Timeless

“Obviously the Borg can’t hold their liquor”.

This Story: Season 5 Episode 6 (production code 200)
VOY Overall: Episode 100
Trek Overall: Story 525, Episode 555
Airdate: 18 Nov 1998
Story by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, & Joe Menosky
Teleplay by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Directed by LeVar Burton

Notes

• The 100th episode of Voyager.
• Running fired torpedo count: 40 / Confirmed crew deaths since pilot: 19 (crew of 140 (my count says 134) – but is 127?).
• This is the fourth of eight episodesof Voyager directed by LeVar Burton.  This one however also includes him being on screen briefly as Geordi LaForge.
• One could claim that the entire crew of Voyager died in this episode other than Chakotay & Harry Kim, but that was all undone by the end of the episode’s magic reset button.
• The events of this episode are referred to in the episode “Relativity” by 29th Century Starfleet officers as “the temporal inversion in the Takara sector”.
• Geordi’s uniform is a mix of styles.  It includes the uniforms from the last three TNG movies (and later DS9), but a com badge that was in the TNG finale and DS9’s “The Visitor“.
• This episode shows a Talaxian Furfly.  This creature is referenced in multiple episodes of Starfleet Academy by the “Digital Dean of Students” (Stephen Colbert’s character) in various voiceovers.
• Allegedly the shuttle Challenger was named after the real life space shuttle Challenger.
• The first time we see a Galaxy class starship in Voyager.
• According to on screen dialogue, the events of this episode take place four years, two months, and eleven days from the events of “Caretaker“.
• Additionally, the events of this episode take 10 years off the overall travel time home.
• The plot of this episode mirrors on some ways the plot of the Voyager finale, “Endgame“.
• The never seen and rarely mentioned “Beta Quadrant” gets a shoutout here.

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