Star Trek Voyager third season

Star Trek Voyager season 3

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The third season episode guide

Basics (2) / season 3 - episode 1
written by Michael Piller
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Dennis McCarthy
Left for dead by the Kazon, Captain Janeway and her crew brave the elements and hostile natives on Hanon Four, a primitive planet. When one of their group is viciously killed and then Kes is abducted, Chakotay and Tuvok must attempt a precarious rescue. They prepare for a vengeful alien attack while a gloating Culluh, at the helm of Voyager, announces a new era in Kazon history and prepares to annihilate most of the Delta Quadrant.

Flashback / season 3 - episode 2
teleplay by Brannon Braga
story by Juliann Medina
directed by David Livingston
music by David Bell
Tuvok suddenly begins having strange, disorienting attacks which
cause a disturbing childhood memory to resurface. As the trauma begins to degrade his neural system he knows he must take action or he will die. To access and conquer the debilitating memory fragment, he asks Captain Janeway to act as his guide and enter into a mind-meld with him. Amazingly, the mind-meld takes Tuvok and Janeway to the scene of the young Vulcan's first Starfleet duty - on the bridge of the U.S.S. Excelsior with Captain Hikaru Sulu in command.

The Chute / season 3 - episode 3
teleplay by Kenneth Biller
story by Clayvon C. Harris
directed by Les Landau
music by Jay Chattaway
While on an Akritirian planet, Paris and Kim are believed to be members of the "Open Sky" terrorist group and are arrested, tried and convicted of planting a trilithium- based bomb. Before they know it, they are piled into a dark, impenetrable prison at the end of a mysterious chute. Kim tries to devise an escape and protect a severely injured Paris who has been stabbed by a ranting prisoner. But they realize that, like each crazed inmate, they are fitted with a clamp which causes each man to slowly kill one another.

The Swarm / season 3 - episode 4
written by Mike Sussman
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Dennis McCarthy
The Doctor's rehearsal of an opera duet on the Holodeck is interrupted when he is called to treat the severely injured Lieutenant Paris who, while aboard a shuttlecraft with Torres, has been attacked by an unknown alien force. When The Doctor cannot remember the medical procedures necessary to save Paris, it is discovered that the Emergency Medical Holograph database has overloaded and The Doctor's memory circuits are rapidly degrading.

False Profits / season 3 - episode 5
teleplay by Joe Menosky
story by George A. Brozak
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy
When Voyager detects replicator technology and Alpha Quadrant
inhabitants on a nearby planet, Chakotay and Paris transport there to find an impoverished, struggling society. They soon find a palatial temple and Arridor and Kol the Ferengi who disappeared in the TNG episode "The Price" decked out in silk and gold jewels who are passing themselves off as demigods to the people there.

Remember / season 3 - episode 6
teleplay by Lisa Klink
story by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by David Bell
The Voyager crew picks up passengers from the homeworld Enara
Prime and learns of their telepahitc ability. Before long, Lieutenant Torres begins having intense, sensuous dreams of herself as a young girl involved in a forbidden romance with Dathan, a member of the Regressives, a subgroup which once resisted Enaran technology. The dreams turn haunting for Torres as the young girl's father Jareth, participates in a resettlement of the Regressives and eventually their total extermination.

Sacred Ground / season 3 - episode 7
teleplay by Lisa Klink
story by Geo Cameron
directed by Robert Duncan McNeill
music by Jay Chattaway
Kes is left for dead after she enters a sacred shrine on the Nechani
homeworld and is hit by a mysterious energy burst. The Nechani explain to Janeway that monks receive purification of their souls in the shrine and the spirits have punished Kes for trespassing. While Neelix researches the shrine and the ritual the monks undergo there, Janeway undergoes the arduous rite of passage herself.

Future's End (1) / season 3 - episode 8
written by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway
Captain Braxton of the 29th century Timeship Aeon hails Janeway and crew to inform them that the U.S.S. Voyager is responsible for a catastrophe in his century and he's come back in time to prevent that occurrence by destroying them. The Starfleet crew is forced to engage him and, although they're equipped with only 24th century technology, they're able to partially disable his weapons.

Future's End (2) / season 3 - episode 9
written by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Jay Chattaway
While the U.S.S. Voyager orbits above North America with its weapons and long range transporters disabled, Tuvok and Paris are missing in Los Angeles and must enlist the help of young astronomer Rain Robinson and use cellular telephone technology to communicate with their crew.

Warlord / season 3 - episode 10
teleplay by Lisa Klink
story by Andrew Shepard Price and Mark Gaberman
directed by David Livingston
music by David Bell
As The Doctor and Kes treat three injured aliens whose ship was detected adrift in space, one of them an egomaniacal political extremist named Tieran dies, but not before he transfers his own mind to the body of Kes, controlling her and accessing her own Ocampan powers.

The Q and the Grey / season 3 - episode 11
teleplay by Kenneth Biller
story by Shawn Piller
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy
While the Voyager crew witnesses several rare supernova explosions, Q arrives in the Captain's quarters to implore the outraged Janeway to conceive his child. Q pursues the uninterested Janeway just as a jealous female Q appears to bring Q back to the Continuum. While the U.S.S. Voyager is deluged by shock waves from the supernovas, Q escapes to the Continuum with Janeway in tow, leaving the female Q bereft of her powers aboard a stranded starship Voyager.

Macrocosm / season 3 - episode 12
written by Brannon Braga
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Dennis McCarthy
Voyager is seized by a macrovirus alien an unknown gelatinous lifeform which attacks and overwhelms the crew and disables the ship and Captain Janeway must face the fight of her life, crawling through the disabled ship's dark passageways to elude the alien assault. Meanwhile, the Doctor goes on his first away mission to the Garan mining colony to locate the source of this mysterious and severe viral infection.

Fair Trade / season 3 - episode 13
teleplay by Andrè Bormanis
story by Ronald Wilkerson & Jean Louise Matthias
directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino
music by David Bell
When the starship Voyager crew transports to a heavily secured space station to trade for supplies, Neelix meets up with Wixiban, an old Talaxian acquaintance who dupes him into using Federation shuttlecraft to traffic narcotic substances. When Wixiban murders one of his drug buyers, Paris and Chakotay are implicated while a guilt-ridden Neelix returns to the ship.

Alter Ego / season 3 - episode 14
written by Joe Menosky
directed by Robert Picardo
music by Paul Baillargeon
Disturbed by the fact that he's falling in love with Marayna, a holodeck character, Ensign Kim begs Tuvok to teach him how Vulcans suppress their emotions. When Tuvok intervenes, Marayna befriends and tries to seduce him, too. A jealous Kim is infuriated with Tuvok, but then Marayna reveals her true intentions.

Coda / season 3 - episode 15
written by Jeri Taylor
directed by Nancy Malone
music by Dennis McCarthy
After her shuttlecraft crash lands, a critically injured Captain Janeway is attacked by Vidiians and has a mysterious near death experience during which she encounters her father, Admiral Janeway.

Blood Fever / season 3 - episode 16
written by Lisa Klink
directed by Andrew Robinson
music by Jay Chattaway
During their exploration of a decimated colony, the Voyager away team is thrown into turmoil with the sudden onset of the Vulcan mating season. The ensuing irrational advances of a Vorik wreak havoc when they trigger Lieutenant Torres' involuntary Klingon mating instincts. Meanwhile, Commander Chakotay spots the remains of one of the colony's invaders the Borg.

Unity / season 3 - episode 17
written by Kenneth Biller
directed by Robert Duncan McNeill
music by David Bell
In response to a distress signal, Commander Chakotay lands his shuttlecraft on a planet's surface but is viciously attacked. He's swiftly rescued by a colony of formerly assimilated Borg and goes to extreme measures when he allows their resident physician, Dr. Riley Frazier, to heal his neural injuries by linking him to a remnant of the Borg Collective consciousness.

The Darkling / season 3 - episode 18
teleplay by Joe Menosky
story by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
directed by Alexander Singer
music by Paul Baillargeon
To improve his performance as the ship's physician, the Doctor undertakes a personality enhancement project on the Holodeck, incorporating several accomplished historical figures' traits and temperaments into his Starfleet database. But he also adopts several aberrant character traits from those non-fictional figures and is soon overtaken by a dangerous, cruel Mister Hyde-like personality.

Rise / season 3 - episode 19
teleplay by Brannon Braga
story by Jimmy Diggs
directed by Robert Scheerer
music by Paul Baillargeon
When a Nezu planet is bombarded by asteroids and its inhabitants face evacuation, the U.S.S. Voyager intervenes by sending Tuvok and Neelix to join several prominent members of the Nezu on a rescue mission. Soon it is learned that there's a traitor in their midst, and Tuvok's condescending attitude pushes Neelix to the breaking point.

Favorite Son / season 3 - episode 20
teleplay by Brannon Braga
story by Lisa Klink
directed by Marvin V. Rush
music by Dennis McCarthy
After Ensign Kim suddenly exhibits abnormal behavior, he instinctively leads the U.S.S. Voyager to a mysterious planet, the Taresian homeworld. There, a shocking story of his birth is told by members of the almost exclusively female population and they want him for reproductive purposes.

Before and After / season 3 - episode 21
written by Kenneth Biller
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Jay Chattaway
An accident causes Kes to live her life backwards in an alternate future where Janeway and Torres were killed in an accident in engineering.

Real Life / season 3 - episode 22
teleplay by Jeri Taylor
story by Harry "Doc" Kloor
directed by Anson Williams
music by Dennis McCarthy
The Doctor creates himself a family. After B'Elanna and Kes have dinner with the Doctor and his "perfect family", B'Elanna decides to make modifications to make the program more "realistic", without telling the Doctor.

Distant Origin / season 3 - episode 23
written by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by David Livingston
music by David Bell
The Voyager crew are unwitting research subjects after scientists of the Voth race, saurian-like aliens who believe they were the first intelligent beings to evolve in the Delta Quadrant, discover the human remains of a Starship Voyager crewman - Lieutenant Hogan killed in the episode Basics, part II - and find a genetic pattern similar to their own. When Gegen, the chief researcher, suggests that based on these findings, the true origin of the Voth is Earth, their leader, Minister Odala, deems him a heretic.

Worst Case Scenario / season 3 - episode 24
written by Kenneth Biller
directed by Alex Singer
music by Jay Chattaway
Suspicion and animosity run rampant when members of the crew discover a secret holographic novel program depicting Seska and the Maquis leading an insurrection aboard Voyager. When crew members surreptitiously play the program, they are each into the role of a Starfleet security officer who is approached by Chakotay to help the Maquis with the mutiny.

Displaced / season 3 - episode 25
written by Lisa Klink
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Jay Chattaway
One by one, Janeway's crew suddenly and mysteriously trades places with mercurial aliens from Nyria Three. As Janeway quickly becomes surrounded by these seemingly perplexed strangers who react strongly to the ship's temperature and lights, she must scramble to keep control of her ship. Meanwhile her confused crew is transplanted to an idyllic yet artificial world.

Scorpion (1) / season 3 - episode 26
written by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway
The long-awaited moment has come: the crew of the Voyager encounter the Borg. But it's not the Federation vessel they seem to be interested in. It is an alien species, more than a match for the Borg, that has set its mind to destroy the cybernetic race. 'The weak will perish'. The Doctor works out what protects 'species 8-4-7-2' against Borg assimilation attempts, and finds a way to reprogram the Borg' own nanoprobes so they may do their job nonetheless.

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