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Season 02 Star Trek Voyager

Elogium

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 48921.3: A strange energy disturbance detected by the crew turns out to be a swarm of space-dwelling life forms whose electrophoretic emissions cause sudden hormonal maturation in Kes. She spontaneously enters the Elogium in preparation to have a child, which she desperately wants. Neelix is troubled by the thought of becoming a father and seeks the advice of Tuvok. Kes’ condition causes Janeway to wonder about the implications of raising families aboard Voyager, but the crew’s immediate concern is the dominant member of the swarm, which views the ship as a rival for mates.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Kenneth Biller and Jeri Taylor
story by Jimmy Diggs and Steve J. Kay
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Dennis McCarthy

Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (B’Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Nancy Hower (Ensign Wilder), Gary O’Brien (Crewmember), Terry Correll (N.D. Crewmember)

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Season 02 Star Trek Voyager

Non-Sequitur

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 49011.0: Harry Kim wakes up in San Francisco where he finds himself in bed with his fiancee. He is a bright young Starfleet engineer, and his friend Ensign Danny Byrd got his slot on the Voyager which disappeared several months before, yet the last thing Harry remembers is piloting one of Voyager’s shuttles in the Delta Quadrant. His efforts to make sense of the situation make his superiors suspect that Harry is a Maquis spy. He discovers that he is in an alternate timeline and finds allies in strange places as he tries to return to his own reality.

Order the DVDswritten by Brannon Braga
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway

Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (B’Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Louis Giambalvo (Cosimo), Jennifer Gatti (Libby), Jack Shearer (Admiral Strickler), Mark Kiely (Lt. Lasca), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

Notes: Jennifer Gatti had previously appeared as Worf’s love interest in the Next Generation two-parter Birthright.

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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

The Way Of The Warrior

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate 49011.4: As the crew of Deep Space 9 try to prepare for a possible invasion by the Dominion, a fleet of Klingon ships decloak and take “shore leave” on the station. The Cardassians have sealed their borders after a rumored coup on their homeworld, and Klingon ships are stopping ships leaving Bajoran space to search them for Changelings. To get answers, Sisko calls on the aid of Lt. Commander Worf, who has been among the Klingon clerics on Boreth following the Enterprise’s destruction, and is considering resigning Starfleet. Worf learns that the Klingons plan to invade Cardassia on the suspicion that the new civilian government is run by the Founders. Sisko uses Garak to warn the Cardassians, and Gul Dukat manages to save the Detepa Council as the Klingon fleet advances. But the Defiant is needed to get them to safety – and its aid will have far-reaching consequences for the Federation and the Klingon Empire.

Season 4 Regular Cast: Avery Brooks (Captain Sisko), Michael Dorn (Lt. Commander Worf), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Terry Farrell (Lt. Commander Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O’Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir), Nana Visitor (Major Kira)

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
directed by James L. Conway
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Andrew Robinson (Garak), Penny Johnson (Kasidy Yates), Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat), Deep Space NineRobert O’Reilly (Gowron), J.G. Hertzler (General Martok), Obi Ndefo (Drex), Christopher Darga (Kaybok), William Dennis Hunt (Huraga), Patricia Tallman (Weapons Officer), Judi Durand (Station Computer Voice)

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Season 02 Star Trek Voyager

Twisted

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: On Holodeck 2, Kes’ second birthday party is interrupted by the news of a spatial distortion. As the crew scatters to their duty stations, they discover that something has affected the inside of the ship and the corridors seem to be shifting. It becomes impossible to reliably get anywhere by standard means. Captain Janeway makes physical contact with the anomaly and is rendered unconscious, leaving Chokotay in command as an implosion ring continues to crush the ship. After exhausting all other courses of action, the crew is left with the most unlikely option of all.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Kenneth Biller
story by Arnold Rudnick and Rich Hosek
directed by Kim Friedman
music by Jay Chattaway

Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (B’Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Judy Geeson (Sandrine), Larry Hankin (Gaunt Gary), Tom Virtue (Baxter), Terry Correll (Crewman)

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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

The Visitor

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: It’s several decades in the future. Jake Sisko is an old man, living in his grandfather’s house on the Louisiana bayou. On a rainy night, a visitor arrives – a young woman who aspires to be a writer. Jake tells her the story of why he hasn’t written in years. Long ago, he was on a trip with his father in the Defiant when an accident in the engine room caused his father to disappear before his eyes. Yet when Ben Sisko began appearing to him in the flesh, for a few minutes at a time, with years between appearances, it became clear that he was not dead, but trapped in subspace. Jake went on with his life, married, became a famous writer – but was forever haunted by his father’s disappearance, and became obsessed with rescuing him. Now, Jake has finally found a solution…but what will it cost him?

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Michael Taylor
directed by David Livingston
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Tony Todd (Jake Sisko), Galyn Gorg (Korena), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Rachel Robinson (Melanie)

Notes: Rachel Robinson is the daughter of Andrew J. Robinson, who frequently guest stars as Garak and has directed numerous Star Trek episodes.

LogBook entry by Tracy Hemenover with notes by Earl Green

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Season 02 Star Trek Voyager

Parturition

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: As Tom Paris admits he’s falling in love with Kes, Neelix’s jealousy starts to get the better of him. But with the ship’s food reserves down to 30% of capacity, the feuding pair are dispatched to an inhospitable planet in hopes of procuring more food. But atmospheric storms disable their shuttle, causing them to crash-land on “Planet Hell” and cutting them off from Voyager. Trying to survive, they come upon some hatching eggs and are faced with two additional dilemmas – helping the newborn to survive and dealing with its returning mother.

Order the DVDswritten by Tom Szollosi
directed by Jonathan Frakes
music by Dennis McCarthy

Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (B’Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

Hippocratic Oath

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate 49066.5: Bashir and O’Brien, in the runabout Rubicon, are on their way home to the station after a routine biosurvey in the Gamma Quadrant when O’Brien detects a subspace magneton pulse which could indicate a ship in trouble. They track it to a planet thought to be uninhabited, where the runabout hits a plasma field and is forced to crash-land. The two are captured by a group of Jem’Hadar. But these Jem’Hadar are different – their leader, Goran’Agar, is actually free of their race’s genetic addiction to the enzyme known as Ketracel-white, and has brought the others here in hopes of freeing them as well from the “white” and the Dominion. Goran’Agar forces Bashir to work on a cure for the addiction, while O’Brien tries to convince the doctor to escape with him. Meanwhile, on the station, Worf finds he has a lot to learn about the way things are done in his new home, as he clashes with Odo over a smuggling investigation.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Lisa Klink
story by Nick Corea and Lisa Klink
directed by Rene Auberjonois
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Scott MacDonald (Goran’Agar), Stephen Davies (Arak’Taral), Jerry Roberts (Meso’Clan), Marshall Teague (Temo’Zuma), Roderick Garr (Shady Alien), Michael H. Bailous (Jem’Hadar #1)

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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

Indiscretion

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: A smuggler friend of Kira’s contacts her with news that some wreckage has been found which may be the remnants of a ship that was carrying Bajoran prisoners and a Cardassian crew – a ship that was lost during the occupation, and that was carrying another friend of Kira’s. Kira is about to go and investigate when the trip is postponed slightly so that someone can join her: Gul Dukat. On the mission, Dukat reveals that he too has someone he is concerned about on the ship, a Bajoran woman with whom he had an affair. Kira learns also that Dukat’s half-Bajoran daughter was also on the ship, and that Dukat’s personal mission is to find her and kill her. Meanwhile, Kasidy Yates is not pleased by Sisko’s reaction to her news that she may be taking a job that will let her stay on the station.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Nicholas Corea
story by Toni Marberry & Jack Trevino
directed by LeVar Burton
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat), Penny Johnson (Kasidy Yates), Roy Brocksmith (Razka), Cyia Batten (Ziyal), Thomas Prisco (Heler)

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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

Rejoined

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate 49195.5: A Trill science team arrives on Deep Space 9 to conduct field tests on experimental techniques for creating artificial wormholes. The leader of the team is Dr. Lenara Kahn, a joined Trill whose symbiont was once borne by the wife of one of Dax’s former hosts, Torias. Trill society has a strict taboo against “reassociation” with past lovers, for which the penalty is exile – meaning that both symbionts will die with their current hosts. Therefore Dax and Lenara must be careful about interacting…but despite their best efforts they find themselves reawakening old emotional ties. What will Dax risk in order to be with her former love?

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Ronald D. Moore & Renè Echavarria
story by Renè Echavarria
directed by Avery Brooks
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Susanna Thompson (Dr. Lenara Kahn), Tim Ryan (Bejal Kahn), James Deep Space NineNoah (Pren), Kenneth Marshall (Eddington)

Notes: Susanna Thompson would later win a recurring role in Star Trek: Voyager; for much of that show’s last four seasons, she appeared numerous times as the Borg Queen, a role originated by Alice Krige in Star Trek: First Contact.

LogBook entry by Tracy Hemenover with notes by Earl Green

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Season 02 Star Trek Voyager

Persistence of Vision

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Although Voyager is about to enter Bothan space, the Doctor orders Janeway to relax with her holo-novel to help her deal with the stress of command. But the stress is magnified when she begins to see items and characters from the holonovel outside the holodeck. Neelix reports that not much is known about the Botha except that they are extremely territorial and that many ships have disappeared without a trace in their area of space. When the Botha rendezvous with Voyager, they launch an unprovoked attack. As they maneuver to resist the attack, Voyager’s crew are overcome by hallucinations which disable everyone on the ship except the Doctor and Kes, whose nascent telepathic powers enable her to resist the hallucinations. The fate of the crew hinges on their ability to find a way to repel the psychic attack.

Order the DVDswritten by Jeri Taylor
directed by James L. Conway
music by David Bell

Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (B’Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Michael Cumpsty (Lord Burleigh), Carolyn Seymour (Mrs. Templeton), Stan Ivar (Mark), Warren Munson (Admiral Paris), Lindsey Haun (Beatrice), Thomas Alexander Dekker (Henry), Patrick Karr (Bothan), Marva Hicks (T’Pel)

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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

Little Green Men

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: As Nog prepares to leave at last for Starfleet Academy, Quark receives a long-awaited payment from his cousin Gaila (the one with the moon): a shuttle of his very own. He offers to take Nog to Earth in it, with Rom piloting – but of course Quark has ulterior motives: smuggling illegal kemosite to Orion on the way back. However, due to the ship’s having been sabotaged by Gaila, the three Ferengi (plus one stowaway) end up going through a time warp to Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. But far from trying to go home while leaving the timeline intact, Quark has other plans …to stay and take over the Earth.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
story by Toni Marberry and Jack Trevino
directed by James L. Conway
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Max Grodenchik (Rom), Aron Eisenberg (Rom), Megan Gallagher (Nurse Garland), Charles Napier (Denning), Conor O’Farrell (Carlson), James G. MacDonald (Wainwright)

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Season 02 Star Trek Voyager

Tattoo

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: While on a moon looking for polyferranide deposits to reseal the warp coils, Chakotay sees an ancient symbol. The last time he saw it was on a quest to Earth with his father, who explained it was a blessing to the land left by descendants of the ancient Rubber Tree People. Following a warp signature leads Voyager to a planet which seems to use the weather to prevent their approach. Chakotay goes alone to meet the planet’s inhabitants and meets the people worshipped by his ancestors as the “Sky Spirits.” Meanwhile, aboard the ship, Kes has noticed an appalling lack of compassion in the Doctor’s personality. She suggests that if he were ever sick, he would develop more empathy for the sufferings of his patients. He accepts her challenge, but his confidence is shaken by his experience with a 29-hour Livodian flu.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Michael Piller
story by Larry Brody
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Jay Chattaway

Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (B’Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Henry Darrow (Kolopak), Richard Fancy (Alien), Douglas Spain (young Chakotay), Nancy Hower (Ensign Wildman), Richard Chaves (The Chief)

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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

Starship Down

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate 49263.5: The Defiant is on a mission into the Gamma Quadrant to meet with a representative from the Karemma, who have been trading with the Federation, using the Ferengi as intermediaries, and who protest the exorbitant fees and taxes, which are actually the result of a misunderstanding perpetuated by Quark. But then two Jem’Hadar ships arrive to punish the Karemma for meeting with the Federation. When the Defiant goes after the Jem’Hadar, who pursue the Karemma ship into the atmosphere of a gas giant, it is attacked and heavily damaged. Bashir and Dax are sealed into a turbolift shaft, Kira cares for a gravely injured Sisko, Worf learns a thing or two about command, and Quark and the Karemma representative must defuse an unexploded torpedo that has struck the ship.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by David Mack & John J. Ordover
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: James Cromwell (Hanok), F. J. Rio (Muniz), Jay Baker (Stevens), Sara Mornell (Carson)

Notes: According to the original story outline, the Defiant was supposed to be stranded underwater rather than in the atmosphere of a giant gas planet.

LogBook entry by Tracy Hemenover with notes by Earl Green

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Season 02 Star Trek Voyager

Cold Fire

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: The remains of the Caretaker suddenly begin to resonate with the life signs of another sporocystian life form and the crew begins to search for what is apparently the other caretaker. They find a smaller copy of the Caretaker’s array with over 2,000 Ocampa aboard. Kes meets with Tanis, who begins to teach her the traditions of her people. He also speaks of Suspiria, a member of the Caretaker’s race known as the Nacene, who lives in a sub-space layer called Exosia. But when Voyager finally encounters her, Suspiria wishes to destroy the ship in revenge for the death of her companion.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Brannon Braga
story by Anthony Williams
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy

Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (B’Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Gary Graham (Tanis), Lindsay Ridgeway (Girl), Norman Large (Ocampa Man)

Notes: Actor Gary Graham was formerly a series regular on Fox’s well-regarded but short-lived Alien Nation series (and, at the time of this episode, was still occasionally returning to the role of Detective Matt Sykes in an intermittent series of Alien Nation TV movies); he would later play the recurring role of Vulcan Ambassador Soval in the next Star Trek spinoff, Enterprise.

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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

The Sword of Kahless

Star Trek: Deep Space NineNo stardate given: An elderly Klingon, Kor, who is an old friend of Dax, has returned to the station. Dax introduces him to Worf, whom Kor invites along on a quest: he has obtained a cloth found on a planet in the Gamma Quadrant – a cloth which was used to wrap the legendary Sword of Kahless. The Sword is a relic of Klingon history, stolen over 1000 years ago by the Hurk. Together, Kor, Dax, and Worf go to the planet where the cloth was found, and manage to find the Sword. But they have been followed there by Toral, the last member of the House of Duras, who once tried to seize power, and whose life was spared at the time by Worf. Kor, Dax, and Worf must journey through the caverns to escape, as ambition begins to turn Kor and Worf against each other.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Hans Beimler
story by Richard Danus
directed by LeVar Burton
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: John Colicos (Kor), Rick Pasqualone (Toral), Tom Morga (Soto)

LogBook entry by Tracy Hemenover