Voyager-Season One

Episodes 801-802 originally aired January 16, 1995. Written by Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor from Rick Berman and Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor. Directed by Winrich Kolbe. Guest Starring: Basil Langton as The Caretaker and Banjo Man;Gavin O'Herlihy as Jabin;Angela Paton as Aunt Adah Reh; Armin Shimerman as Quark; Alicia Cappola as Lieutenant Stadi; Bruce French as Ocampa doctor; Jennifer Parsons as Ocampa nurse; David Selburg as Toscat; Jeff McCarthy as Human doctor; Stan Ivar as Mark; Scott MacDonald as Ensign Rollins; Josh Clark as Joseph Carey; Richard Poe as Gul Evek; Keely Sims as Farmer's daughter; Eric David Johnson as Daggin; Majel Barrett as Computer voice.

Stardate 48315.6. When a Maquis ship vanishes into an area of space known as the Badlands, the USS Voyager is sent into pursuit, but that vessel, under teh command of Captain Kathryn Janeway, disappears as well. The crew finds itself seventy thousand light years away, meaning that at maximum warp it would take over seventy years to get home.

In its new locale, the Voyager crew hooks up with the Maquis, captained by Chakotay, and together they decide to investigate the situation, ultimately learning that they have been brought here by "the Caretaker," an alien whose sworn duty is to protect a race of people known as teh Ocampa. He is dying, though, and is looking for someone who can take his place as their guardian. When he does cease to exist, Janeway finds herself in the position of having to destroy the alien's technology -- which represents the only means of getting home that they know of -- or allow it to fall into the hands of another race called the Kazon, which will surely use this power to wipe out the Ocampa.

At episode's end, the Voyager and Maquis crews elect to work together to find a way home.

This was the two-hour long first episode of the Star Trek: Voyager series, and introduces the Starship Voyager and her crew, including Captain Kathryn Janeway. Originally produced as a two-hour made-for-television movie, "Caretaker" was aired as two one-hour segments.

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Episode 803 originally aired January 23, 1995. Teleplay by Brannon Braga from a story by Jim Trombetta. Directed by Kim Friedman. Guest Starring: Josh Clark as Lieutenant Carey; Martha Hackett as Seska; Justin Williams as Jarvin.

Stardate 48439.7. The Voyager encounters a quantum singularity after receiving a signal from another vessel that seems to be in jeopardy. Their attempts to rescue this other ship all meet with failure, and they eventually learn that it is actually the Voyager that is trapped in this strange time-space anomaly.

In the B story there is a debate over who should be the ship's chief engineer: Janeway wants a Starfleet officer, and Chakotay believes his Maquis engineer, the human-Klingon hybrid B'Elanna Torres, would be better suited for the role. What starts off as an antagonistic relationship between Janeway and Torres develops into one of mutual trust and affection.

This was the first regular hour-long episode of Star Trek: Voyager after the two-hour pilot episode.

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Episode 804 originally aired January 30, 1995. Teleplay by Michael Piller and David Kemper from a story by David Kemper. Directed by Les Landau. Guest Starring: Brady Bluhm as Latika; Ryan MacDonald as Shopkeeper; Joel Polis as Terla; Jerry Spicer as Guard; Nicholas Surovy as Makull; Steve Vaught as Officer.

Stardate Unknown. The Voyager's sensors pick up a shock wave in space generated by an explosion on a nearby planet. An Away Team beams down to investigate the situation, only to discover that all life-forms have been wiped out. Shortly thereafter, subspace fractures transport Janeway and Paris back to a time shortly before the explosion and they discover that they themselves -- albeit accidentally -- are responsible for what happened.

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Episode 805 originally aired February 6, 1995. Teleplay by Skye Dent and Brannon Braga from a story by Tim DeHaas. Directed by Winrich Kolbe. Guest Starring: Cully Fredericksen as Alien #1; Martha Hackett as Seska; Stephen B. Rappaport as Alien #2; Majel Barrett as Computer voice.

Stardate 48532.4. As the crew searches for Voyager power sources, it comes across a planet that seems to be filed with dilithium crystals.  Upon further investigation, they learn that the planet is really a base for an alien race that must steal body organs to fight "the Phage," a disease that eats away at their bodies and destroys their organs. The aliens, the Vidiians, steal the lungs of Neelix, who is kept alive via holographic lungs supplied in sick bay.  the drawback is that he can never move or those lungs will "malfunction." Ultimately, he is saved by the donation of one of Kes's lungs.

By episode's end, Janeway confronts the leader of the Vidiians, both horrified by what they do to other living creatures and sympathetic to their plight.  Nonetheless, she delivers a warning to the aliens that any such attack on her people in the future will be met with the deadliest of force.

This was the first appearance of the Vidiian Sodality.

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Episode 806 originally aired February 13, 1995. Teleplay by Michael Piller from a story by Brannon Braga. Directed by David Livingston. Guest Starring: Larry A. Hankin as Gaunt Gary; Angela Dohrmann as Ricky; Judy Geeson as Sandrine; Luigi Amodeo as the Gigolo.

Stardate 48546.2. Janeway decides to have the Voyager investigate  a nebula they discover, but not until they pass through it do they realize that this so-called nebula is actually a life-form that they have injured by entering. Now the crew must heal this creature before escaping.

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Episode 807 originally aired February 20, 1995. Teleplay by Bill Dial and Jeri Taylor from a story by Hilary J. Bader. Directed by Winrich Kolbe. Guest Starring: Michael Cumpsty as Lord Burleigh; Carolyn Seymour as Mrs. Templeton; Vaughn Armstrong as Telek; Tom Virtue as Lieutenant Baxter.

Stardate 48579.4. The crew members of the Voyager become hopeful that they may have found the possibility of getting home when their subspace communications throught a wormhole are actually responded to by someone in the Alpha Quadrant. Eventually they discover that eh recipient of their signal is a Romulan named Telek, who is at first distrustful fo Janeway's story but eventually comest to believe her and tentatively agrees to allow crew members to beam through the wormhole to his ship.

However, in a twist at episode's end that would do Rod Serling proud, their hopes of getting home are dashed upon learning that Telak exists fifty years in their past.

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Episode 808 originally aired February 27, 1995. Teleplay by Evan Carlos Somers and Michael Piller from a story by Evan Carlos Somers. Directed by LeVar Burton. Guest Starring: Robin McKee as Lidell Ren; Francis Guinan as Minister Kray; Aaron Lustig as Doctor; Ray Reinhardt as Tolen Ren; Henry Brown as Numiri Captain.

Stardate Unknown. While visiting a world that is engaged in war with a neighboring planet, Tom Paris is accused of a murder he didn't commit. As punishment, his brain is implanted with a device that forces him to relive the victim's death every fourteen hours for the rest of his life. Tuvok takes it upon himself to prove Paris's innocence and is ultimately forced to use the Vulcan mind-meld to restore Paris to normal before he loses his mind.

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Episode 809 originally aired March 13, 1995. Written by Brannon Braga. Directed by David Livingston. Guest Starring: Jeffrey Alan Chandler as Hatil Garan; Jerry Hardin as Doctor Neria; John Cirigliano as Alien #1; Martha Hackett as Seska; Robin Groves as Araya Garan; Cecile Callan as Ptera.

Stardate 48623.5 While exploring a strange new world, the crew accidentally discovers the burial ground of the Uhnori, which leads to Harry Kim being caught in a subspace vacuole and transported to the alien culture's homeworld. His arrival has serious ramifications fo the Uhnori,who immediately begin to doubt their traditional belief in the afterlife. Harry eventually realizes that his only hope of returning is to die so he can travel back to the burial site through the Uhnori "death station." Then it is up to Voyager's holographic doctor to bring him back to life.

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Episode 810 originally aired March 20, 1995. Teleplay by Michael Perricone, Greg Elliot and Jeri Taylor from a story by David R. George III, Eric Stillwell, Michael Perricone and Greg Elliot. Directed by Les Landau. Guest Starring: Martha Hackett as Seska; Josh Clark as Lieutenant Carey; Andrew Hill Newman as Jaret; Ronald Guttman as Gath; Yvonne Suhor as Eudana.

Stardate 48642.5. Once again, Voyager's hopes of getting home are renewed when they encounter the Sikarians, a race devoted completely to the pursuit of pleasure with the ability to travel more than forty thousand light years in an instant. Unfortunately, Janeway discovers that these aliens, who claim that they will help Voyager, have no plans to do so and are merely using the crew for their own amusement.

Janeway has the opportunity to basically steal the technology tht might allow Voyager to traverse a huge distance, but ethically can't bring herself to do so. Using logic to rationalize his decision, Tuvok leads a team to steal the device and install it in Voyager's engine room, only to have it nearly destroy the starship once it is engaged. It all comes to a head when Janeway and Tuvok are alone together, with Janeway feeling utterly betrayed.

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Episode 811 originally aired April 10, 1995. Teleplay by Chris Abbott from a story by Paul Robert Coyle. Directed by Robert Scheerer. Guest Starring: Martha Hackett as Ensign Seska; Josh Clark as Lieutenant Carey; Anthony DeLongis as Jal Culluh; Majel Barrett as Computer Voice.

Stardate 48658.2. As it continues home, Voyager intercepts a distress signal from a Kazon vessel that seems to have been damaged by Federation technology. This results in the realization that there is a traitor aboard the starship who has given technology to the Kazon. That traitor turns out to be Seska, who is also revealed to be a surgically altered Cardassian.

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Episode 812 originally aired April 24, 1995. Written by Naren Shankar. Directed by Les Landau. Guest Starring: Marjorie Monaghan as Freya; Christopher Neame as Unferth; Michael Keenan as King Hrothgar; Majel Barrett as Computer Voice.

Stardate 48693.2. When the Voyager's holodeck is taken over by an alien being that strikes out by transforming living creatures into pure energy, the ship's holographic doctor must overcome his system limitations and enter the holodeck's computer to do battle with the alien and restore everyone to normal.

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Episode 813 originally aired May 1, 1995. Teleplay by Brannon Braga from a story by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky. Directed by Kim Friedman. Guest Starring: Brian Markinson as Peter Durst; Michael Cumpsty as Lord Burleigh; Carolyn Seymour as Mrs. Templeton; Majel Barrett as Computer Voice.

Stardate 48734.2. Returning from the exploration of a black nebula, Tuvok and Chakotay have been injured, the Vulcan only slightly, while Chakotay's neural energy has been drained. What follows is a study in paranoia as an alien presence seems to leap from crew member to crew member attempting to manipulate the ship. It turns out that this "alien" is actually Chakotay's subconscious mind trying to save the Voyager from the nebula, not destroy it.

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Episode 814 originally aired May 8, 1995. Teleplay by Kenneth Biller from a story by Jonathan Glassner, Kenneth Biller and Adam Grossman. Directed by Winrich Kolbe. Guest Starring: Brian Markinson as Sulan and Peter Durst. Rob LaBelle as Vidiian Guard #1; Barton Tinapp as Talaxian Prisoner.

Stardate 48784.2. Torres and Paris are abducted by the Vidiian Phage aliens and taken to a bizarre prison where scientific experiments are being conducted. During one of these experiments, an alien scientist named Sulan splits B'Elanna into two separate beings, one completely human and the other Klingon. Both sides of her nature must work together to escape the laboratory and rescue Paris.

At episode's end, the Klingon half is killed by an energy blast, while the human B'Elanna, who feels she needs to get used to her new body and personality, is told by Voyager's doctor that her Klingon DNA will eventually reemerge and she will return to normal.

This was the second appearance of the Vidiians, first introduced in "Phage"(VGR)

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Episode 815 originally aired May 15, 1995. Teleplay by Jack Klein, Karen Klein and Kenneth Biller from a story by Scott Nimerfro and Jim Thornton. Directed by Kim Friedman. Guest Starring: James Sloyan as Dr. Ma'bor Jetrel; Larry Hankin a Gaunt Gary; Majel Barrett as Computer Voice.

Stardate 48840.5. Neelix encounters a Haakonian scientist named Ma'bor Jetrel who created the Metreon Cascade, a weapon used to destroy much of the Talaxian race, including Neelix's family. The man is allowed to board Voyager when he claims that Neelix will fall ill from long-term effects of the device that he can treat.

Neelix doesn't trust him, and this feeling proves to be accurate when it turns out that Jetrel is the one suffering from the illness and he is hoping that something in Neelix's physiology will result in a cure.

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Episode 816 originally aired May 22, 1995. Written by Ronald Wilkerson, Jean Louise Matthias and Jeri Taylor. Directed by David Livingston. Guest Starring: Armand Schultz as Kenneth Dalby; Derek McGrath as Chell; Kenny Morrison as Geron; Catherine MacNeal as Mariah Henley; Thomas Alexander Dekker as Henry Burleigh; Lindsey Haun as Beatrice Burleigh; Majel Barrett as Computer Voice.

Stardate 48846.5. When there is a rise in Maquis activities that go against Federation rules, Tuvok is assigned to train four Maquis members in Starfleet protocol and discipline.

At the same time, a virus has entered the ship's bineural circuitry, which threatens the lives of everyone aboard. By episode's end, both plot lines converge as Tuvok's trainees have to pull together heroically to help save the ship.

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