The Disease

This Story: Season 5 Episode 17 (production code 210)
VOY Overall: Episode 111
Trek Overall: Story 536, Episode 567
Airdate: 24 Feb 1999
Story by Kenneth Biller
Teleplay by Michael Taylor
Directed by David Livingston

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 49.  This contradicts the hard limit set in “The Cloud” of 38.
• This episode was created when someone on the writing staff had the idea to do an episode about unhealthy relationships.
• The Varro control room was re-used as the Borg Queen’s lair from Dark Frontier.  This episode was produced before that one.
• The events of the episodes “Alter Ego“, “Waking Moments“, & “Thirty Days” are mentioned here.  The common denominator are Harry’s previous romantic encounters.
• Christopher Moore plays a Varro stowaway here.  He was also Tova Veer in “Distant Origin“.
• Jippeq was played by Charles Rocket. While this is his only Trek appearance, he’s very well known for being part of the generally disliked Season 6 cast of Saturday Night Live.  He and many other cast were all fired (not because of) after Rocket dropped an F-Bomb on an episode live (21 Feb 1981).

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