Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager / Season 2

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Season 2 of Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager
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Episodes 26th
Country of production United StatesUnited States United States
First broadcast August 1995 - May 1996 on UPN
German-language
first broadcast
October 25, 1996 - April 17, 1998 on Sat.1
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Episode list

The second season of the television series Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager premiered in the United States in August 1995. The season was first shown in Germany from October 1996 to April 1998.

Episodes and first broadcast

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German title Original title First broadcast in the USA German language first broadcast (D) Director script Note
17th 1 The 37s The 37's Aug 28, 1995 Oct 25, 1996 James L. Conway Jeri Taylor , Brannon Braga
Produced as part of the first season.
On a planet in the Delta Quadrant, the Voyager crew discovered several cryostasis chambers containing people from the 1930s, including Amelia Earhart , a pioneer in American aviation who disappeared without a trace on her last flight. You wake people up and try to explain the situation to them. Earhart's navigator Fred Noonan does not believe the explanations, threatens Captain Janeway with a revolver and has the crew members disarmed. A security team is sent from Voyager and attacked by locals. When Janeway convinces the attackers to stop the fire, it turns out that they too are human. Their ancestors were abducted from Earth and enslaved in 1937. They could kill their kidnappers, the Briori, and acquire their technology. The people in the cryostasis chambers ("the 37s") were believed to be dead by them. The inhabitants of the planet offer to stay for the Voyager crew. Captain Janeway gives everyone the choice, but only the 37s accept the offer.
18th 2 The nameless one Initiations 4th Sep 1995 Nov 1, 1996 Winrich Kolbe Kenneth Biller -
Commander Chakotay takes a shuttle a few light years away from Voyager to quietly perform the pakra, a ritual to commemorate the anniversary of his father's death. In the middle of the ceremony, an alarm signal sounds. Shortly before, Chakotay's shuttle had been spotted by a Kazon- Ogla spaceship . The maje of the Kazon, Razik, sends the Kazon child Kar into action. Kar is supposed to attack and destroy the Federation shuttle and thus acquire his Ogla name. This would make him a warrior and a full member of the crew. Startled by the alarm, Chakotay connects to Kar and tries in vain to stop him from attacking his shuttle. Eventually Chakotay struggles and hits Kar's ship badly. Shortly before the enemy ship explodes, Chakotay Kar beams onto his shuttle. Kar is not grateful for his rescue. He says Chakotay should have let him die. Even then he would have earned his name. But now he lives in shame. Chakotay's shuttle was damaged during the battle. A connection to Voyager can no longer be established. Shortly afterwards, the shuttle is deployed by the Kazon mother ship and brought on board by means of tractor beams . Chakotay and Kar are taken to Razik. He has only contempt for Kar and orders that Kar must die. Razik gives Chakotay a choice: if he kills Kar, he can leave unharmed with his shuttle - otherwise he too will be executed. After a scuffle, Chakotay takes Razik under his control. With him hostage, Chakotay gets back to his shuttle. Before departure, he releases Razik. Kar decides to go with Chakotay. He can only deactivate the weapons of the Kazon ship for a short time. Under heavy fire, Chakotay heads for a class M moon. Immediately before the shuttle is destroyed, he manages to beam himself and Kar onto the moon. The moon is full of hidden weapons and traps and is used by the Kazon-Ogla as a training ground. Kar knows his way around here and protects Chakotay from danger. You will find a cave as a shelter. During the night Kar points his weapon at the supposedly sleeping Chakotay, but does not carry out the killing intention. Meanwhile, while searching for Chakotay, Voyager first found the debris from Kar's ship, then the debris from Chakotay's shuttle. An away team led by Captain Janeway is beamed to the moon, where they meet a Kazon away team led by Razik. Meanwhile, Chakotay had suggested that Kar kill him and earn his name. If Chakotay can be cared for by the doctor on the Voyager within two minutes , he can be reanimated without consequences. The two away teams reach the cave. There Kar threatens Chakotay with a weapon, but then declares that his enemy is not Chakotay. Kar turns around and shoots Razik. He drops the gun, announces his new Ogla name Jar Karden and turns to Haliz, Razik's closest confidante, who has become the new maje through the deed. He places his fate in Haliz's hands and swears allegiance and allegiance to him. Kar promises to fight and kill Chakotay if the two meet again later. The away team and Chakotay may leave unmolested. In his cabin on board the Voyager, Chakotay finally performs his pakra undisturbed.
19th 3 The holo syndrome Projections Sep 11 1995 Oct. 4, 1996 Jonathan Frakes Brannon Braga
Produced as part of the first season.
20th 4th Elogium Elogium Sep 18 1995 Oct 11, 1996 Winrich Kolbe Kenneth Biller , Jeri Taylor ;
Idea: Jimmy Diggs , Steve J. Kay

Produced as part of the first season.
21st 5 The stream of time Non sequitur 25 Sep 1995 Nov 8, 1996 David Livingston Brannon Braga -
After a shuttle flight, Harry Kim suddenly wakes up in San Francisco with his fiancée Libby. You and everyone else he meets are convinced that he has spent the last eight months on earth. He's never been on Voyager, but is working on an improved runabout at Starfleet headquarters. But he doesn't remember it; to him only his past on Voyager is real. To find out what happened, he visits Tom Paris in Marseille, but he never served on Voyager either and does not believe Harry's story. That's why he says no when Harry asks him to help him re-enact the shuttle flight that brought him to Earth. Harry's interest in Voyager and his contact with the Maquis sympathizer Paris make his superiors suspicious. He gets a electronic ankle bracelet . Then it turns out that the operator of his regular café is an alien. He explains that Harry crossed a stream of time on his shuttle flight and that changed history. He gives Harry a device with which he can find the time stream. Harry then has to restore the conditions before the accident and fly into the time stream; so he can eventually return to Voyager. It is also possible that he will be relocated anywhere else on the space-time continuum , but he wants to take that risk. He deactivates the ankle cuffs and, with Libby's and Tom's help, flees from Starfleet security. With Tom he steals the runabout prototype he was working on, reconstructs the shuttle accident and gets back to Voyager.
22nd 6th The spatial distortion Twisted Oct 2, 1995 Oct 18, 1996 Kim Friedman Kenneth Biller ;
Idea: Arnold Rudnick , Rich Hosek

Produced as part of the first season.
Kes, Neelix, Janeway, Chakotay, Paris, Torres and the doctor are in the "Chez Sandrine" bistro on the holodeck and celebrate Kes' birthday. Tuvok and Kim are on the bridge. The Voyager gets into a spatial distortion that changes the structure of the ship. Janeway, Chakotay and Paris try to get to the bridge while Kim searches for Janeway. Kes and Neelix want to go to Kes' quarters, Torres makes his way to the engine room and the doctor tries to transfer himself to the infirmary. They all don't arrive where they want to, but in the bistro. When everyone tries different ways to reach the bridge, this too fails; they meet again involuntarily in the bistro. The spatial distortion gradually affects larger and larger parts of the ship, only the holodeck and its surroundings are still intact. Torres and Kim try to build back pressure from the engine room, but this makes the distortion advance faster; the holodeck is also affected. Janeway, who was unconscious for some time after being in direct contact with the spatial distortion, suddenly wakes up and tells the others not to do anything. Apparently she is passing on advice from another being. Then she loses consciousness again. The distortion completely captures the holodeck and passes through everyone present without causing damage. Janeway comes to and explains that the room distortion was trying to communicate with the crew. On the bridge, Torres discovers that new information has been entered into the computer and the Voyager database has been read.
23 7th The hell planet Parturition Oct 9, 1995 Nov 15, 1996 Jonathan Frakes Tom Szollosi -
Tom Paris falls in love with Kes and therefore gets into a physical argument with Neelix. A little later, Paris and Neelix have to explore an inhospitable planet for two. After making an emergency landing with their shuttle, they find a freshly hatched alien being and nurse it up. They settle their dispute.
24 8th Enigmatic visions Persistence of Vision Oct. 30, 1995 Nov 22, 1996 James L. Conway Jeri Taylor -
As the Voyager traverses Botha's room, objects and characters from Janeway's holoroman appear outside the holodeck, but only Kes other than Janeway can see them. Kes manages to make one of the characters disappear. Another character attacks Janeway; Kes sees them too and makes them disappear. The Voyager is attacked and damaged by three Bothan ships. The commander of the ships appears to Janeway as her fiancé Mark, Tuvok as his wife T'Pel, Paris as his father and Kim as his girlfriend Libby. Other crew members have hallucinations too . Torres discovers a bioelectric energy field emanating from the Botha ships. When she tries to neutralize it, she thinks she sees Chakotay, who seduces her. Paris hallucinates about his father trying to discourage him, and Janeway is captivated by a vision of her fiancé. After all, only the doctor, who cannot leave the infirmary, and Kes are left. In the engine room she continues the procedure in which Torres was interrupted under his guidance. Although Kes has a hallucination from Neelix, which causes her to have a very painful rash, she can pass the rash back on to him and stop working. The visions of all crew members cease, and the alien that caused them disappears without a trace, as do the Botha ships.
25th 9 Tattoo Tattoo Nov 6, 1995 Jan. 10, 1997 Alexander Singer Michael Piller ;
Idea: Larry Brody
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Voyager needs polyferranide for its warp core coils. Chakotay and an away team are exploring a moon where there are few deposits. He finds a sign on the ground that resembles a sign of the ancestors of his people. These were created according to a myth of "spirits from heaven". Chakotay left his people at the age of 15 to attend Starfleet Academy. It was only after his father was killed fighting the Cardassians that he got a tattoo and took up the same fight. - A warp signature emanates from the moon, which Voyager follows. It leads to a planet where Torres finds a high concentration of polyferranide. Whenever a location is captured by the transporter, an electric storm forms there, which is why an away team led by Chakotay flies there in a shuttle. After landing, Neelix is ​​injured by a bird that resembles a hawk. After being beamed onto Voyager, the others find a recently abandoned village. Chakotay orders the team to lay down their weapons. When a violent storm hits the rest of the away team is beamed back to Voyager while Chakotay, who has lost his communicator, remains behind. Only when he takes off his uniform do the inhabitants of the planet show themselves. They wear the same tattoo as Chakotay, and their ancestors influenced the evolution of his people on Earth 45,000 years ago. Now convinced of Chakotay's good intentions, the planet's inhabitants supply the Voyager crew with polyferranide.
26th 10 Suspiria Cold fire Nov 13, 1995 Jan. 17, 1997 Cliff Bole Brannon Braga ;
Idea: Anthony Williams
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27 11 The signal Maneuvers Nov 20, 1995 Jan. 24, 1997 David Livingston Kenneth Biller -
28 12 The Resistance Resistance Nov. 27, 1995 Jan. 31, 1997 Winrich Kolbe Lisa Klink ;
Idea: Michael Jan Friedman , Kevin J. Ryan
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29 13 prototype Prototype Jan 15, 1996 Feb 7, 1997 Jonathan Frakes Nicholas Corea -
The Voyager crew harbors an inoperable robot of unknown design. Lieutenant Torres starts it up again by modifying its power module so that it can be operated with warp plasma. He introduces himself as the 3947 automatic unit and says he is stationed on a Pralor spaceship. This species, which he called "the builders", perished in a war decades earlier. Torres' accomplishment in customizing the power module gave 3947 the idea that she could build a prototype power module for constructing more automated units that would allow the robots to “procreate”. Captain Janeway refuses to give her consent because of the highest directive . Thereupon 3947 kidnaps Torres on the Pralor ship on which he is stationed and whose firepower is superior to that of Voyager. Torres agrees to build a prototype to save Voyager. The construction is successful, but when the prototype is finished, the Pralor ship is attacked by another spaceship, which is also only crewed by robots. Its builders, the Cravic, waged war with the Pralor. They're also no longer alive - the builders signed a truce and wanted to destroy their combat robots, so the robots destroyed them. When Torres found out, she destroyed the prototype. Lieutenant Paris beams her into a shuttle and returns with her to Voyager.
30th 14th Alliances Alliances Jan. 22, 1996 June 28, 1997 Les Landau Jeri Taylor -
After hard fighting with Kazon ships, Captain Janeway seeks an alliance with one or two Kazon sects, but Neelix's negotiations with the Pommar and Janeway's negotiations with the Nistrim fail, to the great disappointment of some crew members. One of them, Michael Jonas from the engine room, secretly begins to communicate with the Nistrim. Neelix escapes from the captivity of the Pommar together with the trotters who once oppressed the Kazon until they rebelled, killed many trotters and stole their technology. The trots are now homeless. At the suggestion of their governor Mabus, a peace talks take place between him, Janeway and all Kazon sects. Just in time, Janeway realizes that Mabus is actually planning to murder all sect leaders using a spaceship, and warns them. They escape the attack and the attacking spaceship is routed by Voyager.
31 15th The threshold Threshold Jan. 29, 1996 5th July 1997 Alexander Singer Brannon Braga ;
Idea: Michael De Luca
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32 16 violence Meld Feb 5, 1996 July 12, 1997 Cliff Bole Michael Piller ;
Idea: Michael Sussman
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Crewman Darwin, a member of the engine room crew, is found murdered. After a brief investigation, Tuvok finds out that the perpetrator is Lon Suder, a Betazoid who used to be a member of the Maquis and who lived out his violent tendencies by killing Cardassians. Tuvok wants to cure these tendencies with a mind-meld, but while Suder actually becomes more controlled and calmer, Tuvok himself becomes violent, rendering him unfit for service. The doctor treats him with neurosynaptic therapy. Tuvok breaks out of the infirmary to kill Suder, but regains control so much that he ultimately fails to carry out his plan. However, his full recovery will take longer. Suder is locked in his quarters until the end of the trip.
33 17th The missile Dreadnought Feb 12, 1996 July 19, 1997 LeVar Burton Gary Holland -
The Voyager crew discovers a self-guided matter- antimatter bomb that was originally used by the Cardassians against the Maquis. Lieutenant Torres reprogrammed them and sent them on a mission against the Cardassians. Now the missile is mistakenly threatening an inhabited planet. Torres beams on board and supposedly convinces the artificial intelligence of the bomb that it is in the delta quadrant and is therefore aiming at the wrong target. When Torres is back on Voyager, it turns out that the missile considers Torres' intervention to be a Cardassian ruse and continues to threaten the inhabited planet. Captain Janeway orders the crew into the escape pods and prepares to detonate the Voyager to destroy the missile. Torres beams back on board and reactivates a backup of the original Cardassian software. While both programs fight for control of the hardware, Torres reaches the core of the missile and breaks through the containment field of the antimatter container. The bomb detonates; shortly before that, Torres was beamed back to Voyager.
34 18th Longing for death Death Wish Feb 19, 1996 July 26, 1997 James L. Conway Michael Piller ;
Idea: Shawn Piller
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From inside a comet, the Voyager crew inadvertently freed a philosopher from the Q continuum . He has been locked up for all eternity by the majority of the Continuum because he wants to end his life. When Q arrives on the Voyager to imprison the philosopher again, he applies for asylum to the Federation . Captain Janeway holds a hearing at which the philosopher justifies his death wish: In his opinion, the Q have lost the ability to change because of their immortality. He finds life in the continuum unbearably boring and thinks his suicide could shake up the other Q. Q used to be an inspiration to him with his rebellious behavior, which he has since given up. Captain Janeway finally grants the philosopher asylum. He uses his newfound freedom to take his own life. The poison he needed was obtained by Q, who announced that he would return to his rebellious life.
35 19th Signs of life Lifesigns Feb. 26, 1996 Aug 16, 1997 Cliff Bole Kenneth Biller -
From a spaceship that sends a distress call, the Voyager crew rescues Dr. Danara Pel, a Vidiian doctor whose life is acutely threatened by the scavenger cell. The doctor creates a holographic body for her that supports him in her further treatment. He transplants nerve tissue from B'Elanna Torres, who is only ready to do so after talking to Danara. Little by little, the doctor falls in love with Danara, and she returns his feelings. After initial difficulties, a date on the holodeck follows with Kes 'and Tom Paris' help, and they begin a relationship. - In the meantime, Tom has been late for duty several times and behaved disrespectfully. After an uproar between him and Chakotay, he is arrested. - Meanwhile, Michael Jonas is assigned by Seska to damage the warp coils so that the Kazon Nistrim can set a trap for the Voyager crew on the planet Hemikek IV. - Danara is convinced that the doctor only finds her attractive as a healthy hologram and therefore tries to poison her sick body. The doctor assures her that she is wrong and they continue their relationship after she returns to her own body. Her life is no longer in immediate threat and after a few weeks Voyager will drop her off at her home colony so she can continue to help her people.
36 20th The traitor Investigations 13 Mar 1996 Feb. 27, 1998 Les Landau Jeri Taylor ;
Idea: Jeff Schnaufer , Ed Bond
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Tom Paris leaves Voyager and joins a Talaxian ship, but is soon kidnapped by the Kazon-Nistrim . Seska wants information from him to help the Kazon take over Voyager. She implies that they have a spy on the ship. Overheated plasma has now damaged the warp coils, so Voyager has to fly to the Hemikek system to purchase material for new coils. Neelix assumes that Paris did not fall into the hands of the Kazon by accident and concludes that there is a traitor aboard Voyager. He examines the subspace communication logs and finds loopholes that could indicate deletions. When he informs Tuvok, he wants to pursue the matter and forbids Neelix further investigations. However, he continues to investigate, follows one of the messages to its apparent origin - Paris' Quartier - and reports on it in his new program "Briefing with Neelix". Tuvok exposes the lead as false. He and Janeway explain that Paris was deliberately captured to find out which Voyager crew member is secretly sending messages to the Kazon. Neelix is ​​supposed to continue investigating to make the spy nervous. Meanwhile, Paris learns from records of communication between Kazon and Voyager that Michael Jonas is the traitor and that the Kazon set a trap for the Voyager crew on Hemikek IV. Paris escapes from the Kazon ship and informs Voyager about Jonas. He seals off the engine room and deactivates the weapon systems, but Neelix kills him in a duel.
37 21st The doubling deadlock 18 Mar 1996 6th Mar 1998 David Livingston Brannon Braga -
Ensign Wildman gives birth to a girl aboard Voyager who must be cared for in an incubator. - Lieutenant Tuvok locates Vidiians . Voyager escapes into a plasma current. When it leaves this again, the antimatter supply dwindles; Systems fail. Lieutenant Torres wants protons produce discharges to the warp core to keep operating, but immediately before Protonenausstöße be registered unknown origin, damage the ship and crew strong. The incubator also loses energy; the baby dies. Ensign Kim is dragged into space by a leak. Kes gets into a kind of gap in space and is transferred to another, undamaged Voyager with a different crew. Kim is alive there, as is Wildman's baby. It turns out that all of Voyager's matter was doubled by the plasma flow, but not the antimatter. Proton ejections from the second Voyager damaged the first. The two ships are in the same place at the same time, slightly out of phase. Torres enables communication with the first Voyager. An attempt to reunite the ships fails. A complete separation is also impossible, as is the transfer of the entire crew of the first Voyager to the second. But Kes is returning to “her” Voyager. - Vidiians are approaching. Since no ship is ready to fight and the Vidiians can only perceive the second Voyager, its commander sacrifices herself, her crew and her ship by activating the self-destruction. Before that, Kim switches to the first Voyager with the Wildman baby on her orders.
38 22nd innocence Innocence Apr 8, 1996 13 Mar 1998 James L. Conway Lisa Klink ;
Idea: Anthony Williams
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After a shuttle crash landing on a strange moon, Tuvok meets three children there who have apparently been abandoned to die by their people, the Drayans. He protects her from the Morrok, a creature that lives in a certain cave and is said to have fetched two other children at night. Nevertheless, two of the other children disappear into the cave at night. The Drayan First Prelate demands that Voyager move away from the moon, which is sacred ground, but Janeway is not ready to do so while Tuvok is still on the surface; it cannot start with the damaged shuttle. Turbulence in the atmosphere makes beaming impossible. Janeway and Paris fly towards Tuvok in another shuttle. After Tuvok has repaired his shuttle, he takes off with the last child, a girl named Tressa. The First Prelate had his shuttle shot at, forcing it to land. On the moon, she explains to Janeway, Tuvok and Paris that the Drayans are aging backwards and that the supposed children are already very old and consequently a little confused. The ancients are traditionally brought to this moon so that they can die in peace there in the cave, according to tradition at the origin of life. Tuvok accompanies Tressa until her death.
39 23 The ultimatum The Thaw Apr 29, 1996 20 Mar 1998 Marvin V. Rush Joe Menosky ;
Idea: Richard Gadas
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40 24 Tuvix Tuvix May 6, 1996 27 Mar 1998 Cliff Bole Kenneth Biller ;
Idea: Andrew Shepard Price , Mark Gaberman
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A transporter accident fuses Lieutenant Tuvok and Neelix into a being called Tuvix, who soon integrates into the crew. Only his relationship with Kes is difficult. When the Doctor, with Ensign Kim's help, finds a way to split Tuvix back into Tuvok and Neelix, Tuvix is ​​against it. He insists on his right to life. Captain Janeway, after careful consideration, orders the separation and carries it out himself after the doctor refuses because a doctor is not allowed to cause harm .
41 25th decisions Resolutions May 13, 1996 Apr 3, 1998 Alexander Singer Jeri Taylor -
A potentially deadly virus forces Janeway and Chakotay to leave Voyager and settle on an uninhabited planet where they are protected from the effects of the virus. With the doctor unable to find a cure, Tuvok-commanded Voyager continues her journey to the Alpha Quadrant. Janeway and Chakotay live as a couple and grow closer to each other. At the urgent request of Harry Kim, Kes and other crew members, Tuvok disregards Janeway's strict ban on contacting the Vidiians , who have immense medical knowledge. Dr. Pel, whose life the Doctor had saved a few weeks earlier, provides a cure. Vidiian ships attack the Voyager, but can be repulsed. After their healing, Janeway and Chakotay give up their lives for two and go back on board.
42 26th The struggle for existence - part 1 Basics, Part I May 20, 1996 Apr 17, 1998 Winrich Kolbe Michael Piller -
The Voyager crew receives a message from Seska stating that Maj Cullah is angry because Seska's baby was not his but Chakotay's. She follows Cullah's ship and finds an injured Kazon-Nistrim in a shuttle. On the Voyager he reports that Cullah had Seska murdered and left him to die in the damaged shuttle as Seska's assistant. The child is in a colony. On the way there, the Voyager is shelled by Kazon ships, damaging the secondary command processors. As more Kazon ships approach, Janeway lets the lead ship intercept. The Kazon on the Voyager blows up, triggering a ship-wide power failure. Paris takes off on a shuttle to ask the Talaxians for help. After the drive fails, the Kazon board the Voyager. Janeway orders the self-destruct, but this is not feasible because of the damaged secondary command processors. The doctor deactivates himself and programs an automatic callback. Due to the power failure, Lon Suder can escape from his quarters, where he was locked up as a murderer. The Kazon under Cullah and Seska take over Voyager and leave the crew on a planet.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Episode guide for the 2nd season on startrek-index.de