The Disease

Episode aired Feb 24, 1999
TV-PG
46m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

1.9K

YOUR RATING

Garrett Wang in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Action Adventure Drama Sci-Fi Thriller

Voyager encounters a group of xenophobic nomads, in space for 400 years, with serious ship-wide malfunctions. The offer to help leads to serious consequences.Voyager encounters a group of xenophobic nomads, in space for 400 years, with serious ship-wide malfunctions. The offer to help leads to serious consequences.Voyager encounters a group of xenophobic nomads, in space for 400 years, with serious ship-wide malfunctions. The offer to help leads to serious consequences.

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

1.9K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The shape of the silicon-based ship-eating parasite is that of Lambda phage, a virus which infects E. coli bacteria.

Goofs
When in the shuttle Tal tell Harry that she wants to see a nebula that with her own eyes and mentions that the nebula is 300,000 miles away. Even one of the the smallest nebulae is over 1 trillion miles across so at 300,000 miles away would be easily visible with the naked eye from any window facing it.

Quotes
[Kim is having an unauthorized affair with Tal, an alien female]
Harry Kim: I'm violating about half a dozen regulations by just being in this room. And what we did earlier... I don't know if Starfleet even has a regulation for that.

Soundtracks
Star Trek: Voyager - Main Title
Written by Jerry Goldsmith
Performed by Jay Chattaway

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Featured review

5/10

Harry finally gets laid and Janeway burns him at the stake

Harry Kim, young single man, on board Voyager for five years without ever getting laid. He finally does and everyone treats him like a Christian convent that caught a ten year old masturbating.

Janeway is particularly incensed by the nerve of violating Starfleet protocols which apparently involve full medical evaluations and signing off in triplicate before having sex. You know, very romantic stuff that is easily inserted into a moment of passion.

This episode just angered me more than anything and I also lost respect for Janeway who had almost no empathy or even recognition that a guy in his 20s that's horny as F, halfway across the galaxy and stuck with the same 100 people for five years might need to get some action!

BTW didn't Janeway just kiss some DeVore alien passionately like three episodes ago? Where were the protocols on that one? Didn't Kirk and Riker basically sleep with every sexy female alien they ever encountered?

Lack of consistency/continuity and betrayal of characters and culture established to date got this episode a low rating from me.