"Star Trek: Voyager" Author, Author (2001)

Director:

David Livingston

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (creator: Star Trek)
Rick Berman (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Star Trek: Voyager" (1995)

Original Air Date:

18 April 2001 (Season 7, Episode 20)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

During their now regular communications with Earth and Starfleet the Doctor sends to Earth a holo-novel...

Plot Keywords:

Space | Captain | Doctor | Hologram | 24th Century

Cast

Kate Mulgrew	...	Captain Kathryn Janeway / Captain Jenkins
Robert Beltran	...	Chakotay / Commander Katanay
Roxann Dawson	...	B'Elanna Torres / Lt. Torrey
Robert Duncan McNeill	...	Tom Paris / Lt. Marseilles
Ethan Phillips	...	Neelix
Robert Picardo	...	The Doctor / EMH Mark I
Tim Russ	...	Tuvok / Tulak
Jeri Ryan	...	Seven of Nine / Three of Eight / Two of Three
Garrett Wang	...	Harry Kim / Ensign Kymble
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Majel Barrett	...	Voyager Computer (voice)
Brock Burnett	...	Male N.D.
Joseph Campanella	...	Federation Arbitrator
Juan García	...	John Torres
Barry Gordon	...	Arden Broht
Jennifer Hammon	...	Female N.D.
Richard Herd	...	Admiral Owen Paris
Robert Ito	...	John Kim
Dwight Schultz	...	Lt. Reginald 'Reg' Barclay III
Irene Tsu	...	Mary Kim
Lorinne Vozoff	...	Irene Hansen
Heather Young	...	Female Sickbay crewmember

Company:

Paramount Television

Trivia:

The Doctor uses a Klingon aphrodisiac on Two of Three in Tom Paris's altered holonovel, a reference to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan where Admiral Kirk wondered if Dr. McCoy's second present to him on his birthday was a Klingon aphrodisiac.

Goofs:

Continuity: Seven of Nine's aunt claimed she had visited the aunt's home at age 6 - however - during the 5th season episode "Dark Frontier: Part 2" - the EMH claimed that Seven of Nine was 4 years old when her parents departed on their Borg research mission.

Quotes:

[first lines]
The Doctor: In the beginning, there is darkness, the emptiness of a matrix waiting for the light. Then, a single photon flares into existence, then another. Soon, thousands more. Optronic pathways connect, subroutines emerge from the chaos, and a holographic consciousness is born. I awaken into this world fully programed, yet completely innocent, unaware of the hardships I'll endure, or the great potential I will one day fulfill. - Computer, save revisions and open Chapter One.

the worst of the worst

First off, I don't like giving bad reviews. This one however, merits an exception. All it is is a bad rendition of other episodes. It made an attempt at Living Witness (which is quite possibly the BEST voyager ep there is by the way) failed all Mirror Mirror aspects, (the alternate versions eps). And the last half of the ep was, to me, an insult to the greatness of TNG's "The Measure of a Man". I won't go into that for fear of spoiling. You'll just have to see for yourself. (shudder).

The problem in the ep, from the characters Point of view is "how could the doctor write anything so demeaning to us?". MY question is how could the actors agree to anything this demeaning to them! Adding this to the other eps around it gives us only one more question. And that is, quite simply, what were these people thinking?! 1 of 5 stars. And that's only because I can't put zero.