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                        The STAR TREK: VOYAGER LogBook                       
                        "Caretaker" - "Time and Again"                       
  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
  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 (Maquis), 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)

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revision: 1C                                   updated & compiled:  31 Jan. 1995

    All text in this file (c)1995 Earl Green - see the file READTHIS.TXT for
                  acknowledgements and distribution site info.

