Star Trek Voyager first season

Star Trek Voyager season 1

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Caretaker (1) / season 1 - episode 1
teleplay by Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor
story by Rick Berman & Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Jay Chattaway
A starship controlled by the Maquis mysteriously disappears in the Badlands, a charged energy field near the demilitarized zone, after being pursued by a Cardassian ship. U.S.S. Voyager, commanded by Captain Janeway, is dispatched from DS9 to the Badlands to find out where the Maquis ship went, especially since a Starfleet security operative, Vulcan Lt. Tuvok, was aboard.

Caretaker (2) / season 1 - episode 2
teleplay by Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor
story by Rick Berman & Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Jay Chattaway
The Caretaker decides to set the array to self-destruct to avoid allowing the Ocampa to be enslaved by the Kazons. In the fierce battle with the Kazons, Chakotay's Maquis ship is destroyed when he rams it into the lead Kazon ship, which then collides with the array, disabling the self-destruct sequence. Janeway beams back to the Voyager and destroys the array herself, though it could have sent her and her crew back to the Alpha Quadrant.

Parallax / season 1 - episode 3
teleplay by Brannon Braga
story by Jim Trombetta
directed by Kim Friedman
music by Dennis McCarthy
B'Elanna Torres faces the prospect of a court-martial after hitting Lt. Carey, the only surviving senior member of Voyager's engineering crew, and Janeway is surprised when Chakotay nominates Torres for the position of chief engineer. Before a choice can be made, Voyager encounters a quantum singularity that appears to have trapped a ship. After an attempt to snag the distant derelict with the tractor beam, Voyager is forced to back off as the crew hatches alternate plans to retrieve the other ship.

Time and Again / season 1 - episode 4
teleplay by David Kemper & Michael Piller
story by David Kemper
directed by Les Landau
music by Jay Chattaway
Exploring a planet which has very recently been rendered uninhabitable by a global disaster, Janeway and Paris are separated from the rest of their away team and somehow find themselves in the same place, but hours before the cataclysm that consumed the planet's entire civilization. Their attempts to remain anonymous while trying to find a way back to their own present land them in the middle of a protest against a polaric energy plant, which may be the cause of the world's destruction.

Phage / season 1 - episode 5
teleplay by Skye Dent and Brannon Braga
story by Timothy de Haas
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Dennis McCarthy
Searching for deposits of refinable dilithium, Voyager stops off at a moon, where Chakotay, Kim and Neelix beam to the surface. It turns out that this moon is not uninhabited. A group of aliens there seem to have left a dilithium trail, and one of them attacks Neelix. When the others come to his aid, Neelix's lungs have been removed, and only some innovative but risky gambles taken by Voyager's holographic doctor can keep him barely alive.

The Cloud / season 1 - episode 6
teleplay by Tom Szollosi & Michael Piller
story by Brannon Braga
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway
Investigating a nebula whose energy currents could replenish the ship's engines and other systems, Voyager penetrates the gases of the nebula, which turns out to be a huge life form. The ship's entry injures the creature, and Voyager barely makes it back into open space intact. Though it will further deplete the ship's energy reserves, Janeway feels that the crew is obligated to return to the nebula-entity and repair the damage caused by Voyager's intrusion.

Eye of the Needle / season 1 - episode 7
teleplay by Bill Dial & Jeri Taylor
story by Hilary J. Bader
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Dennis McCarthy
Harry's sensor sweeps for space anomalies detect a wormhole which Janeway diverts Voyager off course to investigate. Though a probe is able to determine that the wormhole leads homeward to the Alpha Quadrant, the wormhole is too small to travel through. When the probe is scanned by a ship on the other side, the crew begin using it as a relay satellite and make contact with a Romulan ship. Though the Romulan captain is skeptical of Janeway's claim that Voyager is in the Delta Quadrant, he eventually realizes the truth and offers to help transmit messages home.

Ex Post Facto / season 1 - episode 8
teleplay by Evan Carlos Somers and Michael Piller
story by Evan Carlos Somers
directed by LeVar Burton
music by Dennis McCarthy
Kim returns alone in a shuttle from a trip to Banea which he made with Tom Paris. After getting entangled with a scientist's wife, and by all accounts murdering the scientist in question, Paris has been sentenced to relive the crime from the victim's point of view every 14 hours. Janeway, despite Tom's admittedly less-than-exemplary record, needs to know for herself if Tom is guilty of the crime. When it turns out that the Banean punishment is reacting badly to Tom's human physiology, he is taken back to Voyager.

Emanations / season 1 - episode 9
written by Brannon Braga
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway
Investigating the possibility of a new element detected in the rocky bodies comprising a planet's ring system, an away team beams down to one of the asteroids and finds the ground littered with dead bodies encased in a residual shell. As the away team conducts a visual survey, a subspace phenomenon occurs, prompting an emergency beam-out. But when the away team transports back to Voyager, Kim doesn't return, his place taken by a newly-arrived body.

Prime Factors / season 1 - episode 10
teleplay by Michael Perricone and Greg Elliot
story by David R. George III and Eric A. Stillwell
directed by Les Landau
music by Jay Chattaway
Voyager is intercepted by a ship from Sikaris, an planet with an advanced culture renowned for its hospitality; Sikarian magistrate Gath offers an extended visit to his planet, which Janeway accepts. During this visit, Harry finds out that the Sikarians have developed transportation technology that could send Voyager at least halfway home, if not all the way. But the Sikarians have their own rule - much like Starfleet's Prime Directive - that will not permit them to share this technology with less advanced cultures.

State of Flux / season 1 - episode 11
teleplay by Chris Abbott
story by Paul Robert Coyle
directed by Robert Scheerer
music by Dennis McCarthy
A visit to the surface of a habitable planet becomes less than routine when a Kazon ship is detected nearby. All away teams are recalled to Voyager, but Seska can't befound. Chakotay finds her in a cave nearby, where the two of them are attacked by Kazons but escape. The Kazon ship is sending a distress signal, and despite her own misgivings and Neelix's warnings, Janeway sends an away team to the ship.

Heroes and Demons / season 1 - episode 12
written by Naren Shankar
directed by Les Landau
music by Dennis McCarthy
As Voyager passes near a protostar, Janeway and Torres try to beam some samples of its photonic material aboard. When they try to enlist Harry's help in studying it, they find that he has disappeared from the ship. Chakotay and Tuvok go to where Harry was last seen - the holodeck and try to learn what happened to their comrade by interacting with Harry's holodeck program.But Chakotay and Tuvok vanish when a mysterious character known as "Grendel" appears.

Cathexis / season 1 - episode 13
teleplay by Brannon Braga
story by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by Kim Friedman
music by Jay Chattaway
Tuvok and Chakotay barely survive an alien attack within a dark matter nebula they wereexploring. Chakotay is returned to Voyager in a brain-dead state, but Tuvok recovers. After numerous acts of sabotage prevent Janeway from taking Voyager into the nebula to investigate, it becomes evident that an alien consciousness is loose aboard the ship, moving from person to person in order to keep Voyager out of the nebula.

Faces / season 1 - episode 14
teleplay by Kenneth Biller
story by Jonathan Glassner and Kenneth Biller
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by David Bell
An away team left to explore a planetoid has been captured by the phage-ravaged Vidiians, who are seeking alien genes resistant to the disease for incorportation into the Vidiians' own genetic structure. In one experiment, Vidian surgeon Sulan splits B'Elanna into two entirely separate beings, one Klingon, the other human. B'Elanna's human side is timid and weak compared to her powerful warrior half, who escapes from Sulan's lab.

Jetrel / season 1 - episode 15
teleplay by Jack Klein & Karen Klein and Kenneth Biller
story by Scott Nimerfro & Jim Thomton
directed by Kim Friedman
music by Dennis McCarthy
An alien ship contacts Voyager and asks for Neelix by name; when the party seeking Neelix turns out to be a Haakonian named Jetrel, Neelix reacts badly. Jetrel was a scientist who developed the metreon cascade, an immensely powerful weapon that destroyed 300,000 Talaxians - including Neelix's family - during a war with the Haakonians fifteen years ago. Jetrel announces that Neelix could be suffering from a terminal condition resulting from minimal exposure to the metreon cascade, and offers to try to study him to find a cure.

Learning Curve / season 1 - episode 16
written by Ronald Wilkerson & Jean Louise Matthias
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway
After a Maquis officer named Dolby breaks with procedure and replaces a faulty bioneural circuit without reporting the malfunction, Janeway assigns Tuvok - himself a former instructor at Starfleet Academy - to bring Dolby and a handful of other problematic Maquis up to speed on Starfleet protocol. This task proves more daunting than Tuvok could have imagined, since even the most worrisome Academy cadets at least wanted to be in Starfleet.

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