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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

Julius Caesar has escaped from the underworld and chained the Fates. Thinking it unfair that he ended up in Tartarus and Xena continues to live on with Gabrielle, he has decided to change a past mistake he made with the warrior. The Fates try to talk him out of it, but he’s determined and cuts her life thread just where he wants it and reinserts it back into the loom.

In this new reality, Caesar is Emperor of Rome and discussing matters with an aide when Brutus appears. He tells Caesar that Lao Ma has sent emissaries with a treaty. As they turn to enter the palace to greet the emissaries, a lone warrior on horseback arrives at the gate. The warrior easily disables the guard and shoots arrows toward Caesar and Brutus - and reveals herself to be Xena.

written by Kathrine Fugate
directed by John Fawcett
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Karl Urban (Julius Caesar), David Franklin (Brutus), Claire Stansfield (Alti), Ted Raimi (Joxer), Elizabeth Pendegrast (Atropos), Leah Mizrahi (Clotho), Chloe Jordan (Lachesis), Adrian Kwan (Emissary #1), David Tomison Passmore (Male Actor), Debbie Newby (Female Actor)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

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

Xena and Gabrielle are on a mission to deliver the helmet of Hermes to Thebes, when they come across zealots about to sacrifice a young woman. They fight the zealots, but unfortunately the rope that is linked to the chute the woman is laying on has come free from the base. She is sent over the cliff to the sea below. Xena leaps over the cliff after her, and using the helmet, she catches the girl and flies her to safety. The young woman believes that a god has just saved her and thanks Xena. When the warrior explains that she isn’t a god, the girl is angry that Xena ruined her sacrifice. The warrior and the bard are surprised by her reaction. Gabrielle thinks that maybe the way to get through to Genia is to introduce her to Aphrodite.

written by Liz Friedman and Vanessa Place
directed by Mark Beesley
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Alexandra Tydings (Aphrodite), Katie Stuart (Genia), Hori Ahipene (Ferragus), Taungaroa Emile (Frankus), Lathan Gaines (Zarat), Ross Duncan (Lagot)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

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

Stardate not given: Voyager’s sensors detect a possible high concentration of wormholes inside a dense nebula, and Captain Janeway decides to investigate. A near-collision with a Borg cube - obscured from sensors by the nebula’s gases - changes her mind quickly, and Voyager retreats. A temporal rift forms near the ship, and a Starfleet shuttlecraft with armaments decades ahead of Voyager’s own emerges, piloted by a woman who claims to be Janeway from sixteen years in the future. The elder Janeway outlines a daring plan to get the ship home ahead of schedule, using the weapons and armor technology of her shuttle to hold the Borg at bay. Voyager returns to the nebula, where the crew finds one of the Collective’s huge transwarp stations, a nexus point of conduits that lead to every quadrant of the galaxy. Even though there’s a high likelihood that one of those transwarp conduits could take Voyager back home, Captain Janeway orders a retreat over her older self’s protests. The captain sees this as an opportunity to deny the Borg the means to launch future attacks on the Alpha Quadrant - which could leave Voyager stranded in the Delta Quadrant for years to come.

Stardate not given: On the ten-year anniversary of the starship Voyager’s return to Earth, Admiral Kathryn Janeway looks back bitterly at the tragic costs of the 23-year journey - the death of Seven of Nine, and the effect that death had upon the former Borg’s husband, Commander Chakotay. A reunion of the surviving crew does little to lift the Admiral’s spirits; the Doctor has married, Tom and B’Elanna’s daughter is now a Starfleet officer, Harry Kim is now the captain of the U.S.S. Rhode Island, and Tuvok languishes in a mental institution, his mind wasted away by a neurological condition that could have been corrected had Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant sooner. Admiral Janeway decides to make a risky trip back in time to change history and speed her crew home.

teleplay by Kenneth Biller & Robert Doherty
story by Rick Berman, Kenneth Biller & Brannon Braga
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Dwight Schultz (Barclay), Richard Herd (Admiral Paris), Alice Krige (Borg Queen), Vaughn Armstrong (Korath), Manu Intiraymi (Icheb), Lisa Locicero (Miral Paris), Miguel Perez (Physician), Grant Garrison (Cadet), Ashley Sierra Hughes (Sabrina), Matthew James Williamson (Klingon), Richard Sarstedt (Starfleet Admiral), Joey Sakata (Engineering Officer), Iris Bahr (Female Cadet)

LogBook entry by Earl Green