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===Teaser===
 
===Teaser===
With a ''[[bat'leth]]'' in hand, an enraged [[B'Elanna Torres]] storms out of a [[holodeck]], followed closely by [[Tom Paris]]. Torres resents the fact that Paris took her to a [[Klingon]] training session. She laments Paris' newfound interest in Klingon martial arts, and insists that she is not interested in holographic disembowelment. An argument between the two ensues. Paris calls Torres hostile. At that moment an [[alien]] is transported on to {{USS|Voyager}}. The man appears to be lost and confused.
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With a ''[[bat'leth]]'' in hand, an enraged [[B'Elanna Torres]] storms out of a [[holodeck]], followed closely by [[Tom Paris]]. Torres resents the fact that Paris took her to a [[Klingon]] training session. She laments Paris' new-found interest in Klingon martial arts, and insists that she is not interested in holographic disembowelment. An argument between the two ensues. Paris calls Torres hostile. At that moment an [[alien]] is transported on to {{USS|Voyager}}. The man appears to be lost and confused.
   
 
=== Act One ===
 
=== Act One ===
Shocked at the visitor, Paris signals the [[bridge]]. The alien appears frightened, and out of place in ''Voyager''{{'}}s artificial environment. He is brought to [[sickbay]], where he is examined by [[The Doctor]]. The alien identifies his [[species]] as [[Nyrian]]. He claims to have been walking in the street when he was [[transporter|transported]] aboard. When inquired about how he came aboard ''Voyager'', he described feeling lightheaded, everything around him "bending, or rippling", then a curious sensation. They soon realize that at the instant that the Nyrian was transported aboard ''Voyager'', [[Kes]] was transported away. Concerned, [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway|Janeway]] orders Kim and Torres to start investigating. There are no indications that a ship could have transported them, and that the closest system is over ten [[light year]]s away. [[Ensign]] [[Harry Kim|Kim]] is beamed away a few minutes later, and another Nyrian appears on the bridge. Nyrians are now regularly appearing on ''Voyager''. At a [[senior staff]] meeting, it's revealed that in the last three hours, twenty-two people have disappeared, and that in eighteen hours, the entire crew will disappear. Torres explains that what is happening could have been anything, a naturally occurring phenomenon or a kind of technology. She shows a surge in [[polaron]] particles, and a spatial distortion field surround the abductees before they disappear. [[Chakotay]] does not feel threatened and considers the Nyrians friendly, but Janeway has a gut feeling that something is wrong about them.
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Shocked at the visitor, Paris signals the [[bridge]]. The alien appears frightened, and out of place in ''Voyager''{{'}}s artificial environment. He is brought to [[sickbay]], where he is examined by [[The Doctor]]. The alien identifies his [[species]] as [[Nyrian]]. He claims to have been walking in the street when he was [[transporter|transported]] aboard. When inquired about how he came aboard ''Voyager'', he described feeling [[lightheaded]], everything around him "bending, or rippling", then a curious sensation. They soon realize that at the instant that the Nyrian was transported aboard ''Voyager'', [[Kes]] was transported away. Concerned, [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway|Janeway]] orders Kim and Torres to start investigating. There are no indications that a ship could have transported them, and that the closest system is over ten [[light year]]s away. [[Ensign]] [[Harry Kim|Kim]] is beamed away a few minutes later, and another Nyrian appears on the bridge. Nyrians are now regularly appearing on ''Voyager''. At a [[senior staff]] meeting, it's revealed that in the last three hours, twenty-two people have disappeared, and that in eighteen hours, the entire crew will disappear. Torres explains that what is happening could have been anything, a naturally-occurring phenomenon or a kind of technology. She shows a surge in [[polaron]] particles, and a spatial distortion field surround the abductees before they disappear. [[Chakotay]] does not feel threatened and considers the Nyrians friendly, but Janeway has a gut feeling that something is wrong about them.
   
 
=== Act Two ===
 
=== Act Two ===
"''Captain's log, [[Stardate]] 50912.4. It's been twelve hours since these mysterious exchanges began, and we still haven't discovered their cause. I've already lost over half my crew.''"
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:"''Captain's log, [[Stardate]] 50912.4. It's been twelve hours since these mysterious exchanges began, and we still haven't discovered their cause. I've already lost over half my crew.''"
   
Concerned, Janeway has the Nyrians confined to the [[cargo bay]]s and orders that all non-essential functions are to be shut down. In engineering, Torres has a theory that ''Voyager'' has snagged onto a [[wormhole]] the moment that it was forming. Soon, Janeway herself is beamed away. With a [[skeleton crew]], Chakotay is left in command. He mans the [[helm]] and an [[ensign]] has [[tactical]]. Neelix is soon abducted while he is on the bridge. Chakotay has all [[computer]] interfaces restricted to [[Starfleet]] [[voiceprint]]s only. Torres is working with a Nyrian [[scientist]], conducting a [[tetryon]] scan of the area against the scientist's objections. Torres concludes that the anomaly isn't a wormhole, nor is it a subspace flow field. The scientist, [[Rislan]], strikes his [[security guard]] and grabs the guard's [[phaser]]. He then presses a few buttons on the [[control panel]] and says that she has been moved to the front of the line. She is transported to an idyllic version of Earth, along with the missing crewmembers.
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Concerned, Janeway has the Nyrians confined to the [[cargo bay]]s and orders that all non-essential functions are to be shut down. In [[engineering]], Torres has a theory that ''Voyager'' has snagged onto a [[wormhole]] the moment that it was forming. Soon, Janeway herself is beamed away. With a [[skeleton crew]], Chakotay is left in command. He mans the [[helm]] and an [[ensign]] has [[tactical]]. Neelix is soon abducted while he is on the bridge. Chakotay has all [[computer]] interfaces restricted to [[Starfleet]] [[voiceprint]]s only. Torres is working with a Nyrian [[scientist]], conducting a [[tetryon]] scan of the area against the scientist's objections. Torres concludes that the anomaly isn't a wormhole, nor is it a subspace flow field. The scientist, [[Rislan]], strikes his [[security guard]] and grabs the guard's [[phaser]]. He then presses a few buttons on the [[control panel]] and says that she has been moved to the front of the line. She is transported to an idyllic version of Earth, along with the missing crewmembers.
   
 
=== Act Three ===
 
=== Act Three ===
 
The Nyrian security guards take her [[combadge]] and leave. Torres, Janeway, Kes, and Paris all swap theories on what is going on, and what the Nyrians want. [[Tuvok]] reports that the crew is spread across twelve different compounds and at all ends there is an insurmountable barrier, a cliff or a river. Paris says that their "paradise" has an almost idyllic quality.
 
The Nyrian security guards take her [[combadge]] and leave. Torres, Janeway, Kes, and Paris all swap theories on what is going on, and what the Nyrians want. [[Tuvok]] reports that the crew is spread across twelve different compounds and at all ends there is an insurmountable barrier, a cliff or a river. Paris says that their "paradise" has an almost idyllic quality.
   
A crewman tells Chakotay that Rislan's guard is unconscious in [[engineering]] and that Rislan and Torres are gone. Chakotay runs to the cargo bay to have a talk with the Nyrians. He draws his phaser and jumps into the room in an aggressive posture. The room is empty. He issues a [[security alert]] to the remaining twelve crewmen on board. The crew moves to secure engineering and the bridge, but it is futile. The Nyrians storm both stations and easily overpower the personnel there. Chakotay realizes that the Nyrians have planned this all along, so he orders the remaining ''Voyager'' crew to [[sabotage]] the ship, but they are soon beamed away. Chakotay transfers The Doctor to his [[mobile emitter]] to prevent the Nyrian to delete his program. Both eventually are transported to the alien paradise.
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Crewman [[Gennaro]] tells Chakotay that Rislan's guard, Ensign [[Molina]], is unconscious in engineering and that Rislan and Torres are gone. Chakotay runs to the cargo bay to have a talk with the Nyrians. He draws his phaser and jumps into the room in an aggressive posture. The room is empty. He issues a [[security alert]] to the remaining twelve crewmen on board. The crew moves to secure engineering and the bridge, but it is futile. The Nyrians storm both stations and easily overpower the personnel there. Chakotay realizes that the Nyrians have planned this all along, so he orders the remaining ''Voyager'' crew to [[sabotage]] the ship, but they are soon beamed away. Chakotay finds that the Nyrians are trying to delete The Doctor's program and heads to sickbay. Arriving successfully, Chakotay transfers The Doctor to his [[mobile emitter]] as the Nyrians corner him. As he surreptitiously pockets the emitter, Chakotay surrenders and he is transported to the surface, allowing the Nyrians to have successfully taken over the ship.
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Back at the prison compound, a Nyrian woman named [[Taleen]] appears and welcomes the ''Voyager'' crew to their new home. The Nyrians expand their civilization by gradually switching places with the crews of [[ship]]s, [[space station]]s, and [[colonies]] and transport their victims to an artificial environment drawn from the victims' own databases. The Nyrians see themselves as benevolent jailers, but Chakotay remarks that it is "still a prison."
 
Back at the prison compound, a Nyrian woman named [[Taleen]] appears and welcomes the ''Voyager'' crew to their new home. The Nyrians expand their civilization by gradually switching places with the crews of [[ship]]s, [[space station]]s, and [[colonies]] and transport their victims to an artificial environment drawn from the victims' own databases. The Nyrians see themselves as benevolent jailers, but Chakotay remarks that it is "still a prison."
   
As soon as Taleen leaves, Janeway begins to plan their escape, theorizing that the entire place is likely to be a holographic projection. An alien named [[Jarleth]] appears to welcome the crew, saying he is their new neighbor.
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As soon as Taleen leaves, Janeway begins to plan their escape, theorizing that the entire place is likely to be a holographic projection. An alien named [[Jarlath]] appears to welcome the crew, saying he is their new neighbor.
   
 
=== Act Four ===
 
=== Act Four ===
Jarleth reveals that there are other environments holding different species and that each environment is tailored to the requirements of its prisoners. Jarleth has found a portal between his environment and the one holding the ''Voyager'' crew, and Janeway trades him a couple of baskets of food for the means to locate the portal.
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Jarlath reveals that there are other environments holding different species and that each environment is tailored to the requirements of its prisoners. Jarlath has found a portal between his environment and the one holding the ''Voyager'' crew, and Janeway trades him a couple of baskets of food for the means to locate the portal.
   
That evening, Torres reconfigures the [[EMH]]'s optical sensors to detect the [[microwave]] signature of the portals. She apologizes to Paris but an argument between the two ensues. The Doctor makes comments about the exchanges with psychological analysis until Torres reconfigures the EMH to make The Doctor mute.
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That evening, Torres reconfigures the [[EMH]]'s optical sensors to detect the [[microwave]] signature of the portals. She apologizes to Paris but an argument between the two ensues. The Doctor makes comments about the exchanges with psychological analysis until Torres reconfigures the EMH to make The Doctor mute. The EMH discovers a portal that leads into the control area of the prison colony. Janeway, Tuvok, Torres, Paris, and Jarlath enter the control area and split up, carrying home-made phasers "improvised" by Tuvok.
The EMH discovers a portal that leads into the control area of the prison colony. Janeway, Tuvok, Torres, Paris, and Jarleth enter the control area and split up, carrying home-made phasers "improvised" by Tuvok.
 
   
Janeway and Tuvok use a control station terminal and learn that there are 94 different environments, and that they are actually on a ship. Just as they learn more information, an alarm begins to sound.
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Janeway and Tuvok use a control station terminal and learn that there are 94 different environments, and that they are actually on a [[Nyrian biosphere vessel|ship]]. Just as they learn more information, an alarm begins to sound.
   
 
=== Act Five ===
 
=== Act Five ===
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The Nyrians are alerted to their presence outside their environment, and Dammar authorizes Taleen to use force to return the prisoners to their habitats. Dammar also orders ''Voyager'' to be taken to the biosphere vessel to reinforce them.
With Nyrian guards on their tail, Torres and Paris (minus the anxious Jarleth who surrenders to the Nyrian guards) are trapped inside the corridors of the Nyrian ship. They come to a frigid, snowy habitat and Torres recalls how the Nyrians found ''Voyager'' too cold. Assuming that the Nyrians would not want to pursue them, they enter the habitat. Taleen orders her guards to follow them. Using Tuvok's phaser, Torres and Paris manage to stun the guards, but then find themselves lost in the wintry landscape, unable to return to the portal.
 
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With Nyrian guards on their tail, Torres and Paris (minus the anxious Jarlath who surrenders to the Nyrian guards) are trapped inside the corridors of the Nyrian ship. They come to a frigid, snowy habitat and Torres recalls how the Nyrians found ''Voyager'' too cold. Assuming that the Nyrians would not want to pursue them, they enter the habitat. Taleen orders her guards to follow them. Using Tuvok's phaser, Torres and Paris manage to stun the guards, but then find themselves lost in the wintry landscape, unable to return to the portal.
   
Janeway also discovers the [[translocator]] that the Nyrians used to switch places with the ''Voyager'' crew, and attempts to gain command of it. The Nyrians are alerted to their presence outside their environment, and Dammar authorizes Taleen to use force to return the prisoners to their habitats.
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Meanwhile, Janeway and Tuvok evade capture, and Tuvok uses the [[Vulcan nerve pinch]] on a Nyrian guard. They discovers the [[translocator]] that the Nyrians used to switch places with the ''Voyager'' crew, and attempts to gain command of it.
   
Just as Torres seems about to succumb to the cold, she and Paris find themselves back in the [[Habitat: Federation|Earth habitat]], and Dammar, Rislan, and the Nyrians find themselves in the icy [[Argala]] habitat. Janeway has learned how to use the translocator, and threatens to relocate all the Nyrians to the Argala habitat unless her crew and all the other prisoners are freed. Faced with death by hypothermia, the Nyrians surrender and relinquish ''Voyager'' to Janeway.
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Just as Torres seems about to succumb to the cold, she and Paris find themselves back in the [[Habitat: Federation|Earth habitat]], and Dammar and Rislan find themselves in the icy [[Argala]] habitat. Janeway and Tuvok have learned how to use the translocator, and Janeway threatens to relocate all the Nyrians to the Argala habitat unless her crew and all the other prisoners are freed. Faced with death by hypothermia, the Nyrians surrender and relinquish ''Voyager'' to Janeway. The alien prisoners are freed, and their native worlds are contacted to take them home.
   
 
== Log entries ==
 
== Log entries ==
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== Memorable quotes ==
 
== Memorable quotes ==
"''Welcome to sickbay &ndash; take a number.''"<br />
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"''Welcome to sickbay &ndash; take a number.''"
: - '''The Doctor''' as [[sickbay]] is rapidly filling up with displaced aliens
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: - '''The Doctor''', as sickbay is rapidly filling up with displaced aliens
   
   
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"''That's ridiculous. l am an easygoing person... who is just trying to be friendly to someone who is obviously terrified of having a friend.''"<br />
 
"''That's ridiculous. l am an easygoing person... who is just trying to be friendly to someone who is obviously terrified of having a friend.''"<br />
 
"''Fear of intimacy is a common indication of low self-esteem. Perhaps if you stopped to analyze the root cause, you might...''"
 
"''Fear of intimacy is a common indication of low self-esteem. Perhaps if you stopped to analyze the root cause, you might...''"
: - '''Torres''', '''The Doctor''' and '''Paris''' before B'Elanna shut down The Doctor's voice
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: - '''Torres''', '''The Doctor''', and '''Paris''' before Torres shut down The Doctor's voice
   
   
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"''You don't think l'm hostile, do you?''"<br />
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"''You don't think I'm hostile, do you?''"<br />
"''l, uh... wouldn't describe you that way, no.''"<br />
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"''I, uh... wouldn't describe you that way, no.''"<br />
"''l know that l have a temper, but that doesn't mean that l'm always hostile, does it?''"<br />
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"''I know that I have a temper, but that doesn't mean that I'm always hostile, does it?''"<br />
 
"''No, of course not.''"<br />
 
"''No, of course not.''"<br />
"''l am forthright; l speak my mind. That is very different from being hostile.''"<br />
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"''I am forthright; I speak my mind. That is very different from being hostile.''"<br />
 
"''Very different''"<br />
 
"''Very different''"<br />
 
"''And if someone described me that way, they'd be way off the mark, wouldn't they?''"<br />
 
"''And if someone described me that way, they'd be way off the mark, wouldn't they?''"<br />
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: - '''Torres''' and '''Kim'''
 
: - '''Torres''' and '''Kim'''
   
== Background Information ==
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== Background information ==
=== Story and Script ===
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=== Story and script ===
 
* With this episode, [[Lisa Klink]] wanted to devise a story in a style that she was not used to doing for ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''. "''I really wanted to do an ensemble story that was a little more plot-driven,''" she said, "''because a lot of my stuff has been very character-driven.''" (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 113)
 
* With this episode, [[Lisa Klink]] wanted to devise a story in a style that she was not used to doing for ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''. "''I really wanted to do an ensemble story that was a little more plot-driven,''" she said, "''because a lot of my stuff has been very character-driven.''" (''[[Cinefantastique]]'', Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 113)
 
* This installment's final draft script was submitted on {{d|5|February|1997}}. [http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/subfile/taylorjinv.html]
 
* This installment's final draft script was submitted on {{d|5|February|1997}}. [http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/subfile/taylorjinv.html]
   
 
=== Cast ===
 
=== Cast ===
* This episode includes two past ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' performers; [[Kenneth Tigar]] ([[Dammar]]) appeared in the uncredited role of [[Margan]] in {{e|Symbiosis}} and [[Mark L. Taylor]] ([[Jarleth]]) portrayed [[Haritath]] in {{e|The Ensigns of Command}}.
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* This episode includes two past ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' performers; [[Kenneth Tigar]] ([[Dammar]]) appeared in the uncredited role of [[Margan]] in {{e|Symbiosis}} and [[Mark L. Taylor]] ([[Jarlath]]) portrayed [[Haritath]] in {{e|The Ensigns of Command}}.
* The episode's guest cast also contains two performers who appeared on ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''; [[James Noah]] ([[Rislan]]) previously played [[Hanor Pren]] in {{e|Rejoined}}, whereas [[Nancy Youngblut]] ([[Taleen]]) &ndash; following her work here &ndash; went on to portray [[Kolana]] in {{e|Once More Unto the Breach}}.
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* The episode's guest cast also contains two performers who appeared on ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'': [[James Noah]] ([[Rislan]]) previously played [[Hanor Pren]] in {{e|Rejoined}}, whereas [[Nancy Youngblut]] ([[Taleen]]) &ndash; following her work here &ndash; went on to portray [[Kolana]] in {{e|Once More Unto the Breach}}.
   
 
=== Production ===
 
=== Production ===
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* Torres and Paris' bet (referred to at the start of this episode) which led to them visiting the Klingon exercise program takes place in the previous episode, {{e|Distant Origin}}.
 
* Torres and Paris' bet (referred to at the start of this episode) which led to them visiting the Klingon exercise program takes place in the previous episode, {{e|Distant Origin}}.
 
* This episode is the only one that references the four-month Vulcan [[Rite of Tal'oth]]. However, that ritual seems very similar to the ten-day ''[[kahs-wan]]'' maturity test from the ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]'' episode {{e|Yesteryear}}.
 
* This episode is the only one that references the four-month Vulcan [[Rite of Tal'oth]]. However, that ritual seems very similar to the ten-day ''[[kahs-wan]]'' maturity test from the ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]'' episode {{e|Yesteryear}}.
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* This episode marks the second time that [[USS Voyager]] is captured by an alien race, after the Kazon in [[Basics, Part I (episode)]].
   
 
=== Apocrypha ===
 
=== Apocrypha ===
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===Starring===
 
===Starring===
 
*[[Kate Mulgrew]] as [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway]]
 
*[[Kate Mulgrew]] as [[Captain]] [[Kathryn Janeway]]
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===Also starring===
 
===Also starring===
 
*[[Robert Beltran]] as [[Commander]] [[Chakotay]]
 
*[[Robert Beltran]] as [[Commander]] [[Chakotay]]
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*[[Tim Russ]] as [[Lieutenant]] [[Tuvok]]
 
*[[Tim Russ]] as [[Lieutenant]] [[Tuvok]]
 
*[[Garrett Wang]] as [[Ensign]] [[Harry Kim]]
 
*[[Garrett Wang]] as [[Ensign]] [[Harry Kim]]
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=== Guest stars ===
 
=== Guest stars ===
 
*[[Kenneth Tigar]] as [[Dammar]]
 
*[[Kenneth Tigar]] as [[Dammar]]
*[[Mark L. Taylor]] as [[Jarleth]]
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*[[Mark L. Taylor]] as [[Jarlath]]
 
*[[James Noah]] as [[Rislan]]
 
*[[James Noah]] as [[Rislan]]
 
*[[Nancy Youngblut]] as [[Taleen]]
 
*[[Nancy Youngblut]] as [[Taleen]]
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=== Co-stars ===
 
=== Co-stars ===
*[[Deborah Levin]] as [[Ensign]] [[Lang (Ensign)|Lang]]
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*[[Deborah Levin]] as [[Ensign]] {{dis|Lang|Ensign}}
 
*[[Majel Barrett]] as the [[computer|computer voice]]
 
*[[Majel Barrett]] as the [[computer|computer voice]]
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=== Uncredited co-stars ===
 
=== Uncredited co-stars ===
 
*[[Sue Henley]] as [[Ensign]] [[Brooks (Ensign)|Brooks]]
 
*[[Sue Henley]] as [[Ensign]] [[Brooks (Ensign)|Brooks]]
*[[Zach LeBeau]] as [[Larson]]
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*[[Zach LeBeau]] as [[Crewman]] [[Larson]]
 
*[[Susan Lewis]] as a [[Unnamed USS Voyager personnel#Female officer|Transporter technician]]
 
*[[Susan Lewis]] as a [[Unnamed USS Voyager personnel#Female officer|Transporter technician]]
 
*[[Louis Ortiz]] as [[Ensign]] [[Culhane]]
 
*[[Louis Ortiz]] as [[Ensign]] [[Culhane]]
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*[[Aric Rogokos]] as [[Unnamed Nyrians#Male Nyrian invader #3|Nyrian invader]]
 
*[[Aric Rogokos]] as [[Unnamed Nyrians#Male Nyrian invader #3|Nyrian invader]]
 
*[[Laurence Rosenthal]] as [[Molina]]
 
*[[Laurence Rosenthal]] as [[Molina]]
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* [[Holiday Freeman]] as [[Unnamed USS Voyager personnel#Transporter chief|Operations Division Officer]]
 
*[[Richard Sarstedt]] as [[William McKenzie]]
 
*[[Richard Sarstedt]] as [[William McKenzie]]
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*[[Jennifer Somers]] as a [[Unnamed USS Voyager personnel#Female officer|science officer]]
 
*[[Pablo Soriano]] as a [[Unnamed Nyrians#Male Nyrian invader #4|Nyrian invader]]
 
*[[Pablo Soriano]] as a [[Unnamed Nyrians#Male Nyrian invader #4|Nyrian invader]]
 
*[[John Tampoya]] as [[Kashimuro Nozawa]]
 
*[[John Tampoya]] as [[Kashimuro Nozawa]]
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*[[Steve Carnahan]] as [[Unnamed USS Voyager personnel#Operations division officer|Security guard]]
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* [[Shepard Ross]] as [[Ensign]] {{dis|Murphy|security}}
 
*[[Unknown actor]] as [[Gennaro]] (voice only)
 
*[[Unknown actor]] as [[Gennaro]] (voice only)
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*[[Unknown actress|Unknown actresses]] as
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** [[Unnamed USS Voyager personnel#Female Bridge officer|command division officer]]
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** Two holodeck women
   
 
=== References ===
 
=== References ===
[[47]]; [[Acacia]]; [[Military parlance#All hands|all hands]]; [[Argala]]; [[artificial biosphere]]; [[astrophysicist]]; ''[[bat'leth]]''; [[bio-scanner]]; [[Bourget]]; [[Bowsers]]; [[Calentar]]; [[Cardassian]]s; [[Celsius]]; [[colony]]; [[electrofluidic target servo]]s; [[English language]]; [[EPS relay]]; [[Federation]]; [[holodeck]]; [[hydrogen]]; [[interstellar dust]]; [[Jefferies tube]]; [[kilometer]]; [[Klingon]]s; [[level-1 analysis]]; [[microcellular scan]]; [[microwave]]; [[neutrino]]; [[Niacin]]; [[Nyria III]]; [[Nyria V]]; [[Nyrian]]; [[Nyrian biosphere vessel]]; [[Nyrian system]]; [[photosynthetic bioprocessor]]; [[polaron]]; [[Porcion]]; [[quantum level fluctuation]]; [[Quitar]]; [[red giant]]; [[Rite of Tal'oth]]; [[sabotage]]; [[security alert]]; [[skeleton crew]]; [[sonic shower]]; [[spatial distortion field]]; [[spatial harmonics]]; [[Starfleet Academy]]; [[subspace flow field]]; [[Survival Strategies]]; [[Tanatuva]]; [[tetryon]]; [[theta-band radiation]]; [[translation algorithm]]; [[translocator]]; [[tricorder]]; [[voiceprint]]; [[Vulcan]]s; [[Vulcan (planet)]]; [[wormhole]]; [[Zooabud]]
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[[47]]; [[Acacia]]; [[Military parlance#All hands|all hands]]; [[Argala]]; [[artificial biosphere]]; [[astrophysicist]]; ''[[bat'leth]]''; [[bio-scanner]]; [[Bourget]]; [[Bowsers]]; [[Calentar]]; [[Cardassian]]s; [[Celsius]]; [[colony]]; [[electrofluidic target servo]]s; [[English language]]; [[EPS relay]]; [[Federation]]; [[holodeck]]; [[hydrogen]]; [[interstellar dust]]; [[Jefferies tube]]; [[kilometer]]; [[Klingon]]s; [[level-1 analysis]]; [[lightheaded]]; [[microcellular scan]]; [[microwave]]; [[neutrino]]; [[Niacin]]; [[Nyria III]]; [[Nyria V]]; [[Nyrian]]; [[Nyrian biosphere vessel]]; [[Nyrian system]]; [[photosynthetic bioprocessor]]; [[polaron]]; [[Porcion]]; [[quantum level fluctuation]]; [[Quitar]]; [[red giant]]; [[Rite of Tal'oth]]; [[sabotage]]; [[security alert]]; [[skeleton crew]]; [[sonic shower]]; [[spatial distortion field]]; [[spatial harmonics]]; [[Starfleet Academy]]; [[subspace flow field]]; [[Survival Strategies]]; [[Tanatuva]]; [[tetryon]]; [[theta-band radiation]]; [[translation algorithm]]; [[translocator]]; [[tricorder]]; [[voiceprint]]; [[Vulcan]]s; [[Vulcan (planet)]]; [[wormhole]]; [[Zooabud]]
   
 
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Voyager crew members begin disappearing one by one, being replaced by aliens.

Summary

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Teaser

With a bat'leth in hand, an enraged B'Elanna Torres storms out of a holodeck, followed closely by Tom Paris. Torres resents the fact that Paris took her to a Klingon training session. She laments Paris' new-found interest in Klingon martial arts, and insists that she is not interested in holographic disembowelment. An argument between the two ensues. Paris calls Torres hostile. At that moment an alien is transported on to USS Voyager. The man appears to be lost and confused.

Act One

Shocked at the visitor, Paris signals the bridge. The alien appears frightened, and out of place in Voyager's artificial environment. He is brought to sickbay, where he is examined by The Doctor. The alien identifies his species as Nyrian. He claims to have been walking in the street when he was transported aboard. When inquired about how he came aboard Voyager, he described feeling lightheaded, everything around him "bending, or rippling", then a curious sensation. They soon realize that at the instant that the Nyrian was transported aboard Voyager, Kes was transported away. Concerned, Captain Janeway orders Kim and Torres to start investigating. There are no indications that a ship could have transported them, and that the closest system is over ten light years away. Ensign Kim is beamed away a few minutes later, and another Nyrian appears on the bridge. Nyrians are now regularly appearing on Voyager. At a senior staff meeting, it's revealed that in the last three hours, twenty-two people have disappeared, and that in eighteen hours, the entire crew will disappear. Torres explains that what is happening could have been anything, a naturally-occurring phenomenon or a kind of technology. She shows a surge in polaron particles, and a spatial distortion field surround the abductees before they disappear. Chakotay does not feel threatened and considers the Nyrians friendly, but Janeway has a gut feeling that something is wrong about them.

Act Two

"Captain's log, Stardate 50912.4. It's been twelve hours since these mysterious exchanges began, and we still haven't discovered their cause. I've already lost over half my crew."

Concerned, Janeway has the Nyrians confined to the cargo bays and orders that all non-essential functions are to be shut down. In engineering, Torres has a theory that Voyager has snagged onto a wormhole the moment that it was forming. Soon, Janeway herself is beamed away. With a skeleton crew, Chakotay is left in command. He mans the helm and an ensign has tactical. Neelix is soon abducted while he is on the bridge. Chakotay has all computer interfaces restricted to Starfleet voiceprints only. Torres is working with a Nyrian scientist, conducting a tetryon scan of the area against the scientist's objections. Torres concludes that the anomaly isn't a wormhole, nor is it a subspace flow field. The scientist, Rislan, strikes his security guard and grabs the guard's phaser. He then presses a few buttons on the control panel and says that she has been moved to the front of the line. She is transported to an idyllic version of Earth, along with the missing crewmembers.

Act Three

The Nyrian security guards take her combadge and leave. Torres, Janeway, Kes, and Paris all swap theories on what is going on, and what the Nyrians want. Tuvok reports that the crew is spread across twelve different compounds and at all ends there is an insurmountable barrier, a cliff or a river. Paris says that their "paradise" has an almost idyllic quality.

Crewman Gennaro tells Chakotay that Rislan's guard, Ensign Molina, is unconscious in engineering and that Rislan and Torres are gone. Chakotay runs to the cargo bay to have a talk with the Nyrians. He draws his phaser and jumps into the room in an aggressive posture. The room is empty. He issues a security alert to the remaining twelve crewmen on board. The crew moves to secure engineering and the bridge, but it is futile. The Nyrians storm both stations and easily overpower the personnel there. Chakotay realizes that the Nyrians have planned this all along, so he orders the remaining Voyager crew to sabotage the ship, but they are soon beamed away. Chakotay finds that the Nyrians are trying to delete The Doctor's program and heads to sickbay. Arriving successfully, Chakotay transfers The Doctor to his mobile emitter as the Nyrians corner him. As he surreptitiously pockets the emitter, Chakotay surrenders and he is transported to the surface, allowing the Nyrians to have successfully taken over the ship.

Back at the prison compound, a Nyrian woman named Taleen appears and welcomes the Voyager crew to their new home. The Nyrians expand their civilization by gradually switching places with the crews of ships, space stations, and colonies and transport their victims to an artificial environment drawn from the victims' own databases. The Nyrians see themselves as benevolent jailers, but Chakotay remarks that it is "still a prison."

As soon as Taleen leaves, Janeway begins to plan their escape, theorizing that the entire place is likely to be a holographic projection. An alien named Jarlath appears to welcome the crew, saying he is their new neighbor.

Act Four

Jarlath reveals that there are other environments holding different species and that each environment is tailored to the requirements of its prisoners. Jarlath has found a portal between his environment and the one holding the Voyager crew, and Janeway trades him a couple of baskets of food for the means to locate the portal.

That evening, Torres reconfigures the EMH's optical sensors to detect the microwave signature of the portals. She apologizes to Paris but an argument between the two ensues. The Doctor makes comments about the exchanges with psychological analysis until Torres reconfigures the EMH to make The Doctor mute. The EMH discovers a portal that leads into the control area of the prison colony. Janeway, Tuvok, Torres, Paris, and Jarlath enter the control area and split up, carrying home-made phasers "improvised" by Tuvok.

Janeway and Tuvok use a control station terminal and learn that there are 94 different environments, and that they are actually on a ship. Just as they learn more information, an alarm begins to sound.

Act Five

The Nyrians are alerted to their presence outside their environment, and Dammar authorizes Taleen to use force to return the prisoners to their habitats. Dammar also orders Voyager to be taken to the biosphere vessel to reinforce them.

With Nyrian guards on their tail, Torres and Paris (minus the anxious Jarlath who surrenders to the Nyrian guards) are trapped inside the corridors of the Nyrian ship. They come to a frigid, snowy habitat and Torres recalls how the Nyrians found Voyager too cold. Assuming that the Nyrians would not want to pursue them, they enter the habitat. Taleen orders her guards to follow them. Using Tuvok's phaser, Torres and Paris manage to stun the guards, but then find themselves lost in the wintry landscape, unable to return to the portal.

Meanwhile, Janeway and Tuvok evade capture, and Tuvok uses the Vulcan nerve pinch on a Nyrian guard. They discovers the translocator that the Nyrians used to switch places with the Voyager crew, and attempts to gain command of it.

Just as Torres seems about to succumb to the cold, she and Paris find themselves back in the Earth habitat, and Dammar and Rislan find themselves in the icy Argala habitat. Janeway and Tuvok have learned how to use the translocator, and Janeway threatens to relocate all the Nyrians to the Argala habitat unless her crew and all the other prisoners are freed. Faced with death by hypothermia, the Nyrians surrender and relinquish Voyager to Janeway. The alien prisoners are freed, and their native worlds are contacted to take them home.

Log entries

  • "Captain's log, stardate 50912.4. It's been twelve hours since these mysterious exchanges began. We still haven't discovered their cause. I've already lost over half my crew."
  • "Captain's log, stardate 50929.6. The Nyrians have surrendered Voyager, and my crew is safely back on board. The former prisoners on the habitat vessel have contacted their native worlds, and are waiting to be taken home."

Memorable quotes

"Welcome to sickbay – take a number."

- The Doctor, as sickbay is rapidly filling up with displaced aliens


"I've reconfigured The Doctor's optical sensors and as soon as they're aligned he should be able to detect the microwave signature of the portals."
"Then I can begin my new career as a tricorder."

- Torres and The Doctor


"Shows how much you know about Klingons. They have much less tolerance for the cold than Humans do."
"Really? I thought that was Cardassians."
"No, they just complain about it more."

- Torres and Paris inside the Argala habitat


"On your feet, that's an order!"
"You can't give me orders, we're the same rank."
"I'm a bridge officer, and I have seniority."
"Yeah, by about two days!"

- Paris and Torres


"You just pretend that nothing bothers you and then you turn everything into a joke."
"That's a valid observation. Defense mechanisms come in many forms."
"That's ridiculous. l am an easygoing person... who is just trying to be friendly to someone who is obviously terrified of having a friend."
"Fear of intimacy is a common indication of low self-esteem. Perhaps if you stopped to analyze the root cause, you might..."

- Torres, The Doctor, and Paris before Torres shut down The Doctor's voice


"How do you like your first day as chief of security, ensign?"
"It's everything I dreamed of, sir."
"Who says there's no room for advancement on this ship?"

- Chakotay and Lang, when they are among only a handful of the crew still left on Voyager


"You don't think I'm hostile, do you?"
"I, uh... wouldn't describe you that way, no."
"I know that I have a temper, but that doesn't mean that I'm always hostile, does it?"
"No, of course not."
"I am forthright; I speak my mind. That is very different from being hostile."
"Very different"
"And if someone described me that way, they'd be way off the mark, wouldn't they?"
"Way off."
"Then why do you look like you're afraid for your life?"

- Torres and Kim

Background information

Story and script

  • With this episode, Lisa Klink wanted to devise a story in a style that she was not used to doing for Star Trek: Voyager. "I really wanted to do an ensemble story that was a little more plot-driven," she said, "because a lot of my stuff has been very character-driven." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 113)
  • This installment's final draft script was submitted on 5 February 1997. [1]

Cast

Production

  • Allan Kroeker enjoyed directing this episode. He commented, "'Displaced' was fun. I remember shooting a lot of stuff with Chakotay running around the ship and sabotaging things." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #15)
  • The door of Cargo Bay 2 and the section of corridor outside that room were set pieces which were normally used for the holodecks and shuttlebay. (Delta Quadrant, p. 184) In fact, they can be seen outside one of the holodecks at the start of this episode.
  • The Nyrian corridors were a modified reuse of the Borg interior set from "Unity". (Delta Quadrant, p. 184)
  • According to the unofficial reference book Delta Quadrant (pp. 63 & 184), the Nyrian firearms in this episode were stock weapon props; their rifles had apparently been used in TNG: "Unification I", "Unification II", "Starship Mine" and "Gambit, Part I" as well as Voyager's second season premiere, "The 37's", whereas the Nyrian pistols were purportedly previously used as Romulan pistols. The book specifies that the Nyrian rifle props slightly differ, in this case, from how they are shown in their previous appearances as, here, they have an extension added to the barrel.
  • To show one of the numerous environments aboard the Nyrian biosphere vessel (specifically, an environment that is named – in this episode – as Tanatuva), reused footage of the Bajoran settlement on Valo II (from TNG: "Ensign Ro") is briefly shown.
  • Reference to 47, Tuvok mentions 94 habitats in the complex (47 being half of 94).

Reception

  • Allan Kroeker once stipulated that his "only regret" of this entire episode was the Nyrians. He explained, "I thought it would have been nicer if the [Nyrians] were fattening these people up to eat them. [But] all they were doing was taking them from their own environment and putting them in a nice new environment, which was nonetheless a form of imprisonment. I was thinking of the Twilight Zone episode 'To Serve Man.' I thought it would be wonderful if there was just this awful motive that they actually had, and that they were even nastier than they were. I felt that was missing." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #15)
  • This episode achieved a Nielsen rating of 4.7 million homes, and a 7% share. [2]
  • Cinefantastique rated this episode 3 and a half out of 4 stars. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 112)
  • Star Trek Monthly scored this episode 2 out of 5 stars, defined as "Impulse Power only". (Star Trek Monthly issue 32, p. 93)
  • The unauthorized reference book Delta Quadrant (p. 185) gives this installment a rating of 7 out of 10.

Continuity

Apocrypha

Video and DVD releases

Links and references

Starring

Also starring

Guest stars

Co-stars

Uncredited co-stars

References

47; Acacia; all hands; Argala; artificial biosphere; astrophysicist; bat'leth; bio-scanner; Bourget; Bowsers; Calentar; Cardassians; Celsius; colony; electrofluidic target servos; English language; EPS relay; Federation; holodeck; hydrogen; interstellar dust; Jefferies tube; kilometer; Klingons; level-1 analysis; lightheaded; microcellular scan; microwave; neutrino; Niacin; Nyria III; Nyria V; Nyrian; Nyrian biosphere vessel; Nyrian system; photosynthetic bioprocessor; polaron; Porcion; quantum level fluctuation; Quitar; red giant; Rite of Tal'oth; sabotage; security alert; skeleton crew; sonic shower; spatial distortion field; spatial harmonics; Starfleet Academy; subspace flow field; Survival Strategies; Tanatuva; tetryon; theta-band radiation; translation algorithm; translocator; tricorder; voiceprint; Vulcans; Vulcan (planet); wormhole; Zooabud

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