Thirty Days

This Story: Season 5 Episode 9 (production code 202)
VOY Overall: Episode 103
Trek Overall: Story 529, Episode 559
Airdate: 9 Dec 1998
Story by Scott Smith Miller
Teleplay by Kenneth Biller
Directed by Winrich Kolbe

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 41 (one this episode) / Confirmed crew deaths since pilot: 19 (crew of 140 (my count says 134) – but is 127?).
• Working titles for this episode were “Down Deep” and “Still Waters”.
• The scenes in the brig were shot afterwards when the original cut of the episode ran severely short of a proper episode length.  This part of the plot was not originally in the episode.
• The frequently mentioned Delaney sisters made their first (and only) appearance in the episode.  They appeared in the holodeck.  There was another scene with them filmed, but deleted.
• The sfx of the Delta Flyer launching from Voyager was just a re-use of the same shot from “Extreme Risk“, just with a different planet in the background.
• Tom Paris is reduced in rank to Ensign this episode for his actions.  He will stay at that rank through the end of the sixth season when he’s promoted back in “Unimatrix Zero“.
• The final appearance of Warren Munson’s version of Admiral Owen Paris, albeit via voice only.  The next time the character appears (“Pathfinder“), he is played by Richard Herd.
• This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series”.  It shared nominations this year with “Dark Frontier” and DS9’s “What You Leave Behind“.

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