Year of Hell: Part 1 (5 Nov. 1997)

Voyager comes across a Krenim timeship that is wiping whole species from existence by changing the existing timeline.

Director:

Allan Kroeker

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (creator), Rick Berman (creator),

Stars:

Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson

Cast

Episode credited 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:
David Keith Anderson	...	Ensign Ashmore
Rick Fitts	...	Zahl
Susan Henley	...	Ensign Brooks (as Sue Henley)
Deborah Levin	...	Ensign Lang
John Loprieno	...	Obrist
Peter Marx	...	Krenim Commandant (as Peter Slutsker)

Storyline

Voyager comes across a Krenim timeship that is wiping whole species from existence by changing the existing timeline.

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Plot Keywords:

reference to grace kelly | 24th century

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 November 1997 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Network Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This episode (together with "Year of Hell: Part 2") was inspired greatly by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea". The name of the character Annorax was derived from the main character of that story, Pierre Aronnax.

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Goofs

Tom Paris makes two incorrect statements when discussing the steamship Titanic with Captain Janeway & Chakotay. First, he tells them that the Titanic's transverse bulkheads were designed to "drop into place" should the ship sustain damage. Not true - these bulkheads were secured steel walls built directly into the ship and were not designed or capable of moving in any way. Second, he tells them that the Titanic's transverse bulkhead design would allow the Titanic to stay afloat even if "half the ship" was full of water. Not true - the Titanic was designed to stay afloat with any two of its 16 watertight compartments (separated by the aforementioned bulkheads)fully flooded, or even the first four forward compartments fully flooded (the Titanic sank because at least five of the forward compartments were opened to the sea). Obviously, "half the ship" represents much more area than five watertight compartments and so Tom Paris' statement is way off.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Obrist: Temporal incursion is complete. All organisms and man-made objects have been eradicated.

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Connections

References Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

User Reviews

The times they are a changin'

This episode opens aboard an alien ship, it isn't an ordinary ship though, it is a weapon that can change time; when fired at a planet it doesn't just kill the people there it erases them from history. The ship belongs to the Krenim a race that are at war with another race called the Zahl. Voyager enters the war zone but does not realise what is happening as each time change also changes their memories; they just think they are running from the Krenim and taking heavy damage. As the days pass life on board gets harder and harder, most decks are unusable and the survivors are just trying survive one day at a time. Their luck changes when one of the Krerim's temporal weapons fails to explode, this enables seven to gain enough information to modify the shields to block the weapons; it has another effect when the Kremin change history the crew of Voyager remember what things were before so realise that somebody is going about changing history. The problem is it might be too late to use this knowledge.

This was a great episode which is possibly the darkest episode of the series to date, by the time the words "to be continued" appear on the screen the ship is battered and most of the crew have been forced to abandon ship. As well as the regular cast Robocop's bad guy Kurtwood Smith appears the the captain of the Krenim's temporal weapon.