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The ensigns of 'Lower Decks' can't stay ensigns forever..

There’s also contact with the Alpha Quadrant, both direct (“Pathfinder,” “Life Line”) and indirect (“One Small Step”). The former is particularly important, as real-time communication is finally reestablished with the folks back home, and will remain so from this point to the end of the series. Plus, of course, there’s continued issues with the Borg. They come across three ex-Borg who have managed to pull away from the Collective. They discover a ravaged Cube with only five very young survivors, four of whom are de-Borgified and made part of the Voyager community (“Collect...

Stardate: unknown Captain’s log. On board the unicomplex, the Borg Queen interrogates a drone who is malfunctioning. She asks him about Unimatrix Zero, but the drone doesn’t know what she’s talking about. She separates the drone from the collective, and then deactivates him and orders him dissected. On Voyager, Seven has a vivid dream while regenerating that she’s in a forest with a bunch of other people of various species, one of whom reaches out to her and calls her, “Annika.” Then she wakes up. She immediately goes to sickbay, thinking this to be some kind of malfunction, but ...

DISPLACEMENT Star Trek couldn't exist as a franchise without displacement. The warp drives utilized on Federation ships depend on displacement of space-time in order to circumvent relativity and the light-speed barrier. The displacement wave seen in the first episode of Voyager takes this process to an extreme via the Caretaker, an entity tasked with the protection of the Ocampa people. The Caretaker, noting his own imminent demise, uses displacement arrays to gather various species from around the galaxy in the hope of finding a compatible species to take over his task. The exact nature of ...

Stardate: unknown Captain’s log. Torres is coming in hot in a shuttlecraft that’s been damaged by an ion storm. She went out to retrieve their multispatial probe before it got hit by the storm. She manages to crash land in the shuttlebay and is taken to sickbay with a bad concussion. Chakotay comes to her cabin with a piece of metal that’s about a hundred years old or so with the Klingon emblem on it. Apparently it collided with her shuttle when the deflectors went down, and it means that there was a Klingon presence in the Delta Quadrant some time in the past. Or, as Torres tartly poin...