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Stardate not given: Voyager receives a signal from an alien claiming to be the late Ensign Lyndsay Ballard, a junior engineering crewmember who escaped the notice of Captain Janeway until she died tragically three years ago. Ensign Ballard did not, however, go ignored by Harry Kim, who attended Starfleet Academy with her and kept his crush on her secret until she died. Every means of verification proves that she is who she says she is, though she is not and will never be human - she has been transmuted into a member of the Kobali race, which reproduces by reanimating the dead of other species and implanting them with new personalities. Very rarely, a revived person will regain memories of his or her previous life, as in Lyndsay’s case. But now the creatures who brought her back to life want her to rejoin them - and they’re willing to destroy Voyager to persuade her to return.

teleplay by Robert Doherty
story by Ronald Wilkerson
directed by Terry Windell
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Kim Rhodes (Ensign Ballard), Marley McClean (Mezoti), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Kevin Lowe (Q’ret), Manu Intirayni (Icheb), Kurt Wetherill (Azan), Cody Wetherill (Rebi), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

On the planet designated P7X-277, an enormous pyramid - big enough to hold all of the pyramids in Egypt combined - is found. If its sheer size is staggering, what it contains is even more surprising - radiation that’s capable of slowing neutrinos, and, on a pedestal in the pyramid’s center, what appears to be a human skull made of crystal. More surprisingly, it’s identical to one that Daniel’s grandfather, archaeologist Nick Ballard, found in Belize. Ballard claimed at the time that the skull teleported him to another world where he was greeted by gigantic aliens, but that claim destroyed his career and left him institutionalized. When Daniel looks into the eyes of the skull, just as Ballard did, the radiation level spikes and energy begins to glow throughout the cavern. Teal’c fires his zat gun at the skull, but in that moment, Daniel seems to disappear. Daniel manages to return to Earth through the stargate, but no one can see or hear him. Desperate for clues about Daniel’s whereabouts, his teammates turn to the one other person who has gazed into the eyes of the crystal skull…even though, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, that man is insane.

story by Michael Greenburg & Jarrad Paul
teleplay by Brad Wright
directed by Brad Turner
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Jan Rubes (Nick Ballard), Teryl Rothery (Dr. Fraiser), Jason Schombing (Rothman), Dan Shea (Sgt. Siler), Russell Roberts (Psychiatrist), Jacquie Janzen (Nurse), Daniel Bacon (Technician), Tracy Westerholm (Surveillance SF), Christopher Judge (voice of Quetlzelcoatl)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Trapped on Fire without a moth, Xev, Stan and Kai must hitch a ride aboard a hot air balloon with Fifi, Duke and Bunny, who are also trapped without transport. Quickly realizing that the balloon’s gondola is too heavy to sustain flight, Kai throws himself overboard to make the journey on foot, since he cannot be injured. But there are still too many passengers for the balloon to make it to its destination, an unlike Kai, whoever disembarks next probably won’t survive.

written by Paul Donovan
directed by Bill Fleming
music by Marty Simon

Guest Cast: Patricia Zentilli (Bunny), Jeff Pustil (Fifi), Ralph Brown (Duke)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: The de-assimilated Borg children are settling into their life aboard Voyager, even participating in the ship’s science fair. Icheb comes up with a particularly promising device capable of dectecting and predicting wormholes - something which could be put to immediate use on Voyager’s journey back to the Alpha Quadrant. Captain Janeway has some other good news for Icheb - she has located his parents among the survivors of a race which has been ravaged by frequent visits from the Borg, and has set a course to take the boy home. Seven of Nine joins Icheb in resisting Janeway’s plan to return him to his home, especially when he and the last of his people could be assimilated or killed in the next Borg attack. But what Janeway doesn’t even consider for a moment is that Icheb’s own people could pose a deadlier risk to him than even the Borg…

teleplay by Raf Green
story by Paul Brown
directed by Mike Vejar
music by

Guest Cast: Manu Intirayni (Icheb), Tracey Ellis (Icheb’s mother), Mark A. Sheppard (Icheb’s father), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Marley McClean (Mezoti), Kurt Wetherill (Azan), Cody Wetherill (Rebi), Eric Ritter (Yivel)

Notes: Yes, that’s Mark Allen Sheppard - the man who sweated away in anonymity inside the mask of Morn for seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine!

LogBook entry by Earl Green

An appendectomy puts Daniel out of action, and sidelines the rest of SG-1 temporarily. As he sets about completely failing to interest his teammates in a fishing trip, O’Neill suddenly finds himself transported aboard an Asgard ship orbiting Earth. But instead of finding himself among the Asgard themselves, O’Neill is surrounded by large mechanical insects. When he finally finds Thor, the Asgard is on the brink of death, and directs O’Neill to watch a recorded message explaining that the mechanical creatures, discovered by the Asgard in another galaxy and known as replicators, infested the ship, learned of Earth from its navigational charts, and have come to take over the planet for themselves. The Asgard consider the replicators to be a far greater threat than the Goa’uld. Thor is too weak to help, however, and it’s up to O’Neill and SG-1 to figure out if the replicators can be destroyed before they reach Earth.

written by Robert C. Cooper
directed by Martin Wood
music by Joel Goldsmith

Guest Cast: Colin Cunningham (Major Davis), Gary Jones (Sgt. Walter Harriman), Guyle Lee-Fraizer (Technician #2)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

In the dank passages of K-Town, Xev and Stan discover that this universe may have duplicates of beings from the Dark Zone - in this case Mantrid, the mad bio-vizier whose attempt to control the Dark Zone resulted in its destruction. But this Mantrid has no idea who Stan and Xev are, or what his dark universe counterpart was like - until an injured Kai makes his way toward his crewmates and needs Mantrid’s expertise in order to survive.

written by Paul Donovan and Lex Gigeroff
directed by Robert Sigl
music by Marty Simon

Guest Cast: Dieter Laser (Mantrid), Nigel Bennett (Prince), Sandra Leonhard (Tish), Urs Remond (Tish’s weird friend), Hans Bruckner (Tish’s weird friend)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Xena and Gabrielle travel to the village of the northern Amazons so that Gabrielle can give Eve her right of caste. When they arrive, they learn that Yakut and Amarice were killed when Samite nomads raided the village. Gabrielle decides that they should still have the right of caste ceremony, but since Xena isn’t an Amazon she isn’t allowed to take part. While the others are busy with the ceremony, Yakut appears to Xena. She says her mission in life wasn’t completed and asks Xena to stop the Amazons from seeking revenge.

teleplay by R.J. Stewart and George Strayton and Tom O’Neill
story by Robert Tapert and R.J. Stewart
directed by Paul Grinder
Amazon High sequences directed by Michael Hurst
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Danielle Cormack (Samsara), Kate Elliot (Yakut), Claudia Black (Karina), Shelley Edwards (Cyane), Selma Blair (Utma/Cyane), Karl Urban (Kor), Monica Mcswain (Olan), Morgan Reese Fairhead (Eris)

Notes: Some sequences in this episode were filmed by Michael “Iolaus” Hurst for the pilot episode of an aborted Young Hercules-style Xena spinoff called Amazon High. The series never made it beyond the pilot, and so the footage was reused here.

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Stardate 53753.2: A crew performance review turns up three junior crewmembers who have never seen away duty in their short Starfleet careers. Billy Telfer, a hypochondriac, spends far too much of his time in sick bay seeking help for imaginary afflictions. Bajoran Tal Celes doubts her own ability to do anything right at all, and is Telfer’s only close friend. Mortimer Harren, who works alone on the ship’s lowest deck, spends all of his days postulating new cosmological models of the universe - and no time at all socializing with anyone. Janeway decides to personally lead this mismatched trio of crewmembers on a routine exploratory mission…but when the mission turns out to be anything but routine, and Voyager is too far away to help, the captain is forced to rely on a very unpredictable and untried crew.

teleplay by Dianna Gitto & Joe Menosky
story by Dianna Gitto
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Jay Underwood (Harren), Michael Reisz (Telfer), Zoe McClellan (Tal), Kimble Jemison (Crewman), Tom Morello (Junction operator), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

The remaining crew aboard Moya has all but given Aeryn, Crichton and D’Argo up for dead. However, thanks to a deal with Crais, Aeryn has managed to smuggle her two shipmates into an abandoned industrial facility inside a minefield. Crichton and a still-recovering D’Argo try to figure out how to escape Scorpius’s continuing search - and why Aeryn seems to be hiding something. Crais is determined to establish control over Talyn, and he’ll deal with anyone he thinks can help him - including Scorpius. But Moya isn’t quite ready to give up on her offspring yet . . .

Season 2 Regular Cast: Ben Browder (Commander John Crichton), Claudia Black (Officer Aeryn Sun), Virginia Hey (Pa’u Zotoh Zhaan), Anthony Simcoe (Ka’a D’Argo), Gigi Edgley (Chiana)

written by Richard Manning
directed by Andrew Prowse
music by Subvision

Guest Cast: Lani John Tupu (Capt. Crais), Wayne Pygram (Scorpius), David Franklin (Braca)

Notes: This episode was originally intended as the second episode of season two, but became the season premiere when the original premiere, Re: Union, was held back and transformed into Dream A Little Dream.

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

Dumped off of the edge of K-Town, Kai still hasn’t fully recovered, and is helpless to prevent his own capture by the denizens of another town. Still in K-Town, however, Stan and Xev have another problem - Prince has apparently been fully reincarnated. He offers to help them rescue Kai, but naturally his price is still the destruction of the planet Water. In the meantime, Kai is taken to a town where, upon admitting that he is an assassin, he is put in trial. He even agrees to be subject to the harshest punishment his judges have to offer - namely, to be thrown off the edge of this town’s tower. Xev and Stan, however, have become separated and may not survive the treacherous journey by subterranean tunnel from K-Town.

written by Paul Donovan and Lex Gigeroff
directed by Bruce McDonald
music by Marty Simon

Guest Cast: Nigel Bennett (Prince), Lex Gigeroff (Dr. Rainbow)

LogBook entry by Earl Green