Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager / Season 1

Season 1 of Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager
Episodes	16
Country of production	United States
First broadcast	January 16 - May 22, 1995 on UPN
German-language first broadcast	June 21 - September 27, 1996 on Sat.1
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With the first season began in January 1995, the US premiere of the television series Star Trek: Voyager spaceship . In Germany, the season was shown for the first time from June to September 1996.

Episodes and first broadcast

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
1/2	1/2	The caregiver	Caretaker	Jan. 16, 1995	Jun 21, 1996	Winrich Kolbe	Michael Piller , Jeri Taylor ; Idea: Rick Berman , Michael Piller , Jeri Taylor
The Federation spaceship USS Voyager is in the Badlands, on the border between the Federation and the Cardassian Union, searching for a spaceship belonging to the Maquis resistance group . Here both spaceships are kidnapped by a being who calls itself the carer in just a few seconds into the Delta Quadrant 70,000 light years away . Both crews are teleported there on its phalanx and after medical examinations brought back to their spaceships. However, the caregiver does not have time to bring them back into the alpha quadrant, because he is dying and tries with his last bit of strength to supply the people of the Ocampa with the energy they need to survive under the planet's surface. The being wants to prevent the phalanx from falling into the hands of the peoples in the Delta Quadrant after its death and tries to self-destruct. When this fails due to technical problems, Janeway and Chakotay, the commander of the Maquis ship, decide to destroy the phalanx in order to guarantee the Ocampa protection from their enemies. Because it was necessary to sacrifice the Maquis spaceship, Janeway and Chakotay decide to lead a joint crew on board the Voyager and now make their way back to the Alpha Quadrant together. Janeway remains captain and Chakotay becomes her first officer. The Talaxian Neelix and his Ocampa friend Kes , who were helpful to the crew in the foreign area, ask to be allowed to accompany the Voyager on their journey; Neelix offers his services as a ship cook. Tom Paris, who is not actually a Starfleet member, becomes the pilot of Voyager.
3	3	The parallax	Parallax	Jan. 23, 1995	June 28, 1996	Kim Friedman	Brannon Braga , idea: Jim Trombetta
Commander Chakotay suggests Lieutenant Torres, a former maquis, as Voyager's chief engineer. Captain Janeway is skeptical at first because Torres left the academy without a degree and had a physical altercation with Lieutenant Carey, the senior officer in the engine room. But after Torres has made a decisive contribution to escaping a quantum singularity, Janeway promotes her to chief engineer. In addition, the doctor will become the chief medical officer and Lieutenant Paris will be his medic. Kes is commissioned to create a hydroponic garden that she herself suggested.
4th	4th	Subspace columns	Time and Again	Jan. 30, 1995	5th July 1996	Les Landau	David Kemper , Michael Piller ; Idea: David Kemper
Voyager discovers a planet that recently became the site of a dire catastrophe. During investigations, Janeway and Paris go back to the time before the catastrophe through subspace gaps and realize here that it is possible to prevent the events. Meanwhile, the Voyager crew undertakes a rescue operation and tries to cut their way into the subspace. Janeway realizes that this action was what caused the disaster in the past, and prevents it, restoring the timeline and undoing the disaster.
5	5	Transplants	Phage	Feb 6, 1995	July 12, 1996	Winrich Kolbe	Skye Dent , Brannon Braga ; Idea: Timothy DeHaas
When the Dilithium reserves run low, Janeway follows Neelix's advice and heads for a planet that promises a large amount of Dilithium. When the away team transported to the planet encounters alien aliens, Chakotay orders them back to Voyager. However, Neelix had her lungs removed after being hit by a sophisticated alien weapon. In order to save him, the medical holographic emergency program, or MHN for short, has to replace his lungs with a holographic simulation. Meanwhile, the crew goes in search of the stranger. When they find the Vidiian attackers, they explain that Neelix's lungs have already been transplanted into one of their bodies. Janeway doesn't want to trade Neelix's life for the stranger's life and wants to let them go. However, because the Vidiians are medically advanced, they help the doctor genetically engineer one of Kes' lungs so that it can be used as a transplant for Neelix. Kes becomes a medical assistant - as an assistant or replacement for Tom Paris.
6th	6th	The mysterious fog	The cloud	Feb 13, 1995	July 19, 1996	David Livingston	Tom Szollosi , Michael Piller ; Idea: Brannon Braga
Because Voyager's energy reserves are almost exhausted, the crew enters a fog that they believe could be used as a source of energy. When the crew realizes that the mist is actually a life form, they attempt to repair the damage they caused and escape from the creature.
7th	7th	The eye of the needle	Eye of the Needle	Feb 20, 1995	July 26, 1996	Winrich Kolbe	Bill Dial , Jeri Taylor ; Idea: Hilary J. Bader
Ensign Kim discovers a wormhole that leads into the Alpha Quadrant but is too small for Voyager. Captain Janeway uses a probe to contact a Romulan scientist at the other end, who finally agrees to be beamed over for a test. It succeeds, but Lieutenant Tuvok notices that the guest dates from 2351, which is 20 years ago. So if the Voyager crew were beamed through the wormhole into the Alpha Quadrant, history would change; Likewise, if the scientist warned Starfleet not to send Voyager to the Badlands in 20 years' time. As a result, he is beamed back only with the request to forward personal messages from the Voyager crew to Starfleet 20 years later. Afterwards, Tuvok points out that, according to databases, the scientist died four years ago; it is therefore uncertain whether he could carry out his assignment.
8th	8th	The dead man's eyes	Ex post facto	Feb. 27, 1995	Aug 2, 1996	LeVar Burton	Evan Carlos Somers , Michael Piller ; Idea: Evan Carlos Somers
Tom Paris is wrongly convicted of a murder by the Banean law enforcement agencies after visiting the planet Banea and has to see the crime through the eyes of the victim every 14 hours as punishment. Tuvok conducts a mind-amalgamation with Paris and can prove that he was the victim of a conspiracy by spies of the Numiri, a race with which the Baneans are at war, and that the last thoughts of the murdered man have been manipulated into the punishment in Paris' Remembering implanted thoughts to smuggle information from the planet.
9	9	The unimaginable	Emanations	13 Mar 1995	Aug 9, 1996	David Livingston	Brannon Braga
Using a sensor scan, Voyager discovers an apparently previously undiscovered chemical element in a group of asteroids. Because some of the asteroids have a Class M environment, Chakotay, Harry Kim, and B'Elanna Torres are beamed down to investigate one. The away team discovered the burial ground of an unknown culture, and Chakotay insists on treating the corpses respectfully and examining the bodies and their cobweb-like covering without technical aids. The unknown new element appears to be a by-product of the decomposition process of the dead. Suddenly a subspace vacuole appears, a bubble in the subspace that can connect two places in normal space. The away team is therefore beamed back to the ship, but only Chakotay, Torres and one of the asteroid's recently deceased appear on the transporter platform. The doctor can revive the dead woman, but Harry Kim remains missing. This was pulled through a subspace vacuole during the beaming and wakes up in a coffin (with a killing device). Through this regular natural phenomenon he succeeds in returning to the asteroid by swapping places with the neighbor who is to walk to his death. This stays with relatives in the mountains.
10	10	The supreme law	Prime Factors	20 Mar 1995	Aug 16, 1996	Les Landau	Michael Perricone , Greg Elliot ; Idea: David R. George III. , Eric A. Stillwell
The Sicarians, known for their hospitality, offer the Voyager to spend some time on shore leave on their planet. Harry Kim meets a woman who shows him Alastria, a place they can reach with a special transporter technology. Harry realizes that they were transported to a planet 40,000 light years away from Sikaria in just a few seconds. When Harry tells Captain Janeway about this and the magistrate Gathorel Labin is asked if they can help Voyager shorten their journey back to the Alpha Quadrant, Voyager has to refuse due to sicarian laws that forbid him to use technology with alien species share. Because Janeway also has to act according to the highest directive, she accepts his decision. Other crew members of the Voyager do not want to miss this opportunity, and some of the Sicarians also consider their own laws to be outdated and offer Harry the transporter technology in exchange for the ship's literature of the Voyager. When Janeway offers the magistrate this swap as an alternative and rejects it again, she realizes that the magistrate is only trying to detain the crew of Voyager for their own pleasure. Janeway wants to leave, but Torres and several other crew members plan to trade with the Sicarians without the captain's consent. This business is carried out by Tuvok, who wants to spare Janeway a moral dilemma and therefore does so without her knowledge. However, the technology is not working as planned and the Voyager is almost destroyed if it is attempted to use it.
11	11	The betrayal	State of Flux	Apr 10, 1995	23 Aug 1996	Robert Scheerer	Chris Abbott , idea: Paul Robert Coyle
A Kazon Nistrim ship sends a distress signal. A Voyager away team notes that an explosion occurred when the Kazon tried to install a Federation device on their ship. The hardware cannot be recovered at first. The only survivor is beamed onto the Voyager. When looking for compatible blood donors, Kes notices that there is no blood sample from Seska. She says her blood was infected with a childhood disease and is therefore unusable. But she gives a blood sample. The suspects for giving the Federation hardware to the Kazon are Seska, who would have had the opportunity to do so on an outside mission, and Carey, who sent a signal from his engine room station. Seska beams onto the Kazon ship to recover the device, but is injured in an explosion. The First Maj Cullah of the Kazon-Nistrim visits the surviving Kazon and has him killed. After the Federation device was retrieved, Torres identified it as a Voyager material replicator . In the meantime, the doctor and Kes have analyzed Seska's blood. Her conclusions: Seska is not a Bajoran, but probably a Cardassian. She explains this result with a bone marrow transplant that she received from a Cardassian woman. Chakotay tells her that it is currently being determined where exactly the replicator components come from. Tuvok gives Carey the same information. Seska's security code is then entered in the inventory database. Access was from the infirmary where Seska is located. The doctor also says a bone marrow transplant couldn't explain her blood abnormality. Seska is convicted and justifies her betrayal with a need to break Federation laws to find a way into the Alpha Quadrant. She says the Kazon-Nistrim are possible allies. Then she beams onto a Kazon ship.
12	12	Heroes and demons	Heroes and Demons	Apr 24, 1995	Aug 30, 1996	Les Landau	Naren Shankar
Janeway and Torres beam samples of a protostar on board. Kim is supposed to help with the analysis, but he disappeared in a Beowulf color novel. The program cannot be closed and the security protocols are not working. Chakotay and Tuvok are looking for Kim. They are told that "Beowulf" (Kim) was killed in battle by the monster Grendel , who fetches a warrior every night. Janeway and Torres conclude from Chakotay's and Tuvok's tricorder data that photonic energy from the protostar may have entered the holodeck. It may have turned Kim into energy. Chakotay and Tuvok also disappear when confronted with "Grendel", and the doctor is sent on a search, since he appears less endangered as a hologram. When he meets the “monster”, he analyzes it as a photonic energy formation. He just escapes. Torres concludes from the doctor's tricorder data that the photonic energy could be intelligent, and together with Paris he examines the samples of the protostar again. A sample then “flees” and shows intelligent behavior. It disappears into a photonic grid in which Voyager registers three bioelectrical patterns. Janeway believes these are the missing crew members who were taken hostage by photonic creatures in the Protostar in response to Voyager's "hijacking" of samples from the Protostar. The doctor goes back to the holodeck and hands over the last sample to "Grendel". He then releases Kim, Chakotay and Tuvok.
13	13	Loss of consciousness	Cathexis	May 1, 1995	6 Sep 1996	Kim Friedman	Brannon Braga , idea: Brannon Braga , Joe Menosky
Chakotay and Tuvok return by shuttle from exploring a nebula of dark matter . Chakotay is brain dead and all of his bionural energy has been drawn from his brain. Tuvok reports that they were attacked by a spaceship. Its ion trail leads into the nebula. Several attempts by the Voyager crew to fly back to the fog fail due to acts of sabotage by crew members, which they cannot remember afterwards; they were evidently at times under the influence of a strange mind. Kes sensed a corresponding telepathic presence. Shortly afterwards she is in a coma; apparently Tuvok is responsible for this. At Paris' suggestion, Torres prepares a magneton scan to locate the being. The scan is to be carried out throughout the ship and will make everyone dizzy for a short time. On the bridge, the creature drives into Janeway, which attacks Tuvok. A fight breaks out and various crew members are possessed one by one. Finally Tuvok wins. When Voyager reaches the nebula, Janeway discovers that the ion trail appears to belong to a non-propelled ship. She is convinced that Tuvok is lying and orders repentance. Tuvok declares her possessed, takes command, and steers Voyager into the fog. The beings living there target the neural energy of the crew. Torres sabotages the drive again, apparently under Chakotay's control. Janeway triggers the Magneton scan; Tuvok is dazed and overwhelmed. The energy being leaves and Voyager flies out of the mist. When the doctor woke Chakotay, he explains that after the attack on the shuttle he was disembodied, but conscious and thus could possess others.
14th	14th	Face to face	Faces	May 8, 1995	13 Sep 1996	Winrich Kolbe	Kenneth Biller , idea: Jonathan Glassner , Kenneth Biller
On an outside mission, the lieutenants Torres, Paris and Durst are captured by the Vidiians. These extract the Klingon DNA from Torres so that it is completely human, and use it to breed an adult Klingon Torres to test whether Klingons are immune to the disease. The test is successful. Chief surgeon Sulan finds the Klingon Torres appealing. He kills thirst and transplants his face to make her less offensive, but she breaks free. A force field around the Vidiian base prevents several people from being beamed at once, but Commander Chakotay, disguised as a Vidiian, is beamed in through a small opening in the force field. Meanwhile, the Klingon Torres frees the human. They understand that no one can escape without the other - the Klingon is stronger and more courageous, but the human being is more controlled. She succeeds in deactivating the force field. Sulan appears, but is held in check by Chakotay, who has since liberated Paris. When Sulan shoots the human Torres, the Klingon Torres jumps into the line of fire; she is injured and dies after returning to Voyager. Because the human Torres can barely synthesize certain proteins , the doctor has to reintegrate Klingon DNA into her body - she will feel complete again, but struggle with her Klingon self for the rest of her life.
15th	15th	Dr. Jetrel's experiment	Jetrel	May 15, 1995	Sep 20 1996	Kim Friedman	Jack Klein , Karen Klein , Kenneth Biller ; Idea: James Thornton, Scott Nimerfro
On the Voyager comes a scientist named Jetrel, who years ago developed the Metreon Cascade, a weapon of mass destruction that was used against the Talaxian moon Rinax. Neelix's family perished. Now Jetrel wants to examine Neelix. He claims that he was exposed to Metreon isotopes after using the cascade and that he may have contracted a fatal radiation sickness. According to Jetrel, the investigation reveals that Neelix has the disease. In reality, Neelix is ​​healthy. Jetrel is sick himself and has only a few days to live. His actual plan is to bring back many of Rinax's victims by reuniting their atoms with the help of the Voyager transporter. However, his plan fails. He dies of the disease. Before that, Neelix forgives him.
16	16	Empirical values	Learning curve	May 22, 1995	27 Sep 1996	David Livingston	Ronald Wilkerson , Jean Louise Matthias
Some crew members who previously belonged to the Maquis have difficulties getting used to the Starfleet Protocol and are conspicuous for their arbitrary behavior and even refusal to give orders. Tuvok designed a course for them. During the first exercises, the ex-Maquis do poorly and are encouraged in their negative attitude towards Starfleet. The ice only breaks when Tuvok, contrary to Starfleet regulations, saves one of them’s life and risks his own in the process.

Web links

• Season overview Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager / Season 1 in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Episode guide for the 1st season on startrek-index.de
2. ↑ It was first broadcast as a long episode (90 minutes). Repetitions are usually broadcast in two 45-minute segments. See imdb.com .