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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

Accession

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: A battered old-style Bajoran lightship emerges from the wormhole with one passenger: Akorem Laan, a famous poet who left Bajor 200 years ago. Since he was the first person to meet the Prophets, and since they healed him, Akorem believes himself to be the Emissary, a role that Sisko is all too happy to relinquish to him. Akorem begins trying to lead Bajor back to the old days, when their caste system, the d’jarras, determined the careers people followed. Confusion results, and Sisko can only conclude that his mission to bring Bajor into the Federation has failed. Meanwhile, O’Brien tries to readjust his life when Keiko returns, pregnant with their second child.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Jane Espenson
directed by Les Landau
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Robert Symonds (Vedek Porta), Camille Saviola (Kai Opaka), Hana Hatae (Molly), Richard Libertini (Akorem), David Carpenter (Onara), Grace Zandarski (Latara), Laura Jane Salvato (Gia)

Original title: The Other Emissary

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Season 02 Star Trek Voyager

Lifesigns

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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Season 02 Star Trek Voyager

Investigations

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: The crew sees the first episode of “A Briefing With Neelix”, an internal broadcast which Neelix hopes will improve morale. But after speaking with Harry Kim, former editor of the StarFleet Academy newspaper, he is inspired to investigate the departure of Tom Paris. Tom’s departure and his previous bad behavior were all a ruse to flush out the person who was passing information to Seska and the Kazon. But Neelix doesn’t know this and jeopardizes the whole scheme.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Jeri Taylor
story by Jeff Schnaufer & Ed Bond
directed by Les Landau
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), Raphael Sbarge (Ensign Michael Jonas), Martha Hackett (Seska), Jerry Sroka (Laxeth), Simon Billig (Ensign Hogan), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Season 02 Star Trek Voyager

Deadlock

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: The crew anticipates the arrival of Voyager’s first baby as Ensign Wildman goes into labor. But the expectations are marred when a flotilla of Vidiian ships is spotted ahead. Janeway orders a detour through a nebula, but that route causes severe damage to the ship. Voyager becomes stranded when its antimatter supply begins to drain with no explanation. Harry is killed when a hull breach opens beneath him and he falls into open space, and Kes vanishes through an unknown portal. The crew prepares to abandon ship, and Janeway finally decides to evacuate the bridge when
Stardate not given: Captain Janeway sees an image of herself on the bridge, battered, bleeding and running toward the turbolift. And for reasons no one can explain, a duplicate of Kes has suddenly appeared on board. After an investigation, it is revealed that the subspace anomalies within the nebula caused a quantum-level duplication of the ship and crew. Torres establishes communications with the other Voyager, but the two captains cannot find any course of action that won’t destroy one or both ships. When a Vidiian ship arrives and the organ harvesters board Voyager and begin wiping out the crew, only one option seems viable – setting Voyager to self-destruct. But without the crew’s help, the “other” crew could also perish.

Order the DVDswritten by Brannon Braga
directed by David Livingston
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 Wildman), Simon Billig (Hogan), Bob Clendenin (Vidiian Surgeon), Ray Proscia (Vidiian Commander), Keythe Farley (Vidiian #2), Chris Johnston (Vidiian #1), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

Rules Of Engagement

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate 49665.3: While commanding the Defiant on a mission to escort a relief convoy to a plague-stricken Cardassian colony, Worf apparently destroyed a Klingon civilian transport which decloaked in the middle of a battle with two other Klingon ships. Now an extradition hearing is taking place on DS9, with Sisko defending Worf and Advocate Ch’Pok arguing the Klingon Empire’s case. The tale of the mission unwinds in flashbacks, as Odo searches for the truth.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Ronald D. Moore
story by Bradley Thompson & David Weddle
directed by LeVar Burton
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Guest Cast: Ron Canada (Ch’Pok), Deborah Strang (Admiral T’Lara), Christopher Michael (Helm Officer)

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Season 02 Star Trek Voyager

Innocence

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: One of Voyager’s shuttles has crashed on a class-M planet and Tuvok is unable to prevent Ensign Bennet from dying from his injuries. Tuvok notices that they are being watched by a small child and introduces himself. Two other children emerge from the jungle and they tell Tuvok that they have been left here to be killed by a creature called the Morrok. Meanwhile, Voyager is making first contact with the Drayans, a highly civilized race that does not invite potential cultural contamination from other species. The first contact is diplomatic enough, but it is made clear that Voyager and her crew are not welcome. When Tuvok’s presence with the children becomes a diplomatic incident, Janeway faces the possibility of a hostile reaction to any attempt to rescue him.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Lisa Klink
story by Anthony Williams
directed by James L. Conway
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), Marnie McPhail (Alicia), Tiffany Taubman (Tressa), Sarah Rayne (Elani), Tahj D. Mowry (Corin), Richard Garon (Bennet)

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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

Hard Time

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: On a mission to Argratha in the Gamma Quadrant, O’Brien has been convicted of espionage. As punishment, the Argrathi give him false memories of twenty years in prison. When he returns to DS9, O’Brien has trouble readjusting to life on the station, refusing counseling, snapping at his friends and even his daughter. And he has recurring visions of his “cellmate”, Ee’char – whom he won’t tell anybody about.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Robert Hewitt Wolfe
story by Daniel Keys Moran & Lynn Barker
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Margot Rose (Rinn), Hana Hatae (Molly), F.J. Rio (Muniz), Craig Wasson (Ee’char)

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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

Shattered Mirror

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Sisko receives a surprise visit from Jennifer – the mirror universe version of his late wife, whom he met last year when he convinced her to join the rebels against the Alliance in her universe. Now, she says, the rebels have captured Terok Nor. Jennifer lures Jake back to her universe with her, as part of a plan to coerce Sisko into helping finish the mirror version of the Defiant. Sisko follows, and finds himself in a race against time to prepare the ship before the arrival of an Alliance fleet headed by the Regent – Worf.

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

Guest Cast: Felecia M. Bell (Jennifer), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Carlos Carrasco (Klingon Officer), Andrew Robinson (Garak), James Black (Helmsman), Dennis Madalone (Guard)

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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

The Muse

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Jake meets a mysterious woman named Onaya, who claims to have “a weakness for artists”, and who says that she can help Jake to develop his talent for writing. His life is endangered as he falls deeper and deeper under her spell. Meanwhile, Lwaxana returns, pregnant and on the run from her husband Jeyal, who seeks to take their unborn son from her to raise by himself according to his people’s customs. And Odo has a drastic solution to her problem.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Renè Echavarria
story by Renè Echavarria & Majel Barrett Roddenberry
directed by David Livingston
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Meg Foster (Onaya), Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi), Michael Ansara (Jeyal)

Notes: This was Majel Barrett Roddenberry’s only writing credit during the entire Star Trek saga. There was also an episode of Star Trek: Voyager called Muse, minus the “The” of this episode’s title.

LogBook entry by Tracy Hemenover with notes by Earl Green

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Season 02 Star Trek Voyager

The Thaw

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Voyager approaches a ravaged planet, but Janeway is surprised when a hail is received from an automated system. The message describes the disaster that devastated the planet and the cryogenically frozen handful of survivors. Janeway has the survivors beamed up, and Harry determines that their minds are linked in a complex computer system. Some of the survivors have not, in fact, survived, and the doctor suspects some kind of trauma; it is also discovered that the frozen survivors should have been revived long ago. Harry and B’Elanna are linked to the computer and pay a visit to the artificial reality that the survivors’ minds inhabit. It turns out to be a bizarre circus environment which is ruled by a malevolent clown known as Fear, who intends to keep the remaining survivors trapped in their interactive system to preserve his own existence. One of the captives reveals that the cyrogenically frozen corpses were killed by Fear. Fear allows Torres to leave the system, but Harry is its hostage. The doctor is sent in to negotiate with Fear, but is unable to make any headway and another of the survivors is killed when Fear discovers an attempt to shut the system down. Finally, Fear agrees to an exchange of all of his hostages for a new victim: Janeway herself.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Joe Menosky
story by Richard Gadas
directed by Marvin V. Rush
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 McKean (Fear), Thomas Kopache (Viorsa), Carel Struycken (Masked Clown), Patty Maloney (Midget), Tony Carlin (Survivor #1), Shannon O’Hurley (Survivor #2)

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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

For The Cause

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Sisko is shocked and skeptical to learn that there is evidence suggesting that his lover, freighter captain Kasidy Yates, is smuggling supplies to the Maquis. However, the cloaked Defiant follows her ship, the Xhosa, on a run to the Badlands, where the crew witnesses Kasidy making a delivery to a Maquis ship…and soon Kasidy isn’t the only traitor Sisko has to worry about. Meanwhile, Garak and Ziyal come to an understanding.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Ronald D. Moore
story by Mark Gehred O’Connell
directed by James L. Conway
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Penny Johnson (Kasidy Yates), Kenneth Marshall (Eddington), Andrew Robinson (Garak), Tracy Middendorf (Ziyal), John Prosky (Brathaw), Steven Vincent Leigh (Lt. Reese)

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Season 02 Star Trek Voyager

Tuvix

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.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Kenneth Biller
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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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

To The Death

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate 49904.2: The Defiant returns from a mission to find that DS9 has been attacked by the Jem’Hadar. In pursuit of the raiders, they find another, damaged Jem’Hadar ship and beam aboard its crew and their Vorta supervisor, Weyoun, who tells Sisko that renegade Jem’Hadar have seized control of an Iconian gateway in the Gamma Quadrant. Sisko enters into an uneasy alliance on a mission to destroy the gateway before the renegades manage to restore it and gain the ability to instantly travel to any planet.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
directed by LeVar Burton
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Clarence Williams III (Omet’iklan), Brian Thompson (Toman’torax), Scott Haven (Virak’kara), Jeffrey Combs (Weyoun)

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Season 02 Star Trek Voyager

Resolutions

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Janeway and Chakotay, infected with a virus, are awakened from stasis and find themselves on the planet where they contracted the illness. The doctor’s research indicates that leaving the planet would prove fatal for them, and suggests contacting the medically advanced Vidiians for help, having failed to discover a cure himself. Survival provisions are sent to the planet, and Janeway hands command over to Tuvok and orders him to give the Vidiians a wide berth for the crew’s safety. As Janeway and Chakotay adjust to life in their new home and outside of the formal command structure to which they are accustomed, Tuvok orders the ship to steer clear of a Vidiian convoy despite the protests of many of the crew. A violent storm on the planet wrecks the equipment Janeway has been using to conduct her own research on the virus, and she finally begins to resign herself to the possibility that she and Chakotay may have to settle into the roles of Adam and Eve. Tuvok finally consents to contact the Vidiians, but despite the fact that the doctor’s old flame Dr. Denara Pel offers an antidote to the disease, her fellow Vidiians carry out a relentless ambush on Voyager.

Order the DVDswritten by Jeri Taylor
directed by Alexander Singer
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 (Dr. Denara Pel), Simon Billig (Hogan), Bahni Turpin (Swinn)

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Deep Space Nine Season 04 Star Trek

The Quickening

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Bashir, Dax, and Kira are on a routine biosurvey mission in the Gamma Quadrant when they receive a 200-year-old distress signal. They follow it to a planet where the population, once a spacegoing culture, is suffering from an incurable fatal disease inflicted on them by the Jem’Hadar for defying the Dominion. Bashir becomes obsessed with finding a cure for the Blight, despite the opposition from natives who feel he is giving them nothing but false hope.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Naren Shankar
directed by Rene Auberjonois
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Michael Sarrazin (Trevean), Ellen Wheeler (Ekoria), Dylan Haggerty (Epran), Heide Margolis (Norva), Loren Lester (Attendant), Alan Echeverria (Patient), Lisa Moncure (Latia)

LogBook entry by Tracy Hemenover