VC ERRORS
errors in 'The Voyager Companion'

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VC fails to differentiate between episode numbers (i.e. the aired order and, usually but by no means always, the stardate order) and production numbers. Every episode has a unique production number, being one of a sequence and numbered in the order that production starts. But several times episodes are not aired in that order.

VC labels episodes using the production numbers, but calls them "episode numbers". Not only is this incorrect, strictly speaking, but it is liable to confuse. VC also presents its episode synopses in production number order. As VC's author is a professional technical author versed in the world of television, I consider it poor that he should allow this confusion to occur without his at least giving a explanation and making it prominent. Possibly VC's author assumed readers knew the difference between production numbers and episode numbers, but it is poor practice to assume it as not everyone should be expected to know. I received several e-mails from visitors who were confused until I uploaded my explanation.

To save you having to "interpret" the numbers, I have done the work so that you do not have to. In my behind-the-scenes articles e.g. GUEST CAST, I present both the production number followed by the episode number and episode name. My list in GUEST CAST is not entirely the list in VC (whose contents anyway can be gleaned from other sources) as I have corrected VC's typos/spelling errors (I do not note those) and cast entry errors (some I do note). Those entry errors include my adding one or two entries omitted by VC. In addition, I provide a few notes which I believe that VC would have been wise to mention, at least in brief, in order to provide comprehensiveness.

VC says the Federation Penal Settlement where Paris is incarcerated is in Auckland, New Zealand. It is in New Zealand, but Auckland is not mentioned in Encyclopaedia and VC's statement is not supported in that or any other canon source.

VC's list of Starfleet Academy courses omits several courses and makes a factual error (see entry [#98 In The Flesh]). One course VC omits to mention is Biochemistry. VC should certainly have mentioned the Biochemistry course because it is important in that, since Paris did that course for two semesters, it is why at a staff meeting Janeway assigns him as field medic under the Doctor.

1. VC misspells "Chaltok IV" as "Chalok IV".
2. The VC picture of Janeway and Paris walking toward the power station is taken from their left sides, whereas the television footage shows them always from their right sides. Both pictures are taken also from slightly ahead of them. It means that the picture in VC is not from the aired episode but was taken during filming, either a rehearsal or the printed but later edited footage.

1. VC's author Paul Ruditis calls the Vulcan nerve pinch "the Vulcan neck pinch" throughout his book. The terminology is specifically discussed in 'The Making Of Star Trek' and other books, and the correct term is "nerve pinch", with Star Trek (including Leonard Nimoy) being rather irritated by "neck pinch". I am surprised that VC should get the terminology incorrect as VC was intended as a major canon source. He even gets it so wrong as to say "The Vulcan neck pinch is more commonly referred to as the Vulcan nerve pinch." so why does he not use the correct term himself? Probably because Paris refers to it as "Vulcan neck pinch" when revealing how Kes was really assaulted, but Paris has got the term incorrect.
2. Kim's room-mate at Starfleet Academy was James Mooney MacAlister, (Encyclopaedia spells it "James Mooney MacAllister"). Possibly the spelling of the cadet's surname is what makes VC incorrectly spell the surname of the Voyager's crewmember (no connection with Kim's Academy room-mate) as "MacAlister", whereas TOSTFF spells it "McAlister". The USS Voyager crewmember McAlister is a member of the security department who appears in a vision experienced by Chakotay in mid-2375 in which Tuvok orders him to aim for the head of boxer Kid Chaos, in [#113 The Fight]. I suggest that VC's author did not bother to check up in another canon source how to spell "McAlister" or else VC's author felt there was only one way (his way) to spell it.

VC spells "Henly". "Henley" is correct.

I also believe that the surname was a tip of the hat to Sue Henley who acted as Kate Mulgrew's stand-in and also plays Ensign Brooks in several episodes including, with dialogue, [#60 Darkling]). If I am correct, then "Henley" is definitely correct. She can be glimpsed in the background in several episodes e.g. [#1 Caretaker, Part One], [#6 The Cloud], [#66 Displaced], [#73 Revulsion], [#74 The Raven], [#76 Year Of Hell, Part One], [#169 Homestead]. Sue Henley appears in the show with different hairstyles and so it is not always clear when she is playing Ensign Brooks.

Crewman Mariah Henley, [#16 Learning Curve]

Ensign Brooks, followed by a leering Darkling Doctor, [#60 Darkling]

checking cargo bay 2, [#74 The Raven]

See also Behind-the-scenes: KATE MULGREW INDEX: Sue Henley, Kate Mulgrew's stand-in

VC incorrectly states this episode number as "118" instead of "119" (production numbers are used; usually just drop the initial "1" for the episode number). It is probably a typo as the previous episode is correctly labelled "118". That and other typos in episode numbers in VC have involved me in a lot of time checking VC's references, especially in his appendices, as he uses production numbers which he calls episode numbers. However, episodes were not first aired in the production number order.

Chakotay is seen using his medicine bundle at the end of the episode, and in later episodes, even though it was destroyed, or apparently destroyed, when the Kazon-Ogla battleship causes his shuttlecraft to crash on the moon used for Kazon-Ogla warrior training. He does not have it on him when we see him after the emergency beam-out. VC says it must have been found in the shuttlecraft's debris field and returned to him. Looking at the pieces of debris found, it is plausible but that is not the only explanation, although in that case the items would have had to have been found completely intact and that does seem implausible considering the damage evident on the debris we see. At the very least, the akoonah would likely have been damaged which would necessitate repair, leading to that extra bit of speculation if we accept VC's explanation. Another explanation is that Chakotay could have replicated a replacement of some or all the contents of his medicine bundle. I believe that VC, rather than speculate, should not have mentioned the subject or suggested both alternatives, especially as neither alternative is discussed in other sources. Considering the shortage of space in VC, speculation by VC's author could have been omitted in favour of providing more detailed facts in other parts of his book.

VC says: "Kes does not appear in this episode." That is incorrect. She is present, assisting the Doctor, when Janeway, Neelix and Chakotay are with them to discuss the dead Kazon-Relora found floating in space. Kes says: "And according to these readings, they were alive at the time, Captain."

VC says: " Kes is seen in this episode, however, she has no dialogue." That is incorrect. When the Doctor tells her: "75 milligrammes of impedrazene. That might help stimulate his cardiac functions but he's sustained so much injury it might be too late." she administers the medication and reports: "It had no effect."

VC says: "Ensign Bennet dies in the shuttlecraft." He does not. He dies outside it.

VC says that Falor's Journey consists of 347 verses, but Tuvok actually says 348.

VC says: "Janeway and Paris take a type-9 shuttle - presumably the Cochrane - to rescue him." It cannot be assumed that the type-9 shuttlecraft is the Cochrane. The Cochrane is a type-9 shuttlecraft, but upgraded and designated type-12 after the enhancements made in [#31 Threshold] although after that episode it never again seeks to travel at warp 10. But it is not known how many type-9s Voyager has. Since, in the show's production, the exact same prop and footage is used to represent a type-9 and the Cochrane, it is impossible to tell unless canon sources come to clarify the matter. I believe that Voyager has more than one type-9, for the lengthy reasons explained in PERSONAL LOG: [#31 Threshold], wherein I also discuss Voyager's embarked craft complement. It does not help that [Star Trek Voyager]'s writers and production staff were confused about type nomenclature, e.g. Rick Sternbach designated it the Type-12 but others designated it Type-9, even though an earlier (not later) Type-9a is mentioned in STTNG Tech, and the Type-9 later gets (confusingly) called Class 2 (in [#97 Extreme Risk], in which Torres complains about their cramp space) which is a new style of nomenclature. This is explained in more detail at Ex Astris Scientia in the article 'Federation shuttlecraft' (the site covers all Star Trek). Accordingly, it is no wonder that TOSTFF is confused. I have come to believe that the plausible way of dealing with it which can accord with the sources is to designate the shuttlecraft Type-9 and to designate the Cochrane, once upgraded in [#31 Threshold], as Type-12.

VC misspells "Kohl" as "Khol" in the picture caption. In Encyclopaedia, other sources and elsewhere in VC, it is spelled "Kohl". Since VC spells it correctly as "Kohl" elsewhere in the text for this episode, this is obviously just a misprunt, and I appreciate that no one is infullible (grin).

Events take place over the period of just over two weeks. VC is incorrect to state that the episode's events take place over exactly two weeks. Janeway's log states "in the past two weeks..." and some events occur after that. I at least cannot tell if it is two weeks exactly or a bit over from comparing the stardates alone.

VC incorrectly includes an Ensign Powell when VC actually means Ensign Swinn, who works in engineering and who, among other appearances, is accompanied by Crewman Hogan when she approaches Kim in the messhall in [#41 Resolutions]. TOSTW lists Bahni Turpin in the cast list as "Powell", a mistake which has thus spread to many books (canon or not) and websites (including, for a while, this site in the VOYCABULARY character search page). VC also has the error in that a Powell is listed in its 'Crew Manifest' with the same characteristics of rank and affiliation as Swinn. The name of Swinn is established in Encyclopaedia (and therefore) TOSTFF, both of whom naturally omit any mention of Powell as regards [#41 Resolutions]. The mistake may have arisen because the officer may originally have been named "Powell" in the script. If so, I am guessing the name was changed from Powell because there is a Powell featured in [TNG: Lower Decks] and [TNG: Genesis] who fathers a child with Nurse Alyssa Ogawa (she has a semi-regular role in that series).

VC's use of "Powell" and failure to correct it to "Swinn", or even to mention "Swinn", is another thing that has led me to believe that VC relied more on the scripts (but not the final aired episodes, since scripts occasionally change during film shooting) than on watching the episodes.

VC spells Tierna incorrectly as "Teirna". Encyclopaedia spells it "Tierna" and therefore so do other sources.

VC lists Brad Dourif's character as "Ensign Suder". Suder was presumably demoted from ensign in [#32 Meld], although even after he has been incarcerated in the brig for some time, Janeway refers to him as "Ensign Suder" in her supplemental captain's log, but in [Basics] he is referred to by the ship's computer as "Crewman Suder". VC could list his character as ensign for [Meld] as it would apply to part of that story, but not for [Basics].

A photo of Dr Zimmerman is seen in [#17 Projections]. Dr Zimmerman, either his real self or his hologram, is played by Robert Picardo, because Zimmerman created the EMH Mark 1s in his own likeness. VC is incorrect in saying that in [The Swarm] we see the real Zimmerman for the first time, because actually we see a diagnostic hologram program which (like the EMH Mark 1s) was designed to look like Zimmerman (the diagnostic holoprogram is shown in the screenshot). We do not see the real Zimmerman until the Season 6 story [#144 Life Line]. [DS9] viewers will have seen the real Zimmerman in [DS9: Dr Bashir, I Presume?] which of course guest-stars Robert Picardo as Zimmerman.

VC's list of Starfleet Academy courses omits several courses and makes a factual error (see entry [#98 In The Flesh]). One course VC omits to mention is Astrophysics. Paris majored in this course. While he is on Earth in 1996, native Rain Robinson is impressed by Paris' knowledge, and he tells her he majored in Astrophysics at Starfleet Academy. "Never heard of it," says Rain. "East coast school," replies Paris!

See next entry.

The production number of this episode is #155, that of [#55 Fair Trade] is #156, indicating that work was done (or mainly done) on this episode before [#55 Fair Trade]. [#55 Fair Trade] aired before [#56 Alter Ego] however. The stardate of [#56 Alter Ego] is 50460.3, but as the stardate of [#55 Fair Trade] is unknown that does not make any issue in the Star Trek universe. However, source VC which, unusually and also unlike other sources, presents the episodes in production number order, ignoring the order in which episodes were aired or even stardate order (episode order is not always stardate order). This means that VC ascribes Vorik's first appearance to [#56 Alter Ego], but in the order that episodes were/are aired Vorik's first appearance was in [#55 Fair Trade]. Personally, I think it foolish for VC to present episodes in production number order because:

1. VC is familiar with television production generally, and so well knows that episodes are fairly often produced not in the order they will be broadcast for reasons of production convenience.
2. VC seems more concerned with the behind-the-scenes/production aspects of [Star Trek Voyager], despite lacking the wealth of behind-the-scenes information fans were expecting of the amount seen in 'The [DS9] Companion'. He is more concerned with that than with the 'reality' of the Star Trek universe, thereby not just pre-judging but imposing upon the reader the often disconcerting requirement to read events out of order, which sometimes results in spoilers.
3. VC does not even use stardate order.
4. No other source presents episodes in the way that VC does. Some might think it good that one source should be different. However, VC's format does not offer any choice for the order.

Vorik says that there are 73 male crewmembers aboard Voyager. VC assumes that Vorik excludes the Doctor from that number as, being a hologram, Torres cannot mate with him. That seems a fair enough assessment by VC, but it forgets that the Doctor has mated, in an earlier episode, if we assume that the Doctor's claim to the EMH of USS Prometheus in [#82 Message In A Bottle] to have had sex refers to his affair with Dr Danara Pel whom he met in 2372, in [#35 Lifesigns] (the Doctor does not explicitly say he has had sex but mentions it in terms of an additional subroutine) (it is a matter of speculation whether sex would have been with her inside the holographic body or in her real body). The Doctor's marriage to Lana, seen in the eventually unrealised timeline of 2404 depicted in [#171 and #172 Endgame], indicates that it is not impossible, or even implausible, for a hologram to mate with an organic person (assuming, that is, that he and Lana have sex).

Kaplan dies in [Unity] but is mentioned as being alive in a later episode [#88 Vis à Vis] when Paris and Kim discuss playing golf, although she is one of those on the list displayed on the astrometrics lab's main viewscreen by Seven as being dead [#148 Imperfection]; in that episode her first name, Marie, is given. In 2001 or 2002, several years after this episode first aired, TOSTFF belatedly tried to deal with the blooper by stating that there were two female Ensign Kaplans aboard Voyager. TOSTFF's statement was not supported by any other source until VC (which was published in mid-2003). I believe TOSTFF's explanation to be implausible, thereby making VC's support of it unsustainable, but my opinion is highly personal and subjective - I cannot argue logically why or why not, but just feel that way.

1. VC gives the episode title as "Rise!" but it is actually "Rise" i.e. without the exclamation mark. The only [Star Trek Voyager] episode with an exclamation mark is Season 5's [#106 Bride Of Chaotica!]. Long after writing this I noticed an issue of ST Monthly spell it [Rise!] too but elsewhere (as far as I recall) have spelt it correctly without the exclamation mark - perhaps they have been reading VC (grin).
2. The captions VC gives to its two (monochrome) screenshots are incorrect, though incorrect only by being vague and a bit misleading, in that they do not refer to the events in the screenshot but are used generally to illustrate the episode.
   1. One caption states "Seeing no other option, Sklar grabs a phaser" for the moment when Neelix lets Tuvok into the mag-lev carriage after Sklar threw him off the roof. Strictly speaking, Sklar is already holding (or is still holding) the phaser, and the "seeing no other option" is pointless verbiage as many things Sklar or the other characters do are because they see no other option.
   2. The second caption shows Tuvok with Neelix after Tuvok has shut the door following Sklar's return to the surface (to use a coined phrase). The caption says "Tuvok and Neelix try to figure out the identity of the saboteur". Sklar was not a saboteur in that sense - he did not sabotage the mag-lev carriage. As regards sabotage, the most that could be said is that he "sabotaged" Dr Vatm's drinking water, but we would simply say he had poisoned it. Sklar's villainy was of quite another sort than sabotage. In addition, Neelix does not contribute to the discussion (making incorrect the statement that "Tuvok and Neelix try to figure out..."), and Tuvok actually just states the surmise that Sklar murdered Dr Vatm. Thus the caption is only vaguely correct. For a specialist publication as VC, the readership aimed for, and its status as one of the top canon authorities, such vagueness is not to be encouraged.
3. Generally VC's episode guides are good, but for [Rise] VC omits what I believe to be important elements of the story. VC's synopsis covers the basic facts, but not the subtleties nor the interplay between Tuvok and Neelix, which leads me again to surmise that VC relied more on scripts than watching the episodes. VC omits altogether mention of Neelix following his instincts in opposition to Tuvok's logic, an issue dealt with at least twice in dialogue (in the mag-lev carriage and in the last scene), though VC does say, "Forced to reevaluate his treatment of Neelix, Tuvok begins to warm up to the Talaxian." VC's coverage is inadequate for fans who are following the interesting relationship between the two men ever since [#1 and #2 Caretaker], through [#32 Meld] (albeit via holo-Neelix), [#40 Tuvix] etc. (That relationship will also be explored and developed later, especially in [#126 Riddles] and [#160 Prophecy].) Possibly it is just that VC does not judge the story the way I do, which is that the Neelix-Tuvok relationship is an important focus (although the story has other elements too), and how they get on is crucial to how events develop and (something VC seems not to acknowledge) an important stage in their relationship as it develops throughout the series.

When listing deceased unnamed crewmembers as part of its list 'Crew Manifest', VC does not mention the unnamed female bridge crewmember killed by the cruel genetic experiments of the aliens, although VC does mention her in a paragraph after its episode synopsis, in which case why not mention her in the VC 'Crew Manifest'?!

Seven refers to the fact that the Borg were at the launch of Zefram Cochrane's Phoenix. Zefram Cochrane's historic warp flight and the events surrounding it are portrayed in the film [Star Trek VIII: First Contact]. VC spells "Zefram" incorrectly as "Zephram" throughout VC except in his entry for [#169 Homestead], ignoring all other sources thereby.

I feel this is a major error, and one without excuse, because all VC's author had to do was look it up in Encyclopaedia or TOSTFF or TOSTW. Possibly he felt there was only one way (his way) of spelling Zefram, but he still should have checked it. Perhaps he did really know it because he does spell it correctly once.

The following Voyager crewmembers are named on the medical scanner in sickbay, but VC omits them from the VC 'Crew Manifest':

• Blain
• Foster
• Swift

They are included, along with screenshots of the medical scanner read-out, in my own compiled 'Crew Manifest'.

The shuttlecraft is attacked by Hirogen during the mission to stabilise the alien relay station in order to obtain the rest of the Starfleet message transmitted through the Hirogen network of relay stations, and Tuvok and Seven are captured by being beamed to the Hirogen ship. Later Tuvok and Seven are beamed back to Voyager. TOSTFF says the shuttlecraft is tractored aboard the Hirogen vessel and is presumably destroyed when the Hirogen vessel is drawn into the quantum singularity as an accidental result of Hirogen weapons fire. But source VC says: "Oddly, the Hirogen do not take Tuvok and Seven's shuttle as a prize of the hunt and it is retrieved by Voyager." My own view: VC is correct but their behaviour is not odd because the Hirogen presumably captured the member of Species 5174 whom they gutted and then left the remains aboard its ship drifting in space, so I believe the Hirogen took Tuvok and Seven off the shuttlecraft and then cast it adrift, and it was later retrieved by Voyager. Voyager then receives the distress beacon's signal and Kim reports the shuttlecraft is empty which suggests that it is in space for them to be able to (easily) scan it and obtain that reading. Mention of Tuvok's and Seven's presence aboard the Hirogen ship is made separately inferring that Voyager can distinguish their individual lifesigns.

VC in its 'Crew Manifest' list claims to mention everyone on Voyager however brief their stay (thus including, say, Marika Willkarah in [#122 Survival Instinct]) and this includes deceased crewmembers. But VC omits the ensign killed on the bridge by the radiation. (See entry for [#75 Scientific Method] for another example of that kind of error by VC.) VC does mention the death in with the VC episode synopsis for [One], in which case, why omit it from the VC 'Crew Manifest'?!

Paris and Torres play a board game called "durotta". That spelling is VC's while TOSTFF spells it "derada". Paris always uses the Novokovich Gambit (TOSTFF spelling; VC has "Novokavich") because Torres always falls for it.

Interspecies Ethics is a class at Starfleet Academy, but not one taught by Admiral Nimembeh. Janeway tests whether Chakotay is really himself and not a member of Species 8472 in disguise by mentioning that Nimembeh taught Interspecies Ethics, but Chakotay proves he is really Chakotay by correcting her that he taught Tactical Analysis (which of course she knew - her 'mistake' was the test). VC incorrectly states that the Admiral taught this class, but the tv dialogue contradicts VC.

The first picture in VC is either printed back to front or is from non-aired footage filmed from the other side of Naomi. VC makes no comment about this, or the same kind of thing for VC's picture re [#4 Time And Again], leaving the incorrect impression that they are screenshots from the actual aired episode.

[#100 Timeless] was the 100th episode. VC agrees with this although he states that it is the 100th if you count the two episodes of [Caretaker] as one episode. No other source counts the two episodes of [Caretaker] as one episode, and nor does VC elsewhere in VC. I believe VC has had to twist the facts because throughout his book he mistakes production numbers for episode numbers (which is a rookie mistake for someone whose profession is to write about tv shows!), and [#100 Timeless] was not the 100th episode as far as production/filming was concerned. [#102 Nothing Human] was the 100th episode to be filmed, and in addition [Star Trek Voyager], as with other Star Trek shows, usually had more than one episode in production at the same time. [#100 Timeless] was the 100th episode to be aired, and that is what is honoured by other sources as well as the cast and production staff.

Voyager's Crew Manifest lists Commander Tuvok and Ensign Vorik as Vulcans, and Ensigns Suder and Jurot as Betazoids - all telepaths. Janeway informs Inspector Kashyk that they are all dead. Source VC says, misleadingly, "though it is likely that Suder is the only one among the list who is deceased." and he incorrectly calls Suder an Ensign. In fact, we know that only Suder is dead. We do not know about Jurot.

VC starts his episode synopsis: "When Voyager manages to destroy a Borg cube, Seven finds data nodes filled with tactical information among the debris." VC later says: "The crew beams a photon torpedo onto the Borg ship to disable it. When the torpedo detonates near the power matrix a chain reaction is caused that destroys the sphere." (My italics.) Apart from VC not being consistent, it is in fact neither a cube nor a sphere - see screenshot, which is shown very bright to show up all the shape of the Borg vessel. VC's episode synopses are reproduced verbatim, with minor changes, from 1st version episode synopses of TOSTW. (See Use by source VC of the official Star Trek website synopses and why I believe VC's decision to copy the official Star Trek website 1st version synopses was a mistake.) In this case, the error is due to VC wrongly correcting an error in the 1st version episode synopsis of this episode which stated "Borg probe" (not Borg cube) i.e. VC wrongly corrects it to "Borg cube". "....that destroys the sphere." are VC's words and do not appear in the 1st version synopsis by TOSTW.

VC says: "Late at night, a strange alien pays a visit to Janeway." In fact, it is a holographic projection. VC is vague to, I believe, the point of actual inaccuracy. I consider this to be an error caused by lax description. It would not have taken more than the four additional words "a holographic projection of" for VC to be strictly accurate. I believe [Star Trek Voyager] fans read or consult VC for enjoyment (for example, as another way to be close to a favourite tv show), not just to obtain the facts, or rather, the basic facts (for even a book as large as this website could not, I feel, provide all the facts, because even this website does not provide all the facts....though I am doing my best by continually working at it!). VC's offering my four suggested additional words would have added much to the factual description in exchange for a small verbal insert.

VC says of Seven in choosing her first date: "She ultimately settles on Lieutenant William Chapman from structural engineering, who Kim claims is renowned for being nervous around women." In fact, it is Paris who says Chapman is notorious for being nervous around women.

VC says: "When Seven takes the lead and tears a ligament in Chapman's arm," but in fact he tears a ligament in his shoulder, and is seen clutching it.

TOSTFF uses the spelling (Ensign Doug) "Bronowski", VC spells the name "Bronowsky". After looking at the large raw screenshot closely, wherein the writing on the astrometrics viewscreen is seen at a distance and is very blurred, I believe it is "Bronowski" because, due to the kerning (spacing) of the letters if it was spelled with a "Y" at the end then the top lefthand part of the "Y" would conflict with the "K". In any case, VC should have checked the spelling in TOSTFF instead of using a spelling not supported by any other canon source.

VC says: "The machine, speaking through the Doctor's body, he tells Janeway that she will help him find his target, or her ship and crew will be destroyed." The "he" is superfluous. This is a minor error, a grammatical error. It is the result of VC's slight modification of verbatim copying of TOSTW's 1st version episode synopsis by changing "the machine" in a few places to "he". TOSTW's 1st version episode synopsis for this episode says: "The machine, speaking through the Doctor's body, tells Janeway that she will help him find his target, or her ship and crew will be destroyed."

VC states that Wilkarah "who was formerly a Barjoran engineer on the Starship Excalibur". "Barjoran" is (I hope) a typographical error as presumably VC means "Bajoran". However, she does not look Bajoran to me (examine her nose in the picture), and TOSTFF states only that she is a "humanoid". I shall check if mention is made in the episode of her being Bajoran when I next watch it.

1. VC says: "In Barclay's holodeck simulation..." That is incorrect. The holoprogram is a facility at the Pathfinder lab and is not owned by Barclay which is what VC implies.
2. VC says: "Hawkins' team estimates that Voyager's current location is in one of three sectors." VC says "Hawkins" but does spell it correctly as "Harkins" elsewhere in the VC episode synopsis.

VC misquotes "children's toys" as "children's stories" when paraphrasing (but in the manner of a quote) the Doctor's description of Voyager when he reports to Janeway. "children's stories" is of course also likely for the planet's inhabitants. Either VC misheard the phrase or possibly the phrase was part of the original script and was changed at the last moment. I mention VC's mistake because the Doctor's phrase "children's toys" confirms, in what is a nice touch, the conversational exchange (in an earlier era) about Skyship Friends by the astronomer and his technician so that by the time Gotana-Retz tells Janeway, "The toys hanging above my crib depicted the Skyship." we feel rather affectionate towards the things. I would not mind having a few SkyShip Friends myself!

VC says [#133 Virtuoso] marks the only appearance of 'Harry Kim and The Kimtones'. However, the duplicate of the group is seen, without the group's name being given on screen, in [#112 Course: Oblivion]. In that Kim plays the clarinet. It is possible that the duplicate group was called something different but, being duplicates, that seems unlikely and unnecessary.

VC says: "Icheb is a member of the Brenari, ..." He is not. He is a member of the Brunali species.

The next words appear in this entry for [#136 Collective] because in his entry for [Collective] VC mentions what will be revealed in [#139 Child Play]. VC says: "He was intentionally left to be assimilated so that the Brenari could deal a crippling blow to the Borg." "Brenari" is incorrect. It should be "Brunali".

VC is confused - a group of Brenari appear in [#104 Counterpoint].

Janeway tells Billy Telfer and Tal Celes a mnemonic or aide-memoire - "Zero-G Is Fun", where each capital letter stands for a phrase: Zeta particle derivation, Gamma wave frequency, Ion distribution, Flow rate of subspace positrons. VC wrongly says that "Zero-G Is Fun" is an anagram. It is not. These are anagrams (they are Janagrams - anagrams by Janet):

'The Voyager Companion' by Paul Ruditis
= I savage document or, no, happily bury it.
= Cool?! I'm unhappy buying it as overrated!!!!!!
= "Borg drone?  Ah, I pity you, pest.  I am Vulcan!"

There are more frivolous Janagrams in PERSONAL LOG: [#140 Good Shepherd].

What is an anagram? It is a word or phrase formed by re-arranging all the letters of another word or phrase without omitting or repeating any letters, preferably to make something meaningful (well, kind of!) e.g. I won an Anagrammy Award in Feb. 2000 for:

Does a Scotsman wear anything under his kilt?
(I omit two anagrams which, along with the two below, were part of the winning anagram set)
= Och an' I hid my knees in Douglas's tartan trews.
= Och 'n' laird sent guests in a dram o' neat whisky.

In botanical Latin (which incorporates Latin, Greek and other elements), when no fitting or meaningful name for a new genus springs to mind, namers often re-arrange the letters of a closely-related genus. The aim is not to be meaningful but euphonious. Examples of the scores of botanical anagrams are: Ardisia = Sadiria. Argemone = Enomegra. Ascyron = Norysca = Roscyna. A few generic names have been formed from anagrams of geographical names e.g. Jamaica = Jacaima, Bolivia = Lobivia.

VC says of Dala's quoting of Directive 927 of the Starfleet general order, which she says is "Always help those in need." as follows: "(This may not be a true directive as it sounds like rather simplistic terminology for Starfleet.)" By saying "this may not be" VC is being silly. OF COURSE Dala is not quoting a real Starfleet directive! It is actually part of the humour for the viewer that throughout the story the con artists are quoting fictitious Starfleet adages and directives. Whether or not there is a Starfleet directive approximating Dala's words, but couched in a more appropriate way for Starfleet, is not the issue.

VC says: "In an attempt to convince him to help the Doctor, Zimmerman's companion hologram, Haley, tells him that she will ask to be installed elsewhere unless he does something to save the Doctor." This is incorrect in that it is not borne out in the televised episode either in action or dialogue. As often suspected while reading VC, I wonder if VC relied on the scripts rather than watching the episodes. Canon authorities such as ST:M, TOSTFF and Encyclopaedia, and thus of course this site, treat the televised episodes/"received text" (textus receptus) as canon, and not (obviously so) what occurred in the script, not even the final script, because changes often occur on set. VC copied verbatim, apart from a few minor cosmetic changes, the first version synopses of TOSTW which, by the time VC was starting to be compiled, were already well known for their numerous factual errors, and TOSTW's words are: "In an attempt to convince him to help the Doctor, Zimmerman's right-hand hologram Haley tells him that she will ask to be installed elsewhere unless he does something to save the Doctor." So VC's error is not in making the factual error but in not apparently watching the episode and certainly in failing to correct the TOSTW synopsis. Even if VC's author, Paul Ruditis, had no hand in checking or editing the TOSTW synopses, his name is down as the author so it is his responsibility.

1. VC says: "The Borg queen was a child when she was assimilated. It is possible her name was Asil." That the Borg Queen's name was Asil is a factual error. TOSTFF says that Asil is the daughter of Tuvok and she was born in the Vulcan city of T'Paal. This is also apparently supported by the episode's dialogue. I say "apparently" because on watching the story again there seems to be a tiny amount of ambiguity such that I can understand how VC makes his assumption, but as Asil was born in the city of T'Paal it seems likely that Asil is Vulcan because of the T' part of the city name. Ever since [TOS: Amok Time] Star Trek has tended to reserve that prefix/part of a word for Vulcans, usually though not exclusively (one of several examples is T'Vis, a Klingon in [DS9: Sanctuary]). In addition, Tuvok is recalling details of his life to help him remain focussed and it seems to be at one of the moments when he is more focussed that he recalls this information.
2. VC incorrectly says that Tuvok was born in the city of T'Paal. Tuvok actually says his birthplace in this episode: "Stardate 38774, Vulcanis lunar colony, the time and place of my birth. Recalling details of my life help me remain focussed." It is possible that T'Paal is part of Vulcanis lunar colony but that is not the impression that I personally receive from TOSTFF's information. It would anyway be an unjustifiable surmise in that it would take what seems to be clearly a VC error as correct and tie it to a known fact - none of that is supported by either source nor on television.

The following:

• Commander Bartlett
• Lieutenant Commander T. Ziegler
• Ensign Charles Young

are listed as being dead by 2377, stardate 54129.4, when Seven calls up on the astrometrics main viewscreen a list of crew killed during Voyager's journey through the Delta Quadrant. VC omits them from VC's 'Crew Manifest'. They are included in the 'Crew Manifest' I compiled, together with discussion. Many of the dead listed, including those above, are characters from the USA television show "The West Wing".

VC says: "Janeway notes that they are currently 35,000 light-years from Earth." He does not mention that Seven says it too. In fact, it is actually Seven who first notes this, saying earlier in the astrometrics lab when Sek's letter is shown on the viewing screen with Teero's message within it: "Why instruct Tuvok to mind-meld with Voyager's Maquis 35,000 light years from Earth?" Later, after the Maquis mutiny, as Janeway is brought into the brig, she tries to reason with Chakotay. "We're 35,000 light years from Earth, Chakotay. No one out here even knows of the Maquis. It doesn't make sense. There's nothing you can accomplish."

Apart from watching the episode, this can be confirmed from reading through my Episode Guide for [#150 Repression] which contains all the dialogue. (Seven's words appear in Part D of the Episode Guide. Janeway's words appear in Part F of the Episode Guide.)

This VC error is one of the several that have led me to believe that VC relied too much on the scripts (some of which changed during actual film shooting so that he does not always refer to the 'received text', textus receptus, i.e. what was actually aired on tv) and did not watch the episodes much, though I hope that he would have watched every episode and at least once each. But he is a professional technical author and was hired with a specific brief no doubt with an editorial deadline, and he comes across to me as not that much of a [Star Trek Voyager] fan and, consequently in many places, not that observant or interested. See this article's entry for [#114 Think Tank], which I consider to be an example of an error caused by lax description.

VC incorrectly includes a Lt. Weiss in its 'Crew Manifest'. USS Voyager has no crewmember named Weiss throughout the series. Weiss is the name of a Hirogen-created hologram in [#155 and #156 Flesh And Blood]. Either a Weiss is mentioned in the script for another [Star Trek Voyager] episode but is not named on the tv screen and is also not mentioned in other canon sources; or VC may have been confused because the hologram's appearance is that of a Starfleet officer. The screenshot shows Weiss standing next to his leader, the hologram named Iden.

VC says of Janeway: "She loves music, but never learned to play an instrument - something she still regrets (as also mentioned in "Remembered")." VC incorrectly names the episode, whose correct name is [Remember] i.e. [#48 Remember].

This is not just an ordinary typographical error but the misspelling of an episode name, and it should have been picked up during proof-reading. It could be argued that an ardently devoted fan of [Star Trek Voyager] (and to me VC's author does not give the impression of being one) would be most unlikely to make such a mistake.

VC says: "There were two hundred and two Klingons on their vessel." That is incorrect. The number, according to dialogue, is 204.

VC tends to put numbers, however large/long, in words not figures. In some cases, as here, a figure would have sufficed. If VC had more often used figures rather than words there would have been more space for content e.g. episode data. I experimented with this using 25 A4-sized pages of VC text and, using a word-processor, globally searched and replaced the numbers written in words and replaced them with figures. I saved 5 lines. VC has 482 numbered pages so I believe the saving would have justified it. Also, from an aesthetic or readability point of view, 202 in words looks cumbersome.

When listing aliens seen or mentioned in this episode, VC omits the Hierarchy aliens. Considering that they play a fairly major role with quite a few lines of dialogue and one, Loquar, is named in the cast list, I am surprised that VC's author could forget them especially when he may have had the script to refer to.

1. VC says that the Doctor hides Voyager "behind a moon". That is incorrect. He hides Voyager inside a moon's crater, and this is seen on television as both an exterior shot of Voyager in the crater (see screenshot) and the crater's side can be seen looking out through Voyager's ready room window. The shot of Voyager inside the moon's crater is also depicted as a drawing on Paramount Picture's UK video cover for this episode. I wonder if VC even watched that part of the episode?!
   
2. VC's description of events as regards damage is not fully accurate in that he omits certain stages e.g. the various drops in shield strength etc. (This is not the only episode he does that, and individual episode details are in SHIP USS VOYAGER: Ship Status & Damage Report.)
3. VC says "Kim ejects three additional pods armed with explosives." This is a bit misleading because all the Doctor does is activate by remote control the escape pods' self-destruct systems. The self-destruct system is similar to that of Voyager i.e. it is achieved by a warp core breach - no explosives are involved (other than the normal destruction of any weapons carried aboard). VC makes it sound as if Kim deliberately added explosives for the purpose, and that is not supported by on-screen events or dialogue. He also has no time to do it either.
4. VC spells Jaffen's species "Norvalian". TOSTFF, which I tend to take as being more authoritative (and overall more accurate generally), spells it "Norvalen", which is how it sounds on screen (no "ian" on the end of the word).

1. VC says: "The Delta Flyer takes heavy damage." Damage is sustained but repaired, including the internal sensors, but heavy damage does not seem substantiated from watching the episode nor from dialogue reproduced in my Episode Guide.
2. VC says: "The Doctor prepares to eject the warp core using Authorisation ECH 42." This is incorrect. The Doctor uses "Authorisation Omega 42".
3. VC says: "Seven performs a Fourier analysis on the recording of "The Blue Danube"". It is not an error by VC, because Johann Strauss' waltz 'On The Beautiful Blue Danube' tends to be abbreviated to 'The Blue Danube', but since I am nitpicking VC I might as well mention it.

In Encyclopaedia there are two Ensign Ashmores, but VC incorrectly states there is only one Ensign Ashmore. VC's statement is also shown to be incorrect on screen. One Ensign Ashmore is a female officer assigned to the engineering department in [#16 Learning Curve] and [#62 Favorite Son]. The male Ensign Ashmore is seen in [#85 Retrospect].

Given VC's error in not checking Encyclopaedia or VC's error through inaccurate observation when watching those episodes, VC might have been confused because the female Ashmore is played by Christine Delgado who also plays the regularly recurring character Lt. Susan Nicoletti.

VC omits mention of Nozawa (male) in the VC 'Crew Manifest'. This is a very major error by VC, for Nozawa appears in the background of many episodes especially Seasons 1-3, and sometimes in the foreground too, and is named.

Nozawa is a transporter chief or even, as TOSTFF states, the transporter chief. He may be the replacement for the transporter chief that Janeway mentions at the staff meeting in [#3 Parallax] who urgently needs to be replaced. In [#5 Phage] Nozawa, however, acts as a security guard and is one of those bio-scanned by the Vidiian 'honatta' Dereth. In late 2371 Torres finds herself looking into Nozawa's quarters from engineering due to the rearrangement of the ship caused by the distortion ring [#19 Twisted]. Nozawa is on duty in the transporter room and is stunned by a phaser fired by the darkling Doctor in 2373, in [#60 Darkling] (see screenshot). Nozawa is the transporter operator on duty in 2374, in [#92 Demon], whom Seven rescues from the transporter room when dangerous atmospheric gases from a Class-Y planet are accidentally beamed aboard.

This Nozawa (male) should not be confused with Crewman Kashimuro Nozawa (female). There is more information on Nozawa, accompanied by screenshots, in the 'Crew Manifest' that I have compiled. One of my favourite shots of Nozawa is of him standing by a replicator, grinning broadly as Crewman Chell begs a glass of water on his fitness run through the messhall, in [#16 Learning Curve].

Nozawa is bioscanned in [#5 Phage]

In VC's list of Starfleet Academy courses there is a factual error, which I describe in my entry for [#98 In The Flesh], and the following omissions:

• Astrophysics
• Biochemistry

VC has no excuse for omitting them as they are mentioned in dialogue in [Star Trek Voyager], in [#50 Future's End] and [#3 Parallax] respectively. VC should certainly have mentioned the Biochemistry course because it is important in that, since Paris did it for two semesters, it is why Janeway assigns him as field medic to the Doctor.

It is unfortunate that the way the VC list is set out and its introductory wording leads readers to believe it is comprehensive.

Certain courses were mandatory, and are mentioned in [TNG], and would have been attended by those on USS Voyager who attended Starfleet Academy (though it is not known if some courses began later than the second year, in which case some, like Torres, would not even have started them). The mandatory courses mentioned in [TNG] are Exo-chemistry [TNG: Time's Arrow], Ancient Philosophies [TNG: The Host], and Statistical Mechanics [TNG: The First Duty]. VC would probably have thought all that information to be outside his writing brief, even if he knew it.

To offer completeness VC should have given information about the Starfleet Academy entrance exam, which is mentioned in several [Star Trek Voyager] episodes - see the entry 'Icheb's studies for the Starfleet Academy entrance exam'.

I give information omitted by VC, and correct VC's factual error, at FEDERATION & STARFLEET: Starfleet Academy: Starfleet Academy courses and activities.

VC mentions the entrance exam briefly and without detail, certainly without mentioning topics included in it. This is a major omission by VC because they are discussed in several [Star Trek Voyager] episodes and they are important to the character Icheb and his development/maturity (his 'character arc' to use writer's parlance).

While in the Delta Quadrant, Icheb decides he wants to take the Starfleet Academy entrance exam and work to become a member of Starfleet, aided by members of the Voyager crew. His studies include Warp Mechanics [#158 Lineage], Earth Literature [#164 Human Error] and Early Starfleet History [#165 Q2]. In [Q2], Janeway gives him a pass in the latter subject after he demonstrates comprehensive, even exhaustive, knowledge of the subject.

FEDERATION & STARFLEET: Starfleet Academy: Starfleet Academy courses and activities describes subjects that Icheb would have been expected to pass, being portions of the entrance exam, but which are mentioned in other Star Trek not [Star Trek Voyager].

VC's 'Crew Manifest' is a simple text list of everyone on Voyager, no matter how long they stayed (and thus includes, for instance, One ref. [#96 Drone]). Certain other VC errors in the VC 'Crew Manifest' appear elsewhere in this article.

• Despite asserting completeness, VC does not have entries for Blain, Swift, Bartlett, Ziegler, Young, Nozawa (male), and many unnamed crewmembers are omitted from VC's section for the unnamed.
• In certain cases VC's author does not seem to have read (or has ignored) TOSTFF, one of the foremost canon sources, in that he gives "unknown" for a crewmember's rank; strictly speaking that would be correct where it is not mentioned or shown on tv (though occasionally he says "unknown" where it is either known or can be surmised), but TOSTFF is like Encyclopaedia or canon technical manuals in that if it states something e.g. that so-and-so is a Crewman, then that is the case and thus is added to the body of canon knowledge. There are also several conflicts as regards the affiliation (Starfleet, Maquis, unknown, none) categories assigned by VC: some are clearly wrong as evidenced within the episode as seen on tv and/or by more authoritative sources (e.g. TOSTFF, ST:M, Encyclopaedia).

Accordingly, VC's 'Crew Manifest', which I had had high hopes for when I first saw it existed in the book, cannot be wholly relied on. The errors and omission need to be dealt with in a future edition of the book although, as several people have pointed out, the damage has already been done and for various reasons, cost being one, many would not buy a 2nd edition having bought the 1st edition.

Where applicable, I mention or discuss source conflicts in the relevant crewmember's entry in CREW: MINOR NAMED CREW.