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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

Equinox – Part II

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: As the subspace life forms attack Voyager’s bridge, the Equinox warps away safely, protected by B’elanna’s shield generator, which was surreptitiously beamed out of Voyager. Also kidnapped from Voyager are Seven of Nine, who refuses to cooperate with Ransom’s murderous plan to return to Earth, and Voyager’s EMH, whose mobile emitted has been stolen by the Equinox’s identical doctor, acting as a spy aboard Voyager. When Ransom’s attempt to resume his course toward the Alpha Quadrant is thwarted by Seven’s sabotage of the Equinox’s warp drive, the captain deletes the Voyager doctor’s ethical subroutine, forcing him to operate on Seven to extract the necessary information to conduct repairs. On Voyager, Janeway becomes obsessed with bringing Ransom to justice, even to the point of stripping Chakotay of his rank and responsibilities when he protests her actions, and threatens to do the same to Tuvok. Contact is finally established with the aliens, who insist that the Equinox should be handed over to them – and Janeway startles her crew by acceeding to this demand. The crews of both ships are now at the mercy of commanding officers who have crossed the line.

Season 6 Regular Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (B’elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim)

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story by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: John Savage (Captain John Ransom), Titus Welliver (Burke), Olivia Birkelund (Gilmore), Rick Worthy (Lessing), Eric Steinberg (Ankari), Steve Dennis (Thompson), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

Survival Instinct

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 53049.2: Voyager docks at a gigantic Markonian space station and the crew engage in cultural exchanges with the station’s population. While some of these exchanges cause security headaches for Tuvok – including petty crimes and Tom and Harry’s ill-fated night on the town – the greater threat goes unnoticed. Three individuals who were formerly Borg drones – fellow members of Seven of Nine’s unimatrix – slip aboard, attempting to force a connection with her. Survivors of a Borg scout vessel crash over five years before Seven joined Voyager, the three suffer a constant neural link forcing them to share every thought. Despite their individuality, they cannot explain this connection. But when Seven decides to assist them in retreiving lost memories, she discovers that she is responsible for the former drones’ condition…and must now decide whether they should be returned to the Collective to extend their lives, or enjoy freedom at last for a few brief weeks.

Order the DVDswritten by Ronald D. Moore
directed by Terry Windell
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Vaughn Armstrong (Lenser), Bertila Damas (Marika), Tim Kelleher (V’chan), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Jonathan Breck (Dying Borg), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Note: Marika’s nose shows that she is a Bajoran, so shouldn’t she swear to the Prophets instead of exclaiming “Oh my God”? The Borg are also effective at recycling – in her Borg form, Marika is wearing Hugh’s eyepiece.

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

Barge of the Dead

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: B’elanna puts herself at great risk to retrieve Voyager’s only remaining unmanned probe from an ion storm, which does more damage to her shuttle than it does to the probe. After an emergency landing, a piece of debris is found imbedded in her shuttle’s hull – a piece of metal with the symbol of the Klingon Empire on it, which Chakotay presents to B’elanna. She disregards the object – which has been determined to be several centuries old – until it appears to bleed, and she hears voices speaking Klingon. This potentially important archaeological find inspires a Klingon celebration – and some odd behavior, at least from B’elanna’s perspective. Tuvok, while demonstrating hitherto unknown prowess with the bat’leth, injures B’elanna with it and embarks on an uncharacteristically vehement lecture about her dishonor of her culture. During the party itself, B’elanna is helpless to watch as Klingon assassins appear in the crowd, slicing her crewmates down one by one. And then she is dragged to the Barge of the Dead, which ferries dishonored souls to Grethor, the Klingon hell – and B’elanna is not alone, for her mother arrives shortly afterward. But when B’elanna suddenly awakens in sick bay, it turns out that everything – even the crash-landing of the shuttle – was part of an elaborate vision, a near-death experience triggered by the real ion storm. B’elanna can only deduce that her mother has died, and it is now up to the engineer to retrieve her from Grethor and deliver her to the gates of Sto’vo’kor.

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story by Ronald D. Moore & Bryan Fuller
directed by Mike Vejar
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Eric Pierpoint (Kor’tar), Sherman Augustus (Klingon), Karen Austin (Merab), John Kenton Shull (Brok’tan)

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: The Doctor files a grievance with Janeway, claiming that the crew is excluding him and treating him rudely. The captain is mystified by the hologram’s uncharacteristic behavior, and numerous crew members notice that the Doctor is becoming inattentive, almost as if he is daydreaming. Unknown to his crewmates, the Doctor has altered his program to allow daydreaming, but something destabilizes his program and he begins to daydream at an alarming rate, even in the middle of vital duties. His imagination conjures up numerous unlikely scenarios, from the women of Voyager’s command crew battling for his attention, to the destruction of an attacking Borg vessel by the “Emergency Command Hologram.” Eventually, the Doctor’s imagination is in constant overdrive, and Janeway relieves him of duty. But when the Doctor realizes that he is being tampered with by an inquisitive alien, will he be able to convince the crew that this potential threat is no figment of his imagination?

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story by Bill Vallely
directed by John Bruno
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Jay M. Leggett (Alien), Googy Gress (Alien Captain), Robert Greenberg (Devro), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

Alice

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Voyager happens upon a scrapyard in space operated by a gangly and gregarious alien called Abbadon. A trade agreement is quickly reached for several small items and technologies, until Tom Paris sets his eyes on a sleek (but very derelict) shuttle-sized vessel. Tom persuades Chakotay to offer Abbadon a few extra items in exchange for the ship – and the alien asks for suspiciously little in trade. Tom begins spending all of his off-duty time – and most of Harry’s, too – restoring the mysterious ship to full working order, dubbing it “Alice” in honor of a cadet he lusted after in Starfleet Academy. Slowly, thanks to the little craft’s direct neural interface with its pilot, Tom becomes more and more fixated on “Alice”…but what he does not realize until it far too late is that the ship is equally fixated on him.

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story by Juliann deLayne
directed by David Livingston
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Claire Rankin (Alice), John Fleck (Abbadon)

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

Riddles

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 53263.2: Tuvok is critically injured as he and Neelix return to Voyager from a routine diplomatic mission. As Tuvok lies comatose in sick bay, Deputy Investigator Nerok of the K’sath arrives to look into the incident. Nerok blames Tuvok’s attack on the B’neth, legendary creatures whose existence is officially denied by the K’sath government. Nerok is eager to use this opportunity to prove the B’neth do exist, but the star witness, though recovering, is having to start over again mentally. Despite his frequent annoyance with the Talaxian in the past, Tuvok now turns to Neelix for support and guidance.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Robert Doherty
story by Andrè Bormanis
directed by Roxann Dawson
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Mark Moses (Nerok)

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

Dragon’s Teeth

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 53167.9: Trying to escape from an apparently hostile race guarding a series of time-saving wormholes, Voyager hides on a planet devastated by nuclear war. Seven locates a cryogenically frozen man and revives him. The survivor insists upon the revival of his fellow war victims, offering their help to Janeway as the guardians of the wormhole close in on Voyager. But all is not as it seems. The revived survivors, almost 900 years ago, were bombed into submission after centuries of using wormholes to attack and conquer other worlds. The freshly thawed-out Vodwar, though they try to conceal the fact at every opportunity, are the only surviving oppressors from that war. Their leader wishes to resume their reign of terror, beginning with a takeover of Voyager.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Michael Taylor, Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
story by Michael Taylor
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Jeff Allin (Gedrin), Robert Knepper (Gaul), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Ron Fassler (Morin), Mimi Craven (Jisa), Bob Stillman (Turei), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Original title: 5,000 Years

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

One Small Step

Star Trek: VoyagerOctober 19, 2032: Ares IV, the first manned mission to Mars, is going smoothly until an unknown spatial anomaly consumes the orbiter. The mission is lost to a total enigma, all hands are presumed dead, and NASA’s Mars program is almost brought to a halt for good.

Stardate 53292.7: An unknown spatial anomaly nearly consumes Voyager. Seven of Nine recognizes the anomaly thanks to previous encounters with the Borg, but later study of the phenomenon reveals that it is still hauling the wreckage of Ares IV through the Delta Quadrant. Chakotay and Paris quickly devise a plan to retrieve Ares IV, but Seven of Nine insists on warning the crew of the dangers of attempting to explore a gravimetric ellipse. Trying to inspire her, Janeway assigns Seven to join the mission into the ellipse. But once the Delta Flyer is inside, B’elanna discovers that the anomaly is on course for a violent collision with a dark matter asteroid. Janeway orders Chakotay to abandon the salvage operation immediately, but he disobeys, ordering Tom to tow the Ares IV in a tractor beam. This decision slows down the Delta Flyer’s escape enough to trap it inside the ellipse – lost to a total enigma…all hands presumed dead.

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and Bryan Fuller & Michael Taylor
story by Mike Wollaeger & Jessica Scott
directed by Robert Picardo
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Phil Morris (Lt. John Kelly), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Notes: The Doctor mentions a visit to the planet Arrakis Prime, an in-joke reference to the spice planet in Dune. One of Phil Morris’s first film roles was the ensign who asked Admiral Kirk if the Enterprise crew would return to a hero’s welcome at the beginning of Star Trek III.

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

The Voyager Conspiracy

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Seven of Nine installs a new piece of equipment in her Borg alcove which allows her to assimilate data, log entries, records, and other information while she regenerates. But the overload of information is too much for her. At first, Seven is able to solve complex but obscure shipboard problems using information she has assimilated overnight. But then, still trying to process the enormous flow of data, Seven begins to formulate complex conspiracy theories concerning Voyager’s mission, and she begins to make accusations – that Janeway intentionally stranded Voyager in the Delta Quadrant as part of a secret Federation plot to secure strategic alliances across the galaxy; that Chakotay and the other Maquis deliberately led Voyager into a trap set by their ally, the Caretaker; and that even Naomi Wildman is working for either the Maquis or Janeway’s secret organization within the Federation. By the time Janeway realizes what has happened and attempts to help, Seven has hijacked the Delta Flyer to escape what she can only see as a massive conspiracy to destroy one person…herself.

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directed by Terry Windell
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Albie Selznick (Tash), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

Pathfinder

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: On Earth, Lt. Reginald Barclay, late of the Enterprise, has just been dismissed from Project Pathfinder, an unsuccessful attempt to achieve contact with the wayward Starfleet vessel U.S.S. Voyager. Barclay has had brushes with holo-addiction and hypochonrdia before, but his release from the Pathfinder project could be the blackest mark on his record – the introverted engineer has gone from researching ways to contact Voyager to spending all of his available time on the holodeck with simulations of the ship’s crew, to the point that it interferes with his work. He even calls his old friend Deanna Troi for help. But even her counseling can’t get Barclay’s mind off of contacting Voyager’s crew – and finally, he puts everything on the line and becomes an actual security risk to Starfleet to achieve his far-fetched goal.

Order the DVDsteleplay by David Zabel & Kenneth Biller
story by David Zabel
directed by Mike Vejar
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Dwight Schultz (Lt. Barclay), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Richard Herd (Admiral Paris), Richard McGonagle (Commander Pete Hawkins), Victor Bevin (Security guard), Marc Daniel Cade (Technician), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

Fair Haven

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Having met only limited interest with such holoprograms as Chez Sandrine’s and The Adventures of Captain Proton, Tom creates a holographic replica of Fair Haven, Ireland. The uncomplicated – at least by 24th century standards – and pastoral setting meets with the crew’s approval, and Captain Janeway finds herself fascinated by barkeep Michael Sullivan. When she discovers that Sullivan isn’t as educated or outspoken as she would like, the captain simply changes his parameters (and deletes the character of his wife as well). After falling in love with Sullivan, Janeway is overcome with remorse and withdraws from the holodeck altogether. The rest of the crew is then left to deal with a man – albeit a holographic one – with a broken heart.

Order the DVDswritten by Robin Burger
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Finton McKeown (Michael Sullivan), Richard Riehle (Saemus), Jan Claire (Frannie), Henriette Ivanans (Maggie), Duffie McIntire (Grace), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

Blink of an Eye

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Voyager enters orbit around a greyish-blue oblate spheroid of a planet. This world’s rotation is so accelerated that years pass on the surface in mere minutes of Voyager’s time. The unusual gravitational properties of the planet trap Voyager in orbit, where it is spotted by the planet’s population over hundreds of generations. Before the crew’s eyes, civilizations rise and fall, technology advances from the bronze age to the space age, and the evolving society turns from curiosity about the vessel “permanently” fixed in their sky to hostility toward it. And at the exponential rate at which the planet’s technology is emerging, its inhabitants will soon have plenty of spaceworthy firepower to enforce that hatred.

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story by Michael Taylor
directed by Gabrielle Beaumont
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Daniel Dae Kim (Pilot), Obi Ndefo (Protector), Daniel Zacapa (Astronomer), Olaf Pooley (Cleric), Jon Cellini (Technician), Kat Sawyer-Young (Astronaut), Melik Malkasian (Shaman), Walter H. McCready (Tribal Alien), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman)

Notes: This episode of Voyager is peppered with veterans of other SF franchises. Olaf Pooley guest starred as the mad Professor Stahlman in the 1970 Doctor Who Inferno seven-parter. Daniel Dae Kim shot this episode fresh from his brief stint as First Officer Matheson on the ill-fated Babylon 5 spinoff, Crusade, but a few years before his rise to mainstream fame as a member of the ensemble cast of Lost. Obi Ndefo had a small guest role in the fourth season opener of Deep Space Nine.

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

Virtuoso

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 54556.4: Voyager plays host to a handful of advanced aliens whose ship is incapacitated. The visitors infuriate Janeway and her crew with their arrogance at the “primitive” nature of Voyager’s culture – until the Doctor, with whom the aliens are also less than pleased, begins to sing. Never having heard music before, the Komari suddenly become rapt fans of the Doctor, and quickly extend an invitation to Voyager to visit their homeworld. After giving a gala performance to the population of an entire world, the Doctor is tempted by their offer to leave Voyager permanently and become a full-time musical ambassador to their world. But while the Doctor makes hasty goodbyes to his crewmates, he underestimates the fickle nature of fame.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Raf Green and Kenneth Biller
story by Raf Green
directed by Les Landau
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Kamala Lopez-Dawson (Tincoo), Ray Xifo (Abarca), Paul Williams (Koru), Marie Caldare (Azen), Nina Magnesson (Vinka)

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

Memorial

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 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.

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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)

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

Tsunkatse

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 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.

Order the DVDsteleplay 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

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