From Eon Online.

(Added September 8, 1999) TREK I OF THE STORM
By CHRISTOPHER ALLAN SMITH
It’s going to be a remarkable episode that has to do with Belana finding herself on the Barge of the Dead taking her and her mother to Klingon Hell. That is one hell of an episode. We finished cutting it about a week ago and it’s just remarkable. It’s a journey of self-discovery of Belana but it’s very spooky and has great production values and a lot of Klingons.

Cinescape Online

(Added July 14, 1999) Insider News and Rumors--Voyager Season Preview--Braga's preview of this episode: "Barge of the Dead": "We're going to Klingon hell in the third episode. Torres will have a spiritual experience in which she ends up on something called 'the Barge of the Dead,' which is filled with dishonored Klingons on a river Styx on their way to Klingon hell. That's going to be a very ambitious, sort of bizarre episode."

From Star Trek News.

(Added August 24, 1999) "Guest Starring Eric Pierpoint (Alien Nation) as the Klingon barge operator. Apparently, this episode is very weak and may be delayed in order to conduct re-shoots of this episode. Thanks to Jules and the Coffee Nebula."

(Added July 4, 1999) "Features B'Elanna's mother, Miral."

(Added June 19, 1999) "B'Elanna goes on an ancient ritual which allows her to look inside the Klingon spiritual world, only to find herself winding up in the Klingon version of Hell."

"Moore's first draft of this episode was apparently ripped apart by certain members on Voyager's writing staff."

(Added June 10, 1999) "Day of Honor, The Sequel Written by Ronald D. Moore & Bryan Fuller.

An episode dealing with B'Elanna and this year's Day of Honor. In case there was any doubt, it isn't really named "Day of Honor, The Sequel".

"This is the first episode [?] written by Ronald D. Moore since his addition to the Voyager staff. Moore was an Executive Producer at Deep Space Nine. There's some speculation that B'Elanna may be in for a rebirth this season, and this episode will apparently emphasize a turn to B'Elanna's Klingon side."

From WebTrek.

(September 8, 1999) B'Elanna dies in a shuttle mishap, and finds herself on the Barge of the Dead on her way to Gre'thor as a dishonored Klingon. She also finds her mother there suffering the same fate. Because B'Elanna blew off everything Klingon, her mother is also condemned to Gre'thor instead of Stova'kor. B'Elanna is eventually revived, but elects to have the doctor put her back into a near death state so she can rescue her mother from damnation. Whether or not her mother is really dead and if this is all a dream or real is never revealed. [ Thanks to '415Man' ]

(August 24, 1999) Barge of The Dead has apparently not been well received and is being pushed back. It's currently being recut and undergoing some reshoots.

(Added July 4, 1999) "Barge of the Dead centers around a Klingon myth about a barge who ferries the dead to their final destination, be it Stova'kor or Gre'thor (the Klingon hell). This story also features B'Elanna's mother, Miral."

Star Trek Continuum

(Added October 8, 1999) When we asked Robert Picardo ("The Doctor" Star Trek: Voyager) about the upcoming episode "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy" he was very enthusiastic, calling it the most successful Star Trek: Voyager comedy to date. "I'm completely delighted with how it turned out. To my knowledge it's the only Star Trek: Voyager episode directed by an Academy Award winner!" Episode director John Bruno won an Oscar award for his work as Visual Effects Supervisor on "The Abyss" in 1989. He has also been nominated seven times since 1985 in the same category.

Picardo also joked that for those missing the episode (airing just prior to his upcoming chat) he would be forced to "graciously but firmly decline to answer their questions." He also added, "They will miss me sketching Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) in the nude." How's that for incentive?

From Eon Online.

(Added September 8, 1999) TREK I OF THE STORM
By CHRISTOPHER ALLAN SMITH
We also have a wonderful Walter Mitty type episode called "Tinker Tenor, Doctor Spy" which is a story about some aliens that decide to tap into our Doctor to spy on us, but what they’re not aware of is that what they’re spying on is not the reality of the Doctor but in fact his new day dreaming program. And the results are potentially catastrophic but extremely funny. It’s a real tour de force on the part of [Robert] Picardo.

Cinescape Online

(Added July 15, 1999) Insider News and Rumors--Voyager Season Preview--Braga's preview of this episode: "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy": "We're doing [an homage to James Thurber's] 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' with the doctor. [The episode] deals with the doctor's fantasy life, which should be a lot of fun."

From Star Trek News.

(Added August 24, 1999) The sub-plot revolves around aliens, preparing to invade Voyager who use their access to the Doctor's program to spy on the ship. Through the Doctor's fantasies, they are mislead into believing that his fantasies are an accurate reflection of what life on Voyager is like.

(Added July 4, 1999) Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy
Written by Michael Taylor.
Neelix's Walter Mittyesque fantasies of being other people in other professions becomes dangerous when aliens become involved.

(Added June 10, 1999) "Written by Joe Menosky."
"A Doctor episode."

From WebTrek.

(September 8, 1999) One of the Doctor's daydreams features him painting a nude picture of Seven (viewed from the back with various objects placed in stategic places). [ Thanks to '415Man' ]

(August 24, 1999) One of the Doc's fantasies involves the women on the crew fighting over him. The aliens who are spying on Voyager (in order to try to attack them) tap into the doctors daydreams, thinking that it is a representation of what is really happening on Voyager.
Written by Jeri Taylor and Lisa Vallely.

(Added July 4, 1999) Formerly titled "The Secret Life of Neelix." Neelix's daydreams take on a life of their own when aliens become involved. Written by Michael Taylor.

Click here for picture. Abaddon: John Fleck from Sci-Fi Entertainment Magazine

From Eon Online.

(October 24, 1999) BRAGA: It is true about Troi and Barclay [appearing]. It’s a very good episode, a very off-concept episode. It takes place almost entirely from the point of view of Earth and something called the Pathfinder Project. That is a Starfleet division that was set up to find Voyager. Not necessarily to bring them home, but to locate and possibly communicate with Voyager. Getting home at this point would be too much of a challenge. Barclay works on Pathfinder, in the holographic simulation department… naturally [laughs]. He becomes a little obsessed with Voyager, and is back to his old tricks. Troi comes in to lend a hand.

I will say, and I don’t want to give too much away, but there is a major achievement that occurs in that episode in terms of Voyager’s communication with the Alpha Quadrant that undoubtedly changes the series a little bit. Whether that will result in them getting home sooner rather than later, I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know. I’m kind of playing it by ear. You have to see how these episodes turn out. However, having said that, it’s likely we will not be able to ignore the events that happen in that episode. They’re just too significant. We’ll see what happens.

We just thought it would be a really cool idea. But we never thought, “This is how we’ll get them home.” That was never the impetus.

We want to keep it consistent and the continuity going. Fortunately, the ideas we come up with are ideas that stand alone. But actually, with this Barclay/Earth episode, an interesting issue arose. DEEP SPACE NINE had established that Starfleet Academy had been destroyed. I had forgotten about that. The question came up, are we going to address this? Is Starfleet in a state of being rebuilt?

What we decided was that was going to be confusing [for those who hadn’t seen that DS9 episode]. We decided that some time had passed, and maybe they didn’t destroy all of Starfleet. We decided to ignore it. Now there will be some people that will get very upset and will ask why could we not show a partially destroyed building in our exterior shots?

Yahoo.

(September 18, 1999) Wednesday September 15, 3:17 pm Eastern Time-- "Marina Sirtis Set to Guest Star on an Upcoming Episode Of Paramount's 'Star Trek: Voyager' Dwight Schultz also Guest Stars"--Sirtis and Schultz will reprise their roles as Counselor Troi and Lieutenant Barclay, respectively, in the episode entitled ``Pathfinder,'' which begins filming this week. The episode is tentatively scheduled to air on Wednesday, December 1 at 9:00 PM on UPN.

``Pathfinder,'' which takes place on Earth, revolves around Barclay's obsession with contacting Voyager. During his project to contact Voyager, Barclay becomes consumed with his holographic recreations of the Voyager crew. Barclay seeks advice from his old friend from the Starship Enterprise, Counselor Troi who helps him deal with his growing problem.

From Web Trek.

From TV Guide Online.

(January 2, 2000) As a neutronic storm strikes Voyager, members of the crew visit a holodeck program that re-creates a placid Irish village, where sparks fly between Janeway and a local publican.

Guests:
Michael: Fintan McKeown.
Seamus: Richard Riehle.
Maggie: Henriette Ivanans.

From TV Quest Online.

(January 2, 2000) A radioactive storm threatens the Voyager while the crew enjoys leisure time in a holographic setting.

Director:
Allan Kroeker.
Guest:
Fintan McKeown,
Richard Riehle,
Henriette Ivanans,
Duffie McIntire
Jan Claire.

From Star Trek News.

Directed by Allan Kroeker.
When Tom Paris creates a new holo program dealing with a rural 19th century Irish town. According to the casting sheets, there are three guest characters:
--Jared Declan is the barkeep of the town's tavern, somewhere between his mid 40s to the early 50s. When Janeway decides to visit the holodeck program, she meets Jared and finds something quite appealing about him. The role of Jared Declan is called a 'special guest role' (which could mean he will be Janeway's new permanent romantic interest).
--Shammus McGinty is a quirky older Irish man, somewhere in his 50s or 60s. He is a fun character in the Irish town.
--A 'Young Irish Lass', pretty, easygoing, and in her early 20s

From Web Trek.

(October 31, 1999) Formerly titled "Safe Harbour." Deals (in part) with a new program Tom Paris has created in the holodeck, set in a quaint rural town, called Fair Haven, in the Ireland of the late 19th Century. According to the casting sheet, all guest roles in this episode appear in this holodeck program, and therefore require 'authentic Irish accents'. The three guest roles are
• Jared Declan is the barkeep of the town's tavern, aged somewhere between the mids 40 to the earlys 50s. When Janeway decides to visit the holodeck program, she meets Jared and finds something quite appealing about him. The role of Jared Declan is called a 'special guest role' (could be Janeway's new permanent romantic interest).
• Seamus McGinty is a quirky older Irish man, somewhere in his 50s or 60s. He is a fun character in the Irish town.
• A 'Young Irish Lass', pretty, easygoing, and in her early 20s. [ Thanks to Trektoday ]
The episode will also deal with Tom's lifelong obsession with the sea.
Directed by Allan Kroeker.

STAR TREK: THE MAGAZINE (February 2000)

(Added January 10, 2000) Robert J. Doherty Interview

"When we spoke, Rob had worked on two teleplays for Season Six, 'Riddles' and 'Tsunkatse'; the former came from a story by STAR TREK science advisor Andre Bormanis. "I just took a pass at the story and got the teleplay," says Rob. "You might know that Roxann Dawson directed it; I thought she did an incredible job.

"'Tsunkatse' was a story by Gannon Kenney. Brannon had plenty of notes on how the sport could be depicted and produced, so again it was a big team effort and all of the staff contributed.'"

"Second-in-command Chakotay was heavily featured in 'Tsunkatse,' in a role Rob feels worked well. "He was kind of filling in for Janeway for much of the episode, so it was an opportunity to see him in a real command position. He was great; he really pulled it off."

(Added January 10, 2000) J. G. Hertzler Interview

"In the story, Seven of Nine is pitted against several aliens, including John's Hirogen, in a wrestling match. 'I was on my son's first hunt, and in the middle of that I was just beamed out involuntarily by this organization, the Morcadians. We don't know who they are, but I've been in this arena, in this gladiatorial thing, for 19 years; there's no way out of it, you have to fight, or else you die. Jeffrey Combs [who played Weyoun on Deep Space Nine] plays the organizer of this whole thing. His character is as slimy as they come. Greasy, slimy, and you've gotta love him."

CINESCAPE

(Added January 1, 2000) A PIECE OF THE ROCK

"The crew on shore leave and a number of people, including Chakotay and Torres, become interested in this alien sport called Tsunkatse," Biller says. "They've been going to watch it, like if you went to Japan you might go watch sumo wrestling. Seven of Nine is not interested in this sport or any shore leave at all. She thinks it's kind of a frivolous activity, and so does Tuvok. They go off to explore a nebula, and while they're gone they get captured. They find themselves in this kind of training facility, where they quickly discover that they are about to be forced to participate in this alien sport."

See News and Chats for the whole article and more pictures.

The Rock

(Added November 29, 1999)

Star Trek Continuum

From Scarlet Pomers Voyager Page.

(December 7, 1999) Scarlett was called in to work on this episode after it had finished production. Her scene is with Jeri Ryan. No air date or further information available

Star Trek Continuum

(Added October 24, 1999 from Robert Picardo Chat) Joel asks:
what is the name of the episode that they are filming today?

Robert Picardo:
It's called, "Blink of an Eye". And I wear my first prosthetic on my face.

From Eon Online.

(October 24, 1999) Just the other day, we had two scripts we were getting ready to shoot back to back, and we realized they both had titles from the original series: “Wink of an Eye” and “Arena.” We had to change them.

(Added October 8, 1999) Starts shooting 10/14/99.

From Web Trek.

(October 16, 1999)

"While Voyager orbits a planet in which time passes so quickly that civilizations rise and fall in a matter of moments, generations of scientists try to figure out what the unusual object in the sky orbiting their world is and try to make contact with it. [ Thanks to Star Trek News ]
Scheduled to start filming on the 14th of October, this show features three guest actors, all members of the same alien race, makeup for which will consist of just a single appliance. In the episode, we will be viewing this race from several different time periods in their history.
Time Period: Similar to the 1950s on Earth
• A dark-haired male pilot of a rather primitive space vehicle, about 30 years old. Called a 'Guest Star' role.
• A dark-haired female astronaut, also for this space vehicle. This role only requires 1 or 2 days of work.
Time Period: Similar to the 1200s in Europe
• The 'Protector,' a dark-haired male in his 30s or 40s. He rules a small town on the planet, and is also an amateur inventor.
• Working for the Protector is a Cleric, a dark-haired male somewhere in his 60s. Both these roles are good for 1 day of work.
Time Period: Similar to the early 20th Century in Europe • A dark-haired male astronomer, aged about 50. This man is trying to make contact with a familiar but also strange object in the sky.
• He is helped in this endeavour by a dark-haired male technician in his 30s or 40s. Both these roles are good for 1 day of work.
Time Period: Similar to the 800s in North-America • A dark-haired male shaman, the spiritual leader of a tribal village.
• A tribal alien, living in the tribe of the aforementioned shaman. Both men are in their 20s or 30s, and both roles are good for 1 day of work. [ Thanks to Backstage Pass and Trektoday ]
Written by Michael Taylor (?). Directed by Gabrielle Beaumont.

From TV Quest.

(January 24, 2000) "An alien race worships the Doctor's singing voice, which tempts him to leave Voyager for his fans."

Director: Les Landau.
Guests: Kamala Dawson, Ray Xifo, Paul Williams, Marie Caldare, Nina Magnesson.
Writers: Raf Green and Kenneth Biller

From The Universe.

(January 24, 2000) "The docs big ego goes into overdrive when a race of aliens (the Qomar - or something like that) who have never heard music before begin to fall at his feet after they hear him sing Anyway, the doc thinks he is the most popular guy in the Universe, sells miniature holographic singing replicas of himself and resigns his commission to stay on the planet and get fan mail."

WARNING ... SPOILER FOR THE END OF THIS EPISODE! "At the end he gets a major reality check. The 'love of his life' (Tincoo) creates a 'superior holomatrix' when the doc cannot sing her composition. Doc goes back to Janeway and asks for his job back."

From Web Trek.

(November 10, 1999) "Features an alien race of short people who have lots of technology, but no music. The Doc introduces them to music and becomes like a rock star. Guest stars Paul Williams as one of the aliens."

"Says insider '415Man': "Virtuoso is the usual holodoctor affair. His incredible ego over inflates again and causes him to want to leave the ship. (yawn). LOTS of singing, and some possibly cool alien musical effects by the sound guys."

From The Universe.

(January 24, 2000) "Chako, Paris, Neelix and Kim return from a survey mission and begin having post traumatic stress flashbacks to some war they apparently fought in. As Janeway takes the ship to investigate, the whole crew becomes affected. Bottom line - its a war memorial that transfers the actual thoughts of the people involved to any that comes within range, whether they want the memories or not."

WARNING ... SPOILER FOR THE END OF THIS EPISODE! "At the end - Chako says shut it down, but Janeway orders it restored to full power, and drop a warning beacon."

From Scarlet Pomers Voyager Page.

(December 7, 1999) "In this episode, Scarlett had another chance to work with Ethan Phillips. She describes her scene with him as being "very intense," but fun to work on! No air date available."

From Web Trek.

(November 16, 1999) "Involves the crew recalling memories of a war once fought. A war they never were involved in. Scarlett Pomers also appears as Naomi."

"Written by Brannon Braga and Robin Bernheim."

TV Quest.

TV Guide Online.

Star Trek: Voyager: Spirit Folk A return to the hologram village of Fair Haven alarms the superstitious locals when a glitch in the computers allows them to observe the crew's ability to alter their world at will.

Cast: Fintan McKeown as Michael Sullivan, Richard Riehle as Seamus, Ian Abercrombie as Milo, Ian Patrick Williams as Doc, Henrietta Ivanans as Maggie,

From The Universe.

(January 29, 2000) Daoine Sidhe (could be: "Fairy Tale" or "Spirit Folk")
The sequel to "Fair Haven", in which the inhabitants of the holographic Irish town mysteriously begin experiencing sentience. Janeway risks real crewmembers' lives for Fair Haven, which Torres questions her on apparently by telling Janeway that "Your lover can be re-programmed, mine is flesh and blood." The title is Gaelic. "Daoine Sidhe" refers to Irish Fairies. See: "Fairy Tale".

(January 24, 2000) "We revisit Fair Haven - where the holocharacters gain individual thought and realize that the voyager crew is not who they say they are. Paris, Kim and the doc are captured and accused of being 'spirit folk', and Michael the bartender saves the day. Janeway actually gives him a tour of the ship, and everyone in Fair Haven learns that the Voyager crew is from 'the stars'."

From Warp Eleven.

(November 16, 1999) "Daoine Sidhe is pronounced Dae Na Shee, and it's Celtic for ['People of Peace' or fairy [faery] people."

"Berman also stated that there is a sequel of sorts to 'Fair Haven' (the ep with a hologrpahic community where Janeway gets involved with one of its members). The sequel has the members of the community suspecting the Voyager crew 'are not who they seem to be', as Berman put it. Suggesting the residents are gaining sentience."

From Web Trek.

(November 16, 1999) "A sequel of sorts to 'Fair Haven' which has the members of the holographic community suspecting the Voyager crew 'are not who they seem to be.' Suggesting the residents are gaining sentience, reminescent of Doctor Moriarty on TNG."

From Star Trek: The Magazine.

(February 28, 2000)"The latest new show, 'Ashes to Ashes,' was an Ensign Kim episode and saw the return of a crew member who was killed several years ago by the Hirogen and then brought back to life by some aliens. Brannon says, 'She's struggling to go back home again, but of course she can't; she's a ghost. Her true self ultimately is that alien self--the new alien self--and it's really a rather heartbreaking story about saying goodbye. It becomes a metaphor for letting go of a lost loved one, and that's the experience that Kim goes through. A very nice show." Yet again, Kim learns a hard lesson. "Yeah. He's good in that way because he's young."

TV Guide Online.

Star Trek: Voyager: Ashes to Ashes
Ensign Ballard (Kim Rhodes) returns to the Voyager after being resurrected by the Kobali. But her new alien physiology makes for a difficult readjustment to humanity, especially when her Kobali relatives arrive to take her back.

Cast: Ensign Ballard: Kim Rhodes, Mezoti: Marley McClean, ? : Kevin Lowe

From The Universe.

(January 24, 2000) "A crewman who was killed in an earlier season while on an away mission with Kim returns to Voyager as another species. Seems this species procreates by taking dead bodies, and reanimating them and turning the DNA into their own. They are supposed to forget their former lives, but she breaks away and goes back to Voyager. Kim is thrilled because he was in love with her. The doc makes her look human again, but it doesn't stick and she goes back to her race when they come looking for her and start to attack Voyager. The B plot is Seven trying to play mother to the 4 remaining borglettes. They rebel, run around, and do the things that kids do. Seven is unprepared. The classic line when she dumps them into a room with Naomi is "fun will now commence."

From Star Trek News.

From TV Guide.

(February 23, 2000) Icheb's return to his home planet after his abduction by the Borg is difficult for Seven of Nine to bear when her awakening maternal insticts make her suspicious of his parents.

Icheb: Manu Intiraymi, Yifay: Tracey Ellis, Leucon: Mark A. Sheppard, Yivel: Eric Ritter

From Star Trek News.

(February 13, 2000) The third part of the Borg children storyline. While one of the children, Ichben, develops a new method of scanning for wormholes that might help Voyager get home at a science fair, the crew locates his homeworld. Torn about whether to return to his people, Ichben finally decides to leave Seven of Nine behind. After leaving Ichben behind, the crew discovers that his homeworld was the source of the deadly pathogen that decimated the Borg in "Collective", and that in fact Ichben is a benign carrier, designed as a "Borg Killer". Leaving him to be re-assimilated, Voyager's crew intervene in time to save Ichben and finally integrate him back on the ship.

From The Universe.

(January 24, 2000) "This episode marks yet another return of the . . . children. The oldest (Icheb - I believe) is reunited with his parents. He does not want to return at first, and seven doesnt want him to go. She has become attached to him. He also turns out to be quite smart and could be a major help to the Voyager and her crew. He invents a device to scan for wormholes and the like at a miniature 'science fair' aboard Voyager, etc. Eventually he decides to stay with his parents, and that seems to be that. However, one of the kids clues Seven in that Icheb's parents lied when they relayed the story of his assimilation. Voyager returns to the planet to find that he has been set out alone and unconcious in a shuttle designed to attract the Borg by his loving parents. Further investigation reveals that he was geneticallly engineered to be a 'Borg Killer', and that he was responsible for the virus that killed the cube back in 'Collective'. Janeway and crew rescue him, and he winds up back on Voyager at the end of the episode."

From Web Trek.

(January 17, 2000) "Child's Play--Deals with the return of the Borg children from 'Collective' and 'Ashes to Ashes.' This is the third episode of what is believed to be a three part Borg arc."

From Scarlet Pomers Voyager Page.

(December 7, 1999) Title Unknown
"Scarlett will be working on the first episode to be filmed after the holiday hiatus in January."

From Star Trek: The Magazine.

(February 28, 2000) "There's an interesting episode Joe Menosky's writing in which we learn that there are some crewmen who, if Voyager had returned home when it was supposed to, probably wouldn't have stayed on the ship, either because of being transferred or because they couldn't cut it. Janeway finds these people, and becomes determined, like the good shepherd, to take them under her wing and help them find their role in life. She takes them on an away mission, only to meet a deadly and mysterious alien entity that begins stalking them--the metaphor being that the shepherd encounters the wolf, and Janeway as a result encounters her own limitations as a captain."

From Web Trek.

(February 26, 2000) Janeway discovers that there are three 'outcasts' on her ship that have never been on an away mission, and who have fallen through the cracks as far as receiving her 'personal attention'. To fix this, she forces the 3 of them to accompany her on an away mission with the Delta Flyer to investigate a newly forming star cluster. But they are attacked by some unseen force/alien, who beams one of the crew members off the Flyer, and actually enters his body. When the crewman goes right through a force field and claims he is not in control of his body, Janeway shoots him. When he is hit with the phaser blast, it forces the creature out, where another panicing crewman kills it. The alien should look like a sort of 'walking stick' looking insect thing. [ Thanks to The Universe ]
Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

From Star Trek News.

(January 14, 2000) Good Shepherd
Directed by Winrich Kolbe.

"Casting sheets for this episode just went out. Judging by the needed characters, this might be Voyager's own type of 'Lower Decks' kind of episode."

"NOTE: All roles are Starfeet crewmen aboard Voyager, however you would call them the misfits, for none of them really feels they belong on the ship.

"BILLY TELFER: Male, human, 25-35 yrs old, Caucasian. Hypochondriac, visiting the doctor's office every week, doing his job aboard the ship. He is best friends with Celes, always reassuring her.
"TAL CELES: Female, Bajoran, 25-35 yrs old, Caucasian. Always doubting her abilities to perform the necessary tasks of her job aboard the ship. Best friends with Telfer.
"MORTIMER HARREN: Male, human, 25-35 yrs old. A loner, he has no friends aboard the ship and really doesn't want to be there. He is a cosmologist interested in pure theory.
"ENGINEER: Male Starfleet crewman, any ethnicity, in 20s or 30s.
"JUNCTION OPERATOR: Female Starfleet crewman, any ethnicity, in 20s or 30s."

(December 29, 1999) Fairy Tale
"Might possibly be the episode in which Janeway has to tell stories to an alien computer. This premise was floated near the beginning of the season along with a lot of other ideas that the writing staff were apparently developing. (Although as of yet, only 'Blink of an Eye' has come into fruition.) Apparently there is some belief that 'Fairy Tale' refers to a retitled 'Daoine Sidhe'."

Click here for picture of early Jennifer Lien

Click here for picture of Jennifer Lien in Shuttle

Pictures from Star Trek Communicator #128 below. Click on text for pictures 1, 2 and 3 from Fury.

Click here for picture of Jennifer Lien (picture 1)

Click here for picture of Jennifer Lien and Kate Mulgrew (picture 2)

Click here for picture of Jennifer Lien and double (picture 3)

From TV Guide.

(April 19, 2000) A future version of Kes (Jennifer Lien) returns to Voyager to exact revenge on Janeway and the crew by cutting a deal with the parasitic Vidiians who crave human body parts.

Vidiian Captain: Vaughn Armstrong (Check him out in Behind the Mask page), Ensign Wildman: Nancy Hower, Lt. Carey: Josh Clark

(April 13, 2000) In the chat with Robert Picardo:

I had some interaction with her [Kes], including a wonderful scene that recalls the early days of our friendship when I was first trying to settle on a name, once I had been granted the option of choosing one. However, the "Fury" episode is primarily between Kes and Janeway.

From TV Guide.

(April 4, 2000) The crew hunts for a trio of scam artists who have assumed the identities of Janeway, Chakotay and Tuvok in order to con their unsuspecting victims out of valuable supplies. Directed by LeVar Burton (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”).
Guests: Dala: Kaitlin Hopkins, Morbar: Gregg Daniel, Varn: Ted Rooney

From Web Trek.

(March 25, 2000)

Says executive producer Rick Berman about this show: "We came up with a show that I am really pleased about, called 'Live Fast and Prosper,' which is a riot, basically about three con men who pose as three of our officers, and go around among other things selling membership into the Federation at a price. LeVar [Burton] did a great job [directing], and it’s going to be a terrific episode."

Directed by LeVar Burton.

(February 22, 2000) Changed name to Role Call.

(January 29, 2000) Live Fast and Prosper

This new episode, which will start filming on February 3rd, deals with three alien con artists named Feydra, Mobar and Zev, who have obtained extensive information about Voyager and are now posing as Janeway, Tuvok and Chakotay, respectively. In this way they're trying to scam others out of money and needed materials. Hilarity ensues when an inspector investigating the scams holds the Voyager crew for the crimes. The casting sheet for the episode notes that the actors cast in these roles do not need to be of the same ethnicity as the real Janeway, Tuvok and Chatokay, as the aliens as scamming people who not have meet the real Voyager crew. According to the casting sheet, four others characters in the episode include:

~ Varn, a 30- to 40-year old rugged-looking alien man, described as "more brawn than brains". Varn is the first tricked by the three con artists, but after seeing through this engage both them and Voyager in battle.

~ Inspector Orekis is a Telsian male in his 40s or 50s, who demands retribuition from the Voyager crew for a scam the three alien con artists ran on two miners.

~ Two "bolomite" miners who trade with the impostors but never receive payment for the goods they delivered. [ Thanks to KJB at the Backstage Pass and Trektoday ]

Directed by LeVar Burton.

From Star Trek News.

(January 29, 2000) Live Fast and Prosper
The Backstage Pass website revealed spoilers for "Live Fast and Prosper", a new Voyager episode which will start filming on February 3rd. The episode will be directed by Levar Burton and deals with three alien con artists named Feydra, Mobar and Zev, who have obtained extensive information about Voyager and are now posing as Janeway, Tuvok and Chakotay, respectively. In this way they're trying to scam others out of money and needed materials. The casting sheet for the episode notes that the actors cast in these roles do not need to be of the same ethnicity as the real Janeway, Tuvok and Chatokay, as the aliens as scamming people who not have meet the real Voyager crew.

From TV Guide.

(April 13, 2000) In the chat with Robert Picardo:

Inspiration for the "Life Line" episode was the Hal Holbrook role in "I Never Sang for My Father."

I don't have an extradinarily large part in the season finale, as the episode "Life Line" features me in two different characters....our final episode features other actors. So "Life Line" is basically my season swan song.

This May 10th episode features motion control photography.

From TrekToday.

(April 4, 2000) (From Star Trek Universe) This is the much talked about ep with Troi and Barclay. In one of their now monthly transmissions, Barclay sends info to the Doc that Doctor Zimmerman his creator has a terminal cellular disease, and that he will die in a couple of months. The doc convinces Janeway to let him send himself back to earth over the wire to treat his creator. His experience in the Delta Quadrant and with Borg technology gives him an edge over Earth doctors. When the doc arrives, he finds that Zimmerman wants nothing to do with him. The Mk I holodocs have been found incompetent and relegated to scrubbing plasma conduits. They are already up to the Mk 4 EMH. The two docs bump heads and fight a lot. In the end, the doc cures him and they reach an understanding. Troi, and Barclay have fairly small roles.

From Star Trek: The Magazine.

(February 28, 2000) "We will possibly have more of Earth."--Brannon Braga

From Star Trek Continuum.

(February 22, 2000) 02.15.00 Troi and Barclay Return to Star Trek: Voyager

Once again, Marina Sirtis (Commander Deanna Troi) and Dwight Schultz (Lieutenant Reg Barclay) will reprise their roles from Star Trek: The Next Generation in a new Star Trek: Voyager episode entitled "Life Line." The two were previously seen together in the season six ST: VOY episode "Pathfinder." The story of "Life Line" continues where "Pathfinder" left off and features new developments in the life of Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, the creator of the Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH).

Sirtis also portrayed Deanna Troi in the Star Trek feature films, "Star Trek Generations", "Star Trek: First Contact" and most recently in "Star Trek: Insurrection". Her feature film credits include "The Wicked Lady" with Faye Dunaway, "Death Wish III" opposite Charles Bronson, "Blind Date" and "The Thief of Baghdad."

Schultz's feature film credits include "Star Trek: First Contact" as Lieutenant Barclay, as well as "Fat Man and Little Boy" with Paul Newman, "The Long Walk Home" and "The Temp" with Tim Hutton and Lara Flynn Boyle. Schultz's television credits include "The A-Team."

"Life Line" began filming this week and is tentatively scheduled to air in May. Star Trek: Voyager airs Wednesdays at 9:00 PM on UPN. (Title and air date subject to change.)

From Web Trek.

(February 15, 2000) Life Lines (I, Zimmerman) When Earth's "Pathfinder Project" transmits its first block of data to Voyager, the Doctor receives disturbing news -- Louis Zimmerman, the creator of the Doctor's program, is dying. Hoping to save this "father" he's never met, the Doctor's program is transmitted back to the Alpha Quadrant.

(January 29, 2000) I, Zimmerman
~ When Earth's "Pathfinder Project" transmits its first block of data to Voyager, the Doctor receives disturbing news -- Louis Zimmerman, the creator of the Doctor's program, is dying. Hoping to save this "father" he's never met, the Doctor's program is transmitted back to the Alpha Quadrant.
~ TrekWeb.Com reports that Dwight Schultz and Marina Sirtis will once again guest star as Reginald Barclay and Deanna Troi, making this episode a sequel to "Pathfinder."
Says Robert Picardo (The Doctor): "I just heard from Brannon Braga that they're planning to do a story that I pitched to them with John Bruno, which is basically I Never Sang For My Father for the Doctor and his programmer. He told me they're going to do it this year. I play my programmer, and it's a father and son story, and I'm his most famous offspring."

Of course, interacting with his nominal "father" isn't as easy as it sounds, since the Doctor's creator, Dr. Zimmerman, is on the other side of the galaxy in the Alpha Quadrant. "He's back on Jupiter Station, but we've established this intermittent communication possibility in the story this season with Barclay ["Pathfinder"], the micro-wormhole technology," he explains. "It involves sending the Doctor's program back to the Alpha Quadrant. Zimmerman is ill and because the Doctor has been enhanced with certain 29th Century technology, he's convinced that his best shot at being saved is his 'son' returning home to treat him."

Robert Picardo already played Dr. Zimmerman on Deep Space Nine, in the episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume."
Story by Joe Menosky and Robert Picardo. Teleplay by Joe Menosky.

From Star Trek News.

(January 29, 2000) Doc Alpha Quadrant Episode
Using the communications technology the crew received in "Pathfinder", the Doctor learns of Doctor Zimmerman's illness in the Alpha Quadrant. Hoping to help cure him, the Doc travels to the Alpha Quadrant to help save his life. The story was written by Robert Picardo and John Bruno, who directed "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy" earlier this season. This is the first time a cast member has helped write a Trek episode.

From STAR TREK.COM

(April 22, 2000)


Director: Mike Vejar
Written By: Joe Menosky
Guests: Joseph Will as Kelis, Kellie Waymire as Lanya, Tony Amendola as Chorus #3, Jack Axelrod as Chorus #1, Michael Houston King as Jero, Kathleen Garrett as Tanis, Stoney Westmoreland as Warlord, John Schuck as Chorus #2

From TV Guide.

(April 12, 2000) B'Elanna becomes an unwilling muse when the Delta Flyer crashes on a warring planet, inspiring a playwright to turn her Voyager experiences into an anti-war parable.

From STUK INTERVIEWS.

(April 6, 2000) This interview was conducted while Roxann Dawson was signing autograph's at the Memorabilia event at Sandown Park in London on April 1st, 2000.

Our final question due to time constraints was: What can you tell us about the upcoming Season Six episode entitled "Muse" ?

"Oh, well actually we finished shooting that about three weeks ago, it's almost done, actually I have to go back and do one more re-shoot, and I thought that was thoroughly enjoyable. It was also directed by Micheal Vejar, who directed "Barge of the Dead", and it's a wonderful story about B' Elanna who crash lands on a planet and ends up becoming a poet's "Muse" for his writing and she ends up becoming inspired herself by his story. It's really wonderful.

From TrekToday.

(April 4, 2000) (From Star Trek Universe) Torres and Harry crash in the Delta Flyer on an alien planet. The planet is developmentally comparable to earth in the Shakespeare period. A 'poet' finds Torres in the downed flyer (Harry punched out in an escape pod) and begins writing plays based on Voyager and the crew. Torres ends up helping him perform his last 'play', which keeps a war from breaking out on the planet because of the play. The B plot has a really rather funny bit with Tuvok snoring and sleeping in the Captains chair.

From Star Trek News.

(April 1, 2000) B'Elanna gets stranded on a primitive alien planet, where she becomes the inspiration for a playwright.

(March 25, 2000) Executive producer Rick Berman describes this show as "a classic Joe Menosky script. It’s a little bit Star Trek meets Shakespeare In Love, and it just turned out beautifully. I’m very pleased with it."
Written by Joe Menosky.

From TrekToday.

(April 4, 2000) (From Star Trek Universe) This story is mostly told as a campfire type story by Neelix to the Borg children. The power on ship goes down, and the regenerating children wake up. Neelix tells them what is happening in the form of story. Basically, while flying through a Nebula, Voyager picks up an entity which makes its way through the ships systems wreaking havoc and trying to force the crew to take it back to the nebula. The crew just thinks the ship is fraught with malfunctions due to flying through the nebula and doesn't figure out there is intelligence behind it for quite some time. In the end, they give the creature some place to live and everyone is happy.

From Web Trek.

(March 23, 2000) The Haunting of Deck Twelve
Another time travel episode, with Tuvok.

(May 17, 2000) According to convention statements by Tim Russ, Robert Duncan McNeill and Beltran himself, Chakotay will do something Robert Beltran was not at all happy about. From Web Trek.

From STUK INTERVIEWS.

(April 6, 2000) This interview was conducted while Roxann Dawson was signing autograph's at the Memorabilia event at Sandown Park in London on April 1st, 2000.

After all the questions that were sent in to startrekuk, the most common question was: What can you tell us about the Season Six cliffhanger episode "Unimatrix Zero" ?

"We just finished shooting "Unimatrix Zero" and we only did the first half, and I don't know about the second half of the cliffhanger, but I can just tell you one thing that at the end they turn me into a full Borg".

From TrekToday.

(April 4, 2000) In addition, TrekWeb is reporting that at a Star Trek convention in Sydney this weekend, Kate Mulgrew said she had just gotten a call from Paramount to fly back and film for an additional week. For most of this week, she would apparently be wearing a Borg costume, confirming the reports Janeway will be assimilated by the Borg in 'Unimatrix Zero'.

From TV Guide.

(April 13, 2000) In the chat with Robert Picardo:

I don't have an extradinarily large part in the season finale, as the episode "Life Line" features me in two different characters....our final episode features other actors. So "Life Line" is basically my season swan song.

(April 1, 2000) In TV Guide Online see "Entertainment News" under "News and Gossip"
Friday, March 31, 2000


UPN REVS UP FOR SWEEPS: . . . Jennifer Lien (Another World) returns as Kes on the May 3 episode of Star Trek: Voyager; . . . Susanna Thompson returns as the Borg Queen on the season finale of Voyager May 24.

From Web Trek.

(April 1, 2000) The people who are assimilated by the Borg are Janeway, Torres, and Tuvok. Paris' promotion [back to lieutenant] happens on the bridge and Harry's reaction is to wonder when his turn is coming.

(March 25, 2000) Susanna Thompson returns as the Borg Queen!
The Delta Flyer is destroyed and half the senior staff (four or more of our nine main characters) gets assimilated.--(thanks to 'Jonas')

(March 23, 2000) Unimatrix Zero (Season Finale)

From Star Trek: The Magazine.

(February 28, 2000)"For the future, Brannon hints at some interesting plans. "There are a couple of surprises that I don't want to give away, but you may be seeing another Borg epic--a Borg two hour movie, or possibly a Borg cliffhanger, that we're thinking of as the third part of our Borg trilogy: 'Scorpion,' 'Dark Frontier,' and now a story in which there is a massive resistance movement within the Borg that could unravel them once and for all, that Seven gets involved with. It may also include, finally, a true romance for Seven of Nine against the backdrop of the resistance. It may possibly see the return of a new Borg Queen. It's very conceptual at this point, but it's safe to say that there's one more Borg epic to come."

From Star Trek News.

(January 14, 2000) Season Finale [later]

"Discussions and preparations for this year's season finale have already begun. This year, the writing staff is planning on a big Borg episode to cap the sixth season off."