RETROACTIVELY MAKING STAR TREK:VOYAGER GOOD, Part XI
If you like Star Trek, you'll love Star Trek: Odyssey. If you don't like Star Trek, well, fuck you.

The Plot Thickens
In the seventh season write-up, there is an episode called "The Devil You Know." It features a group of extradimensional aliens who can go blow-for-blow with the Borg; this concept was borrowed from Voyager, the so-called Species 8472. I've determined that's all a load of hogwash. When we get to season seven, there will still be a "The Devil You Know," but it will showcase an all-new adversary for the Borg, much more akin to something from Babylon 5.

Episode Guide
Season Two
"Lifesigns" - (This episode takes place early in the season, before "Children of the Phage.") The Ulysses answers a distress call and beams over a Vidiian near death, though from physical trauma, not the phage. Placing her body in stasis, Doc transfers the woman's brain patterns into a hologram. While they work together to repair her body, the woman, Dr. Danara Pel, begins to have feelings for the Doctor. Kes and several others encourage him to explore both a relationship with Danara and his own "humanity." Doc, however, has no desire to be more human, nor human at all, and rejects Danara, insisting he isn't a lifeform of any kind. ("Lifesigns")

Season Three
"Marooned, Part II" - Korat cannot believe that Kazon Pasha left Captain McKenna and the crew alive, even though stranded. Finally having had enough, she assassinates Kazon and declares herself leader of all the pashates which had gathered to capture the Ulysses. She directs the ship back to the primative planet to finish the crew off. Meanwhile, Nick and Neelix have reached Haakonian space and been given a squadron of fighters to help retake the ship. Guided by Kes's powerful telepathy, they locate the crew; picking up the captain, K'rena, and Sovok, they set off to reclaim their ship. With Doc and Suder conducting a campaign of sabotage, the Falcon and Haakonians intercept the Ulysses, culminating in a dramatic duel between McKenna and Korat. ("Basics, Part II")

"To Boldly Go" - This is the 30th anniversary of Star Trek episode (1966-1996). Elisabeth and Sovok celebrate the anniversary of their families' friendship: two generations of Vulcans and four generations of humans. The episode takes place in 2267, aboard the U.S.S. Endeavour NCC-1895, highlighting the day that Captain Elisabeth Rose (McKenna, playing her own great-grandmother) and her Chief Engineer Commander Sonak (Sovok, playing his father) met her new science officer and future husband, Lt. Angus McKenna (Nick). The whole cast in original series costume, a salute and thanks to the original series. (from DS9's "Trials and Tribble-ations")

"False Profits" - In an episode of The Next Generation, "The Price," a pair of Ferengi were stranded in the Delta Quadrant. The Ulysses catches up on what they've been doing for the last seven years. ("False Profits")

"Devil's Island" - Nick and Dan are accused of being terrorists and sentenced to a hellish prison planet. Captain McKenna proves their innocence, but still the authorities refuse to release them; so, our heroes launch a daring jailbreak, taking on an entire world. ("The Chute")

"Before and After" - Kes experiences time in reverse from the moment of her death, years in the future. She sees her possible family to be and gains valuable insight into the time-twisting Krenim, this season's villains (wink). Alt history, time travel, big fun. ("Before and After")

"Sacred Ground" - When Nick is rendered comatose in an alien sanctuary, the only way to heal him is for Elisabeth to participate in a religious test of faith. She seeks advise, learning about the Talaxian pantheon, the Ocampa's worship of the Caretaker, Vulcan philosophy, and Benicio's Catholic grandmother. ("Sacred Ground")

"The Fugitive" - At a space station outside a dangerous nebula, the crew learn that Neelix is a wanted criminal. We see flashbacks of a deal gone sour with his old friend Wixiban, and the shady character Neelix used to be. Citing the good man he's become since joining the crew, Captain McKenna refuses to turn him over, even though it costs the ship needed supplies. ("Fair Trade")

"The Joining" - In a Krenim attack, Lt. (j.g.) Lenza Prix is mortally wounded. Heightening the tragedy, she is a joined Trill. Though Lenza is doomed, Doc believes he can save the Prix symbiont; however, there is no one onboard who could act as a suitable host. K'rena devises a solution: a Praelor robot; she and Doc work together to modify the design to sustain the biological functions of the symbiont. The resulting cyborg has a difficult time adjusting to its new life, but Prix eventually concludes that the artificial brain of the robot is sufficiently interesting to serve as a host and adopts a masculine personality and the name Seventh Prix.

"Warlord" - An alien tyrant transfers his consciousness into Kes's body and uses her in his coup d'etat. However, he underestimates the "little girl" and finds her more than he can handle. ("Warlord")

"Unnatural Disasters" - While investigating a series of seemingly natural disasters, the crew determine they're being caused by a hostile race, determined to drive the planet's miners away and claim the resources for themselves. Meanwhile, Neelix and Sovok are trapped in an orbital elevator with an unknown murderer and everyone aboard is a suspect. ("Rise")

"The Year of Hell, Parts I and II" - Having had several unpleasant run-ins with the imperialist Krenim Republic, the Ulysses encounters a ship unlike any other: the entire ship is a temporal weapon. Commanded by the mad genius Annorax, the Restoration has the ability to rewrite history; their temporal weapon retroactively removes its target from history, thus realigning every event that target had ever effected. Themselves isolated from the changing timelines, Annorax's crew are attempting to restore their embittered captain's long-dead wife, an irresponsible use of temporal technology that has alienated their fellow Krenim. The Ulysses is protected due to the chrono-torpedo that caused Kes's jumps in "Before and After," but suffers the consequences of a universe gone mad. After enduring months of shifting, savage timelines that leave the ship in shambles, Captain McKenna is able to lead the Krenim fleet to Annorax and destroy the Restoration. The ship's destruction leaves Annorax imprisoned in a timeless limbo, though Captain McKenna tells the Krenim he is dead. ("Year of Hell, Parts I and II")

"Shanghaied" - An innocent and confused alien suddenly appears on the Ulysses, while at the same instant Nick disappears. While the crew fruitlessly search for a cause, more crewman are exchanged for aliens. Too late, they realize the aliens are taking over the ship; they are pacifist pirates who seize ships by bloodlessly replacing the crews. While the aliens auction off the ship, the crew work to escape from their idyllic prison. ("Displaced")

"In the Land of the Blind" - On a supply mission, K'rena and Dan make an emergency landing on a planet surrounded by a dangerous energy field. They encounter a society composed of survivors from other shipwrecked vessels, lead by a Krenim engineer. A decade earlier, his scoutship had crashed and in the interim he has used his engineering skills to rule over the others. Being the only one capable of fixing their communications arrays and signalling for help, he has declined to do so, preferring the power of his new position. Remember the old saw: in the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king. K'rena and Dan, though, have no intention of remaining in his junkyard kingdom.

"A Single Seed" - K'rena and Dan propose a bold plan: intersplicing parts salvaged from the Restoration with the Sikarian trajector (as seen in "The Long Road Home"), they believe they can construct an artificial wormhole generator. A guardedly optimistic Captain McKenna approves and soon the Ulysses is outfitted with a prototype wormhole generator and Annorax's temporal sensors, which allow them to scan the timeline and literally watch the many tangled threads of history. They generating a wormhole and send through a probe, which, though battered by the journey, returns images of Earth. Still unsure of in which year the wormhole's terminus is located, Elisabeth sends Benicio and Dan through to ascertain the date. Their shuttle is damaged by the passage and crashes on Earth. As soon as it crashes, the temporal sensors show massive change to the timeline; Benicio and Dan crashed during the Eugenics Wars, giving both victory and dominion over the earth to Khan Noonian Singh.

"Reign of Khan, Part I" - Khan won the Eugenics Wars. Zefram Cochrane never made first contact with the Vulcans. There is no Federation. The Empire of Khan, ruled by a succession of clones of the great man, reaches across the stars with an iron grip. The Ulysses cannot allow that to happen. The ship travels through the wormhole, emerging in 1996 mere hours behind Benicio and Dan. After a lopsided firefight with several antiquated spaceships, ironically of the human coalition, Captain McKenna and the senior staff beam down while Neelix hides the ship behind the dark side of the Moon. On the planet, they try to locate Benicio, Dan, and the timeline-polluting shuttlecraft. The last image of the season is our heroes, held at gunpoint by a genetic superman, Agrippa Ramirez.