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DELTA FLYER MISSIONS

 

 

In [#134 Memorial], the Delta Flyer crew "remember" their complicity in a massacre.

click for episode audio clip with still screenshot(s)The Delta Flyer crew have been on a two-week mission. During this time the sonic shower went offline. They scanned fifteen planets in that time, and returned with a cargo hold overflowing with deuterium. The first planet visited was class-M with a natural satellite. They scanned for dilithium and were in orbit for less than an hour. Then they came into contact with a vessel captained by Bathar of Hodos - a merchant who claimed to have a formula that stopped the aging process. It was only a tripolymer enzyme, but Chakotay claims it makes great shoe polish. The third stop was the planet Tarakis.

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The Delta Flyer returns to Voyager.
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[#134 Memorial]

After returning to Voyager the away team experience strange and distressing visions. The Doctor determines their increased engrammatic activity suggests they are reacting to memories not delusions. As Janeway asks the away team members to recount their mission, they begin having nightmare flashbacks of their roles in a massacre. Janeway orders Voyager into the Tarakis star system. As they approach, all the crew vividly remember complicity in the massacre. Once Voyager is in orbit of Tarakis, an away team beams to the planet surface to investigate a weak power signature. They eventually discover that the massacre occurred 300 years ago, and that a synaptic transmitter located within an alien structure in a grassy field is sending neurogenic pulses throughout the star system so that anyone who enters will experience the memories of the battle as a memorial to the victims. The memorial's text reads: "Words alone cannot convey the suffering. Words alone cannot prevent what happened from happening again. Beyond words lies experience. Beyond experience lies truth. Make this truth your own."

Because the memorial's power cells are deteriorating, the memories are fragmented. Janeway orders the crew to recharge the power cells so that the memorial will continue to spread its message, but they place a warning buoy on the edge of the star system so that visitors will understand the nature of the "flashbacks" they experience.

 

 

CREDITS
  • Thanks to Feeble Minds for the animated star background (tweaked by me).
  • Thanks to Roy Whittle for the floating menu code which is available at Dynamic Drive.
  • Star/nebula backgrounds in title images by me. Delta Flyer images scanned from sources.

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    [#126 Riddles]
    [#128 One Small Step]
    [#129 The Voyager Conspiracy]
    [#134 Memorial]
    [#135 Tsunkatse]
    [Collective]
    [#140 Good Shepherd]
    [Live Fast And Prosper]
    [#142 Muse]
    [#145 The Haunting Of Deck 12]
    [#146 and #147 Unimatrix Zero]
    SEASON 5
    SEASON 7
    DELTA FLYER INDEX
    BRIDGE