The Omega Directive

This Story: Season 4 Episode 21 (production code 189)
VOY Overall: Episode 89
Trek Overall: Story 514, Episode 544
Airdate: 15 Apr 1998
Story by Jimmy Diggs & Steve J. Kay
Teleplay by Lisa Klink
Directed by Victor Lobl

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 23 / Confirmed crew deaths since pilot: 15 (crew of 146 (my count says 138)).
• A working title of this episode was “The Omega Effect”.
• The events of this episode were followed up 28 years later in the two part season finale of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s first season (in the episodes “300th Night” and “Rubincon“.)
• It is said that an experiment with a single Omega particle destroyed 29 Borg cubes and 600,000 drones.
• Torres is only in one scene in this episode, because immediately after filming that, Roxanne Dawson went into labor, and couldn’t film anymore.
• The only episode (to date) where a recognized Captain is said to officially rescind the Prime Directive.
• Events and characters from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan are mentioned here.
• Jeff Austin plays Allos in this episode.  He was also a Bolian security guard in the DS9 episode “The Adversary“.
• Seven refers to Species 262 & 263 (but does not elaborate on who they are).
• The Borg referred to Omega as “Particle 010”.
• Janeway’s DaVinci holodeck program was run here, but not with DaVinci himself, although his character is mentioned.

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