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Over dinner with an alien trader, the Enterprise crew learns of the site of a crashed starship on a nearby planet, but the trader seems spooked by what he saw when he went there. Archer, however, insists that the trader’s tale of a haunted spaceship isn’t enough to scare him off, especially when the Enterprise could use a few repairs using parts from the crash site. What he finds there, however, is what seems to be the ship’s entire crew, all in good health. Trip is particularly taken with Liana, the daughter of the ship’s engineer, though the others from her ship seem nervous about her spending so much time with him. Archer is concerned when some of the ship’s logs about the crash are irreconcilable with the physical evidence - particularly when a member of the crashed ship’s crew, who’s still very much alive on the ship, turns up long dead in an escape pod.

telelplay by Stephen Beck
story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga & Stephen Beck
directed by Jim Charleston
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Rene Auberjonois (Ezral), Annie Wersching (Liana), Tom Bergeron (D’Marr), Rudolph Willrich (Kuulan), Claudette Sutherland (Maya)

Notes: The casting department’s tribute to Trek series past continues with this episode’s inclusion of Rene Auberjonois, who - after a slightly inauspicious start in the Trek universe (his scenes as a Starfleet turncoat in 1991’s Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country were cut from the theatrical print but restored for home video) - played Odo for all seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Auberjonois reportedly told Scott Bakula during filming that he had already shot this episode (probably meaning the similar plotline of the DS9 episode Shadowplay).

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Having decided to try and board Scorpius’ command carrier to sabotage his wormhole experiments, D’Argo and Rygel arrange a meeting with Scorpius and Braca at a diner on an out of the way planet to negotiate terms. Scorpius demonstrates the means by which the two sides can enforce their agreement - neural bracelets that ensure that whatever one wearer feels, the other experiences as well, up to and including death. He demonstrates the bracelets on Braca and D’Argo - which is unfortunate, because two robbers bust into the diner and, in the process of shooting up the place, hit Braca in the leg. With Braca and D’Argo both out of commission, Rygel and Scorpius must find a way out of their predicament. Talyn, meanwhile, is acting more and more out of control, inadvertently firing on a hospital ship. Crais realizes the only thing that can be done is to disable Talyn’s higher functions and remove his weaponry - but first he must convince both Moya and Talyn of the virtues of his plan.

written by Matt Ford
directed by Peter Andrikidis
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh (Jool), David Franklin (Lt. Braca), Ben Mendelsohn (Sko), Anthony Hayes (Wa), Inge Hornstra (Essk), Salvatore Coco (Voodi), Thomas Holesgrove (Naj Gil)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

On the trail of another of Simon’s contacts, a man named Holcombe who may know whether or not the Big Death will be making a return appearance, Jeremiah and Kurdy stop to assist a wanderer whose pregnant wife has fallen ill. In the town of Slag Harbor, they catch word of a traveling doctor who may be able to help. Jeremiah is dismayed to find that this “doctor” is actually no more than the son of a doctor who still has his dead father’s medicine bag, but he’s still the only hope of those who need medical attention. But as if the would-be doctor isn’t perpetuating enough of a myth about himself, his street-savvy older brother is milking that talent for whatever people are willing to trade. When thugs beat up both brothers and steal the medicine bag, Jeremiah has to convince a man who may be the last doctor in the world that what he needs to practice isn’t a bag full of 15-year-old pills, but his compassion…and all he needs to do is step out of his older brother’s shadow.

written by Sam Egan
directed by Michael Robison
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Jake Busey (Jake), Christian Campbell (Reese), Ryan Robbins (William Steuber), Erin Karpluk (Sadie Holcomb), Shannon Jardine (Paula Steuber), Holly Ferguson (Mother), Bryce Hodgson (Tanner), Devin Douglas Drewitz (young Jeremiah), Casey Beddow (Farmer), Ryan Drescher (Michael), Mike Dopud (Harlow), Nelson Leis (Jimmy Holcomb)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Crichton and company board the command carrier. While Crichton quickly goes to work in the lab - after asserting his status as equal partner - the others set about ensuring Scorpius meets the rest of their demands. D’Argo wants the rings implanted in his body removed and the location of the Peacekeeper who killed his wife. Rygel wants an update on the Hynerian political situation. Crais wants Talyn brought on board so he can be repaired. This demand raises eyebrows, but Scorpius agrees, and assigns one of his lieutenants to work with Crais - a former lover who has agreed to spy on the disgraced commander. Aeryn realizes how unlike the Peacekeepers she has become, while the carrier’s crew is less than happy with having to coexist with the former prisoners. When one of them attacks D’Argo, he, Jool, Chian and Rygel choose to return to Moya. Their safety is short-lived, however. Another group of Peacekeepers surprise Moya, immobilize her, and bring her back to the carrier. Commandant Grayza informs Scorpius that the Peacekeepers are no longer interested in Scorpius’ apparently-fruitless project. Instead, they have begun building an alliance and even opening talks with the Scarrans. And the last thing they want is for the Peacekeepers to continue to be made fools of by a band of renegades with a growing reputation. Scorpius throws Grayza off his ship, but it’s only a matter of time before she returns and puts a permanent end to Scorpius’ career. He needs results, now. Confronted with the threat of the Scarrans, Crichton is even beginning to reconsider whether he should truly help Scorpius. And if that’s not enough incentive, Scorpius has more: he’s found Earth. It’s 60 cycles away by conventional means, but if Crichton won’t help him, then Scorpius will take revenge by destroying Crichton’s homeworld.

written by Richard Manning
directed by Ian Watson
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh (Jool), David Franklin (Lt. Braca), Rebecca Riggs (Commandant Mele-On Grayza), Danny Adcock (Co-Kura Strappa), Sean Taylor (Lt. Reljik), Lenore Smith (Lt. Darinta Larell), Marta Dusseldorp (Officer Yal Henta), Lewis Fitz-Gerald (Tosko), Mark Mercedes (Officer Vonk)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

Jeremiah and Kurdy rescue a girl from a gang of rapists, and Kurdy is horrified when Jeremiah seems insistent on gassing the thugs to death with the land rover’s exhaust. During the fight, Kurdy cuts one of his hands, and with that wound comes a trickle of memories of his childhood - his home, his mother, and some sort of struggle between his parents - the only memory he has of that time of his life. They bring the girl back to Thunder Mountain, where Erin tries to help her recover from his ordeal, and Kurdy embarks on one of his own. His next assignment is to ride shotgun with Jeremiah to the lab where the late Jimmy Holcomb received an experimental (and ultimately fatal) vaccine against the return of the Big Death - a lab within a short drive of Kurdy’s childhood home. Jeremiah, tired of Kurdy’s recent preoccupation with the past, drops Kurdy off there and goes off to the lab by himself, and is greeted at gunpoint. Kurdy, in the meantime, meets the one person left in the world who could possibly know what happened to his parents - and discovers that it was not the Big Death that killed them, but two bullets.

written by Sam Egan
directed by James Head
music by Graeme Coleman

Guest Cast: Peter Stebbings (Alexander), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Kandyse McClure (Elizabeth), Suzy Joachim (Megan), Karen Malina White (Ricki), Katelyn Wallace (Lydia), Michael Adamthwaite (Skinhead), Jodie Graham (Skinhead), Dominika Wolski (Chloe), Brenda M. Crichlow (Kurdy’s Mother), Malik McCall (Kurdy’s Father), Robert Moloney (Farralon), Chaynade Knowles (young Ricki), Kayden Porbeni (young Kurdy)

Appearing in footage from The Bag: Devin Douglas Drewitz (young Jeremiah), Casey Beddow (Farmer), Ryan Drescher (Michael)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Crichton’s getting closer than ever to unlocking wormholes, but Scorpius’ threats against Earth have just increased his resolve to destroy the project. He meets with the others out of eavesdropping range to settle on a new plan: they’ll destroy the carrier itself, in such a way that the crew will have a chance to escape. Before they can get too far in their plan, however, Crais betrays them. All but Aeryn and Crichton are imprisoned, and Scorpius demands that Crichton work harder or they will face the consequences. Crais and Aeryn manage to get Crichton away long enough to tell him the truth - Crais’ betrayal was a ruse, to get into Scorpius’ confidence and get access to Talyn. There, Crais plans to initiate Starburst within the carrier - a process that will destroy them both, but set off a chain reaction that will destroy the carrier as well. Crichton takes Scorpius aboard his module and into a wormhole to buy Crais time. With Aeryn’s help, he succeeds in his plan. As the carrier destructs around them, Moya’s crew must find their way to safety while Crichton seeks to eliminate the last vestiges of the wormhole project once and for all.

written by Rockne S. O’Bannon
directed by Rowan Woods
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh (Jool), David Franklin (Lieutenant Braca), Danny Adcock (Co-Kura Strappa), Lenore Smith (Lieutenant Darinta Larell), Marta Dusseldorp (Officer Yal Henta), Sheridan Rynne (Brenna), Terrence Hepburn (Armak)

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer

Jeremiah and Kurdy investigate what seems like an unlikely tale involving biohazard-suited figures kidnapping people and performing biological tests on them. They’re stunned to find that it’s true - and even more surprised when they’re able to capture one of the suited men, but even the quickest glance through the visor of the biosuit reveals that this may be the oldest human being that anyone’s seen in a long time. They take him back to Thunder Mountain, where he awakens - and makes it plainly obvious that he knows Marcus on a first-name basis. The man turns out to be Major Quantrell, formerly one of Thunder Mountain’s top brass during the outbreak of the Big Death. Quantrell has many things to reveal - he is now based at the elusive Valhalla Sector, he’s not the only human being to have topped 40 years old, and if his young captors don’t let him go, his people will come looking for him and they’ll come well-armed. It soon becomes obvious that Quantrell and his allies intend to take control of what’s left of the world and rule by force…and anyone choosing to oppose him will need to be up for one hell of a fight.

written by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Peter DeLuise
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Michael Rooker (Quantrell), Peter Stebbings (Marcus Alexander), Ingrid Kavelaars (Erin), Byron Lawson (Lee Chen), Suzy Joachim (Megan), John Ralston (Dr. Alexander), Leah Graham (Woman), Alex Zahara (Ezekiel), Rodrigues Williams (Man), Michael Kopsa (Colonel), J.M. Landry (Aide), Charles Payne (Aide), Ray Galletti (Clese), Awaovieyi Agie (Rich), Andrew Francis (young Marcus), Carin Moffat (Jean), Chris Robson (Reporter), Nigel Johnson (Guard)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Captain Archer and Ensign Mayweather are guests - not by their own choice - of the Tandarans, a race whose military zone they unwittingly violated while exploring in a shuttlepod. They quickly discover that they’re the only human prisoners in a Tandaran detention center otherwise populated by the Tandaran guards and a host of genetically unaltered Suliban captives, including women and children. Colonel Grat, the commandant of the detention center, seems cordial enough at first, promising that Archer and Mayweather will be freed soon, it seems that no such amnesty is in store for the Suliban. When Archer questions Grat’s treatment of the Suliban - who turn out to be innocent civilians and not members of the Suliban Cabal - Grat extends the Enterprise crewmen’s stay and begins to interrogate the captain about his own Suliban encounters all the way back to Broken Bow and Silik’s infiltration of the Enterprise during a later mission. Despite Archer’s claims of being an innocent bystander, nothing will quell Grat’s suspicions - or his willingness to hold the prisoners indefinitely.

teleplay by Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong
story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Dean Stockwell (Colonel Grat), Christopher Shea (Sajen), Jessica D. Stone (Narra), Dennis Christopher (Danik), David Kagen (Major Klev), Wilda Taylor (Woman)

Notes: Dean Stockwell was Scott Bakula’s co-star in every episode of Bakula’s previous hit series, Quantum Leap.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Bandits carjack Jeremiah and Kurdy, leaving them on foot. The nearest sign of civilization they can find is an abandoned amusement park where a handful of families have taken up residence. The travelers find they’re not welcome there either - children have been disappearing at an alarming rate. When Jeremiah sees that the bandits have been through this area, using the equipment stolen in the land rover as trade bait, he offers to stay and help guard the children until the bandits return. The remaining children at the park regard Jeremiah as the stuff of legend - an avenging angel who has come to protect them from vampires. When more children disappear, their families come to the conclusion that Jeremiah and Kurdy are responsible.

written by Sam Egan
directed by James Head
music by Tim Truman

Guest Cast: Vincent Gale (Cord Geary), Tobias Mehler (Jack), Pablo Santos (Magyar), Shawn Macdonald (Fipps), Wendy Russell (Treva), Yvonne Myers (Helen), Sharon Alexander (Chapelle), Berend McKenzie (Medicine Joe), Aleks Paunovic (Stomp), Talia Ranger (Maia), Reece Thompson (Tommy Geary), Nickol Tschenscher (Beth Geary), J.R. Messado (J.J.)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Having destroyed Scorpius’ carrier, Moya’s crew has a final task: Moya wants to deposit Talyn’s remains in a sacred Leviathan burial ground. A rogue Leviathan, grieving over the death of her own offspring, refuses to allow Moya entry, going so far as to ram the ship. Pilot learns that this rogue has destroyed other Leviathans as well, which leads Moya, Pilot and D’Argo to one conclusion: the rogue must be destroyed. Crichton has trouble getting his head into the game; wormhole information is still spilling out of his subconscious, and he can’t stop daydreaming about the possibility of life on Earth with his friends - daydreams that never turn out well. Further confusing matters is the presence of an odd old woman, a refugee from the command carrier, who keeps offering her services without being very clear about how she can help. The crew works together a final time to repair Moya and destroy the rogue. With their work complete, they begin to say their goodbyes. Crichton tries one more time to convince Aeryn to stay, but the still-grieving ex-Peacekeeper simply isn’t ready for that. As a morose Crichton floats in his module outside Moya, Harvey unlocks one more piece of information in his subconscious - one which makes it even harder for Crichton to let Aeryn go. But it may be too late for him to go anywhere at all.

written by David Kemper
directed by Andrew Prowse
music by Guy Gross

Guest Cast: Tammy MacIntosh (Jool), Kent McCord (Jack Crichton), Melissa Jaffer (Old Woman)

Notes: The Old Woman, whose arrival on Moya happens off-screen after the events of Into The Lion’s Den, continued as a recurring character in season 4, where her name was revealed as Noranti. Jaffer also played the old Nilaam in the season 2 episode Vitas Mortis

LogBook entry by Dave Thomer