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Night

Episode:

95

Director:

David Livingston

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Stardate:

52081.2

Synopsis:

The crew is facing a ship-wide case of cabin fever as the ship plunges into a vast, empty, star-less expanse, a shortcut that could take two years to complete. Captain Janeway has retreated into seclusion, and tempers are flaring. But the crew's craving for excitement is more than quenched when a sudden total loss of power is followed by the arrival of seemingly hostile intruders in the darkened corridors of the ship. Another unfamiliar alien vessel arrives to fend off Voyager's attackers, and it seems that the crew has a new ally, until Janeway is asked to help the Malon captain commit genocide in exchange for an quicker trip home.

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Drone

Episode:

96

Director:

Les Landau

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Story by:

Harry "Doc" Kloor

Stardate:

Synopsis:

A freak shuttle encounter with a cloud of active plasma necessitates an emergency evacuation. The Doctor's mobile holo-emitter and some of Seven of Nine's Borg nanoprobes are fused in the beam-out, resulting in a new life-form. With its immense adaptive Borg capabilities and its advanced 29th century technology, the new Borg drone proves to be amazingly intelligent and almost friendly in a childlike way, though Seven is troubled by the drone's curiosity about the nature of its Borg "ancestors." Unfortunately, another aspect of the drone's heritage - the signal which links it to the Borg collective - alerts the collective to its presence and Voyager's location, and a deadly family reunion becomes imminent.

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Extreme Risk

Episode:

97

Director:

Cliff Bole

Written by:

Kenneth Biller

Stardate:

Synopsis:

An unmanned experimental probe from Voyager attracts the unwelcome attention of Malon scavengers, who try to hijack it in mid-flight. Hoping to dissuade the Malon, Janeway directs the probe into the hazardous atmosphere of a nearby gas giant. But the Malons aren't dissuades from their prize, driving their freighter right into the planet's atmosphere to their deaths. As Paris prepares an entirely new breed of shuttlecraft - hopefully capable of withstanding the enormous pressures of the atmosphere - a second Malon vessel arrives, its captain ready to avenge the loss of his predecessors. With the engineering challenges inherent in a new shuttle design, Voyager's crew needs B'Elanna like never before, but B'Elanna is indulging in dangerous pursuits of her own.

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In The Flesh

Episode:

98

Director:

David Livingston

Written by:

Nick Sagan

Stardate:

Synopsis:

A surprising discovery is made in a most unexpected place - a space borne artificial environment which perfectly recreates the grounds and facilities of Starfleet Academy, complete with such beloved faces as Boothby the groundskeeper. When Chakotay and Tuvok bring one of the Starfleet officers from the "Academy" back to Voyager, however, they discover that this isolated outpost of humans is, in fact, a staging and training area for Species 8472's eventual invasion of the planet Earth.

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Once Upon a Time

Episode:

99

Director:

John Kretchmer

Written by:

Michael Taylor

Story by:

Stardate:

Synopsis:

On an expedition, the Delta Flyer shuttle is unable to avoid a violent ion storm, and crashes into a planetoid. Paris, Tuvok and Ensign Wildman are trapped when the Delta Flyer's landing buries it several kilometres beneath the surface. As the shuttle's crew prepares for the worst, Neelix is left with a dilemma of his own. Ensign Wildman's young daughter Naomi has been left in his care, and even though Naomi is aware that her mother has been out of contact for a longer than usual period of time, Neelix insists on diverting her from the truth. When Naomi grows impatience with Neelix and goes to the bridge for herself, she discovers a grim rescue effort is in progress to find her mother's shuttle. Now, despair could be the greatest enemy for both mother and daughter.

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Timeless

Episode:

100

Director:

LeVar Burton

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Story by:

Joe Menosky

Stardate:

52143.6

Synopsis:

Two figures beam down to an icy planet. Guided by a tricorder, they make their way round the cliffs, stopping when they find what they were looking for. One hits his combadge and shouts "We're here." The camera lifts up to reveal more of the surface of the planet. Beneath where the two figures are standing, the outline of Voyager can just be made out under the ice.

The two figures beam inside the ship, now without power and covered in cobwebs . Removing their suits, they turn out to be Kim and Chakotay. They quickly find Seven's frozen body and transport her to the Delta Flyer, along with the doctor. Once on board, Chakotay and Kim recount the story of the past 15 years to the doctor in a flashback...

The crew have finally managed to get the Quantum slipstream drive to work. This will allow them to get home in only three months. However, a phase variance develops that could throw Voyager out of the slipstream and destroy the ship. Kim comes up with a plan to fix that : the Delta Flyer must go two seconds ahead of Voyager in the slipstream, and send Voyager the phase corrections. However, Kim sent Voyager the wrong phase corrections, and caused it to be thrown out of the slipstream, crashing on the icy planet, killing the whole crew. Kim and Chakotay in the meantime, made it all the way home to Earth.

Kim and Chakotay have discovered a way to send a message to the past, using a stolen Borg temporal transponder. If the doctor can determine the exact time and place of death of Seven, they can send her a new set of phase corrections.

However, they are intercepted while setting the procedure up by the U.S.S. Challenger, commanded by Captain Geordi LaForge. They send the new calculations to Seven in the past, but they are not correct either, making Kim even more bitter about killing the whole crew a second time around, until the doctor manages to get him to think. He sends a new set of calculations to Seven that will disrupt the slipstream, moments before the Delta Flyer is destroyed by a warp core explosion...

Investigating after the seemingly failed attempt to achieve slipstream velocity, Kim realises that the phase calculations he sent to Voyager were wrong. Janeway reveals to him that along with the new calculations, which had a temporal displacement of between ten and twenty years, there was a starfleet security code - of Ensign Kim. There was also a log entry, explaining what happened, leaving Kim trying to figure out what has happened...

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As well as directing, LeVar Burton makes a guest appearance as the now Captain Geordi LaForge. This synopsis was written for a Starfleet News issue - see below to subscribe.

Infinite Regress

Episode:

101

Director:

David Livingston

Written by:

Robert J. Doherty

Story by:

Jimmy Diggs

Stardate:

Synopsis:

A chance encounter with the remains of a destroyed Borg vessel has an unusual effect on Seven of Nine. The former drone experiences brief flashes of many of the personalities assimilated into the collective of the shattered ship. The vinculum of the Borg ship, the piece of equipment which connects a particular vessel's local collective, is found intact, and efforts to dismantle it instead turn up evidence of deliberate tampering - and Seven's condition worsens. A powerfully armed alien ship arrives, challenging Janeway for possession of the Borg vinculum, and these new visitors don't care if Seven lives or dies. After all, their attempt to virally infect and destroy a Borg ship has proven successful, so what's the life of one more drone?

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Nothing Human

Episode:

102

Director:

David Livingston

Written by:

Jeri Taylor

Story by:

Stardate:

Synopsis:

Voyager is struck by a forceful energy field which does little damage and deposits information in the ship's computer. Janeway decides to investigate the source of the energy wave, finding a badly damaged ship with a curious, non-humanoid life form aboard. The creature attaches itself to B'Elanna, nearly killing her in the process, and the Doctor is unable to remove the creature without destroying its victim. The Doctor creates a hologram of famed Cardassian exobiologist Krell Mocet to assist in the desperate fight to save B'Elanna, but both B'Elanna and a young Bajoran crew member remember Mocet for his war atrocities during the Bajoran occupation. Making matters worse, the slowly dying B'Elanna forbids the Doctor to allow Mocet's assistance in a surgery that could save her life. The question of whether a former torturer's research should be used to save on crew member soon divides the crew.

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Thirty Days

Episode:

103

Director:

Winrich Kolbe

Written by:

Kenneth Biller

Story by:

Scott Miller

Stardate:

52179.4

Synopsis:

Voyager encounters a planet without a surface, a spherical construct consisting of a global-sized ocean and a gravitational containment field to maintain its planetary shape. The planet's inhabitants, the technologically advanced Moneans, cautiously visit Voyager and reveal a problem with their aquatic world - the containment field is failing and it's falling apart. With a few modifications to the Delta Flyer, Paris is able to take an away team into the ocean to examine the enormous reactor whose power prevents the sphere of water from dissipating completely. But the Moneans didn't build this reactor and they don't understand it - and their very presence in the planet's vast ocean may be the cause of the instability.

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Tom Paris is demoted to the rank of Ensign. Original title: Down Deep.

Counterpoint

Episode:

104

Director:

Les Landau

Written by:

Michael Taylor

Stardate:

Synopsis:

As it passes through the territory of the Devor, Voyager must frequently stop and allow the Devor to search it. The aliens' government searches all visitors to keep telepaths from escaping their grasp, but unknown to the Devor, Janeway has already granted asylum to several telepaths aboard Voyager. Kashyk, the commanding officer of the Devor inspection teams, confides his desire to defect to Janeway, who not only gives him passage aboard her ship, but her heart as well. But is Kashyk really abandoning his people - or is his defection too good to be true?

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Original title: Refugee

Latent Image

Episode:

105

Director:

Mike Vejar

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Story by:

Eileen Connors

Stardate:

Synopsis:

The crew's annual physicals reveal evidence of a most disturbing operation - at some point a year and a half ago, the Doctor performed an unorthodox neural surgery on Ensign Kim, but neither Harry nor the Doctor himself can remember such a procedure. When the Doctor tries to recover his lost memories, it seems that someone or something is continuing to tamper with his program, trying to keep him from recalling the incident in question. The Doctor sets his holo-imager to capture evidence of anyone breaking into the sickbay computers to alter his program further, and makes the shocking discovery that Captain Janeway is the one who is trying to derail his investigation.

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Bride of Chaotica

Episode:

106

Director:

Allan Kroeker

Written by:

Michael Taylor

Story by:

Bryan Fuller

Stardate:

Synopsis:

The Story So Far: In our last adventure, heroic space pilot Tom Paris created a holodeck simulation to recreate the sci-fi serials of the 1950s. But this week, young Tom is faced with a deadly dilemma as photonic aliens board the proud starship Voyager and find themselves under attack from the evil Doctor Chaotica! Will Tom vanquish the evil Chaotica and make peace with these visitors made of light? Will Captain Janeway save the crew without losing her dignity in the process? Tune in next time, true believers!

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Mostly set in B&W.

Gravity

Episode:

107

Director:

Terry Windell

Written by:

Bryan Fuller

Story by:

Bryan Fuller

Stardate:

52438.9

Synopsis:

On an arid planet, scavenger Nos fends for herself against other hunters, all of whom have been stranded by this world's unusual gravity well. Nos 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 Nos, she finds herself falling in love with one of them, but for reasons she will never understand, her feelings will never be reciprocated. Nos 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?

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Bliss

Episode:

108

Director:

Cliff Bole

Written by:

Robert J. Doherty

Story by:

Bill Prady

Stardate:

52542.3

Synopsis:

Voyager suddenly discovers a wormhole that apparently leads to Earth, and is only three million kilometres away. Seven of Nine, who has just returned from an away mission with Tom Paris and Naomi Wildman investigates, and discovers clues that the wormhole is not what it seems. She discovers what appears to be an alien vessel in the wormhole. Upon contacting it, the alien captain, Qatai, warns Seven to stay away, claiming that "he knows what you want".

Voyager meanwhile, begins to receive signals from the other side that seem to be communiqués from Starfleet. Torres downloads them, and it seems that each member of the crew has some good news &endash; the captain's lover has broken off his engagement, Chakotay gets a full pardon and reinstatement in Starfleet, and so on. When Seven goes to the captain with her findings, the captain ignores them. Even Tuvok's logic seems to have given way to getting home. She enlists the doctor to help her solve the mystery. She returns to the cargo bay to view the captain's logs for the past day, and realises that something is going on. There, she discovers Naomi Wildman, hiding from everyone because they've all gone strange. It seems that Seven and Naomi are the only members of the crew not affected.

Upon returning to sickbay, the doctor has been deactivated, apparently because Starfleet believe that the wormhole could damage his program. Chakotay then informs Seven the wormhole passes through a layer of subspace monitored by the Borg, and so she must be placed in stasis. She returns to the Cargo Bay with Chakotay, Tuvok and two security guards, but manages to trap them behind a forcefield while she beams to engineering. She stuns everyone in engineering, and attempts to tap into the helm controls to stop Voyager entering the wormhole, but she is unsuccessful. Since entering the wormhole, the crew have all fallen asleep.

Seven reactivates the Doctor, and informs him of the situation. They scan the 'wormhole' and discover that it isn't a wormhole, and that someone or something is altering the crew's thoughts and the ship's sensor readings. They contact the alien captain, Qatai, and agree to work together to try and find a way out. It turns out the Qatai has been hunting the beast for forty years. They devise a plan to get out: by firing Qatai's tetryon based weapons at some of Voyager's antimatter, the ship should be expelled into normal space. They fire the first round, and Seven believes that they have been expelled, but the alien is manipulating her thoughts. They fire again, and successfully return to normal space. Meanwhile, the crew is disappointed at not having come home, and Qatai mysteriously heads back into the beast…

Rating:

B+

Notes:

This synopsis was written for a Starfleet News issue.

Dark Frontier, parts I & II

Episode:

109 & 110

Director:

Cliff Bole (part I), Terry Windell (part II)

Written by:

Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky

Stardate:

Synopsis:

A Borg ship detects Voyager in Unimatrix 424 Grid 116. While attempting to disable it, Voyager destroys it, and Janeway decides to begin a salvage operation. While sifting through the remains, B'Elanna discovers a transwarp coil. Transwarp is a form of propulsion which would allow Voyager to travel at speeds twenty times faster than their maximum warp, and allow them to get home in a matter of years, rather than tens of years. Unfortunately, the coil was irreparably damaged by the explosion of the Borg ship. Nevertheless, Janeway is encouraged by this find, and decides to try and get her hands on a working coil. To do this, she decides to attack a Borg ship. Also in the debris, Seven has found Borg data modules which contain tactical data, including Borg ship movements. Janeway decides to steal a transwarp coil from the Borg, and chooses a sphere, 'limping' home after being severely damaged by an ion storm.

To obtain the precision necessary for success, Janeway decides to run tactical simulations on the holodeck in preparation. However, each time, one thing is clear: there is not enough time to disable the shields and get the transwarp coil before the Borg adapt to their phasers and assimilate the crew of Voyager. Seven's parents were experts on the Borg, having shadowed a Borg ship for two years at close range. Janeway asks Seven to read through her parents' logs, which she does not find easy.

Seven discovers that her parents invented a device which allowed her parents to remain onboard Borg ships for several hours, by rendering them invisible to Borg sensors. The Doctor replicates these 'bio-dampeners' for each member of the away team. Due to Seven's agitated behaviour and frame of mind in recent days, Janeway has decided to remove her from the away team.

While in the cargo bay, however, Seven is contacted by the Borg Queen, who tells Seven that if she returns to the collective, she will spare Voyager and its crew: otherwise, she will assimilate Voyager and its crew. Desperate to save the crew of Voyager, Seven pleads with Janeway to include her on the away team, and Janeway finally agrees.

Operation "Fort Knox" begins. Voyager uses a shuttlecraft as bait. When the Borg lower their shields to tractor the shuttlecraft in to assimilate it, the away team beams over. The away team successfully infiltrates the Borg ship and captures the transwarp coil, but Seven betrays Janeway and chooses to remain and rejoin the collective. Chakotay later reminds her that when she first came onboard, she said "We will betray you", but Janeway is determined to rescue her. The Borg sphere has meanwhile escaped with Seven on it. B'Elanna installs the transwarp coil to the delta flyer, and also equips it with multi-adaptive shielding, designed by Seven's father that will render the delta flyer invisible to the Borg.

Seven is taken to Unimatrix One, home of the Borg Queen. The Borg Queen reveals that Seven will not be rejoining the collective, and that her task is to prepare the Borg for their ultimate goal, which has eluded them for ten years: the assimilation of Humanity. She tells Seven that the Borg will be unable to assimilate Earth until they understand the species better. However, Seven refuses to co-operate in the assimilation of her own species. To help persuade her, they supervise the assimilation of another species, species 10026, and the Queen instructs Seven to oversee the assimilation. At first, Seven co-operates, but she is disturbed by the prospect of the destruction of a species, and betrays the Queen by helping several members of the race to escape. Seven refuses to help in the assimilation of humanity, and the Borg Queen issues an ultimatum: comply or you will assimilated.

Meanwhile, the Delta Flyer is successfully following the course of the sphere. The Doctor has discovered a way to send Seven a message, without it being transmitted to the rest of the collective. They drop out of transwarp at a Borg 'city' hanging in space, and send Seven the message. However, the Borg Queen detects the message. Tuvok locates Seven, but the chamber she is in is too heavily shielded to beam into. Instead, they beam into an adjoining corridor. Janeway sets about retrieving Seven while Tuvok disables the Borg shields. Once inside the chamber, the Borg Queen activates a dispersal field which prevents the Delta Flyer from beaming Janeway and Seven aboard. Seven ultimately decides to side with Janeway over the Borg Queen, and disables the field, and they return to the Delta Flyer. Using the transwarp coil, they escape but are pursued by Unimatrix One and the Borg Queen. The Delta Flyer manages to stay ahead of the Borg, and rendezvoused with Voyager. Chakotay destroys the transwarp conduit just after the Delta Flyer comes out of it, and Unimatrix One explodes as it comes out of the conduit.

Having installed the transwarp coil in Voyager's engines, they manage to get 20 000 light-years closer to home - a good twenty years off their journey. But the Borg Queen will be back...

Rating:

A-

Notes:

This synopsis was written for a Starfleet News issue - see below to subscribe for FREE.

The Disease

Episode:

111

Director:

David Livingston

Written by:

Michael Taylor

Story by:

Kenneth Biller

Stardate:

Synopsis:

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 unforeseen 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 realising it, Harry may have set in motion the downfall of the Varro civilisation as its people know it.

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Course: Oblivion

Episode:

112

Director:

Anson Williams

Written by:

Bryan Fuller & Nick Sagan

Story by:

Bryan Fuller

Stardate:

52586.3

Synopsis:

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.

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The Flight

Episode:

113

Director:

Winrich Kolbe

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Story by:

Michael Taylor

Stardate:

Synopsis:

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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Think Tank

Episode:

114

Director:

Terrence O'Hara

Written by:

Michael Taylor

Story by:

Rick Berman and Brannon Braga

Stardate:

Synopsis:

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 approached by Kurros, the chief representative of a space borne "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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Juggernaut

Episode:

115

Director:

Allan Kroeker

Written by:

Bryan Fuller & Nick Sagan

Story by:

Bryan Fuller

Stardate:

Synopsis:

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 stabilise 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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Someone to Watch Over Me

Episode:

116

Director:

Robert Duncan McNeill

Written by:

Michael Taylor and Kenneth Biller

Stardate:

Brannon Braga

Synopsis:

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.

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Notes:

11:59

Episode:

117

Director:

Ron Surma

Written by:

Joe Menosky

Story by:

Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky

Stardate:

Synopsis:

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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Relativity

Episode:

118

Director:

Allan Eastman

Written by:

Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan and Michael Taylor

Story by:

Nick Sagan

Stardate:

52861.274

Synopsis:

Stardate 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 travelled 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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Warhead

Episode:

119

Director:

Ohn Kretchmer

Written by:

Michael Taylor and Kenneth Biller

Story by:

Brannon Braga

Stardate:

Synopsis:

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 analysed 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.

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Equinox, part I

Episode:

120

Director:

David Livingston

Written by:

Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky

Story by:

Rick Berman, Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky

Stardate:

Synopsis:

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.

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