Year: 1997

In 1940’s Macedonia, Dr. Janice Covington, an archeologist, is looking for the Xena Scrolls. After finding a telegram that Dr. Covington sent to her father, Melinda Pappas arrives at her dig to help with the translation of the scrolls. A rival archeologist, Dr. John Smythe, sends some men to their camp to take anything that Janice and her crew have found. But she runs them off before they get the chance. A Lieutenant Jacques from French Intelligence is also snooping around. He tells Covington that he was sent to help her. Smythe appears at the camp with a tablet that could be the key to opening up the tomb that Janice has uncovered. He forces Janice to open it at gunpoint. As they enter the tomb, the stairwell colapses. Janice, Mel, and Jacques are seperated from Smythe and his men. Mel translates the writing that is on the walls as saying that they are in the tomb of Ares. The trio soon discover the hidden scrolls, and with them is half of Xena’s chakram. Janice tries to remove it from the stone that it is imbedded in but is unsuccessful. Mel, however, easily extracts the broken weapon. Once it’s in her hand, it seems to pull Mel toward something. She encounters Smythe and his men. Smythe has found the other half of the chakram.

teleplay by Adam Armus and Nora Kay Foster
story by Robert Sidney Mellette
directed by Charlie Haskell
music by Joseph LoDuca

Cast: Lucy Lawless (Melinda “Mel” Pappas), Renee O’Connor (Dr. Janice Covington), Ted Raimi (Jacques/Jack Klieman/Joxer), Ted Raimi (Ted), Kevin Smith (Ares), Mark Ferguson (John Smythe), Ajay Vasisht (Nikos), Robert Tapert (Robert Tapert), Reza Nijad (Local), Campbell Rocsselle (Thug #1)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Salmoneus summons Xena and Gabrielle to help him find out who is trying to sabotage his beauty pageant. The pageant is part of the celebrations of a year of peace between three of the territories surrounding the area where the pageant is being held. Xena poses as one of the contestants while Gabrielle acts as her sponsor. Xena manages to meet some of the other contestants in the steam room, but they won’t talk to her. When everyone else has left, she discovers that she has been locked in. She barely escapes in time to make it for the first event. Xena figures out who it was that imprisoned her in the steam room. She confronts Miss Artiphys, who is actually a man. He thinks that she will reveal this to the officials, but she surprises him when she says that she won’t. Gabrielle is unsuccessful in learning anything from the other sponsors. They are all upset with what has been happening with the contestants. Each man threatens to take aggressive action if anything else happens.

written by Chris Manheim
directed by Marina Sargenti
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Robert Trebor (Salmoneous), Karen Dior (Miss Artiphys), Jennifer Becker (Miss Parnassus), Katherine Kennard (Miss Skiros), Timothy Lee (Regent of Skiros), Simone Russell (Miss Mesini), John Sumner (Lord Claron), Calvin Tuteao (Dhoge of Mesini), Stan Wolfgramm (Palantine of Parnassus), Brenda Kindall (Pageant Matron)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Xena has returned to the ruins of Cirra, the place that was once home to Callisto. She is hoping to understand how she became an evil warlord. Gabrielle is kidnapped while she waits for Xena, by a tribe that plans on sacrificing her along with other people that they have captured. During her rescue attempt, Xena is seriously injured. One of the savages tries to kill her while she is down. Gabrielle manages to stop him, but not without being injured herself. Slipping into unconciousness, Xena begans to relive her life from ten years before. At the time she was a pirate with her own ship, and Julius Caesar was her prisoner. Also on board is a stowaway with remarkable skills.

teleplay by R.J. Stewart & Steven L. Sears
story by Robert Tapert
directed by Robert Tapert
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Karl Urban (Julius Ceaser), Ebonie Smith (M’Lila), Nathaniel Lees (Nicklio), Grant Boucher (Telos), Rebecca Kopacka (Young Callisto), Slade Leef (Sitacles), Mark Perry (Vicerius), Grant Triplow (Brutus), Rebecca McKinnon (Slave Girl), Dan Ryan (Roman #1)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell

Keeping with her promise she made to Xena, Gabrielle is taking the warrior’s body back home to Amphipolis. Along the way she is met by bounty hunters. They want to take Xena’s body as proof that she is dead to the warlord that has hired them. But Gabrielle fights them, with help from Iolaus who has just appeared. As Gabrielle continues her journey, she is met by Ephiny and a group of Amazons. Her friend convinces the bard to bring Xena’s body back to the Amazon village for them to honor her with a funeral. Ephiny also tells her about Velasca, Melosa’s adopted daughter. Velasca challanged Melosa for the right to be queen of the Amazons and won. She wants the Amazons to resume their war with the Centaurs. But Gabrielle can stop her since she took the rite of caste and became an Amazon princess. After thinking it through, the bard agrees to become the next queen of the Amazon nation. Not far away, Autolycus steals the dagger of Helios. Soon after he begans to hear Xena’s voice. She tells him that she influenced his decision to steal the dagger and he wants him to travel to the Amazon village and steal her body. Xena knows that she doesn’t have much time to return to life. The only way that she can is through Ambrosia, and the dagger is the key to a crypt that holds the food of the gods.

teleplay by Steven L. Sears
story by Chris Manheim, Steven L. Sears, and R.J. Stewart
directed by Michael Levine
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Bruce Campbell (Autolycus), Danielle Cormack (Ephiny), Melinda Clarke (Velasca), Michael Hurst (Iolaus), Jodie Dorday (Solari), Alexander Tant (Xenan), Michael Dwyer (Ruffian#1), David Fitchew (Vendor), Christian Hodge (Man), Kirstie O’Sullivan (Woman)

LogBook entry by Mary Terrell