Headings: USS Voyager. USS Voyager Personnel. Sources. Observation/Possible blooper. Science background. Personal. Behind-the-scenes Page
USS Voyager
Seven carries out a shipwide efficiency analysis. Her report, given to the senior staff, gives Ops a low grade of 76. She notes that the crewmen assigned to night duty often have little to do once the ship's course has been locked in. In engineering she claims Torres is guilty of "failure to utilise expertise" in the case of Crewman Harran. However, when Torres has given him more responsibility, he did not do the work. Seven notes that security is functioning with near perfection although she believes the weapons locker should be rearranged with the smaller rifles in front so they would be easier to get to in an emergency.
The away team takes the Delta Flyer to explore a class-T cluster consisting of gas giants and various radiogenic sources. Long-range scans indicate a number of tantalizing anomalies. Celes runs an ongoing sensor analysis to provide data for the others, while Harran scans subspace particle decay for anything new to learn about a star formation, and Telfer looks for signs of life although Janeway admits that to be a long shot in the environment.
The dark matter lifeform tears off a plating section of the Delta Flyer's outer hull. Ninety percent of the shuttlecraft's antimatter supply is neutralised, leaving the reactor cold. Impulse engines are damaged and they can only achieve one-eighth impulse. The away team uses radiogenic particles in the rings of a class-T gas giant to re-initialise the warp reaction but, with only ten percent of the antimatter left, they can only get to warp 2. They are rescued by Voyager.
USS Voyager Personnel
Crewman Tal Celes is a grade-3 sensor analyst in astrometrics. She has not been able to get past the proficiency requirements for an away mission. She is good friends with Telfer.
Crewman William 'Billy' Telfer, a good friend of Celes', is a member of the security departmentm, and a hypochondriac who visits sickbay weekly and manages to get out of going on away missions. Before going on this Delta Flyer away mission, in an attempt to get out of going, Telfer claims to the Doctor that he has been infected by a multiphasic prion (which attach themselves to the mitochondrial walls). The Doctor confiscates Telfer's tricorder and rejects Telfer's self-diagnosis.
Engineering Crewman Mortimer Harran has five advanced degrees in Theoretical Cosmology, but would rather spend his time down at his post on Deck 15 figuring out the origin of the universe.
As a child, Janeway was afraid of the ocean because she did not know what was around her since she could not see the bottom. In her first year at Starfleet Academy she went through zero gravity training in the Coral Sea. The experience finally helped her to get her over her fear.
Harran is determined to disprove Schlezholt's theory of multiple big bangs, but he had to demolish (disprove) Wang's second postulate to do it. Janeway notes that Wang's second postulate has more lives than a cat, because once you think you've eliminated it, the postulate pops up again. Harran grew up on Vico V, which he describes as being the "wildest sky in the Alpha Quadrant." He signed on to Voyager because a year of hands-on experience is a requisite for entry to the Institute of Cosmology on Orion I. He once wrote a paper (which Janeway has read) on the possibility of a dark matter protocomet. In it, he hypothesised that a tertiary product of stellar consolidation would be a comet-like assemblage of dark matter that would be attracted to by any source of antimatter and neutralise it upon contact. He notes that impact on the Delta Flyer's hull from a dark matter body might leave a quantum signature in the alloys.
Celes carries out a level-3 sensor analysis interpreting subspace infrared. Janeway tells Celes and Telfer that the way to remember the analytical aspects of the subspace infrared algorithm is by the mnemonic: "Zero-G Is Fun" - Zeta particle derivation, Gamma wave frequency, Ion distribution, Flow rate of subspace positrons.
Sources
TOSTW's first-version episode synopsis, removed from its site in spring 2003, spelled it "Harren". TOSTFF spells it "Harran", and so do I simply because at the time that I compiled the bulk of Voycabulary I was using Encyclopaedia, TOSTFF, ST:M (among the canon books sources) while TOSTW still had its first-version synopses which already had a fairly widespread reputation for containing lots of factual errors (TOSTW, perhaps heeding fans' feedback, completely replaced those synopses; its second-version synopses are shorter, worded from scratch, contain links and, judging from those I have read but not downloaded, do not contain errors). VC, which was published mid-2003, spells it "Harren".
VC wrongly says that "Zero-G Is Fun" is an anagram. It is not. These are anagrams; they are Janagrams - anagrams by Janet (and bearing in mind the 55+ errors I have noted so far in VC):
'The Voyager Companion' by Paul Ruditis
= Sloppy amateur in voyage rich in doubt.
= I savage document or, no, happily bury it.
= Cool?! I'm unhappy buying it as over-rated.
and getting frivolous (or more frivolous): = "Guy, I'm V.I.P. B'Elanna Torres. Hop it, you cad!"
= "Ugh, B'Elanna! Pity you divorce Tom Paris."
= "Borg drone? Ah, I pity you, pest. I am Vulcan!"
The above Janagrams refer to VC's 1st Edition. I hope the 2nd Edition will correct all the errors I have noted, plus any others which I have not noted or not yet noted.
My point is that instead of "anagram" VC should say "mnemonic" or "aide-memoire". "Zero-G Is Fun" is also sort of acronymic, in that the first letters of each word gives the first letter of the phrase to remember. And while nitpicking VC, once he spells it "Tefler" instead of "Telfer".
What is an anagram? It is a word or phrase formed by rearranging all the letters of another word or phrase (without omitting or repeating any letters), preferably to make something meaningful (anagrams in botanical Latin genus names excepted as they are done only to sound pleasant) e.g. I won an Anagrammy Award in January 2000 for anti-depressants = nastiness, depart!.
Observation/Possible blooper
In [DS9] it is established that Bajoran names, like Oriental names on Earth, have the family name first and the individual's personal name second - Kira is Nerys only to her friends, otherwise she is (Major then Colonel) Kira. (Her rank and name of course means that she is "the Major from Bajor"!) The nomenclature system is retained for Bajoran vedek Teero Anaydis in [#150 Repression], but not apparently for Tal Celes who is first seen in [#140 Good Shepherd] with Tal Celes. Seven refers to her as Celes, either in that episode and/or a later one in which Tal Celes is briefly seen. Gerron, a Bajoran young man who was a member of the Maquis before joining Voyager's crew, is given no additional name but from the formal occasions on which it is used we can assume that it is his family name and not his personal name. For instance, in the initial stages of training, Tuvok would never address him by his personal name and probably at no other time either as he addresses people by their rank and surname. Thanks to Raymond Francis for the following reminder about [TNG: Ensign Ro] in which the Enterprise-D crew at first refers to the eponymous title character as 'Ensign Laren'. He says: She corrects them, saying that Bajoran tradition 'properly' puts the family name first. She goes on to say that some Bajorans have dishonoured themselves by reversing their names to fit in with the the people around them, having been scattered around the galaxy in their flight from the Cardassians. It is possible that Celes is one of these, or a descendant of one.
Science background
Dark matter essentially comprises spaceborne particles that do not emit light, and the subject has fascinated astronomers since 1933 when the existence of dark matter was proposed. More information in VOYCABULARY: Dark matter. A dark matter nebula is the unwilling destination in [#13 Cathexis]; one is mentioned in a short line by Neelix in [#31 Threshold]; and a dark matter asteroid impacts with the graviton ellipse in [#128 One Small Step].
Personal
Regarding Seven's suggestion in her shipwide efficiency report that the smaller phaser rifles be placed at the front of the weapons locker to make them easier to reach, I suggest that instead that for two rows of phaser rifles the rows should be offset so that there is nothing in the way of the rifles behind. I shall end this Log now and go suggest this to Tuvok straightaway.
Seven carries out a shipwide efficiency analysis. Her report, given to the senior staff, gives Ops a low grade of 76. She notes that the crewmen assigned to night duty often have little to do once the ship's course has been locked in. In engineering she claims Torres is guilty of "failure to utilise expertise" in the case of Crewman Harran. However, when Torres has given him more responsibility, he did not do the work. Seven notes that security is functioning with near perfection although she believes the weapons locker should be rearranged with the smaller rifles in front so they would be easier to get to in an emergency.
