Hope and Fear

This Story: Season 4 Episode 26 (production code 194)
VOY Overall: Episode 94
Trek Overall: Story 519, Episode 549
Airdate: 20 May 1998
Story by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky
Teleplay by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
Directed by Winrich Kolbe

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 27 (four this episode) / Confirmed crew deaths since pilot: 19 (crew of 140 (my count says 134)).
• The final episode for Jeri Taylor working on Voyager.
• One of only two Voyager season finales that isn’t a cliffhanger ending (save the series finale).
• It is said that the events of this episode were nine months after “Scorpion, Part II” and five months after “Hunters“.
• Ray Wise plays Arturis.  He was also Liko in the TNG episode “Who Watches the Watchers“.
• Seven refers to Arturis’ race as “Species 116”, but they are not named beyond that.
• Jack Shearer plays Admiral Hayes in this episode and in “Life Line“. He plays a different Admiral (Strickler) in “Non Sequitur“.  He was also a Romulan (Ruwon) in DS9’s “Visionary” and a Bolian (Valdosta) in DS9’s “The Forsaken“.
• The registry of the USS Dauntless is NX-01A – which is very similar to the USS Enterprise from “Star Trek: Enterprise” (NX-01).  It is not believed to be related.

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