"Star Trek: Voyager" Homestead (2001)

Director:

LeVar Burton

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"Star Trek: Voyager" (1995)

Original Air Date:

9 May 2001 (Season 7, Episode 23)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Voyager finds a colony of Talaxians far from their home planet. When Neelix begins to bond with them he makes a major decision. |

Plot Keywords:

Space | Captain | Doctor | Hologram | 24th Century

Cast

Kate Mulgrew	...	Captain Kathryn Janeway
Robert Beltran	...	Chakotay
Roxann Dawson	...	B'Elanna Torres
Robert Duncan McNeill	...	Tom Paris
Ethan Phillips	...	Neelix
Robert Picardo	...	The Doctor
Tim Russ	...	Tuvok
Jeri Ryan	...	Seven of Nine
Garrett Wang	...	Harry Kim
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Majel Barrett	...	Voyager Computer (voice)
Julianne Christie	...	Dexa
Christian R. Conrad	...	Miner
Rob LaBelle	...	Talaxian Council Regent Oxilon
Ian Meltzer	...	Brax
Scarlett Pomers	...	Naomi Wildman
John K. Shull	...	Commander Nocona (as John Kenton Shull)

Company:

Paramount Television

Trivia:

At the beginning of the episode, the Voyager crew throw a party in the Mess Hall celebrating the 315th anniversary of Zefram Cochrane breaking the Warp Speed barrier, and Earth's first contact with Vulcans. Star Trek: First Contact (1996) established that the Warp Flight and First Contact both took place in 2063, which means this episode takes place in the year 2378.

Quotes:

[first lines]
B'Elanna Torres: [helping herself to a handful of cheese pierogi] Now, these are delicious!
Harry Kim: Uh, leave some for the rest of us.
B'Elanna Torres: Hey, I'm eating for two.

A necessary episode

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Voyager could not return to the Alpha Quadrant with a native Delta Quadrant resident on board. The whole point of the series is that Voyager's crew is trying to get home to their own people. Once it was determined that Voyager was not going to be renewed for another season, the producers decided to wrap up the loose ends: Tom and Ba'llana's baby, the Doctor's status, Seven's humanity, Harry's insistence to get home, and Neelix's future. This was a chance for the crew and for the audience to say good-bye to Neelix within the plot of an episode that would leave him with his people, yet still accessible to Voyager (as a permanent ambassador to the D quad). The final goodbye scene where Neelix leaves the turbolift and walks through the corridors lined with the Voyager crew is one of the most poignant in the series.