Star Trek Voyager second season

Star Trek Voyager season 2

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The second season episode guide

The 37's / season 2 - episode 1
written by Jeri Taylor & Brannon Braga
directed by James Conway
music by Dennis McCarthy
Voyager follows a trail of spaceborne rust, where the crew finds a centuries-old land vehicle from Earth drifting through space. When Paris manages to start the old truck, Harry's curiosity about its AM radio uncovers an equally ancient S.O.S. coming from a nearby planet. Janeway, hoping that whatever brought the truck and the source of the distress call to the Delta Quadrant could be found and used to send Voyager home, orders a landing. A vintage airplane is found on the surface with an alien power supply keeping the S.O.S. on the air, and eight alien-abducted humans are found in stasis chambers also constructed by an alien intelligence.

Initiations / season 2 - episode 2
written by Kenneth Biller
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Dennis McCarthy
Alone in a shuttlecraft preforming the Pakra, a solitary ritual commemorating his father, Chakotay is attacked by a Kazon-Ogla vessel. When he destroys the attacking craft and rescues the lone pilot, he discovers that his opponent is a young boy trying to make his mark in Kazon society by killing an enemy; the price of the boy's failure is dismemberment from his culture.

Projections / season 2 - episode 3
written by Brannon Braga
directed by Jonathan Frakes
music by David Bell
The Doctor is automatically brought online by a red alert, and finds that the ship has been abandoned after a Kazon attack. But this turns out to be wrong when Torres shows up to enlist the doctor's help in aiding the injured Janeway on the bridge. Thanks to a holographic projection system that can transfer the doctor to key parts of the ship other than sick bay, he visits the bridge for the first time, and is then off to the mess hall to help Neelix fend off a lone Kazon.

Elogium / season 2 - episode 4
teleplay by Kenneth Biller and Jeri Taylor
story by Jimmy Diggs and Steve J. Kay
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Dennis McCarthy
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 become fertile.

Non Sequitur / season 2 - episode 5
written by Brannon Braga
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway
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.

Twisted / season 2 - episode 6
teleplay by Kenneth Biller
story by Arnold Rudnick and Rich Hosek
directed by Kim Friedman
music by Jay Chattaway
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.

Parturition / season 2 - episode 7
written by Tom Szollosi
directed by Jonathan Frakes
music by Dennis McCarthy
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.

Persistence of Vision / season 2 - episode 8
written by Jeri Taylor
directed by James L. Conway
music by David Bell
As they ready for a first encounter with the Bothan alien species, a strange psionic field causes the Voyager crew to succumb to a delusional state and their most deeply buried thoughts to surface. During the catatonic crew member's ordeal, characters in Janeway's holonovel program become real and her beloved Mark appears; Paris faces off with his disparaging father, the Admiral; T'Pel and Torres are seduced by Chakotay.

Tattoo / season 2 - episode 9
teleplay by Michael Piller
story by Larry Brody
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Jay Chattaway
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.

Cold Fire / season 2 - episode 10
teleplay by Brannon Braga
story by Anthony Williams
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy
The crew is hailed by Ocampa colonists on an alien space station who lead them to the female mate of The Caretaker, a mysterious being who may have the ability to send them 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.

Maneuvers / season 2 - episode 11
written by Kenneth Biller
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway
Kazon intruders board the U.S.S. Voyager and steal a Transporter control module. That collateral enables their leader, Culluh, to persuade the 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.

Resistance / season 2 - episode 12
teleplay by Lisa Klink
story by Michael Jan Friedman and Kevin J. Ryan
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Dennis McCarthy
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. But during the commotion, Janeway is secreted away by Caylem, a local eccentric who believes she is his long lost daughter.

Prototype / season 2 - episode 13
written by Nicholas Corea
directed by Jonathan Frakes
music by Dennis McCarthy
When the crew finds a deactivated humanoid robot floating in space, Lt. 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.

Alliances / season 2 - episode 14
written by Jeri Taylor
directed by Les Landau
music by Dennis McCarthy
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.

Threshold / season 2 - episode 15
teleplay by Brannon Braga
story by Michael DeLuca
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Jay Chattaway
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.

Meld / season 2 - episode 16
teleplay by Michael Piller
story by Michael Sussman
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy
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.

Dreadnought / season 2 - episode 17
written by Gary Holland
directed by LeVar Burton
music by Dennis McCarthy
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 in stopping it.

Deathwish / season 2 - episode 18
teleplay by Michael Piller
story by Shawn Piller
directed by James L. Conway
music by Dennis McCarthy
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 extradimensional domain in which their immortal kind exist.

Lifesigns / season 2 - episode 19
written by Kenneth Biller
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy
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.

Investigations / season 2 - episode 20
teleplay by Jeri Taylor
story by Jeff Schnaufer & Ed Bond
directed by Les Landau
music by Dennis McCarthy
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.

Deadlock / season 2 - episode 21
written by Brannon Braga
directed by David Livingston
music by Dennis McCarthy
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.

Innocence / season 2 - episode 22
teleplay by Lisa Klink
story by Anthony Williams
directed by James L. Conway
music by Jay Chattaway
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.

The Thaw / season 2 - episode 23
teleplay by Joe Menosky
story by Richard Gadas
directed by Marvin V. Rush
music by David Bell
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.

Tuvix / season 2 - episode 24
teleplay by Kenneth Biller
story by Andrew Shepard Price & Mark Gaberman
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Jay Chattaway
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.

Resolutions / season 2 - episode 25
written by Jeri Taylor
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Dennis McCarthy
On a mission Janeway and Chakotay contract a virus from an insect bite, which means if they return to Voyager, they will die and infect the crew. 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.

Basics (1) / season 2 - episode 26
written by Michael Piller
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Dennis McCarthy
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.

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