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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Gravity

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 52438.9: On an arid planet, scavenger Noss fends for herself against other hunters, all of whom have been stranded by this world’s unusual gravity well. Noss watches as another ship crash-lands violently on the planet, and reluctantly befriends its two pilots after one of them rescues her from the aliens. Even though these two newcomers are also alien to Noss, she finds herself falling in love with one of them, but for reasons she will never understand, her feelings will never be reciprocated. Noss must decide whether or not there is still any reason to aid these two wanderers. How can she warrant risking her life to help them when the one who calls himself Tuvok cannot comprehend her affection?

Order the DVDsteleplay by Nick Sagan & Bryan Fuller
story by Jimmy Diggs, Nick Sagan & Bryan Fuller
directed by Terry Windell
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Lori Petty (Noss), Leroy D. Brazile (Young Tuvok), Paul Eckstein (Yost), Joseph Ruskin (Vulcan Master)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Bliss

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.

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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)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Dark Frontier – Part I

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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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Dark Frontier – Part II

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 32611.4: Explorers Magnus and Erin Hansen set an unauthorized course to research a new alien race they’ve been monitoring, a race they call the Borg. The Hansens have developed an ingenious means of camouflaging their ship, and even masking their own life signs from Borg sensors so they can board one of their massive cubes. But when their camouflage fails and the Borg take notice of the Raven, the Hansens inadvertently attract the attention of the Collective not only to themselves, but to humanity. They – and their daughter Annika – become the first humans to be assimilated by the Borg.

Stardate 52619.2: Annika Hansen, now known as Seven of Nine, has been coerced to rejoin the Borg Collective. However, as she watches the Borg Queen mount a mission to conquer and assimilate an entire planet’s population, Seven realizes that her time aboard Voyager has given her not only freedom, but a compassion that the Borg lack. Meanwhile, Captain Janeway and her crew launch their most hazardous rescue mission yet – an attempt to rescue a crewmate from the very heart of the Borg Collective itself.

Order the DVDswritten by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by Terry Windell
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), Eric Cadora (Alien)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

The Disease

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Voyager has docked with a Varro generational ship, a huge vessel which is not only a closed ecosystem, but a closed society which avoids all contact with outsiders. However, not all of the Varro have been sticking to their xenophobic ways – and not every member of Voyager’s crew has been observing Starfleet protocols about engaging in intimate relations with alien species. Harry has fallen for Varro engineer Derran Tal, and even when unforseen biological side-effects expose their relationship to both ships’ crews, they continue to see each other, no matter whose orders they defy. What Harry doesn’t know is that Tal represents a serious threat to her own people – a splinter faction that wants to explore other worlds and cultures instead of shunning them. Without realizing it, Harry may have set in motion the downfall of the Varro civilization as its people know it.

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story by Kenneth Biller
directed by David Livingston
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Musetta Vander (Derran Tal), Christopher Liam Moore (Varro Leader), Charles Rocket (Jippeq), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

Notes: Charles Rocket was a former Saturday Night Live cast member who was famously fired from the show after saying the “F” word live on national television; he later appeared in a recurring role as the villainous network executive Ned Grossberg on Max Headroom. He committed suicide in 2005.

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Course: Oblivion

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 52586.3: The crew gathers to celebrate the wedding of Tom Paris and B’Elanna Torres, but the joyous occasion turns out to be the last good news any of them will ever experience. B’Elanna falls ill and dies, and Voyager’s own structure begins to break down. Soon, others begin to fall victim to the same epidemic, until only a handful of the crew is alive, leaving Harry Kim in charge of the ship. Ultimately, the entire crew perishes in a futile attempt to seek assistance from a nearby vessel…the Federation starship Voyager.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Bryan Fuller & Nick Sagan
story by Bryan Fuller
directed by Anson Williams
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

The Fight

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Voyager encounters a temporal-spatial anomaly called chaotic space, a phenomenon which threatens to tear the ship apart while it surrounds and traps Voyager. Chakotay experiences strange visions involving an alien boxer he has never actually encountered. The Doctor chalks these visions up to a latent gene in the first officer’s family, the same gene which once left Chakotay’s great grandfather “crazy.” When it is discovered that there is indeed an alien presence in chaotic space, Chakotay prepares to fight to save his ship and his sanity – and the gloves are coming off.

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story by Michael Taylor
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Ray Walston (Boothby), Carlos Palomino (Alien Boxer), Ned Romero (Chakotay’s Great Grandfather)

Notes: Olympic boxer Carlos Palomino was not only Chakotay’s opponent in the ring, but actor Robert Beltran’s boxing coach for this episode; Palomino also once appeared as an alien athlete in an episode of Buck Rogers.

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Think Tank

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: When a fleet of Hazari bounty hunters converge on Voyager, Janeway is at a loss to explain why her ship is being hunted, or how to escape the Hazari. But at her moment of greatest need, Janeway is approaced by Kurros, the chief representative of a spaceborne “think tank” which solves problems as small as finding a lost pet or ending a war…for a price. While Voyager stops at Kurros’ mobile laboratory, the Hazari vessels catch up and launch an attack. Kurros’ price tag for saving Voyager’s crew? He wants Seven of Nine to join his crew.

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story by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga
directed by Terrence O’Hara
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Jason Alexander (Kurros), Christopher Darga (Y’Sek), Christopher Shea (Saowin), Steve Dennis (Fennim)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Juggernaut

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Voyager happens upon a doomed Malon waste freighter, which is about to vent its lethal cargo of theta radiation across an entire sector. Only two Malons seem to have survived whatever happened to their ship, and once beamed to the safety of sick bay, both of them are terrified to return. Chakotay, Neelix and B’Elanna beam to the Malon ship in a final attempt to stabilize its structure, taking the two Malon crewmen with them. But when one of the two Malon is murdered by an unknown creature, it appears that their superstitions may be more accurate than Voyager’s crew thought. And B’Elanna’s fierce temper, which Tuvok cites as a reason to restrict her from away duty, could be her only means of surviving.

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story by Bryan Fuller
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Ron Canada (Fesek), Lee Arenberg (Pelk), Scott Klace (Dremk), Alexander Enberg (Malon core laborer), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Someone To Watch Over Me

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: B’Elanna is outraged to discover that, to further her study of human sexual interaction, Seven of Nine has been taking notes on B’Elanna’s relationship with Tom. The Doctor recommends a more academic (and less voyeuristic) approach to Seven’s studies. In the meantime, as Captain Janeway beams down for a cultural exchange with the chaste Kadi race, a Kadi ambassador visits Voyager for a few days, forgoing his race’s conservative ways for a chance to experience every pleasure that Voyager has to offer, whether it’s Neelix’s cooking or scantily-clad women in the holodeck. And when the Kadi ambassador sets his sights on Seven, who has only barely begun to comprehend human relations under the Doctor’s tutelage, a serious diplomatic incident may be the result.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Michael Taylor and Kenneth Biller
story by Brannon Braga
directed by Robert Duncan McNeill
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Scott Thompson (Tomin), Ian Ambercrombie (Abbot), Brian McNamara (Lt. Chapman), David Burke (Steven)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

11:59

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: A reminder of the Millennium Gate biosphere project at the dawn of the 21st century gives Captain Janeway the occasion to remember one of her distant ancestors, former astronaut Shannon O’Donnell, who has always inspired Janeway. But when the captain pries further into the pages of history, she discovers that Shannon O’Donnell may not have been the pioneering hero that inspired a young Kathryn Janeway to join Starfleet, and that her part in the Millennium Gate project may have been very small, yet very pivotal…and certainly not a fantastic feat of heroism.

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story by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
directed by Ron Surma
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Kevin Tighe (Henry Janeway), Bradley Pierce (Jason Janeway), John Carroll Lynch (Mr. Moss), Christopher Curry (Driver), James Greene (Passerby), Kristina Hayes (Field reporter)

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Relativity

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 48310.0: In Starfleet’s orbital shipyards above Mars, the new Intrepid-class vessel U.S.S. Voyager is preparing for her first launch – as is the ship’s newly-promoted Captain, Kathryn Janeway. But what Janeway doesn’t know about her new ship is that a Borg has infiltrated her crew…a Borg she will know, three years later, as Seven of Nine.

Stardate 49123.5621: In the midst of a Kazon ambush, two unexpected visitors arrive aboard Voyager – one to plant a device that will destroy the ship in three years, and another, claiming to be an individual Borg who has traveled back in time to prevent this act of sabotage.

Stardate 52861.274: Deep in the Delta Quadrant, Voyager suffers a series of major breakdowns due to temporal distortions. Just before Voyager explodes, killing all hands, Seven of Nine is “recruited” by Captain Braxton of the 29th century Federation Timeship Relativity. Her mission is to go back in time to prevent the destruction of Voyager without creating additional temporal paradoxes.

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story by Nick Sagan
directed by Allan Eastman
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Bruce McGill (Captain Braxton), Dakin Matthews (Admiral Patterson), Jay Karnes (Lt. Ducane), Josh Clark (Lt. Carey)

Original title: Time Bomb

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Warhead

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Harry, in command of Voyager on the graveyard shift, orders a course change to investigate an automated distress signal. Pleased with the ensign’s confidence, Chakotay orders Harry to lead the away mission to find the source of the signal. The signal is being transmitted by an artificial intelligence encased in a metallic shell, and the Doctor is capable of communicating with it. But once the device is thoroughly analyzed aboard Voyager, it is revealed to be an intelligent weapon. An attempt to download the artificial intelligence from the weapon’s casing results in an even worse predicament when the weapon’s intelligence takes over the Doctor’s program. It seals off sick bay with Harry and B’Elanna trapped inside…and the crew’s only hope is to try to reason with the weapon’s intelligence.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Michael Taylor and Kenneth Biller
story by Brannon Braga
directed by John Kretchmer
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: McKenzie Westmore (Ensign Jenkins), Steve Dennis (Alien)

Notes: McKenzie Westmore is the daughter of Oscar-winning makeup artist Michael Westmore, who created the alien prosthetic makeups on Star Trek from the premiere of The Next Generation through the final episode of Enterprise.

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Season 05 Star Trek Voyager

Equinox

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: To the amazement of Janeway and Voyager’s crew, a distress signal is received from the Federation starship Equinox. The Equinox, commanded by Captain John Ransom, was dragged into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker months ahead of Voyager. Ransom and his crew have been besieged by a race of subspace aliens which can only enter real space for a few seconds – but Ransom points out that these aliens can cause a considerable amount of damage in very little time, and the heavily-damaged Equinox seems to bear out his story. Tuvok and Seven detect several odd readings, indicating alien attempts to penetrate the combined shields of Voyager and the Equinox. Ransom repeatedly denies Voyager’s crew access to the engineering section of the Equinox, and it is only when Janeway secretly beams the Doctor over that a horrifying discovery is made. Ransom and his crew have sped their journey considerably by capturing and killing the subspace creatures and using their remains as an energy source. The aliens’ attacks are revenge for the numerous deaths they have suffered at the hands of Ransom’s crew, and when the Equinox crew force their way back to their ship and resume their bloody path toward the Alpha Quadrant, the aliens target Voyager’s crew instead… beginning with Captain Janeway.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
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 (Commander Max Burke), Olivia Birkelund (Ensign Gilmore), Rick Worthy (Ensign Lessing), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Steve Dennis (Crew member), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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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)

Order the DVDsteleplay by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
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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