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This Story: Season 2 Episode 13 (production code 129)
VOY Overall: Episode 29
Trek Overall: Story 460, Episode 485
Airdate: 15 Jan 1996
Written by Nicholas Corea
Directed by Jonathan Frakes

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 1 (torpedo launchers were loaded but not fired here)
• The last episode of Star Trek directed by Jonathan Frakes.  After this he directed two TNG movies.  The next episode he directed was Discovery 01×10 – “Despite Yourself” in 2018.
• The two existing shuttles that got destroyed in “Initiations” and “Parturition” are referenced here.
• The first of the Doctor’s re-use of McCoy’s “I’m a Doctor, not a …..” lines – this becomes an ongoing thing.
• The opening sequence of this episode which shows the POV of a transportee was re-used as the intro segment for DVD extras on the Voyager sets.
• There is a reference to Commander Data in this episode.
• There are multiple references to Back to the Future here with a few characters saying “Flux capacity”.
• One of the props used as a spare Robot arm is the arm of Johnny 5 from the movie Short Circuit.
• Automated Units 3947 & 122 were played by Rick Worthy.  He was also the Klingon Kornan on DS9’s “Soldiers of the Empire“, an Elloran officer in Star Trek: Insurrection, crewman Noah Lessing in “Equinox” and “Equinox, Pt II“, as well as Jannar from Star Trek Enterprise (multiple episodes).

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