Star Trek: Voyager

Original title : Night
First Aired : 14.10.1998 (USA)
Director : David Livingston
Writing credits : Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Cast : Martin Rayner (Dr. Chaotica), Ken Magee (Emck), Steve Dennis (Night Alien), Steven Dennis (Night Alien)

The Story : Stardate 52081.2 - The crew of the USS Voyager is unsettled as a secluded and conflicted Captain Janeway reflects on the decision she's made along the mission and the consequences those judgements have had for them all. But soon the team of the USS Voyager encounters two never before seen alien species - a nocturnal alien and its foe, the Malon - and knows that one will not survive without their intervention. Knowing that coming to their aid makes a detour through dark, desolate space necessary, the captain alone must once again determine her crew's fate.

Original title : Drone
First Aired : 21.10.1998 (USA)
Director : Les Landau
Writing credits : Bryan Fuller, Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky From a Story by Bryan Fuller & Harry Doc Kloor
Cast : J. Paul Boehmer (Drone), Todd Babcock (Lt. Mulchaey)

The Story : There's a sudden emergence of a dangerous new lifeform aboard the USS Voyager - a Superborg - after The Doctor's 29th century mobile emitter technology mysteriously fuses with Seven of Nine's Borg nanoprobes. Seven has to take a mentor role in making sure that this drone's allegiances are to the crew. The 24th century Borg Collective become aware of the existence of the futuristic drone and come looking for it, leaving it up to Janeway to protect Seven and the Doctor's "child" from the Collective.

Original title : Extreme Risk
First Aired : 28.10.1998 (USA)
Director : Cliff Bole
Writing credits : Kenneth Biller
Cast : Alexander Enberg (Vorik), Hamilton Camp (Vrelk), Daniel Betances (The Pilot)

The Story : Torres' crewmates are alarmed when she repeatedly engages in reckless activity including orbital skydiving. Meanwhile, after the USS Voyager directs its probe into a hazardous atmosphere, protecting it from a Malon freighter, Lt. Paris launches a newly constructed, all environment shuttlecraft, to retrieve it.

Original title : In the Flesh
First Aired : 04.11.1998 (USA)
Director : David Livingston
Writing credits : Nicholas Sagan
Cast : Ray Walston (Boothby), Kate Vernon (Archer), Zach Galligan (Ensign Gentry), Tucker Smallwood (Admiral Bullock)

The Story : Stardate 52136.4 - The USS Voyager discovers that Species 8472 has created a habitat simulation of Starfleet's San Francisco Yards, and are training their own to pose as humans to eventually invade Earth.

Original title : Once Upon a Time
First Aired : 11.11.1998 (USA)
Director : John T. Kretchmer
Writing credits : Michael Tatlor
Cast : Justin Louis (Trevis), Wallace Langham (Flotter), Nancy Hower (Ensign Wildman), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman)

The Story : As the U.S.S. Voyager searches for the crash-landed Delta Flyer and its crew, Lt. Paris, Tuvok, Ensign and Samantha Wildman, Neelix helps the littlest crewmember, Naomi Wildman, cope without her mother. Together, they are kept occupied by the odd character's in Naomi's storybook holonovel, the classic Adventures of Flotter, but Neelix soon decides that a starship is no place for a child.

Original title : Timeless
First Aired : 18.11.1998 (USA)
Director : LeVar Burton
Writing credits : Rick Berman, Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Cast : Christine Harnos (Tessa), LeVar Burton (Captain Geordi LaForge)

The Story : Stardate 52143.6 - Fifteen years after the Starship U.S.S. Voyager crashes into a desolate ice planet, Commander Chakotay and former Ensign Harry Kim, sole survivors of the tragedy, steal the Delta Flyer from a Federation shipyard and return to the U.S.S. Voyager's frozen hull. Aided by Chakotay's striking love interest, Lieutenant Tessa Omond, Chakotay and Kim are hotly pursued fugitives with hope that somewhere embedded beneath the ice, they'll retrieve the only tools they believe can change the fate of their long-dead fellow crew members.
Note : Levar Burton reprises his "Star Trek: The Next Generation" role of Geordi LaForge.

Original title : Infinite Regress
First Aired : 25.11.1998 (USA)
Director : David Livingston
Writing credits : Robert J. Doherty & Jimmy Diggs From a Story by Robert J. Doherty
Cast : Niel Maffin (Ven), Erica Mer (Human Girl), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman)

The Story : Stardate 52188.7 - Mysteriously, the U.S.S. Voyager comes upon a floating Borg Vinculum - a device that interconnects Drone's minds aboard a Borg vessel - which swiftly causes Seven of Nine to manifest personalities other than her own including that of a Klingon warrior, a Ferengi, and a six-year-old human girl. Janeway is crushed to learn that before Tuvok, The Doctor and she can intervene, Seven may be completely lost.

Original title : Nothing Human
First Aired : 02.12.1998 (USA)
Director : David Livingston
Writing credits : Jeri Taylor
Cast : David Clennon (Jad Mager)

The Story : After Torres is stricken by a bizarre, injured alien that latches itself onto her body, The Doctor creates another holographic physician, a Cardassian exobiologist named Dr. Crell Moset, to save her life. But Torres refuses treatment when it's learned that the physician engaged in unethical wartime medical practices.

Original title : Thirty Days
First Aired : 09.12.1998 (USA)
Director : Winrich Kolbe
Writing credits : Scott Miller & Kenneth Biller
Cast : Willie Garson (Riga), Benjamin Livingston (Perfect), Heidi Kramer (Megan Delaney), Alissa Kramer (Jenny Delaney)

The Story : Stardate 52179.4 - The U.S.S. Voyager makes a fascinating discovery, a massive ocean floating in space and populated by the Moneans, a maritime alien species. When Janeway learns that the Monean's deep sea home is losing containment, she offers Starfleet technological assistance: a modified, now seaworthy Delta Flyer piloted by an eager Lieutentant Tom Paris. But soon after Paris and Riga, one of the young Monean scientists, return from their deep sea exploration, Paris is accused of a stunning breach of protocol--with dire consequences.

Original title : Counterpoint
First Aired : 16.12.1998 (USA)
Director : Les Landau
Writing credits : Michael Taylor
Cast : Mark Harelik (Kashyk), Randy Oglesby (Kir), Patrick McCormack (Prax), Randy Lowell (Torat), Jake Saskon (Adar), Alexander Enberg (Vorik)

The Story : As the U.S.S. Voyager rescues two families of telepathic alien refugees from the Devore Imperium, they are intercepted by a Devore squadron and boarded by inspectors searching for the defectors. Soon Kashyk, the lead Devore officer pleads with Janeway to grant him asylum.

Original title : Latent Image
First Aired : 20.01.1999 (USA)
Director : Mike Vejar
Writing credits : Joe Menosky From a Story by Eileen Connors
Cast : Nancy Bell (Ensign Jetal), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman)

The Story : While employing his holo-imaging device, The Doctor discovers that his short term memory buffer has been tampered with and fervently initiates an investigation to find the person or thing responsible for the corruption.

Original title : Bride of Chaotica
First Aired : 27.01.1999 (USA)
Director : Allan Kroeker
Writing credits : Bryan Fuller & Michael Taylor
Cast : Martin Rayner (Dr. Chaotica), Nicholas Worth (Lonzak), Tarik Ergin (Robot), Jim Krestalude (Alien No. 1)

The Story : Armed conflict erupts when aliens from the Fifth Dimension mistake Lieutenant Paris' "Captain Proton" holographic novel for reality. The aliens consider the novel's main character, the evil Dr. Chaotica, to be a threat so they knock the U.S.S. Voyager's controls off-line. Janeway is forced to assume the role of the story's powerful Arachnia, Queen of the Spider People, and infiltrate Chaotica's Fortress of Doom. Meanwhile, The Doctor takes on the role of the novel's President of Earth to help the aliens defeat Chaotica.

Original title : Gravity
First Aired : 03.02.1999 (USA)
Director : Terry Windell
Writing credits : Bryan Fuller & Nick Sagan From a Story by Jimmy Diggs
Cast : Lori Petty (Noss), Leroy D. Brazile (Young Tuvok), Paul Eckstein (Yost), Joseph Ruskin (Vulcan Master)

The Story : When Tuvok, Paris and the Doctor are pulled into a planet by its intense gravity and crash, they wait to be rescued. From their perspective, many weeks have passed with no contact from Voyager, while on board, only a few hours have passed as they plan a rescue attempt.

Original title : Bliss
First Aired : 10.02.1999 (USA)
Director : Cliff Bole
Writing credits : Robert J. Doherty From a Story by Bill Prady
Cast : W. Morgan Sheppard (Qatai), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman)

The Story : Stardate 52542.3 - Finally, after five long years, an exhilarated crew of the U.S.S. Voyager finds a wormhole that will bring them back to the Alpha Quadrant. As the happy crew prepares to return to Earth, a skeptical Seven of Nine violates captain's orders and enlists The Doctor, little Naomi Wildman and an alien pilot, Qatai, to help her stop the ship from entering the wormhole.

Original title : Dark Frontier (1/2)
First Aired : 17.02.1999 (USA)
Director : Cliff Bole
Writing credits : Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Cast : Susanna Thompson (Borg Queen), Eric Cadora (Alien), Kirk Bailey (Magnus Hansen), Laura Stepp (Erin Hansen), Katelin Petersen (Annika Hansen), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman), Tarik Ergin (Lt. Ayala)

The Story : Stardate 52619.2 - After defeating a Borg vessel, Janeway launches an ambitious plan to steal a piece of Borg technology that could get the U.S.S. Voyager home. When the Borg detect her plan, they swiftly access Seven of Nine's neural transceiver and make her an "offer" she can't refuse -- rejoin the Borg collective or the U.S.S. Voyager and it's crew will be assimilated. Janeway must confront the Borg in their own vessel in order to rescue Seven, risking a possibly devastating confrontation with the Borg Queen!

Original title : Dark Frontier (2/2)
First Aired : 17.02.1999 (USA)
Director : Cliff Bole & Terry Windell
Writing credits : Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Cast : Tarik Ergin (Lt. Ayala), Susanna Thompson (Borg Queen), Eric Cadora (Alien), Kirk Bailey (Magnus Hansen), Laura Stepp (Erin Hansen), Katelin Petersen (Annika Hansen), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman)

The Story : cf Dark Frontier Part I.

Original title : The Disease
First Aired : 24.02.1999 (USA)
Director : David Livingston
Writing credits : Kenneth Biller, Michael Taylor From a Story by Kenneth Biller
Cast : Musetta Vander (Tal), Charles Rocket (Jippeq)

The Story : Without Starfleet medical clearance and in violation of interspecies protocol, Ensign Harry Kim has a passionate love affair with an exotic alien explorer, Derran Tal of the Varro species. But the escapade puts both the Voyager crew and the Varro species in Jeopardy when Kim and Tal become biochemically interdependent.

Original title : Course: Oblivion
First Aired : 03.03.1999 (USA)
Director : Anson Williams
Writing credits : Bryan Fuller & Nick Sagan
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The Story : Stardate 52586.3 - Lieutenants Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres tie the knot but their holographic honeymoon is cut short by a phenomenon that breaks down the U.S.S. Voyager's infrastructure and disintegrates not only the ship but the crew.

Original title : The Fight
First Aired : 24.03.1999 (USA)
Director : Winrich Kolbe
Writing credits : Joe Menosky From a Story by Michael Taylor
Cast : Ray Walston (Boothby), Carlos Palomino (Boxer), Ned Romero (Great Grandfather)

The Story : While the ship is caught in Chaotic Space, a zone where the laws of physics are in a state of flux, Commander Chakotay believes he's a 24th century boxer, The Maquis Mauler. Before long, he's going head to head with the Delta Quadrant's champion, Kid Chaos.

Original title : Think Tank
First Aired : 31.03.1999 (USA)
Director : Terrence O'Hara
Writing credits : Michael Taylor From a Story by Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
Cast : Jason Alexander (Kurros), Christopher Darga (Y'Sek), Christopher Shea (Saowin), Steve Dennis (Fennim), Steven Dennis (Kurros)

The Story : In the midst of a clash with the Hazari bounty hunters, Janeway is offered assistance from a "think tank," a small yet exotic alien ship containing disparate life forms, each able to communicate telepathically. Their spokesperson, Kurros, offers to help solve the dilemma with the Hazari, only in exchange for Seven of Nine as payment. When Seven declines their "offer," the think tank focuses on taking her by force.

Original title : Juggernaut
First Aired : 26.04.1999 (USA)
Director : Allan Kroeker
Writing credits : Bryan Fuller & Nick Sagan From a Story by Bryan Fuller
Cast : Ron Canada (Fesek), Lee Anberg (Pelk), Scott Klace (Dremk), Alexander Enberg (Malon 3)

The Story : The U.S.S. Voyager rescues two crewmen from an abandoned, out of control Malon freighter that's about to unleash a theta radiation blast into the sector. When the warp engines fail to work in the middle of the theta radiation, an away team consisting of Neelix, Chakotay and Torres boards the freighter to try to contain the poison. Their mission is complicated by a mythical Malon monster living in the storage tanks, which turns out to be a core laborer that has become resistant to the Theta radiation. After Torres is able to subdue the creature, she diverts the Malon freighter in the corona of an O-class star, which absorbs the theta radiation as the vessel explodes.

Original title : Someone to Watch Over Me
First Aired : 28.04.1999 (USA)
Director : Robert Duncan McNeill
Writing credits : Michael Taylor & Kenneth Biller From a Story by Brannon Braga
Cast : Scott Thompson (Tomin), Brian McNamara (Jack Lansing), Ian Abercrombie (Abbot), David Burke (Regular Guy)

The Story : Stardate 52647 - To broaden her knowledge of human behavior, Seven of Nine gets lessons from The Doctor on socializing and dating rituals. When they enter a holodeck simulation in Sandrine's nightclub, Seven not only learns the art of small talk, but how to slow dance and sing a song. Eventually, she makes a date with Lieutenant Lansing but it's The Doctor who falls in love with Seven. Meanwhile, during a tour to help facilitate a trade agreement with the monastic Kadi colony, Neelix unwittingly provides their ambassador, Tomin, with forbidden food an drink.

Original title : 11:59
First Aired : 05.05.1999 (USA)
Director : Ron Surma
Writing credits : Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga From a Story by Joe Menosky
Cast : Kevin Tighe (Henry Janeway), Bradley Pierce (Jason), John Carroll Lynch (Moss)

The Story : Captain Janeway reminisces about her ancestor Shannon O'Donnel, the first of her family's long line of explorers and one who helped build the Millennium Gate on Earth. As Janeway relates the story, the episode revisits the town of Portage Creek on New Year's Eve 1999, as Shannon O'Donnel (played by Kate Mulgrew) nears the deadline to convince the town's last holdout, local bookstore owner Henry Janeway, to approve the building of massive, half a mile high Milliennium Gate, a model for the first colony on Mars.

Original title : Relativity
First Aired : 12.05.1999 (USA)
Director : Ron Surma
Writing credits : Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky From a Story by Joe Menosky
Cast : Dakin Matthews (Admiral Patterson), Jay Karnes (Lieutenant Duncane), Bruce McGill (Captain Braxton), Josh Clark (Lt. Carey)

The Story : Stardate 52861.574 - In an episode that revisits Janeway's first day aboard the U.S.S. Voyager and then fast forwards 500 years beyond it when her ship is destroyed, Captain Braxton of the 29th century Federation Timeship Relativity contacts Seven of Nine to go back in time to solve the mystery of who planted the "temporal disrupter" which ultimately destroyed the U.S.S. Voyager. But when the new starship captain, Janeway, catches the mysterious Seven aboard the brand new U.S.S. Voyager, she detains her, an interference that could contaminate the time-line.

Original title : Warhead
First Aired : 19.05.1999 (USA)
Director : Nick Eastman
Writing credits : Nick Sagan From a Story by Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan & Michael Taylor
Cast : McKenzie Westmore (Ensign Jenkins), Steven Dennis (Weapons Broker)

The Story : After the U.S.S. Voyager receives a distress signal from an alien missile, Ensign Kim, Torres and The Doctor determine that it's a complex, damaged weapon with artificial intelligence and sentient consciousness. But when they beam this mysterious device aboard, it interlinks with The Doctor's program and through him, insists the U.S.S. Voyager enable it to fulfill its mission of mass destruction.

Original title : Equinox (1/2)
First Aired : 26.05.1999 (USA)
Director : John T. Kretchmer
Writing credits : Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky From a Story by Michael Taylor & Kenneth Biller
Cast : Titus Welliver (Max Burke), John Savage (Captain Ransom), Steven Dennis (Thompson), Olivia Birkelund (Gilmore), Rick Worthy (Lessing), Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman)

The Story : The U.S.S. Voyager finds another Federation starship lost in the Delta Quadrant, the science vessel U.S.S. Equinox, and helps it stave off an attack by creatures from another spatial realm. Captain Janeway now has a kindred spirit in its commander, Captain John Ransom, and helps him salvage his war-torn vessel so they can journey home together. But when The Doctor retrieves data from the U.S.S. Equinox research lab, Janeway learns the hard truth that Captain Ransom has seriously violated the Starfleet oath by commiting mass murder in the Delta Quadrant. When she strips him of his command and confines him to quarters, he and his crew manage to escape with the U.S.S. Voyager's advanced technology - and The Doctor and Seven of Nine as hostages aboard their ship.