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Year Of Hell

I've been waiting for this one!

It is my favorite of all Voyager episodes.

A race called the Krenum creates and uses a huge, powerful vessel, capable of eliminating an entire species at a time by making it as that species had never existed.

Annorax is the man who both created and commands this time ship.

A Vral ship meets Voyager; a representive from the ship beams over.

A Krenum ship approaches Voyager as it is about to enter Krenum space.

It is a small, relatively harmless ship.. but, the commander on it is pissed because he believes Janeway and the Vral have formed an alliance against the Krenum.

Until the time ship - which exists outside of normal space - eliminates all the intelligent life on the Vral planet which had defeated the Krenum in battle.

That is when the small Krenum ship, affected by the time change, becomes bigger and meaner looking -and both the Vral ship disappear. No one on Voyager even remembers the Vral!

Voyager is hit by Chronoton Torpedos, which are temporal ( time ) projectiles that phase through time and space to penetrate an opponent ship's deflector shields.

The torpedos wreak havoc on Voyager, it's systems and her crew.

Think of the damage to Enterprise during the Xindi War - only about 20 times WORSE.

Tuvok is blinded while Seven gets the phase variance of an undetonated chronoton torpedo, which explodes.

Many decks are destroyed or rendered uninhabitable.

Warp drive is offline. Replicators are damaged badly. Sickbay is destroyed.

Chakotay and Paris are abducted by the time ship.

Part one ends with Janeway telling the crew to do the one thing she wanted least to do - to abandon ship in the escape pods, and to do their best to find allies that will help against the Krenum.

Part two opens with a now blinded Tuvok shaving and cutting himself.

Seven of Nine comes to his quarters, and, after chastizing him for not letting her do his grooming for him, they go out to inspect Voyager's crew and systems.

The bridge crew and Neelix have remained.

The ship is hiding out in a pinkish nebula.

There is extensive enough damage to the ship's hull that the nebula seeps inside.

Janeway and Harry fix the ship's ventilation system so that the nebula won't come inside Voyager.

Meanwhile, Paris and Chakotay do their best to learn about Annorax's timeship, gain his trust, and gain allies on the ship - crewman who have been there for 200 years, while Annorax attempts in vain to restore the Krenum colony called Keanu Prime ( Is that one known as the Excellent colony? )as it was where hsi wife died during an attack by a neighboring warlike species.

Paris is able to send a coded message to Janeway that he is working to disable the timeship's shields.

Two alien races are now going to help Voyager.

Janeway sends the remaining crew to the ships that are helping, and, after a touching scene where she says goodbye to Tuvok, is on her own in Voyager, which she says needs one of them to stay with her. Tuvok cannot understand why humans
refer to inanimate objects as living things.

Janeway explains how Voyager has protected and helped them; she cannot desert the ship now.

Using Paris's signal, they can trace the time ship - which is 50 light years from Voyager, which rendezvous with it's new allies and attacks the time ship.

Tom Paris,with the aid of a timeship crewman who is tired of the never ending mission, is able to disable the timeship's defensive shields. The ship destroys two ally ships, and a third ships collides with Voyager, damaging it further.

Having no weapons online, Janeway rams Voyager into the timeship, which sets it's temporal core into a breach.

It explodes.

And then - everything is back to the way it was before Voyager was damaged and the crew is okay now.

A small Krenum ship encounters Voyager, and tells Janeway to steer clear of Krenum space as it is in dispute.

Janeway does so.

On the Keanu Prime colony, Annorax is with his wife, who encourages him to go on a picnic instead of working on his plan for a timeship.

I love this episode. It is the best one.

Janeway is the strong mother figure who holds the ship and crew together during times of great stress.

She does an incredible job of inspiring her crew.

Annorax is an Ahab type, motivated by love for his dead wife, whom he loves and wants to bring back, and his drive to restore his civilzation back to it's former glory.


This one was written and directed brilliantly.

And, as this is only the 4 th season, there are plenty more excellent episodes to come.