Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager / Season 3

Season 3 of Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager
Episodes	26th
Country of production	United States
First broadcast	September 1996 - May 1997 on UPN
German-language first broadcast	April 24 - October 16, 1998 on Sat.1
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The third season of the television series Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager premiered in the United States in September 1996. The season was first shown in Germany from April to October 1998.

Episodes and first broadcast

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
43	1	The struggle for existence - part 2	Basics, Part II	4th Sep 1996	Apr 24, 1998	Winrich Kolbe	Michael Piller
The doctor finds that it is not Chakotay but Cullah who is the father of Seska's baby. He orders Suder to the infirmary. - On the planet, the Voyager crew are organizing food and shelter. Kes and Neelix are kidnapped by humanoid locals who live like stone age people. A team led by Chakotay frees them. They flee from the locals in a cave, but are driven away by a dangerous animal. Janeway comes to the rescue with others. Later, Chakotay rescues a local from a volcanic eruption, and a local takes care of Ensign Wildman's baby, who is suffering from shortness of breath. - Suder, whom Tuvok had almost cured of his violent tendencies, reluctantly kills a Kazon and loots his weapon. To distract Seska from Suder's presence, the doctor takes responsibility for the corpse and lets Seska deactivate him. The Talaxians called for help from Paris attack Voyager together with him, with Paris destroying the primary phase energy couplings. Meanwhile, Suder kills the Kazon in the engine room, sabotages the phase energy reserve couplings and is shot by a Kazon. Paris beams onto Voyager with a Talaxian commando and retakes it. Seska is killed by overloading the phase energy reserve clutches. Maj Cullah escapes with the baby from Voyager, which is repossessed by the crew.
44	2	Tuvok's flashback	Flashback	Sep 11 1996	May 8, 1998	David Livingston	Brannon Braga
Tuvok has traumatic flashbacks of a little girl whom he apparently couldn't save from falling into an abyss in her childhood. But he doesn't know the girl. The doctor deduces a suppressed memory. Not integrating these can be life-threatening for Vulcans. As therapy, Captain Janeway enters into a mental fusion with Tuvok under medical supervision and accompanies him mentally into his past. You don't see his childhood, but his time on the USS Excelsior under Captain Sulu , when the negotiations for the first peace treaty between the Federation and the Klingon Empire were imminent. Sulu then tried to get Captain Kirk and Dr. Free McCoy who was on trial on the Klingon homeworld of Qo'noS. An ensign was fatally injured in a battle with Klingon ships. When Tuvok tried to help him, he was infected with a virus disguised as a traumatic memory that was immediately suppressed. The doctor realizes this and heals Tuvok.
45	3	The maximum security prison	The chute	Sep 18 1996	May 15, 1998	Les Landau	Kenneth Biller ; Idea: Clay by C. Harris
46	4th	The swarm	The Swarm	25 Sep 1996	May 22, 1998	Alexander Singer	Michael Sussman
The doctor begins to lose his memory as his memory degenerates. Torres starts the diagnostic program developed for him, which - like the doctor - the developer of the two, Dr. Zimmerman, is modeled after. It is recommended that you reinitialize the doctor, but this would cause the doctor to lose all information stored in the past two years. He is ready to do so, but Kes strongly advises against it. Meanwhile, Voyager invades the territory of an unknown species that attacked Paris and Torres on a scouting flight and slips through its sensor network unnoticed. Tuvok registers a drifting ship that appears to have been shot at by the species. The sole survivor shows the same symptoms as Paris and Torres and reports that the attack began with a swarm of tiny ships docking on his ship. He dies. Kes represents the doctor who has forgotten so much that he can no longer work as a doctor. A swarm approaches Voyager and disables their shields. In the meantime, Kes has learned from the diagnostic program that it is possible to transfer his matrix to the doctor and thus stop or at least slow down the degeneration. She initiates the procedure. The ships of the swarm attach themselves to the Voyager. Kim discovers that they are connected by impulses. On Janeway's orders, Tuvok fires at a ship, and the others are affected by the impulse. They fly away. The doctor is functional again, but only partially remembers the past two years. He doesn't recognize Kes or Torres.
47	5	The wormhole	False Profits	Oct 2, 1996	May 29, 1998	Cliff Bole	Joe Menosky ; Idea: George Brozak
The Voyager crew discovers a wormhole jumping from place to place; its other end is stationary in the alpha quadrant. A pre-industrial civilization exists on a nearby planet. The Voyager crew finds out that seven years earlier two Ferengi were dragged into the wormhole and are now being worshiped as godlike wise men with the help of a replicator and exploiting the population. They use an ancient prophecy that two wise men will come from heaven to rule the people. Janeway wants to take the Ferengi through the wormhole into the Alpha Quadrant, but they warn that the population will despair if they lose their gods. Therefore Neelix appears as the ambassador of the Great Nagus and orders the Ferengi back to Ferenginar. First they have to give a speech in which they explain to the people that they have been called back to heaven and that everything will be fine without them. Their property falls to the Nagus. The Ferengi do not accept this and attack Neelix. He flees and introduces himself to the population as a pilgrim who wants to take the “wise men” with him to heaven according to the end of the prophecy. The people react enthusiastically and with a funeral pyre they themselves provide for the “wings of fire” on which the “wise men” should ride into the sky. Everyone is beamed onto Voyager. The Ferengi flee with their shuttle. When the Voyager crew tried to beam you on board, they prevented this with a graviton pulse that destabilized the wormhole. The Ferengi are drawn in, but the Voyager cannot follow; the wormhole now bounces from place to place at either end.
48	6th	Remembering	Remember	Oct 9, 1996	June 5, 1998	Winrich Kolbe	Lisa Klink ; Idea: Brannon Braga , Joe Menosky
Voyager brings some Enarans to their home planet. Torres has very intense dreams in which she has a secret love affair with a young man in the role of a young Enaran named Korenna. This belongs to a group of opposition Enarans who want to live without technology. Eventually this group is allegedly being relocated and self-destructing through fighting and disease, but it appears that they are in fact being murdered. Korenna's lover is killed in front of her eyes. It turns out that the dreams are memories; they were telepathically transmitted to Torres by Jora (Korenna) Mirell, an elderly Enaran, so that they would not be lost. After Mirell passed on her last memories of Torres, she is found dead by the latter. At the farewell party for the Enarans, Torres confronts Jor Brel, their leader, with these memories and accuses him of killing Mirell. He denies everything and nobody believes Torres. Just before the Voyager reaches Enara Prime and the Enarans disembark, Torres convinces Jessen, an Enaran engineer with whom she has worked, to telepathically take over the memories and check for herself whether the mass murder took place.
49	7th	The ritual	Sacred Ground	Oct 30, 1996	June 12, 1998	Robert Duncan McNeill	Lisa Klink ; Idea: Geo Cameron
50	8th	Before the End of the Future - Part 1	Future's End	Nov 6, 1996	June 19, 1998	David Livingston	Brannon Braga , Joe Menosky
A ship from the 29th century comes out of a gap. His only crew member, Captain Braxton, fires at the Voyager, which he blames for a disaster in his day. After a brief skirmish, both ships are pulled into the space gap. Voyager will be moved to 1996 - and into the Earth's solar system. An away team goes to Los Angeles. Janeway and Chakotay discover that Braxton's ship crashed to Earth in 1967 and was found by a businessman named Henry Starling who used the technology in it to usher in the computer revolution . He refuses to surrender the ship that Braxton said will cause disaster in the future. Tuvok and Paris meet Rain Robinson, an astronomer who discovered Voyager in orbit and who thinks it is an alien ship. You save her from Dunbar, a Starling employee, supposed to kill her, and she and Paris are drawn to each other. Meanwhile, Starling downloads the Doctor from Voyager.
51	9	Before the End of the Future - Part 2	Future's End, Part II	Nov 13, 1996	June 19, 1998	Cliff Bole	Brannon Braga , Joe Menosky
At the request of Tuvok and Paris, Robinson Starling guides her to her. It is planned to beam him into a shuttle that will be flown by Chakotay and Torres. Starling gives the doctor a mobile emitter and takes it with him. After a brief battle, Starling is beamed into the shuttle and on to the Voyager, but the shuttle is damaged and crashes in Arizona, where Chakotay and Torres are captured by militia members. The doctor and Tuvok free her. Starling escapes Voyager with Dunbar's help. Dunbar leaves the company in a truck, followed by Robinson and Paris, who assume he is taking Braxton's ship away. When Chakotay and the others stop Dunbar, it turns out that the time ship was not in the truck. Starling wants to travel to the 29th century with it. After a fruitless attempt to change his mind, Janeway destroys the ship with a torpedo. Braxton emerges from a gap in space and sends Voyager back to the 24th century - and into the Delta Quadrant.
52	10	The warlord	Warlord	Nov 20, 1996	June 26, 1998	David Livingston	Lisa Klink ; Idea: Andrew Shepard Price , Mark Gaberman
53	11	The "Q" crisis	The Q and the Gray	Nov 27, 1996	July 3, 1998	Cliff Bole	Kenneth Biller ; Idea: Shawn Piller
Q comes back aboard Voyager. He wants to father a child with Captain Janeway; she refuses. When his ex-girlfriend Lady Q shows up, Q brings Janeway to the Q Continuum , where a civil war is raging, triggered by Q and others fighting for freedom and individualism, inspired by the philosopher who stayed at Voyager Asylum some time ago and then chose suicide . Q thinks a child could create a new Q race with human compassion and restore peace. Janeway points out that compassion is not inherited. Lady Q has lost her powers and can only reach the continuum with the help of the Voyager crew. This takes part in the civil war that Q designed for human perception similar to the American Civil War . She saves Q and Janeway from execution and forces the opposing leadership to surrender. Finally, Q and Lady Q transfer the crew back to Voyager and father a son whose godmother Janeway becomes. Q says he'll ask her for babysitting services later.
54	12	Macrocosm	Macrocosm	Dec 11, 1996	July 10, 1998	Alexander Singer	Brannon Braga
When Captain Janeway and Neelix return to Voyager from a trade mission with the Tak Tak, they initially find no trace of the rest of the crew. Neelix is ​​sprayed with a slimy substance by an alien being, gets a fever and disappears too. Janeway discovers part of the crew unconscious in the casino and is attacked by pathogens in various - sometimes monstrous - sizes. After she has made her way to the infirmary, the doctor explains to her that it is a macro virus that originates from a nearby mining colony. He'd brought her in when he came back from an outside mission. Janeway is also infected now. The doctor heals them with an antigen he developed himself . When she tries to distribute this in gas form through the ventilation system, the Voyager is attacked by the Tak Tak. They know about the deadly danger posed by the pathogen and see Voyager as a source of epidemic which, for safety reasons, needs to be "cleaned" - that is, destroyed. The shelling of the Tak Tak disables Voyager's environmental controls. Janeway convinces the Tak Tak to stop firing because a cure has been found. She uses some holodeck figures to distract the macro viruses. That gives her enough time to detonate an antigen bomb that will destroy the viruses. As promised by Janeway before, the antigen is also left to the tak tak.
55	13	The risk	Fair trade	Jan. 8, 1997	July 17, 1998	Jesús Salvador Treviño	André Bormanis ; Idea: Ronald Wilkerson , Jean Louise Matthias
Voyager reaches Nekrit expansion - a huge stellar cloud. Neelix's knowledge of space ends here and he fears that it will hardly be needed on Voyager in the future. The Voyager flies to a nearby space trading post in order to procure spare parts and supplies before the further flight into the unknown. Inspired by the desire to continue to be of use to the Voyager crew, Neelix tries on the station to obtain a space map for the unknown space sector in front of them. He can't find such a map at first, but in the space station he meets Wixiban, a Talaxian conspecific who is stranded in the space station. Wixiban tries to get the financial means through shady deals in order to be able to buy his confiscated spaceship again. Neelix knows Wixiban from earlier times. After they both did a crooked thing together, Wixiban was caught and imprisoned for a year under dire conditions. Neelix therefore feels indebted to him. He lets himself be persuaded by Wixiban to smuggle presumed drugs onto the space station, because Wixiban offers him the desired room map. But at the meeting point, the situation escalates. Wixiban had lied to Neelix: instead of medication, it was really about drugs. The buyer does not pay and shoots the two Talaxians. Wixiban shoots him in self-defense with a Federation phaser . He and Neelix beam back onto a shuttle and return to Voyager. The dead drug dealer is found on the space station. The investigations of the station owner Bahrat based on the measured energy signatures show that a federation phaser was the murder weapon. On the basis of weak evidence, Tom Paris and Chakotay are arrested as murder suspects. Bahrat threatens her conviction and 50 years of cryostatic imprisonment. Wixiban is now demanding that Neelix obtain a sample of warp plasma from Voyager for him. The plasma is intended for the Colatti, brutal criminals to whom Wixiban is indebted and from whom he feels threatened. Wixiban is threatening to publicize Neelix's misconduct if he fails to obtain the plasma. Neelix finally refuses because he doesn't want to betray his friends from Voyager any further. But he suggests a daring plan to Wixiban, which Wixiban finally accepts. They confess to Bahrat that they were involved in the deadly shooting, but claim self-defense . In order to get exemption from punishment, they offer to set a trap for the Colatti so that they can be caught. Bahrat agrees and provides a container with the inferior warp plasma to the station. At a remote location on the station, the two Talaxians meet with the Colatti and give them a container with the plasma sample. The Colatti leader scans the sample and realizes that it is not from Voyager. He draws a phaser and aims at Neelix. Neelix tells him that he has loosened the safety valves on the container and the plasma is already flowing out. One shot will cause an explosion. When the station's security forces intervene, one of the Colatti shoots. There is a strong explosion. Neelix comes to in the Voyager infirmary. He learns that the charges against him have been withdrawn and that Wixiban has already left the station. The Colatti were imprisoned. Captain Janeway confronts Neelix with his misconduct and laments the loss of trust he has caused. As a punishment, he was given two weeks of work. But it also makes it clear to him that he is useful and needed even without knowledge of the area and that he is more than just a crew member - he is a member of the Voyager family.
56	14th	The other ego	alter ego	Jan 15, 1997	July 24, 1998	Robert Picardo	Joe Menosky
57	15th	The will	Coda	Jan. 29, 1997	Aug 7, 1998	Nancy Malone	Jeri Taylor
Janeway and Chakotay die several times in various ways in a shuttle or after a crash landing. You seem to be stuck in a time warp. After returning to Voyager, Chakotay no longer remembers the time warp. According to the doctor, Janeway was infected with the Vidiian phagocyte. Since he cannot find a cure, he wants to euthanize her against her will . After her death, she is back on the shuttle with Chakotay. She dies again and this time can observe herself and Chakotay from the outside without being able to intervene. The doctor and Kes try in vain to revive her. Kes can perceive the "ghost Janeway" so that the crew tries to make them visible with different methods, but without success. With Tuvok's help, Kes tries in vain to telepathically track Janeway's presence. Suddenly Janeway thinks she sees her father, who died over 15 years ago. He advises her to accept her death, but even after her funeral service, the "ghost Janeway" is not ready to leave her plane of existence. Her father's "ghost" tries to persuade her, but Janeway stands firm. Suddenly she is back on the planet where the shuttle crash-landed. The doctor tries to revive her. She understands that her father's “ghost” is really an alien being that she wants to lure into his matrix. It admits it wants to feed on her, but surrenders to her willpower. She comes fully back to life.
58	16	Pon Farr	Blood fever	Feb 5, 1997	Aug 7, 1998	Andrew Robinson	Lisa Klink
59	17th	The cooperative	Unity	Feb 12, 1997	Aug 14, 1998	Robert Duncan McNeill	Kenneth Biller
Commander Chakotay and Ensign Kaplan receive a Federation distress call from a planet on their way back from a reconnaissance flight. After landing they are shot at. Kaplan is killed, and the injured Chakotay is taken into the care of a group of humanoid beings, including former Starfleet members. As it turns out, all of the inhabitants of the planet are ex-Borg who were released by breaking the hull of their Borg Cube, which disrupted the connection with the Collective. Over time, due to cultural differences and ancient animosities between their species, they have split into several groups that fight for scarce resources. The cooperative that Chakotay took in can restore its collective consciousness for short periods of time and involves Chakotay through a neurotransceiver to heal his life-threatening head injury. She wants to unite all groups under this collective consciousness to end the fighting. To do this, she asks the Voyager crew for technical help in reactivating the neuroelectric generator of the Borg cube, which is inoperable floating through space. Captain Janeway declines because of the potentially far-reaching consequences. When the cooperative's bunker is attacked, Chakotay is brought under her mental control. He beams to the Borg cube and reactivates the generator. An away team from Voyager rescues him, but the Cube and the borg on board are functional again and are preparing to attack Voyager. The cooperative, which now includes all inhabitants of the planet, triggers the self-destruct mechanism of the cube and severed its connection with Chakotay.
60	18th	Character elements	Darkling	Feb 19, 1997	Aug 14, 1998	Alexander Singer	Joe Menosky ; Idea: Brannon Braga , Joe Menosky
Voyager orbits a planet where extraterrestrial travelers have an outpost. They provide the Voyager crew with information about the adjacent part of space they want to fly through. Kes, who broke up with Neelix, begins a romance with a traveler named Zahir and considers leaving Voyager for him, but Zahir is ambushed and assaulted by a stranger. - The doctor has included character traits of famous personalities such as Lord Byron , Mahatma Gandhi , Socrates or T'Pau in his program. Torres is concerned about some of these new character elements. When she tries to delete the negative sides of the celebrities from the doctor, she too is attacked, namely by the doctor's new personality, about whom the doctor himself knows nothing. This has attacked Zahir and wants to delete the original program with Torres' forced help, but she refuses. The new personality kidnaps Kes. At the last moment, both are beamed back to Voyager, where Torres deletes the character elements added by the Doctor. Kes stays on the Voyager because she expects changes for herself and would rather experience them in familiar surroundings.
61	19th	The asteroids	Rise	Feb 26, 1997	Aug 21, 1998	Robert Scheerer	Brannon Braga ; Idea: Jimmy Diggs
The Voyager crew helps the Nezu repel asteroids from a planet they have colonized. Dr. Vatm, an astrophysicist, has discovered evidence that the asteroids are artificial. Since the connection with him is lost, shuttles start to the planet, including one with Tuvok, Neelix and Sklar, a Nezu geologist. After a crash landing, Vatm and Hanjuan, a worker in a nearby mine, come on board. Vatm only wants to communicate the results of his analysis of the asteroid debris to the ambassador. With both the shuttle's propulsion system and communications equipment damaged, Neelix's suggestion is for the group to go to the base station of a vertical maglev train that can carry cargo baskets on an orbital cable across the ionosphere , from where they could contact Voyager. At the base station they are joined by Lillias, a worker from a foundry. After the cargo basket has been repaired, the group starts. Vatm tries to get something from the roof of the cargo basket, but dies unexpectedly. He was poisoned. After a discussion with Neelix, Tuvok is persuaded to climb onto the roof. There he finds a data store and is attacked by Sklar. With Neelix's help, he throws it overboard. The Voyager is now under attack by the Etanians who claim the area. When the cargo basket breaks through the ionosphere, the group is beamed aboard Voyager. With the help of the information in the found data memory, the Voyager wins the battle with the Etanian ship. It turns out that the Etanians sent the asteroids to conquer the planet. Sklar worked for her.
62	20th	The new identity	Favorite Son	19 Mar 1997	Aug 28, 1998	Marvin V. Rush	Lisa Klink
63	21st	Temporal jumps	Before and After	Apr 9, 1997	4th Sep 1998	Allan Kroeker	Kenneth Biller
Kes falls backwards through time and can only remember the future, not the past. At first she is nine years old, so very old for an ocampa . The doctor tries to extend her life with a newly developed biotemporal chamber. She married Tom and they have a daughter named Linnis. She married Harry and has a son named Andrew with him. After jumping backwards a few times, Tom recounts the "year of hell" in which the Krenim attacked Voyager. Janeway and B'Elanna were killed, and Chronoton torpedoes, in a state of temporal flow, radioactively contaminated the ship. Kes falls through time again. The doctor discovers that her backward jumps are triggered by the biotemporal chamber that reactivated the Chronoton particles. Further leaps bring Kes to the beginning of the "Year of Hell". She witnessed Janeways and B'Elanna's deaths. Knowing from the future, the Voyager crew can destroy the Krenim ship, but a Chronoton torpedo fragment remains on board. Kes measures its temporal variance and continues to fall behind. The Doctor and B'Elanna put Kes in a biotemporal chamber and expose them to antichronotons to neutralize the chronotons. Kes falls in several jumps to her birth, then before the union of egg and sperm cells, but from then on she moves forward in jumps to her birth, then into the biotemporal chamber, because her chronoton level drops significantly as a result of the treatment. The process has stopped and Kes' memories of the past return. Tuvok points out that the future that Kes remembers is only a possible future. But she wants to give Janeway all information about the Krenim.
64	22nd	Real life	Real life	Apr 23, 1997	Sep 11 1998	Anson Williams	Jeri Taylor ; Idea: Harry Kloor
The doctor creates a holoprogram with a perfect family - a caring wife, an intelligent, good son and an intelligent, sporty daughter - to get to know family life practically. B'Elanna Torres doesn't find them very realistic and makes some adjustments. The son listens to music loudly and has Klingon friends who teach him the values ​​of a warlike life, so that he wants to perform a violent ritual while the daughter does a risky sport and the wife pursues her own interests and does not cook every day. The doctor first tries to get his family to comply with his wishes, but realizes that it is not that easy. Finally, the daughter is so badly injured in a sports accident that the doctor cannot cure her. He first breaks off the holoprogram before she dies, but Tom Paris encourages him to continue and learn that family also means shared pain and mutual support. The family stands united on the daughter's deathbed and comforts each other.
65	23	Origin from afar	Distant origin	Apr 30, 1997	Sep 18 1998	David Livingston	Brannon Braga , Joe Menosky
Two scientists from the Voth, a dinosaur-like species from the Delta Quadrant, are investigating where their species came from. They have the theory that they originated on another planet. Based on bone finds and reports about the Voyager crew, they create a hypothetical picture of a person, which they refine with the help of more recent data. They assume that the human home planet is also that of the Voth. Finally they arrive camouflaged on the Voyager and observe the crew. Kim and Tuvok uncover the scientists and take one prisoner. Chakotay is captured by the other who escapes with him to his ship. He explains his theory to Chakotay and receives information about the earth and people from him. They conclude that the Voth evolved on Earth and left the planet in spaceships. Now convinced that their theory of a distant provenance is correct, the scientists present Chakotay to their regent as living proof. However, this sees the Voth's claim to power threatened if it turns out that the origin of the species does not lie in the Delta Quadrant, and therefore forces the scientists to publicly revoke their theory. She uses the Voyager crew members, who are in her power, as leverage: otherwise they would have to spend the rest of their lives in a penal colony.
66	24	Translocation	Displaced	May 7, 1997	25 Sep 1998	Allan Kroeker	Lisa Klink
On the Voyager, more and more residents of Nyria III appear who allegedly do not know how they got there. At the same time, just as many crew members are transferred to their colony. According to an analysis, Lieutenant Torres believes that a natural phenomenon is unlikely. When she tells the Nyrian scientist Rislan, he knocks down a crew member and transports Torres off board. The Nyrians, under their leader Dammar, gradually take over the entire ship. As the last crew members, Commander Chakotay and the Doctor are transported to the Nyrian colony, where they are guarded. Captain Janeway suspects that the colony was created holographically. This is confirmed when a stranger appears through an invisible portal. His people were kidnapped years ago and live in an adjacent biosphere. Torres changes the doctor's optical sensors so that he can find additional portals. Through one of these, Janeway and Lieutenant Tuvok reach an access tunnel and discover that they are on board a spaceship. They find a translocator. Meanwhile, Torres and Lieutenant Paris flee from some guards in an ice biosphere and incapacitate their pursuers. Janeway and Tuvok gain access to the translocator and transport Torres and Paris into the biosphere for the Voyager crew and Rislan and Dammar from Voyager into the ice biosphere, which is far too cold for Nyrians. Janeway forces her to surrender the Voyager and frees the other prisoners as well.
67	25th	Rebellion Alpha	Worst case scenario	May 14, 1997	Oct 23, 1998	Alexander Singer	Kenneth Biller
While removing old files, B'Elanna Torres discovers an unfinished holoprogram called Rebellion Alpha, the author of which is anonymous. The plot: Chakotay uses a brief absence from Captain Janeway to start a mutiny on Voyager with the support of the ex-Maquis. Seska is also involved. After several crew members have played through the program, Tuvok reveals himself as the author and explains that Rebellion Alpha was intended for the training of junior security officers, but left it unfinished and eventually erased it as the program's scenario became increasingly unlikely. Tom Paris wants to finish Rebellion Alpha. Tuvok disagrees with his plans for the plot. You decide to continue working on the program together on the holodeck. It reactivates itself automatically and the Seska hologram declares that the real Seska has finished writing the program. The holodeck is sealed and the security protocols turned off. In addition, the program cannot be closed. The Holo-Janeway supports Tuvok and Paris, but when it shoots Chakotay and Seska, her phaser rifle malfunctions and she is killed. Seska explains that it has been tampered with. After the real Torres discovers that Rebellion Alpha can be altered, Janeway adds a spaceship to bombard Voyager. In the ensuing mess, Tuvok grabs a phaser rifle. Seska forces him to give it to her by initiating an overload in the energy relays of the holodeck. Tuvok sets the phaser rifle to kill, as he says, but then gives Seska, who ends the overload. When she fires the rifle it malfunctions and kills her. Tuvok manipulated it. This ends the holoprogram.
68	26th	Scorpio - Part 1	Scorpion	May 21, 1997	Oct 16, 1998	David Livingston	Brannon Braga , Joe Menosky
The Voyager approaches the Borg room. Since it is too big to be flown around, Captain Janeway decides to cross it. 15 Borg cubes are approaching Voyager. One scans them, then they all fly on. When their energy signatures abruptly expire, Voyager follows them. She finds most of the ships destroyed, most of the Borg are dead. In the shell of a Borg cube is a bio-ship of unknown design. Chakotay, Tuvok and Kim beam onto the cube, the crew of which is partly dead and partly inoperable. The pilot of the bio-ship attacks the away team and injures Kim. When the bio-ship is activated, the Voyager beams the away team on board and flees. Kes had telepathic contact with the pilot of the bio-ship and classifies his species, called by the Borg species 8472, as very aggressive. Kim became infected with foreign cells that were eating him from within. The doctor is treating him with Borg nanoprobes that he has modified to work against species 8472. Janeway wants to offer this technology to the Borg and in return receive safe passage through the Borg space. Chakotay has grave concerns; he compares the Borg to the scorpion in a fable who kills a fox even though it means his own death. Chakotay fears the Borg will betray the Voyager crew in a similar fashion. Janeway is beamed to a Borg ship for negotiations. She suggests that the Borg and the Voyager crew work together to develop a practical weapon against Species 8472. It attacks at this moment and destroys a Borg planet; the cube with Janeway on board flees.

Web links

• Season overview Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager / Season 3 in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Episode guide for the 3rd season on startrek-index.de