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[Oddish]

Rhyme and Reason: Neelix tries to enhance ship morale by planning a poetry contest. When Janeway is trying to come up with a good poem, an alien anomaly zaps her brain, forcing her to speak incessantly in rhyme. This makes commanding the ship problematic for her, until she is able to pass the problem to Ayala. Since he never speaks anyway, no one finds out if the condition is ever cured.

Next episode: Optical Delusion

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

"Optical Delusion" - After a power overload knocks out Voyager's ODN network, crew members begin to see things that aren't there - lush wilderness, ghosts of dead people, quarters on fire, etc. Delusions get even more severe when they begin to lose their sense of self - multiple crew believe they're the captain, or members of other species (to the point where they physiologically react like another alien) The only cure may be to connect them to the ship like Borg to their collective and run a potentially deadly experiment - one which may delete the Doctor.

Next episode: "Cold to the Touch"

 

[Oddish]

Cold to the Touch: A shuttle containing Tom, Harry, Seven, and Naomi Wildman goes down on a frozen moon with only hours of life support left, and Voyager out of comm range. The group have to evaluate their lives and prepare to face the end, while helping Naomi process the notion of death. They are asleep and in the final stages of hypothermia when Voyager rescues them.

Next: Interstellar Royalty

 

[Finn]

Interstellar Royalty

Voyager comes across an ancient Talaxian colony, descended from a group of Talaxians who left their part of the galaxy centuries ago during an long forgotten crisis that even Neelix was barely aware of. The colony slips into a political crisis when a resistance group claims that Neelix is descended from the original royal family that founded the colony and threatens to overthrow the current royal family, installing Neelix as the legitimate monarch.

Next episode: One of the Hundred

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

"One of the Hundred" - A hundred Hurasi villages are required to provide 1 tribute a year to the Sepan Empire. The village of Yra chooses Chakotay, who has gone down to the planet with an away team to find the source of an unusual mineral signature that may be a valuable supplement for the crew. While traveling on the transport wagon to the capital city, the other tributes try to get Chakotay to be their leader in a rebellion against the empire. The away team trace Chakotay, careful not to be detected or break the PD, even, as he seriously considers doing so. His hand may be forced when he learns that one tribute will be selected for sacrifice, with another doing the killing.

Next episode: "Cogito, Ergo Sum" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito,_ergo_sum

 

[maneth]

Cogito, Ergo Sum

The EMH decides that he needs to learn more about Federation cultures, and spends all his "downtime" absorbing the contents of the Voyager's virtual library. He's fascinated by Earth philosophers, particularly those who discuss the nature of humanity and self-awareness. Janeway has to intervene when he starts quoting Descartes to his patients.

Next episode: "Syntax Error"

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

"Syntax Error" - Seven's Borg implants cause her to start babbling gibberish that may be the long lost language of the species that became the first Borg. The Doctor and Tuvok attempt to translate her words and manage her frustration at not being able to communicate, which leads her to broadcast her voice over the comms...and Voyager must prepare for the coming species that responds in kind. Meanwhile, Tom enlists Harry's help to figure out what he said that made B'Elanna upset this time.

Next episode: "Insignia"

 

[Oddish]

Insignia: The entire crew have their memories selectively erased, and have to complete an apparently crucial mission with everyone in the wrong position, andvtherefore thecwrong attire and insignia: Harry is captain, Neelix is first officer, Chakotay is chief engineer, Janeway head of security, Tom is at operations, the EMH is deactivated. Only Seven, the cook, has an inkling that things are screwy. She must bring the Doctor back online to try to resolve the issue.

Next episode: Restless Hearts

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

"Restless Hearts" - Tom's latest holoproject is a '90s soap opera that quickly snags the attention of the crew, especially Neelix, who winds up caught in a love triangle between Destiny, the female lead, and Arthur, her jealous boyfriend. When his obsession with the program causes the crew's morale and diet to suffer, Tom tries to lock him out, but before he can, Arthur makes an attempt on Neelix's life. The Doctor can only save his life within the bounds of the program, including '90s medical tech.

Next episode: "Sediment"

 

[Oddish]

Sediment: Due to a catastrophic failure, the ship's warp engines go down. To be rebuilt, the nacelles need a very specific chemical compound that's only found in the rivers of a nearby planet. Courtesy of Tom's knowledge of history, the Voyager crew end up basically panning for gold. Hijinks ensue, especially when the natives of the planet show up.

Next: Eye of the Tiger

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

"Eye of The Tiger" - Voyager is challenged to war games by the Rawnkre. The prize? A tow by one of their faster ships to get our crew closer to home. The forfeit? Voyager itself and marooning on a DQ planet if they lose. B'Elanna suspects the judge/observer sent to watch them fight may be sabotaging their efforts, and that the prize may not be possible. But can she prove it before they're left stranded, maybe killed?

Next episode: "Interception"

 

[at Quark's]

Interception

A scientist who has invented an instantaneous form of transport is fleeing from a totalitarian government and seeks refuge on Voyager. He decides he cannot risk the technology to fall into his government's hands as they would only use it to tighten the grip on their subjects even more, but neither does he want his life's work to be lost so he sends his logs into deep space in a very small untraceable probe, the whereabouts of which he stores deep inside Voyager's computer. Part of the protection is that the computer has the information but doesn't 'know' that it knows where the shuttle is.

The Voyager crew decides they must have this information and therefore they need to intercept this probe. However, the only way to possibly obtain its coordinates it is to make the computer 'dream', in which case the information contained into the computer's 'unconscious' might come to the surface in some form of symbols. So they rig the holodeck to show the computer's 'dreams' (like in Phantasms), and enter.

Turns out the 'dream' isn't deep enough for the information to be revealed, so they create a dream inside the dream and enter that one. Same result so they create a third level. And a fourth, and so on. At some point they lose count of how many levels they're in, which is dangerous because it also means they cannot be sure they truly are out of the holodeck again once they ascend the stairs again. Also, the deeper they go, the slower the 'dreams' begin to run, because even the computer hardware has its limits having to run so many nested levels, which is annoying as heck.

Will they recognise the information once they come accross it? And more importantly, once they intercept the shuttle and build the transportation device and they go home, can they be sure they're not still within one of those dreams?

Next episode: A Bridge Too Farr

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

"A Bridge Too Farr" - The Fialerians, an alien species Voyager encounters, wishes to go extinct to preserve their planet. A dissenting scientist hopes to use a serum he's created to waken his fellow Fialerians' mating instinct in his dying world, and tests it on some of the crew of Voyager when they visit his estate for supper. The woman he loves unrequitedly is part of the extinction faction, so his motives are twofold. The mating serum induces something similar to pon farr in any humanoids. Tuvok must help the crew keep their wits about them. Neelix helps the scientist convince his world, using Naomi as an example of the future.

Next episode: "Cross Country"

 

[Oddish]

Cross Country: Voyager is forced to land on a partially settled planet with a large area where most technology doesn't work. The ship goes down in that area, and is effectively stranded. The only alternative is for a selected group (led by nature expert Chakotay) to walk the 200 kilometers to civilization, and hope the people there can do something. Because electricity doesn't work, they are limited to torches, bows, and other primitive stuff.

Next episode: Send In the Clowns

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

"Send In The Clowns" - Members of the crew of Voyager disguise themselves as clowns to infiltrate an alien circus that has taken B'Elanna and Seven captive for their freak show - the Wild Woman and the Living Computer. Meanwhile, Harry and Naomi work together to write a song to perform for the crew.

Next episode: "Smoking Gun"

 

[AntonyF]

"Smoking Gun". The H'thirians, a Delta Quadrant race who see law and order as a central tenet of their species, captures the Voyager crew and puts them on trial for perceived lawlessness throughout the Delta Quadrant.

They have been gathering evidence on route of crimes including the destruction of the Caretaker array, interference with a pre-industrial society, collusion with the Borg, and even murdering a new lifeform that evolved as the result of a transport accident.

Often ones to bring their own view of the law and order to their Delta Quadrant, the Voyager crew must now be subject to another race's views on what's right and wrong...

Next episode: A Talaxian Tale.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

"A Talaxian Tale" - Voyager is giving a lift to five Bikotai who are moving to one of their colonies to settle. When Naomi tells them an embellished story Neelix told her about how he tamed the colony world of Pyneax, they conscript him to face down the Weero clan, a violent family who are bent on driving out the colonists there and keeping the planetoid to themselves. Can Neelix step up and be the hero they need...with a little (unseen) help from his crewmates?

Next episode: "Quake"

 

[Vulcanoid]

"Quake" - The crew of Voyager attempt to aid a planet's lone colony as it's afflicted by a series of increasingly destructive earthquakes. Investigations into the issue soon reveal that the method of harnessing a unknown, but powerful energy from within the planet is the cause. As it becomes apparent that the near-limitless supply of power provided comes from the planet's lone inhabitant below the surface, a slumbering creature of immense proportions who may have its destiny in the stars, the crew must navigate the dilemma of colonists who refuse to give up a world they've chosen to make their own, and a new form of life that's had its dreams taken from it.

Next episode: "Repose"

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

"Repose": After being ordered to go on shore leave by the Doctor, B'Elanna agrees, with one caveat; that he accompanies her. Agreeing, the two take a trip to Dernais, staying at a mountain resort, only to stumble upon the mystery of a scientist who has been killed and her invention stolen, and fellow vacationers who all had something to gain. Meanwhile, Tom has his hands full playing medic, as it seems just when he tries to go to sleep, someone needs care. He decides to "deactivate" himself, just as The Doctor might, except with sedatives instead of an off switch, but he finds out some dreams can be worse than reality.

Next episode: "Withering Leaves"

 

[maneth]

Withering Leaves

The plants in the airponics garden start to wither and some of them die, and Kes can't understand why. She becomes obsessed with trying to save what can be saved of her garden to the point of neglecting her other duties. She enlists the help of everyone she can think of, and finally the EMH helps her discover a tiny radioactive parasite that is slowly killing the plants. Because the only thing that will reliably kill the parasites is lethal thalaron radiation that would also kill the plants as well as destroy anything organic within range, Kes decides to use the transporter to eliminate the bugs.

Next episode: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star