Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager / Season 4

Season 4 of Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager
Episodes	26th
Country of production	United States
First broadcast	September 1997 - May 1998 on UPN
German-language first broadcast	October 16, 1998 - May 7, 1999 on Sat.1
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The fourth season of the television series Star Trek: Spaceship Voyager premiered in the United States in September 1997. In Germany, the season was shown for the first time from October 1998 to May 1999.

Episodes and first broadcast

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
69	1	Scorpio - part 2	Scorpion, Part II	3rd Sep 1997	Oct 16, 1998	Winrich Kolbe	Brannon Braga , Joe Menosky
The doctor heals Kim with the modified Borg nanoprobes. Janeway and Tuvok work on the Borg cube together with the Borg on the weapon against species 8472. The Borg appoint a representative named Seven of Nine, a former human. When Species 8472 attacks again, the Borg Cube sacrifices itself to save the Voyager with the modified nanoprobes on board. Janeway, Tuvok and some Borg, including Seven of Nine, are beamed onto Voyager beforehand, to hold 2, which the Borg assimilate. Janeway is injured and unfit for duty; she orders Chakotay to continue the alliance. Seven demands that Voyager fly to the next Borg ship to further develop the weapon there, but Chakotay doesn't want to make a detour and ends the alliance. After another attack by Species 8472, the Borg create a quantum singularity in a fluid space where Species 8472 lives. Chakotay subjects hold 2 to negative pressure that sucks the Borg into space except for Seven of Nine, but the Voyager is pulled into the fluid space. Janeway takes back command and continues the alliance with the Borg. Species 8472 is defeated with the weapon developed; the Voyager returns to normal room. According to Seven of Nine, all remaining bio-ships will fly back into the fluid space. She tries to assimilate Voyager. With the help of Torres and the doctor, Chakotay incapacitates her with a neuro-transmitter and breaks her connection with the collective. Janeway decides to keep Seven of Nine on board after crossing the Borg room and, if possible, to integrate them into the crew.
70	2	The gift	The Gift	Sep 10 1997	Oct 30, 1998	Anson Williams	Joe Menosky
Seven of Nines organics have started to reject the Borg implants. Eventually, the doctor has to remove most of her implants against her will. Kes helps with her telekinetic powers, which are getting stronger and stronger. Tuvok tries to teach her to control these powers. Seven is disoriented because she is no longer affiliated with the Borg collective and wants to be brought back to the Borg, but Captain Janeway finds this too dangerous for the rest of the crew. When Seven is deployed in the engine room, she knocks down Ensign Kim and tries to contact the Borg. Kes stops them, but damages the Voyager in the process. Later it almost rips the Voyager apart. Therefore, she leaves the ship permanently. As a parting gift, it moves Voyager ten years closer to the Alpha Quadrant. The doctor replaces Seven's eye piece with an artificial eye. She becomes a member of the crew.
71	3	Day of honor	Day of Honor	17 Sep 1997	Nov 6, 1998	Jesús Salvador Treviño	Jeri Taylor
It is Honor Day, a Klingon holiday, on which you analyze your behavior in the past year and check whether you comply with the Klingon norms. B'Elanna Torres has developed a holoprogram for this with Tom Paris, but is irritable due to a bad streak and therefore breaks off the program. Voyager is contacted by the Caatati, a people most of whom have been assimilated by the Borg. The remaining are impoverished. Janeway gives them supplies, including thorium - isotopes . When they see the ex-Borg Seven of Nine, they want revenge on her. Tuvok prevents that. The engine room crew, with Sevens and Tom's help, conducts a transwarp attempt. It fails, and B'Elanna must drop the warp core. She and Tom set off in a shuttle to retrieve the core. However, he is currently being brought on board one of the Caatati ships. When B'Elanna tries to prevent this, the Caatati destroy the shuttle. Tom and B'Elanna beam out in time, but their spacesuits are losing oxygen. The Caatati try to blackmail the Voyager crew with the warp core to give them more goods and seven. She agrees, but Janeway refuses. Seven then agrees to create an energy matrix that replicates thorium isotopes and gives it to the Caatati. They are satisfied. When the oxygen runs out, Tom tells B'Elanna that she has always fascinated him and that he is glad that she is the last one he will see. She says she was cowardly by not having close relationships and does not want to die without honor, and makes him a declaration of love. Before he answers, they will be saved.
72	4th	Nemesis	Nemesis	Sep 24 1997	Nov 20, 1998	Alexander Singer	Kenneth Biller
While on a reconnaissance mission on an alien planet, Chakotay's shuttle is shot down and captured by Vori soldiers. They are in a long-running war with the Kradin, whom they call their nemesis. The commander releases Chakotay. Since it would be dangerous to go back to the shuttle alone, Chakotay is accompanied by a soldier. They find the shuttle destroyed and the soldier is killed by Kradin. Chakotay has to take over his uniform and his weapon. The Vori soldiers emphasize the cruelty of the Kradin and the need to defend the planet against them. In a skirmish with the Kradin, Chakotay is separated from the unit. He reaches a Vori village where he spends the night. The village is attacked by Kradin who, against Chakotay's resistance, kill the elderly and kidnap the other villagers. Chakotay is rescued by the only surviving member of "his" unit. When Tuvok appears with some Kradin soldiers, Chakotay does not recognize him at first; Tuvok looks like a motorbike to him. Tuvok explains to him that everything Chakotay claims to have experienced on the planet was an illusion. The Vori regularly recruit strangers this way. The Kradin call the Vori their nemesis and accuse them of the same cruelty as the Vori do. Chakotay knows that it will take a long time to overcome the hatred of the Kradin that has been inoculated into him.
73	5	The isomorph	Revulsion	Oct 1, 1997	Nov 27, 1998	Kenneth Biller	Lisa Klink
Tuvok is promoted to lieutenant commander. Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres discuss their declaration of love and begin a relationship. Harry Kim and Seven of Nine work together to improve astrometry. At first he is suspicious of her, but then feels more and more drawn to her. Eventually he tries to date her, but when she offers him sex without going into the romantic aspect of his proposal, he turns her down, disturbed. Meanwhile, the doctor and B'Elanna try to help an alien hologram ("isomorph") that has sent a distress call, but after a while on his ship it turns out that he murdered the organic crew members because he finds living beings repulsive. With an effort they render the psychopath harmless.
74	6th	The black bird	The Raven	Oct 8, 1997	Dec 11, 1998	LeVar Burton	Bryan Fuller , Harry Kloor ; Idea: Bryan Fuller
The Voyager crew want to cross the B'omar room. These represent u. a. the condition that the Voyager adheres to a certain course. Seven of Nine has inexplicable flashbacks from a situation where a black bird attacks her, several Borg want to assimilate her, and she is very scared. Eventually she attacks Neelix and other crew members, steals a shuttle and flies into the B'omar room. The B'omar want to track them down and kill them, and forbid Voyager to enter their space. Tuvok and Paris secretly follow Seven in a second shuttle, and Tuvok beams to her. Seven overwhelms him and shoots Paris' shuttle incapable of maneuver. It follows a Borg target flight signal to a damaged, abandoned spaceship on the surface of a moon. It turns out to be the Raven, Seven's parents' ship. Here the family was assimilated by the Borg. The B'omar bombard the Raven. Since Captain Janeway has drawn the right conclusions from Seven's flashbacks, Voyager also flies to the moon and disables the weapons of the B'omar ships. Paris beams Seven and Tuvok on board and returns with them to Voyager, which quickly leaves the B'omar room.
75	7th	Reprehensible experiments	Scientific Method	Oct 29, 1997	Dec 18, 1998	David Livingston	Lisa Klink ; Idea: Sherry Klein , Harry Kloor
Unusual complaints from Voyager crew members accumulate, Commander Chakotay ages rapidly, and Neelix's Mylean genes of his great-grandfather prevail. Captain Janeway suffers from a severe headache and reacts increasingly irritable. Seven of Nine discovers the cause with the help of the doctor: invisible aliens secretly conduct medical experiments with the crew. She succeeds in unmasking the experimenter. She is then locked up and insists on Captain Janeway to continue the experiments. Otherwise she wants to kill the entire crew. After a crew member dies as a result of the experiments, Captain Janeway steers the Voyager between binary pulsars that could crush the ship. The aliens flee, apparently one of their ships being destroyed. The Voyager is only slightly damaged.
76	8th	One year of hell - part 1	Year of Hell	Nov 5, 1997	Jan. 8, 1999	Allan Kroeker	Brannon Braga , Joe Menosky
The Voyager flies into an area of ​​space claimed by the Krenim. Their former great empire has collapsed. To restore it, a time ship under the command of Annorax has been changing the past for 200 years. The crew eliminates entire civilizations from history, while they are protected from time on the ship. Annorax also plans to restore the Krenim colony on Kyana Prime; without this he is not satisfied with a 98 percent restoration of the Krenim empire and orders further temporal interventions against the opposition of parts of his crew. In the following months, the Voyager was repeatedly attacked by Krenim ships. Eventually it is badly damaged and several crew members are dead. The Krenim's torpedoes penetrate Voyager's shields because they are chronoton based and in a state of temporal flow. After an attack, a non-detonated torpedo stuck in the Voyager. Seven measures its temporal variance even though Tuvok orders her to flee. The torpedo detonates, stealing Tuvok's eyesight. Seven can adapt Voyager's shields to the temporal variance of the torpedoes and thus ward off another attack. The Krenim Time Ship changes the past again, but Voyager is protected by the temporal shields. Due to their presence, the temporal intervention has unexpected effects: The Krenim civilization is thrown back to a pre-warp level. Annorax has Chakotay and Paris transported on the time ship, and Janeway understands that the Krenim ship is changing the timeline. It tries to eliminate Voyager from the story, but she escapes. Janeway orders the crew into the escape pods; only the command officers remain on board.
77	9	One year of hell - part 2	Year of Hell, Part II	Nov 12, 1997	Jan. 8, 1999	Mike Vejar	Brannon Braga , Joe Menosky
After keeping Chakotay and Paris trapped on the time ship for two months, Annorax wants to work with them because he cannot find the Voyager. He claims to be able to change the past so that his ship and Voyager have never met and Voyager is closer to the Alpha Quadrant. Achieving this without eliminating other civilizations requires complicated calculations, for which he turns to Chakotay and Paris for help. Chakotay agrees to do so. Annorax tells him that he is stepping into history to correct a mistake in an earlier procedure. Paris suggests to Chakotay to disable the ship's temporal core, which would make it vulnerable in normal space-time. Chakotay trusts Annorax and orders Paris not to do anything for the time being, but after Annorax had another civilization eliminated, he changes his decision. Chakotay also discovers Annorax's reason for wanting to restore the colony on Kyana Prime: his wife lived there. Obrist, a crew member on the time ship, joins Chakotay and Paris and works against Annorax. Paris sends Voyager the coordinates of the time ship. It is barely functional and its remaining crew is exhausted, but it attacks together with other spaceships. During the fight, Obrist deactivates the temporal core. Chakotay and Paris are beamed off board, and Janeway purposely collides with the timeship, destroying it. This changes the past: A year earlier, Voyager flies around the Krenim room. Annorax never designed the time ship and lives with his wife.
78	10	Violent thoughts	Random Thoughts	Nov 19, 1997	Jan. 22, 1999	Alexander Singer	Kenneth Biller
The Voyager crew is in contact with the Mari, a telepathic people. With them not only violence, but every thought of it is punishable; so they have nearly eliminated crime. When a brawl breaks out in the market square, B'Elanna Torres has to answer for having previously collided with the bat and briefly had violent thoughts that influenced him. Chief investigator Nimira wants to punish Torres with the deletion of the violent memory content. Then a murder is committed, which is also motivated by Torres' memory content. Nimira cannot explain how this thought can still circulate, because Torres and the thug are in custody. She asks Tuvok for help. During his investigations, he discovers a subculture whose members hoard violent thoughts and act on them - the more brutal, the better. He can prove that Torres is innocent.
79	11	Speaking of flies	Concerning Flight	Nov 26, 1997	Jan. 29, 1999	Jesús Salvador Treviño	Joe Menosky ; Idea: Jimmy Diggs , Joe Menosky
In a holoprogram, Captain Janeway offers Leonardo da Vinci after a failed flight attempt to help him improve his aircraft. When aliens weaken the shields of Voyager by fire and steal hardware, including the main computer, with a special transport beam, they also transfer the Leonardo hologram with the doctor's mobile emitter to their planet. Janeway and Tuvok beam into a city and meet Leonardo, who believes he is in America and works for the “prince” of the city who stole the hardware. They find some of the stolen goods, but not the main computer. Tuvok returns to Voyager, and Janeway and Leonardo break into a building outside of town that contains the computer. It is surrounded by a dispersion field through which nothing can be beamed out. Janeway is overloading the computer so it is sending a strong signal. This is how you can beam onto the Voyager. When Janeway and Leonardo are discovered, they flee with the improved aircraft. The flight is successful and they are beamed aboard Voyager.
80	12	life after death	Mortal coil	Dec 17, 1997	Feb 5, 1999	Allan Kroeker	Bryan Fuller
Neelix flies into a nebula with Chakotay and Paris to obtain protomatter. When attempting to beam her on board, she ignites and Neelix is ​​hit by a discharge. Paris diagnoses his death, the doctor cannot do anything for him either, but Seven brings him back to life more than 18 hours after his death using Borg nanoprobes. During a holodeck simulation of the accident, Neelix sees that he was indeed dead and is disturbed because he did not experience the Talaxian version of the afterlife, the re-encounter with his deceased relatives. The nanoprobes in his body also worry him. With Chakotay's help, he looks inside himself and has a vision of his sister who tells him that there is no afterlife and makes him aware of his fear. The vision ends with his friends and acquaintances on board suggesting that he end his life because it is pointless. He tries to beam himself into the fog where he thinks he should have died. Chakotay stops him and tries to explain to him that the vision can be interpreted in several ways and that the crew is now his family, but Neelix only gives up his plan when Ensign Wildman asks him to find her daughter Naomi, who is his godchild, to bring to bed.
81	13	Awake moments	Waking moments	Jan. 14, 1998	Feb 19, 1999	Alexander Singer	André Bormanis
Many crew members have nightmares about the same alien. Some don't wake up again. Chakotay wants to contact the alien through lucid dreams . In order to be aware that he is dreaming, he hypnotizes himself to see the moon of the earth in a dream. Once that happens, he can wake himself up. He falls asleep and meets the alien, who explains to him that the members of his species are practically always asleep and wiping out strangers by putting them to sleep as well and thus drawing them into their collective dream reality. The sleeping crew would wake up as soon as the Voyager left the region. Chakotay wakes himself up and lets set the course that the alien has indicated. Arrived at the border of the region, the Voyager is boarded by the aliens. During the argument, Chakotay sees the Earth's moon and knows that he is still dreaming. He wakes himself up again. The doctor informs him that the rest of the crew are sleeping. Their brainwave patterns indicate that they are all dreaming the same thing. Chakotay locates the planet where the aliens sleep. He beams there and finds a transmitter that helps the dreaming stranger to control the Voyager crew. On his orders, the doctor aimed a photon torpedo at the transmitter. Chakotay wakes an alien with a stimulant and tries to force him to deactivate the transmitter. He falls asleep again and ends up in a dream, which Janeway, Tuvok and the others have now recognized as such and partly control. Chakotay explains the situation to the leader of the aliens, who releases Voyager.
82	14th	Message in a bottle	Message in a bottle	Jan. 21, 1998	Feb 12, 1999	Nancy Malone	Lisa Klink ; Idea: Rick Williams
Seven discovers a communications network from an unknown species that she can use to contact a Starfleet ship on the edge of the Alpha Quadrant. Since acoustic messages cannot get through, the doctor is sent in a bottle. He notes that the ship is called Prometheus and has been captured by Romulans. The crew was killed. The doctor activates the medical emergency hologram, an EMH type II. This is quite arrogant at first, but under the direction of the doctor it feeds a gaseous anesthetic into the ventilation system, which puts the Romulans out of action. The two MHN take over the bridge and stop the ship with some difficulty. Voyager is contacted by a Hirogen ; the communication network belongs to this species. You disagree with Voyager using it. Seven uses a feedback impulse to prevent Hirogen from interrupting communication between Voyager and Prometheus. Meanwhile, Romulan ships of the Prometheus are approaching and opening fire. Starfleet ships appear and also bombard the Prometheus. With the help of an automated attack mode, the EMN destroy a Romulan ship and drive away the others. The Doctor contacts Starfleet Headquarters and returns with the promise that Starfleet will do everything possible to bring the Voyager home.
83	15th	Hunter	Hunters	Feb 11, 1998	Feb. 26, 1999	David Livingston	Jeri Taylor
Voyager is receiving a fragmentary transmission from Starfleet Command. Since the rest is stored in a relay station of the Hirogen communication network, the Voyager flies there. The message includes letters to the crew, including one to Janeway from her former fiancé. He writes that he thought she was dead and that he married someone else. In addition, the message contains a large amount of encrypted information. However, it worsens due to the long storage in the relay station. Seven and Tuvok approach the station in a shuttle in order to stabilize the containment field around its energy source, a quantum singularity (a black hole ), because they expect better reception from it. They are imprisoned on the ship by Hirogen, who also received the message to Voyager. The Hirogen are hunters who also see intelligent beings as prey. Another three of their ships are approaching. Through antithoron bombardment, Janeway increases the station's gravitational pull , which then attracts the Hirogen ships. When they bombard Voyager, the singularity is released and swallowed the station and most of the Hirogen ships. Before the ship with Seven and Tuvok also disappears, the two are beamed onto the Voyager. The energy released by the singularity renders the communication network unusable so that the rest of the message cannot be transmitted.
84	16	The prey	Prey	Feb 18, 1998	5th Mar 1999	Allan Eastman	Brannon Braga
Two Hirogen hunt down a member of Species 8472. After they get it aboard their spaceship, it kills one of the hunters and flees. The seriously injured other sends a distress call that is picked up by Voyager. The doctor treats him in the infirmary. Other Hirogen ships are approaching. At the same time, the member of Species 8472 invades Voyager, injuring crew members and compromising the systems. Janeway agrees to let the Hirogen track down the creature. Seven modifies rifles so they can fire Borg nanoprobes that should cripple Species 8472. When the creature is found, Hirogen tries to kill it and incapacitates Chakotay and Paris. Tuvok stuns him. The being flees and makes telepathic contact with Tuvok. It is badly wounded. It was forgotten when the other members of its species withdrew months ago. Janeway orders Seven to create a quantum singularity so the being can return to fluid space, but Seven refuses, as this would take time, which would endanger the Voyager crew. When the Hirogen ships are within range, the leader demands the surrender of the being, which Janeway refuses. The ships attack and severely damage Voyager. Meanwhile, the Hirogen breaks out of the infirmary to kill the creature. Seven blocks his way at first, but when the creature attacks him, they both beams onto a Hirogen ship. The ships are turning. As a consequence of Seven's insubordination, Janeway deprives her of access to Voyager's primary systems.
85	17th	Looking back	Retrospect	Feb 25, 1998	March 12 1999	Jesús Salvador Treviño	Bryan Fuller , Lisa Klink ; Idea: Andrew Shepard Price , Mark Gaberman
The Voyager is about to cross a dangerous region of space, so it equips itself at an arms dealer named Kovin, who hails from a nearby planet. Seven is working with him and they get into a physical altercation. When the doctor examines Seven, she looks frightened but cannot give a reason. The doctor deduces suppressed memories and applies a modification of hypnotic regression to reconstruct them. Seven thinks she remembers that Kovin drugged her, tied her up, and took Borg nanoprobes against her will during a gun test in his laboratory. Janeway and Tuvok do not accept Seven's memories without further evidence. They question Kovin, who says he accidentally fired the gun and did not take any nanoprobes from Seven. Tuvok and the Doctor investigate Kovin's laboratory with the magistrate of the planet and find regenerated nanoprobes that harden Seven's version. Kovin states that these came from accidental fire. When the magistrate promises Kovin's imprisonment, he escapes. Voyager is tracking his spaceship. Janeway and Tuvok discover that Seven's nanoprobes are also regenerated by simulating gunfire. Janeway also theorises that Seven's memories could come from her Borg times. Nothing speaks against Kovin's version, but he blows up his ship after the Voyager has caught up with it.
86/87	18/19	The killing game	The Killing Game	4th Mar 1998	Dec 4, 1998	David Livingston (part 1), Victor Lobl (part 2)	Brannon Braga , Joe Menosky
Hirogen captured the Voyager. They force half the crew to take part in various combat simulations on the holodeck, including that of a German-occupied French city during World War II . The crew members have been implanted with neural interfaces that make them believe the scenarios are real. The security protocols are switched off. Kim takes care of extending the holodeck to larger parts of Voyager, while the doctor and a Hirogen doctor treat those injured in the simulations. In the World War II simulation, Janeway, Tuvok, Torres, Seven and Neelix are Resistance members. Chakotay and Paris are US soldiers. When Seven, who was shot in the simulation, is treated by the doctor, he disables her neural interface. Back in the simulation, she helps him and Kim to activate the bridge control relays and also to switch off Janeway's interface. American artillery bombardment of the German headquarters breaks the boundary between the holodeck and the rest of the Voyager. Holographic soldiers flock to the corridors of Voyager. Janeway and Chakotay advance to the infirmary and deactivate the remaining interfaces. The Hirogen leader explains to Janeway that he wants to completely replace the real hunt with simulations because he fears that the Hirogen will perish if they subordinate everything to the hunt as before. He negotiates with her about the transfer of the holodeck technology and the departure of the Hirogen, but is killed by another Hirogen who does not approve of his plans. Janeway kills him while Kim overloads the holo emitters. Eventually Janeway signs a truce with the Hirogen: They get the holodeck technology and leave Voyager.
88	20th	Vis à vis	Vis à vis	Apr 8, 1998	19 Mar 1999	Jesús Salvador Treviño	Robert J. Doherty
The Voyager crew rescues Steth, a test pilot whose starship is out of control. Tom Paris, who currently prefers to work on machines than to spend time with B'Elanna Torres, helps him repair his coaxial warp drive. They become friends. When the repair is finished, it turns out that Steth's body is inhabited by a body thief, who is now exchanging bodies with Tom. While Steth's ship flies away with the unconscious Tom in Steth's body, the body thief in Tom's body takes Tom's place on the Voyager. Tom in Steth's body meets Steth in a female body that the body thief lived in immediately in front of Steth's body. Together they fly to Voyager, where the body thief has meanwhile swapped Tom's body with Janeway. In Janeway's body he steals a shuttle into which a coaxial drive has been built; Steth and Tom chase him in Steth's ship, and Tom disables the drive. After Steth and all of the Voyager crew members are returned to their bodies, Steth brings the captured body thief to his home planet, and Tom invites B'Elanna to his garage on the holodeck, where he is screwing a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro .
89	21st	The Omega Directive	The Omega Directive	Apr 15, 1998	26th Mar 1999	Victor Lobl	Lisa Klink ; Idea: Jimmy Diggs , Steve J. Kay
Voyager is hit by a shock wave. Captain Janeway will be automatically notified that the omega molecule has been detected nearby. It contains a very large amount of energy, but it has not yet been able to be handled safely; therefore every Starfleet captain is obliged to destroy it completely if it is discovered. Its existence is usually kept secret from lower-ranking personnel. Seven of Nine informs Janeway that the Borg have been trying to stabilize Omega for a long time and consider it the epitome of perfection. She is against the destruction, but wants to help Janeway to get a closer look at Omega. With the help of the rest of the crew, she builds a harmonic resonance chamber that the Borg developed to stabilize Omega, but which can also be used to destroy it. The registered shock wave apparently came from an explosion that took place when scientists tried to create Omega on a nearby moon. A Voyager field team beams the survivors to the infirmary. During a conversation with the lead scientist, Seven discovers a method to stabilize the molecules. Two ships of the species of scientists approach and demand the release of the omega molecules. Janeway has these beamed into the harmonics chamber. Seven tries to stabilize her, but obeys Janeway's orders. Because of the attack by the alien species, there is no time to let the chamber destroy all molecules, so it is dropped and a torpedo fired at it. Shortly beforehand, the molecules stabilized spontaneously; Seven watched perfection for a few seconds.
90	22nd	Unforgotten	Unforgettable	Apr 22, 1998	Apr 9, 1999	Andrew Robinson	Greg Elliot , Michael Perricone
A Ramuran scout named Kellin arrives at Voyager. Your species minimizes contact with others and has a pheromone that erases all memories of other species. Technical devices are difficult to capture and they use computer viruses to erase all data on them. Leaving Ramura permanently is forbidden; Offenders are brought back by trackers. Kellin says she was on Voyager several weeks ago a month ago. There she secretly hunted a Ramuran who wanted to leave his species. After she was discovered, she and Chakotay began a love affair that ended when Kellin returned to her species with the Ramuran whose memory she had erased. She's back on Voyager to be with Chakotay, but Chakotay doesn't remember her any more than the rest of the crew. She stays anyway, and little by little Chakotay falls in love with her and they resume their relationship. But then Kellin is overtaken by a Ramuran tracker who erases her memory. Chakotay wants her to stay, but she doesn't remember their time together and voluntarily leaves Voyager. Chakotay writes his memories of her on paper so that he doesn't completely forget them again.
91	23	The contemporary witness	Living Witness	Apr 29, 1998	Apr 16, 1999	Tim Russ	Bryan Fuller , Brannon Braga , Joe Menosky ; Idea: Brannon Braga
A backup copy of the doctor is activated after 700 years in the Museum of the Kyrian People after historians found remains of the Voyager and reconstructed a heavily distorted version of its history: Voyager was a military spaceship and the crew acted ruthlessly and cruelly and in sided with the Kyrians in a conflict with another species, the Vaskans. So the Vaskans could occupy the land of the Kyrians. It took centuries for the Kyrians to become accepted to a certain extent in Vaskan society, but they are not yet equal. The Doctor corrects that the Kyrians were the aggressors and that the Voyager crew did not take sides. Eventually he convinces a historian, but other Kyrians are outraged by his supposed lies. Initially there were violent protests, during which the museum was also destroyed. Later, however, the doctor brings about a dialogue between the species that leads to reconciliation. He finally makes his way to the Alpha Quadrant.
92	24	demon	Demon	May 6, 1998	Apr 23, 1999	Anson Williams	Kenneth Biller ; Idea: André Bormanis
Voyager urgently needs deuterium , so Paris and Kim land in a shuttle on a demon-class asteroid, where conditions are hostile to life. They find a liquid metallic mass that Kim swallows. After being pulled out of Paris, their spacesuits lose oxygen and they can't make it back to the shuttle. Voyager lands on the planetoid, and Chakotay and Seven search for Paris and Kim. You can find them without spacesuits; their life signs are normal and they have found a lot of deuterium. When everyone is back on the ship, Paris and Kim can no longer breathe oxygen. The doctor diagnoses that they have been adapted to the planetoid by the metallic liquid. When Janeway and Torres examine the liquid, they notice that it can recreate it after contact with humanoids. On the planetoid, Chakotay, Seven and Kim find a second Paris and a second Kim in space suits. The Kim without a space suit does not want to return to the Voyager and flees when the others are beamed on board. Since the Voyager is about to sink into a pond of the metallic substance, it tries to take off. Even the wrong Paris does not want to leave the planetoid. The fake Kim is beamed onto the Voyager, declaring that the "silver blood" he and fake Paris are made of was unconscious prior to contact with the originals. It doesn't want to let the Voyager take off, but also to emulate the rest of the crew. When Janeway allows it, Voyager can leave the planetoid unimpeded.
93	25th	A	One	May 13, 1998	Apr 30, 1999	Kenneth Biller	Jeri Taylor
Voyager is flying through a large fog. Since most of the crew members would not survive the radiation emitted by the fog, they are placed in stasis chambers. Only the Doctor and Seven of Nine remain conscious, monitor the health of the rest of the crew, and keep the ship on course. Loneliness troubles Seven, who is used to the Borg collective. The fog causes malfunction of the ship's systems. The doctor is also affected: his mobile emitter is damaged; the doctor has to stay in the infirmary. Seven begins to hallucinate ; so she imagines that a stranger comes on board and manipulates the ship's systems. She also thinks she can hear crew members calling for her in need of help. After the doctor fixes his emitter, he comes to her and convinces her that the stranger doesn't exist. Further damage to the ship will cause the mobile emitter to fail again. Seven, plagued by hallucinations and self-doubt, is on her own. When the engine fails 41 minutes before the estimated exit from the fog, Seven diverts energy from some stasis units. Then she fears for the lives of the affected crew members, has the life support switched off for herself and directs their energy back into the stasis units. She is losing consciousness. When she comes to in the infirmary, the fog has passed and the crew is fine.
94	26th	In fear and hope	Hope and Fear	May 20, 1998	May 7, 1999	Winrich Kolbe	Brannon Braga , Joe Menosky ; Idea: Rick Berman , Brannon Braga , Joe Menosky
An alien named Arturis is traveling on the Voyager. Since he shows great skills in language acquisition and pattern recognition , Janeway asks him to help decipher the damaged message from Starfleet Headquarters. It extracts coordinates that lead to a ship. It's called Dauntless, according to the message, and has an experimental quantum slipstream engine that would make the trip to Earth just three months. Paris tries to equip the Voyager with the same drive. Janeway distrusts Arturis and instructs Tuvok to monitor him and investigate the Dauntless thoroughly. Seven is afraid of returning to Earth and wants to be left behind in the Delta Quadrant, which Janeway will not allow. Janeway decrypts the last block of data in the message, which Arturis said was too badly damaged. In it, Starfleet Command explains that it can only send data to the Voyager crew via the Delta Quadrant and cannot enable a quick return home. Kim also found foreign technology aboard the Dauntless. When Janeway, Seven and others try to arrest Arturis, he activates the slipstream drive and sets course for Borg room. He wanted to turn the Voyager crew over to the Borg for helping them defeat Species 8472. After that, most of his people were assimilated. Now he's just trapped Janeway and Seven in a force field; the others were beamed onto Voyager. Janeway adjusts Seven's skull implant so that it can break through the force field and switch it off from the outside. They are beamed onto the Voyager, which has followed the Dauntless into Slipstream and disabled its shields, and only Arturis himself is assimilated.

Web links

• Season overview Star Trek: Voyager / Season 4 in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ It was first broadcast as a long episode (90 minutes). Repetitions are usually broadcast in two 45-minute segments.

1. ↑ Episode guide for the 4th season on startrek-index.de