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Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway
RECURRING CAST
Josh Clark as Carey
Episode 1 & 2 - Caretaker
Episode 3 - Parallax
Episode 4 - Time and Again
Episode 5 - Phage
Episode 6 - The Cloud
Episode 7 - Eye of the Needle
Episode 8 - Ex Post Facto
Episode 9 - Emanations
Episode 10 - Prime Factors
Episode 11 - State of Flux
REGULAR CAST
Robert Beltran as Chakotay
Roxann Dawson as B'Elanna Torres
Jennifer Lien as Kes
Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris
Ethan Phillips as Neelix
Robert Picardo as The Doctor
Tim Russ as Tuvok
Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine
Garrett Wang as Harry Kim
Martha Hackett as Seska
Nancy Hower as Samantha Wildman
Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman
Anthony DeLongis as Culluh
Brad Dourif as Suder
Simon Billig as Hogan
Raphael Sbarge as Jonas
Tarik Ergin as Ayala
Alexander Enberg as Vorik
Manu Intiraymi as Icheb
Dwight Schultz as Reg Barclay
Ray Walston as Boothby
Sue Henley as Ensign Brooks
Marva Hicks as T'Pel
Stan Ivar as Mark
Warren Munson and Richard Herd as Admiral Paris
Susanna Thompson and Alice Krige as The Borg Queen
FIRST SEASON
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Stardate 48315.6
While pursuing a Maquis ship lost in the Badlands, the Intrepid-class Starfleet ship Voyager encounters a displacement wave which throws the vessel 70,000 light years from Federation space. Captain Kathryn Janeway asks the Maquis for help in discovering where they are and how they got there. Upon learning that the array which brought them to the Delta Quadrant will be used to eradicate a nearby civilization, Janeway elects to destroy the technology instead of returning home.
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Stardate 48439.7
While Janeway and Chakotay argue about who should replace the dead chief engineer, Voyager encounters a ship caught inside a quantum singularity. The ship is Voyager, displaced over several hours of time due to the temporal nature of the anomaly. The captain and B'Elanna Torres work together to free it and the former Maquis becomes chief engineer.
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Investigating an explosion which has leveled an entire planet, Janeway and Tom Paris are caught in a space-time fissure and thrown back in time a day before the cataclysm. While the crew attempts to rescue them, Janeway tries to find a way to escape without interfering with the timeline.
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Stardate 48532.4
Neelix is attacked on an away mission by an alien who removes his lungs. Janeway sets out in pursuit and learns that the aliens, the Vidiians, suffer from a deadly phage which is slowly destroying their population, so they harvest organs from other species to survive.
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Stardate 48546.2
Voyager encounters a particle-rich nebula which the crew hopes can resupply their decreasing stores, Chakotay introduces Janeway to her animal guide, and Harry Kim invites her to shoot pool in Sandrine's.
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Stardate 48579.4
Voyager encounters a wormhole which leads to the Alpha Quadrant. When they send a message buoy through, it is intercepted by a Romulan officer.
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Paris is tried for an alien murder and sentenced to relive the dead man's final moments every hour for the rest of his life; Tuvok launches an investigation.
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Stardate 48623.5
Kim is accidentally transported to a way-station for the dying where the aliens believe he has returned from the dead.
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Stardate 48642.5
Voyager is invited to a luxurious planet with the technology to transport people over thousands of light years, but to use it to get home, the crew would have to break local laws.
Episode 12 - Heroes and Demons
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Stardate 48693.2
The Doctor enters a holonovel based on Beowulf that has caused several crewmembers to disappear.
Episode 13 - Cathexis
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Stardate 48734.2
Tuvok returns from an away mission with a comatose Chakotay. As the Doctor tries to treat the First Officer, members of the crew are possessed to take inexplicable actions aimed at diverting the ship and harming Tuvok.
Episode 14 - Faces
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Stardate 48784.2
The Vidiians abduct Torres and split her into her Klingon and Human halves, hoping that the Klingon DNA may provide a cure for the phage. While the crew mounts a mission to rescue her and Paris, who was taken prisoner with her, Torres' two selves have to work together to break free from the captors.
Episode 15 - Jetrel
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Stardate 48832.1
The man who invented the Metrion Cascade, a deadly weapon which destroyed Neelix's home planet of Rinax, comes aboard Voyager claiming to seek test subjects for an innovative treatment for a disease caused by exposure to the weapon. His real agenda is even more surprising: he thinks he has found a way to recover all the victims of his holocaust.
Episode 16 - Learning Curve
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Stardate 48846.5
Tuvok attempts to train four Maquis crewmembers who are having difficulty following Starfleet protocols. He intends to make them conform to his standards, but ends up discovering that he makes a far more effective teacher by learning to compromise.
SECOND SEASON
Episode 17 - The 37s
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Stardate 48975.1
Voyager encounters a floating truck in space and finds a number of human abductees from Earth circa 1937, including Amelia Earhart. They learn that the humans overthrew their captors on the planet and have established a civilization which Voyager's crew is invited to join.
Episode 18 - Initiations
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Stardate 49005.3
When Chakotay takes a shuttle to perform a ritual in honor of his father's death, he is imprisoned by the Kazon. He escapes with the help of a boy who is scheduled to be executed for failing to kill Chakotay, and offers to risk his life to restore the young Kazon's honor. This episode features the first of countless shuttles which Chakotay will lose over the next several months.
Episode 19 - Projections
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Stardate 48892.1
On a nearly-destroyed Voyager where he has freedom to move about, the Doctor is told that he is in fact Louis Zimmerman, creator of the EMH, and has become trapped in a holodeck simulation he was running. Kes is his wife, and Reginald Barclay his programmer. Eventually the real Chakotay is projected into the simulation to inform the Doctor that it is Voyager's holodeck which is malfunctioning, and the Doctor will be destroyed if he can't stop the program.
Episode 20 - Elogium
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Stardate 48921.3
Kes enters the elogium, the Ocampan equivalent of going into heat, and becomes desperate to have a child. While she tries to decide whether she wants to mate with Neelix, Janeway and Chakotay attempt to fight off the swarm of aliens which triggered Kes' condition and discuss the hazards of crew fraternization.
Episode 21 - Non Sequitur
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Stardate 49011
Kim awakens to find himself in San Francisco, living with his fiance, never having been assigned to Voyager. A little investigation reveals that a meddling alien took him out of his appropriate time stream, so he struggles to get back with the help of Tom Paris, who in this reality remained a criminal.
Episode 22 - Twisted
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Voyager encounters a spatial anomaly which distorts the ship from the inside out. When Janeway comes into contact with it, she is rendered incoherent, so Chakotay takes command and must decide whether to follow Torres or Tuvok's conflicting ideas for saving the ship.
Episode 23 - Parturition
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Paris and Neelix beam down to "Planet Hell" in search of supplies and encounter a baby alien, which they nurture until its mother returns for it. They also fight over Kes and then bond.
Episode 24 - Persistence of Vision
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Upon entering Bothan space, the crew begins to see hallucinations. Janeway first believes that her holonovel has gone berserk, then encounters her lover Mark; Tuvok sees his wife, Harry his girlfriend, Paris his father; Torres thinks she's making love with Chakotay. Kes proves resistant to the alien and saves the ship.
Episode 25 - Tattoo
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Chakotay's away team finds a marking very similar to one used by Chakotay's own tribe. When he experiences flashbacks from his own youth and decides to investigate, he meets an alien who claims that Chakotay's tribe were seeded on Earth by a group of spacefaring wanderers.
Episode 26 - Cold Fire
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Voyager encounters an array similar to the one which stranded them in the Delta Quadrant, and discovers long-lived Ocampa living on it. One of the Ocampa teaches Kes to unlock her psychic potential and puts the Caretaker's companion in touch with the ship, but she is bent on destroying it.
Episode 27 - Maneuvers
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Stardate 49208.5
When a group of Kazon under Seska's influence lead a raid on Voyager to steal technology, Chakotay steals a shuttle and goes off in pursuit. He destroys the stolen materials but is taken captive and tortured by Seska before Voyager rescues him, thus losing another shuttle. Seska leaves him a message beacon to inform him that she's impregnated herself with his DNA.
Episode 28 - Resistance
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Janeway is shot during an away mission and taken in by Caylem, a man who mistakes her for his daughter. While Voyager attempts to negotiate with the aliens for the release from prison of the rest of the away team, Janeway leads a raid on the prison with Caylem's help and frees her crew.
Episode 29 - Prototype
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Voyager encounters a race of robots who do not have the ability to reproduce themselves. When Janeway refuses to let Torres build a prototype for them, the robots capture her and force her assistance.
Episode 30 - Alliances
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Stardate 49337.4
After a Kazon attack, Chakotay proposes that Janeway ally Voyager with one of the Kazon sects for protection. She reluctantly opens negotiations, then makes contact with the Trabe, a historical enemy of the Kazon, now being persecuted by them.
Episode 31 - Threshold
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Stardate 49373.4
Paris attempts to travel in a shuttle at Warp 10 and successfully breaks the barrier, but then he begins to mutate into an amphibian and his tongue falls out. Though the Doctor devises a treatment, Paris escapes, kidnapping Janeway and forcing her to transform as well.
Episode 32 - Meld
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An unstable Maquis crewmember murders a Starfleet engineer. When an investigation points to the perpetrator, Tuvok attempts to help him gain control of his emotions via a mind meld, but is caught in the Betazoid's dark thoughts to the extent that he becomes a risk to the crew himself.
Episode 33 - Dreadnought
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Stardate 49447
Voyager encounters a Cardassian missile which Torres had reprogrammed for the Maquis, which was apparently drawn into the Delta Quadrant with them. The missile is malfunctioning and has aimed itself at a large civilian population. While Torres attempts to disable her work from within, Janeway plans to blow up Voyager in the missile's path.
Episode 34 - Death Wish
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Stardate 49301.2
Voyager inadvertently frees a member of the Q continuum from confinement within an asteroid, where he was placed to prevent himself from committing suicide. Q (John De Lancie) appears and Janeway holds a hearing to determine whether or not the other Q will be permitted to remain free and kill himself if he wishes.
Episode 35 - Life Signs
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Stardate 49504.3
Voyager rescues a critically ill Vidiian woman who is given a holographic body by the Doctor while he treats her. They begin to fall in love, but the woman must return to her diseased-ravaged body, and she tries to sabotage the Doctor's work because she thinks death would be preferable to such an existence.
Episode 36 - Investigations
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Stardate 49485.2
Having suspected that there was a traitor on board sending messages to Seska, Tuvok and Janeway send Paris undercover as a defector, but Neelix's journalistic meddling threatens to blow the scheme. Though Chakotay is angry when he learns that he was left out of the plan, they successfully track down their betrayer, who is killed by Neelix in a fight in engineering.
Episode 37 - Deadlock
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Stardate 49548.7
An unusual nebula splits Voyager into two ships, slightly out of phase with one another but sharing the same warp core. One is severely damaged by the other's attempts to remedy the situation. The two Janeways meet, and the one on the damaged ship announces her plan to self-destruct her Voyager; before she can do so, however, Vidiians attack the other Voyager.
Episode 38 - Innocence
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While Janeway opens a dialogue with an alien race, Tuvok's shuttle crashes on one of their moons, where he encounters a group of children who have apparently been left as sacrifices to an unseen menace. He tries to protect them, but learns that they are not what they seem.
Episode 39 - The Thaw
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When Torres and Kim enter a matrix linking several unconscious aliens, they discover that Fear holds the aliens mentally captive. He kills one of the aliens to demonstrate his power and tortures Kim, but Janeway sends a holographic projection of herself into the matrix and shuts Fear down.
Episode 40 - Tuvix
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Stardate 49655.2
A transporter accident merges Tuvok and Neelix into one being, who actually gets along better with most of the crew than either of his component parts ever did. When the Doctor announces that he's found a way to separate the two again, Tuvix does not want to give up his life, and Janeway must decide whether his rights supersede those of the people who were lost in his creation.
Episode 41 - Resolutions
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Stardate 49690.1
Stranded with an incurable virus, Janeway and Chakotay begin to make a new life together on a lush planet. Meanwhile, the crew pressures Tuvok to make contact with the Vidiians in the hope that they can cure the senior officers.
Episode 42 - Basics Part One
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When Seska sends a message to Chakotay that the Kazon plan to kill their son, Voyager sets out to rescue the baby. The message turns out to be a trap, however, and the Kazon take the ship, stranding the entire crew on an inhospitable planet with volcanoes, large reptiles, and hostile aliens.
THIRD SEASON
Episode 43 - Basics Part Two
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Stardate 50032.7
While Tom Paris rounds up Talaxian assitance, Janeway and crew struggle to survive on a world with few provisions and many threats. Meanwhile, Seska and the Kazon must fight a Voyager saboteur.
Episode 44 - Flashback
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Stardate 50126.4
An encounter with a familiar-looking nebula causes Tuvok to experience flashbacks to a terrifying event from his childhood. A mindmeld with Janeway takes him back to his years serving under Captain Sulu on the Excelsior, where he was invaded by an alien life-form.
Episode 45 - The Chute
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Stardate 50156.2
Paris and Kim are taken captive on a prison barge with horrific living conditions, where the prisoners are expected to kill one another off. When Janeway is unable to negotiate for their release, she captures the criminals responsible for the crime her crewmembers were convicted of, forcing them to assist her in freeing her people.
Episode 46 - The Swarm
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Stardate 50252.3
As the Doctor's program experiences a serious overload which requires his reinitialization, Voyager enters the space of a group of vicious aliens who attempt to sieze the ship. The crew successfully fights them off, and Torres uses a hologram of Louis Zimmerman to rescue the Doctor.
Episode 47 - False Profits
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Stardate 50074.3
Chakotay and Paris' away team discovers two Ferengi who came through a wormhole profiting off a local population. Janeway's plans to thwart them repeatedly backfire, until finally the captive Ferengi take back their ship and enter the wormhole themselves, moving it out of Voyager's reach.
Episode 48 - Remember
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Stardate 50203.1
Torres relives a lifetime of memories from a woman which perpetrated and then covered up the extermination of an entire population, one of whom was her youthful lover.
Episode 49 - Sacred Ground
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Stardate 50063.2
When Kes is nearly killed by an alien energy beam, Janeway undergoes a ritual to try to save her. Along the way, her own belief system is tested.
Episode 50 - Future's End Part One
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Voyager is pulled into a temporal wave and deposited near Earth circa 1996, where a 20th century man with technology from the 29th century is about to cause a cataclysm which will destroy the solar system.
Episode 51 - Future's End Part Two
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Stardate 50312.5
While Paris bonds with a 20th century astronomer and Chakotay and Torres are taken prisoner by survivalists, Janeway attempts to stop the man who will be responsible for the destruction of the solar system.
Episode 52 - Warlord
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Stardate 50348.1
The body of Kes is taken over by the spirit of an ancient warlord who wants to use her to retake control of his planet. Though the spirit within her attempts to seduce Tuvok and torment inhabitants of the planet, Kes fights the warlord with her mental powers.
Episode 53 - The Q and the Grey
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Stardate 50384.2
Q demands that Janeway have a child with him to stop a civil war in the Q continuum, potrayed for her benefit as the U.S. Civil War. She refuses but offers to help negotiate a truce. Meanwhile, Q's angry former Q lover brings Voyager to the continuum to help them rescue Janeway before Q can mate with her.
Episode 54 - Macrocosm
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Stardate 50425.1
Janeway returns from an away mission to find that macroviruses have incapacitated her crew and taken over her ship. With only the Doctor as an ally, she fights them off.
Episode 55 - Fair Trade
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Panicked that his usefulness to Voyager may have come to an end, Neelix offers to trade goods stolen from Voyager for a map to upcoming star systems. He becomes entangled in an organized crime ring, and Chakotay and Paris are arrested under suspicion of murder.
Episode 56 - Alter Ego
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Stardate 50460.3
A hologram becomes obsessed with Tuvok and takes control of the ship to be with him. Eventually the crew discovers that the holographic character is being controlled by a lonely woman in a nearby nebula.
Episode 57 - Coda
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Stardate 50518.6
Janeway and Chakotay are caught in a recurrent time loop which always ends with her death, despite Chakotay's frantic attempts to revive her. A man who appears to be her father arrives to tell her that in fact she is dead, and he has come to help her "cross over."
Episode 58 - Blood Fever
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Stardate 50537.2
When Vulcan engineer Vorik tries to force Torres to mate with him, she contracts his blood fever and selects Tom Paris as the object of her desires. Unfortunately, the two are trapped together during an away mission before anyone figures out what's wrong with her.
Episode 59 - Unity
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Stardate 50614.2
Chakotay's shuttle is shot down on a planet where former Borg, no longer working as a collective, are at war with each other. Rescued by a group of pacifict vegetarians who treat his injuries and show him a good time, he asks Janeway to help them reunify the collective. When she refuses, the group which saved his life commandeer his brain to gain his assistance.
Episode 60 - The Darkling
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Stardate 50693.2
The Doctor programs his matrix with characteristics from a variety of historical and literary figures. Unfortunately, this has the effect of creating an evil personality which takes over the Doctor without warning, torturing Torres and threatening Kes.
Episode 61 - Rise
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When aliens on a meteor-besieged world ask for help from Voyager, Tuvok and Neelix are trapped together on the surface. They attempt to leave the atmosphere via an orbital tether in order to make contact with Voyager, but one of their fellow passengers is a murderer.
Episode 62 - Favorite Son
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Stardate 50732.4
Harry Kim is drawn to a world of beautiful women and few men who insist that he is a descendant of theirs, taken as a fetus across the galaxy to be implanted in his mother's womb. His mutating DNA appears to confirm this story until the Doctor realizes that it did not begin to change until they passed through a certain port.
Episode 63 - Before and After
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Kes finds herself living backwards in time, with no memory of who she was before she began as an old woman. In the reality she sees in reverse, she has married Tom Paris and had a child with him who in turn married Harry Kim; Janeway and Torres have been dead for years, killed during a conflict with a race that used chronoton particles to alter the timeline.
Episode 64 - Real Life
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Stardate 50836.2
The Doctor creates a holographic family so that he can experience what it means to be organic. When Torres and Kes complain that his initial projection - a perfect family - is unrealistic, he programs some changes and ultimately experiences painful loss.
Episode 65 - Distant Origin
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A Saurian scientist pursues Voyager in hopes of proving his theory that his species did not evolve in the Delta Quadrant, but came from elsewhere. When one of his men is caught on Voyager, Janeway confirms the theory that the species evolved from dinosaurs on Earth. The scientist, who takes Chakotay first as a hostage and then as a willing witness, must convince his ruling council that his findings will not be disruptive to their society.
Episode 66 - Displaced
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Stardate 50912.4
Crewmembers from Voyager disappear and are replaced by befuddled aliens, but the crew suspects a more sinister plot. Sure enough, the aliens are moving Voyager's crew to a penal colony in preparation to take over the ship, which Chakotay sabotages before being taken himself.
Episode 67 - Worst Case Scenario
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Stardate 50953.4
Torres discovers a holodeck scenario set early in Voyager's mission, in which Chakotay leads a mutiny and takes over the ship. It proves so popular with the crew that Tuvok, who had written the story as a training exercise for security personnel, is convinced to finish it. But when he tries to do so, he discovers that Seska has made some deadly changes in the program.
Episode 68 - Scorpion Part I
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Stardate 50984.3
Voyager reaches Borg space and finds a narrow corridor free of Borg ships...but the corridor proves to hold an even more deadly menace. Janeway proposes an alliance with the Borg to get through the space and combat the new threat, over Chakotay's vehement objections. She beams over to a Borg cube, which is attacked, dragging Voyager away as it flees.
FOURTH SEASON
Episode 69 - Scorpion Part Two
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Janeway and Tuvok work aboard a Borg cube with a Borg spokesperson, Seven of Nine, but the ship is attacked and sacrifices itself to save Voyager and the technology it possesses to combat the new alien threat. Janeway, Tuvok, and several Borg are rescued, but with the captain in a coma, Chakotay takes command and breaks the alliance with the Borg. The new weapon proves successful, however, and the Borg leave Voyager alone once Seven of Nine's link to the collective is severed.
Episode 70 - The Gift
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As Seven of Nine becomes increasingly human when the Doctor removes her Borg implants, Kes begins to evolve into a higher state of being and becomes a threat to the ship. Janeway attempts to help both women reintegrate, but ultimately must put Seven in the brig and allow Kes to leave the ship forever.
Episode 71 - Day of Honor
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After a terrible day working with Seven of Nine, fighting with Chakotay, dealing with an duplicitous aliens who steal Voyager's warp core, and trying to reconcile with her Klingon half on the Klingon holiday via a holodeck program, Torres finds herself stranded in space with Tom Paris, running out of oxygen.
Episode 72 - Nemesis
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Chakotay is shot down, thus losing Voyager's third shuttle in three weeks, on a planet in the midst of a bloody civil war. Taken in by friendly humanoids, he comes to share their hatred of their beastly-looking enemies. It is those enemies, however, with whom Voyager makes contact, learning that Chakotay's experiences are not what they appear to be.
Episode 73 - Revulsion
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Voyager is contacted by an alien hologram, the sole survivor of his ship's complement. When Torres and the Doctor investigate, they realize that the alien matrix isn't quite stable...not only is it inconsistent, but the hologram seems to be psychotic, a would-be murderer of all organic lifeforms.
Episode 74 - The Raven
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Seven begins to hallucinate a large bird following her on a ship with hostile Borg, and is driven to steal a shuttle to follow a homing beacon which is activating her Borg implants. Tuvok pursues her into hostile space and the two find The Raven, the ship in which Seven's parents traveled to the Delta Quadrant, and the place where she was assimilated.
Episode 75 - Scientific Method
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A species of superior aliens conduct grisly experiments on the crew, making them behave erratically and suffer health problems, and only Seven of Nine has the ability to perceive them.
Episode 76 - Year of Hell, Part One
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The Krenim, a race with the ability to alter timelines, transforms the Delta Quadrant and involves Voyager in a deadly war.
Episode 77 - Year of Hell, Part Two
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While Chakotay and Paris work on the Krenim ship to stop any further temporal incursions, Janeway seeks allies to help rescue her crew and restore the timeline.
Episode 78 - Random Thoughts
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On a planet of telepaths, Torres is arrested when a violent thought from her mind causes another man to commit a crime.
Episode 79 - Concerning Flight
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When aliens steal technology from Voyager, Janeway works with a holographic Leonardo Da Vinci - who has also been stolen, by way of Doc's portable emitter - to find and salvage the computer processor.
Episode 80 - Mortal Coil
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Neelix dies in a shuttle accident but is revived by Seven of Nine, who uses her nanoprobes to restore his vital signs. But he finds his faith in the afterlife shaken by the experience, and becomes despondent.
Episode 81 - Waking Moments
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Crewmembers have nightmares about an unknown alien which threatens the ship; Chakotay must use his spiritual techniques to combat them.
Episode 82 - Message in a Bottle
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A Hirogen relay station allows Voyager to send the Doctor to the Alpha Quadrant, where he finds himself on an experimental shuttle that has been overtaken by Romulans. Working with that ship's EMH, he tries to defeat the enemy and get a message to Starfleet.
Episode 83 - Hunters
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As the Hirogen pursue Voyager, the crew receives messages from home via their relay system.
Episode 84 - Prey
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The Hirogen pursue a member of Species 8472 onto Voyager, where Janeway must decide whether to turn the deadly alien over to their mutual enemy or sacrifice it to save her crew.
Episode 85 - Retrospect
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Seven recalls repressed memories of having been assaulted by a member of a race of allies with whom Voyager has been trading.
Episode 86 - The Killing Game Part One
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The Hirogen take over Voyager and force the crew to enact violent scenarios on the holodecks in order to study both the behavior and the technology; crewmembers lose their memories and reenact scenes from Klingon history and World War II.
Episode 87 - The Killing Game Part Two
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While Janeway and Seven break out of the World War II scenario and try to stop the Hirogen, Chakotay and Paris lead the Allied forces against the Nazis.
Episode 88 - Vis a Vis
An alien takes over Tom Paris' body, gets him drunk, behaves rudely towards B'Elanna, and makes him waste even more time on the holodeck than usual. When the crew gets suspicious, he takes over Janeway's body instead.
Episode 89 - The Omega Directive
Voyager comes to a standstill when the computer detects extremely powerful Omega radiation in the vicinity, triggering an unknown Starfleet protocol which the captain must implement.
Episode 90 - Unforgettable
Chakotay meets a woman who claims that they fell in love weeks before, but he has no memories of the event.
Episode 91 - Living Witness
Hundreds of years in the future on a planet in the Delta Quadrant, the Doctor's backup module is recovered by a race which believes he can shed light on Voyager's devastating intervention with their planet's history.
Episode 92 - Demon
In a desperate search for deuterium, Voyager sends crewmembers down to a deadly Demon class planet, where Harry Kim disappears and then returns...in duplicate.
Episode 93 - One
In order to pass through a dangerous nebula, the entire crew is put into stasis, leaving only Seven - who is immune to its effects - to fly the ship.
Episode 94 - Hope and Fear
An alien translater decodes the message from Starfleet Janeway received from the Hirogen relay and leads the crew to an experimental ship which Starfleet has provided for their journey home.
FIFTH SEASON
Episode 95 - Night
Within a dark matter nebula where no stars are visible, Janeway must cope first with depression, then with an unknown alien menace.
Episode 96 - Drone
Seven of Nine's Borg nanoprobes and the Doctor's portable emitter interface in a transporter accident to create a highly advanced Borg drone who summons the attentions of the Collective.
Episode 97 - Extreme Risk
As the crew readies the new Delta Flyer shuttle for launch, Torres begins taking dangerous risks with her life.
Episode 98 - In the Flesh
The crew encounters an exact duplicate of Earth complete with humans at Starfleet Headquarters...who turn out to be altered members of Species 8472.
Episode 99 - Once Upon a Time
While her mother is missing on a dangerous shuttle mission, Naomi Wildman is distracted by Neelix with a holoprogram.
Episode 100 - Timeless
Fifteen years in the future, Chakotay and Kim are the only survivors of a failed attempt to use slipstream technology to get back to Earth. Having found Voyager buried beneath the ice of a frozen planet, they set out to change history.
Episode 101 - Infinite Regress
The personalities of individuals which Seven of Nine has assimilated begin to resurface, giving her the Borg equivalent of multiple personality disorder.
Episode 102 - Nothing Human
When Torres is attacked by a cytoplasmic alien, the Doctor creates a hologram of a Cardassian doctor to help treat her, then learns that the doctor may have tortured Bajorans.
Episode 103 - Thirty Days
Voyager discovers an ocean in space, but when Tom Paris tries to protect it from its own inhabitants, he loses his rank and is confined to the brig for a month.
Episode 104 - Counterpoint
When Voyager harbors telepathic refugees, a high-ranking alien investigator seeks to defect, and gets close to Janeway as they work to escape his former peers.
Episode 105 - Latent Image
The Doctor discovers that his program has been tampered with, then learns that the captain ordered portions of his memory erased to protect him from a devastating ethical dilemma.
Episode 106 - Bride of Chaotica!
When aliens from another dimension infiltrate Voyager and trigger a war in the Captain Proton holonovel, Janeway pretends to be Queen Arachnia to rescue her ship.
Episode 107 - Gravity
Paris and Tuvok crash on a desolate desert planet where a mysterious woman helps them survive; meanwhile, the ship discovers that the missing crewmembers are caught in a gravometric vortex which distorts their perception of the passage of time.
Episode 108 - Bliss
The crew finds a wormhole which appears to lead to the Alpha Quadrant, but Seven of Nine and Naomi Wildman realize that all is not as it appears to their shipmates.
Episode 109 - Dark Frontier
Janeway's plan to steal a transwarp coil from the Borg goes awry when the Borg Queen attempts to retrieve Seven of Nine by threatening to assimilate the entire crew.
Episode 110 - The Disease
Harry Kim's affair with an alien woman draws Voyager into a volatile situation aboard a generational ship coming apart at the seams.
Episode 111 - Course: Oblivion
The duplicate crew from "Demon" attempt to go about their merry way as Paris and Torres get married, but a horrible fate befalls them just as they find a quick way back to Earth.
Episode 112 - The Fight
While the ship is trapped in Chaotic Space, Chakotay hallucinates that he is a boxer being trained by Boothby for a confrontation with an unknown alien opponent.
Episode 113 - Think Tank
An alien collective offers to help Janeway and crew out of a jam with bounty hunters if Seven of Nine will join them in exchange for their assistance.
Episode 114 - Juggernaut
A Malon ship about to explode could contaminate a large area of space unless a temperamental Torres can work with the Malon to defuse it.
Episode 115 - Someone To Watch Over Me
When the Doctor teaches Seven of Nine about dating - dancing, music, romance - he finds himself falling in love with her.
Episode 116 - 11:59
In December 2000, one of Kathryn Janeway's favorite ancestors must overcome one man's resistance to the building of the Millennium Gate on Earth.
Episode 117 - Relativity
Captain Braxton returns from the 29th century, forcing Seven of Nine to track a temporal disrupter which will ultimately destroy Voyager unless she is successful.
Episode 118 - Warhead
The Doctor's program is taken over by an artificially intelligent missile determined to use Voyager to complete its deadly mission.
Episode 119 - Equinox Part One
The Federation science vessel Equinox is found in the Delta Quadrant, but Voyager's crew quickly realizes that something's more wrong with it than subspace fissures.
SIXTH SEASON
Episode 120 - Equinox Part Two
Janeway pursues Ransom with a vengeance - dismissing the interests of her crew, relieving Chakotay of duty, and threatening the life of an Equinox crewmember in her effort to bring the renegade captain to justice.
Episode 121 - Survival Instinct
Three former Borg from Seven of Nine's unimatrix track her down, hoping she can help them break free from their neural link.
Episode 122 - Barge of the Dead
Torres has a near-death experience and travels to the Klingon Hell, where she must fight to save her mother.
Episode 123 - Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy
The Doctor has fantasies of running the ship and being desirable to all its women, but when aliens tap into his daydreams, he must work to make them real.
Episode 124 - Alice
Tom Paris falls in love with a ship that connects to him neurogenically, then appears to him as an attractive woman.
Episode 125 - Riddles
After an alien attack strips him of his memories and inhibitions, Tuvok experiences fun with Neelix.
Episode 126 - Dragon's Teeth
When Seven of Nine awakes a race of dormant aliens in stasis for centuries, an ancient struggle to control subspace is revived as well.
Episode 127 - One Small Step
Voyager encounters an anomaly which swallowed up the command module of the first manned Mars expedition in 2032.
Episode 128 - The Voyager Conspiracy
When Seven of Nine downloads the entire Voyager database, she discovers conspiracies involving Starfleet, the Maquis, the Caretaker, and a group of nefarious Voyager staff writers who want to pretend that canon as it existed above is irrelevant.
Episode 129 - Pathfinder
Deanna Troi visits Reginald Barclay, who has an idea about how to contact the Voyager crew, but Admiral Paris thinks he has relapsed into holo-addiction.
Episode 130 - Fair Haven
Failing to heed Barclay's lessons, Janeway falls in love with a hollow man in a holo-program created by Tom Paris, but comes to her senses and deletes him when she learns that he snores.
Episode 131 - Blink of an Eye
Civilizations rise and fall in minutes, developing weapons that can destroy Voyager before the ship can get away from the rapidly evolving planet.
Episode 132 - Virtuoso
An advanced race discovers music via the Doctor's singing and begins to treat him like a superstar.
Episode 133 - Memorial
Voyager crewmembers return from an away mission experiencing repressed memories of having participated in a massacre.
Episode 134 - Tsunkatse
To save Tuvok, Seven of Nine is forced to compete in a blood sport. Guest starring WWF's The Rock, plus DS9's J.G. Hertzler and Jeffrey Combs.
Episode 135 - Collective
The crew encounters and tries to assimilate a group of young drones abandoned by the Borg.
Episode 136 - Spirit Folk
The people of Fair Haven develop enough sentience to accuse Voyager crewmembers of witchcraft; when Janeway seems more worried about saving Michael Sullivan than Paris and Kim, Torres reminds the captain that while her lover can be reprogrammed, B'Elanna's can't.
Episode 137 - Ashes to Ashes
A dead crewmember with whom Harry Kim was once in love returns in a body reanimated by aliens.
Episode 138 - Child's Play
When Voyager tracks down the parents of one of the young ex-Borg, Seven of Nine has trouble trusting the boy's parents to care for him.
Episode 139 - Good Shepherd
Janeway goes on a shuttle mission with three misfit crewmembers she regards as "lost sheep."
Episode 140 - Live Fast and Prosper
Alien con artists pose as Janeway, Tuvok, and Chakotay in order to rip off other aliens.
Episode 141 - Muse
Torres crashes on an alien world and becomes the inspiration for a playwright trying to inspire peace for his people.
Episode 142 - Fury
The return of a vengeful Kes, blaming Janeway for her premature evolution and the loss of her youth.
Episode 143 - Life Line
Learning that his inventor is dying, the Doctor has his program transmitted back to the Alpha Quadrant to try to save him.
Episode 144 - The Haunting of Deck Twelve
As mechanical problems plague the ship, Neelix tells ghost stories to the Borg children who cannot regenerate.
Episode 145 - Unimatrix Zero
Seven of Nine encounters a past lover in a secret Borg hideaway where drones maintain their individuality; Janeway seeks to foster a resistance movement among them.
SEVENTH SEASON
Episode 146 - Unimatrix Zero Part Two
After Janeway's crew successfully infiltrates the Collective, the Borg Queen vows to stop their insurrection even if she must destroy her own kind to do so. Reportedly, the seventh season will kick off with this episode on October 4, 2000 in the US.
Episode 147 - Imperfection
Seven is faced with her own mortality when her cortical node fails, and crewmembers are faced with ethical dilemmas about how far they will go to save her.
Episode 148 - Drive
An alien challenges Paris to a race in an Olympic-style competition for peace, and Torres decides to accompany him rather than cancel their vacation together, even if it means more tensions for the two of them.
Episode 149 - Repression
When Maquis crewmembers begin reacting to post-hypnotic suggestions that they take over the ship, Tuvok must identify the culprit.
Episode 150 - Critical Care
The Doctor's program is stolen and placed aboard a hospital ship where unethical treatment of patients is rampant.
Episode 151 - Inside Man
Voyager receives a transmission from the Alpha Quadrant in which a hologram of Barclay suggests a way home; meanwhile, the real Barclay discovers that his hologram has gone missing.
Episode 152 - Body and Soul
An alien attack forces Seven of Nine to take the Doctor's programming into her cybernetic implants, from which he can control her body.
Episode 153 - Nightingale
While in command of the Delta Flyer, Harry Kim intervenes in an alien conflict and soon learns the difficulties of being a captain.
Episode 154 - Flesh and Blood
A Hirogen distress call alerts Voyager to the plight of sentient holograms created from Starfleet technology, and forces the Doctor to reevaluate his loyalties.
Episode 155 - Shattered
When an anomaly time-shatters Voyager, Chakotay leads a pre-stranded Janeway around her ship, showing her key moments in the past and future.
Episode 156 - Lineage
Against her husband's wishes, Torres seeks to remove all the Klingon genes from their unborn child.
Episode 157 - Repentance
Voyager rescues a ship carrying prisoners to their home planet for execution, but inadvertently treats the mental illness of one of the condemned.
Episode 158 - Prophecy
The crew encounters a Klingon generational ship that has been roaming the galaxy for decades; its captain hails Torres' unborn child as their messiah.
Episode 159 - The Void
With her ship trapped in a starless void and supplies rapidly dwindling, Janeway tries to forge an alliance of distrustful aliens to escape.
Episode 160 - Workforce
Chakotay, Kim and Neelix return from an away mission to find that the crew has been brainwashed on a planet desperate for a large, content work force, and the captain has fallen in love.
Episode 161 - Workforce Part II
While Chakotay tries to recover the crew, Janeway moves in with her new lover and the Doctor devises tactical plans.
Episode 162 - Human Error
Voyager is traveling through a treacherous region of space, but Seven of Nine is distracted by a holo-program that lets her explore her sexuality with Chakotay.
Episode 163 - Q2
When Q brings his son to Voyager to ask his godmother to parent him, Janeway tries to clean up Junior's act.
Episode 164 - Author, Author
The Doctor writes his holo-memoirs and sells them to a publisher in the Alpha Quadrant, turning his crewmates into nasty characters in order to make points about the oppression of holograms.
Episode 165 - Friendship One
Starfleet asks Voyager to retrieve an old Earth probe believed missing in the Delta Quadrant. But the probe has wreaked havoc on a local species, which takes Lieutenant Carey hostage and kills him before Seven's nanoprobes can save the day.
Episode 166 - Natural Law
Chakotay and Seven are stranded in a primitive enclave on a technologically advanced world. Janeway must decide whether to rescue her crewmembers by taking down the barrier that separates the two societies.
Episode 167 - Homestead
Neelix tries to rescue a colony of besieged Talaxians and decides to stay in the Delta Quadrant with his own species, serving as a long-distance ambassador for Starfleet.
Episode 168 - Renaissance Man
The captain acts very strangely after returning from an away mission with the Doctor, who also acts strangely, as do Chakotay and Torres in turn. It turns out that the Doctor is taking on the personalities of other crewmembers to save the captain from a ransom demand.
Episode 169 - Endgame
Janeway breaks the Temporal Prime Directive in order to prevent Seven of Nine from dying on the long voyage home. Chakotay and Seven fall in love, Torres and Paris have their baby, Janeway has one last confrontation with the Borg queen and the ship gets home.
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