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Equilibrium

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Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: During an informal home-cooked dinner held by Sisko for the senior staff, Dax picks up a musical instrument of Jake’s and begins to pick out, seemingly at random, a tune which she becomes preoccupied with, and it follows her into some disturbing hallucinations of masked figures. A medical checkup reveals some deficiencies in the chemical links between Jadzia and the Dax symbiont, necessitating a trip to the specialized medical facilities on the Trill planet. Though she shows favorable response to her initial treatments, Dax goes into shock when the computer aboard the Defiant displays a picture of the Trill composer of the song that has been on her mind. Sisko and Bashir try to seek out the mysterious link with the long-dead musician and Dax only to have all the official channels closed in their faces to protect a devastating secret, the cost of which will be Jadzia’s life.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Rene Echeverria
story by Christopher Teague
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Jay Chattaway

Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Benjamin Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Dr. Julian Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lt. Jadzia Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O’Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira Nerys), Lisa Banes (Dr. Renhol), Jeff Magnus McBride (Joran Belar), Nicholas Cascone (Timor), Harvey Vernon (Yolan Belar)

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Defiant

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Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate 48467.3: DS9’s crew welcomes Commander Riker aboard, stopping off at the station en route to Risa. He gets a tour of the station from Kira, ending up at the Defiant – which he hijacks, with Kira as his prisoner. This “commander” is Thomas Riker, now a member of the Maquis on the run from Starfleet. His target is a secret Cardassian installation which, as Gul Dukat and Sisko find when they go to Cardassia to coordinate the search for the Defiant, is apparently an operation of the Obsidian Order, Cardassia’s widely-feared secret police and intelligence wing. Kira doubts that Riker’s motives are the same as those of the Maquis, but are instead sparked by an obsession to dinstinguish himself in the annals of history from the Enterprise’s first officer. In the meantime, Riker’s discoveries in the secret depths of Cardassian space surprise everyone, including Dukat.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Ronald D. Moore
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Jay Chattaway

Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Benjamin Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Dr. Julian Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lt. Jadzia Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O’Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira Nerys), Jonathan Frakes (Riker), Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat), Tricia O’Neil (Korinas), Shannon Cochran (Kalita), Robert Kerbeck (Cardassian Soldier), Michael Canavan (Tamal)

Star Trek: Deep Space NineNotes: “Thomas” Riker, a clone of the Enterprise’s Will Riker created in a freak transporter accident, was introduced in Next Generation’s Second Chances episode during the sixth season of that show; Kalita was seen in Next Generation as well, in the penultimate episode Preemptive Strike, in which she was a member of the Maquis cell which Ro Laren joined. Though many ideas were floated for following up on Thomas Riker’s story, including story outlines which explored both his fate and that of Next Generation’s Ensign Sito Jaxa (The First Duty, Lower Decks), the character never appeared again.

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Explorers

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Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: On a visit to Bajor, Commander Sisko has uncovered records of a Bajoran sailship which somehow traveled to Cardassia in ancient times. He tries to enlist Jake’s help in his quest to construct a working replica of the sailship from old Bajoran blueprints and recreate the journey, but Jake is oddly reluctant. Sisko also receives a strange warning from Gul Dukat that the journey is too hazardous simply to satisfy curiosity. Despite all these odds, the commander is determined to chart a trail that was blazed centuries earlier, but even he doesn’t realize what surprises he’ll discover along the way.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Renè Echavarria
story by Hilary J. Bader
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy

Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Benjamin Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Dr. Julian Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lt. Jadzia Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O’Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira Nerys), Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat), Bari Hochwald (Dr. Elizabeth Lense), Chase Masterson (Leeta)

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Facets

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Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Quark’s ongoing efforts to prevent Nog from joining Starfleet Academy are interrupted by a call to attend a meeting being held by Jadzia. She is about to undergo a ritual in which the memories of each of Dax’s past hosts is telepathically transferred to another person so she can come to understand them better. Problems are anticipated when it comes to encountering Joran, the mentally unstable host preceding Curzon who was a murderer, but no one expects that Curzon himself will cause any problems. However, once the mind and memories of Curzon Dax find themselves a new home in the form of Odo, Sisko’s crusty old mentor doesn’t have any intention of relinquishing his new body.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Renè Echavarria
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy

Cast: Avery Brooks (Commander Benjamin Sisko), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Siddig El Fadil (Dr. Julian Bashir), Terry Farrell (Lt. Jadzia Dax), Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko), Colm Meaney (Chief O’Brien), Armin Shimerman (Quark), Nana Visitor (Major Kira Nerys), Jeffrey Alan Chandler (Guardian), Max Grodenchik (Rom), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Chase Masterson (Leeta)

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Cold Fire

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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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Meld

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Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 49373.4: When Crewman Darwin turns up dead all signs point to Crewman Suder, a former Maquis and a Betazoid, as the murderer. Suder even confesses, but when Janeway is loathe to either imprison him for life or execute him, Tuvok tries to rehabilitate him using the Vulcan mind meld. But entering the mind of Suder means that the murderer also enters Tuvok’s mind.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Michael Piller
story by Michael Sussman
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), Brad Dourif (Crewman Suder), Angela Dohrmann (Ricky), Simon Billig (Crewman Jones), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Lifesigns

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Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Voyager beams aboard a dying Vidiian woman. The Doctor creates an image of her from the transporter pattern buffer to stabilize her while he attempts a cure. She turns out to be a hematologist who was traveling to a distant colony to help combat the Phage. In curing her, the Doctor learns much about himself too.

Order the DVDswritten by Kenneth Biller
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), Susan Diol (Danara Pel), Raphael Sbarge (Ensign Michael Jonas), Martha Hackett (Seska), Michael Spound (Jonas’ Kazon Handler)

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Tuvix

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Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 49655.2: Tuvok and Neelix are sent on an away mission to collect samples of vegetation from a nearby planet. When they are beamed back up, a transporter glitch combines them into one being, a Vulcan-Talaxian fusion that eventually calls itself Tuvix. Tuvix has the knowledge, memories and personalities of both Tuvok and Neelix, from Tuvok’s expertise and logic to Neelix’s quirky emotions and his love for Kes. Despite the crew’s concerns about their two comrades, Tuvix is perfectly healthy and resumes both Tuvok’s tactical duties and even some of Neelix’s cooking. After several weeks, the doctor comes up with a means of splitting Tuvix back into his component parts, but Tuvix himself refuses to undergo the procedure. Janeway struggles with the implications of a decision that could amount to executing Tuvix to bring Tuvok and Neelix back, but Tuvix tries to convince the crew that the captain is about to commit murder.

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story by Andrew Shepard Price & Mark Gaberman
directed by Cliff Bole
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), Tom Wright (Tuvix), Simon Billig (Hogan), Bahni Turpin (Swinn)

Original title: Symbiogenesis

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False Profits

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Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50074.3: The investigation of a possible wormhole reveals signs of visitors from the Alpha Quadrant on a primitive planet. Chakotay and Paris make an incognito visit to a location where sensors have detected a replicator in use, only to find a village of humanoids who seem obsessed with charging money for any goods or services, no matter how insignificant. At the heart of this culture lie two Ferengi, stranded in the Delta Quadrant since they were trapped by the Barzan Wormhole discovered by the Enterprise seven years earlier. The Ferengi have come to this society as gods bearing wisdom – the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition – but their true motive is to exploit the native population for their own gain. Janeway sets a plan into motion which involves Neelix masquerading as an envoy from the Grand Nagus. But if his disguise fails to fool the Ferengi, he may find that these profit-mongerers will do anything to keep their grasp on godhood.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Joe Menosky
story by George A. Brozak
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Dan Shor (Arridor), Leslie Jordan (Koll), Michael Ensign (Bard), Rob LaBelle (Kafar), Alan Altshuld (Sandalmaker), John Walter Davis (Merchant)

Notes: Arridor and Koll have been stuck in the Delta Quadrant for a long time – ever since the unstable Barzan Wormhole stranded them there in The Price, an episode of the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation

LogBook entry by Paul Campbell with notes by Earl Green

Future’s End – Part II

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Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Tuvok and Paris enlist Rain’s help in contacting Voyager and setting a trap for Starling which involves pinpointing his location to allow a transporter kidnap from a shuttlecraft. Starling, however, has two tricks up his sleeve – the Doctor, equipped with a portable holo-emitter, is his hostage, and he has a device to thwart the shuttle’s transporter. The shuttle’s systems overload and the shuttle, piloted by Chakotay and Torres, crashes in the Arizona desert, but the Doctor escapes as Voyager takes over transport of Starling. Chakotay and B’Elanna fall into the hands of a cult militia group, but are rescued by Tuvok and the newly independent Doctor. Starling escapes and launches the timeship despite Janeway’s warnings, but his scheme for Earth’s future won’t exactly unfold as planned.

Order the DVDswritten by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Ed Begley, Jr. (Henry Starling), Sarah Silverman (Rain Robinson), Allan G. Royal (Captain Braxton), Brent Hinkley (Militia #1), Clayton Murray (Militia #2), Susan Patterson (Ensign Kaplan), Christian R. Conrad (Dunbar), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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The Q and the Gray

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Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50384.2: After the crew witnesses a supernova explosion from a safe distance, Janeway retires for the evening, only to be wooed in her quarters by Q, who claims to want to mate with her. Naturally, Janeway rebuffs Q’s every advance, and eventually a female member of the Q Continuum appears, claiming that she is bonded to Q. As an argument ensues between the Qs, more imminent supernovae are detected and Janeway orders the ship clear of the destruction, but with so many stars exploding, Voyager can’t avoid all of the shockwaves. Just before the first wave hits the ship, Q whisks Janeway into a representation of the Q Continuum in the context of the American Civil War. Q explains that the Continuum is in the throes of its own civil war, sparked by the death of a fellow Q he prosecuted on charges that a Q suicide would imbalance their whole society. Q’s desire to mate with Janeway is the result of his belief that, from his past experiences with Janeway and Picard, a hybrid child would introduce the omnipotent Q to the nobility of humans. Caught in a civil war among immortal beings, and hoping that her crew can enlist the help of the Q’s scorned mate, Janeway tries to negotiate a peace with the Q traditionalists…but she’s unaware that her attempt to open talks will do nothing more than deliver Q into the hands of his enemies.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Kenneth Biller
story by Shawn Piller
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: John de Lancie (Q), Suzie Plakson (Q), Harve Presnell (Q)

LogBook entry by Paul Campbell

Extreme Risk

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Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: An unmanned experimental probe from Voyager attracts the unwelcome attention of Malon scavengers, who try to hijack it in mid-flight. Hoping to dissuade the Malon, Janeway directs the probe into the hazardous atmosphere of a nearby gas giant. But the Malons aren’t dissuaded from their prize, driving their freighter right into the planet’s atmosphere to their deaths. As Paris prepares an entirely new breed of shuttlecraft – hopefully capable of withstanding the enormous pressures of the atmosphere – a second Malon vessel arrives, its captain ready to avenge the loss of his predecessors. With the engineering challenges inherent in a new shuttle design, Voyager’s crew needs B’Elanna like never before…but B’Elanna is indulging in dangerous pursuits of her own.

Order the DVDswritten by Kenneth Biller
directed by Cliff Bole
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Hamilton Camp (Controller Brelk), Alexander Enberg (Vorik), Daniel Betances (Pilot), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Notes: B’Elanna’s orbital skydiving suit is modified from a costume originally created for Star Trek: Generations; at the beginning of that movie, a sequence showing Kirk skydiving from orbit and landing in a field near a waiting Scotty and Chekov, was to be seen, and in fact much of the footage needed was filmed but later dropped.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Bliss

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Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 52542.3: Voyager’s sensors detect a wormhole that qualifies as nothing short of a miracle – not only is the wormhole stable for the time being, but sensors and probes indicate that it will deposit Voyager directly into Earth space. Janeway is initially very suspicious, but this soon gives way to joyous anticipation of a return home. Only Seven of Nine retains any semblance of suspicion, an intuitive caution which is reinforced when she visually spots a ship trapped in the interior of the wormhole – even though the ship’s sensors aren’t picking it up. Seven thinks that something or someone is manipulating the crew’s expectations, feeding them exactly what they want to see and hear…but she isn’t prepared for the possibility that this force also has enough control over the crew to put their Borg skeptic out of commission.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Robert J. Doherty
story by Bill Prady
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), W. Morgan Sheppard (Qatai), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Dark Frontier – Part I

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Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: A chance encounter with a Borg scout ship inspires Janeway to go on the offensive against the next Borg vessel that Voyager locates, in the hopes of pilfering Borg transwarp technology to shorten the trip home. Seven is apprehensive about the plan, but agrees to lend her unique insight into the Borg. But as a lone Borg vessel is located and targeted for Janeway’s planned raid, Seven receives a surprising message from the Borg – the Collective is already aware of Janeway’s plan, and unless Seven rejoins them, the crew of Voyager will be assimilated. Seven does not reveal this to Janeway, and when the attack commences, the former drone surprises her crewmates by complying with the Borg’s instructions…

Order the DVDswritten by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by Cliff Bole
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Susanna Thompson (Borg Queen), Kirk Baily (Magnus Hansen), Laura Stepp (Erin Hansen), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Katelin Petersen (Annika Hansen)

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Recorded Time and Other Stories

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Doctor WhoRecorded Time: The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Peri to the court of King Henry VIII, and the moment he lays eyes on Peri, the King begins making plans to rid himself of Anne Boleyn (and, as soon as he proves to be even slightly argumentative, the Doctor as well). But King Henry has another secret, one that could rearrange history at his whim – one which the Doctor must put to an end.

Paradoxicide: The Doctor and Peri receive a distress call in Peri’s voice; when the TARDIS takes them to the source to investigate, they are captured by an entirely female team of marauders who intend to break into one of the galaxy’s most impressive arsenals of weapons, which also happens to be one of the most impenetrable. Unless, of course, a time machine can take them back to the moment it was constructed.

A Most Excellent Match The Doctor and Peri are taking part in a total immersion interactive game based on the works of Jane Austen, but the Time Lord worries when his young companion stays “in character” so long that she can’t seem to fight her way back to reality. Worse yet, “Mr. Darcy” isn’t part of the simulation, but a noncorporeal being who lurks within the game, waiting for a mind and a body capable of giving it passage back into corporeal space, and a time traveler would suits its needs nicely.

Question Marks: The crew of what appears to be a spacecraft awakens, including a man in a rather colorful outfit (complete with question marks on his lapels) and a young woman who isn’t wearing the uniform that the rest of the crew wears. The assumptions that they’re aboard a space vessel soon prove to be unfounded: they’re inside a volcano, in a man-made structure that’s giving way quickly. If only any of them could remember how to escape… or why one of them is already dead…

Order this CDRecorded Time written by Catherine Harvey
Paradoxicide written by Richard Dinnick
A Most Excellent Match written by Matt Fitton
Question Marks written by Philip Lawrence
directed by Ken Bentley
music by Richard Fox & Lauren Yason

Recorded Time Cast: Colin Baker (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Paul Shearer (Henry VIII), Laura Molyneux (Anne Boleyn), Philip Bretherton (Scrivener), Rosanna Miles (Marjorie)

Paradoxicide Cast: Colin Baker (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Raquel Cassidy (Inquisa), Joan Walker (Centuria/Ship), James George (Barond), Laura Molyneux, Rosanna Miles (Volsci)

A Most Excellent Match Cast: Colin Baker (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Rosanna Miles (Tilly), Philip Bretherton (Darcy / D’Urberville / Heathcliff), Paul Shearer (Cranton)

Question Marks Cast: Colin Baker (The Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri), Raquel Cassidy (Destiny Gray), James George (Greg Stone), Joe Jameson (Arnie McAllister)

Timeline: after Timelash and before Revelation Of The Daleks

Notes: Due to Henry VIII’s prolific record of womanizing and marriages, his short-lived engagement to Peri does not preclude his apparent marriage to Amy Pond (The Power Of Three). In Paradoxicide, the Doctor boasts of having survived the Death Zone on Gallifrey, the Cybermen’s tombs on Telos, and the Exxilon city; these are all references to prior TV stories, respectively: The Five Doctors, Tomb Of The Cybermen and Death To The Daleks.

LogBook entry & review by Earl Green