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Star trek: Voyager 1.02a - Parallax

Stardate 48439.7
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Pursuing a course back to the Alpha Quadrant, Voyager picks up a distress call. Upon investigation, the starship finds an apparently stricken vessel caught in the event horizon of a quantum singularity. Trying to help, Voyager is trapped and the crew realise that both time and space are being distorted around them...

Persons of interest

Kate Mulgrew .... Captain Kathryn Janeway
Robert Beltran .... Commander Chakotay
Roxann Dawson .... Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres
Jennifer Lien .... Kes
Robert Duncan McNeill .... Lieutenant Tom Paris
Robert Picardo .... the Emergency Medical Hologram
Ethan Phillips .... Neelix
Tim Russ .... Lieutenant Tuvok
Garrett Wang .... Ensign Harry Kim
Majel Barrett .... USS Voyager computer voice
Martha Hackett .... Seska
Josh Clark .... Lieutenant Joe Carey
Justin Williams .... Jarvin
Jim Trombetta .... Storywriter
Brannon Braga .... Screenwriter
Kim Friedman .... Director

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A standard Star trek plot device mixed with the ongoing difficulty of running a starship in an unknown territory while integrating two very different crews.

The whole distress call thing is an excuse to let B'Elanna show how good she is at engineering, especially when compared to pasty Joe "think within the square" Carey. She's a wilful, arrogant, pig-headed, volatile woman, about what you'd expect from a Hispanic Klingon.

Klingon females are known throughout the Alpha Quadrant for their voracious sexual appetites. Latinas are just plain hot. It's no wonder their men are so butch.

Anyhoo, Parallax is mostly exposition for the rest of the series, showing the hard working crew trying to survive in a hostile corner of the galaxy.