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Caretaker

Episode:

1

Director:

Winrich Kolbe

Written by:

Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor

Story by:

Jeri Taylor

Stardate:

48315.6

Synopsis:

A Maquis ship mysteriously disappears in the Badlands, a charged energy field near the demilitarised zone, while being pursued by a Cardassian ship. The U.S.S. Voyager, commanded by Kathryn Janeway, is ordered to find the ship, because Janeway's head of security, a Vulcan named Tuvok, was onboard undercover. Arriving in the Badlands, Voyager is scanned by an unknown presence and then transported into the Delta Quadrant, by a particle wave that causes heavy damage and kills many of the crew, including the first officer. While repairs are being made, Janeway and her crew are beamed off the ship and deposited in a simulation on an array. The inhabitants conduct examinations of the crew, then return them to Voyager, all except Ensign Kim. Making contact with the Maquis crew commanded by Chakotay, Janeway discovers that the same tests were forced upon the renegades and that one of their number has also been abducted. A tenuous truce is arranged so that both crews can recover their missing crew members. Meanwhile, Ensign Kim and Maquis engineer B'Elanna Torres have been beamed to the planet Ocampa, a barren wasteland of a world whose short-lived inhabitants live underground. There they are attended to by the Ocampa, who have been instructed by the Caretaker to look after the two visitors since they have somehow become infected with a fatal disease. Voyager's crew track their missing comrades to Ocampa and encounter the scavenger Neelix, who offers to be the crew's guide through this part of space. His knowledge of the local area is invaluable, such as the revelation that water is a rarity and is valuable currency here. On the surface of Ocampa, they discover the Kazon. They hand over a captive Ocampa named Kes in exchange for some water from Voyager. Shortly after Kes leads the crew to Kim and Torres, the energy array shuts down after transmitting a final burst of power to Ocampa. The Kazon attempt to claim the array for themselves, but Chakotay and Tom Paris, a former Maquis member aboard Voyager, fight off the Kazon, allowing Janeway and Tuvok beam to the array and find the elderly and dying Caretaker. It turns out that the Caretaker's race accidentally destroyed the Ocampan ecosystem and then built the subterranean habitat and the power array so the Ocampa could survive. However, the Caretaker is dying. He has been trying to find a compatible bio-molecular life form, so his offspring could continue to care for the Ocampa, but he has been unsuccessful. Hr decides to destroy the array, thereby stopping the Kazon from enslaving the Ocampa. In the fierce battle with the Kazon, Chakotay's Maquis ship is destroyed when he rams it into the lead Kazon ship, which then collides with the array, disabling the self-destruct sequence. Janeway beams back to the Voyager and destroys the array herself, though it could have sent her and her crew back to the Alpha Quadrant. The Kazon swear vengeance should they encounter Voyager again. Janeway invites the remains of the Maquis crew to join the crew of Voyager, and they set a course for home, which will take them 75 years at maximum warp.

Rating:

A-

Parallax

Episode:

3

Director:

Kim Friedman

Written by:

Brannon Braga

Jim Trombetta

Stardate:

48439.7

Synopsis:

B'Elanna Torres faces the prospect of a court-martial after assaulting Carey, the senior surviving member of Voyager's engineering crew, and Janeway balks when Chakotay nominates Torres for the position of chief engineer. Before a choice can be made, Voyager encounters a quantum singularity that appears to have trapped a ship. After an attempt to rescue the distant derelict with the tractor beam, Voyager is forced to back off as the crew hatches alternate plans to retrieve the other ship. At Chakotay's insistence, Janeway includes Torres in the process, and B'Elanna manages to come up with a working theory that the other ship is Voyager, already trapped in the singularity. If she can manage to free the ship from the phenomenon, B'Elanna may prove herself adequate to the task of becoming Voyager's chief engineer.

Rating:

B+

Time and Again

Episode:

4

Director:

Les Landau

Written by:

Michael Piller

Story by:

David Kemper

Stardate:

Not Given

Synopsis:

Exploring a planet which has very recently been rendered uninhabitable by a global disaster, Janeway and Paris are separated from the rest of their away team and somehow find themselves in the same place, but hours before the cataclysm that consumed the planet's entire civilisation. Their attempts to remain anonymous while trying to find a way back to their own present land them in the middle of a protest against a polaric energy plant, which may be the cause of the world's destruction. At first, Janeway is adamant that the Prime Directive be adhered to, but when she discovers the possibility that her presence may have caused the disaster in the first place, the captain decides to set aside Starfleet's most important regulation.

Rating:

A

Phage

Episode:

5

Director:

Winrich Kolbe

Written by:

Skye Dent and Brannon Braga

Story by:

Timothy de Haas

Stardate:

48532.4

Synopsis:

Searching for deposits of refineable dilithium, Voyager stops off at a moon, where Chakotay, Kim and Neelix beam to the surface. It turns out that this moon is not uninhabited. A group of aliens there seem to have left a dilithium trail, and one of them attacks Neelix. When the others come to his aid, Neelix's lungs have been removed, and only some innovative but risky gambles taken by Voyager's holographic doctor can keep him barely alive. The aliens flee the moon in their own ship, and Janeway orders a pursuit. It turns out that the attackers are simply trying to survive themselves, their species all but wiped out by a deadly disease. Their only hope for survival is to take working organs from others - and they cannot return to lungs to Neelix, for they have already been used.

Rating:

B

The Cloud

Episode:

6

Director:

David Livingston

Written by:

Michael Piller

Story by:

Brannon Braga

Stardate:

48546.2

Synopsis:

Investigating a nebula whose energy currents could replenish the ship's engines and other systems, Voyager penetrates the gases of the nebula, which turns out to be a huge life form. The ship's entry injures the creature, and Voyager barely makes it back into open space intact. Though it will further deplete the ship's energy reserves, Janeway feels that the crew is obligated to return to the nebula and repair the damage caused by Voyager's intrusion.

Rating:

E-

Eye of the Needle

Episode:

7

Director:

Winrich Kolbe

Written by:

Jeri Taylor

Story by:

Hilary J. Bader

Stardate:

48579.4

Synopsis:

Harry's sensor sweeps for space anomalies detect a wormhole which Janeway diverts Voyager off course to investigate. Though a probe is able to determine that the wormhole leads homeward to the Alpha Quadrant, the wormhole is too small to travel through. When the probe is scanned by a ship on the other side, the crew begin using it as a relay satellite and make contact with a Romulan ship. Though the Romulan captain is sceptical of Janeway's claim that Voyager is in the Delta Quadrant, he eventually realises the truth and offers to help transmit messages home. Later, B'Elanna discovers a possible way to beam through the wormhole to the Romulan ship, but this method of returning to the Alpha Quadrant is halted by an unforeseeable problem - the other end of the wormhole is fifty years in the past.

Rating:

A-

Ex Post Facto

Episode:

8

Director:

LeVar Burton

Written by:

Michael Piller

Story by:

Evan Carlos Somers

Stardate:

Not Given

Synopsis:

Kim returns alone in a shuttle from a trip to Benea which he made with Tom Paris. After getting entangled with a scientist's wife, and by all accounts murdering the scientist in question, Paris has been sentenced to relive the crime from the victim's point of view every 14 hours. Janeway, despite Tom's admittedly less-than-exemplary record, needs to know for herself if Tom is guilty of the crime. When it turns out that the Benean punishment is reacting badly to Tom's human physiology, he is taken back to Voyager. Mysteries begin to pile up - why are the neighbouring warlike Numiri attacking Voyager? And who really committed to murder? The answers can only come from one source - Tuvok must mind-meld with Paris to experience the forced re-enactment of the incident himself.

Rating:

D

Emanations

Episode:

9

Director:

David Livingston

Written by:

Brannon Braga

Stardate:

48623.5

Synopsis:

Investigating the possibility of a new element detected in asteroids in a system, an away team beams down to one of the asteroids and finds a burial chamber, complete with many dead bodies encased in a residual shell. As the away team conducts a visual survey - at Chakotay's request to avoid desecrating the dead, a subspace phenomenon forces the away team to beam back to the ship. However, Kim doesn't return, his place having been taken by a newly arrived body. Harry finds himself among a race of ritualistic people who believe he has returned from their afterlife, and is constantly besieged with questions about "the next emanation". An alien named Patera, in the meantime, is revived about Voyager. She finds herself losing faith in the possibility of the next life, while Harry is the subject of intense curiosity and study by Patera's people.

Rating:

E+

Prime Factors

Episode:

10

Director:

Les Landau

Written by:

Greg Elliot

Story by:

David R. George III and Eric A. Stillwell

Stardate:

48642.5

Synopsis:

Voyager is intercepted by a ship from Sakarris, an planet with an advanced culture renowned for its hospitality; Sikarran magistrate Gath offers an extended visit to his planet, which Janeway accepts. During this visit, Harry finds out that the Sikarrans have developed transportation technology that could send Voyager at least halfway home, if not all the way. But the Sikarrans have their own rule - much like Starfleet's Prime Directive - that will not permit them to share this technology with less advanced cultures. However, a faction on Sakarris is willing to exchange a sample of their trajector with Voyager's crew in exchange for something only the outsiders can offer. Janeway will not conduct an unofficial or illegal exchange, but she finds out that there are those among her crew who will.

Rating:

C

State of Flux

Episode:

11

Director:

Robert Scheerer

Written by:

Chris Abbott

Story by:

Paul Robert Coyle

Stardate:

Not Given

Synopsis:

A visit to the surface of a habitable planet becomes less than routine when a Kazon ship is detected nearby. All away teams are recalled to Voyager, but Seska can't be found. Chakotay finds her in a cave nearby, where the two of them are attacked by Kazon but escape. The Kazon ship is sending a distress signal, and despite her own misgivings and Neelix's warnings, Janeway sends an away team to the ship. It is discovered that the Kazon somehow acquired some Federation technology and suffered a fatal accident while trying to install it on their ship. Other Kazon ships are on the way, and Janeway faces the possibility that someone aboard Voyager has decided to ally themselves with the enemy.

Rating:

B-

Heroes and Demons

Episode:

12

Director:

Les Landau

Written by:

Naren Shankar

Stardate:

48693.2

Synopsis:

As Voyager passes near a protostar, Janeway and Torres try to beam some samples of its photonic material aboard. When they try to enlist Harry's help in studying it, they find that he has disappeared from the ship. Chakotay and Tuvok go to where Harry was last found - the holodeck - and try to learn what happened to their comrade by interacting with Harry's Beowulf holodeck program. Even Chakotay and Tuvok vanish when Grendel comes to ravage the Hall Heorot. Someone needs to venture into the holodeck to find where the missing crewmen are going, or if they're still alive. Into Hrothgar's keep steps a new warrior, the only member of Voyager's crew immune to the threat of being snatched out of the holodeck. The affair of Grendel was made known to him on his native soil; space travellers said that this hall, best of holo-scenarios, stands empty and useless to all warriors after the evening light becomes hidden beneath the cover of the sky. Therefore his people - or specifically Captain Janeway - advised that he should investigate because they know what his strength can accomplish, but can the holographic doctor grapple with something other than a medical emergency?

Rating:

B+

Cathexis

Episode:

13

Director:

Kim Friedman

Written by:

Brannon Braga

Story by:

Joe Menosky

Stardate:

48734.2

Synopsis:

Tuvok and Chakotay barely survive an alien attack within a dark matter nebula they were exploring. Chakotay is returned to Voyager in a brain-dead state, but Tuvok recovers. After numerous acts of sabotage prevent Janeway from taking Voyager into the nebula to investigate, it becomes evident that an alien consciousness is loose aboard the ship, moving from person to person in order to keep Voyager out of the nebula. Another presence then makes itself known, this one hell-bent on taking the ship into danger.

Rating:

B-

Faces

Episode:

14

Director:

Winrich Kolbe

Written by:

Kenneth Biller

Story by:

Jonathan Glassner and Kenneth Biller

Stardate:

48784.2

Synopsis:

An away team left to explore a planetoid has been captured by the phage-ravaged Vidiians, who are seeking alien genes resistant to the disease for incorporation into the Vidiians' own genetic structure. In one experiment, Vidiian surgeon Sulan splits B'Elanna into two entirely separate beings, one Klingon, the other human. B'Elanna's human side is timid and weak compared to her powerful warrior half, who escapes from Sulan's lab. A gamble by Chakotay pays off in rescuing the surviving crew members from the Vidiians, but B'Elanna - despite her desire to be free of her hot-tempered Klingon half - will die unless she is reintegrated.

Rating:

B

Jetrel

Episode:

15

Director:

Kim Friedman

Written by:

Jack Klein & Karen Klein and Kenneth Biller

Story by:

Scott Nimerfro & Jim Thomton

Stardate:

48840.5

Synopsis:

An alien ship contacts Voyager and asks for Neelix by name; when the party seeking Neelix turns out to be a Haakonian named Jetrel, Neelix reacts badly. Jetrel was a scientist who developed the Metreon cascade, an immensely powerful weapon that destroyed 300,000 Talaxians - including Neelix's family - during a war with the Haakonians fifteen years ago. Jetrel announces that Neelix could be suffering from a terminal condition resulting from minimal exposure to the Metreon cascade, and offers to try to study him to find a cure. But Neelix wants no part of easing Jetrel's conscience.

Rating:

C+

Learning Curve

Episode:

16

Director:

David Livingston

Written by:

Jean Louise Matthias

Stardate:

48846.5

Synopsis:

After a Maquis officer named Dalby breaks with procedure and replaces a faulty bio-neural circuit without reporting the malfunction, Janeway assigns Tuvok - himself a former instructor at Starfleet Academy - to bring Dalby and a handful of other problematic Maquis up to speed on Starfleet protocol. This task proves more daunting than Tuvok could have imagined, since even the most worrisome Academy cadets at least wanted to be in Starfleet. Despite an order from Chakotay to learn the Starfleet ropes, Dalby and his fellow trainees are determined not to learn a thing - until their lives depend on it.

Rating:

C

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