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The Disease

Episode aired Feb 24, 1999
TV-PGTV-PG
46m

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6.6/10

1.6K

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Garrett Wang in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Action Adventure Sci-Fi

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.

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

1.6K

YOUR RATING

Director
- David Livingston
Writers
- Gene Roddenberry(based upon "Star Trek" created by)
- Rick Berman
- Michael Piller
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Kate Mulgrew, Charles Rocket, and Musetta Vander in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Musetta Vander in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Kate Mulgrew and Charles Rocket in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Musetta Vander and Garrett Wang in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Kate Mulgrew and Garrett Wang in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

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

Goofs
When Captain Janeway scolds Ensign Kim for his behavior (17:30-19:30), Janeway's hair has a blue glow surrounding it. She stands in front of the three windows in her ready room, revealing an obvious blue screen behind her causing the blue glow around her head.

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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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.

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