Meld

This Story: Season 2 Episode 16 (production code 133)
VOY Overall: Episode 32
Trek Overall: Story 463, Episode 488
Airdate: 5 Feb 1996
Story by Michael Sussman
Teleplay by Michael Piller
Directed by Cliff Bole

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 4
• Confirmed crew deaths since pilot: 5 (crew of 148)
• The story for this episode was by Mike Sussman.  Sussman would go on to write 10 subsequent episodes of Voyager, be Voyager’s script editor in the seventh season, and be the producer for mist of Star Trek Enterprise (as well as write 22 episodes of that series).
• The first time we see Voyager’s brig.
• The start of Tom Paris’ insubordination arc.  I didn’t really mind it, but I thought it woulds come earlier in the show.  He was a criminal, now this established offer, then he goes bad again for a bit.  I thought this plot would have been better placed in the first half of Season 1.
• This episode has the only reference to raktajino (Klingon coffee) in the whole run of Voyager.
• At the end of the episode, Suter is left in confinement in his quarters.  He is seen again in the Season 2 finale/cliffhanger.

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