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1 big fix would have saved star trek: voyager's infamous amelia earhart episode.

Star Trek: Voyager's season 2 premiere featured the crew meeting Amelia Earhart, but the episode would have worked better with one big fix.

• "The 37's" episode of Star Trek: Voyager could have been improved with a two-part format to fully explore its two massive storylines.
• The episode suffered from a lack of exploration of a human colony in the Delta Quadrant, which could have been fascinating if given more screen time.
• Star Trek: Discovery's episode "New Eden" demonstrated how a similar storyline could be successfully executed without overshadowing the larger plot, proving that expanding "The 37's" would have worked.

Star Trek: Voyager 's infamous Amelia Earhart episode failed to live up to expectations, but one big fix would have solved its issues. Voyager season 2, episode 1, "The 37's" saw the crew of the USS Voyager follow a series of clues — that started with finding a Ford truck floating in space — to a remote alien planet. There, the crew discovered a group of cryogenically frozen humans, including Earhart (Sharon Lawrence) as well as a civilization of humans descended from people who were abducted from Earth by a species called the Briori over 400 years ago.

On the surface, "The 37's" had a lot going for it. It was the first episode of season 2, and provided a thrilling, action-packed storyline that not only included a major historical figure but gave the crew their first taste of home since being stranded in the Delta Quadrant. It also ended up being a surprisingly emotional episode, grappling with some interesting issues after Voyager's cast of characters was offered a chance to suspend their journey and settle down with the human colony on the planet. However, the episode suffered heavily from a pacing issue, something that could have been remedied by one big fix.

Star Trek: Voyager’s Season 1 Finale Was A Mistake

Voyager’s amelia earhart episode should have been a star trek two-parter.

If Voyager 's Amelia Earhart episode had been a two-parter, it would have given the show a chance to explore both of the episode's massive storylines to their fullest extent. The main reason that "The 37's" suffered was because it attempted to cram two plotlines that should have been their own episodes into one installment. The first storyline, about Voyager's crew finding Earhart and the rest of the 20th-century humans, took up the majority of the episode and left barely any room for the fact that Voyager had found a large human civilization that had evolved completely separately from Earth.

The idea of a human colony in the Delta Quadrant and the implication of their 400 years of distinct evolution was a fascinating concept and should have been given more room to breathe. As it was, "The 37's" never even showed what the colony looked like or explored its inhabitants' culture and differences from the rest of humanity. The fact that the audience was only given spare details about the colony made the whole story fall short, but this would never have been an issue if "The 37's" had been expanded into a two-parter. In the end, a great episode idea was squandered in favor of the focus on Earhart.

Star Trek: Discovery Proved Why Expanding Voyager's Amelia Earhart Episode Would Have Worked

To add insult to injury, Star Trek: Discovery proved years later how well the storyline could have been explored if given the chance. Discovery season 2, episode 2, "New Eden" saw the USS Discovery encounter a planet that was home to a human colony, descended from a group who had been brought to the planet in the mid-21st century. Thanks to an away mission conducted by Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) , and Joann Owosekun (Oyin Oladejo), the show explored the culture, practices, and history of this offshoot of humanity fairly thoroughly.

"New Eden" proved that a storyline similar to the one in "The 37's" could be depicted satisfyingly without detracting from the larger plot. If "The 37's" had been a two-parter, it would still have allowed the Amelia Earhart storyline to be explored thoroughly, while also giving Voyager the chance to actually flesh out the human colony and their culture. Giving both stories equal screen time could have catapulted "The 37's" to the status of one of Star Trek: Voyager 's best episodes. As it is now, the episode simply doesn't make the cut.

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How Star Trek Explained Amelia Earhart’s Disappearance

A new history channel documentary that premiered on sunday claims to have finally solved one of the 20th century’s greatest mysteries: what happened to amelia earhart..

Every few years, a new theory emerges that claims to solve one of the 20th century’s greatest mysteries: What happened to Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan during their attempt to circumnavigate the globe? The most recent theory, based on a photo that purports to show Earhart in Japanese custody, suggests that she didn’t die mid-flight, but instead as a prisoner. It’s already been debunked.

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As with most mysteries of this kind, the public will likely never accept a definitive conclusion. But we can always wonder—and that’s exactly what another version of Earhart’s end does. Here, then, is a fictional, but inspiring end to Earhart’s story pulled from the mythology of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek Universe, where the story of the pioneering pilot picks up 400 years later, on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy…

The Federation Starship USS Voyager and its Captain, Kathryn Janeway, seemed to have suffered a similar fate to Earhart. While on a routine mission, the ship, along with its 150 member crew, were whisked away to the Delta quadrant against their will and stranded almost 60 years of travel (at top speed) away from Earth. With no clues to their disappearance or any trail behind them, Voyager was marooned without any way to call home in a part of the Galaxy where no human existed or has ever travelled to. Or so they they thought.

One day, while traveling through the vast expanse of the Delta quadrant on a journey that many on Voyager would probably never see the end of, a strange material is picked up by the ship’s sensors: rusted metal. Given that there’s no oxygen in space, the detection was out of place. But not any stranger than finding a 1936 Ford pickup truck floating in the vacuum of space, which is what Voyager encountered a few moments later. The crew brought the vehicle into their loading bay and examined the 20th century relic.  They also scanned for nearby wormholes and temporal anomalies to try and explain the extreme displacement, but found nothing.

The Voyager’s crew examined the pickup and found a working AM radio. After turning it on, they received an SOS distress signal emitting from a nearby planet with an oxygen-rich atmosphere. They quickly set course for the world, which sits in the third position from its host star, much like Earth. Upon arrival, they determined that the SOS signal came from a continent in the planet’s northern hemisphere. The crew established that due to the atmospheric conditions on the planet, they could not safely beam down an away team to investigate and couldn’t safely land a shuttle pod.

Desperate to figure out how a human-made object made it so far into the galaxy and who was sending out a Earth-native SOS signal, Captain Janeway decided to land Voyager on the planet’s surface. Such an action is rare due to Voyager’s massive size, but was justified given the possibility of determining how a human presence could possibly be so far from home. Why the urgency? Because their findings could help Voyager find a way back to Earth.

After touching down on the planet’s surface, two Voyager teams are dispatched to investigate a detected power source and the SOS signal, which is nearby. The team led by Captain Janeway pursued the signal and soon discovered another relic from the 20th century: a Lockheed Model 10 Electra twin-engine airplane. The plane was made famous after it was thought to have crashed and sunk into the ocean in 1937 along with its passengers, Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. Just over the hill, another team discovers a cave in the location where Voyager detected the emitting power source.

With Captain Janeway joining those in the cave, they came across a handful of cryostasis chambers, which are generally used to keep lifeforms alive in deep sleep for long periods of time. The crew determined that the chambers are still powered on and that their inhabitants are alive, but barely. Upon examining the first chamber, the crew finds a Japanese soldier still in uniform and next to him, an African-American man dressed like a farmer. A quick analysis using Voyager’s database determined that the clothing is from the mid 1930s. Further down the line of deep sleep chambers, they find another man and woman.

Upon further examination, Captain Janeway noticed that the female was wearing a leather jacket with gold wings pinned above the breast pocket and a name printed below it: A. Earhart. Janeway, taken back, immediately explained to her crew that Earhart was one of Earth’s first female pilots and the first female aviator to cross the Atlantic ocean. During a meeting back at Voyager , Janeway continued to explain that Earhart’s disappearance 400 years prior was one of history’s “celebrated mysteries.” She also mentioned that one of the most ridiculed notions surrounding the case was that Earhart was abducted by aliens. Janeway’s first officer, Commander Chakotay, quickly pointed out that may have been the case.

A decision is made by Janeway to wake Earhart and the others. She ordered a quick review of “ancient” Earth customs while only human members of the crew were selected to open the cryostasis chambers. This would prevent the abducted humans from being shocked or frightened. Before waking them, the crew disarmed the Japanese soldier for safety but little did Voyager’s crew know, another one of them was armed: Fred Noonan, Earhart’s navigator. The abductees soon regained consciousness and are baffled by what has happened. The last thing they remembered was going about their business in 1937.

Almost immediately after waking, an angered Noonan demanded answers. Janeway explained that it is the year 2371 and they are very far from home, likely following an abduction by an extraterrestrial species. Earhart didn’t buy it at first but when Janeway reasoned with her and offered to show her Voyager, she began to listen. The lost pilot described to Janeway the moments before losing consciousness. Earhart and Noonan saw a “huge light” before their Electra plane stopped mid-air and began moving backwards. An angered Noonan still doesn’t buy the abduction story and pulls out his gun. The now-awakened abductees took a few members of Voyager’s crew hostage in the cave and demanded answers.

Captain Janeway continued to make the case for what really happened and revealed that one of her crew members is of another species. Earhart countered by explaining that she’s travelled the world and has seen people do strange things to their bodies. She also argued that just because that crew member appears different, doesn’t mean that “Martians have invaded.” Another crew member gleefully interrupted and explained that actually, it was humans who invaded and colonized Mars in 2103.

Captain Janeway revealed to Earhart that because of her, generations of women became pilots and even inspired Janeway herself to pursue a career that would lead to commanding the Starship Voyager. Earhart argued that “starships” only existed in the writings of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. Janeway pleas with the abductees that Voyager’s crew just wanted to help them and tells Earhart about the aftermath of her disappearance. Janeway explained that no trace of the Electra was ever found and that rumours surrounding the flight included the possibility that Earhart and Noonan were on a government-sanctioned mission to gather info on the Japanese. “No one was supposed to know about that,” Earhart responded.

A still-confused Amelia Earhart pulled out her compass but is left with more questions when it simply doesn’t work. Soon after, Janeway received a call from Voyager warning that other life-forms have been detected outside the cave and that a security team was being dispatched to investigate. Noonan heard this and grew angrier, demanding that they use their communications to contact the United States, and specifically, J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover was the first director of the FBI and held the position in 1937.

Outside the cave, weapons fire was heard. The team dispatched from Voyager was under attack. They all exited the cave to head over to Voyager when Noonan was hit by blaster fire. Janeway quickly cornered two attackers who were dressed in armored grey suits from head to toe. After disarming them, Janeway told the attackers that she is human and asked for an explanation. “We are human too,” said the attackers as they removed their headgear, explaining that they feared her and Voyager’s crew were members of an alien race called the Briori. Both sides agree to lay down their weapons and one of the attackers introduced himself as John Evansville.

Back at Voyager , Evansville accused Voyager of kidnapping the “37’s”–what him and his people who live on the planet call those found in the cryostasis chambers. He was also shocked to learn that they were actually alive. Evansville and his people had not entered the cave or “shrine” as they call it, in generations. The reason? Earhart and the other abductees were part of a group of 300 humans who were kidnapped from Earth in 1937 by the Briore. After being brought to the planet in the Delta quadrant, they were held as slaves and forced to do hard labor.

The humans eventually led a revolt against the Briore, killing them and seizing their weapons and technology. It seems the Earhart, Noonan and the others discovered by Voyager’s crew were never awakened after being abducted and probably slept through the slave revolt. Evansville explained that the 37’s are his ancestors and that 15 generations later, over 100,000 of the 37’s descendants occupy 3 human cities on the planet. The Briore never returned.

Captain Janeway asked if the interstellar starship used by the Briore to abduct the humans from Earth in 1937 still existed, but is disappointed to learn that it’s been destroyed. This crushed her and the Voyager crew because they were hoping to use it to return home.

Evansville explains to Janeway that life is great on their planet and that they’ve built 3 beautiful cities. This planted the idea in Janeway and her crew that maybe they should stay and continue their lives on this planet among fellow humans. In Janeway’s Captain’s log, she described the civilization as “thriving and sophisticated” and says her experience touring the cities was “amazing.” Now, the dilemma is whether to give her crew the choice to stay on the planet that reminded them of Earth or force them to continue on a risky journey that may never end. Janeway and her first officer make the decision to continue toward home but leave the decision of whether to stay or not up to each individual crew member.

In Voyager’s mess hall, Earhart and the other abductees sat around a table for a meal made by the ship’s cook, Neelix. Using the food replicator, he prepared them pot roast and green beans with jello for dessert. Noonan, who quickly recovered from his wounds and toured the human cities of the planet, said life there seems better than on Earth–indicating that he wouldn’t mind staying. The farmer, whose rusted pickup truck led to this series of events, enthusiastically said that he could fulfill his dreams of building a large farm on the planet and is excited about the prospect of a new frontier. The Japanese soldier explained that there are many Japanese descendant on the planet and describes the civilization as a “paradise.”

Amelia Earhart, now a mythological and heroic figure in human history, isn’t sure what to do. Should she attempt to return to Earth aboard the starship Voyager ? On the command deck, Earhart’s curiosity for flight is seen as her eyes lit up when exploring the ship’s many functions. A crew member informed her that Voyager can travel at warp 9.9 or 4 billion miles per second and easily hop from planet to planet. Earhart responded by asking if she could “take the ship out for a spin.”

Unsurprisingly, Amelia Earhart was enchanted by the idea of traveling through space and even learning to pilot Voyager. But ultimately, she saw the world that the descendants of the 37’s built as her home. This is where the Earhart mystery ended, and where her new life began. She decided to stay behind.

Not a single member of Voyager’s crew remained on the planet with the 37’s and among the civilization built by the generations of humans that followed them. Instead, they were willing to risk following Janeway on the seemingly never-ending journey home. Seven years, many casualties, and a few shortcuts later, Voyager would finally return to Earth.

Robin Seemangal has been reporting from the newsroom at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the last two years for the Observer with by-lines also in  Popular Science  and  Wired Magazine . He does in-depth coverage of SpaceX launches as well as Elon Musk’s mission to send humans to Mars. Robin has appeared on BBC, Russia Today, NPR‘s ‘Are We There Yet’ Podcast, and radio stations around the world to discuss space exploration.

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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Voyager re-watch: the 37s.

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I watched this one last night with the DVD special feature of Trivia bubbles up on the screen. Things I retained: this is the first of five times in the entire series that Voyager lands. It's also the first time in all of Trek that a starship touches down (as opposed to crashing) and returns to space. It was one of three times in all of Trek that the particular (doodad) compression rifles were seen on-screen. Sharon Lawrence (Amelia Earhart) jumped at the chance to play the character in-part, because she was a longtime fan of Kate Mulgrew. And The 37's was one of four episodes in season two that were actually shot for season one. (I didn't know it was meant to be the finale.) There were also several reveals about previous names for Neelix, Kes, Harry, Tuvok, the Doctor and Janeway prior to filming, though (other than "Doctor Zimmerman" and "Nicole Janeway") I cannot remember them. There was some overacting in this episode from the guest stars, but I really enjoyed the concept, and I remember being "wowed" by watching Voyager on the ground. It occurred to my last night how nice it was to see blue skies and sunshine outside the windows when the crew convened around the meeting table. : )

Oh wow! The only series I had on DVD was TNG and I never saw any trivia bubbles! I used to leave the DVD menu on and let the bridge sounds put me to sleep. It was lovely. Anyway, Nicole Janeway? It just seems ridiculous. And yes, I completely agree about seeing the sun and blue sky outside Voyager's windows. I remember watching that scene and thinking, "Oh that's lovely. Why is that different? Oh yeah, we're not in space." Took me a second.

Thinking about Janeway’s guilt feelings in this episode – and in “Night” – it seems the script writers undermined the feminist implications of a woman captain, by identifying her with an original ‘error.’ Instead of Eve choosing to eat the apple out of ambition or curiosity, Janeway’s choice protects the Ocampa, whom she barely knew, from the Kazon, stranding Voyager. Her ‘tragic flaw’ of being too altruistic or self-sacrificing turns out to be a quality the rest of the crew shares as well.

Because they all want to see the journey through to fruition, out of support for/dependence on each another? Is that the tragic flaw of Janeway, her crew, or humanity in this proposed era? :-)

I loved “Voyager” and basically thought the first episode did a fine job of setting up the arc and the characters, so this is only “nitpicking”… but Janeway sided with the Ocampa too easily, ignoring Tuvok’s warnings, accepting everything the Caretaker said and destroying the array solely on his wishes. Her vague explanation for breaking the prime directive-- "We didn't ask to be involved, but we are"--is noble-sounding but the decision seems weak and arbitrary, as the writers conceived it. Couldn’t help seeing a parallel to a Paradise Lost theme-- a long return home to earth, set in motion by an initial mistake. Of course the growing loyalty, support and commitment the crew shows in “The 37’s” is a positive direction throughout the show.

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Voyager 's sensors pick up an old Earth truck floating in space. The crew beams it aboard and all gather to inspect it. Paris, a gearhead, identifies it as a 1936 Ford and gets it started. When he turns on the radio, he picks up an SOS call. Janeway orders the ship to land on the nearby planet hoping to find some passage back to Earth. On the planet surface, they find the source of the SOS: a 1930s airplane with some alien technology hooked up as a power source. Investigating further, they pick up signals that lead them into some caves, where they find a bunch of humans in 1930s clothing all held in cryo-stasis . One of them is helpfully wearing a nametag revealing her to be Amelia Earhart.

In a crew meeting, Janeway discusses how Amelia Earhart's disappearance became a celebrated mystery, with the most outrageous theory being alien abduction, which turns out to be true. The crew thaw out the human abductees, who are completely disoriented and upset to be in some strange location. They all remember being seized by a glowing light before finding themselves in the caverns. Though Janeway tries to explain matters, Earhart's navigator Fred Noonan refuses to believe her and pulls out a hidden revolver to hold the crew hostage. Even the appearance of Kes's Ocampan ears doesn't convince them.

Janeway gets a private audience with Earhart and reveals that it's become common knowledge since her disappearance that her flight was a secret spy mission on the Japanese. Earhart is also impressed by Janeway's description of her legacy as a female pilot. She allows Janeway to talk her into coming to the surface to look at Voyager as proof of her story. A group heads to the surface, where they're immediately attacked by mysterious masked figures. Janeway manages to flank them and get them to surrender, but the attackers turn out to be human.

The leader, John Evansville, explains that the residents of the planet are the descendants of humans who were abducted by the Briori in 1937 and later fought off their oppressors to live in freedom. They revere their ancestors who were stuck in stasis, calling them "the 37s". He gives Janeway and the 37s a tour of their three prosperous cities and invites them all to stay if they wish. Afterwards, Janeway is at a loss on what to do, tempted to settle down in a comfortable human society rather than potentially spend the rest of her life on a starship. She gives everyone in the crew the option to make their own decision.

The crew grapple with their decision. Even Kim is tempted to leave the ship. The 37s also ponder their decision and ask the advice of Neelix, who vows to stay on Voyager . Earhart privately tells Janeway that she and the rest of the 37s will stay on the planet, to the captain's disappointment. Janeway announces that all crew who wish to stay assemble in the cargo bay at 14:00. While walking to the cargo bay at the appointed time, Janeway and Chakotay talk about which crewmen are most likely to go. Janeway finally builds up the nerve to open the cargo bay door and finds it completely empty. Moved nearly to tears, Janeway returns to the bridge, where she finds all of her bridge crew committed to their mission and awaiting orders. She sets a course while the 37s watch them leave from the planet surface.

This episode provides examples of:

• Alien Abduction : The Briori kidnapped humans because We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future . Hell of a distance to travel for cheap labor.
• All Hail the Great God Mickey! : The descendants of the 37s regard their cryostasis tubes as a shrine, and even maintain power to the SOS signal. They're surprised when Janeway informs them the occupants are Not Quite Dead , despited them all being no older than middle-aged.
• All Planets Are Earthlike : The planet is Class L with an oxygen/argon atmosphere. After a big fuss is made about having to land Voyager due to the hostile weather conditions, the away team walks about unprotected under sunny skies.
• Artistic License – Chemistry : If the truck had been floating in space for 434 years, the water, gasoline, and oil in it would have been so evaporated and degraded that the truck would never have started. Not to mention the battery would have been drained completely.
• Artistic License – History : Janeway reveals that it's publicly known in the 24th century that Earhart's voyage was actually a spying mission on the Japanese, something that is only a crackpot theory in real life. This may have been the writers having fun, as Janeway at one point also says the most outlandish theory regarding Earhart's disappearance was being abducted by aliens — which is what actually happened here.
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy : Amelia Earhart really was captured by aliens and is now alive and well in the 24th century.
• Bronson Canyon and Caves : The film location where Voyager lands. Bronson Canyon, which is part of Griffith Park, is frequently used for alien worlds in various Star Trek shows.
• Birds of a Feather : Janeway bonds with another female pioneer.
• Everyone ducks for cover when the truck backfires, and Tuvok draws his phaser.
• Noonan holds the away team hostage and demands that Chakotay contact J. Edgar Hoover.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right : The episode proves that the legend of Amelia Earhart being abducted by aliens was right after all. And she was also on a spy mission when she disappeared.
• Distress Call : Tom finds an SOS on the truck's radio, so Voyager tracks it to the source.
• Dying Declaration of Love : When the 37s are discovered, Fred Noonan (Amelia Earhart's navigator) gets shot in the chest and taken to Sickbay. Thinking he will die, he confesses his love to Earhart. However, he is then healed by the Doctor and embarrassed, tries to take back his confession. She's only too happy to let him do so, joking she's already forgotten he said it.
• Faceless Goons : Only they turn out to be human on making a Dramatic Unmask .
• Fan of the Past : Paris identifies the chemicals that make up gasoline, and the year and model of the truck. Janeway is quite a fan of one of the first female aviators.
• Failed a Spot Check : One of the humans is standing in plain sight, perhaps twenty meters away from the aircraft in full view of Janeway and Tuvok and is not spotted.
• Fish out of Temporal Water : The 37s. Earhart takes some convincing that the Rubber-Forehead Aliens aren't just humans with body modifications.
• Future Imperfect : Harry wants to know if the Ford is an early hovercar . Tom tells him he's a century too early .
• Hidden Weapons : The away team remove the pistol from the Japanese soldier, but Noonan produces a revolver from under his suit. Cue Dramatic Gun Cock .
• Historical Domain Character : Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan.
• Humans Are Superior : The Briori kidnapped over 300 humans from Earth in 1937 to use as slaves, but they successfully revolted, appropriating the alien weapons and technology for themselves (no starships though, which is why they assume Voyager is a Briori vessel).
• Human Popsicle : Amelia Earhart and some others that were frozen with her.
• Voyager has found a colony of abducted humans, who made their own city at that planet. What now? Continue the journey to Earth, or stay behind at this new planet? All the crew were allowed to decide individually. No one abandoned the ship.
• Conversely, it seemed like Amelia Earhart wanted to fly on Voyager, but decided that she was going to stay along with the other 37's that were awakened.
• I Got You Covered : Janeway has Chakotay's away team lay down covering fire, while she works around behind those shooting at them.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy : The away team is walking along in a nice tight cluster and gets missed completely by their ambushers, who only manage to hit Noonan.
• Inverted: Janeway: Rust? Kim: That's correct, Captain. High levels of ferrous oxide. Corroded iron particles.
• Played straight when Tom explains to Earhart that Warp 9.9 is about four billion miles per second .
• "Leave Your Quest" Test : Now that it's obvious that Voyager is not going to get home quickly , the crew is faced with the decision on whether they should just settle down on a habitable planet that already has a flourishing human colony.
• Malevolent Masked Men : Sinister figures in Briori stealth gear that covers them from head-to-foot attack the away team.
• A slight nod in the direction of historical accuracy is that the Japanese military officer among the 37s cites the large number of Japanese-decended people on the planet will provide him with a sense of belonging, indicating he intends to keep to his own kind.
• Quick Nip : Noonan keeps drinking from his hip flask . This is probably a reference to the now-discredited belief that he was an alcoholic (the inference being this was at least partially responsible for his and Earhart's disappearance.
• Ragnarök Proofing : There's still fuel and water in the truck, so Tom is able to start the engine. Not only would both liquids would have boiled off in a vacuum, but even if they hadn't, gasoline becomes non-volatile after about a year, and certainly wouldn't last 400.
• Red Alert : Tuvok has the ship go to Blue Alert when they decide to land on the planet.
• Rubber-Forehead Aliens : An actual plot point this time. Kes looks so similar to humans that the 37s don't believe that she's anything but a human with some weird body modification on her ears.
• Sherlock Scan : Janeway determines a lot about the owner of the Ford pickup from its appearance, all the while Torres can't even identify manure with a tricorder.
• Spoiler Opening : " Sharon Lawrence as Amelia Earhart".
• Status Quo Is God : All the crew decide to stay on Voyager, while all the 37s decide to stay on the planet.
• Stock Unsolved Mysteries : The fate of Amelia Earhart .
• Take Our Word for It : The characters talk about the cities on the marvelous cities that they tour, but none of them are ever shown.
• Technology Porn : Captain Janeway decides to show off Voyager's ability to land on a planet, boldly going where no Federation starship has gone before.
• Tom the Dark Lord : The Malevolent Masked Men who fire on our heroes remove their hoods and introduce themselves as John Evansville and Karen Berlin.
• Translator Microbes : The 37s are puzzled because the others are all speaking their native language. Janeway explains the nature of the universal translator to them.
• Transplanted Humans : The 37s and their descendants.
• We Come in Peace — Shoot to Kill : A conflict breaks out because the 37s descendants assume the Briori have come back. Janeway is able to reason with them at phaser point.
• Writers Cannot Do Math : Tom Paris's attempt to translate Voyager 's speed into A Form You Are Comfortable With results in an estimate of "about 4 billion miles per second". Warp 9.975, the ship's stated maximum, is about 6,400 times the speed of light, while "4 billion miles a second" is 21,500 times and would have resulted in the ship getting home by the end of Season 4. There's no indication that Paris is deliberately fudging his numbers or getting his math very wrong.
• You Have to Believe Me! : Janeway can't seem to convince Noonan of the truth of her story.
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Star Trek: Voyager (1995) – The 37s, and Initiations

Captain’s log: stardate 48975.1

Jerit Taylor and Brannon Braga pen the season opener for the second season of Voyager. The episode debuted on  28 August 1995, and took on a mystery that used to boggle many a mind.

Strangeness rears its head when the starship, still trying to find its way home, comes across a 1936 Ford truck floating in the Delta Quadrant. This in turn leads them to a planet where Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and the rest, discover several humans from Earth cryogenically frozen, including Amelia Earhart (Sharon Lawrence).

Who froze them? and why?

Earhart and Janeway are kindred spirits, and it’s nice to see that they have a few moments together throughout the story. The crew also has to wrestle with the decision of whether or not to stay on the planet once the 37s and the inhabitants of the planet are revealed.

The episode features the first depiction of a Federation starship landing on the surface of the planet. It was designed to be part of the first season, as indicated by the stardate, but production was evidently delayed, and it was repositioned as the season two opener.

And while there are similarities between this episode and the close of the second season of The Next Generation with The Neutral Zone, this one seems to work a bit better, and the thawed humans in this story are definitely more interesting.

Captain’s log: stardate 49005.3

Kenneth Biller wrote this episode that debuted on 4 September, 1995. The story lets Robert Beltran’s Chakotay take center stage when he is captured (eventually) by a young Kazon, Kar (Aron Eisenberg – on a break from playing Nog on Deep Space Nine) who is going through a coming of age ritual.

The pair are both caught up in rituals as the episode begins, one of remembrance, one coming of age, but both of a spiritual nature as defined by their cultures, and while the Kazon may be different, Chakotay, even as he is seized by the Kazon, realizes that the young Kazon is not so dissimilar.

The duo may never get to their respective homes, even as Voyager attempts to track down their lost first officer.

While the Kazon haven’t always been my favorite alien species seen in Trek, they are actually rounded out fairly nicely in this episode, and Kar serves as a nice counterpoint to Eisenberg’s Nog.

Next week the Human Adventure continues as I dive into season four of Deep Space Nine, and continue the journey home with Voyager season two with The Complete Series for both classic shows, now available on DVD from Paramount Pictures.

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Star Trek: Voyager – Season 2, Episode 1

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8 Alpha Quadrant Things Star Trek: Voyager Found In Delta Quadrant

• Star Trek: Voyager finds familiar things from the Alpha Quadrant in the Delta Quadrant, sparking important questions and connections.
• Encounter with Ferengi negotiators leads Voyager crew to stop their interference in a pre-warp civilization for profits.
• Janeway and crew discover humans abducted by aliens in the 1930s living in the Delta Quadrant, including Amelia Earhart.

For a show with the conceit of being so far from home, Star Trek: Voyager found a surprising number of things in the Delta Quadrant that originated in the Alpha Quadrant, including several from Earth itself. The USS Voyager, commanded by Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), and Commander Chakotay's (Robert Beltran) Maquis raider Val Jean were both brought to the Delta Quadrant in 2371 by the Caretaker (Basil Langton). After Janeway destroyed the Caretaker's array to save the Ocampa , Voyager and the Val Jean were left without a ticket back to the Alpha Quadrant, and banded together to make the long journey.

Finding something familiar in an otherwise totally alien corner of the galaxy brought a sense of familiarity to the USS Voyager crew and viewers at home alike, but the presence of something from the Alpha Quadrant in the Delta Quadrant inevitably raised important questions , like how familiar people and objects traveled 70,000 light years from home in the first place, and whether the find could lead Captain Kathryn Janeway towards a quicker path home to Earth.

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A pair of ferengi negotiators, arridor and kol, star trek: voyager season 3, episode 5 "false profits".

The USS Voyager encounters a pair of Ferengi negotiators, Arridor (Dan Shor) and Kol (Leslie Jordan), who claim to be the prophesied Great Sages of the Takarians, a society with Bronze Age level technology. The Ferengi have no Prime Directive to deter them from interfering with the Takarians' development , so they're performing "miracles" with a standard replicator to reap the monetary benefits of the Takarians' worship. Voyager's crew know the Ferengi reputation well enough to know they're no Sages, so they must figure out how to put a stop to Arridor and Kol's grift.

"False Profits" serves as a Star Trek sequel episode to Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3, episode 8 "The Price", as Voyager catches up with Arridor and Kol (formerly played by J. R. Quinonez) seven years after their Delta Quadrant arrival. The Ferengi took a test flight through the supposedly stable wormhole near Barzan II, which was supposed to emerge in the Gamma Quadrant, but instead stranded the Ferengi in the Delta Quadrant, where they made the best of their situation as only Ferengi can.

Star Trek: Voyager Season 3, Episode 23 "Distant Origin"

"Distant Origin" opens on Forra Gegen (Henry Woronicz), a scientist who discovers that his people, the Voth, share certain genetic similarities with the humans aboard the USS Voyager. While this confirms Gegen's theory that the Voth are the descendants of a species brought to their homeworld millions of years ago , religious leader Minister Odala (Concetta Tomei) refuses to accept the truth. Even with Commander Chakotay present as a living specimen of humanity, Odala pushes Gegen to recant, because Gegen's theory goes against the Voth Doctrine that keeps Odala in power.

After meeting Gegen's assistant, Tova Veer (Christopher Liam Moore), Janeway and the Doctor use the holodeck as a research guide to extrapolate how hadrosaurs might look in the 24th century if they'd been able to evolve into a humanoid form with comparable intelligence. The result resembles Veer, so Janeway and the Doctor conclude, like Gegen, that the Voth evolved from hadrosaurs into a highly advanced species on Earth , then fled to the Delta Quadrant in spacefaring vessels instead of being wiped out with the other dinosaurs.

The Friendship One Probe

Star trek: voyager season 7, episode 21 "friendship one".

By Star Trek: Voyager season 7 , the USS Voyager is in regular contact with Starfleet Command, and Starfleet gives Voyager a mission to retrieve a 21st-century Earth probe, Friendship One . The probe proves difficult to find, but once discovered on an alien planet suffering devastating climate collapse, the implications of Friendship One's launch become clear. Besides the irreversible damage to the planet's climate, the inhabitants are all suffering from radiation sickness, and bear understandable hostility towards Earth, because the aliens believe humans orchestrated their destruction with the Friendship One probe.

The United Earth Space Probe Agency was one of the early names for the organization the USS Enterprise belongs to in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Charlie X".

Friendship One was launched in 2067 by the United Earth Space Probe Agency with the intention of making friends with whomever found it, as the name implies. Although Friendship One, the 400-year-old Earth probe, traveled for centuries carrying messages of peace, musical recordings, and ways to translate languages, the people who discovered Friendship One in the Delta Quadrant took a greater interest in the antimatter it used to travel across space. Without the proper knowledge of its use, antimatter proved devastating to the planet and its people, resulting in death and disease for generations.

Dreadnought, a Cardassian Missile

Star trek: voyager season 2, episode 17 "dreadnought".

The USS Voyager discovers a dangerously powerful, self-guided Cardassian missile in the Delta Quadrant, which Lt. B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) recognizes as one nicknamed "Dreadnought" . When B'Elanna was with the Maquis, Torres had actually reprogrammed the missile herself, with the intention of turning the Cardassians' own weapon against them. Without a Cardassian target in sight, the artificially intelligent Cardassian Dreadnought targets a heavily-populated Class-M planet , Rakosa V. B'Elanna determines she must be the one to keep Dreadnought from hurting anyone else, and boards the missile to convince it to stand down.

While no concrete reason is given for exactly how the Dreadnought wound up in the Delta Quadrant, its last known location in the Alpha Quadrant was the Badlands, the same rough patch of space where Voyager and the Val Jean, Chakotay's Maquis raider, fatefully met. Because of this, Torres theorizes that Dreadnought arrived in the Delta Quadrant the same way that Voyager and the Val Jean did , courtesy of the Caretaker.

Star Trek: Voyagers BElanna Is More Klingon Than TNGs Worf Ever Was

A klingon d-7 class cruiser, complete with klingons, star trek: voyager, season 7, episode 14 "prophecy".

The USS Voyager certainly never expected to find a Klingon ship in the Delta Quadrant, but more surprising is the fact that the crew of the Klingon D-7 Class Cruiser believes their savior, the prophesied kuvah'magh, is aboard Voyager . Janeway assures the Klingon captain, Kohlar (Wren T. Brown), that the Federation and Klingon Empire have been allies for the past 80 years, and offers Voyager's own half-Klingon, Lt. B'Elanna Torres, as proof their societies are working together now. The kuvah'magh is Torres' unborn daughter, who does save the Klingons, but not the way they expected.

Centuries ago, Kohlar's great-grandfather set off on a quest to find the kuvah'magh, and the Klingon D-7 Cruiser became a generation ship that is now crewed by the descendants of its original crew . The quest begun by Kohlar's great-grandfather brought Kohlar and his crew to the Delta Quadrant after four generations of searching. Whether B'Elanna's child is actually the kuvah'magh or not, Kohlar desperately wants the baby to be their savior, so that his people may finally rest.

Amelia Earhart

Star trek: voyager season 2, episode 1 "the 37s".

The discovery of a 1936 Ford truck, seemingly disconnected from any parent vehicle, leads the USS Voyager to a nearby Class-L planet, where they find eight humans who have been in cryo-stasis since they were abducted by aliens in the 1930s. Among them are one of Janeway's personal heroes, legendary American aviator Amelia Earhart (Sharon Lawrence) , who disappeared without a trace while attempting to fly around the world, and Earhart's navigator, Fred Noonan (David Graf). Earhart and the other preserved humans are known by the planet's inhabitants as "The 37s", and revered as sacred.

Originally thought to be aliens, the natives of the unnamed planet are the descendants of humans. A species called the Briori abducted the natives' ancestors, along with Earhart and the other 37s, from Earth centuries earlier , and took them to the Delta Quadrant. Once held as slaves, the humans who weren't in stasis revolted to free themselves from the Briori, and developed a thriving, Earth-like civilization in the Delta Quadrant. Voyager's crew consider staying with the humans in their little slice of home, while Janeway also offers a ride back to Earth to anyone who wants it, including Amelia Earhart.

The USS Equinox

Star trek: voyager season 5, episode 26 & season 6, episode 1 "equinox".

The crew of the USS Voyager believe they're the only Starfleet vessel in the Delta Quadrant until they find the USS Equinox, five years into their journey home. Captain Rudolph Ransom (John Savage) and the Equinox crew have had a harder time in the Delta Quadrant than Voyager, with more damage, fewer starting resources, and fewer opportunities to make friends along the way. Ransom's survival tactics include sacrificing innocent nucleogenic life forms for a more efficient form of fuel, which Janeway finds hard to stomach, and decides that Ransom needs to be held accountable for defying Federation ideals, regardless of how badly the Equinox is damaged.

Although Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) suggests that the Equinox might be in the Delta Quadrant on a rescue mission to find Voyager, the USS Equinox's specs don't fit the profile of a starship that would be assigned to a long-range mission. The explanation of how the Equinox arrived in the Delta Quadrant in the first place seems fairly simple, because Captain Ransom tells Janeway that the Equinox was also abducted by the Caretaker , just like Voyager, but the Equinox has only been in the Delta Quadrant for 2 years, and Janeway destroyed the Caretaker's array 5 years earlier.

Seven of Nine

Debuts in star trek: voyager season 4, episode 1 "scorpion, part 2".

When Captain Kathryn Janeway allies with the Borg in order to secure safe passage across Borg space, Janeway refuses the cursory assimilation that the Borg want to use to communicate with Janeway and Voyager's crew, and instead requests a speaker for the Borg, citing the existence of Locutus (Patrick Stewart) as precedent. Seven of Nine , Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01, is selected as the Borg drone to act as liaison between the Collective and Voyager, likely because Seven of Nine had once been a member of Species 5168, like most of Voyager's crew -- in other words, human.

Voyager season 5, episodes 15 & 16, "Dark Frontier" provides even more detail of the Hansens' fateful journey.

After Seven's link with the Collective is severed, more information about Seven's human origin comes to light. In Voyager season 4, episode 6 "The Raven", when Voyager nears the Hansens' ship, the USS Raven, memories of Seven's early life surface, revealing that Seven had been six-year-old human Annika Hansen , the daughter of Magnus Hansen (Kirk Baily) and Erin Hansen (Laura Stepp), Federation scientists who were studying the Borg when they were assimilated. Voyager season 5, episodes 15 & 16, "Dark Frontier" provides even more detail of the Hansens' fateful journey, showing the Raven arriving in the Delta Quadrant by following a Borg Cube through a transwarp conduit.

10 Ways USS Voyager Changed In Star Treks Delta Quadrant

Star Trek: Voyager links back to the greater Star Trek universe with people and starships from the Alpha Quadrant. Connections to the familiar were especially important early on, because Voyager 's place in the Star Trek franchise was established and aided by the legitimacy these finds offered. Later, when the USS Voyager used the Hirogen communications array to communicate with Starfleet Command, links back to the Alpha Quadrant were plentiful again, not only to prove that the USS Voyager was closer to home, but to help Star Trek: Voyager maintain connections to Star Trek and carry the franchise in its final years.

Star Trek: Voyager is available to stream on Paramount+.

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Cast Jennifer Lien, Garrett Wang, Tim Russ, Robert Duncan McNeill, Roxann Dawson, Robert Beltran, Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo

Release Date May 23, 1995

Genres Sci-Fi, Adventure

Network UPN

Streaming Service(s) Paramount+

Franchise(s) Star Trek

Writers Michael Piller, Rick Berman

Showrunner Kenneth Biller, Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller, Brannon Braga

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Abraham Lincoln, “The Savage Curtain,” TOS S3, E22

“There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war except its ending.”

“The Savage Curtain” opens with the Enterprise crew running scans on an uninhabitable planet when, suddenly, a giant image of President Abraham Lincoln appears on their viewscreen and asks them to beam down and speak with him. When Kirk and Spock beam down they meet both Abraham Lincoln and Surak, a Vulcan philosopher and Spock’s hero. The planet’s aliens pit this group against four of the evilest villains of history to see whether it’s true that good always triumphs over evil. Throughout the episode, Abraham Lincoln upholds the virtues of honor and self-sacrifice and becomes the embodiment of his mythologized place in American history.

Amelia Earhart, “The 37s,” VOY, S2, E1

“Think I could take her out for a spin?”

The Voyager crew discovers an old pickup truck floating in space, and when Paris turns on the radio, he hears a distress signal. They follow the signal to its origins in the hopes that it will offer a clue for how the crew can return to Earth. They land Voyager on the planet emitting the signal and discover several cryostasis chambers in a mineshaft, with 37 people from Old Earth in stasis. One of them is Amelia Earhart. The crew awakens them and as tensions rise from the very confused and terrified people, Earhart becomes a voice of sanity as she bonds with Janeway. Amelia Earhart’s mysterious disappearance on July 2, 1937 while attempting to fly across the world has inspired much speculation. This episode celebrates her amazing contributions to aviation history.

Mark Twain, “Time’s Arrow,” TNG S5, E26

“I only took advantage of an irresistible opportunity, as any good writer would.”

In this iconic, two-part episode, a temporal disturbance pulls Data into 19th century San Francisco where he encounters Samuel Clemens — aka  Mark Twain — discussing the possibilities of alien life with Guinan at a literary reception. Curious and suspicious of Data, Clemens confronts him while he’s creating a portal to the Enterprise . Clemens manages to leap through the portal and onto the Enterprise , where Troi helps him realize that the future is much better than he’d ever imagined it to be, and he apologizes to Data. For many Star Trek watchers, this episode has become part of the mythos of Mark Twain.

Jack London, “Time’s Arrow,” TNG S5, E26

“Well, a man rides into town in his pajamas, wins a grub stake at a poker table, turns it into a horseless carriage and makes a million bucks. That's America!”

In the same episode, Data meets a young Jack London, who is his bellhop at the San Francisco hotel where he meets Samuel Clemens. While Jack London never worked as a bellhop and it’s very unlikely he and Samuel Clemens met, it does create an iconic moment when Clemens encourages him to write, saying “Young man, I have a maxim that I have always lived by: no one is more qualified to write your story than you are.” Jack London’s most famous books are White Fang and Call of the Wild .

Albert Einstein, “The Nth Degree,” TNG S4, E19

“You just spent the entire night arguing grand unification theories with Albert Einstein!”--Geordi La Forge

A mysterious probe knocks Lieutenant Barclay unconscious, and when he awakens in sickbay, he feels confident for the first time in his life. This confidence transforms into hyper-intelligence, and since the Enterprise crew is unable to keep up with his lightning-fast theories, he creates a holodeck version of Albert Einstein to talk to. While this scene with the Holodeck version of Einstein is brief, it captures his iconic role in U.S. and world history as a renowned scientist.

Wyatt Earp, “Spectre of the Gun,” TOS S3, E1

“Five o'clock, Clanton. Is that clear? If you're in town at 5:01, we'll kill every one of you whether you draw or not. Is that clear?”

After being warned away from a planet by the Melkotians, Kirk decides to beam down with a landing party anyway. A Melkotian explains that because they didn’t heed their warning, they will be punished, and the landing party suddenly finds themselves in 19th century Tombstone, Arizona. Kirk realizes that everyone in town thinks they’re the Clantons and that they’re being forced into recreating the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, where the Clantons were gunned down by the famous lawman Wyatt Earp and his brothers. In the episode, Wyatt Earp comes across as unyielding and inhuman, a pawn in the Melkotian’s plans.

Doc Holliday, “Spectre of the Gun,” TOS S3, E1

"Because at one minute past five, you'll find a hole in your head. Right from this gun."

Doc Holliday, a famous gambler and friend of Wyatt Earp, also appears in this episode in his less famous role as a dentist. When McCoy slips into the local dentist’s clinic to find ingredients for a gas grenade, he’s confronted by Doc Holliday, who allows him to take what he wants while he threatens McCoy’s impending death at the O.K. Corral. As with Wyatt Earp, this is not the charming Doc Holliday from recent films, but a dangerous and unreasoning one.

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The Briori were a species from the Delta Quadrant .

In 1937 , the Briori abducted over three hundred Humans from Earth , including famous female pilot Amelia Earhart , and transported them to a planet in the Delta Quadrant to be used as slave labor. The Human slaves revolted, however, and overthrew their Briori masters, taking their weapons and technology, and eventually establishing a thriving settlement.

Fifteen generations later, in the year 2371 , the settlement was discovered by the crew of the USS Voyager , along with Earhart and seven other Humans who were the only abductees who had been left in suspended animation . ( VOY : " The 37's ")

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• Briori at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works