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Stardate not given: The Delta Flyer returns from a two-week mapping mission with a very cranky crew consisting of Chakotay, Neelix, Tom and Harry Kim. But upon their return, the Delta Flyer crew begin to suffer from hallucinations of a bloody battle - a battle in which there is no evidence of their participation. But Janeway’s concern grows as all four crewmen eventually recount their hallucinatory memories, which corroborate each other and create a consistent picture of the battle they fought - a battle in which they killed almost a hundred civilians. And the captain’s concern becomes horror as she, too, begins to remember having played a part in the carnage.

teleplay by Robin Burger
story by Brannon Braga
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: L.L. Ginter (Commander Sovdra), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Fleming Brooks (Soldier one), Joe Mellis (Young soldier), Susan Savage (Alien woman), Maria Spasoff (Female colonist), Robert Allen Colaizzi, Jr. (Dying colonist), David Keith Anderson (Crew member)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

A visit to a peaceful planet to establish relations becomes more serious when SG-1 discovers that the eagerly anticipated annual “fire rains” are actually meteor storms that occur when the planet passes through its solar system’s asteroid belt. A near-miss convinces Carter and Daniel that this society’s time is almost up, and that an extinction-level event can’t be far off. The next day, for the first time that any of the planet’s inhabitants can remember, the fire rains begin again during broad daylight - and this time, the blazing lights slam into the ground. The team begins evacuating the people of the village they’re visiting through the stargate back to the SGC for their own safety, but the entire planet can’t be saved - and when the next meteorite takes out the gate, O’Neill finds himself trapped with no way home.

story by V.C. James
teleplay by Brad Wright
directed by David Warry-Smith
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Michele Greene (Laira), Julie Patzwald (Naytha), Gary Jones (Sgt. Walter Harriman), Shane Meier (Garan), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Marcel Maillard (Paynan)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The Lexx is adrift, as it has been for thousands of years, its crew in hibernation or, in 790’s case, standby mode. 790 awakens when the ship’s sensors detect something the crew has been waiting for - a habitable planet. Actually, the Lexx has drifted into the gravitational pull of two habitable planets, one an ocean-covered paradise, the other a global desert, orbiting each other and permanently connected by a strand of breathable atmosphere between them.

A hot air balloon from the desert planet comes to investigate the insect-like visitor in the sky; the leader of this expedition questions 790 briefly and then tosses the robot head into the chasm beneath the flight deck. He next awakens Stanley, and introduces himself as Prince. Prince abducts Stanley and the still-frozen Xev and takes them to the desert planet of Fire. Left aboard the Lexx, Kai awakens, finds 790 and repairs it - but the robot head’s love slave programming reasserts itself and 790 now moons over Kai instead of Xev. Unable to pinpoint which planet Stan and Xev have been taken to, Kai mistakenly jumps through the atmosphere interface toward Water.

On Fire, Stanley is forced into slave labor under pain of death, while Prince awakens Xev and questions her about the Lexx, not having gotten what he wanted from Stan. When Xev reveals the Lexx’s destructive power, Prince finally understands what Stan was holding back - and decides that he wants both the Lexx and Xev.

Season 3 Regular Cast: Brian Downey (Stanley Tweedle), Michael McManus (Kai), Xenia Seeberg (Xev)

written by Paul Donovan and Lex Gigeroff
directed by Chris Bould
music by Marty Simon

Guest Cast: Nigel Bennett (Prince), Linda Busby (Chief Handler), Jon Loverin (Handler #2), Gary Levert (Lead Balloonist)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Xena and Gabrielle escape a storm, unleashed by the gods in an effort to kill Eve, in a cave. Joxer is waiting for them with three people who say they are Magi, with gifts for Xena’s baby. But the warrior recognizes one of the gifts as being sacred to the goddess Artemis. She and Gabrielle fight the “Magi.” During the fight, Joxer is cut on his arm. Xena recognizes that one of the swords belonged to a warrior from the temple of Apollo, which means there was poison on the blade. Xena sends Joxer and Gabrielle to find a certain tree to make an antidote.

written by Chris Manheim
directed by Mark Beesley
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Ted Raimi (Joxer), Kevin Smith (Ares), Natalie Duggan (Tira), Peter Sa’ena-Brown (Tazor), Matthew Dwyer (Orcas), Patrick Iwobi (Magi #1), Grant Boucher (Magi #2), Barbara Cartwright (Magi #3)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Stardate 53447.2: A visit to a civilized world provides a prime opportunity for shore leave. Seven and Tuvok plan to visit and study a nearby nebular phenomenon, while Janeway plans a similar away mission for some “relaxing” scientific discovery. But most of the crew is enthralled by the gladiatorial sport of Tsunkatse, in which two opponents vie for the prize - to be the only one left alive in the ring. Seven and Tuvok’s shuttle goes missing during their mission, and Chakotay and the others are horrified to find that their Borg crewmate is the next competitor in Tsunkatse. An attempt to beam Seven out of danger fails because she isn’t there - the fight is being broadcast from a remote location. Seven is being forced to do battle not only for her own life, but for Tuvok’s - and the savage competition may strip her of whatever humanity she has regained aboard Voyager unless her crew can rescue her.

teleplay by Robert Doherty
story by Gannon Kenney
directed by Mike Vejar
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Jeffrey Combs (Penk), J.G. Hertzler (Hirogen Hunter), The Rock (Champion)

Original title: Arena

LogBook entry by Earl Green

After Daniel makes a lengthy appeal to open diplomatic relations with the Tollan, they still refuse to trade technology with Earth. Incensed, O’Neill interrupts the negotiations and calls the talks off - if Earth’s new allies can offer no help in defending the planet, they’re not really allies. As SG-1 prepares to return to Earth, O’Neill takes a piece of Tollan technology without permission, specifically the device that neutralizes enemy weapons. General Hammond is outraged at the theft, and has O’Neill removed from active duty and examined for any evidence of alien mind control; to his dismay, Dr. Fraiser finds no such evidence. Faced with court-martial or retirement, O’Neill chooses retirement - and in very short order, he’s contacted by Colonel Maybourne, who claims to be working for an “offshoot” of NID. Maybourne wants O’Neill to command teams going through a stargate again, but this time O’Neill will be pilfering any alien tech that could help Earth, with no diplomatic overtures. O’Neill reluctantly agrees to go along, but one of his very first missions pits him squarely against his former SG-1 teammates.

story by Jonathan Glassner
directed by Martin Wood
music by Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Tom McBeath (Col. Harry Maybourne), Steve Makaj (Col. Makepeace), Marie Stillin (High Chancellor Travell), Christian Bocher (Neumann), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Linnea Sharples (Lt. Clare Tobias)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Convinced by Xev that he is vital to controlling the Lexx, Prince releases Stan and tries to persuade him to hand over the ship’s key - but even with Xev trying to convince him, Stan isn’t sold on the idea. On the planet Water, Kai plummets out of the sky, having jumped off the hull of the Lexx through the two worlds’ connected atmosphere, and lands at an oceanside city. Here he meets May, a lovely woman who seems to be the only survivor of a recent battle. A balloon from Fire arrives, and Kai quickly dispatches its crew after they try to kill him. With May, he pilots the balloon through the atmosphere to Fire to search for Xev. Once near Prince’s palace, May avails herself of an opportunity to assassinate Fire’s leader, earning an instant grudge from the smitten Xev. They escape Fire and return, via balloon, to the Lexx. But having escaped Prince and his demands to use Lexx to destroy Water, Stan is now asked by May to destroy Fire…and Xev is outraged when he seriously considers it.

written by Paul Donovan
directed by Chris Bould
music by Marty Simon

Guest Cast: Nigel Bennett (Prince), Anna Kathrin Bleuler (May)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Xena fights off a group of female warriors who attacked the guards on the road to Amphipolis. Her first thought is Ares, but after he appears she realizes that it was Athena who sent the warriors. When Xena and Gabrielle reach Amphipolis, the warrior tries to get her mother to leave, but she refuses. They gather the villagers to discuss the threat of Athena’s forces. The goddess appears and offers to leave the area - but only if Xena will give her Eve.

written by Chris Black
directed by Mark Beesley
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Paris Jefferson (Athena), Darian Takle (Cyrene), Kevin Smith (Ares), Musetta Vander (Ilainus), Ben Brown (Villager #2), Douglas Kamo (Border Guard), Crawford Thomson (Villager), Stuart Thorpe (Infantry Commander)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Stardate not given: The Delta Flyer is captured by a Borg cube, and there is no escape for Tom, Chakotay and Neelix. Harry, trying to make adjustments in one of the Flyer’s Jeffries tubes during the attack, is knocked out by an explosion and is left aboard. Voyager catches up with the cube quickly and disarms it with surprising ease. Seven of Nine beams aboard to find that only a handful of drones are running the cube - and all of these drones are no more than adolescents. Despite the skeleton crew aboard the Borg ship, the children take the three Voyager crew members hostage and demand repairs and supplies from Voyager in exchange for their safety. Harry awakens and makes covert contact with Voyager, and Janeway sends him on a mission to sabotage the cube and weaken the Borg children’s position. In the meantime, Seven of Nine attempts to reason with these recently disconnected drones the way that Janeway once reasoned with her.

written by Mark Gaberman & Andrew Shepard Price
directed by Allison Liddi
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Ryan Spahn (Boy One), Manu Intirayni (Icheb), Marley McClean (Mezoti), Kurt Wetherill (Azan), Cody Wetherill (Rebi)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

On a world previously unvisited by SG-1, a stargate is unearthed by indigenous archaeologists. When the gate opens and a MALP rolls through, they’re stunned; Daniel speaks to them via two-way radio built into the MALP unit, and asks if SG-1 can visit. But as soon as they’re through the gate, the team learns that there’s a war on between two fundamentally different belief systems - and the very presence of humans from another world will cause that war to heat up even more. O’Neill, Carter and Daniel are captured, while Teal’c goes into hiding to bide his time for a rescue attempt. A close encounter with one of the armed locals leaves the Jaffa blinded and all but defenseless. O’Neill and the others quickly learn the gravity of their situation: they will most likely be executed, the gate reburied, and the entire incident covered up, all to protect the belief system of one of the planet’s dominant nations. But when the archaeological dig uncovers the gate’s DHD, there’s also an opportunity for the “heretics” to escape.

written by Heather E. Ash
directed by Chris McMullin
music by Joel Goldsmith and Kevin Kiner

Guest Cast: Richard Ian Cox (Nyan), Daryl Shuttleworth (Rygar), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Desiree Zuroski (Parcy), Jennifer Copping (Mallin), Bill Nikolai (Technician), Finn Michael (Soldier)

LogBook entry by Earl Green