Voyager Season Five

#95 "NIGHT"
Written by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
Directed by David Livingston
Guest Stars: Ken Magee as Emck, Steven Dennis as Night Alien, Martin Rayner as Dr. Chaotica
Airdate 10/14/98
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.

#96 "DRONE"
Teleplay by Brian Fuller, Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Story by Bryan Fuller and Harry Doc Kloor
Directed by Les Landau
Guest Stars: J. Paul Boehmer as Drone, Todd Babcock as Lt. Mulchaey
Airdate 10/21/98
Stardate Unknown
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. An advanced male Drone is "born" and awaits instruction from the Collective. Also, debuting in this episode is "The Adventures of Captain Proton," Tom Paris' retro-Holodeck program that depicts him as a kitschy 1930's space hero.

#97 "EXTREME RISK"
Story By: Bryan Fuller & Harry Doc Kloor
Teleplay by Bryan Fuller, Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
Directed by Les Landau
Guest Stars:
Airdate 10/28/98
Stardate Unknown
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. A new Starfleet vessel, the Delta Flyer, features an ultra-aerodynamic design with a Borg-inspired weapons system. Originally designed by Tom Paris as a warp-powered, ultra-responsive, twenty-fourth century "hot rod," it has traditional Starfleet design elements and some completely unique features - the result of the crew's diverse backgrounds.

#98 "IN THE FLESH"
Teleplay by Nicholas Sagan
Directed by David Livingston
Guest Stars: Ray Walston as Boothby, Kate Vernon as Archer, Zach Galligan as Ensign Gentry, Tucker Smallwood as Admiral Bullock
Airdate 11/04/98
Stardate Unknown
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.

#99 "ONCE UPON A TIME"
Written by Michael Taylor
Directed by John Kretchmer
Guest Stars: Nancy Hower as Ensign Samantha Wildman, Scarlett Powmers as Naomi Wildman, Wallace Langham
Airdate 11/11/98
Stardate Unknown
As the U.S.S. Voyager searches for the crash-landed Delta Flyer and its crew, Lt. Paris, Tuvok, Ensign Samantha Wildman and Neelix help 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.

#100 "TIMELESS"
Written by Jeri Taylor & Joe Menosky
Directed by LeVar Burton
Guest Stars: LeVar Burton as Captain LaForge
Airdate 11/18/98
Stardate Unknown
"Timeless" - 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 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.

#101 "INFINITE REGRESS"
Teleplay by Robert J. Doherty
Written by Robert J. Doherty & Jimmy Diggs
Directed by David Livingston
Guest Stars: Scarlett Powmers as Naomi Wildman, Neil Maffin as Ven, Erica Mer as Human Girl
Airdate 11/25/98
Stardate Unknown
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.

#102 "NOTHING HUMAN"
Written by Jeri Taylor
Directed by David Livingston
Guest Star: David Clennon as Dr. Crell Moset
Airdate 12/02/98
Stardate Unknown
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.

#103 "THIRTY DAYS"
Written by Scott Miller and Kenneth Biller
Directed by Winrich Kolbe
Guest Stars: Willie Garson as Riga, Benjamin Livingston as Perfect, Heidi Kramer as Megan Delaney, Alissa Kramer as Jenny Delaney
Airdate 12/09/98
Stardate 52179.4
The oft-mentioned but never-before-seen bright, beautiful and fun-loving twin Starfleet Officers, Jenny and Megan Delaney, are finally featured both in their official capacities aboard ship and on the Holodeck as Lieutenant Tom Paris lives out his superhero fantasy in "The Adventures of Captain Proton." Jenny's more self-confident and outgoing than the somewhat timid Megan.

#104 "COUNTERPOINT"
Teleplay by Les Landau
Directed by Michael Taylor
Guest Stars: Mark Harelik as Kashyk, Randy Oglesby as Kir, Patrick McCormack as Prax, Alexander Enberg as Vorik, Randy Lowell as Torat, Jake Sakson as Adar
Airdate 12/16/98
Stardate Unknown
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.

#105 "LATENT IMAGE"
Story by Eileen Connors
Screenplay by Joe Menosky
Directed by Mike Vejar
Guest Stars: Nancy Bell as Ensign Jetal
Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman
Airdate 01/20/99
Stardate Unknown
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.

#106 "BRIDE OF CHAOTICA"
Story by Bryan Fuller
Teleplay by Bryan Fuller & Michael Taylor
Directed by Allan Kroeker
Guest Stars: Martin Rayner as Dr. Chaotica, Nicholas Worh as Lonzak, Jim Krestalude as Alien #1, Tarik Ergin as Robot
Airdate 01/ 27/99
Stardate Unknown
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.

#107 "GRAVITY"
Story by Jimmy Diggs
Teleplay by Bryan Fuller & Nick Sagan
Directed by Terry Windell
Guest Stars: Lori Petty as Noss, Leroy D. Brazile as Young Tuvok, Paul Eckstein as Yost, Joseph Ruskin as Vulcan Master
Airdate 02/03/99
Stardate Unknown
A shuttle carrying Tuvok, Paris and The Doctor disappears into a collapsing sinkhole and crash lands on a deserted wasteland. While the U.S.S. Voyager tries to rescue them from this risky area of space, the away team befriends Noss, an exotic alien woman who's also trapped on the planet. Soon, she falls in love with Tuvok and although it's illogical for a Vulcan, he finds himself attracted to her too.

#108 "BLISS"
Story by Bill Prady
Teleplay by Robert J. Doherty
Directed by Cliff Bole
Guest Stars: Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman, W. Morgan Sheppard as Qatai
Airdate: 02/ 10/99
Stardate Unknown
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.

#109 & #110 "DARK FRONTIER, PARTS I AND II"
Written by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
Part I Directed by Cliff Bole
Part II Directed by Terry Windel
Guest Stars: Susanna Thompson as Borg Queen, Kirk Bailey as Magnus Hansen, Laura Stepp as Erin Hansen, Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman, Katelin Petersen as Annika Hansen, Eric Cadora as the alien
Airdate: 02/17/99
Stardate Unknown
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!

#111 "THE DISEASE"
Story By Kenneth Biller
Teleplay by Michael Taylor
Written by Kenneth Biller
Directed by David Livingston
Guest Stars: Musetta Vander as Tal, Charles Rocket as Jippeq
Airdate: 02/24/99
Stardate Unknown
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.

#112 "COURSE - OBLIVION"
Story By Bryan Fuller
Teleplay by Bryan Fuller & Nick Sagan
Directed by Anson Williams
Airdate: 03/3/99
Stardate Unknown
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.

#113 "THE FIGHT"
Story By Michael Taylor
Teleplay by Joe Menosky
Directed by Winrich Kolbe
Guest Stars: Ray Walston as Boothby, Carlos Palomino as the Boxer Ned Romero as Great Grandfather
Airdate: 03/24/99
Stardate Unknown
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.

#114 "THINK TANK"
Story by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga
Teleplay by Michael Taylor
Directed by Terrence O'Hara
Guest Stars: Jason Alexander as Kurros, Jason Alexander as Kurros, Christopher Darga as Y'Sek, Christopher Shea as Saowin, Steve Dennis as Fennim
Airdate 03/31/99
Stardate Unknown
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.

#115 "JUGGERNAUT"
Story By Bryan Fuller
Teleplay by Bryan Fuller and Nick Sagan
Directed by Allan Kroeker
Guest Stars: Ron Canada as Fesek, Lee Arenberg as Pelk, Scott Klace as Dremk, Alexander Enberg as Malon 3
Airdate 04/26/99
Stardate Unknown
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. Soon, Lieutenant Torres leads an away team to board the freighter and contain the poison - despite warnings from its crewman, Fesek and Pelk, about the Angel of Decay that wreaks havoc aboard the cargo ship.

#116 "SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME"
Story by Brannon Braga
Teleplay by Michael Taylor and Kenneth Biller
Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill
Guest Stars: Scott Thompson as Tomin, Brian McNamara as Jack Lansing, Ian Ambercrombie as Abbot, David Burke as the regular guy
Airdate 04/28/99
Stardate Unknown
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.

#117 "11:59"
Written by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
Teleplay by Joe Menosky
Directed by Ron Surma
Guest Stars: Kevin Tighe as Henry, Bradley Pierce as Jason, John Carroll Lynch as Moss
Airdate 05/05/99
Stardate Unknown
Janeways interest in her great great great great great grandmother, prompts an investigation into her ancestors role in 'The Millenium Gate' which was built in the year 2001.

#118 "RELATIVITY"
Teleplay by Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan and Michael Taylor
Story by Nick Sagan
Directed by Nick Sagan
Guest Stars: Bruce McGill as Captain Braxton, Dakin Matthews as Admiral Patterson, Jay Karnes as Lieutenant Ducane
Airdate 05/12/99
Stardate Unknown
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.

#119 "WARHEAD"
Story by Brannon Braga
Teleplay by Michael Taylor and Kenneth Biller
Directed by John Kretchmer
Guest Stars: McKenzie Westmore as Ensign Jenkins
Airdate 05/19/99
Stardate Unknown
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.

#120 "EQUINOX"
Teleplay By Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
Written By Rick Berman, Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
Directed by David Livingston
Guest Stars: John Savage as Captain Ransom, Titus Welliver as Burke, Olivia Birkelund as Gilmore, Rick Worthy as Lessing, Scarlett Pomers as Naomi, Steve Dennis as crew member
Airdate 05/26/99
Stardate Unknown
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 To be continued ...

SEASON FINALE