Alliances
After Voyager is severely attacked by Kazon and one of its crewmen killed, Chakotay
appeals to Janeway to start thinking more like the Maquis. Janeway knows she must
strengthen Voyager's position in the quadrant and, although it's a difficult decision
and is against her beliefs and training, she agrees to take steps toward a strategic
alliance with leaders of several Kazon factions. When they come together for a
conference, its eminently clear that there are no rules in this region of space.
Unbeknownst to Voyager, there is a traitor in their midst.
Seeking an intermediary to begin talks with the Kazon, Neelix shuttles to Sobras, a
planet with a Kazon settlement. There, he makes contact with an acquaintance -- Jal
Tersa of Kazon-Pommar. Meanwhile Janeway's initial meeting with Culluh and Seska
is unsuccessful but Neelix is able to befriend Mabus, a governor of the Trabe, an
exiled sect and bitter enemies of the Kazon. Thinking that the Trabe have compatible
goals of peaceful co-existence, Janeway forms an alliance with them -- with deadly
results.
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Threshold
Lieutenant Paris makes history by becoming the first person to make a transwarp
flight. But soon after his shuttle returns from warp ten he undergoes startling
biochemistry changes. His cell membranes begin to degrade and despite the Doctor's
best efforts, Paris dies. Hours after the pronouncement of death, Paris is discovered
breathing, his body going through accelerated mutations which leave him radically
transformed into a bizarre and terrifying cross between a human and amphibian.
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Meld
When a crew member is murdered, Tuvok's investigation leads to another crewman,
Ensign Suder, who finally admits he is the perpetrator. Vulcan instincts prohibit
Tuvok from determining a logical motive for committing such a crime, so he attempts
to understand the violent impulses of a criminal by performing a mind-meld on Suder.
When Tuvok removes himself from duty, the Doctor initiates treatment which
removes Tuvok's emotional suppression abilities. Meanwhile, Chakotay puts Paris on
report for running an illegal gambling operation and Neelix embraces his role as the
ship's Morale Officer.
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Dreadnought
Voyager spots a Cardassian designed, self-guided missile carrying a warhead capable
of significant destructive force. As it travels toward Rakosan, a heavily populated
planet, Torres reports that she's partly responsible for its virtually unstoppable status.
When she was a Maquis, she intercepted the missile and changed its program to
assault its own makers, but it later went astray and now she's the only hope I stopping
it. So Torres volunteers to transport to the missile's interior and reprogram it again.
But before she can detonate the warhead, the onboard computer tries to destroy her
first, meanwhile Jonas transmits classified information on the mission to Seska.
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Death Wish
A rebel Q escapes imprisonment from inside a comet and demands asylum aboard the
U.S.S. Voyager. Just as quickly, the well known Q arrives to force the escaped Q back
to the continuum, the extra-dimensional domain in which their immortal kind exist.
Meanwhile, the escaped Q proclaims that if Captain Janeway grants him sanctuary, he
intends to commit suicide to end the tedium he has endured as an immortal being.
Noting the dictates of Starfleet protocol, Janeway holds a hearing to consider the
request for asylum. The tables are turned on Q as a Federation personnel preside over
a trial in which he must defend the Q Continuum and the ever logical Tuvok acts as
counsel for the escaped Q. A courtroom drama ensues when Q calls himself to the
witness stand along with a varied group of other people including Commander
William T. Riker, whose lives were profoundly changed by Q's influence.
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Lifesigns
Voyager detects a distress call from a weakend lifeform aboard a small spacecraft and
quickly beams a deathly ill Vidiian female to Sickbay. The doctor starts treating her
for advanced stages of the phage by transferring her decaying body into stasis and
creating a temporary, healthy holographic program of her being. As he becomes
aquatinted with the alien, a hematologist named Danara Pel, something momentous
occurs -- his adaptive program allows him to experience love and romance for the
first time.
Lieutenant Paris continues to be insubordinate and espionage is more complicated
than Jonas thought when Seska instructs him to plan an accident which will damage
Voyager's warp coils.
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Investigations
Neelix, a suddenly self-proclaimed journalist, hears a rumor that a fellow crew
member has expressed displeasure with Starfleet and requested leave. Soon Tom
Paris is relieved of duty to become a pilot with a Talaxian convoy -- leaving a
saddened Voyager crew behind. Almost immediately, the Kazon-Nistim and the
scheming Seska attack the Talaxian fleet, kidnap Paris and attempt to coerce
classified information from him. Meanwhile Neelix suspects someone aboard
Voyager has been secretly communicating with the Kazon and his sleuthing leads him
directly to Paris.
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Deadlock
Astounding consequences occur when the U.S.S. Voyager, while attempting to evade
a pursuing Vidiian vessel, enters a plasma cloud. Before they can clear it, the engines
stall, anti-matter supplies drain and a proton burst, originating from within the ship,
cause heavy casualties and breaches the structural integrity of the hull. When Ensign
Kim and Kes disappear into a void in space, Captain Janeway discovers that a
duplicate Voyager with an identical crew exist in a parallel universe.
While the crew feverishly attempts to contain the worst onboard disaster ever, the
doctor struggles to keep alive Ensign Wildman's newborn, half-human, half-Ktarian
baby. Then, Janeway discovers that although a divergence field has caused all sensor
readings to double and every particle on the ship to duplicate, there is not enough
antimatter to sustain both vessels. As the Vidiians close in on them, she meets the
other Janeway face to face to determine a solution, knowing only one of the two ships
can survive.
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Innocence
Tuvok and Bennet's shuttle crash lands on a sacred haven for the Drayan, an alien
race which has shunned outside contact for decades. While Bennet lies dying from his
injuries, three frightened Drayan children venture out from hiding. The young ones
tell Tuvok that they have been abandoned by their people to die on the planet, and beg
his help in saving them from the imminent arrival of the "morrok" -- the messenger of
death.
While Tuvok tries to calm the tiny trio, he cannot comprehend why a society would
forsake its own children. Then, during the night, two of the youngsters mysteriously
disappear. Meanwhile, Janeway makes contact with the Drayan's First Prelate, Alicia,
and in the course of trying to rescue Tuvok and the remaining child, there is an
amazing revelation about this mysterious race.
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The Thaw
The U.S.S. Voyager activates an automated message from members of the Kohl settlement, who, years earlier, survived an environmental catastrophe by submitting themselves into artificial hibernation. When the crew transports the Kohl's hibernation pods on board, they find humanoids in deep stasis with suppressed metabolic activity -- but with active minds and complex sensory systems controlled by a computer.
In an effort to help the Kohl people, Torres and Kim equip two pods with Starfleet technology and submit themselves into stasis. With their mental and physical activities closely monitored, they enter the environment created by the computer attached to the Kohl pods. Once there, Torres and Kim find that the humanoid's dreadful fears about recovery and survival have caused their computer program to manifest a devious, omnipotent clown - the idealization of their fear - and a cast of other nightmarish characters. Then, the clown holds Torres and Kim hostage while making increasingly unreasonable demands of Janeway.
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Tuvix
A Bizarre occurrence causes Neelix and Tuvok, who are attempting to transport back to the U.S.S. Voyager from an away mission, to arrive aboard the ship as one. The crew is astonished when a strange but oddly familiar alien humanoid with dark speckled skin and pointy ears - which is neither Tuvok nor Neelix - appears. The Doctor's bio-scanner shows that Neelix and Tuvok's patterns have merged, causing the pair to become one entity - Tuvix.
While Tuvix assimilates and starts to become a valued member of the team, Kes struggles with the fact the Neelix may not be a part of her life anymore. Meanwhile, the Doctor devises a method to restore Tuvok and Neelix, except for one variable - Tuvix does not want to die. When the Doctor, who is programmed to follow certain ethical guidelines, cannot perform the separation, Janeway is left with a monumental decision.
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Resolutions
When Janeway and Chakotay contract a deadly virus from an insect bite, the Doctor cannot find a cure. Unable to perform her duties, Janeway is forced to turn over permanent command of the ship to Tuvok and retreat, with Chakotay, to a small planet which shields the effects of the fatal disease.
As the U.S.S. Voyager moves out of communication range, Captain Janeway leaves Tuvok with strict orders not to contact the Vidiians for help, even though they may have more sophisticated medical technology to handle the crisis. While the ship's crew is stuck with the harsh reality of abandoning their leader and first officer forever. The former Captain and Commander, alone on a strange planet, awkwardly drop protocol and begin to explore another side of their relationship..
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Basics - Part 1
In an emergency message to Chakotay, Seska discloses that their newborn son has been banished by Culluh to a servant colony. Chakotay feels conflicted about rescuing the baby because he was manipulated into fatherhood by Seska. When the crew detects a distress signal from a Kazon shuttle, they transport aboard the critically injured Teirna, a former aide to Seska, who delivers the news that Culluh has killed Seska. So, with Teirna restricted to secured quarters, the U.S.S. Voyager heads on a rescue mission through the Kazon-Nistrim territory where Kazon raiders viciously attack the ship. Before long, the fierce battle is over and the U.S.S. Voyager crew has lost outwitted by their most bitter foe. Surrounded and defenseless, Janeway must give up the ship to the Kazon.
The crew must accept that they have been tricked by Culluh who relishes taking the helm of the U.S.S. Voyager. At his side is an alive and well Seska who taunts Chakotay with their son. Then, the Kazon abandon the 148 member U.S.S. Voyager crew on the surface of Hanon Four, a primitive, ferocious planet. Stripped of their technology, they must use the most basic skills to survive. While they watch helplessly, their enemy lifts off the surface with their ship, but unbeknownst to the Kazon two starfleet crew members are stowed away on board.
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