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Star Trek: Voyager Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1996 - 1997
Episode 1
Basics, Part II
Wed, Sep 4, 199646 mins
With the Kazon-Nistrim in control of Voyager and nearly the entire crew marooned on a desolate primitive planet (fighting off primitive humanoids, a carnivorous serpent and a natural disaster), only Tom Paris, Lon Suder and The Doctor remain at large to retake the ship.
Episode 2
Flashback
Wed, Sep 11, 199646 mins
Nearness to a class-17 nebula triggers a repressed memory in Tuvok, which can be a life-threatening condition for Vulcans. Janeway, as the closest thing to a trusted family member, agrees to mind-meld with Tuvok to ease him through it safely. Together they travel back in memory to when Tuvok served under Captain Sulu aboard the U.S.S. Excelsior.
Episode 3
The Chute
Wed, Sep 18, 199645 mins
Tom Paris and Harry Kim are wrongly convicted of a terrorist bombing. Even though Janeway captures the true criminals, Tom and Harry are fitted with strange brain implants and imprisoned on a satellite. In this prison, inmates have no supervision and no medical care, but all have implants which increase their aggressive tendencies. New prisoners and food rations are delivered through a one-way chute. As days pass, the friends try to hold on to reality but find themselves turning on each other and taking drastic measures to survive and attempt escape.
Episode 4
The Swarm
Wed, Sep 25, 199645 mins
Voyager reaches a region of space where they encounter a species that travel space in swarms of small spaceships and they attach themselves to the ship. Also the Doctor is beginning to lose his memory and Torres activates a Jupiter Station holographic diagnostic program where they meet the holographic image of his creator.
Episode 5
False Profits
Wed, Oct 2, 199644 mins
Voyager finds two Ferengi who came to the Delta Quadrant via the Barzan Wormhole using their superior technology to be gods to a primitive culture. (See Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Price.") The Voyager crew wants to stop the reign of these false gods while using the wormhole to get home.
Episode 6
Remember
Wed, Oct 9, 199646 mins
As Voyager transports friendly telepathic aliens to their home world, Lt. Torres experiences passionate dreams with clarity and details like that of a holonovel. They are shared memories from one of the Enarans they transport, but who, and why? The doctor can block them, but Torres feels compelled to see them through.
Episode 7
Sacred Ground
Wed, Oct 30, 199646 mins
While touring an alien underground sacred sanctuary, Kes strays from the tour and walks into an energy field that leaves her unconscious and dying. As her captain, only Janeway can enter a ritual whereby she can access the sacred spirits and determine a course of action to save Kes' life. The ritual proves confusing and confounding, though, and Kes continues to slip away.
Episode 8
Future's End
Wed, Nov 6, 199644 mins
In 1967, an apparent meteor crashes in the forest near a lone camper. Flash forward to the 24th century, where Voyager is on its trek back to the Alpha Quadrant. An artificial temporal rift opens in front of them, and a Federation vessel from the 29th century emerges. The pilot, CAPT Braxton, says that Voyager somehow is responsible for a temporal disruption in his time that destroys Earth's solar system. So he begins an attack on them, hoping to change the future. In defending themselves, Voyager disables Braxton's time ship, and he is pulled back into the time rift; so too is Voyager. Braxton's vessel is flung back to 1967 and is the meteor seen at the beginning. Voyager only goes back to 1996. Once in the 20th century, Voyager detects a warp signature in the Los Angeles area, so an away team - Janeway, Chakotay, Paris, and Tuvok - goes to investigate. Unknowingly, a SETI scientist - Rain - who has been scanning for a particular radiation signature finds it emanating from Voyager and plots their orbit. Rain calls her boss - Henry Starling - who directs her to stay quiet until she has more data. She doesn't, and Starling sends his henchman to kill her. It's revealed that he was the camper that spotted Braxton's ship, and has been using its technology to make himself very rich and powerful for the past 3 decades. He also supplied the parameters for the radiation pattern that Rain found; he was hoping for a heads up in case any future vessels followed Braxton's ship to retrieve it. Janeway and Chakotay find Braxton, who is now a crazed homeless man that explains the temporal causality loop that Voyager is now involved in. Paris and Tuvok go to meet Rain, who had sent a welcome greeting to Voyager. They secretly take her data off her computer. When she realizes what they've done, Rain chases them. That's when Starling's goon catches up with her and tries to kill her with a phaser. Paris and Tuvok spirit her away to safety. Janeway determines that Braxton still has the time ship, and tries to beam it from Starling's possession. He fights back, and actually uses the transporter beam as a data link to steal data from Voyager's computers. He then finds out that Voyager's not from the 29th century as he'd surmised, but the 24th. He also finds he's obtained a very special piece of software from Voyager: The EMH.
Episode 9
Future's End: Part II
Wed, Nov 13, 199646 mins
As the Voyager crew pit their 24th century technology against Starling's stolen 29th century technology, Chakotay and Torres fall into the hands of paranoid white supremacists.
Episode 10
Warlord
Wed, Nov 20, 199646 mins
The mind of former Ilari war-hero-turned-dictator Tieran takes possession of Kes in order to retake his homeworld. Since Kes is an alien, the bond is more fragile than usual, but Tieran wants the mostly dormant additional mental powers that come with her.
Episode 11
The Q and the Grey
Wed, Nov 27, 199646 mins
Q returns to Voyager with ovations towards wooing Captain Janeway in order to mate and produce offspring. Janeway doesn't buy it, but the matter, indeed, is more serious than Q lets on. The death of the other Q (a.k.a. Quinn) in their previous encounter has thrown the Q Continuum off balance. Civil war has broken out, with the struggle adversely affecting the galaxy. Q's side is losing, but a child, to Q's way of thinking, may restore that balance, and mating with Janeway might be an infusion of new blood that the Continuum needs. Then there's the other woman - Q's Q-mate - to consider.
Episode 12
Macrocosm
Wed, Dec 11, 199645 mins
When Janeway and Neelix return to Voyager they find the crew barely alive having been invaded by a microscopic life form which is growing to macroscopic proportions.
Episode 13
Fair Trade
Wed, Jan 8, 199746 mins
As Voyager prepares to cross a treacherous expanse of which Neelix knows absolutely nothing, Neelix runs across an old friend (of dubious trust) - fellow Telaxian "Wix" - at a trading outpost. As Neelix seeks a map of the expanse, Wix soon involves him in criminal dealings that put Chakotay and Paris wrongfully behind bars. Neelix seeks to right his wrongs, even though his grievous actions have likely cost him continued passage aboard Voyager.
Episode 14
Alter Ego
Wed, Jan 15, 199745 mins
Harry Kim finds himself in love with Marayna, a character from Neelix's Polynesian resort holodeck program. Seeking to eliminate the emotion, Harry turns to Tuvok, who interacts with the woman and finds himself falling for her as well. While Harry is overwhelmed with feelings of jealousy and betrayal, Tuvok realizes the persona is too real and discovers she is actually a lonely alien who can interact with passing ships through their computers.
Episode 15
Coda
Wed, Jan 29, 199746 mins
Captain Janeway finds herself living through several untimely death scenarios with Chakotay in a kind of time loop. Eventually winding up aboard Voyager in spirit form, her late father appears, ready to guide her into the afterlife. Lingering to observe the gathering of friends at her funeral, Janeway chooses to stay among them, even if she can no longer interact with them, but her father's pressure to leave raises suspicions. Is Janeway really dead or being deceived?
Episode 16
Blood Fever
Wed, Feb 5, 199745 mins
Ensign Vorik undergoes the Vulcan mating drive known as Pon farr. The strong chemical imbalance affects B'Elanna Torres as well, leading her to irrational thoughts and behavior. Trapped in a cave, Tom Paris must try to reason with B'Elanna and get her medical attention while trying to respect his friend and deny her uncharacteristic sexual advances.
Episode 17
Unity
Wed, Feb 12, 199746 mins
Still traveling through the Nekrit Expanse, Chakotay and Ensign Kaplan, exploring in their shuttle, answer a distress call from a multiracial colony (that includes humans) on an alien planet while Voyager discovers a Borg cube dead in space. Caught between warring factions, Kaplan is killed and Chakotay fatally injured. The colonists, all ex-Borg, can save Chakotay's life but at the cost of his becoming part of their newly formed "Cooperative."
Episode 18
Darkling
Wed, Feb 19, 199746 mins
Kes falls in love on an away mission. The Doctor, seeking to expand his programming, incorporates the personalities of several historical figures. B'Elanna Torres chastises The Doctor, warning him that his program is complex and the results could be unfavorable, but it is too late, as the Doctor develops an alter-ego - a violent, unethical personality who attempts to murder Kes' new beau.
Episode 19
Rise
Wed, Feb 26, 199746 mins
As the Voyager crew endeavors to help a planet bombarded by asteroids, Tuvok and Neelix survive a shuttlecraft crash landing. Together with a motley group of aliens, they repair a mag-lev tether to rise high enough from the surface for Voyager to detect and rescue them all. Unfortunately, emotions run as high as their ascent, and while the group struggles against panic and oxygen deprivation, Neelix and Tuvok openly butt heads, and a traitor walks secretly among them.
Episode 20
Favorite Son
Wed, Mar 19, 199746 mins
Ensign Kim, while experiencing bizarre DNA changes, instinctively leads Voyager to an all-female planet whose inhabitants claim him as a member of their race who is ritualistically returning home. When his welcome seems too good to be true, Kim loses contact with Voyager and begins to uncover the aliens' true intention.
Episode 21
Before and After
Wed, Apr 9, 199745 mins
Starting near her death with no memory, Kes experiences parts of her life moving backwards through time. The Doctor develops an experimental procedure to extend Kes' lifespan beyond the Ocampan standard nine years. We see a possible future Voyager where Janeway and Torres died years ago in a great war and the survivors of Voyager were exposed to temporal radiation. The Doctor's procedure re-activates the symptoms of the radiation, causing Kes to relive moments of her life, from being elderly to her conception. In this reality, Kes and Tom Paris married and had a daughter named Linnis. Linnis and Kes became ship's physicians. At age three, Linnis married Harry Kim and they had a son named Andrew. When the cycle takes Kes back to an embryo, the cycle begins again in the correct order, stopping at present day, leaving Kes with all the memories of the possible future and valuable knowledge of the upcoming war that will be known as "The Year of Hell."
Episode 22
Real Life
Wed, Apr 23, 199746 mins
The Doctor creates a holographic family, but B'elanna Torres thinks the Doctor's simulation is too "nice" (in a "Leave It to Beaver" sort of way) and introduces some alterations to the program to make the simulation more accurate to real life: a wife who often disagrees, a rebellious teenage son, and a daughter who is sure she knows better than her doting father. When his daughter is critically injured, the Doctor must make a choice: run back to his Voyager life, or face the harsh "reality" of losing a loved one. Meanwhile, Voyager could lose Tom to a totally unknown space phenomena.
Episode 23
Distant Origin
Wed, Apr 30, 199746 mins
Two Voth scientists find the remains of Voyager crewman Hogan, who died on the Hanon planet where the crew was exiled by the Kazon during the two-part episode "Basics." DNA analysis of the remains shows links to their own DNA. While tracking and studying the Voyager crew, they are discovered. Pooling their knowledge, they conclude that the saurian are an evolved species of dinosaur that left Earth more than 65 million years ago. The main scientist is thrilled to be able to prove his Distant Origin Theory (proposing that his race originated elsewhere in the galaxy), but the rulers of his society place him on trial for heresy against the doctrinal teachings of their heritage, the central tenet being that they originated in the Delta Quadrant. The outcome of that trial threatens the Voyager crew as well.
Episode 24
Displaced
Wed, May 7, 199746 mins
Inexplicably, the Voyager crew begins switching places with members an alien race, one by one. As one crewman vanishes, a Lyrian appears on board, wondering how s/he got there. Over time, there are more alien guests than remaining Federation members. Capt. Janeway's gut reaction proves correct: this isn't an accident, it's by design, and the entire crew soon finds themselves in a combination prison/zoo, but they aren't alone. They have neighbors, and environmental factors prove to be on their side.
Episode 25
Worst Case Scenario
Wed, May 14, 199746 mins
Members of the Voyager crew furtively participate in a hidden holodeck programme where the ship's Maquis members stage an insurrection. When words gets out, Tuvok and Paris get trapped within the programme, which has been booby-trapped by someone they'd never think of.
Episode 26
Scorpion
Wed, May 21, 199746 mins
Still on its journey home, the Voyager enters Borg space only to find the Borg Collective on the losing end of a desperate war against a bio-technical race designated as Species 8472. While investigating a defeated Borg armada, Harry Kim becomes infected from brief close contact with an 8472, an infection that starts to eat him alive from within. Janeway turns to her Leonardo da Vinci holodeck program for inspiration and devises a risky plan to book safe passage through Borg space by working together with the Borg to defeat Species 8472. As they begin negotiations, Species 8472 attacks.
