The caregiver
| Episode of the series Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager | |
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| title | The caregiver |
| Original title | Caretaker |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| length | 84 (original 90, difference due to PAL acceleration ) minutes |
| classification | Season 1 , episode 1 + 2 1 + 2nd episode in total ( list ) |
| First broadcast | January 16, 1995 on UPN |
| German-language first broadcast |
June 21, 1996 on Sat.1 |
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| Director | Winrich Kolbe |
| script |
Michael Piller Jeri Taylor Rick Berman |
| music | Jay Chattaway |
| camera | Marvin V. Rush |
| cut |
Daryl Baskin J.P. Farrell |
| Guest appearance (s) | |
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Caretaker (original title: Caretaker ) is the 84-minute pilot episode of American science fiction - television series Star Trek: Voyager . It was first broadcast on January 16, 1995 on the UPN television network . Directed by Winrich Kolbe , the screenplay came from Michael Piller , Jeri Taylor and Rick Berman , who had previously worked on other Star Trek series. The film was partially split into two episodes, The Welfare, Part 1 and The Welfare, Part 2 , on later broadcasts .
The spaceship Voyager, commanded by Kathryn Janeway, is supposed to search for a spaceship belonging to the Maquis resistance group that has disappeared in an inhospitable region of space, but is transported to the other end of the Milky Way by a highly developed form of life in search of a sexual partner . With this, the pilot prepares the plot of the series, which shows Voyager's long and arduous journey home through an unexplored part of the galaxy.
action
A Maquis starship is engaged in battle with a Cardassian ship. Since the Maquis ship is defeated, the rebels flee to the Badlands , a region with dangerous plasma storms and gravitational anomalies. The Cardassian ship follows the Maquis ship, is badly damaged by an energy discharge and has to give up the chase. The Maquis ship is hit by a tetryon beam and caught in a wave of energy.
Meanwhile, in a Federation penal colony , Captain Janeway visits captured Maquis pilot and former Starfleet officer Tom Paris . She offers him to fly as an observer on a search mission for the missing Maquis ship, because he knows the Badlands . Janeway's interest in the Maquis ship is primarily her security chief Lieutenant Tuvok , who is employed there as an undercover agent . In addition, the Maquis crew is said to be arrested. As a reward for Paris' help, Janeway would campaign for his release.
Voyager takes off from Deep Space Nine for the Badlands . There she is also hit by a tetryon beam and captured by an energy wave. When the crew came to their senses, they found severe damage and the fact that the Voyager has moved 70,000 light years from its previous position. They locate a foreign space station that sends out an energy pulse every few seconds, as well as the Maquis ship they are looking for in the immediate vicinity.
Suddenly, the crew is from the Voyager beamed and finds himself apparently on a farm on the earth. Janeway suspects they may have landed on a holodeck and goes to look for a holographic generator. Tom Paris and Harry Kim discover signs of a strange way of life in a barn, but the farm residents try to prevent them from examining the barn more closely.
The barn is transformed into the interior of a space station, where the Maquis members are lined up unconscious on couches. The crew of the Voyager is anesthetized and also finds themselves on couches, where they are pierced by needles. When the crew members wake up, they are back on the Voyager and find that they have been gone for three days. Only Kim is missing. The Maquis ship tries to fly away, but Voyager activates the tractor beam to hold it. Janeway contacts Chakotay , the captain of the Maquis ship, who is missing a crew member, B'Elanna Torres . Janeway and Chakotay decide to work together. Some maquis beam onto Voyager, where Tuvok gives up his camouflage. He reports that he was only able to identify one form of life on the alien space station, and suspects that the capture and examination on the couches should serve their biometric assessment. Apparently only Kim and Torres seemed to the unknown kidnapper to be suitable for his purposes.
Janeway and Chakotay return with two teams to the alien space station, where they begin the search for Torres and Kim. On the holographic farm they meet an old man who introduces himself as a carer . He announces that the two missing persons are no longer present and that there is not enough time left. He must pay a debt that can never be paid.
Harry Kim and B'Elanna Torres wake up in a strange infirmary, where humanoids from the Ocampa people tell them that they are sick. You have ulcers all over your body. When Torres tries to flee, the Ocampa stop them and shut them down. Meanwhile, Janeway decides to fly to the planet after the repair work on the Voyager, to which the space station sends its energy pulses. In a nearby field of rubble they find a small ship that belongs to the Talaxian Neelix . He explains that the welfare worker has recently been bringing more ships into the region. Neelix believes the two missing crew members were taken to the Ocampa on the planet. He is ready to help find it.
On the planet they meet a group of Kazon- Ogla who are imprisoning an ocampa named Kes . The Ocampa live in a self-contained world inside the planet, because there is no water on the surface, and are provided with everything they need by the carer . Kes recently fled from there. With the help of a ruse, Neelix can distract the Kazon, and the Voyager beams the expedition team with Kes on board. Kes agrees to help find Torres and Kim. They are now being treated like guests by the Ocampa. With the help of the transporters Janeway, Chakotay, Paris, Tuvok, Neelix and Kes get to the underground city of the Ocampa, where they find the missing. Because the surface radiation transporters are not working, Paris and Neelix have to dig their way to the surface of the planet. Janeway, Tuvok and Chakotay are hit by falling boulders on their way up. Chakotay breaks his leg and is saved by Paris. Everyone returns to Voyager.
Both crews fly their ships back to the caregiver's space station to ask for help on their return. He refuses. He is to blame for the drought of the planet and therefore sees his duty to care for the Ocampa. But now he is dying; he wanted to reproduce with Torres' and Kim's help so that the Ocampa would continue to be provided for. He activates a self-destruct sequence so as not to let his station fall into the wrong hands after his death. Meanwhile, both ships are attacked by the Kazon. When one of the Kazon ships collides with the space station, the self-destruct is canceled. After her return to the Voyager, on which the Maquis crew is now also located, who sacrificed their ship, Janeway destroys the space station in order to continue to protect the Ocampa. The Maquis as well as Neelix and Kes join the crew, Chakotay becomes first mate and Paris pilot of Voyager. Finally, on Janeway's orders, he sets a course home.
criticism
The lexicon of international films judged: “Naive science fiction adventure that reflects the political course of the USA; In terms of tricks, it's not exactly an exhilarating film. "
Awards
- Outstanding Individual Achievement - Special Visual Effects
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nominated for :
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series
- Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)
Web links
- Caretaker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Caregiver, Part I and Part II in the Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha
- The welfare worker, Part I and Part II at Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Star Trek - Voyager: The Caregiver. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed January 30, 2013 .