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Screenshot: CBS Original air dates: October 1998 – May 1999 Executive Producers: Rick Berman, Brannon Braga Captain’s log. Of all the seasons of Voyager to date, the fifth was the one that had the most literal forward motion. Thanks to a wormhole of sorts (“Night”), experiments with the quantum slipstream drive (“Timeless”), and a stolen Borg transwarp conduit (“Dark Frontier”), they made several jumps ahead, cutting their journey home by tens of thousands of light-years. We go...

Stardate: 52586.3 Captain’s log. Janeway performs a wedding ceremony in the mess hall, uniting Paris and Torres in connubial bliss. Paris has lieutenant’s pips, and after the ceremony we cut down to a Jefferies Tube where it looks like the deckplates are warping. Voyager has an enhanced warp drive that will get them home in two years. Chakotay and Janeway discuss what specific route to take while Paris and Torres try to figure out where to “go” on their honeymoon on the holodeck. Torres...

Stardate: unknown Captain’s log. Following a seemingly endless slideshow presentation by the EMH, Voyager is buffeted by an energy wave that does no damage to the ship, but has an audio component. They can’t translate it, but think it might be a distress call. Tracing the source, they find a horribly damaged ship with only one survivor. The alien isn’t humanoid, and the EMH isn’t entirely sure how to treat it. Torres arrives in sickbay to report that the control interfaces on the alien...

Stardate: 52356.2 Captain’s log. Seven is in the midst of her regeneration cycle when she starts to hear tons of voices. She leaves her alcove, and stalks through the corridors, finally arriving in the mess hall, where she starts ravenously and sloppily eating some meat. Her reflection shows a Klingon male. Kim reports to the senior staff that there’s a massive debris field ahead that looks to be the remains of a Borg cube. The only way to determine what destroyed it is to examine it up clo...

Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports The Maple Leafs brutally crushed the Canucks again last night with a second win in their three game series in Toronto. The final game is tomorrow night. After that, the Leafs will finally move on and make a quick trip to Montreal to play the Canadiens on Wednesday. I cant believe Holtby fought to get his turtles across the border for this.— Ian McLaren (@iancmclaren) February 7, 2021 If you don’t recall, after moving from the Capitals to the Canucks, Holtby mov...

Stardate: unknown Station log: Four genetically engineered people under the care of a Starfleet psychiatrist Lieutenant Karen Lowes have been brought to Deep Space 9 to work with Bashir. They were all genetically enhanced as kids and all placed in an institute. They’re also all a bit nutty: Jack talks a mile a minute, Lauren lounges about being flirtatious and sedcutive, Patrick is very childlike, and Sarina doesn’t talk at all. Jack at one point yanks Lauren’s padd away—she’s staring...

Stardate: 51145.3 Station log: Sisko is back on the Defiant, and they’ve been conducting raids on Dominion territory, trying in vain to turn the tide of the war. Every time a power cell from the phaser array wears out, Sisko places it in the mess hall alongside the other exhausted power cells after giving a speech about the character of the crew and how they’ll fight to the end. Ross then arrives to inform Sisko of new intelligence that explains why the Dominion has had such an advantage: ...

If there was any kind of theme to the season, it was moving forward, most obviously shown when Voyager itself was thrown forward 10,000 light-years by Kes on her way out the door at the top of the season, and then the ship gaining another 300 light-years thanks to a juryrigged quantum slipstream drive at the end of the season. Just in general, Voyager emphasized making progress, not pausing long in any one place, and while there were recurring antagonists like the Hirogen, most of the nations...

Stardate: 51978.2 Captain’s log. Seven and Janeway are playing Velocity on the holodeck. Seven is frustrated by the fact that Janeway is doing better than her. Given her physical and mental acuity thanks to being a former drone, she should defeat Janeway every time. Seven wants a rematch, but Janeway refuses. Janeway has continued to try to decode the message from Starfleet they downloaded from the Hirogen communications network, to no avail. Chakotay informs her that Paris and Neelix are bac...

Stardate: unknown Station log: Sisko wants to bring Jake to Bajor for the gratitude festival, and also to visit the Fire Caverns. Jake begs off, though, as he says he has plans with Nog to check out an Andorian freighter. Sisko is perplexed, since Jake has been bugging him about going to see the caverns. Quark is pissed at Rom because a customer left her money pouch behind and Rom gave it back to her with all the currency. Quark punishes Rom by assigning him to polish all the railings in the ba...