Phage

This Story: Season 1 Episode 5 (production code 105)
VOY Overall: Episode 5
Trek Overall: Story 436, Episode 461
Airdate: 6 Feb 1995
Story by Timothy De Haas
Teleplay by Brannon Braga & Skye Dent
Directed by Winrich Kolbe

Notes

• A working title for this episode was “Heart & Soul”.
• The second appearance of Seska in the series.
• The first time we see Neelix’s galley.
• The first time we get The Doctor using McCoy’s phrase “I’m a Doctor not a…..”
• The first episode with the Vidiian race.  They appear in six subsequent Voyager episodes, the final one being Season 6’s “Fury“.
• The asteroid that the Vidiians used for cover is a piece of styrofoam that was used to represent a differently named asteroid in the TNG episode “The Pegasus“.
• The Vidiian ship was a model that had been used multiple times to this point in many incarnations of Star Trek.  It was originally built for “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock“.
• Neelix ends the episode with just one lung to keep him alive – that fact is mentioned occasionally though the run of the series, and wasn’t ignored/forgotten about.
• Cully Fredericksen played Dereth here.  He was also the “first contact” Vulcan captain in “Star Trek: First Contact” (and having the footage re-used in Enterprise’s “In A Mirror Darkly“.
• Neelix’s jealously of Tom Paris starts here.

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