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Xena and Gabrielle’s peaceful morning is ended when the warrior begins having sharp pains in her abdomen. They rush to a village healer. At the healer’s, Xena awakens from a horrible vision and tells Gabrielle and Amarice, who has joined them, that she must go see Yakut. The trio sets off for the northern Amazon village.

Yakut greets them. She has also seen the vision. The young shamaness has another vision and says that there’s a woman in it bearing the mark of the shamaness. Xena realizes that it is Alti. The warrior makes the decision to enter Alti’s realm to stop her from attacking her baby, but Gabrielle insists on taking her place for the baby’s and Xena’s sake. In the vision quest, Alti tells Gabrielle that she doesn’t want to harm the baby, but wants to return to the physical plane and that Xena should find a way to make this happen.

written by Steven L. Sears & R.J. Stewart
directed by John Fawcett
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Claire Stansfield (Alti), Jennifer Sky (Amarice), Kate Elliot (Yakut), Donogh Rees (Chi’Ah), Beryl Te Wiata (Midwife), Rachel Hayward (Amazon), and Argo

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Stardate 53263.2: Tuvok is critically injured as he and Neelix return to Voyager from a routine diplomatic mission. As Tuvok lies comatose in sick bay, Deputy Investigator Nerok of the K’sath arrives to look into the incident. Nerok blames Tuvok’s attack on the B’neth, legendary creatures whose existence is officially denied by the K’sath government. Nerok is eager to use this opportunity to prove the B’neth do exist, but the star witness, though recovering, is having to start over again mentally. Despite his frequent annoyance with the Talaxian in the past, Tuvok now turns to Neelix for support and guidance.

teleplay by Robert Doherty
story by Andrè Bormanis
directed by Roxann Dawson
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Mark Moses (Nerok)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

After SG-1 receives a rather cool reception from General Hammond upon returning to the SGC from their latest mission, they’re sent into quarantine and hear about a chemical spill affecting the entire Cheyenne Mountain complex. In the infirmary, all four are drugged, though it wears off early for Teal’c because of his Goa’uld symbiont. Teal’c discovers that an alien species has taken over the SGC, and quickly escapes from his guards, also rescuing Carter. Teal’c stays behind to fight and rescue Daniel and O’Neill while Carter escapes, but he is soon overcome. Once outside, Carter contacts Maybourne, one of the SGC’s most hated enemies, to inform him of a foothold situation and requests a meeting in a public place - but at that meeting, Maybourne hands her over to O’Neill and Daniel to be taken back to the SGC. Maybourne promises to accompany her as well. But it’s only on the return flight to the SGC that either Carter or Maybourne realizes that the alien incursion may have already spread as far as the Pentagon.

written by Heather E. Ash
directed by Andy Mikita
music by Joel Goldsmith & Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Tom McBeath (Colonel Harry Maybourne), Colin Cunningham (Major Davis), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Richard Leacock (Colonel Brogan), Colin Lawrence (Sergeant Warren), Dan Shea (Sergeant Siler), Alex Zahara (Alien Leader / Alien #1), Dion Johnstone (Alien #2), Tracy Westerholm (Surveillance SF), Biski Gugushe (SF Guard)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Xena and Gabrielle find a monk from the temple where Xena had left Lao Ma’s book. He delivers a message that the warrior realizes is from her late mentor. The two women, along with Joxer, head for Chin. Once there, they find a devastated village. As they are investigating the damage, missiles begin exploding throughout the ruins around them, and soldiers attack them. During the fighting, a woman joins their defense and soon the army retreats. The woman then identifies herself as Pao Ssu, daughter of Lao Ma. She explains to them that the army that was attacking has discovered the secret of black powder, which had been outlawed in Chin. They head for the temple and discover that Lao Ma’s book has been stolen. As Xena and Pao Ssu search for the thief, Gabrielle and Joxer head to the market to get what they need to make their own black powder.

written by Jeff Vlaming
directed by Mark Beesley
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Ted Raimi (Joxer), Marie Matiko (Pao SsU/K’Ao Hsin), Andy Choi (Go Kun), William Kwan (Vendor)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Stardate 53167.9: Trying to escape from an apparently hostile race guarding a series of time-saving wormholes, Voyager hides on a planet devastated by nuclear war. Seven locates a cryogenically frozen man and revives him. The survivor insists upon the revival of his fellow war victims, offering their help to Janeway as the guardians of the wormhole close in on Voyager. But all is not as it seems. The revived survivors, almost 900 years ago, were bombed into submission after centuries of using wormholes to attack and conquer other worlds. The freshly thawed-out Vodwar, though they try to conceal the fact at every opportunity, are the only surviving oppressors from that war. Their leader wishes to resume their reign of terror, beginning with a takeover of Voyager.

teleplay by Michael Taylor, Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
story by Michael Taylor
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Jeff Allin (Gedrin), Robert Knepper (Gaul), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Ron Fassler (Morin), Mimi Craven (Jisa), Bob Stillman (Turei), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Original title: 5,000 Years

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The Doctor faces an enemy with plans for world domination …well…actually he hasn’t quite worked out the plan yet…but when he does…watch out…

written by Mark Gatiss & David Walliams
director unknown

Cast: Mark Gatiss (The Doctor), David Walliams (Alien), Paul Putner (Alien), Tom Baker (Announcer)

LogBook entry & review by Philip R. Frey (click here for review and more details…)

As Xena tests to see whether or not she can use Lao Ma’s teachings away from Chin, she has a vision of Gabrielle, Joxer, and an unknown man fighting an army with explosions around them. She decides they must return to Chin to find out what the vision means. In Chin, they encounter K’ao Hsin with hundreds of refugees. K’ao Hsin tells them that the warlord Ghengis Khan is leading an army of Monguls through Chin. Khan is receiving help from the spirit of Ming Tien and his sister, Pao Ssu. Pao Ssu gives Khan the secret to making black powder - and suddenly Xena’s fight to save the refugees is that much more difficult…and deadly.

teleplay by Steven L. Sears
story by Robert Tapert & Steven L. Sears
directed by Rick Jacobson
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Ted Raimi (Joxer), Marie Matiko (Pao SsU/K’Ao Hsin), George Kee Chung (Genghis Khan), Daniel Sing (Ming Tien), Anthony Wong (Lin Qi), Helen Phung (Tei), Lohsing Cheng (Peasant)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

October 19, 2032: Ares IV, the first manned mission to Mars, is going smoothly until an unknown spatial anomaly consumes the orbiter. The mission is lost to a total enigma, all hands are presumed dead, and NASA’s Mars program is almost brought to a halt for good.

Stardate 53292.7: An unknown spatial anomaly nearly consumes Voyager. Seven of Nine recognizes the anomaly thanks to previous encounters with the Borg, but later study of the phenomenon reveals that it is still hauling the wreckage of Ares IV through the Delta Quadrant. Chakotay and Paris quickly devise a plan to retrieve Ares IV, but Seven of Nine insists on warning the crew of the dangers of attempting to explore a gravimetric ellipse. Trying to inspire her, Janeway assigns Seven to join the mission into the ellipse. But once the Delta Flyer is inside, B’elanna discovers that the anomaly is on course for a violent collision with a dark matter asteroid. Janeway orders Chakotay to abandon the salvage operation immediately, but he disobeys, ordering Tom to tow the Ares IV in a tractor beam. This decision slows down the Delta Flyer’s escape enough to trap it inside the ellipse - lost to a total enigma…all hands presumed dead.

teleplay by Mike Wollaeger & Jessica Scott
and Bryan Fuller & Michael Taylor
story by Mike Wollaeger & Jessica Scott
directed by Robert Picardo
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Phil Morris (Lt. John Kelly), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Notes: The Doctor mentions a visit to the planet Arrakis Prime, an in-joke reference to the spice planet in Dune. One of Phil Morris’s first film roles was the ensign who asked Admiral Kirk if the Enterprise crew would return to a hero’s welcome at the beginning of Star Trek III.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

After Xena and Gabrielle stop some theives from robbing her temple, Aphrodite shows them the hospice she has set up in another part of it. One of the patients is a girl named Daphne, who’s been unconcious since she was brought in. Xena says she’d trade places with the girl if that would get her to wake up, and Aphrodite does just that. But when Daphne wakes up, they discover that she was only half successful - now Xena is sharing the girl’s body. Daphne’s father arrives to take her home, and Xena tells Gabrielle to watch over her body and find a way to restore her. But they have restore her before sundown, or Xena will be sharing Daphne’s body forever.

written by Gregg Ostrin
directed by Allison Liddi
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Alexandra Tydings (Aphrodite), Rose McIver (Daphne), Colin Moy (Galantis), Peter Feeney (Tharon), Stephen Finch (Sandor), Wade Taylor (Castor), Scott Taylor (Pollux), Justin Curry (Doorman), Allen O’Halloran (Guard), David Telford (Announcer)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Stardate not given: Seven of Nine installs a new piece of equipment in her Borg alcove which allows her to assimilate data, log entries, records, and other information while she regenerates. But the overload of information is too much for her. At first, Seven is able to solve complex but obscure shipboard problems using information she has assimilated overnight. But then, still trying to process the enormous flow of data, Seven begins to formulate complex conspiracy theories concerning Voyager’s mission, and she begins to make accusations - that Janeway intentionally stranded Voyager in the Delta Quadrant as part of a secret Federation plot to secure strategic alliances across the galaxy; that Chakotay and the other Maquis deliberately led Voyager into a trap set by their ally, the Caretaker; and that even Naomi Wildman is working for either the Maquis or Janeway’s secret organization withing the Federation. By the time Janeway realizes what has happened and attempts to help, Seven has hijacked the Delta Flyer to escape what she can only see as a massive conspiracy to destroy one person…herself.

written by Joe Menosky
directed by Terry Windell
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Albie Selznick (Tash), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green