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Scorpion, part II

Episode

69

Director:

Winrich Kolbe

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Stardate:

Not Given

Synopsis:

Janeway strikes a deal with the Borg to exchange the modified nanotechnology for a safe trip through Borg territory, but almost immediately things go wrong. The Borg attempt to force Janeway into a direct neural link to the Collective, but she instead demands that the Borg choose a single drone to facilitate verbal communication, and a female human Borg called Seven of Nine is appointed. An ambush by Species 8472 destroys the Borg cube containing Janeway, but she, Tuvok and a number of Borg safely transport back to Voyager. The Borg quickly assimilate the cargo bay which they have taken over, and Janeway must recover from injuries she sustained in the attack on the Borg ship. When Seven of Nine demands a change in the ship's course taking it into the heart of Borg space, Chakotay decides to abort the newly forged alliance with the Borg. Now the crew faces the prospect of a Borg invasion from within, or a violent death at the hands of Species 8472, unless Janeway and Chakotay can overcome their differences of opinion regarding co-operation with the Borg.

Rating:

A-

The Gift

Episode

70

Director:

Anson Williams

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Stardate:

Not Given

Synopsis:

Seven of Nine, isolated from the Borg Collective and left behind on Voyager, begins a turbulent process of recovery in sick bay. The Doctor believes that she can regain her human biology and identity, but her assimilation during early childhood will make the process difficult. Seven of Nine begins to experience seizures - the Borg's last line of defence is to kill a drone before another species can try to gain an understanding of its Borg technology. Kes miraculously destroys the offending Borg implant through telekinesis, an ability with which she has not experimented for two years. Seven of Nine reviles the crew's attempt to restore her humanity, even making the accusation that Janeway's forced removal of her Borg enhancements are no better than Borg assimilation. Tuvok resumes his meditative exercises with Kes to focus her new abilities, but she begins to exhibit a terrifying command over the structure of matter itself. Between Seven of Nine attempting to regain communications with the Borg, and Kes' increasing lack of control over her enhanced abilities, the crew may lose friends both old and new.

Rating:

B+

Notes:

This is the last episode to feature Jennifer Lien as Kes.

Day of Honour

Episode

71

Director:

Jesus Salvador Treviño

Written by:

Jeri Taylor

Stardate:

Not Given

Synopsis:

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 Honour, 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 Cataati refugees take possession of the core before she and Paris can salvage it via shuttle. And the Cataati would also like Janeway to hand Seven of Nine over to them so they can settle old scores.

Rating:

C

Nemesis

Episode

72

Director:

Alexander Singer

Written by:

Kenneth Biller

Stardate:

51082.4

Synopsis:

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 travelling 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.

Rating:

B

Revulsion

Episode

73

Director:

Kenneth Biller

Written by:

Lisa Klink

Stardate:

51186.2

Synopsis:

Voyager receives a distress call from a hologram aboard an alien ship who claims that his organic crew mates 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 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.

Rating:

A-

Notes:

This is the first and only appearance of Spectrum the holographic fish!

The Raven

Episode

74

Director:

LeVar Burton

Written by:

Bryan Fuller

Story by:

Harry "Doc" Kloor

Stardate:

Not Given

Synopsis:

Seven of Nine has been experiencing vague visions about the Borg, including the rather incongruous image of a shrieking raven inside a Borg ship. While Seven tries to deal with these disturbing episodes, Janeway opens negotiations with the somewhat paranoid Bomar race, who only offer the Voyager crew a long, convoluted path through their territory. The talks with the Bomar are made even more difficult when Seven of Nine's Borg nature resurfaces and, after threatening to assimilate Neelix and forcing her way into a shuttle, she escapes and flies right into Bomar space. The Bomar consider Seven's unplanned journey - and Janeway's plans for a rescue mission - to be hostile actions, but nothing can stop a Borg drone when it is receiving a homing signal to rejoin the Borg collective.

Rating:

B-

Notes:

We finally see Seven's ship, the U.S.S. Raven, where she was assimilated.

Scientific Method

Episode

75

Director:

David Livingston

Written by:

Lisa Klink

Story by:

Sherry Klein and Harry "Doc" Kloor

Stardate:

51244.3

Synopsis:

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 behaviour 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 realising that she is aware of their presence.

Rating:

A

Year of Hell, part I

Episode

76

Director:

Allan Kroeker

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Stardate:

51268.4

Synopsis:

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 jeopardise his plan.

Rating:

B

Year of Hell, part II

Episode

77

Director:

Mike Vejar

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Stardate:

51425.4

Synopsis:

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.

Rating:

A-

Random Thoughts

Episode

78

Director:

Alexander Singer

Written by:

Kenneth Biller

Stardate:

51367.2

Synopsis:

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.

Rating:

B

Concerning Flight

Episode

79

Director:

Jesus Salvador Treviño

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Story by:

Joe Menosky

Stardate:

51386.4

Synopsis:

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.

Rating:

B+

Mortal Coil

Episode

80

Director:

Allan Kroeker

Written by:

Bryan Fuller

Story by:

Stardate:

51449.2

Synopsis:

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.

Rating:

D

Notes:

A bad episode. Watch something else instead!

Waking Moments

Episode

81

Director:

Alexander Singer

Written by:

Kenneth Biller

Stardate:

Not Given

Synopsis:

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.

Rating:

A-

Message in a Bottle

Episode

82

Director:

Nancy Malone

Written by:

Lisa Klink

Story by:

Rick Williams

Stardate:

Not Given

Synopsis:

Seven of Nine uses an alien communications relay to locate a Federation starship in the Alpha Quadrant. Janeway decides to send the Doctor through the relay as a data stream with orders to tell Starfleet of Voyager's misadventures. When the Doctor arrives aboard the U.S.S. Prometheus, however, he discovers that the experimental warship has been hijacked by Romulans, and the Starfleet crew are all dead. He can't return to Voyager without drawing attention to himself, so he passes himself off as the ship's holographic doctor when he is discovered. But he discovers that the Prometheus has its own EMH program - supposedly an improvement on the original Zimmerman model - who is hiding from the Romulans. The Doctor must put his years of unprecedented experience to work to thwart the Romulans single-handedly, while trying to prove to the next generation of the holographic doctor that there's more to life than waiting to be activated in sick bay. Meanwhile, a lone alien tries to warn Voyager away from the communications array, and Seven tires of attempts at diplomacy and kills him, unwittingly alerting the rest of his race that Voyager is there.

Rating:

A+

Notes:

Voyager's first contact with Starfleet since becoming lost in the Delta Quadrant.

Hunters

Episode

83

Director:

David Livingston

Written by:

Jeri Taylor

Stardate:

Not Given

Synopsis:

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 information from Starfleet Command. The ageing communications array can barely handle the task of delivering the messages from home, so Seven and Tuvok set out to stabilise 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.

Rating:

B+

Prey

Episode

84

Director:

Allan Eastman

Written by:

Brannon Braga

Stardate:

A-

Synopsis:

Voyager encounters a lone Hirogen ship adrift in space, with minimal life signs. An away team pays a brief visit to the derelict, finding the ship in ruins and only one member of its crew still barely alive. After the surviving Hirogen is brought aboard, it becomes apparent they his prey - which is also responsible for killing his fellow hunters - has penetrated Voyager's defences. The object of the Hirogen's hunt is a rogue member of Species 8472, the race which almost defeated the Borg. Janeway realises that she will need Seven's help to return the creature to its home before more Hirogen arrive, but Seven's instinct to regard Species 8472 as a mortal enemy may overpower her loyalty to Voyager.

Rating:

A-

Retrospect

Episode

85

Director:

Jesus Salvador Treviño

Written by:

Lisa Klink

Story by:

Mark Gaberman

Stardate:

51658.2

Synopsis:

Janeway strikes a deal with Kovan, a weapons dealer, to arm Voyager with a powerful isokinetic cannon, and assigns Seven of Nine to assist him with the installation. Seven, however, continues to prove difficult to work with, reacting violently when Kovan tries to correct her during an installation procedure. The Doctor is able to patch Kovan up quickly, but his examination of Seven is derailed when she displays fear of the Doctor's medical instruments and biobed enclosure. The Doctor helps her find a hidden memory - which turns out to involve Kovan restraining her, forcing regrowth of her Borg implants, and extracting them from her body. Janeway launches an investigation of Kovan, and he is anything but co-operative, even when evidence is found that supports his story. Is he an innocent man running from an accusation that could ruin him, or does he have something to hide?

Rating:

D

The Killing Game, part I

Episode

86

Director:

David Livingston

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Stardate:

Not Given

Synopsis:

In World War II France, the leader of a resistance cell operates behind the scenes at her nightclub, worrying that her club's singer - who also happens to be a weapons expert - is having second thoughts about working to free France of Nazi forces. Suspicions are heightened with the singer is shot down alongside a resistance messenger, but turns up unharmed shortly afterward. If the resistance doesn't succeed in taking out a vital German radio installation, Allied Forces won't be able to liberate their city.
On the eve of the critical espionage mission, the nightclub singer is the only one who realises that she is Borg, the resistance leader is a starship captain, her bartender is a Vulcan, the message boy is a Talaxian, and the Nazis are actually the Hirogen, who have taken over a defenceless starship called Voyager to subject its crew to simulations of historical battles.

Rating:

A-

The Killing Game, part II

Episode

87

Director:

Victor Lobl

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Stardate:

51715.2

Synopsis:

Janeway and Seven of Nine, free of the Hirogen neural implants which have been forcing their crew mates to relive World War II without any knowledge of their real identities, make their way through Voyager. Janeway hopes that she can talk the Alpha Hirogen into some sort of unconventional truce, only to discover that his views are unique among his race. Meanwhile, Voyager, already critically damaged, is further endangered because its own brainwashed crew and their holographic Nazi opponents are conducting a rematch of World War II throughout the ship.

Rating:

A

Notes:

This is the last episode featuring the Hirogen.

Vis à Vis

Episode

88

Director:

Jesus Salvador Treviño

Written by:

Robert J. Doherty

Stardate:

51775.2

Synopsis:

Voyager encounters a damaged ship piloted by the alien Steth, who requests help. Paris tries to help Steth repair his spacecraft, and Steth returns the favour by stealing a sample of Tom's DNA and reshaping himself in Tom's image. Tom transforms into Steth's alien body as his attacker assumes his role among the crew - and his role in Tom's relationship with B'Elanna. To silence Tom, Steth sends him off in his newly repaired ship, where Tom is apprehended by an armada who assume from his appearance that he is Steth. On Voyager, Steth quickly tires of being a mere helmsman and sets his sights on command - by assuming the physical form of the ship's captain.

Rating:

C-

The Omega Directive

Episode

89

Director:

Victor Lobl

Written by:

Lisa Klink

Story by:

Steve J. Kay

Stardate:

51793.4

Synopsis:

Voyager's main computer mysteriously brings the ship to an abrupt halt, displaying the symbol of the Greek letter omega and waiting for Captain Janeway to intervene. The computer privately informs Janeway of a top-secret Starfleet directive involving an energy source capable of wiping out large portions of space. Starfleet has failed to harness the Omega energy source and has deemed it too powerful for anyone else to posses - hence Janeway's orders to locate and destroy the source of Omega. Once she finally discloses these instructions to her crew, Janeway learns that the Borg have encountered Omega as well - and that their experiments with the volatile energy source were no more successful than Starfleet's. But instead of a threat, Seven of Nine thinks of Omega as ultimate perfection - and a limitless energy source waiting to be harnessed.

Rating:

A

Unforgettable

Episode

90

Director:

Andrew J. Robinson

Written by:

Michael Perricone

Stardate:

51813.4

Synopsis:

A woman's voice from a critically damaged ship calls out to Chakotay - even though he has no idea who she is. Rescued from her ship, Kellen promptly asks for asylum from her own people, warning that they will certainly come looking for her. Though suspicious of his guest, Chakotay listens as she recounts a story of how she previously sought the help of the crew in tracking down another fugitive from her world - and fell in love with Chakotay in the process. The genetic makeup of Kellen's people prevents sensors from picking her up accurately, and keeps other races from retaining any memory of her. But just as Kellen once captured a runaway from her world, another member of her race has secretly boarded Voyager to retrieve her - whether she wants to go home or not.

Rating:

C

Living Witness

Episode

91

Director:

Tim Russ

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Story by:

Brannon Braga

Stardate:

Not Given

Synopsis:

The Doctor is activated 700 years after Voyager became involved in a war between two planets. Though Voyager and her crew are long gone, the Doctor's recollections are sought by one historian - and condemned by others. The Doctor has become just one part of a museum which serves as a testament to one world's holocaust and another world's conquest, and not everyone wants to hear the hologram's version of the story - a story which, in the museum exhibits, portrays Captain Janeway and her crew as bloodthirsty warmongers who took sides in the conflict.

Rating:

B

Demon

Episode

92

Director:

Anson Williams

Written by:

Kenneth Biller

Story by:

André Bormanis

Stardate:

Not Given

Synopsis:

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 Demon-class planet can never leave it again.

Rating:

B+

One

Episode

93

Director:

Kenneth Biller

Written by:

Jeri Taylor

Stardate:

51929.3

Synopsis:

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?

Rating:

C-

Hope and Fear

Episode

94

Director:

Winrich Kolbe

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Stardate:

51978.2

Synopsis:

Voyager is concluding trade negotiations with a planet. Neelix has met a man who can almost instantly translate between languages after only hearing a few sentences. After he was able to act as an intermediary, Neelix agreed to transport Arturis to his home planet.

Meanwhile, Janeway is still trying to decode the message Voyager received from Starfleet Command in "Hunters", but when she learns of Arturis' ability with languages, she asks him to try to decode the message from Starfleet. He succeeds, and manages to recover all of the message except one part, which he says is too badly damaged to be recoverable.

Part of the message indicates a galactic grid, about ten light-years from Voyager's position, and they discover there a ship which seems to be Starfleet in origin: the U.S.S. Dauntless, NX 01-A. It appears that Starfleet have developed a new kind of propulsion system, the Quantum Slipstream drive, which Starfleet believe will be able to bring the Voyager crew home in only three months.

They check out the ship, and everything seems to be in order, but Janeway senses that something is a little strange: the message, telling them exactly what they want to hear, a ship which can take them home in three months - it's all too perfect. Janeway investigates the message, and discovers that the block which was 'too damaged to be recoverable' is in fact recoverable, and Arturis created a fake message. The real message reveals that Starfleet have not been able to develop a technology to get them home sooner, but have included information on the Delta Quadrant which may allow their journey to be as much as a year shorter.

On the Dauntless, meanwhile, Harry finds some technology in the Dauntless engine room which definitely isn't Federation. Tuvok investigates, and Janeway informs him that Arturis is up to no good. A security detail beam over to the Dauntless to apprehend Arturis, but he transforms the ship into its original form, but all the crew except Janeway and Seven are able to beam back to Voyager.

It transpires that Arturis' people had been evading the Borg for centuries before Voyager encountered the Borg, but their alliance with them in their war against species 8472 allowed the Borg to assimilate Arturis' people. Arturis now wants his revenge. He had wanted to get the entire crew of Voyager assimilated, but he only gets Janeway and Seven.

Meanwhile, after having studied the Dauntless' engine, Paris is able to recreate it aboard Voyager. They pursue the Dauntless, and Voyager is able to beam Janeway and Seven out before Arturis encounters the Borg and is assimilated.

After travelling at Slipstream velocity for an hour longer, they finally have to power down the drive, because the hull of Voyager isn't strong enough to handle the quantum forces on it. This means that they won't be home in three months after all (it would have been a very short series if they were), but Seven believes that Quantum Slipstream is still viable, and continues working on it.

Rating:

A+

Notes:

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