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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Blood Fever

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50537.2: Large deposits of gallicite draw Voyager to an abandoned planet for this material that will enable a refit of the warp coils. But while preparing for the expedition, Ensign Vorick comes under the influence of the Pon Farr and declares his intention to take B’Elanna as a mate, attempting to force his affections on her. Although this results in a dislocated jaw for Vorick, the physical contact seems to have caused a change in the chief engineer resulting from a mating bond. As the odd triangle (which includes Tom Paris) is resolved, the crew discovers that the planet is not abandoned after all, but is inhabited by the Sakari, a race which has developed camouflage to a high art to avoid their ancient enemies – the Borg.

Order the DVDswritten by Lisa Klink
directed by Andrew Robinson
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Alexander Enberg (Vorik), Bruce Bohne (Sakari Leader), Deborah Levin (Ensign Lang)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Unity

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50622.4: While exploring the Nekrit Expanse in a shuttle, Chakotay responds to a distress call which recognizes their Federation signature, but when he goes to the surface to investigate he runs into a firefight between rival factions. Meanwhile, Voyager runs into an abandoned Borg cube adrift in space. It turns out that the people on the planet were once a part of the Borg collective, but the link was severed about five years previously and they fell into anarchy. A small group of the castaways tries to enlist Chakotay’s help to bring some order to the society, but the Voyager crew is concerned that this action would re-awaken the Borg ship.

Order the DVDswritten by Kenneth Biller
directed by Robert Duncan McNeill
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Lori Hallier (Riley Frazier), Ivar Brogger (Orum), Susan Patterson (Ensign Kaplan)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Darkling

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50693.2: The Doctor attempts to modify himself by adding behavioral subroutines while the Voyager crew treats with the Mikhal Travelers, trading supplies for information on the Nekrit Expanse. But while the Travelers seem very helpful, and Kes becomes romantically involved with one of their pilots, a strange series of changes begins to take place in the Doctor. The new subroutines seem to have created an alter ego which is becoming separate from the Doctor’s normal personality. He begins to display a violent jealousy over Kes’ blossoming relationship, combined with the ruthlessness to carry out his intentions. B’ellana’s efforts to help modify his program only brings the ship, crew, and especially Kes closer to danger.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Joe Menosky
story by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: David Lee Smith (Zahir), Stephen Davies (Nakhan), Noel De Souza (Ghandi), Christopher Clarke (Lord Byron), Sue Henley (Ensign), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Rise

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: Neelix joins a crew attempting to help Nezu colonists survive a series of asteroid collisions. Voyager fails in its attempt to vaporize an incoming asteroid and discovers that they’re artificially guided. When Neelix and Tuvok are abandoned on the planet just before the next scheduled asteroid strike, they and some colonists use a maglift carriage to climb an orbital tether to a point where they can contact the ship. But one of the Nezu is determined to keep the others from passing on what they know. As the carriage rises into the thinning atmosphere, they discover what the real motivation behind both the asteroids and the surrounding secrecy is.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Brannon Braga
story by Jimmy Diggs
directed by Robert Scheerer
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Alan Oppenheimer (Sklar), Lisa Kaminir (Lillias), Kelly Connell (Ambassador), Tom Towles (Hanjuam), Geof Prysirr (Dr. Vatm)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Favorite Son

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50732.4: Ensign Kim fires without warning or explanation on an alien ship. This startling action has apparently saved Voyager, but Harry continues to “remember&quo;t things about a place he’s never been. When more Nasari ships appear to press the attack, Voyager is saved by a Taresian vessel and escorted to their homeworld with the surprising news that Harry is actually a Taresian – conceived in the Delta Quadrant and taken to Earth for fosterage unknown to his human parents. The Taresians bend over backwards to welcome Harry back to the fold, even preparing him for their form of multiple marriage, but Harry and the crew sense something amiss.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Brannon Braga
story by Lisa Klink
directed by Marvin V. Rush
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Cari Shayne (Eliann), Deborah May (Lyris), Patrick Fabian (Taymon), Kelli Kirkland (Rinna), Kristanna Loken (Malia), Christopher Carroll (Alex), Irene Tsu (Mrs. Kim)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Before & After

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: “Grandma Kes” awakens surrounded by people who claim they are her family, but whom she doesn’t recognize. She fades into unconsciousness and reawakens at a slightly earlier time in her life. Although she remembers the experience, it apparently hasn’t happened yet for the rest of the crew. Confused and frightened, Kes continues to experience the morilogium – the final phase of the Ocampan lifespan – as well as the temporal effects of life-extension treatments in the Doctor’s experimental bio-temporal chamber. As the temporal effects grow more and more out of control, Kes regresses through her entire life, seeing a 9-year history of Voyager in reverse as she struggles to understand her situation and how to stop what is happening to her.

Order the DVDswritten by Kenneth Biller
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Jessica Collins (Linnis), Michael L. Maguire (Arnis), Janna Michaels (young Kes), Rachel Harris (Martis), Christopher Aguilar (Andrew)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Real Life

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50836.2: As the crew investigate the apparent destruction of a Vostigye science station, the Doctor works on a program which has created a family for him to interact with. He invites B’Elanna and Kes to join him in the holodeck for dinner with his new wife and children, and they strike the chief engineer as being “ridiculously perfect.” B’Elanna offers to help tweak the program a bit to bring it more in line with the real experience of home life.

Order the DVDsteleplay by Jeri Taylor
story by Harry “Doc” Kloor
directed by Anson Williams
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Wendy Schaal (Charlene), Glenn Walker Harris, Jr. (Jeffrey), Lindsey Haun (Belle), Stephen Ralston (Larg), Chad Haywood (K’Kath)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Distant Origin

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: The Voyager crew are unwitting research subjects after scientists of the Voth, a reptilian race who believe they were the first intelligent beings to evolve in the Delta Quadrant, discover the human remains of Voyager crewman Hogan and find a genetic pattern similar to their own. When Gegen, the chief researcher, suggests that based on these findings, the true origin of the Voth is Earth, their leader, Minister Odala, deems him a heretic. To prove his theory, Gegen and his assistant Veer track down Voyager, infiltrate the ship and take their next research subject, Chakotay, hostage.

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

Guest Cast: Henry Woronicz (Gegen), Christopher Liam Moore (Tova Veer), Marshall R. Teague (Hulak), Concetta Tomei (Minister Odala), Nina Manton (Frola), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Displaced

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50912.4: As Nyrians begin appearing on the Voyager at 9:20 intervals, crewmembers begin to disappear at the same rate. Although the visitors seem peaceful, Janeway suspects an organized takeover. Her suspicions are confirmed as the crew find themselves in a holographically generated environment where they are held prisoner. The startling appearance of a fellow prisoner from an adjoining “cell” makes them realize how to move between areas of what turns out to be a giant ship filled with different environments and a command center with an extremely long-range transporter.

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directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Deborah Levin (Lang), Mark L. Taylor (Jarlath), James Noah (Rislan), Kenneth Tigar (Dammar), Nancy Youngblut (Taleen), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Worst Case Scenario

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50953.4: Chakotay startles B’Elanna by recruiting her for a Maquis mutiny, and then proceeds to carry it out. Things get even stranger when Seska turns up as one of the mutineers. Suddenly Paris walks into the scene, revealing the fact that Torres is playing a holo-novel. The experience was designed by Tuvok as a training exercise shortly after the joining of the two crews when the security officer felt that a mutiny was a real possibility. The fresh literary material is so intriguing to the crew that many of them begin surreptitiously playing the program and Janeway instructs Tuvok to write an ending and make it more than a training exercise. But Seska had discovered the program before she defected to the Kazon and she rewrote the subroutines to take her revenge on Tuvok for having betrayed the Maquis back when they were still in the Alpha Quadrant.

Order the DVDswritten by Kenneth Biller
directed by Alex Singer
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Martha Hackett (Seska), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Scorpion – Part I

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50984.3: As Voyager approaches the edge of Borg space, they discover a narrow passage which is empty of Borg activity and decide to try to thread their way through it in an effort to avoid confrontation. But they suddenly realize that the reason for the lack of Borg activity is the invasion of another species which apparently has no trouble at all defeating the Borg cubes with bio-ships impervious to assimilation. A Voyager away team visits a dying cube ship which has one of the alien vessels attached to it. The crew manage to download the Borg’s information on the new species, named “8472,” but Harry Kim is attacked by the pilot of the bio-ship and is given a virulent infection which begins to devour him from the inside out. While Ensign Kim fights for his life, a conflicted Janeway grapples with the decision of either guiding her crew through the dangerous Borg territory which is lined with a new mortal enemy or turning around and ending all hope of ever getting home.

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

Guest Cast: John Rhys-Davies (Leonardo Da Vinci)

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