Voyager investigates possible resources inside a nebula, but it turns out that the cloud is not really a nebula.
Summary
When Janeway is informed that the sensors have detected a nebula emitting a high level of omicron particles, she decides to collect them and do a bit of exploring. Immediately upon entering the nebula, Voyager gets into trouble and breaks through a barrier with hopes of escape. But they find that they are in a vastly different area. After breaking back out of the area, the crew realizes that they were actually inside of a lifeform and that their actions have wounded it. Risking their own safety, the crew re-enters the lifeform in order to repair the damage.
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Log Entries
- (log entry made by Captain Kathryn Janeway)
- Personal log, stardate 48546.2. Our journey home is several weeks old now, and I have begun to notice in my crew, and in myself, a subtle change as the reality of our situation settles in. Here in the Delta Quadrant, we are virtually the entire family of man. We are more than a crew, and I must find a way to be more than a captain to these people . . . but it’s not clear to me exactly how to begin. At the Academy, we’re taught that a captain is expected to maintain a certain distance. Until now, I have always been comfortable with that distance. Maybe this is just the way it works. Maybe the distance is necessary. Maybe more than ever now, they need me to be larger than life. I only wish I felt larger than life. Computer, delete last sentence.
- Captain’s log, supplemental. We set out to augment our energy reserves and wound up depleting them by over 20 percent. As a result, we’ve set a new course for a planet 14 light years away that Neelix says might have compatible energy sources to offer us. It is out of our way, but circumstances offer few alternatives. So much for raising spirits. A-koo-chee-moya. We are far from the sacred places of our grandfathers, and from the bones of our people, but perhaps there is one powerful being who will embrace this good crew and give them the answer they seek.
Memorable Quotes
"There's coffee in that nebula!"
- - Captain Janeway
"Dismissed. [...] That's a Starfleet expression for 'get out'."
- - Captain Janeway to Neelix
Background Information
- This episode takes place "several weeks" after the events in Caretaker.
- This episode notes that Voyager only has 38 photon torpedoes with the inability to replace them. However, by the end of the series, Voyager will have been seen or mentioned to have fired nearly 100. (From Ex Astris Scientia)
- In this episode we get the first indication that food and drink on the holodeck (or at least wine) is holographic and not replicated.
- This episode features a large cloud-like creature that bears a striking resemblance to the planet-eating cloud from TAS: "One of Our Planets is Missing".
- A "fin" is a Fiver Dollar Bill
Links and References
Guest Stars
- Angela Dohrmann as Ricky
- Judy Geeson as Sandrine
- Larry A. Hankin as Gaunt Gary
- Luigi Amodeo as The Gigolo
Co-Stars
- Tarik Ergin as Ayala (uncredited)
References
Ailis paté, akoonah, animal guide, Ayala, bantan, billiards, Chez Sandríne, coffee, counselor, Daliwakan, Even better than coffee substitute, Felada onion crisp, helium, hydrogen, hydroxyl radical, inertial dampening field, Jupiter Station, Marseille, microprobe, multi-polar charge, nuanka, nucleogenic cloud being, nucleonic radiation, omicron particle, omicron radiation, photon torpedo, pokattah, pool, reaction control thruster, Replicator ration, Ricky, Saint Emilion, stuffed Cardaway leaf, suture, Takar loggerhead egg, tea, thoron, Toarian ice storm, veterinarian
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