Category: Season 04

Stardate not given: Voyager encounters a handful of ships carrying the only survivors of a Delta Quadrant race which was all but wiped out by the Borg, and Janeway agrees to the refugees’ requests for supplies. The reminder of the Borg’s destructive power doesn’t help the crew’s perception of Seven of Nine, who requests an assignment to engineering. B’Elanna, who is already suffering her way through the traditional Klingon Day of Honor, doesn’t welcome the former Borg, who has proposed using transwarp flight to speed Voyager’s journey. The transwarp experiment fails, forcing B’Elanna to dump the warp core into open space – and the Ketati refugees take possession of the core before she and Paris can salvage it via shuttle. And the Ketati would also like Janeway to hand Seven of Nine over to them so they can settle old scores.

written by Jeri Taylor
directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Alexander Enberg (Ensign Vorik), Alan Altshuld (Ranen), Michael A. Krawic (Klingon), Kevin P. Stillwell (Ketati), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 51082.4: Chakotay is stranded on a world torn by war, his shuttle shot down by one of the aggressors. After a reluctantly friendly Voray defender is shot down by the Kradin while trying to take Chakotay back to his shuttle, the first officer has to adopt the Voray’s indigenous clothing for cover. That night, he is traveling with the Voray soldiers to their base, in the hope that they will be able to contact Voyager, and sees for himself the way the Kradin dispose of the Voray. Still wary of involving himself in their way, Chakotay is forced to defend himself when the nemesis ambushes his party, and escapes wounded while the rest of the Voray fall in the attack. He makes his way to a nearby village and is cared for until the Kradin attack there, too. On Voyager, Janeway has been offered help in locating her first officer. An ambassador from one of the warring races beams up to discuss the situation, an ambassador who is horrified at the way his helpless people are being preyed upon by their merciless nemesis…an ambassador of the Kradin.

written by Kenneth Biller
directed by Alexander Singer
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Michael Mahonen (Brone), Matt E. Levin (Rafin), Nathan Anderson (Namon), Peter Vogt (Commandant), Booth Colman (Penno), Meghan Murphy (Karya), Terrence Evans (Ambassador Treen), Marilyn Fox (Marna), Pancho Demmings (Kradin Soldier)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 51186.2: Voyager receives a distress call from a hologram aboard an alien ship who claims that his organic crewmates are dead. Naturally, the Doctor takes a particular interest in this away mission and visits the ship along with Torres. The hologram is a nervous wreck with a great deal of hostility toward organic life forms, which manifests itself in a conversation with B’Elanna. On Voyager, Seven of Nine is assigned to help Harry with a new project, and Harry goes from dreading her company to seeing her as viable female companionship, although the former Borg is only confused by his flirtations (and scares him with her own direct approach to human relationships). If the Doctor can escape his fellow hologram’s murderous obsession, Harry may need his help if Seven of Nine gets her hands on him.

written by Lisa Klink
directed by Kenneth Biller
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Leland Orser (Dejaren) and Spectrum, the holographic fish

Note: Tuvok is promoted to lieutenant commander at the beginning of this episode, although he wore the rank insignia of a lieutenant commander through much of the first season.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 51244.3: The strain of the long journey appears to be taking its toll on Voyager’s crew – Janeway seems more irritable than usual, B’Elanna and Tom more amorous than usual, and everyone seems to be on edge. At first, the abnormal behavior is dismissed as stress, until actual physical changes accompany them – Chakotay experiences the premature onset of old age, and Neelix is mutated into a species related to Talaxians. When the Doctor and B’Elanna investigate, they find that the crew is being tampered with down to the genetic level, but before this information can be relayed to Janeway, B’Elanna falls ill and the Doctor’s remote holographic projector is mysteriously damaged. The Doctor warns Seven of Nine, and she discovers that there are aliens – invisible to most visible wavelengths – conducting experiments on the entire crew. Seven must bring the experiments to a halt while keeping the aliens from realizing that she is aware of their presence.

teleplay by Lisa Klink
story by Sherry Klein and Harry “Doc” Kloor
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Annette Helde (Takar), Rosemary Forsyth (Alzen)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 51268.4: Annorax, a Krenim temporal scientist, has accidentally destroyed his home as he knows it through the use of a temporal weapon which removes his enemies from history. A temporal shock wave – the physical sphere of the temporal weapon’s influence – hits a wayward Federation starship called Voyager, of which Annorax has no knowledge. Somehow, the inhabitants of the anomalous ship have discovered a way to protect themselves from the effects of the temporal weapon – and Annorax must find a way to erase them from the timeline before they jeopardize his plan.

written by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Kurtwood Smith (Annorax), John Loprieno (Obrist), Peter Slutsker (Krenim Commandant), Rick Fitts (Zahl), Deborah Levin (Ensign Lang), Sue Henley (Ensign Brooks), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 51425.4: Having barely survived numerous attacks by an enemy armed with a weapon that alters history itself, Voyager is crippled beyond repair and Captain Janeway has ordered the crew to abandon ship. Chakotay and Paris are found by the enemy, a seemingly amicable Krenim named Annorax, and Chakotay tries to reason with him before he destroys Voyager. Janeway orders the last of the senior crew to leave Voyager so she can launch one final decisive attack against the Krenim – but her plan will only succeed if Chakotay and Paris can turn Annorax’s own crew against him.

written by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by Mike Vejar
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Kurtwood Smith (Annorax), John Loprieno (Obrist), Peter Slutsker (Krenim Commandant), Rick Fitts (Zahl), Deborah Levin (Ensign Lang), Sue Henley (Ensign Brooks), Lise Simms (Wife), Majel Barrett (Narrator)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 51367.2: Voyager visits the telepathic Mari race to procure supplies and equipment before continuing toward the Alpha Quadrant. B’Elanna bumps into one of the natives and responds angrily, unwittingly setting off a chain of events that shocks the entire Mari culture – a culture which reveals a dark underbelly that thrives on the angry impulses and concealed violent thoughts of alien visitors. B’Elanna is arrested and sentenced to undergo a form of brain surgery that will rid her of anger…assuming that the procedure, designed only for the Mari themselves, doesn’t kill her. Tuvok takes it upon himself to help find the black market of emotions in an effort to clear B’Elanna’s name, but he must reveal his own well-hidden dark thoughts to infiltrate it.

written by Kenneth Biller
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Gwynyth Walsh (Nimira), Wayne Pere (Guill), Rebecca McFarland (Talli), Jeanette Miller (Woman), Ted Barba (Malin), Bobby Burns (Frane)

Notes: Trek fans generally know Gwynyth Walsh better as Lursa, one of the two Klingon sisters who were scheming to take control of the Empire during many of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Klingon-oriented episodes.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 51386.4: A band of alien pirates raid Voyager, stealing technology – including the Doctor’s remote projection unit and the ship’s main computer core – and leaving the ship crippled. Janeway and Tuvok visit the home base of the pirates and discover that Janeway’s Leonardo Da Vinci holodeck program has been won over by Captain Tau’s flamboyant power. Janeway can only retrieve Voyager’s central computer with the help of the Renaissance man – but first she must convince him that her aims are nobler than those of his new master.

teleplay by Joe Menosky
story by Jimmy Diggs and Joe Menosky
directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino
music by

Guest Cast: John Rhys-Davies (Leonardo Da Vinci), John Vargas (Tau), Don Pugsley (Alien Visitor)

Original title: Da Vinci’s Day Out

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 51449.2: Neelix takes a break from his preparations for a traditional Talaxian holiday to join Chakotay and Tom on a shuttle mission to gather matter from a nebula. But the matter and the nebula prove to be very unstable, and Neelix is killed by a violent energy discharge. Seven of Nine startles the Doctor by revealing that properly applied Borg nanoprobes from her body could revive Neelix if the procedure is performed in time. Janeway reluctantly gives her permission for the unorthodox operation, and Neelix is safely resuscitated – but when he is told who saved his life and how, Neelix is suddenly unsure of everything, from his beliefs in a Talaxian afterlife to his own place in the universe.

written by Bryan Fuller
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Nancy Hower (Ensign Wildman), Brooke Ashley Stephens (Naomi), Robin Stapler (Alixia)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: Many members of the crew report the sudden incongruous appearance of a previously unknown alien being in their dreams. Discussion of the alien’s appearance reveals that everyone has seen the same creature, even though no one has ever met this species before. The Doctor fights to keep the crew from falling into comas, but before long he is fighting a losing battle. Chakotay, whose Indian meditation practices include a thorough knowledge of directed dreaming, believes he may be able to lead the rest of the crew out of the alien’s trap…but even his abilities may not match up the power of the crew’s uninvited guests.

written by Andrè Bormanis & Kenneth Biller
directed by Alexander Singer
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Mark Colson (Dream Alien), Jennifer Grundy (Ensign)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate not given: After four years out of contact, Voyager receives a series of messages from Starfleet, sent through the alien communications array which was used to send the Doctor to the Alpha Quadrant. The messages include letters from the crew’s families as well as official information from Starfleet Command. The aging communications array can barely handle the task of delivering the messages from home, so Seven and Tuvok set out to stabilize it. However, they also encounter a scouting party of Hirogen, investigating the recent death of one of their race. The Hirogen are a species of hunters, trapping other species for souvenirs and bragging rights, and they consider their two newest specimens to be evidence of some very intriguing bounty.

written by Jeri Taylor
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Tiny Ron (Alpha-Hirogen), Roger Morrissey (Beta-Hirogen)

LogBook entry by Earl Green