Tuesday, July 1, 2003

RETROACTIVELY MAKING STAR TREK: VOYAGER GOOD, Part XV
Dramatis Personae
If you died in "The Stars My Destination," you get a (deceased) after your name.
Lieutenant Commander Jorn Miraza, Executive Officer (deceased) - A Bolian male, Miraza was the first officer of the Ulysses; he was selected for the assignment by Captain McKenna, with whom he had previously served aboard the U.S.S. Serapis. He was killed when the Caretaker pulled the Ulysses into the Delta Quadrant.
Lieutenant Commander T'Sara, Chief Engineer (deceased) - A Vulcan female, T'Sara served as second officer before she was killed when the Caretaker pulled the Ulysses into the Delta Quadrant.
Doctor David Herrick, Chief Medical Officer (deceased) - A human male and the only doctor onboard, Dr. Herrick was killed when the Caretaker pulled the Ulysses into the Delta Quadrant.
Lieutenant (j.g.) Amara Stadi, Conn Officer (deceased) - A Betazoid female, Stadi caught the eyes of both Nick Locarno and Dan Kim before she was killed when the Caretaker pulled the Ulysses into the Delta Quadrant.
Lieutenant Joe Carey, Assistant Chief Engineer - A human male, Carey felt slighted when K'rena was made Chief Engineer despite the fact that he followed Lt. Cmdr. T'Sara in the pre-Delta Quadrant chain of command. He was killed by Cole after the failure of the mutiny ("The Mutiny, Part II").
Lieutenant (j.g.) Tari Prix, Astrophysics Dept. - A joined Trill female (previously referred to as Lenza Prix), Tari was romantically involved with Dan before her host body was mortally wounded, resulting in the "birth" of the robotic Seventh Prix ("The Joining").
Ensign Samantha Wildman, Communications Officer - A human female, Wildman was pregnant when the Caretaker pulled the Ulysses into the Delta Quadrant. She later gave birth to human/Ktarian hapa twins, Naomi and Noah, the first children born aboard the Ulysses (sometime near the end of the first season).
Ensign Shrev, Medical Officer - An Andorian female, Shrev was the only surviving nurse after the Caretaker pulled the Ulysses into the Delta Quadrant and was the first person to activate the Emergency Medical Hologram. She left the ship to take care of the dying Vidiian children, though she knew it meant she would never return to the Federation ("Children of the Phage").

Episode Guide
Season One
"The Laboratory" - Kes is captured, taken to a Vidiian laboratory, and experimented upon by Dereth, the physician who tortured her prior to her rescue in "The Stars My Destination." She is subjected to ghoulish experiments, as is Neelix once his rogue rescue attempt is easily thwarted. (from "Faces")

Season Two
"The Great Experiment" - Using a new type of dilithium crystals, K'rena attempts to duplicate the experiment for which the famous U.S.S. Excelsior was originally built: transwarp drive, travel infinitely faster than warp. However, when Nick flies a shuttle through the experimental transwarp barrier, there are some bizarre side effects. (K'rena will experiment with this engine again in season five's "Timeless.") ("Threshold")

"Deus Ex Machina" - The crew find themselves facing a series of perilous situations, each of which has an improbably convenient solution. Eventually they suspect someone is pulling the strings behind the scenes, but how did he capture the crew in the first place?

Season Three
"Elysian Fields" - Captain McKenna and Commander Torres die. The afterlife is not quite as they expected it to be: her father, also deceased, shows her how her crew is getting along just fine without her; his sister, whose death at the hands of the Cardassians drove him into the Maquis in the first place, blames him for not saving her. ("Coda")

"Time's Triumph" - Our heroes are in orbit of an M-class planet when a Krenim ship appears, damages the Ulysses with a chronoton torpedo, disappears into a temporal rift, and suddenly the planet below is a hostile world ruled by the Krenim. Isolated from the temporal changes by the radiation emitting from the torpedo (the same torpedo for which Kes was searching in "Before and After"), the crew must follow the Krenim back in time and save the planet before it is ever conquered. (from Star Trek: First Contact)

"Out of Time" - Benicio, K'rena, Dan, and Neelix are wearing their EVA suits and mining an asteroid when they are rocked by a temporal shockwave. Returning to the Ulysses, they find that they have been greatly accelerated, making everyone else seem as though they are standing still. Tracking down the source of the anomaly, the discover a Krenim research station in ruins, it's sole survivor ranting about his work's usefulness as a weapon against someone named Annorax, whom our heroes shall encounter in "The Year of Hell, Parts I and II." (What can I say? I love foreshadowing almost more than the foreshadowed events.)

Season Four
"The Infiltrator" - Princess Rafi enlists Captain McKenna to help her complete the mission she was on when her crew sacrificed themselves to save the Ulysses: rescue a Tehlyri soldier on a deep cover mission inside the Borg collective. So deep inside that the Tehlyri has been partially assimilated, just enough to deceive his fellow Borg while subconsciously gathering crucial intelligence. As Nick laments, "So, we're going near a Borg cube. On purpose. Great. Some days I just... love this job."

"The Emperor's Own" - Princess Rafi guides the Ulysses to the base of the Tehlyri 84th Regiment, the elite of the elite, known as the Emperor's Own. Some of her father's men, though, are more eager to take the fight to the enemy than their liege allows. Captain Mckenna and Princess Rafi must stop them before they can commit preemptive genocide.

Season Five
"The Martyrs" - In the wake of the defeat of the Tehlyri fleet above the Voth throneworld, some Tehlyri have decided extreme measures are needed to stop the Borg. The crew of the Ulysses must stop them from purposefully allowing innocent aliens to be assimilated as invasive sleeper agents, similar to what the crew of the Enterprise-D intended to do with Third of Five until he became Hugh. (from TNG's "I, Borg")

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