Darkling

This Story: Season 3 Episode 18 (production code 161)
VOY Overall: Episode 60
Trek Overall: Story 489, Episode 516
Airdate: 19 Feb 1997
Story by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Teleplay by Joe Menosky
Directed by Alexander Singer

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 18 / Confirmed crew deaths since pilot: 13 (crew of 141).
• While it happened a few episodes back (“Warlord“), the Kes / Neelix relationship is said on screen here to be over.  There was a scene scripted for an episode in-between Warlord and this one which explained that, but it wasn’t filmed.
• The first time people were transported while falling in the franchise.  It happened again in the 2009 JJ Abrams “Star Trek” movie.
• T’Pau appears as a holodeck character here in an unspeaking appearance.  It is not the original from “Amok Time“, as she (Celia Lovsky) died in 1979.
• Stephen Davies plays Nakahn here.  He was also a Bolian tactical offer in DS9’s “Emissary” as well as Arak’Taral in DS9’s “Hippocratic Oath“.

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