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Star Trek: Voyager Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 1998 - 1999
Episode 1
Night
Wed, Oct 14, 199846 mins
Crew morale hits an all-time low when Voyager must spend two years crossing an expanse devoid of any star systems or signs of life. As Captain Janeway is forced to reflect on the choice she made stranding her crew in the Delta Quadrant, little does she know she will face a similar decision when Voyager ends up in the middle of a serious conflict.
Episode 2
Drone
Wed, Oct 21, 199846 mins
Voyager investigates the birth of a nebula. Unfortunately, its intense blast wave catches an away mission shuttle, causing emergency beam out transporter signals to fuse the Doctor's mobile emitter with Seven's nanoprobes. The mobile emitter subsequently starts assimilating a science lab and assaults a crew member to create a new Borg drone built upon the emitter's twenty-ninth century technology.
Episode 3
Extreme Risk
Wed, Oct 28, 199846 mins
Thanks to Malon interference sticking a Voyager probe on a gas giant, Tom spearheads the construction of a new shuttle - the Delta Flyer - but B'Elanna isn't enthused. She isn't enthused about anything, even when a second Malon ship arrives and begins building their own rescue ship, creating an old fashioned space race with the probe as the prize. Chakotay means to discover B'Elanna's problem.
Episode 4
In the Flesh
Wed, Nov 4, 199846 mins
The crew of Voyager discover a simulation of Starfleet Headquarters being run by Species 8472. With the aid of regular doses of drugs, Species 8472 are able to shape-shift into human form. It is up to Janeway to try to convince the aliens that Starfleet is not a threat to them.
Episode 5
Once Upon a Time
Wed, Nov 11, 199846 mins
The Delta Flyer crash lands after encountering an ion storm. Voyager desperately tries to contact and rescue Tuvok, Paris, and a badly injured Ensign Samantha Wildman. Meanwhile aboard ship, Neelix attempts to distract young Naomi Wildman, who is eager to hear from her mother. Finding out the truth, Naomi escapes into a popular children's holo-novel.
Episode 6
Timeless
Wed, Nov 18, 199847 mins
Fifteen years in the future, Harry Kim and Chakotay break Starfleet laws to change the past and prevent a catastrophe that grounds Voyager and kills the rest of her crew, all because Harry thought he figured out how to work slipstream drive. With Starfleet authorities soon to come breathing down their renegade necks, Harry, racked with guilt, races to send a message back through time to stop himself.
Episode 7
Infinite Regress
Wed, Nov 25, 199846 mins
Seven of Nine begins to exhibit multiple personalities from a wide range of disparate species. The culprit? An ailing Borg "Vinculum" broadcasting a neural interlink frequency from the center of a debris field from an exploded Borg cube. As the crew try to dismantle it, Seven's neutral pattern dissipates, allowing other personalities to take over. Tuvok steps in just as an unfamiliar alien culture challenges Voyager for the Vinculum.
Episode 8
Nothing Human
Wed, Dec 2, 199846 mins
An injured cytoplasmic alien attaches itself to Torres, using her body to assist its injured body. Unsure how to save his patient, The Doctor calls up a holographic recreation of a Cardassian exobiologist to consult. The consult progresses well until Torres refuses treatment when it's made known the Cardassian was guilty of war crimes for torturous experiments resulting in thousands of Bajoran deaths.
Episode 9
Thirty Days
Wed, Dec 9, 199846 mins
Thirty days in the brig for insubordination, newly demoted Ensign Tom Paris composes a letter to his father, explaining how concern for an ocean planet led to rogue actions that forced Capt. Janeway to lower his rank and throw him in solitary confinement.
Episode 10
Counterpoint
Wed, Dec 16, 199846 mins
Voyager passes through a sector of space controlled by a race which is deeply suspicious of telepathic lifeforms. The presence of Tuvok and some telepathic refugees force the Voyager crew to develop a novel concealment approach in order to pass through safely.
Episode 11
Latent Image
Wed, Jan 20, 199946 mins
The Doctor uncovers evidence his memory was erased eighteen months ago. Nearly all traces of a crewman and a fateful away mission have been deleted by Captain Janeway. Confronted by The Doctor's need for answers and Seven of Nine's perspective on the rights of a hologram, Janeway restores the fatal truth about Ensign Jetal, The Doctor's choice that led to her death, and his resulting breakdown.
Episode 12
Bride of Chaotica!
Wed, Jan 27, 199946 mins
As Tom and Harry run an episode of their "Captain Proton" holodeck program, Voyager gets caught in a layer of subspace. This 'subspace sand bar, as they nickname it, is home to a race of photonic aliens that aren't able to detect Voyager or its carbon based life forms (e.g. humans). Instead, they transport onto the holodeck and thereby start a war with Dr. Chaotica's Army of Evil. When Voyager detects internal weapons fire on the holodeck, Capt. Janeway dispatches Tom and Tuvok to investigate, and the adventure begins.
Episode 13
Gravity
Wed, Feb 3, 199946 mins
A Voyager shuttle, manned by Lt. Cmdr. Tuvok, Ensign Paris and The Doctor and pulled into a subspace gravity well, crashes on a Class "D" planet existing within it. With the shuttle too damaged to fly, the away team befriends Noss, an alien woman who crashed on the planet several seasons before them. As weeks pass, the survivors grow close. Noss learns English and teaches Tuvok and Paris how to survive the other aliens and hunt for food. Noss finds herself in love with Tuvok and frustrated that he will not allow his emotions to love her back. Through a series of flashbacks, we see a young, rebellious Tuvok who was in love and fought against traditional Vulcan teachings. Back on Voyager, only hours have passed since the ship lost contact with the shuttle. Janeway and the crew must find a way to rescue their shipmates before a local alien ship closes the phenomenon permanently.
Episode 14
Bliss
Wed, Feb 10, 199946 mins
A stable wormhole leading to Earth suddenly appears in Voyager's path. Everything seems perfect, including sensor readings, transmissions from Starfleet, even letters from home promising warm welcomes and promotions, but Seven of Nine insists it's too good to be true and that the Captain should be cautious. When she seeks The Doctor's opinion, he is deactivated. When she provides proof, she is ordered to be put into stasis. She resists, unsuccessfully, and Voyager falls into a clever alien deception.
Episode 15
Dark Frontier
Wed, Feb 17, 199992 mins
Members of the Voyager crew train on the holodeck for a raid on a Borg ship. Should they be successful, they will steal the Borg trans-warp coil in hopes of integrating the technology into Voyager's systems. The Borg seem to be one step ahead when the Borg Queen communicates with Seven of Nine. Janeway is confused but won't give up on her crewmate and friend. Two years after being liberated from the Collective, Seven of Nine rejoins the Borg, seemingly of her own will. When Janeway finds a history of transmissions from the Borg to Seven, she is convinced that Seven was lured back against her wishes. Meanwhile, aboard the Borg sphere, the Borg Queen attempts to seduce Seven into helping her assimilate Earth.
Episode 16
The Disease
Wed, Feb 24, 199946 mins
The Varro, a xenophobic, space-dwelling species, reluctantly accepts Voyager's assistance with repairs to their ship which Janeway hopes will enable them to learn more about surviving long voyages from them, but an unexpected problem arises when Harry becomes intimately involved with a member of the Varro.
Episode 17
Course: Oblivion
Wed, Mar 3, 199946 mins
Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres tie the knot. The enhanced warp drive is up and running and promises to deliver Voyager home in 2+ years. The honeymoon is put on hold when the new core radiation starts breaking down the molecular cohesion of the ship and its crew. When B'Elanna dies, Tuvok and Chakotay realize everyone and everything are not the originals; they are the silver-blood copies left behind on the "Demon Class" planet ten months ago. As the crew continues to die, Chakotay tries to convince Janeway to return to the Demon planet, reminding her that Earth is not their home.
Episode 18
The Fight
Wed, Mar 24, 199946 mins
Voyager gets trapped in "chaotic space," a kind of Bermuda Triangle, where sensors are useless and a straight line sends them running in circles. In an attempt to relay to Voyager that they are not welcome, the inhabitants of chaotic space activate a genetic defect in Commander Chakotay, who interprets the warnings and instructions in the form of hallucinations including his grandfather and his boxing training at Starfleet Academy.
Episode 19
Think Tank
Wed, Mar 31, 199946 mins
Voyager is sought after by the Hazari, unyielding bounty hunters of the delta-quadrant. While debating methods of escape, a group of problem-solvers offers their services in out-witting the Hazari. The group spokesman Kurros (guest star Jason Alexander) proposes a payment method to Janeway: one of Neelix's famed recipes, an artifact owned by Chakotay, and Seven of Nine herself.
Episode 20
Juggernaut
Mon, Apr 26, 199946 mins
Voyager responds to the distress call of a heavily-damaged Malon freighter. Torres, Neelix, Chakotay and the only two surviving Malon have six hours to stop a theta-radiation fallout that will destroy everything within a three light-year radius. The away-team must clear radiation section-by-section to reach the control room. Along the way they deal with unstable airlocks and the Vihaar, a Malon boogeyman who is more malicious than mythical.
Episode 21
Someone to Watch Over Me
Wed, Apr 28, 199946 mins
Taking Captain Janeway's advice to explore dating, Seven undergoes lessons from The Doctor, but under his happy tutelage (which takes on a Pygmalion similarity when Tom Paris places a wager on her performance at an upcoming alien reception), The Doctor finds himself falling for his student. Meanwhile, Neelix' responsibilities over a visiting ambassador take an alarming turn when the fellow's alien chemistry risks his becoming permanently drunk on synthehol.
Episode 22
11:59
Wed, May 5, 199946 mins
The Voyager crew swaps stories of family history. Janeway is most proud of her ancestor Shannon O'Donnell, who has been celebrated by the Janeway clan for generations as an astronaut and pivotal member of The Millenium Gate and several Mars projects that followed. When research and history-buff Tom Paris prove the stories wrong, that O'Donnell wasn't the hero Janeway made her out to be, the crew points out that her inspiration made Janeway join Starfleet - and that is an accomplishment in itself.
Episode 23
Relativity
Wed, May 12, 199946 mins
When Voyager is destroyed, Captain Braxton of the 29th Century Timeship Relativity contacts Seven of Nine to travel back in time and discover who planted the 'temporal disrupter,' which she must do without being discovered by the past Janeway.
Episode 24
Warhead
Wed, May 19, 199946 mins
Voyager answers a distress call from an alien device with bio-neural circuitry and sentience. Voyager beams the 'survivor' aboard, and further scans show it is a highly-sophisticated warhead capable of mass destruction. The Doctor, who speaks its technical language, fights for its rights when the rest of the crew seeks to distance the ship before the warhead fulfills its purpose. His efforts are unappreciated when, facing shut down, the warhead's intelligence commandeers The Doctor's program and several ships systems. It's ultimatum is clear: Voyager will deliver the warhead to its target or be destroyed.
Episode 25
Equinox
Wed, May 26, 199946 mins
Voyager encounters the Federation Starship Equinox, a Starfleet vessel trapped in the Delta Quadrant by the same alien who brought Voyager there. Equinox is heavily damaged and running with a skeleton crew. Happy to have found each other, Voyager assists Equinox in fighting off a non-humanoid alien race attacking them, but Equinox has earned the aliens' hostility. Captain Ransom and his crew have been kidnapping and killing the aliens to use their unique physiology to enhance their warp drive. When Janeway imprisons the Equinox crew, they stage a revolt. The Equinox EMH commandeers The Doctor's portable emitter and poses as The Doctor aboard Voyager. The cliffhanger leaves Equinox in retreat, with The Doctor and Seven of Nine hostage, and Voyager under attack by the alien race.
