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This Story: Season 2 Episode 9 (production code 125)
VOY Overall: Episode 25
Trek Overall: Story 456, Episode 481
Airdate: 6 Nov 1995
Story by Larry Brody
Teleplay by Michael Piller
Directed by Alexander Singer

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 1
• Working title for this episode was “First World”.
• The idea that the Doctor would be sick to gain a better appreciation of sick patients was put forward by Robert Picardo himself.
• There is a shot of Chakotay naked – it was a body double.
• The first episode of Voyager to be directed by Alexander Singer. He would direct 10 in all.
• This episode re-uses footage from “The 37’s” of the Voyager descending towards a planet.
• There is a “Captain Sulu” mentioned in this episode, but it’s unclear if it’s Hikaru Sulu (from TOS) or not.
• Henry Darrow plays Kolopak (Chakotay’s father) in this episode and “Basics, Part I“.  He also played the Vulcan Savar in the TNG episode “Conspiracy“.
• Richard Fancy plays the Sky Spirit alien in this episode.  He was also the Vulcan Satelk in the TNG episode “The First Duty“.

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