The 37's
After atmospheric disturbances force the crew to land the Starship Voyager on a mysterious planet, Captain Janeway leads an away team in search of the source of the centuries-old distress signal detected by the ship's sensors. They discover the source of the SOS to be an old Earth aircraft. Upon further investigation, the team finds a massive chamber containing eight earthlings in cryogenic units, one of which is Amelia Earhart (Sharon Lawrence). After releasing them from suspended animation, the U.S.S. Voyager crew comes under attack when a group of the planet's inhabitants mistakes them for members of the Briori -- an alien race which abducted more than 300 people from Earth in 1937 and brought them this planet as slaves.
It's learned that over time, the slaves revolted and killed the aliens. The eight surviving "37's" became part of the planet's history and the cryogenic chamber was their shrine. Since then, the descendants of the original 300 cultivated the planet and created a home much like Earth. The crew of the U.S.S. Voyager is invited to stay, and Janeway must face her greatest challenge as she allows each crewmember the personal choice to stay behind and begin a life among these kindred Humans.
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Initiations
When First Officer Chakotay borrows a Shuttlecraft to perform the Pakra, a solitary Indian ritual commemorating his father's death, he inadvertently drifts into Kazon-Olga territory and becomes the target of a Kazon youth attempting to earn his Olga warrior name by killing the Federation enemy.
Striking back, Chakotay disarms and destroys the Kazon ship, but not before rescuing the young boy named Kar -- the only surviving lifeform -- by transporting him aboard the Shuttlecraft. Soon, the two are pulled via tractor beam aboard a larger Kazon vessel sent to investigate the explosion. Led by Razik and Haliz, the Kazon-Ogla hold Chakotay prisoner during which he learns that because Kar has failed in his first mission, he doesn't earn his name and is sentenced to die... by Chakotay's hands.
Meanwhile, fearing their mission comrade is in danger, the Voyager crew -- with Kes and Neelix providing their expertise on Kazon -- sets out to find Chakotay.
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Projections
The Doctor receives information that Voyager has suffered a massive Kazon attack and that most of the crew has abandoned ship, so he ventures from Sickbay, via remote holo-projection system, to aid those still on board.
Once he's on the ship's near-deserted Bridge, The Doctor must determine what is and what is not reality. Much to his confusion and counter to his program, The Doctor shows human life signs when, during a struggle with a Kazon warrior, he experiences injury and pain. He meets Lieutenant Barclay, learns of Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, the engineer who wrote his medical holographic program and amazingly, discovers that The Doctor has a wife -- Kes. He's in a state of disbelief when Barclay tells him he must completely destroy Voyager.
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Elogium
Aggressive space-dwelling lifeforms attach themselves to the Starship, creating an
electrophoretic field. The occurrence increases Kes' metabolic activity and accelerates
her reproductive process, causing her to prematurely enter the elogium -- the time of
life when Ocampa bodies become fertile. However, the elogium occurs only once, so
if Kes is ever going to have a child, it must be immediately.
Before making his decision whether or not he will father Kes' child, a bewildered
Neelix seeks the advice of Tuvok. Meanwhile, while considering how long it may
take to get the ship home, Janeway wonders if it may be necessary for the crew to
start having children to provide the next generation of personnel.
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Non Sequitur
Ensign Harry Kim is confused when he awakens to find himself on Earth -- in 24th
century San Francisco -- working as a design specialist at Starfleet Engineering and
engaged to be married to Libby. When he accesses his service records, they
mysteriously indicate that he was never a crew member aboard U.S.S. Voyager.
Although he has longed to be with Libby, his sense of duty compels him to return to
the reality he knows -- and the Delta quadrant. Soon the dazed Kim meats Cosimo, an
alien in the guise of a local shop owner, who explains that a temporal anomaly in the
space-time continuum has transported him to an altered reality. Kim learns that if he
recreates the circumstances that brought him to Earth and then flies into the
time-stream, there's a chance he might be able to transport back to his reality. Upon
further investigation, Kim finds information on his onetime crew member Tom Paris
which indicates that Paris is a convicted traitor and alleged Maquis sympathizer. Kim
travels to Marseilles, France, to track down the recently paroled, drunk and
disheveled Paris who claims he never made it aboard Voyager. Before long, Starfleet
personnel believes Kim is a Maquis spy and put him under house arrest.
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Twisted
A spatial distortion phenomenon occurs not only in space but inside the ship as well,
changing Voyager's structural layout and completely disabling it. As Voyager is
compressed and twisted by this unknown anomaly, the crew must work frantically to
stop it.
Captain Janeway is incapacitated when she comes in contact with the strange force
and soon, Neelix winds up missing. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew is trapped in a
maze on Deck Six and the Doctor is confined to Sandrine's Bar as the force pushes
inward, closing on them.
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Parturition
When Kes spends free time with a smitten Tom Paris, Neelix is overcome with
jealousy and instigates a messy fight with the Lieutenant. In the aftermath, the
Captain sends the sparring pair on a shuttlecraft mission to an M-Class planet, to
replenish food supplies. When their craft experiences an interference pattern, they
crash on the planet. Seeking cover from the trigemic vapors, Paris and Neelix seal
themselves inside a cave and then discover they have company there -- an embryonic
pod which hatches an alien baby, a repto-humanoid being. They must work together
to sustain the newborn -- and preserve each other's life when its angry mother
approaches.
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Persistance of Vision
As they ready for a first encounter with the Bothan alien species, a strange psionic
field causes the U.S.S. Voyager crew to succumb to a delusional state and their most
deeply buried thoughts surface. During this ordeal, the characters in Janeway's
holonovel program become real, and her beloved Mark appears; Paris faces off with
his disparaging father, the Admiral; Kim is finally reunited with his girlfriend, Libby;
Tuvok talks to his Vulcan wife, T'Pel; and Torres is seduced by Chakotay. The ship is
effectively disabled and it's up to an unaffected Kes and The Doctor to block the
mysterious field.
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Tattoo
While Chakotay leads an Away Team to drill for minerals on a moon's surface, they
accidentally disturb a village and encounter its defensive inhabitants -- a group with
Indian origins. A regretful Chakotay then experiences flashbacks of himself as a
defiant 15-year-old who disappoints his father be not embracing the traditions of his
tribe.
The natives employ a cloaking device to disable Voyager and the endangered Away
Team must transport out, leaving Chakotay alone on the planet. When he's confronted
by the aliens, they respond to his familiar tattoo marking. Chakotay recognizes the
tones of their language as those of his own people and applies what he recalls from
his father's teachings on their heritage to assure the natives of Starfleet's peaceful
intentions and his sympathetic perspective. Along the way, he reconciles the conflicts
he had with his now deceased father.
Meanwhile, while tending to the pregnant Ensign Wildman, The Doctor is challenged
by Kes to show more compassion for his patients. So, he programs himself with a
simulated flu virus to experience the discomforts living beings can feel.
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Cold Fire
The crew is hailed by Ocampa colonists on an alien space station who, at long last,
lead them to the female mate of The Caretaker, a mysterious being who may have the
ability to send the U.S.S. Voyager home. As Tuvok tutors Kes in honing her rapidly
maturing mental abilities, it's concluded that her burgeoning powers have been
extremely underestimated.
Tanis, a male Ocampa colonist, agrees to introduce Captain Janeway and her crew to
an entity they call Suspiria, the female mate of The Caretaker. As the Voyager crew
builds great hope of returning home soon, Tanis implores Kes to stay with her
Ocampa people on the alien space station.
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Maneuvers
Kazon intruders board the U.S.S. Voyager and steal a Transporter control module.
That collateral enables their leader, Culluh, to persuade rival sects to join together to
conquer the Federation ship. Surprisingly, the mastermind behind the Kazon's scheme
is an advisor with Cardassian, Maquis, and Starfleet tactical experience -- none other
than Seska, the despised traitor and former intimate of Chakotay.
When Chakotay learns that Seska devised the Kazon plot, he secretly sets out alone --
against protocol -- to thwart her. The Kazon are one step ahead of him and he's
quickly captured and brutally interrogated. With their First Officer in the hands of the
enemy, the Voyager crew braces for a dramatic showdown, but Seska has one more
trick up her sleeve.
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Resistance
In search of precious tellerium needed to power the ship, Janeway, Tuvok, Torres and
Neelix transport to an Alsaurian city occupied by the hostile Mokra. Tipped off to the
U.S.S. Voyager crew's presence, Mokra soldiers capture Tuvok and Torres. During
the commotion, Janeway is secreted away by Caylem, a local eccentric who believes
she is his long lost daughter.
Neelix is not discovered and transports back to the ship with the necessary minerals
and the bad news that the others have been discovered and taken prisoner. As
Voyager searches for its arrested crew, Janeway goes undercover, forced to rely on
her own devices and the help of her odd new protector, Caylem, to break into the
prison and rescue Tuvok and Torres.
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Prototype
When the crew finds a deactivated humanoid robot floating in space, Chief B'Elanna
Torres is able to repair this mysterious mechanical "man." When it comes to "life" the
sentient artificial lifeform, Automated Unit 3947, explains that its kind is near
extinction and asks Torres to build a prototype for construction of more units. In
accordance with Prime Directive, Torres must decline the request, but when 3947's
Pralor homeship is located, the robot abducts her and threatens to destroy Voyager
unless she constructs the prototype.
Torres discovers that the robots are programmed to achieve victory while Janeway
and her crew, taking measures to rescue her, find themselves in a war of alien robots.
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