Alter Ego

This Story: Season 3 Episode 14 (production code 155)
VOY Overall: Episode 56
Trek Overall: Story 485, Episode 512
Airdate: 15 Jan 1997
Written by Joe Menosky
Directed by Robert Picardo

“Vulcans do not hydrosail.”

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 18 / Confirmed crew deaths since pilot: 12 (crew of 142).
• The first episode directed by Voyager cast member Robert Picardo. He’d direct one other – “One Small Step“.
• The first time we see kal-toh in Voyager.
• The setup for the episode “Blood Fever” occurs here with Vorik.
• The first time the Doctor’s mobile emitter is used for a hologram besides the Doctor here for the first time.
• Sandra Nelson plays Marayna here.  She was also the Klingon Tavana in the DS9 episode “Soldiers of the Empire“.
• There is a reference to the TNG episodes “Elementary, Dear Data” & “Ship in a Bottle“.  While not naming him, Chakotay & Kim reference the James Moriarty hologram program, likening Marayna to him.

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