Air Date: September 22, 1999
From anonymous source, "Admiral Leighton."
Picking up from the cliffhanger, where an alien was rushing at Janeway...
Janeway is knocked down. Chakotay is knocked down. Janeway gets to her chair, injured. As she orders that they look for the Equinox (which has gone to warp, but not yet engaged their "enhanced warp drive"), more alien shrieks are heard.
Janeway is walking through a corridor. The Doc's mobile-emitter is found on deck nine. Paris is attending to the wounded in sickbay. They plug in the Doc. Chakotay is OK. He suggests trying to communicate with the aliens. Janeway disregards the idea, saying they should find the Equinox. Chakotay argues that Voyager's safety is top priority, but Janeway is adamant. Suddenly the alien noise starts up and everyone braces.
Cut to an alien coastline, day. We are looking through someone else's eyes, it's Ransom. He's watching the beach, lost in thought and troubled by recent events. Burke interrupts Ransom's virtual reality retreat with a door chime. He has brought Seven of Nine with him. Ransom tries to convince Seven to join him, that he could also help her with humanity.
In the research lab, Burke is tending to Seven's injuries. He finds Voyager's EMH in their database and activates him. The Equinox tries to initiate their enhanced warp drive but it malfunctions. Seven and the Doctor have encrypted the computer. Ransom demands the codes, Seven refuses. But then Ransom deletes the Doc's ethical subroutines and orders him to get to work on Seven. Chakotay confronts Janeway in the ready room. He says she's acting on a personal vendetta against Ransom. She admits it and fiercely declares that Ransom betrayed her, Starfleet, the Federation and she'll hunt him down no matter what the cost.
The Equinox has entered orbit of a lush green planet. In the research lab, the Doctor hums "Dem Bones" while he works on Seven, whose ocular implant circuitry is exposed. Ransom demands progress. The Doc says he can extract her memory engrams but it will leave Seven's brain damaged. Ransom is uneasy, asks for an alternative. Not if time is important. Ransom asks her to give the codes. She says he'll have to destroy her to get them.
Cut to Voyager, where Chakotay has submitted a plan to reach the Ankari and hope they can help communicate with the aliens. Janeway is not receptive. She tells Chakotay that she's been studying Ransom, and it seems his particular style is to hide until assailants give up. She orders Chakotay to find where Ransom is hiding.
Cut to Equinox, where Ransom, troubled by this conversation with Seven retreats again into his virtual reality device. Shortly before he is abruptly awakened again, he sees a female figure approaching him on the beach (unbeknownst to him, Seven of Nine). On the planet where the Equinox away team is, Chakotay and Paris incapacitate them and beam them off the surface. The Equinox Doctor communicates with Ransom, telling him that Voyager has taken the away team hostage.
Voyager targets the Equinox's engines, direct hit. Janeway orders the Equinox's weapons targeted. Janeway orders Ransom to surrender but Ransom orders his ship into the planet's atmosphere at a steep sixty-degree vector. Janeway orders pursuit. Tuvok warns that shields are weakening but Janeway orders to fire one more torpedo; the Equinox's weapons are knocked out. Voyager is forced to pull up. The Equinox also pulls up and escapes into warp. At least they captured some of the Equinox crew.
Cut to Janeway punching Lessing out of a chair where they are holding him captive in the cargo bay. She demands that he reveal Ransom's tactical status. He refuses. She warns him that she'll drop the shields around the room and allow the aliens to attack him. He does not waver. Janeway goes outside and begins disengaging the shields around the cargo bay. Chakotay thinks she's crazy. The alien shriek can be heard inside the bay. Chakotay pleads with her to stop, she will not. Finally, Chakotay cannot bear it and he rushes into the bay in time to phaser shut the fissure and rescue Lessing. Chakotay insists that Janeway to try his Ankari plan. Chakotay warns Janeway that she almost killed Lessing and that it was a mistake in judgment. Janeway relieves him of his post, but agrees to meet with the Ankari.
They meet up with the Ankari and Janeway orders the tractor beam. Tuvok objects, is overruled. Janeway compels the Ankari, who are aware of the alien experiments, to summon them and help her communicate with them. They are brought onboard and in the cargo bay they summon two of the aliens. Janeway communicates with them through the Ankari, making it clear that the Equinox is responsible and she wants them just as bad. They deliver the ultimatum that they want the Equinox. Tuvok objects, saying they will be dealt with according to their laws. Janeway doesn't care, she agrees to turn the Equinox over to the aliens if they stop the attacks. Tuvok challenges her, saying Starfleet will hold her accountable. Janeway threatens to relieve Tuvok as well. The aliens agree to Janeway's terms.
Ransom checks on The Doctor's progress in the lab. The Doctor is now singing another song while he dissects Seven, who is now barely conscious. Seven begins to sing along with The Doctor, but Ransom is spooked and tells them to stop. The Doctor asks why he's so apprehensive, after all, they'll soon be at Earth and Seven was only in the way. Ransom returns to his quarters to retreat into the virtual reality. On the alien beach, Seven confronts Ransom about how he hides in this simulation from the crimes he's committed. She urges him to stop.
Voyager is approaching at high warp. Burke recommends they hide in a nebula nearby but Ransom demands a full stop and an open channel. Ransom announces it's time to work with Janeway and stop this. Burke takes command and orders Ransom taken to the brig by Gilmore. Burke readies weapons and opens a channel to Voyager's sickbay. He tells their EMH to provide the Equinox with Voyager's shield frequencies during the battle. Voyager returns fire.
Meanwhile, Gilmore takes Ransom to engineering instead of the brig and declares her loyalty. Janeway orders a tractor beam on the Equinox. Voyager's shields are penetrated by a torpedo and forced to disengage the tractor beam. Ransom hails Voyager and informs them of the mutiny and his intent to join Voyager. Ransom and Gilmore try to beam the Equinox bridge crew to Voyager, but a force-field is erected. Ransom orders everyone else beamed off while he stays. Seven and the others are beamed to Voyager. Ransom lowers the shields around the Equinox except the bridge and engineering. He tells Burke to give up. Burke convinces the remaining bridge crew they can make it to a shuttle, despite the aliens along the route. Burke and the others exit the bridge and make a run for the shuttle bay. The aliens converge on them and Burke is killed. Voyager tries to beam Ransom over, but he refuses, saying he'll move the Equinox away before its core explodes. He makes Janeway promise she'll get both crews home: she does. The Equinox explodes. The Equinox survivors are stripped of rank down to crewmen.
Air Date: September 29, 1999
Voyager finds three former Borg drones while visiting an alien space station. They are linked to each other and desperately want to seperate, but fear their only hope for sanity is to re-join the Collective. Apparently, the Borg need Seven's help, leading her to make a surprising decision in dealing with them. The Borg encountered in this episode were part of Seven's Adjunct, and are named Two, Three and Four of Nine respectively. When Janeway tries to help them, she discovers that 8 years earlier, the three Borgs and Seven were seperated from the Collective, and it was Seven who forced them all to re-join the Borg when they were thinking of leaving. The ex-drone's are still linked to each other (though not to the Collective), and Seven is forced to make a difficult decision regarding their future. Guest Starring Vaughn Armstrong as Two of Nine. (Vaughn Armstrong has previously appeared as the Romulan Telek R'Mor in "Eye of the Needle" and Korris in TNG's "Heart of Glory".) Scarlett Pomers returns as Naomi Wildman. Jeri Ryan had to spend three filming days back in full Borg attire for this episode. Says Brannon Braga, "In the second episode you will see Seven of Nine as a full Borg about 10 years ago. It's a flashback episode [focusing on] a tragic but revealing event from that time." Also, Chakotay and Seven have some good dialogue, Seven and Naomi bond some more, and Paris and Kim get into a bar fight on the space station.
#224 "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy"
Air Date: October 13, 1999
Formerly called "The Secret Life of Neelix", this episode started out as a Neelix episode, but is now a Doctor episode. This is a light episode that revolves around The Doctor and his fantasies of being other people in other professions (hence the title) who become dangerous when "larger than life" aliens (who work in a surveillance outpost) become involved. The aliens who are spying on Voyager (in order to try to attack them) tap into the doctors daydreams, thinking that it is a representation of what is really happening on Voyager. In the teaser, The doctor is singing and Tuvok laughs and then cries, due to Ponn Far. In the end of the sequence, the doc gives him a hypo in the butt which KO's Tuvok while singing some rather comical lines to an opera! This is of course merely a daydream the doc is having. One of the Doc's fantasies involves the women on the crew fighting over him. Another of the Doctor's daydreams features him painting a nude picture of Seven (viewed from the back with various objects placed in stategic places). The sub-plot revolves around aliens, preparing to invade Voyager who use their access to the Doctor's program to spy on the ship. Through the Doctor's fantasies, they are mislead into believing that his fantasies are an accurate reflection of what life on Voyager is like.
As Brannon Braga stated in a recent interview, "We're doing [an homage to James Thurber's] 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' with the doctor. [The episode] deals with the doctor's fantasy life, which should be a lot of fun." This episode will also take care of a long-anticipated story line: Tuvok will begin experiencing the Pon Farr in this episode. Tim Russ stated at a convention that Tuvok begins experiencing the on-set of the condition in the Mess Hall, where he starts laughing and losing control. Then, Neelix turns around and says, "Oh no, not the Pon Farr!" In a blooper scene, Russ played out Tuvok's amourous intentions on Ethan Phillips right after this, (no doubt because Neelix is every one's first choice as a prospective mate).
Air Date: October 6, 1999
Air Date: October 20, 1999
Paris purchases an adandoned ship, which operates via a bio-neural interface, allowing the vessel to interface directly with it's pilot's mind. To take command of this ship, Tom dumps B'Elanna (permanently?), however the ship itself is apparently either evil or possessed and begins to make Tom do things which endanger himself and Voyager. Apparently this episode is a take off of the Stephen King book "Christine". Given the similarities with "The Genie" (both deal with some mysterious ship), it is widely believed that they are the same episode. I will update this as soon as I learn something new.
Air Date: November 3, 1999
A Tuvok/Neelix episode; Tim Russ said at a convention that he worked with Ethan Phillips (Neelix) on this episode and that he had a great time. As for the story, all he said was that Tuvok does some very different things. The story is about a race of aliens that have spent their entire existence in a state of being cloaked, collecting info about other races. The aliens use a neural paralyzer weapon which erases the memory of the attack in the victim, leaving the mysery of what happened to them and dealing with the after affects of this attack. Because of Tuvok's complicated brain, the weapon not only erases his short term memories, but his entire brain's programming. This means that after regaining consciousness from a coma, the crew has to re-educate Tuvok in every thing-- how to talk, how to eat, how to walk, etc. Neelix becomes Tuvok's tutor in these matters, serving as a father figure to him.
As a result of this injury, Tuvok has also lost his Vulcan programming, and his brain is no longer to repress his emotions. With a flood of new emotions to experience and a new life, Tuvok finds himself having fun and getting closer to friends in a way that the old Tuvok never could. Tuvok finds that he greatly enjoys his new emotions and relationships, however, after finding about the stoic, emotionless nature of the old Tuvok, he becomes frightened that he might go back to a life that he would be unable to enjoy, figuring that the old Tuvok never had any fun. Executive producer Rick Berman: "We have a very strong episode which we’ve just completed which has to do with Neelix and Tuvok. I guess I would compare it as similar to the film Awakenings in which he’s lost his memories and Vulcan controls and most of the things that make him Vulcan and there’s this lovely relationship that develops between him and Neelix that inevitably has to be destroyed when Tuvok has to be brought back to himself.
The first episode directed by actress Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres) features Narok, an alien inspector, who's been hunting a species of aliens for years. He's a little eccentric in his theories, a little obsessed with his goal of finding these aliens.
Air Date: November 10, 1999
Formerly titled "5000 Years." Voyager accidentally drifts into a sub-space corridor and is attacked by the Turei, a territorial race whose armada forces Janeway and crew to take shelter on a ravaged planet. It is there that the crew stumbles across a race of aliens who have put their surviviors into suspended animation after a great war. The Vaadwaur, long believed to be extinct, planned to be in stasis for only 5 years, but wound up being there for 900. Janeway thaws them out and seeks an alliance with them against the Turei only to find that they are not all they claim to be. The Vaadwaur turn out to have been the Borg of their day, and they attempt to steal Voyager's technology to re-assert their dominance in the Delta Quadrant. Janeway is forced to negotiate with the Turei to stop them.
It is said to be a very busy show with LOTS of ship battles. This was to have been this year's two-hour movie but has apparently been turned into a single episode. (It's not known whether there'll be another two-hour movie). This might explain why Scarlett Pomers does not/no longer appear as Naomi Wildman in this episode, contrary to what her offcial site previously reported. Brannon Braga previously said, "[Voyager] will discover the ruins of an ancient civilization that was destroyed five hundred years ago, and there's a vast army of these aliens in stasis waiting to be released. This Pandora's box is opened and a group of aliens that dominated the Delta Quadrant half a millennium ago will come back and try to take control again. They were kind of the Borg of their day. They're only warp two capable and have projectile weapons, but they're going to do their damnedest to come back. It's up to Voyager to put the genie back in the bottle." Braga also revealed that aliens will be "humanoid, but very weird looking." Whether or not these villainous aliens will return to threaten the Delta Quadrant again depends on viewer reaction to them.
Air Date: November 17, 1999
Directed by Robert Picardo ("The Doctor"), this episode is supposed to be another homage to the space program and the Mars mission (as was mentioned in last season's "11:59"). Jeri Ryan told the audience at the National Sci-Fi Expo in Canada that it had a "really lovely story". Apparently, Voyager finds a lost ship from one of Earth's 21st century manned mission to Mars. This is a strange coincidence with real life since NASA revealed recently that the Mars Climate Observer was lost because of a navigational malfunction/error. Sources say that a Mars command module was built for this episode which was based as accurately as possible on NASA's projections of what would be required for such a craft.
"One Small Step" is a Chakotay-heavy episode; in it, a 21st century astronaut named John Kelly (played by Seinfeld's Phil Morris, who portrayed attorney Jackie Childs) was lost during a mission to Mars when his vessel encountered a phenomenon called the Graviton Ellipse. Centuries later, Voyager encounters the same phenomenon, and Kelly's vessel, prompting Janeway to send the Delta Flyer after the lost astronaut. Chakotay, Paris, and Seven go after the ship, but their efforts to salvage Kelly's craft leave Chakotay injured and the Flyer stranded.
Air Date: November 24, 1999
Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman) reported this story after spending a day on the set of Voyager, working with Jeri Ryan on a scene for a new episode. Says Brannon braga, “We have a story in development in which Seven of Nine unravels a Delta Quadrant-wide conspiracy with Voyager right in the center of it: that maybe Voyager's arrival here wasn't an accident, and maybe, just maybe, there is a conspiracy that extends from the Federation all the way to the Borg homeworld. It's called ‘The Voyager Conspiracy.’ That's a show we're planning.” The episode apparently deals with the This episode also deals with in part with the technology of the Nacene [the Caretaker's species], and in specific the technology of the Caretaker's Array, which may not have been completely destroyed in the pilot episode after all. Naomi gets a new outfit for this episode. Scarlett describes it as, "Sort of like the orange-ish overalls, only the shirt is purple and the overalls are a yellow pattern." Although this episode is slated to air during the November sweeps, concrete information on the plot has been difficult to locate. If more becomes available between now and the air date, I will update the information.
Air Date: December 8, 1999(?)
Guest starring Marina Sirtis (Counselor Troi, ST:TNG) and Dwight Schultz (Reginal Barclay, ST:NTG), this episode takes place on Earth, and revolves around Barclay's obsession with contacting Voyager. Barclay is part of the Pathfinder Project, which is a division of Starfleet set up to locate and communicate with Voyager. Even though Starfleet has no way of helping the ship get home, after their brief communication with Voyager through the alien array (5th Season's "Message in a Bottle" and "Hunters"), locating and contacting the ship has become a priority. Barclay, using the holodeck and holographic images of the crew, developes a way to create a micro wormhole to send a message to Voyager, but in the process, he becomes obsessed with the project and his holographic recreations. Barclay seeks Troi's advise in dealing with his obsession. Admiral Paris is reportedly seen in this episode and sends a message to Tom as part of the communication with Voyager.
Unconfirmed Episodes
Air Date: (?)
While Voyager orbits a planet where time passes so quickly that civilizations rise and fall in a matter of moments, generations of scientists try to figure out what the unusual object in the sky orbiting their world is and try to make contact with it. The alien race will be viewed from several different time periods in their history, one similar to 1950's Earth, one like the 1200's in Europe, one like early 20th century Europe, and one similar to the 800's in North America. Each period will have guest actors portraying native aliens who observe the phenomenon in the sky. This episode is believed to have begun filming in mid October and may be the same episode as "The Stone", which I previously reported as a story about an object that is tracked throughout several millenium. The plots of both are too similar for them to be two seperate episodes, so until I hear something different, consider "Blink of an Eye" to be the only real upcoming show.
"Fair Haven, formerly "Safe Harbor"
Air Date: (?)
Deals (in part) with a new program Tom Paris has created in the holodeck, set in a quaint rural town in the Ireland of the late 19th Century. According to the casting sheet, all guest roles in this episode appear in this holodeck program, and therefore require 'authentic Irish accents'. The three guest roles are:
• Jared Declan is the barkeep of the town's tavern, aged somewhere between the mids 40 to the earlys 50s. When Janeway decides to visit the holodeck program, she meets Jared and finds something quite appealing about him. The role of Jared Declan is called a 'special guest role' (could be Janeway's new permanent romantic interest).
• Shammus McGinty is a quirky older Irish man, somewhere in his 50s or 60s. He is a fun character in the Irish town.
• A 'Young Irish Lass', pretty, easygoing, and in her early 20s. [Thanks to Trektoday and Webtrek] Directed by Allan Kroeker.
According to the casting sheet, the episode will feature two human guest stars. One will be 'Harkins', a human male somewhere between 35 and 50 years old. He is a career Starfleet scientist who spent most of his career on Earth. Harkins is supposed to have an easy-going manner with warmth, though he can also be strict and forceful if he is needed to. The other will be 'Admiral Jenkins,' a human Caucasian male who is about 60 years old. Jenkins is the Starfleet officer in charge of the project Harkins is currently working on. [Thanks to Trektoday and the Universe]. No news yet on a plot for this episode.
Voyager finds some sort of long-range telescope pointed at Earth.
One of the crew infiltrates a society where everyone is identical. Could be a stand-out episode. :)
Voyager is caught in a Hiroshima-like event.
Air Date: (?)
The Hirogen(?) kidnap Seven and force her to battle a Pendari alien (played by WWF wrestler "The Rock") to entertain them. Rick Berman has said that "the fighters will have sensors and targets on their bodies, and when they make contact, there will be some interesting fireworks." The Rock (Duane Johnson) is not a huge Trekker, but his wife is. The wrestler commented that "she's even more excited than I am [about his guest appearance]." Jeffrey Combs (Weyoun/Brunt on DS9) will also guest star as Penk, an alien who runs the gladitorial-style contests. He wants Seven to become his next gladiator.
Air Date: (?)
Several of Voyager's crew, including Seven, get kidnapped by a group of child Borg drones who are the only survivors of an attack on their cube. Unbeknownst to the Voyager crew, these drones are considered flawed by the Collective, who would rather destroy them then re-assimilate them. The drones, however, want to rejoin the Collective at any cost and hold the Voyager crew hostage. Look for some serious Seven angst as she interacts with the little drones as they begin to question their desire to return to the Collective.
Air Date: (?)
This is supposed to be another light-hearted Doctor episode, guest starring actor Paul Williams as a member of a diminutive race who are highly technologically advanced but lack art and music in their culture. The Doctor introduces them to music, and is revered by the aliens like a rock star. The episode explores the painful fickleness of celebrity and is slated to air sometime in February.
Janeway has to tell stories to an alien computer.
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