Star Trek Viewing Guide

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Exploring New Quadrants

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This site is NOT a chronology - it is a viewing guide that will assist you through watching the entire franchise in in-universe story order, all the way from the 21st to the 43rd centuries, while making adjustments as needed to ensure an enjoyable viewing experience.  It is not rigid - some episodes are shifted in the order to keep things as clear and fun as possible. The guide is updated regularly to stay current with new episodes.

2371

Like Phase II was intended to do, and Discovery does again a few decades later, Star Trek Voyager is launched as the centerpiece of a new network: the short-lived UPN, home of Shasta McNasty and The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfieffer. Note that Voyager episode orders, particularly in season two, jump around a bit due to some production weirdness.

Deep Space Nine S3 · E1

The Search, Part 1

In an attempt to head off a Jem'Hadar invasion of the Alpha Quadrant, Commander Sisko leads a diplomatic mission into hostile territory in an attempt to contact The Founders.

First aired September 26, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E2

The Search, Part 2

Commander Sisko must deal with an impending alliance between the Federation and the Dominion, while Odo makes a startling discovery about his own people

First aired October 3, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E3

The House of Quark

When a Klingon warrior is accidentally killed in Quark's Bar, Quark becomes the unwilling steward of a Klingon Great House.

First aired October 10, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E4

Equilibrium

After unusual mood swings and frightening hallucinations, an hidden element of Dax's past has come back haunt Jadzia.

First aired October 17, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E5

Second Skin

Major Kira's very identity comes into crisis as she is abducted by the Obsidian Order and told that she is one of their long-term undercover operatives.

First aired October 24, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E6

The Abandoned

A Jem'Hadar child is found abandoned in the wreckage of a salvaged ship and Odo attempts to raise him to be something other than a ruthless soldier of the Dominion.

First aired October 31, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E7

Civil Defense

When Chief O'Brien accidentally triggers an old anti-insurgency program left behind by the Cardassians, the station's computers believe that the crew is a mob of rebelling Bajorans and takes steps to contain them.

First aired November 7, 1994

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Joining the guide

First aired January 16, 1995

Voyager S1 · E1–2

Caretaker

While on a short-term mission to track an infiltrated Maquis cell, Capt. Kathryn Janeway and her newly launched U.S.S. Voyager crew -- and the Maquis fighter crew -- are drawn 70,000 lightyears to the far side of the Delta Quadrant by an alien seeking survival.

First aired January 16, 1995

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Why is this here?

Voyager is ALMOST able to be watched in airdate order, but there are a few spots where production was out of wack in the 2nd season, so I rearrange those to be in the intended air dates. (Some of Season Two’s episodes were actually filmed as Season One eps and held over for… some reason.)

Deep Space Nine S3 · E8

Meridian

Jadzia falls in love with a Meridian scientist. The catch is that his planet and his race shift between this universe and a plane of pure energy.

First aired November 14, 1994

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Voyager S1 · E3

Parallax

The reality of co-existence hits Maquis and Starfleet personnel alike, but the troubled but brilliant B'Elanna Torres is made chief engineer after solving a baffling spatial mystery with Janeway.

First aired January 23, 1995

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Feature film

Star Trek: Generations

Picard’s only hope for a future rests within the Nexus...and a legendary captain from the past.

Released November 18, 1994

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Why is this here?

Star Trek: Generations has an opening sequence that takes place in 2293 before jumping ahead to 2371. I don’t like the idea of expecting people to watch part of a movie and then save the rest for god knows how much later, but as there IS a clearly marked divider in this film, I decided to mention that if someone DID want to watch the opening sequence here, but not continue on, that can be a fun thing to do. Really though, it’s probably easiest just to watch it all at once in  2371, where I have placed it based on theatrical release date.

Deep Space Nine S3 · E9

Defiant

Thomas Riker poses as his twin William in order to steal the U.S.S. Defiant and hand it over to the Maquis, of which he is a member.

First aired November 21, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E10

Fascination

An outbreak of the contagious Zanthi Fever occurs on the station when Lwaxana Troi pays them a visit.

First aired November 28, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E11

Past Tense, Part 1

A transporter accident sends Dax, Sisko and Bashir back in time to the year 2024, when San Fransisco was plagued with riots and social upheaval.

First aired January 2, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E11

Past Tense, Part 2

In order to restore the timeline, Sisko must pose as Gabriel Bell, a hero of Earth's history.

First aired January 9, 1995

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Voyager S1 · E4

Time and Again

An industrial but pre-warp planet's dangerous polaron technology seems to be the cause of a planet-wide wipeout discovered by the Voyager crew -- or did the visitors actually cause the problem in the near past?

First aired January 30, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E13

Life Support

When Vedek Bareil is critically injured during negotiations, the only thing that will keep him alive long enough to complete the meetings is a radical operation that will turn him into a half-man, half-machine.

First aired January 31, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E14

Heart of Stone

While chasing a lone Maquis member to a deserted moon, Kira becomes trapped by a crystalline formation that rapidly grows over time, threatening her life.

First aired February 6, 1995

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Voyager S1 · E5

Phage

When a grotesque and bizarre alien team steals Neelix's lungs, the Doctor's holographic replacements keep him alive until Janeway finally tracks down the Vidiians and their society-wide Phage plague.

First aired February 6, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E15

Destiny

A Bajoran prophecy is nearly fulfilled when a comet threatens to destroy the Bajoran Wormhole

First aired February 13, 1995

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Voyager S1 · E6

The Cloud

A nebula whose baffling interior provides no exit while being explored is discovered to be a living entity, and Janeway leads the crew in delicate "surgery" to repair the damage and finally emerge intact.

First aired February 13, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E16

Prophet Motive

In a shocking revelation to Quark and Rom, the Grand Nagus Zek reveals he has re-written the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition; a move which threatens to cripple the Ferengi Empire.

First aired February 20, 1995

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Voyager S1 · E7

Eye of the Needle

The crew is overjoyed to find a wormhole leading to the Alpha Quadrant, only to find that it is micro-sized and terminates in the Romulan Empire. The lone Romulan they contact, however, eventually seems won over to helping them.

First aired February 20, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E17

Visionary

O'Brien is exposed to a small amount of radiation that allows him to shift through time several hours into the future, where he witnesses the station's destruction and his own death.

First aired February 27, 1995

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Voyager S1 · E8

Ex Post Facto

During a friendly visit to the advanced world of Banea, Paris is accused of murdering the high-ranking husband of a woman who claims the lieutenant had an affair with her. Tuvok's detective skills and her own pet finally clear him, exposing a different culprit far more dangerous to the Baneans.

First aired February 27, 1995

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Voyager S1 · E9

Emanations

In a crossing of transporter beaming, Harry Kim is swapped out for a corpse of the Vhnori people during one of their sacred funeral rituals. Getting him back creates tension by exposing the Vhnori's "Next Emanation" afterlife as simply subspace vacuoles -- or does it?

First aired March 13, 1995

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Voyager S1 · E10

Prime Factors

Janeway may finally have an ally in the Sikarans, whose peaceful, advanced ways mirror those of Voyager. But when the Sikarans' own version of the Prime Directive forbids their sharing of technology that could get Voyager home quickly, unlikely allies in the crew plot to take it anyway.

First aired March 20, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E18

Distant Voices

When Bashir is knocked unconscious following an alien attack, he travels through his own mind and is helped by different aspects of his personality, each represented by a different member of the crew.

First aired April 10, 1995

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Voyager S1 · E11

State of Flux

When replicator technology turns up on a Kazon-Nistrim ship, Janeway suspects a collaborator. The Maquis are suspect, but who'd have thought Chakotay's old cell contained a Cardassian spy disguised as a Bajoran -- and his onetime lover?

First aired April 10, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E19

Through the Looking Glass

Sisko is abducted by the Miles O'Brien from the mirror universe, and is forced to assume the identity of their Sisko in order to rebel against the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance.

First aired April 17, 1995

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Voyager S1 · E12

Heroes and Demons

Harry Kim's innocent medieval role-playing holo-program turns dangerous when he and Chakotay disappear without a trace. In his own "native" environment, the holographic Doctor undertakes his first "away mission" to rescue them and survives fear, romance and heartbreak in unmasking an unlikely trespasser.

First aired April 24, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E21

The Die is Cast

Garak must decide whether or not to kill Odo to please his mentor, Enabran Tain, on the eve of a joint Romulan-Cardassian attack on the Dominion.

First aired May 1, 1995

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Voyager S1 · E13

Cathexis

An attack on his shuttlecraft inside a nebula leaves Chakotay brain-dead, but soon a series of comas, violence and sabotage stalk many in the crew. Suspicion falls on Tuvok until the crew uncovers an overlooked but deadly denizen of the nebula.

First aired May 1, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E22

Explorers

Sisko and Jake build a solar sailing ship in an attempt to recreate a journey taken by the ancient Bajorans. Meanwhile, Bashir encounters a former school rival.

First aired May 8, 1995

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Voyager S1 · E14

Faces

A bizarre Vidiian scientist splits the dual ethnic heritage of Torres into separate bodies to test her Klingon DNA for resistance to his people's Phage disease.

First aired May 8, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E23

Family Business

It is discovered that Quark's mother, Ishka, broke Ferengi law and made a profit through a secret deal, which may cost Quark everything he has.

First aired May 15, 1995

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Voyager S1 · E15

Jetrel

When Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel visits Voyager, Neelix is enraged at the Haakonian creator of the superweapon that conquered his world and killed his family. But his anger conceals a personal secret he is forced to confront when Jetrel is not the demon he had expected.

First aired May 15, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E24

Shakaar

Kai Winn, Bajor's spiritual leader has aspirations of also becoming First Minister of Bajor's Provisional Government. To secure her position, she employs Kira to retrieve farming equipment that is being held illegally by the leader of her old resistance cell.

First aired May 22, 1995

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Voyager S1 · E16

Learning Curve

Most Maquis by now have assimilated into Starfleet life, but one troublesome trio are sent to Tuvok's own version of "boot camp" to bring them in line. Their bitter conflict is overshadowed when all of Voyager is threatened by an infection to the ship's bio-neural gel-pack circuitry.

First aired May 22, 1995

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Voyager S2 · E3

Projections

When the Doctor is activated during a Red Alert, he learns that the ship has been abandoned, and that only B'Elanna Torres and an injured Captain Janeway are left on board.

First aired September 11, 1995

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Voyager S2 · E4

Elogium

When the crew of Voyager investigate a cluster of space-borne life forms, Kes prematurely enters a stage in her life known as the "Elogium." This is the only time in her life when she can conceive a child.

First aired September 18, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E25

Facets

Dax is excited to perform a Trill ritual, in which she gets to "meet" each of her past hosts by transfering their memories into her friends. However, when Odo and Curzon merge and want to remain that way, Dax must find her confidence and reclaim that piece of herself.

First aired June 12, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S3 · E26

The Adversary

After Sisko is promoted to Captain, he and the Defiant crew are manipulated by a Changeling posing as an ambassador.

First aired June 19, 1995

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Voyager S2 · E6

Twisted

A spatial distortion ring puts the ship and crew at risk, as it begins to reconfigure the internal layout of Voyager.

First aired October 2, 1995

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Voyager S2 · E1

The 37s

After discovering a 1936 Ford truck floating in space, Voyager follows an AM-band SOS call to a nearby planet.

First aired August 28, 1995

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Voyager S2 · E2

Initiations

A young Kazon trying to earn his name and place among his people kidnaps and tries to kill Chakotay.

First aired September 4, 1995

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Voyager S2 · E5

Non Sequitur

Harry Kim arises one morning to find he is back in San Francisco on Earth with his girlfriend Libby. He learns that in this reality, he never served aboard Voyager, but instead works in Starship Design at Starfleet Headquarters.

First aired September 25, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E1–2

The Way of the Warrior

An overwhelming Klingon task force mysteriously arrives at the station, supposedly to aid their Federation allies in the fight against the Dominion.

First aired October 2, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E3

The Visitor

An accident on the U.S.S. Defiant traps Ben Sisko in subspace.

First aired October 9, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E4

Hippocratic Oath

O'Brien and Bashir are captured by a group of renegade Jem'Hadar who want them to find a cure for the biological addiction to the enzyme 'Ketracel White' which they need for survival

First aired October 16, 1995

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Voyager S2 · E7

Parturition

After Neelix and Paris come to blows over Kes, they find themselves trapped together on a planet dubbed "Planet Hell" and become the unwilling parents of an infant alien.

First aired October 9, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E5

Indiscretion

Gul Dukat asks Kira to help him search for Bajoran prisoners of war - one of which is his half Cardassian/half Bajoran daughter Ziyal.

First aired October 23, 1995

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Voyager S2 · E8

Persistence of Vision

Captain Janeway starts seeing characters and objects from her holo-novel around the ship.

First aired October 30, 1995

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Voyager S2 · E9

Tattoo

Upon discovering a cultural symbol drawn in the ground on a planet that was used by his ancestors to "heal the land", Chakotay tries to contact the beings his tribe called the "Sky Spirits."

First aired November 6, 1995

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Voyager S2 · E10

Cold Fire

The crew of Voyager make contact with the Caretaker's mate, Suspiria, and hope she will be able to send them home.

First aired November 13, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E6

Rejoined

Jadzia rekindles a relationship when she meets the current host of the wife of one Dax's past hosts, Torias.

First aired October 30, 1995

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Voyager S2 · E11

Maneuvers

After Voyager detects a Federation probe, the Kazon-Nistrim attack and steal transporter technology. Chakotay interprets this as a personal attack, and is then captured.

First aired November 20, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E7

Starship Down

During negotiations with the Karemma, the Defiant is attacked by the Jem'Hadar.

First aired November 6, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E8

Little Green Men

While on their way to Starfleet Academy on Earth, Quark, Rom and Nog are thrown back in time and crash land in the small town of Roswell, New Mexico in the year 1947.

First aired November 13, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E9

The Sword of Kahless

Jadzia, Worf and Kor hunt for the ancient Sword of Kahless, which is supposed to unite the Klingon Empire

First aired November 20, 1995

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Voyager S2 · E12

Resistance

Tuvok and B'Elanna are captured and imprisoned after an away mission goes wrong. Janeway is knocked unconscious and is rescued by a man who believes that she is his daughter.

First aired November 27, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E10

Our Man Bashir

A transporter accident traps the senior crew of Deep Space Nine in Bashir's James Bond-like holodeck scenario, with each one taking the role of different characters.

First aired November 27, 1995

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E11

Homefront

Starfleet Command places Sisko and Odo in command of Starfleet Security, as they believe that Changelings may have infiltrated Earth.

First aired January 1, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E12

Paradise Lost

Earth has been placed under martial law and security troops have been deployed in anticipation of a Dominion invasion.

First aired January 8, 1996

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Voyager S2 · E13

Prototype

After repairing a robot she found drifting in space, B'Elanna is abducted and forced to design a new prototype or Voyager will be destroyed.

First aired January 15, 1996

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Voyager S2 · E18

Death Wish

A suicidal Q threatens the future of the Q-Continuum when he requests asylum aboard Voyager.

First aired February 19, 1996

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Voyager S2 · E14

Alliances

In order to stop attacks from the Kazon, Captain Janeway finds herself being forced to make an alliance with the more powerful Kazon sects.

First aired January 22, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E13

Crossfire

Odo is ordered to protect First Minister Shakaar, however, he becomes jealous when Kira and Shakaar become involved with one another.

First aired January 29, 1996

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Voyager S2 · E15

Threshold

Tom Paris begins evolving into a higher organism after achieving warp 10 in an experimental shuttle.

First aired January 29, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E14

Return to Grace

Gul Dukat asks for the assistance of Kira to help him track down a Klingon ship that destroyed a Cardassian Outpost.

First aired February 5, 1996

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Voyager S2 · E16

Meld

When Ensign Lon Suder kills a crewmate, Tuvok performs a mind meld to help repress Suder's violent tendencies. However, soon after, Tuvok begins showing violent tendencies himself.

First aired February 5, 1996

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Voyager S2 · E17

Dreadnought

Voyager encounters a Cardassian missile ship, which Torres re-programmed while working for the Maquis. Now, B'Elanna must outsmart her own programming to disarm Dreadnought, before it destroys a planet and kills millions of innocent people.

First aired February 12, 1996

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Voyager S2 · E19

Lifesigns

After receiving a Vidiian patient who is about to die from the phage, The Doctor transfers her consciousness into the ship's computer and creates a holographic body, and soon begins to develop romantic feelings for her.

First aired February 26, 1996

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Voyager S2 · E20

Investigations

After weeks of erratic behavior, Tom Paris leaves Voyager and joins a Talaxian convoy.

First aired March 13, 1996

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Voyager S2 · E21

Deadlock

An accident in a plasma cloud creates a duplicate Voyager after they are attacked by the Vidiians.

First aired March 18, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E15

Sons of Mogh

When Kurn, Worf's brother, comes to Deep Space Nine, he asks Worf to kill him as his family has been dishonored by Worf's actions, and he can't live with the shame.

First aired February 12, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E16

Bar Association

Rom breaks Ferengi law and organises a Union movement in order to improve the working conditions Quark subjects his employees to.

First aired February 19, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E17

Accession

200 years after his disappearance, a Bajoran poet emerges from the wormhole claiming to be the real Emissary.

First aired February 26, 1996

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Voyager S2 · E22

Innocence

When Tuvok crashes on a moon, he discovers three small children who believe they are about to die.

First aired April 8, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E18

Rules of Engagement

Worf faces extradition to his homeworld when he destroys a Klingon transport and is solely responsible for the deaths of the 441 passengers.

First aired April 8, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E19

Hard Time

The Argrathi falsely accuses Miles O'Brien of espionage.

First aired April 15, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E20

Shattered Mirror

Sisko must help a band of rebels fight a Klingon-Cardassian alliance in the mirror universe.

First aired April 22, 1996

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Voyager S2 · E23

The Thaw

The crew of Voyager encounters a planet that has recently entered an ice age. They discover a series of stasis chambers where a small group of people are mentally connected to an artificial environment that turned horribly wrong.

First aired April 29, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E21

The Muse

A pregnant Lwaxana Troi arrives on Deep Space Nine, distressed over the prospect of having her child taken away by its Tavnian father.

First aired April 29, 1996

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Voyager S2 · E24

Tuvix

A transporter accident merges Tuvok and Neelix into one person.

First aired May 6, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E22

For the Cause

Sisko discovers that Kasidy is smuggling medical supplies to the Maquis.

First aired May 6, 1996

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Voyager S2 · E25

Resolutions

When Captain Janeway and Chakotay contract an incurable virus they are left on a planet which shields them from its effects. While Janeway searches for a cure, she begins to form a deeper relationship with her first officer.

First aired May 13, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E23

To the Death

The future of peace is at stake when a band of renegade Jem'Hadar discovers an ancient Iconian Gateway, which can enable them to launch attacks anywhere in the galaxy.

First aired May 13, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E24

The Quickening

Bashir and Dax try to find a cure for a planet-wide infection that was induced by the Jem'Hadar as a form of punishment for disobeying the Dominion.

First aired May 20, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E25

Body Parts

When Quark believes he is going to die, he performs the custom of selling off his desiccated remains in advance for profit. Keiko is seriously injured in an accident, and her developing baby must be transplanted.

First aired June 10, 1996

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Deep Space Nine S4 · E26

Broken Link

When Odo contracts a mysterious illness, the Defiant crew bring him to the Gamma Quadrant to find the Founders.

First aired June 17, 1996

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