The Void

This Story: Season 7 Episode 15 (production code 261)
VOY Overall: Episode 161
Trek Overall: Story 583, Episode 617
Airdate: 14 Feb 2001
Story by Raf Green & Kenneth Biller
Teleplay by Raf Green & James Kahn
Directed by Mike Vejar

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 73 (two this episode)  This contradicts the hard limit set in “The Cloud” of 38.
• A working title of this episode was “Federation”.
• This episode’s plot was extremely similar to the plot of the animated series “The Time Trap“.
• You can hear a small part of the original series theme song in the incidental music in this episode (scene at the end when Janeway & Chakotay are talking about their “alliance”).
• This is the second time Voyager was stuck in a dark void like this – the other time was “Night“.
• This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Makeup For A Series.”
• Valen was played by Robin Sachs.  This is his only Trek appearance, but he did appear on Babylon 5 a few times, and his character name here was also a character name on Babylon 5 as well.
• Garon was played by Scott Lawrence.  He also was a bridge officer on the USS Vengeance in Star Trek: Into Darkness.
• Fantome was played by Jonathan Del Arco.  He’s most well known for playing Hugh the Borg in the TNG episodes “I, Borg” & “Descent, Part II“, as well as three episodes of the first season of Star Trek: Picard.
• This has nothing to do with the plot, but the opening scene shows Seven experimenting with cooking.  she makes a meal and when Tom Paris asks for salt, Seven says “Additional seasoning is not required”.  All I could think of in that moment is Lenny Henry’s rant as Gareth Blackstock about the same subject in the “Chef!” episode “Beyond the Pass“.

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