RETROACTIVELY MAKING STAR TREK: VOYAGER GOOD, Part XIII
Episode Guide
Season Four
"Revulsion" - K'rena and Doc investigate a ship found adrift in space. Doc begs to go when it is found the ship has a holographic matrix throughout its decks. They encounter a hologram who greets Doc as a brother, a fellow "photonic slave." Further investigation reveals that the ship was damaged when the hologram, fed up over not being treated as an equal, murdered his crew. ("Revulsion")

Season Five
"Kingdom of Shadows, Part II" - The Tehlyri-lead fleet, joined by the massive city-ships of the Voth defenders, manage to destroy the Borg cube orbiting the Voth throneworld, but at the cost of high casualites. Before our heroes can celebrate, however, a larger Borg force is detected emerging from the transwarp conduit network; in destroying the first cube, the Tehlyri have not defended the Voth throneworld, simply bought more time to evacuate it. While as many Voth as possible are evacuated, the Tehlyri fleet goes against two hundred years of tactical doctrine and directly engages a squadron of Borg cubes, with sadly predictable results. The Ulysses, with Princess Rissa aboard, stays as long as possible, but eventually Captain McKenna orders the retreat back to the hidden Tehlyri base. The Tehlyri fighting force has been decimated, but the emperor takes solace in having saved literally billions of Voth. Sympathetic though she is to the Tehlyri cause, Captain McKenna declines Emperor Vorei's invitation to stay and join the resistance; she is still determined to get her crew home to the Alpha Quadrant, which has its own problems with the Borg. Still, she agrees to transport a group of about fifty deassimilated Borg back to their respective homeworlds, along with a contingent of Tehlyri soldiers.

"In the Mood" - Nick and Kes find out that they are going to have a baby while at the same time Sovok experiences pon farr. Eliabeth and Benicio explore what it means to be together now that Rissa is gone and after K'rena "helps" Sovok, she finds she can no longer deny the way she feels about Dan. I told you, on Odyssey everybody gets laid.

"Lotus" - Though just recently resupplied, the ship stops at a planet whose herbs may be medically useful to the Doctor. However, when it comes time to leave they find that some members of the away teams are quite content to stay. (The Odyssey and from "Bliss")

"The Big Day" - After the one-month Ocampa pregnancy, Kes and Nick's baby is here! Nick is simultaneously freaked out about being a dad and still bitter toward his own father, while Neelix and Kes renew their friendship, thinking about how things might have been if they'd stayed together. Plus, Doc isn't exactly sure exactly how fast the baby, a human-Ocampa hapa, will grow. By the way, it's a girl, Elisabeth Alixia Locarno.

"Revisionist History" - Two hundred years after a visit from the Ulysses, the inhabitants of a racially divided planet have two differing, highly-politicized views of the ship's legacy. A back-up copy of Doc is caught in the middle when he tries to clear the ship's good name. ("Living Witness")

"Death's Head" - Cole launches a deadly biological attack against the Ulysses; not really surprising since the Revenge is, after all, a Vidiian ship. Doc and Kes race to find a cure while an ailing Benicio assumes command and tries to elude Cole's pursuit.

"Assimilation" - The ship approaches the planet Arturis, where they will drop off the last half of their deassimilated Borg, originally Arturians. Some of them are glad to be going home, while a group of others are having a harder time acting as individuals and try their best to act collectively. Through their eyes, we see the multitudinous nightmares that come from being part of the Collective. Two deassimilated Borg remain aboard, Icheb, a natural born Borg, and his adoptive mother, Annika Hansen, a human Starfleet officer assimilated in the initial Borg probe of 2364, referred to in The Next Generation's "The Neutral Zone." (from various episodes exploring Seven(th) of Nine's life as a Borg)

"Thirty Days" - Nick disobeys orders and is confined to the brig for thrity days, during which time he dictates a letter to his father, explaining why he did what he did and how he thinks that proves he's not the same man he used to be. Without even actually saying a word to him, Nick grows much closer to his dad. ("Thirty Days")

"Timeless" - The test flight of an experimental engine goes horribly awry, but Benicio and Dan make it back to the Alpha Quadrant. From fifteen years in the future, the two set out to right a wrong: the death of everyone else aboard the Ulysses, even at the cost of possibly never getting home. ("Timeless")

"Suicide Kings" - For no discernible reason, the Ulysses is attacked by a series of increasingly powerful automated drones. The crew capture one the drones intact and K'rena reverse engineers the means to track its point of origin. Captain McKenna sets a course, fully prepared to kick ass. She confronts the drones' masters, the Xelites, a race of energy beings obsessed with gambling; the attacks on the Ulysses had been just another game of chance. (This is the first appearance of the Xelites.)

"Snake Eyes" - Rather than face the wrath of the ship's phaser banks, the Xelites have agreed to repair all the damage their drones did to the Ulysses. Meanwhile, the crew enjoy the Xelite homeworld: the entire planet is a casino, with every kind of gambling in the known universe. Ahead a fortune in a high-stakes card game, Neelix pushes his luck and loses big. His opponent, a Xelite mob boss, takes the one thing in the universe that is most precious to him: his ship, retroactively renamed the Talax Hawk.

"The Heist" - The game in which Neelix lost the Hawk was fixed, and Elisabeth is not about to let one of her crew get cheated. The crew put their Starfleet technical expertise and Maquis cunning to work to pull off the score and make a quick getaway. There's nothing quite like a good heist movie.

"Prey" - A hunting party of Hirogen assault the ship and kidnap Kes, taking her to a remote planet. They believe her unique telepathic and telekinetic powers would make her very exciting prey. By the time the Ulysses catches up, Kes has proven more "exciting" than their weapons and traps could handle.

"Mimic" - The Ulysses lands on a dangerous planet with an atmosphere of acid and terrain just as pleasant. When Dan falls down a chasm and climbs back out no longer needing his EVA suit, it occurs to the crew that the quicksilver pools all around them may not be all they appear. The only way the quicksilver beings can communicate is by duplicating a crewmember. After a healthy cultural exchange, the crew leave their quicksilver doubles behind. ("Demon")

"The Pirate King" - The whole episode is narrated from the Revenge, as Cole regales his first mate, Grak Xor, with the tale of how he passed the time between being put off the ship in "The Mutiny" and finally catching up with the Ulysses in "Black Flag." He killed and stole his way across Vidiian, Sankur, and Krenim space, all in the name of bloody vengeance. Only after he kills Captain McKenna is Cole interested in getting back to the Alpha Quadrant.

"Hadrian's Wall" - The Ulysses gives an alien pilgrim passage to a seemingly dead world. Soon after beaming him down, the ship is intercepted by Protocol Axis and his ship, the Fulcrum. The alien pilgrim was the Ascendant terrorist Zero-One, who has devised a method to store his program in the humanoid brain. The planet was sealed off nine hundred years ago by the Voth in order to imprison its inhabitants; before the crew and Axis can stop him, Zero-One penetrates the defenses and unseals a cave full of molten lava. The lava comes to life, revealing itself to be the Phos, a powerful race of beings made of molten rock and living fire. (This is the first appearance of the Phos.) Aw, crap. (from "Dragon's Teeth")

"Field Trip" - Liz, Kes and Nick's daughter, is by this point a teenager, though now that she's endured puberty Doc thinks her growth will slow down, though still be skewed towards Ocampa rather than human rates of development. Sovok leads her and the Wildman twins, Naomi and Noah, born back in the first season, on an educational field trip to a nearby arborial planet. Adventure ensues.

"The Armada, Part I" - A Borg transwarp conduit opens up near the ship, but to the crew's relief it is not a cube, but a Tehlyri ship carrying Princess Rissa. In the year since "Kingdom of Shadows," the Borg have been relentlessly hunting down the Tehlyri and are now approaching their homeworld. For the first time, the Ulysses turns around, aiming away from the Alpha Quadrant. Though the Tehlyri normally avoid the transwarp conduits for fear of detection, these are desperate times, and Captain McKenna uses them to gather every ally she can: Vidiians, tempted by Borg technology as a potential weapon against the phage; Krenim, tempted by Borg temporal expertise; Hirogen, looking for the ultimate prey; the Ascendant, who just want to do the right thing, pledging Axis's Fulcrum and a score of identical behemoths to the cause. McKenna's armada emerges from the transwarp network to see the Tehlyri homeworld surrounded by twenty-six cubes under the direction of Vorei's former general Marzian Guinan, now assimilated as Auranus of Borg.