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                        The STAR TREK: VOYAGER LogBook                       
                        "Caretaker" - "Learning Curve"                       
  1995  1995 
                              written by Earl Green

   "Star Trek: Voyager" created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor
              based upon "Star Trek" created by Gene Roddenberry


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                              Season One:  1995 
                             

01      CARETAKER                                                      16 Jan 95
        teleplay by Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor
        story by Rick Berman & Michael Piller & Jeri Taylor
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        also see Deep Space Nine #39/40 "The Maquis"
        music by Jay Chattaway and Jerry Goldsmith (GNP Crescendo CD# GNPD 8041)
  Stardate 48315.6:  A starship controlled by the Maquis mysteriously disappears
    in the Badlands, a charged energy field near the demilitarized zone, after
    being pursued by a Cardassian ship.  USS Voyager, commanded by Captain
    Janeway, is dispatched from DS9 to the Badlands to find out where the Maquis
    ship went, especially since a Starfleet security operative, Vulcan Lt.
    Tuvok, was aboard.  Arriving in the Badlands, the Voyager is scanned by an
    unknown presence and then ripped out of the Alpha Quadrant by a subspace
    phenomenon that causes heavy damage and kills many of the crew.  Voyager
    ends up in an unexplored part of the galaxy where the first thing the crew
    sees is an enegry collection array.  While repairs are being made, Janeway
    and her crew are kidnapped from the ship via transporter and deposited in a
    virtual reality, the inhabitants of which conduct experiments on the Alpha
    Quadrant visitors and then return them - minus helmsman Ensign Kim.  Making
    contact with the Maquis crew commanded by Chakotay, Janeway discovers that
    the same tests were forced upon the renegades and that one of their number
    has also been abducted.  A tenuous truce is arranged so that both crews can
    recover their missing comrades.  Ensign Kim and Maquis engineer B'elanna
    Torres, in the meantime, have been beamed to the planet Ocampa, a barren
    wasteland of a world whose short-lived inhabitants live underground.  There
    they are attended to by the Ocampa, who have been instructed by the
    Caretaker to look after the two visitors since they have somehow become
    infected with a terminal illness.
       Voyager's crew track their missing comrades to Ocampa and encounter the
    scavenger Neelix, who offers to be the crew's guide through this part of
    space.  His knowledge of the local area is invaluable, such as the
    revelation that water is a rarity and is valuable currency here.  The crew
    is also introduced to the Kazons, who roam the surface of Ocampa foraging a
    meager existence.  They hand over a captive Ocampa named Kes in exchange for
    some water from Voyager.  Shortly after Kes leads the crew to Kim and
    Torres, the energy array shuts down after transmitting a final burst of
    power to Ocampa.  The Kazons make a gambit to claim the array for
    themselves, but Chakotay and Tom Paris, a dishonored former Maquis member
    aboard the Voyager, battle the scavengers off with their respective
    starships as Janeway and Tuvok beam to the array and find the elderly and
    dying Caretaker, whose race accidentally destroyed the Ocampan ecosphere and
    then built the subterranean habitat and the power array so the Ocampa could
    survive.  The Caretaker must be succeeded by another and has been trying to
    find a replacement for decades, but so far all of those tested for their
    suitability - such as Kim and Torres - have not proven adequate to the task.
    The Caretaker decides to set the array to self-destruct to avoid allowing
    the Ocampa to be enslaved by the Kazons.  In the fierce battle with the
    Kazons, Chakotay's Maquis ship is destroyed when he rams it into the lead
    Kazon ship, which then collides with the array, disabling the self-destruct
    sequence.  Janeway beams back to the Voyager and destroys the array herself,
    though it could have sent her and her crew back to the Alpha Quadrant.  The
    Kazons swear vengeance should they encounter Voyager again.  With the
    surviving members of the Maquis and Starfleet crews both safely aboard
    Voyager - and with Kes and Neelix in tow - the ship sets a course back home,
    E.T.A.: 75 years...
       This was easily the most troubled Star Trek series pilot since "The Cage"
    was rejected in 1965 by NBC.  Internal problems in mounting Paramount's new
    network made the show's future uncertain as to whether it would be a network
    production or syndicated.  Academy Award-winning French Canadian actress
    Genevieve Bujold then accepted the role of Janeway, only to resign from the
    show three days into filming due to the hectic pace of TV production and,
    according to some sources, a disagreement with director Winrich Kolbe.  At
    this point, forces within Viacom tried to exert pressure to make Janeway a
    male character, having resisted the suggestion of a female lead all along.
    Other voices in the executive ranks suggested - since the other shows
    comprising Paramount's new network were even further behind schedule than
    "Voyager" - that the ever more problematic gestation of the fifth network
    should be ended, lest the network take to the air and fail, taking dozens of
    new affiliate stations with it.  In the space of a week, Kate Mulgrew was
    cast for the role as production continued with the cast and crew trying to
    maneuver around the lack of a captain in the meantime.  The theme for the
    show's opening titles was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, who had scored the
    first and fifth Trek movies, the theme from which was also adapted to serve
    as the score for Star Trek: The Next Generation.  The show premiered on
    schedule on UPN.
  Season 1 Regular Cast:  Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran
    (Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (B'elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes),
    Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo
    (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim)
  Guest Cast:  Basil Langton (The Caretaker), Gavin O' Herlihy (Jabin), Scott
    Jaeck (Commander Cavit), Angela Paton (Aunt Adah), Armin Shimerman (Quark),
    Alicia Coppola (Lieutenant Stadi), Bruce French (Ocampa Doctor), Jennifer
    Parsons (Ocampa Nurse), David Selburg (Toscat), Jeff McCarthy (Human
    Doctor), Stan Ivar (Mark), Scott MacDonald (Rollins), Josh Clark (Carey),
    Richard Poe (Gul Evek), Keely Sims (Farmer's Daughter), Eric David Johnson
    (Daggin), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

02      PARALLAX                                                       23 Jan 95
        teleplay by Brannon Braga
        story by Jim Trombetta
        directed by Kim Friedman
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 48439.7:  B'elanna Torres faces the prospect of a court-martial after
    hitting Carey, the senior surviving member of Voyager's engineering crew,
    and Janeway balks when Chakotay nominates Torres for the position of chief
    engineer.  Before a choice can be made, Voyager encounters a quantum
    singularity that appears to have trapped a ship.  After an attempt to snag
    the distant derelict with the tractor beam, Voyager is forced to back off as
    the crew hatches alternate plans to retrieve the other ship.  At Chakotay's
    insistence, Janeway includes Torres in the process, and B'elanna manages to
    come up with a working theory that the other ship is Voyager, already
    trapped in the singularity.  If she can manage to free the ship from the
    phenomenon, B'elanna may prove herself adequate to the task of becoming
    Voyager's chief engineer.
  Guest Cast:  Martha Hackett (Seska), Josh Clark (Carey), Justin Williams
    (Jarvin)

03      TIME AND AGAIN                                                 30 Jan 95
        teleplay by David Kemper & Michael Piller
        story by David Kemper
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate not given:  Exploring a planet which has very recently been rendered
    uninhabitable by a global disaster, Janeway and Paris are separated from the
    rest of their away team and somehow find themselves in the same place, but
    hours before the cataclysm that consumed the planet's entire civilization.
    Their attempts to remain anonymous while trying to find a way back to their
    own present land them in the middle of a protest against a polaric energy
    plant, which may be the cause of the world's destruction.  At first, Janeway
    is adamant that the Prime Directive be adhered to, but when she discovers
    the possibility that her presence may have caused the disaster in the first
    place, the captain decides to set aside Starfleet's first rule.
  Guest Cast:  Nicolas Surovy (Makul), Jeff Polis (Nitot), Brady Bluhm (Atika),
    Ryan MacDonald (Shopkeeper), Steve Vaught (Officer), Jerry Spicer (Guard)

04      PHAGE                                                           6 Feb 95
        teleplay by Skye Dent and Brannon Braga
        story by Timothy de Haas
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 48532.4:  Searching for deposits of refinable dilithium, Voyager
    stops off at a moon, where Chakotay, Kim and Neelix beam to the surface.  It
    turns out that this moon is not uninhabited.  A group of aliens there seem
    to have left a dilithium trail, and one of them attacks Neelix.  When the
    others come to his aid, Neelix's lungs have been removed, and only some
    innovative but risky gambles taken by Voyager's holographic doctor can keep
    him barely alive.  The aliens flee the moon in their own ship, and Janeway
    orders a pursuit.  It turns out that the attackers are simply trying to
    survive themselves, their species all but wiped out by a deadly disease.
    Their only hope for survival is to take working organs from others - and
    they cannot return to lungs to Neelix, for they have already been used.
  Guest Cast:  Cully Frederickson (Deleth), Stephen B. Rappaport (Motura),
    Martha Hackett (Seska), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

05      THE CLOUD                                                      13 Feb 95
        teleplay by Tom Szollosi & Michael Piller
        story by Brannon Braga
        directed by David Livingston
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 48546.2:  Investigating a nebula whose energy currents could
    replenish the ship's engines and other systems, Voyager penetrates the gases
    of the nebula, which turns out to be a huge life form.  The ship's entry
    injures the creature, and Voyager barely makes it back into open space
    intact.  Though it will further deplete the ship's energy reserves, Janeway
    feels that the crew is obligated to return to the nebula-entity and repair
    the damage caused by Voyager's intrusion.
  Guest Cast:  Angela Dohrman (Ricky), Judy Geeson (Sandrine), Larry A. Hankin
    (Gaunt Gary), Luigi Amodeo (The Gigolo)

06      EYE OF THE NEEDLE                                              20 Feb 95
        teleplay by Bill Dial & Jeri Taylor
        story by Hilary J. Bader
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 48579.4:  Harry's sensor sweeps for space anomalies detect a wormhole
    which Janeway diverts Voyager off course to investigate.  Though a probe is
    able to determine that the wormhole leads homeward to the Alpha Quadrant,
    the wormhole is too small to travel through.  When the probe is scanned by a
    ship on the other side, the crew begin using it as a relay satellite and
    make contact with a Romulan ship.  Though the Romulan captain is skeptical
    of Janeway's claim that Voyager is in the Delta Quadrant, he eventually
    realizes the truth and offers to help transmit messages home.  Later,
    B'elanna discovers a possible way to beam through the wormhole to the
    Romulan ship, but this method of returning to the Alpha Quadrant is halted
    by an unforseeable problem.
  Guest Cast:  Vaughn Armstrong (Telek), Tom Virtue (Lt. Baxter)

07      EX POST FACTO
        teleplay by Evan Carlos Somers and Michael Piller
        story by Evan Carlos Somers
        directed by LeVar Burton
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate not given:  Kim returns alone in a shuttle from a trip to Benea which
    he made with Tom Paris.  After getting entangled with a scientist's wife,
    and by all accounts murdering the scientist in question, Paris has been
    sentenced to relive the crime from the victim's point of view every 14
    hours.  Janeway, despite Tom's admittedly less-than-exemplary record, needs
    to know for herself if Tom is guilty of the crime.  When it turns out that
    the Benean punishment is reacting badly to Tom's human physiology, he is
    taken back to Voyager.  Mysteries begin to pile up - why are the neighboring
    warlike Numiri attacking Voyager?  And who really committed to murder?  The
    answers can only come from one source - Tuvok must mind-meld with Paris to
    experience the forced reenactment of the incident himself.
  Guest Cast:  Robin McKee (Lidell), Francis Guinan (Minister Kray), Aaron
    Lustig (Professor Ren), Ray Reinhardt (Benean Doctor), Henry Brown (Numiri
    Captain)

08      EMANATIONS
        written by Brannon Braga
        directed by David Livingston
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 48623.5:  Investigating the possibility of a new element detected in
    the rocky bodies comprising a planet's ring system, an away team beams down
    to one of the asteroids and finds the ground littered with dead bodies
    encased in a residual shell.  As the away team conducts a visual survey - at
    Chakotay's request to avoid desecrating the ritually-disposed-of deceased -
    a subspace phenomenon occurs, prompting an emergency beam-out.  But when the
    away team transports back to Voyager, Kim doesn't return, his place taken by
    a newly-arrived body.  Harry finds himself among a race of ritualistic
    people who believe he has returned from their afterlife, and is constantly
    besieged with questions about "the next emanation."  An alien named Patera,
    in the meantime, is revived about Voyager.  She finds herself losing faith
    in the possibility of the next life, while Harry is the subject of intense
    curiosity and study by Patera's people.
  Guest Cast:  Jerry Hardin (Dr. Neria), Jefrey Alan Chandler (Hatia), Cecile
    Callan (Ptera), Martha Hackett (Seska), Robin Groves (Hatia's Wife)

09      PRIME FACTORS
        teleplay by Michael Perricone and Greg Elliot
        story by David R. George III and Eric Stilwell
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 48642.5:  Voyager is intercepted by a ship from Sakarris, an planet
    with an advanced culture renowned for its hospitality; Sakarran magistrate
    Gath offers an extended visit to his planet, which Janeway accepts.  During
    this visit, Harry finds out that the Sakarrans have developed transportation
    technology that could send Voyager at least halfway home, if not all the
    way.  But the Sakarrans have their own rule - much like Starfleet's Prime
    Directive - that will not permit them to share this technology with less
    advanced cultures.  However, a faction on Sakarris is willing to exchange a
    sample of their trajector with Voyager's crew in exchange for something only
    the outsiders can offer.  Janeway will not conduct an unofficial or illegal
    exchange, but she finds out that there are those among her crew who will.
  Guest Cast:  Ronald Guttman (Gath), Yvonne Suhor (Eudana), Andrew Hill Newman
    (Jaret), Martha Hackett (Seska), Josh Clark (Carey)

10      STATE OF FLUX
        teleplay by Chris Abbott
        story by Paul Robert Coyle
        directed by Robert Scheerer
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate not given:  A visit to the surface of a habitable planet becomes less
    than routine when a Kazon ship is detected nearby.  All away teams are
    recalled to Voyager, but Seska can't be found.  Chakotay finds her in a cave
    nearby, where the two of them are attacked by Kazons but escape.  The Kazon
    ship is sending a distress signal, and despite her own misgivings and
    Neelix's warnings, Janeway sends an away team to the ship.  It is discovered
    that the Kazons somehow acquired some Federation technology and suffered a
    fatal accident while trying to install it on their ship.  Other Kazon ships
    are on the way, and Janeway faces the possibility that someone aboard
    Voyager has decided to ally themselves with the enemy.
  Guest Cast:  Martha Hackett (Seska), Josh Clark (Carey), Anthony DeLongis
    (First Maje Kuloff)

11      HEROES AND DEMONS
        written by Naren Shankar
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 48693.2:  As Voyager passes near a protostar, Janeway and Torres try
    to beam some samples of its photonic material aboard.  When they try to
    enlist Harry's help in studying it, they find that he has disappeared from
    the ship.  Chakotay and Tuvok go to where Harry was last found - the
    holodeck - and try to learn what happened to their comrade by interacting
    with Harry's Beowulf holodeck program.  Even Chakotay and Tuvok vanish when
    Grendel comes to ravage the Hall Heorot.  Someone needs to venture into the
    holodeck to find where the missing crewmen are going, or if they're still
    alive.  Into Hrothgar's keep steps a new warrior, the only member of
    Voyager's crew immune to the threat of being snatched out of the holodeck.
    The affair of Grendel was made known to him on his native soil; space
    travelers said that this hall, best of holo-scenarios, stands empty and
    useless to all warriors after the evening light becomes hidden beneath the
    cover of the sky.  Therefore his people - or specifically Captain Janeway -
    advised that he should investigate because they know what his strength can
    accomplish...but can the holographic doctor grapple with something other
    than a medical emergency?
  Guest Cast:  Marjorie Monaghan (Freya), Christopher Neame (Unferth), Michael
    Keenan (Hrothgar)
  Note:  Passages from "Beowulf" paraphrased above are from the 1966 English
    translation by Prof. M.H. Abrams, based on F. Klaeber's third edition in
    1950; reprinted without permission.  It seemed to make some relevant sense
    at the time, and I thought it'd be vaguely amusing!

12      CATHEXIS
        teleplay by Brannon Braga
        story by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
        directed by Kim Friedman
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 48734.2:  Tuvok and Chakotay barely survive an alien attack within a
    dark matter nebula they were exploring.  Chakotay is returned to Voyager in
    a brain-dead state, but Tuvok recovers.  After numerous acts of sabotage
    prevent Janeway from taking Voyager into the nebula to investigate, it
    becomes evident that an alien consciousness is loose aboard the ship, moving
    from person to person in order to keep Voyager out of the nebula.  Another
    presence then makes itself known, this one hell-bent on taking the ship into
    danger.
  Guest Cast:  Brian Markinson (Durst), Michael Cumpsty (Lord Burleigh),
    Carolyn Seymour (Mrs. Templeton), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

13      FACES
        teleplay by Kenneth Biller
        story by Jonathan Glassner and Kenneth Biller
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by David Bell
  Stardate 48784.2:  An away team left to explore a planetoid has been captured
    by the phage-ravaged Vedeans, who are seeking alien genes resistant to the
    disease for incorportation into the Vedeans' own genetic structure.  In one
    experiment, Vedean surgeon Sulan splits B'elanna into two entirely separate
    beings, one Klingon, the other human.  B'elanna's human side is timid and
    weak compared to her powerful warrior half, who escapes from Sulan's lab.
    A gamble by Chakotay pays off in rescuing the surviving crew members from
    the Vedeans, but B'elanna - despite her desire to be free of her
    hot-tempered Klingon half - will die unless she is reintegrated.
  Guest Cast:  Brian Markinson (Sulan/Durst), Rob LaBelle (Talaxian Prisoner),
    Barton Tinapp (Guard #1)

14      JETREL
        teleplay by Jack Klein & Karen Klein and Kenneth Biller
        story by Scott Nimerfro & Jim Thomton
        directed by Kim Friedman
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 48840.5:  An alien ship contacts Voyager and asks for Neelix by
    name; when the party seeking Neelix turns out to be a Haakonian named
    Jetrel, Neelix reacts badly.  Jetrel was a scientist who developed the
    metreon cascade, an immensely powerful weapon that destroyed 300,000
    Talaxians - including Neelix's family - during a war with the Haakonians
    fifteen years ago.  Jetrel announces that Neelix could be suffering from a
    terminal condition resulting from minimal exposure to the metreon cascade,
    and offers to try to study him to find a cure.  But Neelix wants no part of
    easing Jetrel's conscience.
  Guest Cast:  James Sloyan (Jetrel), Larry Hankin (Gaunt Gary)

15      LEARNING CURVE
        written by Ronald Wilkerson & Jean Louise Matthias
        directed by David Livingston
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 48846.5:  After a Maquis officer named Dalby breaks with procedure
    and replaces a faulty bioneural circuit without reporting the malfunction,
    Janeway assigns Tuvok - himself a former instructor at Starfleet Academy -
    to bring Dalby and a handful of other problematic Maquis up to speed on
    Starfleet protocol.  This task proves more daunting than Tuvok could have
    imagined, since even the most worrisome Academy cadets at least wanted to be
    in Starfleet.  Despite an order from Chakotay to learn the Starfleet ropes,
    Dalby and his fellow trainees are determined not to learn a thing - until
    their lives depend on it.
       Though it is only the fifteenth episode, and four more episodes were
    completed by the summer of 1995, Paramount held those episodes off and
    arbitrarily decided that "Learning Curve" is the first season's finale.
    However, as those remaining four episodes were originally produced for the
    first season, they will be listed below as such.
  Guest Cast:  Armand Schultz (Dalby), Derek McGrath (Chell), Kenny Morrison
    (Geron), Catherine MacNeal (Henley), Thomas Dekker (Henry), Lindsey Haun
    (Beatrice), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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revision: 1O                                    updated & compiled:  30 Jul 1995

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