Homestead

This Story: Season 7 Episode 23 (production code 269)
VOY Overall: Episode 169
Trek Overall: Story 590, Episode 625
Airdate: 9 May 2001
Written by Raf Green
Directed by LeVar Burton

Notes

• Running fired torpedo count: 79. This contradicts the hard limit set in “The Cloud” of 38.
• A working title for this episode was “Destiny”, but had to have another name as DS9 already had an episode with that title.
• This is the eighth and final episode of Voyager directed by LeVar Burton.  In total he directed 2 episodes of TNG, 10 of DS9, and will direct 9 of Enterprise.
• Much of the crew in the hallways at the end of the episode was Voyager production people and crew.
• The last time we see Talaxians (other than Neelix) in the series.  Neelix appears on screen once more in the finale.
• The final appearance of Scarlett Pomers (Naomi Wildman) in the series.
• The first time in the franchise they celebrate “First Contact Day” – something that pops up again in newer series.
• The events of the episode “Tuvix” are recalled here.
• Oxilon (a Talaxian) was played by Rob LaBelle.  He played a different Talaxian (unnamed prisoner) in “Faces“.  He was also Kafar in “False Profits“.
• Dexa was played by Julianne Christie.  She was also Ah’len in the Enterprise episode “Unexpected“.
• In the opening scene, there is a party celebrating “First Contact Day”.  It has a jukebox that plays old rock and roll music, echoing the Troi is drunk scene in First Contact.

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