg alcove in favor of social simulations which are taking on a personal and even romantic dimension (including a simulation of a relationship with Chakotay). But is she ignoring more pressing duties that could help the crew escape its current predicament?

teleplay by Brannon Braga & Andrè Bormanis
story by Andrè Bormanis & Kenneth Biller
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by

Guest Cast: Manu Intiraymi (Icheb)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 54732.3: Thanks to Q’s reward to Janeway for taking care of his son, Voyager is now within shouting distance of home – or, at the very least, close enough to utilize Lt. Barclay’s latest innovation, a subspace signal bounced into the Alpha Quadrant, enabling real-time communications between Voyager and Starfleet. For the first time since Voyager became stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Harry Kim is able to see his parents, B’Elanna Torres sees her father for the first time in over twenty years, and the entire crew gets their first glimpse of Earth via a satellite transmission. And who has the Doctor been talking to? A Bolian publisher of holonovels, who has shown great interest in the hologram’s dramatization of the crew’s struggles over the past seven years. The Doctor’s crewmates learn about the negotiations for his literary work, but when they play the scenario themselves, they’re appalled to see how the Doctor has exaggerated their worst traits (not to mention his own struggle for equal rights as a member of the crew). The crew suggests more realistic revisions, which the Doctor implements without realizing that his unscrupulous publisher has already gone to “press” – with the wildly unflattering first draft. The crew’s families back home, after experiencing the holonovel, start asking questions about what has really happened to their loved ones in the Delta Quadrant. But when the Doctor tries to seek legal recourse for the unauthorized distribution of his work, the publisher falls back on the very point of the Doctor’s drama – holograms have no rights.

teleplay by Phyllis Strong & Mike Sussman
story by Brannon Braga
directed by David Livingston
music by

Guest Cast: Dwight Schultz (Barclay), Richard Herd (Admiral Paris), Barry Gordon (Broht), Irene Tsu (Mary Kim), Joseph Campanella (Arbitrator), Lorinne Vozoff (Irene Hansen), Juan Garcia (John Torres), Robert Ito (John Kim)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: For the first time in seven years, the starship Voyager receives specific orders from Starfleet. The crew is to track down a 22nd century unmanned space probe which was last tracked in the vicinity of Voyager’s current position. The probes last known location is discovered, but to Janeway’s horror, its technology was analyzed by a Delta Quadrant race which reverse-engineered it – and used it to create potent weapons of mass destruction. Janeway must find a way to make reparations for an unforseeable mistake made before the Federation’s Prime Directive existed – and when her away team become hostages, they may pay the ultimate price for mistakes made before the Federation’s non-interference directive existed.

teleplay by Michael Taylor
story by Michael Taylor & Bryan Fuller
directed by Mike Vejar
music by

Guest Cast: Josh Clark (Lt. Carey), John Prosky (Otrin), Peter Dennis (Admiral Hendricks), Bari Hochwald (Brin), Ashley Edner (Yun), Ken Land (Verin), John Rosenfeld (Technician #1), Wendy Speake (Technician #2), David Ghilardi (Alien Lieutenant)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: A survey mission comes to an unexpected end when a shuttle carrying Chakotay and Seven encounters a powerful energy barrier surrounding a primitive world. The shuttle is nearly destroyed, and Chakotay suffers major injuries on impact. Worse, the barrier prevents any contact with Voyager, so help isn’t on the way. Seven and Chakotay discover that the inhabitants of this world are not only intelligent, but imitative – after first seeing Chakotay, they tattoo themselves in a fashion similar to the first officer’s facial ornamentation. But the primitives’ behavior extends beyond the superficial. Chakotay and Seven worry that they may begin to understand, even duplicate, the technology of Voyager’s shuttle. Seven sets about on a more determined effort to lower the barrier preventing Voyager from finding them. When she succeeds, only to find that someone else has been waiting for the barrier to come down so they can land, it appears that the tainting of the planet’s indigenous people has only just begun.

teleplay by James Kahn
story by Kenneth Biller & James Kahn
directed by Terry Windell
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Paul Sandman (Healer), Autumn Reeser (Girl), Robert Curtis Brown (Ambassador), Neil Vipond (Kleg), Ivar Brogger (Barus)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 54868.6: A First Contact Day celebration – commemorating the anniversary of humanity’s first encounter with the Vulcans – is interrupted by an unexpected discovery. A colony of Talaxians has been detected living on a barren asteroid. Neelix is eager to visit them, as he may never get to see another of his own kind as Voyager speeds toward the Alpha Quadrant. But when the Talaxians greet the away team – including Neelix – with disdain for their weapons and “violent” way of life, the reunion doesn’t go as planned. Neelix discovers that the Talaxians have been mining the asteroid for aliens who are practically using them as slave labor – and who intend to dispose of the colony by destroying the asteroid. Neelix attempts to persuade his fellow Talaxians that this situation warrants abandoning their traditionally pacifist stance on conflict, and even helps them strike the first blow against their overseers. But this is merely the opening volley in what is likely to be an ongoing fight – and Neelix may have to leave Voyager in order to continue helping his people.

written by Raf Green
directed by LeVar Burton
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Rob Labelle (Oxilon), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Julianne Christie (Dexa), Ian Meltzer (Brax), John Kenton Shull (Nacona), Christian R. Conrad (Miner)

Original title: Destiny

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 54890.7: Captain Janeway and the Doctor take the Delta Flyer to a medical conference, but when Janeway returns she orders Chakotay to prepare to eject Voyager’s warp core…and giving another, more disturbing order, to find an M-class planet suitable for colonization in the Delta Quadrant. Unwilling to accept that the captain is abandoning Voyager’s homeward journey without any explanation, Chakotay confronts her after more suspicious orders are given. Just as Chakotay realizes that Janeway has been replaced by a lookalike, the first officer is attacked and rendered unconscious. More suspicious orders are given to the crew, and Chakotay is also impersonated. But could the saboteur be one of Voyager’s own?

teleplay by Phyllis Strong & Mike Sussman
story by Andrew Shepard Price & Mark Gaberman
directed by Mike Vejar
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Andy Milder (Nar), Wayne Thomas Yorke (Zet), Alexander Enberg (Vorik), David Sparrow (Alien/Doctor), Tarik Ergin (Tactical), J.R. Quinonez (Overlooker/Doctor)

LogBook entry by Earl Green