Episode cast overview: | |||
Kate Mulgrew | ... | Capt. Kathryn Janeway | |
Robert Beltran | ... | Cmdr. Chakotay | |
Roxann Dawson | ... | Lt. B'Elanna Torres | |
Robert Duncan McNeill | ... | Lt. Tom Paris | |
Ethan Phillips | ... | Neelix | |
Robert Picardo | ... | The Doctor | |
Tim Russ | ... | Lt. Tuvok | |
Jeri Ryan | ... | Seven of Nine | |
Garrett Wang | ... | Ensign Harry Kim | |
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Tiny Ron | ... | Alpha-Hirogen Idrin |
Roger W. Morrissey | ... | Beta-Hirogen (as Roger Morrissey) |
Through the vast Hirogen communications net, Voyager crewmen receive unexpected but welcome letters from home. Among them, news for Maquis members proves devastating, for Janeway finalizing, and for Tuvok and Kim connective. By the way, Tuvok and Seven fall victim to the Hirogen, who live to hunt and collect grizzly trophies. Written by statmanjeff
Two plot elements. The first is the fact that letters are arriving from earth because of the work of the Doctor in the previous episode. It was remindful of the mail-call on the MASH series. We get a glimpse of many of the crew as their letters arrive. Janeway has big news which I won't give away. The other plot is a group of hunter-aliens who control the portal that the information from the letters is coming from. Tuvok and Seven are sent to negotiate or to keep the channel open. These are big bad guys and may be formidable in the future. As the series is at about the half-way point, there are some new factors at work.