Overview of Season 2 of Star Trek: Odyssey
“We’ve changed so much in just this one year. I wonder what the ship and her crew will look like if it finally returns to the Alpha Quadrant.”
“I’m inclined to wonder what the Alpha Quadrant will look like when we return. We live in interesting times, after all.”
“You seem certain we will return.”
“I’m surprised, Chatan. I thought you would understand that the first duty of the Captain is to never give up.”
“I thought it was to always keep your shirt tucked in.”
“That’s important too.”
- Commander Chatan and Captain Janeway discuss the crew’s integration in “The Things That Matter”
The Things That Matter
The Odyssey receives an S.O.S. signal on a radio channel, leading them to a planet with high levels of atmospheric interference, which requires the ship to land in order to properly investigate. The Vidiians accompanying them remain in orbit while they investigate. Evek leads an away team with Locarno and Rejal to find the source of the signal, finding a Lockheed Electra rigged to an alien generator. Confused as to how human technology came to be on the planet, Evek decides to take his team further into a nearby structure, discovering eight people held in cyronic suspension, including Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan.
After he is resuscitated, Noonan pulls out a handgun, and attempts to hold the Odyssey staff hostage. Evek, however, overpowers him, demonstrating that his Cardassian uniform is highly resistant to projectile weapons. Locarno recognises Earhart, and explains her significance in human history. The revived humans and the away team decide to co-operate, and Evek releases Noonan. The groups sets off back to the Odyssey, but are ambushed by three hooded figures. Rejal sneaks around to flank them, disarming them. It is then revealed that the ambushers were human, and that more humans are present.
Janeway and Chatan come out to meet the new humans, being informed that the humans on the planet had been brought there by the Briori many centuries prior, and they thought that the Odyssey was a Briori ship. The humans offer to show the crew of the Odyssey their cities, which have flourished since the Briori were ousted. The news of a potential new home is met with great joy by much of the Maquis crew, which worries Chatan and Janeway. They decide that they cannot prevent any of the crew from deciding to stay on the planet, the Odyssey does have a minimal staff requirement.
The crew are given shore leave to the cities, while Janeway and Earhart get to know each other, finding many similarities. Evek and the rest of the Cardassian contingent find themselves unexpectedly popular on the planet, as most of the population have not met aliens before. The leader of one of the cities, John Evansville, explains this to Evek, telling him that they have little contact with the wider galaxy, though periodically, they do pay tribute to the Sikarians, who in return provide them protection from any threats.
Janeway decides to let the crew decide whether to stay on the planet, and if there are not enough people to fully staff the ship, they will consolidate their crew with the Vidiians, and travel on just the one ship. To her and Chatan’s surprise, the entire crew decides to stay on the Odyssey, though Earhart and the rest of the revived humans decide to stay on the planet, feeling more of a connection with them.
As the crew return to the ship from shore leave, they find that the experience has brought the crew closer together, as they decide that they will definitely return to the Alpha Quadrant, rather than settle down on a suitable planet. As the Odyssey departs, reuniting with the Vidiians in orbit, the 37’s wave them off.
Onboard the Odyssey, Janeway and Chatan discuss how important the past year has been for them and the crew, wondering how different they will be if and when they finally return.
Guest Stars: Sharon Lawrence as Amelia Earhart, David Graf as Fred Noonan
Death Wish
The Odyssey encounters a member of the Q Continuum, nicknamed Quinn, who wishes to end his own life, but cannot. Q appears, revealing that Quinn was imprisoned for attempting suicide, but Quinn requests asylum aboard the ship. Q offers to send the Odyssey home if she rules in his favour, but Janeway decides to hold a tribunal regardless.
Guest Stars: Gerrit Graham as Quinn, John de Lancie as Q, Jonathan Frakes as Commander Riker
Sejal
Lt. Rejal and Ensign Seska are beamed back from a planet with botanical samples. However, when they arrive on the transporter pad, they are fused into one being that names itself “Sejal”. The crew rules out transporter failure, realising that the botanical samples acted as a catalyst, fusing Seska and Rejal together. Sejal is accepted into the crew as a Chief of Engineering with the rank of Lieutenant, though much of the crew is uneasy around her.
Despite the growing camaraderie in the crew, the Cardassian contingent do not trust her as she is half-Bajoran, while the Maquis do not trust her as she is half-Cardassian. Sejal finds herself at odds with many of her subordinates, who beg for the Doctor and the Vidiians to find a way to reverse the process. Eventually, the crew does come to accept her more, though the Doctor continues work on a way to reverse the process.
Two weeks later, the Doctor and the Vidiians are able to manufacture a method of identifying the separate DNA strands, which will enable them to use the transporter to restore both Seska and Rejal. Sejal protests, stating that she has rights, and does not wish to die. Janeway consults Tuvok, who likens it to the trolley problem, stating that there is no one ethically correct solution to come to, though he does believe that the needs of the many (Seska and Rejal) outweigh the needs of the few (Sejal). Janeway decides that she will not force Sejal to undergo the procedure. After being harassed for not undergoing the procedure, Sejal decides to do it, breaking down in tears in Janeway’s ready room.
The Doctor refuses to carry out the procedure, citing his oath to do no harm. Janeway takes over, performing it herself. Seska and Rejal are restored, each with all of Sejal’s memories. Janeway finds out who harassed Sejal, and disciplines them. Although in a way she lives on, the crew holds a memorial for Sejal, and she is officially listed as one of the casualties of the ship’s voyage.
Recurring Cast: Martha Hackett as Seska/Sejal
Outpost Morthlan by
@The Chimera Virus
Still reeling from the traumatic situation surrounding Sejal, the Odyssey is blindsided when a Morthlan ship decloaks and ensnares the vessel in a tractor beam. In short order, a team of Morthlans have stormed the ship, seriously injured Falox, and kidnapped Tuvok, Kes, and an ex-Maquis Betazoid ensign, Lon Suder. Janeway orders an immediate pursuit of the Morthlan ship.
The kidnapped trio wake up on a remote Morthlan outpost – the first of its kind, and simply called Outpost Morthlan. Several others exist, but they’ve cut contact with the Morthlan Empire or are too distant to call upon. The leaders of this outpost, Chyvalxa and her subordinate Azarek, have been assigned to contact them by any means necessary. Being a survivor of an ill-fated expedition to Ocampa, Chyvalxa knows of their telepathic abilities – and sensed them in Tuvok and Suder, too, so took them as well. Their job, Azarek explains, is to interface with a psyche-spanner and contact the outposts and ensure their fealty. The psyche-spanner, a psychic broadcasting device, apparently proves harmful to Tuvok and he falls into a coma. It’s up to Kes and Suder to contact the outposts.
On Odyssey, Falox has to have implants to restore his ability to walk. The Doctor is awed and perturbed by the Vidiians’ efficiency in this task. He begins to feel surplus to elements and attempts to stave off an existential crisis by privately accessing the holodeck to take his mind – such as it is – off things. Sensing this, Dr. Danara Pel reaches out and invites him to perform the final surgery personally. He gratefully accepts.
Back at Outpost Morthlan, Suder proves to be a remorseless killer. The Betazoid compels the frightened Morthlans at the first outpost to commit mass suicide simply because he can. Chyvalxa and Azarek are furious – even more so when the Odyssey arrives – and attempt to rip Suder apart limb by limb. Tuvok, who was faking his coma, rises and manages to flood the room with calestic gas. An anesthetic to Morthlans, but not anyone else.
The trio return to the Odyssey… and Suder gets off scot-free. Kes is too frightened of his senseless yet impassive evil to speak out against him out of fear for her own life. Falox, who’s undergoing physical therapy, doesn’t seem to notice. Tuvok, unclear on what transpired, elects to keep an eye on Suder all the same.
Recurring Cast: Brad Dourif as Ensign Lon Suder, Susan Diol as Dr. Danara Pel, and Andy Milder as Surgical Technologist Visecch Khath
Guest Stars: Dot-Marie Jones as Chyvalxa and Richard Moll as Azarek
Dreadnought
The pasts of the crew threaten to catch up with them when the Odyssey comes across a Cardassian missile that Kollin Torres reprogrammed to strike Cardassian territory. Evidently, it was also brought to the Delta Quadrant, and it is now on a collision course with a nearly planet. The crew tries to intercept the missile, but Torres equipped it with countermeasures that made it nigh-invulnerable. Torres beams over to stop the missile, but detecting the Cardassian life-signs on the Odyssey, it believes that she is being co-opted into disarming the missile, leaving Torres locked in a battle of wits against herself, with the assistance of Rejal’s Obsidian Order training.
In Corpore Sano by
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Visecch Khath, Dr. Pel’s personal surgical technologist, realizes his supply of spare body parts running out. If he doesn’t act soon, he will succumb to the Phage. The Odyssey has been alarmed by a death from old age – no one really considered old Lt. Commander Grimwald in all this*. Khath’s attempt to repurpose Grimwald’s organs is met with fury and anger from the old man’s friends and Khath is confined to Vidiian vessels only. Neither he nor Dr. Pel are happy with this turn of events.
In his desperation not to die – admittedly now at least somewhat mitigated by Grimwald’s liver – Khath contacts the Doctor covertly. He inquires about prosthetics and holographic organs, to which the Doctor answers all his questions. Kes finds out about this and is glad that Khath won’t be doing any further organ harvesting. She sets about replicating some prosthetics for him.
Within a fortnight, Khath looks almost entirely like his old pre-Phage self… but now he has been found out. To the Doctor and Kes’s horror, the Vidiians are insisting that they be prosecuted for aiding Khath in knowingly breaking the taboo against prosthetics and holographic organs. Khath – no longer welcome on the Odyssey or the Vidiian convoy, is forced to limp along behind in a shuttlecraft.
At the trial, Khath excoriates the hidebound Vidiian elders – none more so than High Magistrate Tersil – for their blind insistence on maintaining a taboo based on centuries-old superstition. He feels fine; with gene therapy, a good holo-emitter, and a replicator for the prosthetics, he could live a full life. The elders won’t hear of it, however, and inform him that he will no longer be welcome in Vidiian society. Dr. Pel is no longer welcome due to her “willfully neglecting her duty to expose the criminal.” The Doctor and Kes are let off with a warning due to their ignorance of the taboo.
In the end, against Evek’s protests and Chatan’s concerns, Janeway allows both Khath and Pel to stay on the Odyssey. She feels this is the right move – this is the Starfleet way. However, much as her heart and morals are in the right place, this puts undue strain on relations with the Vidiian convoy, much to the senior staff’s concern.
Recurring Cast: Susan Diol as Dr. Danara Pel and Andy Milder as Surgical Technologist Visecch Khath
Special Guest Star: Michael Gough as High Magistrate Tersil
Guest Stars: Richard Poe as the Vidiian judge and Abe Vigoda as Lt. Commander Isidore Grimwald
* “In fairness,” Locarno says, “I thought he’d died years ago.”
To which Kim replies, “Nick, we’ve been only been out here for little over one.”
Locarno chuckles, “Exactly. Poor old fella.”
Non-Sequitur
Kim is beamed out of a shuttlecraft that is facing unknown turbulence, but instead finds himself awakening in San Francisco with his boyfriend Mark, whom he dearly missed. As best he can tell, it is the same day, though his memories all suggest that he was on Odyssey. After some investigation, he realises that he changed places with a childhood friend, Daniel Byrd. Kim conspires with this timeline’s version of Locarno to return to his original timeline, pursued by Starfleet.
Guest Star: Nicholas Brendon as Mark
Prior Notions
The Odyssey encounters the Rassiki, a Sikarian client species that are terrified of the Vidiians. The Rassiki have supplies that the Odyssey desperately needs, but they refuse to trade due to the crew’s affiliation with the Vidiians. Chatan, Falox and Kes are sent to hammer out a deal, ensuring that the Vidiians will not attack the Rassiki. While on Rassikus, they find that the Rassiki have developed a personal shield technology that prevents the Vidiians from transporting out their organs. However, it is less well suited for combat, only able to prevent a single shot from a phaser. However, it could be of great use to away teams on the Odyssey, and Falox tries to negotiate for the technology, while the Rassikan fear of the Vidiians is addressed.
Meld
One of the crewmen on Odyssey, Darwin, is found dead, and all evidence points to a murder. Betazoid crewman Lon Suder is found guilty, after he admits to killing Darwin because he did not like the way he looked at him. Tuvok mind melds with Suder in order to discover the reasoning behind his impulses, but begins to lose control of his emotions, and sets about killing Suder. Eventually Tuvok melds with Suder again, regaining his control, and Suder is placed in the brig indefinitely.
Recurring Cast: Brad Dourif as Lon Suder
Xenotransplantation by
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With the Vidiians continuing their travels with the Odyssey, the crew are considering an organ donor program to keep the Vidiians alive until a cure for the Phage can be found. The news of this causes some unrest in the lower decks, especially among the Cardassian contingent, who have a cultural taboo against xenotransplantation. Although the senior staff assures them that the system will be entirely opt-in, this does little to allay the concerns of the naturally suspicious Cardassians.
Kel Aval considers opting in but is pressured not to by his fellow Cardassians. Ayala also voices concerns that the crew will be giving up their organs only to have them rot away due to the Phage. Opposition to the system in the lower decks grows, and those who opt in are looked down on by much of the crew.
It is found out by Evek that Rejal has been fostering the developing caste system in an attempt to force Cardassian dominance on the Odyssey. “Using superior Cardassian socio-cultural mores,” she explains, “we shall return home at a far more expedient rate using the Bajoran wormhole.” Aval explains that Rejal is a member of the Obsidian Order sent to monitor Evek. Rejal is astonished that he’s aware of this but makes him an offer to become her second should things go sideways. He denies her and affirms his loyalty to Evek.
When part of the crew finally turns to more open mutiny, it’s discovered through the Cardassian computer files that Rejal’s parents had previously opted her in for an organ transplant to save her life at a young age. The tide turns against her and finally Evek, Tuvok, and Janeway restore order by shaming the mutineers for being so short-sighted and cruel that they wouldn’t help a person in need after their death. They won’t be using the organs anymore, after all. Why should they care what happens to them? The mutineers find the wind taken out of their sails and quietly take disciplinary action.
Evek informs Rejal that she will be under his close scrutiny from now on. If she puts a toe out of line, he will out her to the entire crew and let fate decide the outcome. Crushed, Rejal finds some solace in Seska, who starts discussing with her the idea of a proper mutiny, a really revolutionary mutiny…
Recurring Cast: Susan Diol as Dr. Danara Pel, Martha Hackett as Seska, Tarik Ergin as Ensign Ayala, Josh Clark as Lt. Carey, and Diedrich Bader as Kel Aval
Assignment: Home
The Odyssey arrives at a planet that is known simply as “Aegis” by the inhabitants. The inhabitants appear to be human, but seem to be at the peak of human performance, leading some of the crew to believe that they are Augments. One of their members, Richard Ten, reveals that they are the descendants of humans abducted millennia ago, and were supposed to keep the timeline on Earth stable. However, their masters were defeated by the Sikarians many years ago, and since then, they have been forced into being the enforcers for the Sikarians, under threat of annihilation. The names ring a bell for Janeway, who consults the ship’s records, realising that they are the same group of people that Gary Seven was from.
Janeway and Chatan agree to help the humans break free from the Sikarians, though Evek objects, not wishing to anger the Sikarians any further than they already have. Richard Ten announces to the Sikarians that they will no longer be their servants. The Sikarians retaliate by sending a force to enforce their loyalty, seeing the Odyssey. Janeway tells them that they will protect the humans. The Sikarians attack, punching above their weight for the size of their ships, but the Odyssey and Vidiians are able to stop them.
Richard Ten says that the Sikarians will be back, but that the Odyssey has bought them time to prepare, and that the humans on Aegis will be ready to fight for their freedom. As they depart, Janeway wonders whether the rebellion could lead to a more benevolent government like the Federation growing in the Delta Quadrant.
Guest Stars: Andre Braugher as Richard Ten, Robert Lansing as Gary Seven (archival footage)
Going Courting
Following the Aegis incident, the Odyssey is contacted by the Sikarians, who wish to end the dispute. The Sikarian representative, Tojuto, is happy to let the Aegis humans be free if the Odyssey will take their place as the “stick” to the Sikarians’ “carrot”, and they give up the Vidiians. Janeway refuses, and for once both Chatan and Evek are with her on the decision. Chatan is more than willing to fight, and Evek is too proud to submit. Tojuto tries to come up with a deal that will leave everyone happy, but it is clear that no such deal exists. Resorting to more violent tactics, she orders her ships to fire on the Odyssey, intending to disable it. The Odyssey barely manages to come ahead, disabling all the Sikarian ships, but Tojuto vows that the Sikarians will hunt down the Odyssey.
Special Guest Star: Phylicia Rashad as Leraia Tojuto
Birth Control
The Odyssey beams aboard what appears to be a robot, which identifies itself as “Automated Unit 3947”, explaining how it came to be stranded in space. Torres and Seska hypothesise that they might be able to create a duplicate of the Personnel Unit, as they are not able to reproduce by themselves. Janeway tells them not to, as it would violate the Prime Directive. Seska objects, albeit fruitlessly. A ship run by more APUs arrives to collect 3947, but as they prepare to transport, 3947 renders Seska unconscious with an electrical discharge, and transports itself and her aboard the Pralor ship. There, 3947 tells her that she can work on the prototype, forcing her to work on it under threat of death. While Odyssey attempts to retrieve her, a Cravic ship arrives, and engages the Pralor ship in combat.
Recurring Cast: Martha Hackett as Seska
Guest Star: Kevin Michael Richardson as Automated Unit 3947 / 0001
The Warning by
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The Odyssey has spent the last several weeks assisting Jouranos, a planet suffering from the ill effects of a recent wormhole-creation experiment gone awry. Janeway, Torres, and Carey are investigating the wormhole technology to see what went wrong. Lately, one of the native Jourantel, Bodassa, has made friends with Harry Kim and is invited aboard for dinner.
Once aboard, Bodassa shows his true colors, maintaining that any help from the Odyssey will cause more disaster. When asked to leave, he becomes belligerent and damages the transporters. The Jourantel government disavows his actions and says the Odyssey can do what they like with him – so he’s thrown in the brig. Meanwhile, the wormhole technology begins to act erratically – neither Torres nor Carey can determine why, while Janeway is too busy dealing with the Jourantel government to assist. During the final test before stopping for the evening, one of Jouranos’s moons – Hyvax, inhabited by 73,000 people – is sucked into a miniature wormhole. Bodassa’s prophecy has come true and the government is aghast at the Odyssey’s apparent recklessness.
Harry is contacted by Bodassa’s mother, asking him to free Bodassa and send him home in a shuttle. He refuses at first but is cajoled into it. No sooner than he lets Bodassa out than the Jourantel breaks for the wormhole technology in the cargo bay. He activates it and is sent back through time and space with only the memory that the Odyssey has to be stopped, a paradox. Janeway is furious, but not with Kim – Locarno, in a bid to show Kim he really does care about him, claims responsibility for the debacle and takes Bodassa’s place in the brig. The Odyssey leaves Jouranos under a pall, its reputation lower than ever.
Recurring Cast: Tarik Ergin as Ensign Ayala and Josh Clark as Lt. Carey
Guest Stars: Sam Rockwell as Bodassa and Vaughn Armstrong as Nirox – the President of Jouranos
Resistance
Tuvok, Torres and Rejal are captured by Mokra while attempting to get a chemical that is vital to the Odyssey’s systems. Janeway, while injured, is rescued by a local man, Caylem, who believes her to be his lost daughter. Caylem helps Janeway to free her crewmen, though they too are captured. The Mokra commander, Augris, reveals that Caylem has attempted this rescue many times before, and that his real daughter was killed many years ago, but that Caylem refuses to believe it.
Guest Stars: Alan Scarfe as Augris, Joel Grey as Caylem
Non-Human Persons by
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Janeway has worked hard over the last several months to reaffirm and mend the relationship with the Vidiians, but Tersil comes down with an ultimatum. Either deactivate the Doctor and prove that the Vidiians are truly vital to the Odyssey by letting them handle all medical procedures, or don’t and forfeit all of their medical expertise. This horrible decision is laid bare to the senior staff, prompting Kim to point out that they can’t simply deactivate the Doctor. He’s become more than just a simple medical hologram – he’s just as much a person as anyone else on the ship.
The senior staff are divided on the subject. Janeway officially remains neutral, as does Falox. Kes, Kim, and Rejal all believe in the Doctor’s position as a non-human person while Chatan, Evek, and Tuvok are opposed. With Locarno in the brig and neither Janeway nor Falox budging, there’s no real tiebreaker. It’s actually Locarno who points out the problem during a visit from Kim. “Has anyone actually asked the Doc about all this?”
The Doctor, of course, breaks the tie by affirming himself as a non-human person. Janeway initially remains unconvinced but is eventually brought around, as is Tuvok. The captain informs the Vidiian leadership that she will not commit what amounts to murder to keep them aboard. As it turns out, Tersil and the rest of the Vidiian leadership had not informed the populace about this and find themselves dealing with a massive blowback. Tersil retracts the ultimatum and apologizes both to the crew and personally to the Doctor. The Doctor thanks Kim for sticking up for him.
Recurring Cast: Susan Diol as Dr. Danara Pel
Special Guest Star: Michael Gough as High Magistrate Tersil
Deadlock
While fleeing a Sikarian attack, the Odyssey comes across an unknown subspace turbulence, causing power failures. Rejal tries to restore power by initiating a proton burst, but the Odyssey is hit by another proton burst from an unknown source. This disables much of the ship’s systems, causing multiple hull breaches, one of which claims Harry Kim, and the newborn Naomi Wildman dies due to failures in life support. Eventually, this Odyssey becomes aware of a “quantum duplicate” that formed after the turbulence. This other Odyssey is undamaged, but quickly losing power. The Janeways convene, and the damaged Odyssey’s Janeway decides to destroy her ship in order to let the other one go. The undamaged Odyssey, however, is attacked by Sikarians, who begin slaughtering the crew. The “undamaged” Janeway sends her Kim and Naomi Wildman over to the other ship, sacrificing herself and her crew to let them go. As the Odyssey escapes, Kim questions whether this is really his Odyssey. After the Odyssey goes to warp, unidentified aliens find the other Kim’s corpse, and take it aboard their ship.
Visit to a Small Planet
The crew of the Odyssey find that their reputation has preceded them as they encounter Markos, a small planet in a highly eccentric orbit. The Markosians reveal that they have been told stories of the Odyssey’s trip so far and are excited to meet the crew. They even repair most of the damage to the ship, though energy conservation will remain an issue. While visiting, the crew find themselves treated like celebrities, though Evek is somewhat put out by his more villainous portrayal in the Markosian stories. Finding that many of the Markosian tales of the Odyssey are more fiction than fact, Janeway is conflicted as to whether they should correct the very welcoming Markosians, especially at a time when allies are few and far between. Ultimately, the Markosians become disabused of the notion that the crew is comprised of heroes, asking the Odyssey to leave. But the question remains: who was informing the Markosians of the ship in the first place?
What’s the Matter? by
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In the wake of an attack by the fastidiously clean and trigger-happy Tak Tak (directed, of course, by the Sikarians), the entire convoy finds itself low on morale and high on losses – but none more so than the Vidiians. (Unfortunately for the Odyssey, it also turns out that the Markosians’ repair job was actually more akin to a bit of papier-mâché over the holes and new coat of paint.) While attempting to perform a transplant from one of the Odyssey’s late organ donors, two of the Vidiian doctors – Gevra Trenumys and Nuruzh Veleayck – stumbles upon the corpses of the crew killed when the Odyssey was flung across the galaxy in Caretaker, held in suspended animation.
Trenumys sounds the alert and the Vidiian leadership is immediately up in arms. How dare their allies keep such a vital resource from them? These bodies could be invaluable to help combat the effects of the Phage. Janeway counters this by pointing out that Federation funeral customs take precedence as this event occurred prior to their meeting with the Vidiians. This goes over about as well as a lead balloon, and even some of the Odyssey’s crew wonder if they shouldn’t give the bodies up. Suspiciously, some of the bodies have vanished, and accusations begin to fly that the Vidiians have stolen them. This is vociferously denied and later proven false. Which leads to a further question of who stole them?
In the end, Janeway refuses to do that to her late comrades and, at Tersil’s direction, the Vidiians part company with the Odyssey on bad terms. About a dozen remain onboard – conscientious objectors – and both Dr. Pel and Surgical Tech Khath are formally welcomed aboard as part of the medical staff. As the Odyssey warps away at the end of the episode, the same ship that collected the alternate Kim's corpse is seen tailing it before returning to a massive collection of interconnected vessels. They proceed to warp after the Odyssey.
Recurring Cast: Susan Diol as Dr. Danara Pel and Andy Milder as Surgical Technologist Visecch Khath
Special Guest Star: Michael Gough as High Magistrate Tersil
Guest Stars: Cathy Moriarty as Dr. Gevra Trenumys and Tim Curry as Dr. Nuruzh Veleayck
The Chute
Kim and Locarno, on probationary release from the brig, are accused of a terrorist bombing on the Akritirian homeworld, and are sentenced to imprisonment. Janeway attempts to intercede, but is told that Kim and Locarno have already confessed. Kim and Locarno find that they have been fitted with devices that increase their violent tendencies, and must fend for themselves in the prison. While Janeway tries to find the true culprits and exonerate the two, hampered by continued system failures after the events in the subspace scission and the Tak Tak attack, Kim and Locarno come to terms with their feelings for each other while trying to escape.
Lifesigns
Dr. Pel, one of the ship’s medical staff continues to suffer from the Phage, now at an accelerated rate. In her current situation, she would be dead within a month. The Doctor, however, proposes a radical scheme to create a holographic body for her, as the brain is unaffected by the Phage. Dr. Pel agrees, and the Doctor soon finds himself falling in love with her, but has difficulty is separating his feelings for her from his duties. He is able to slow the Phage down, and Pel agrees to try prosthetic replacements for her failing organs. As she returns to her duties, the Doctor finally works up the courage to ask her on a date, which she accepts.
Recurring Cast: Susan Diol as Dr. Danara Pel
The Resolution
While on an away mission, both Janeway and Chatan contract a deadly disease from a wasoop-insect. The Doctor informs them that the quarantine measures aboard the ship are still being repaired, meaning they cannot be brought back aboard without endangering themselves and the entire crew. Thus, the pair are forced to remain on the planet upon which they contracted it. Janeway tells Evek that the ship is his now, but reminds him that he is now a Starfleet Captain, and that he is to continue the journey back to the Alpha Quadrant. The shift in the power dynamic causes many issues among the crew, especially the Maquis contingent. On the planet, Janeway tries to research a cure, but Chatan says that as the Doctor and Dr. Pel were unable to find one, they should set about beginning a new chapter of their life on the planet. Kim and Evek clash, though soon find a begrudging respect for each other. With the realisation that Janeway and Chatan may be gone permanently dawning, the crew begins to settle into old routines. As the Odyssey continues her voyage, Janeway and Chatan discuss their new vegetable garden, settling into a more domestic life.
Manipulated
The Odyssey detects a Federation probe, and moves to investigate, wondering if Starfleet has been looking for them. They find it in an ion cloud, increasing suspicion that it may be a trap. Before they can ready weapons, the Sikarians attack with a tractor beam, matching it to the Odyssey’s shield harmonics, and board the ship. They take Seska and Carey to pay for their action in “Prime Factors”, while leaving the Odyssey for dead. The crew is able to repair the ship, but they have no way of catching up with the Sikarians. Torres suggests a transwarp beam, a risky move, but one of their only possible ones. Meanwhile, Evek tries to rally some of the enemies of the Sikarians to overpower them, and take back Seska and Carey.
Recurring Cast: Martha Hackett as Seska, Josh Clark as Lt. Carey
Projections
The Doctor is activated due to a red alert, but is told that there is nobody aboard. He believes himself to be malfunctioning, and soon shows signs that he is not a hologram, as he bleeds. Upon asking the computer, he is told that he is Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, the creator of the EMH. Another hologram appears, in the image of Lt. Barclay, who helped to create the EMH. Barclay explains that the Doctor is really Zimmerman, and that Odyssey is a complex simulation he created. However, soon Dr. Pel appears, giving an alternate story, and the Doctor questions whether he is real, or if Odyssey is.
Guest Star: Michael Jeter as Lt. Barclay, Susan Diol as Dr. Danara Pel
Coparcenary (Part I) by
@The Chimera Virus
To the crew’s dismay, they happen upon the twin planets of Praloros and Cravican on their search for the cure. Oddly enough, there’s no conflict between the two, though both biospheres are thoroughly dead with acidified water cycles. Going down without protection would result in a truly hideous death. Before they can plot a course away from the planet, an apparent short-jump shuttlecraft emerges from Praloros… and snares the Odyssey in a tractor beam. It pulls them down to the surface of Cravican, the acidic atmosphere damaging the outer hull and nacelles.
The ship is boarded and to their surprise, it’s Sikarians who arrive, flanked by robots wearing jumpsuits marked with a unified Pralor-Cravic symbol. The senior staff – save for Falox, Locarno, and the Doctor – are all kidnapped and imprisoned within a nearby compound. It would appear that the Sikarians and the robots have formed an alliance, and both notice the absence of Janeway and Chatan. Not wanting their enemies to hunt them down, Evek says that he had them killed for failing to live up to their positions, passing it off as them having an illness. The Sikarians seem to respect this, even more so when Evek indicates that he is more willing to talk than his predecessors. He claims that an alliance between the Sikarians and the Odyssey could be very fruitful.
The crew is furious at Evek’s betrayal. However, they have no time to act as the robots take them away to be studied/tortured. In the basement laboratory, they find Seska and Carey, who have been brutalized and can barely stand. An attempt by Aval to save them is met with a swift, vicious blow to the head. Everyone is strapped down to tables in preparation for what’s to come. Meanwhile, Evek goes to assess the situation and see what in the world is actually going on here. He finds out that the Sikarians spatially trajected to this planet and helped bring the robots to a consensus – the Pralor-Cravic Coparcenary. Unbeknownst to them, however, is that the robots have co-opted the spatial trajector and plan to use it to go back into Sikarian space and overrun them, taking it for their own. Evek attempts to bluff his way down to the laboratory upon learning this but is found out and sentenced to death.
Down below, an unexpected ally appears in the form of the Doctor, now working with a mobile holo-emitter. He, Falox, and Locarno work to free the crew – Locarno phasering one of the robots to death with a cry of “Stay away from my man!” as he saves Kim. Falox and Kes have a tearful reunion. The Doctor and Torres organize everyone together and make their way out of the lab… into an armed force of robots and Sikarians.
To be continued…
Recurring Cast: Susan Diol as Dr. Danara Pel, Martha Hackett as Seska, Tarik Ergin as Ensign Ayala, Josh Clark as Lt. Carey, and Diedrich Bader as Kel Aval
Special Guest Star: Phylicia Rashad as Leraia Tojuto
Guest Stars: Ronald Guttman as Gathorel Labin, Kevin Michael Richardson as the Pralorosic APUs, Peter Stormare as the Cravicanite APUs, and Rob Paulsen as the Coparcenarian APUs