Stardate 48439.7: B’Elanna Torres faces the prospect of a court-martial after hitting Carey, the senior surviving member of Voyager’s engineering crew, and Janeway balks when Chakotay nominates Torres for the position of chief engineer. Before a choice can be made, Voyager encounters a quantum singularity that appears to have trapped a ship. After an attempt to snag the distant derelict with the tractor beam, Voyager is forced to back off as the crew hatches alternate plans to retrieve the other ship. At Chakotay’s insistence, Janeway includes Torres in the process, and B’Elanna manages to come up with a working theory that the other ship is Voyager, already trapped in the singularity. If she can manage to free the ship from the phenomenon, B’Elanna may prove herself adequate to the task of becoming Voyager’s chief engineer.
teleplay by Brannon Braga
story by Jim Trombetta
directed by Kim Friedman
music by Dennis McCarthyCast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (B’Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Martha Hackett (Seska), Josh Clark (Carey), Justin Williams (Jarvin)
LogBook entry by Earl Green