Summary[]
Ensign Lon Suder, having been confined to his quarters for life as punishment for his murder of Crewman Darwin, [N 3] has attempted to make amends for this by making several agricultural-advancements. Suder is happy that his work might benefit the crew as he can improve the garden which produces most of the rations for the crew. His homicidal tendencies seem to be well under control by the use of Vulcan mental disciplines learned from Tuvok.
Seska transmits a message, begging Chakotay to rescue her and her son, his alleged child, from the Kazon. Although Chakotay believes it is a trap, Janeway decides to assume that Seska and the child are in actual danger. Voyager saves the injured Kazon Tierna from his shuttle. He has apparently fallen out of favor with Maje Culluh. Tierna says that Seska is dead and that the child was taken to a colony. He shows them a passage through Kazon territory, during which the ship endures only half-hearted attacks that damage the secondary command processor.
Voyager then stands its grounds against large Kazon carrier vessels. However, when Tierna disrupts the power grid with a suicide bomb, the ship loses power. The self-destruct is disabled due to the damaged secondary command processor, and so Culluh and Seska can take over Voyager. The Kazon exile the Starfleet crew to a savage planet in the Hanon system.
Errors and Explanations[]
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Character error[]
- Janeway says to Torres "Work on the doctor with it" instead of "Work with the doctor on it" in the briefing scene when discussing the possibility of projecting holographic ships to fool the Kazon. Either an understandable slip of the tongue, or an instruction to examine the Doctor’s projection system as part of the plan.
Continuity[]
- The whole crew is displaced onto a planet and is shown to be made up of only about 30 individuals, though later in the episode the number appears to grow to closer to 60. Still this is far short of any of the official numbers for the crew, which vary around 140 to 160. Some members of the crew may be hidden out of shot.
- When the Voyager crew is stranded on the planet by the Kazon, one of their primary concerns is finding drinking water. Even as Janeway tells the crew to find said water, the mountains in the background are snow covered. They get so desperate for water that Chakotay makes a solar still out of the remains of a violently killed crewman. Water was available the whole time. Just saying. The mountains are likely too far away, and may not be climbable without specialised equipment.
Revealing mistakes[]
- When Voyager arrives at the origin of the Kazon distress call, Janeway orders Red Alert. She advises Tuvok to remain at Red alert as she goes to sickbay with Chakotay. Upon arriving in sickbay, the ship is no longer at Red Alert. She could have received information, while en route to sickbay, which rendered the Red Alert unnecessary.
Nit Central[]
- Chris Booton on Monday, November 02, 1998 - 10:56 am: Earlier in the series they state that voyager cannot survive an attack by 3 kazon fighters, and yet here if it would not have been for the zazon guy who blew up they would have beaten those four warships!?! Did they make an upgrade? They probably devised new strategies to deal with the Kazon.
- cableface on Friday, March 19, 1999 - 4:25 pm: When the ship flies directly overhead while taking off, shouldn't it cause a strong wind on the ground? At least enough to toss the crews hair around.Charles Cabe (Ccabe) on Saturday, March 20, 1999 - 12:58 pm: It should. The BOP from Star Trek IV does. Seniram 12:26, January 13, 2018 (UTC) Voyager is a more advanced vessel, and is probably equipped with technology to minimise or eliminate that particular problem.
Ex Astris Scientia[]
- The Kazon repair Voyager within a few hours and operate the ship without much trouble. Seska may have taught them a lot, still it comes across as much too easy. Or the damage wasn't as bad as initially reported.
Notes[]
- ↑ Uncredited cast members: Tarik Ergin as Lieutenant Ayala, Holiday Freeman as Transporter Chief, Susan Henley as Ensign Brooks, Kerry Hoyt as Crewman Fitzpatrick, Donald R. Jankiewicz Donald R. Jankiewicz, Pat Jankiewicz and Lorin McCraley as Hanon IV Natives, Susan Lewis, Spiro Razatos and Patricia Tallman as Operations Division Officers, Dennis Madalone and Jennifer Somers as Science Division Officers, Mark Major as Kazon-Nistrim, Louis Ortiz as Ensign Culhane, Shepard Ross as Ensign Murphy and John Alex Tampoya as Kashimuro Nozawa
- ↑ According to the startrek.com episode list, the provisional stardate for this episode is 50020.
- ↑ Detailed in the VOY episode Meld
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