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Season 04 Star Trek Voyager

Demon

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Depleted of resources, Voyager limps into the vicinity of a class Y planet, known informally as a “demon” class planet. Though standard Starfleet procedure calls for total avoidance of the hostile environment of these planets, Janeway and the crew are left with no choice but to try to improvise a way to adapt the planet’s natural resources to power Voyager. Tom and Harry are the first away team to visit the planet, and they fail to report back. But the rescue team commanded by Chakotay finds both of them in perfect health – and capable of breathing freely in the deadly atmosphere of the planet. However, transporting the two back to Voyager almost proves fatal, leading the Doctor to believe that anyone who has visited this class Y planet can never leave it again.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Kenneth Biller
story by Andrè Bormanis
directed by Anson Williams
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Alexander Enberg (Ensign Vorik), Susan Lewis (Transporter Technician), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Season 04 Star Trek Voyager

One

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 51929.3: Voyager arrives at a vast nebula, and trying to go around the gaseous structure would add months to the ship’s journey. But Janeway’s command to proceed into the nebula nearly meets with disaster as the crew begins suffering radiation poisoning. Janeway is forced to consider putting the entire crew in stasis and leaving Voyager in the hands of the Doctor and Seven of Nine, whose Borg shielding renders her immune to the radiation poisoning. Though Seven is undaunted by the exhaustive schedule of duties she must perform as the ship’s sole pilot and engineer for an entire month, she may be unprepared for the sense of isolation that she must endure – but is she really alone, or has someone else boarded Voyager?

Order the DVDswritten by Jeri Taylor
directed by Kenneth Biller
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Wade Williams (Trajis Lo-Tarik), Ron Ostrow (Borg Drone), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Season 04 Star Trek Voyager

Hope and Fear

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 51978.2: On a routine supply stop, Paris and Neelix meet Arturis, an alien with a gift for translation. As Arturis hitches a brief ride aboard Voyager, Janeway decides to let Arturis try to decipher the encrypted message Starfleet sent through the Hirogen communications array several months earlier. Arturis makes quick work of the message, revealing a set of coordinates and a slightly garbled message from Admiral Hayes of Starfleet, detailing a new hope for Voyager’s crew to return home. But it is only when a wary Janeway tries deciphering the message on her own, while trying to convince Seven of Nine to return to the Alpha Quadrant with the crew, that the origins of the mysterious Starfleet experimental ship Dauntless are uncovered. This new ship, left unmanned for Voyager’s crew to use, is not on a mission of mercy, but a mission of vengeance.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Ray Wise (Arturis), Jack Shearer (Admiral Hayes), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Night

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 52081.2: The crew is facing a shipwide case of cabin fever as the ship plunges into a vast, empty, starless expanse, a shortcut that could take two years to complete. Captain Janeway has retreated into seclusion, and tempers are flaring. But the crew’s craving for excitement is more than quenched when a sudden total loss of power is followed by the arrival of seemingly hostile intruders in the darkened corridors of the ship. Another unfamiliar alien vessel arrives to fend off Voyager’s attackers, and it seems that the crew has a new ally…until Janeway is asked to help the Malon captain commit genocide in exchange for an quicker trip home.

Season 5 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)

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

Guest Cast: Ken Magee (Emek), Steven Dennis (Alien), Martin Rayner (Dr. Chaotica)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Drone

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: A freak shuttle encounter with a cloud of active plasma necessitates an emergency evacuation. The Doctor’s mobile holo-emitter and some of Seven of Nine’s Borg nanoprobes are fused in the beam-out, resulting in a new life-form. With its immense adaptive Borg capabilities and its advanced 29th century technology, the new Borg drone proves to be amazingly intelligent and almost friendly in a child-like way, though Seven is troubled by the drone’s curiosity about the nature of its Borg “ancestors.” Unfortunately, another aspect of the drone’s heritage – the signal which links it to the Borg collective – alerts the collective to its presence and Voyager’s location, and a deadly family reunion becomes imminent.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Bryan Fuller, Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
story by Bryan Fuller and Harry “Doc” Kloor
directed by Les Landau
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: J. Paul Boehmer (One), Todd Babcock (Lt. Mulcahey), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Extreme Risk

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.

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

In The Flesh

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: A surprising discovery is made in a most unexpected place – a spaceborne artificial environment which perfectly recreates the grounds and facilities of Starfleet Academy, complete with such beloved faces as Boothby the groundskeeper. When Chakotay and Tuvok bring one of the Stafleet officers from the “Academy” back to Voyager, however, they discover that this isolated outpost of humans is, in fact, a staging and training area for Species 8472’s eventual invasion of the planet Earth.

Order the DVDswritten by Nick Sagan
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Kate Vernon (Archer), Ray Walston (Boothby), Zach Galligan (Ensign Gantry), Tucker Smallwood (Admiral Bullock)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Once Upon A Time

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: On an expedition, the Delta Flyer shuttle is unable to avoid a violent ion storm, and crashes into a planetoid. Paris, Tuvok and Ensign Wildman are trapped when the Delta Flyer’s landing buries it several kilometers beneath the surface. As the shuttle’s crew prepares for the worst, Neelix is left with a dilemma of his own. Ensign Wildman’s young daughter Naomi has been left in his care, and even though Naomi is aware that her mother has been out of contact for a longer than usual period of time, Neelix insists on diverting her from the truth. When Naomi grows impatience with Neelix and goes to the bridge for herself, she discovers a grim rescue effort is in progress to find her mother’s shuttle. Now, despair could be the greatest enemy for both mother and daughter.

Order the DVDswritten by Michael Taylor
directed by John Kretchmer
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Justin Louis (Trevis), Nancy Hower (Ensign Wildman), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Wallace Langham (Flotter), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Timeless

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 52143.6: After creating a new slipstream drive for Voyager – thanks to Seven’s Borg technology – Janeway and the crew are ready to give the new drive its test flight. Tom and Harry are certain that they’ve spotted a potentially fatal flaw in the slipstream drive, but Harry proposes a quick fix that involves flying point ahead of Voyager in the Delta Flyer. The powerful new propulsion system brings Voyager within parsecs of the Alpha Quadrant in a matter of minutes – and then fails disastrously, slamming the ship into a class L planet and killing everyone except Harry and Chakotay, who are aboard the Delta Flyer. It is a tragic loss from which neither of them will ever recover.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
story by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by LeVar Burton
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Christine Harnos (Tessa Omond), LeVar Burton (Captain Geordi La Forge), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Infinite Regress

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: A chance encounter with the remains of a destroyed Borg vessel has an unusual effect on Seven of Nine. The former drone experiences brief flashes of many of the personalities assimilated into the collective of the shattered ship. The vinculum of the Borg ship, the piece of equipment which connects a particular vessel’s local collective, is found intact, and efforts to dismantle it instead turn up evidence of deliberate tampering – and Seven’s condition worsens. A powerfully-armed alien ship arrives, challenging Janeway for possession of the Borg vinculum, and these new visitors don’t care if Seven lives or dies. After all, their attempt to virally infect and destroy a Borg ship has proven successful…so what’s the life of one more drone?

Order the DVDsteleplay by Robert J. Doherty
story by Robert J. Doherty and Jimmy Diggs
directed by David Livingston
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Neil Maffin (Alien), Erica Mer (Human Girl), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Nothing Human

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Voyager is struck by a forceful energy field which does little damage and deposits information in the ship’s computer. Janeway decides to investigate the source of the energy wave, finding a badly damaged ship with a curious, non-humanoid life form aboard. The creature attaches itself to B’Elanna, nearly killing her in the process, and the Doctor is unable to remove the creature without destroying its victim. The Doctor creates a hologram of famed Cardassian exobiologist Krell Mocet to assist in the desperate fight to save B’Elanna, but both B’Elanna and a young Bajoran crewmember remember Mocet for his war atrocities during the Bajoran occupation. Making matters worse, the slowly dying B’Elanna forbids the Doctor to allow Mocet’s assistance in a surgery that could save her life. The question of whether a former torturer’s research should be used to save one crewmember soon divides the crew.

Order the DVDswritten by Jeri Taylor
directed by David Livingston
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: David Clennon (Krell Mocet), Jad Mager (Ensign Tabor), Frank Welker (Alien voice), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Thirty Days

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 52179.4: Voyager encounters a planet without a surface, a spherical construct consisting of a global-sized ocean and a gravitational containment field to maintain its planetary shape. The planet’s inhabitants, the technologically advanced Moneans, cautiously visit Voyager and reveal a problem with their aquatic world – the containment field is failing and it’s falling apart. With a few modifications to the Delta Flyer, Paris is able to take an away team into the ocean to examine the enormous reactor whose power prevents the sphere of water from dissipating completely. But the Moneans didn’t build this reactor and they don’t understand it – and their very presence in the planet’s vast ocean may be the cause of the instability.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Kenneth Biller
story by Scott Miller
directed by Wilrich Kolbe
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Willie Garson (Riga), Benjamin Livingston (Burkiss), Heidi Kramer (Megan Delaney), Alissa Kramer (Jenny Delaney), Warren Munson (Admiral Paris), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Original title: Down Deep

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Counterpoint

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: As it passes through the territory of the Devore, Voyager must frequently stop and allow the Devore to search it. The aliens’ government searches all visitors to keep telepaths from escaping their grasp, but unknown to the Devore, Janeway has already granted asylum to several telepaths aboard Voyager. Kashyk, the commanding officer of the Devore inspection teams, confides his desire to defect to Janeway, who not only gives him passage aboard her ship, but her heart as well. But is Kashyk really abandoning his people – or is his defection too good to be true?

Order the DVDswritten by Michael Taylor
directed by Les Landau
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Mark Harelik (Kashyk), Randy Oglesby (Kir), J. Patrick McCormack (Prax), Alexander Enberg (Ensign Vorik), Randy Lowell (Torat), Jake Sakson (Adar), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Original title: Refugee

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Latent Image

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: The crew’s annual physicals reveal evidence of a most disturbing operation – at some point a year and a half ago, the Doctor performed an unorthodox neural surgery on Ensign Kim…but neither Harry nor the Doctor himself can remember such a procedure. When the Doctor tries to recover his lost memories, it seems that someone or something is continuing to tamper with his program, trying to keep him from recalling the incident in question. The Doctor sets his holo-imager to capture evidence of anyone breaking into the sickbay computers to alter his program further, and makes the shocking discovery that Captain Janeway is the one who is trying to derail his investigation.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Joe Menosky
story by Eileen Connors
directed by Mike Vejar
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Nancy Bell (Ensign Jetal), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

The Bride of Chaotica

Star Trek: VoyagerThe Story So Far: In our last adventure, heroic space pilot Tom Paris created a holodeck simulation to recreate the sci-fi serials of the 1950s. But this week, young Tom is faced with a deadly dilemma as photonic aliens board the proud starship Voyager and find themselves under attack from the evil Doctor Chaotica! Will Tom vanquish the evil Chaotica and make peace with these visitors made of light? Will Captain Janeway save the crew without losing her dignity in the process? Tune in next time, true believers!

Order the DVDsteleplay by Bryan Fuller & Michael Taylor
story by Bryan Fuller
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Martin Rayner (Dr. Chaotica), Nicholas Worth (Lonzak), Jim Krestalude (Alien #1), Tarik Ergin (Robot), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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