VOY Episode - Author, Author

Series :

Voyager

Rating :

Disc No :

7.5

Episode :

166

First Aired :

18 Apr 2001

Stardate :

54732.3

Director :

David Livingston

Year :

2377

Writers :

Brannon Braga

Season :

Guest Cast :

Barry Gordon as Broht	Dwight Schultz as Lieutenant Reginald Barclay
Garrett Wang as Ensign Kimble	Irene Tsu as Mary Kim
Joseph Campanella as Arbitrator	Juan Garcia as John Torres
Kate Mulgrew as Captain Jenkins	Lorinne Vozoff as Irene Hansen
Richard Herd as Admiral Paris	Robert Beltran as Commander Katanay
Robert Duncan McNeil as Lieutenant Marseilles	Robert Ito as John Kim
Roxanne Dawson as Lieutenant Torrey	Tim Russ as Lieutenant Commander Tulak

Plotline :

When Voyager establishes regular daily communications contact with Earth, each crew member gets a slot to talk to their family. The EMH uses the time to send a copy of a holonovel he has written back to the publishers back home. The novel is called "Let Photons Be Free", and parallels Voyager's journeys through the Delta Quadrant. Unfortunately, it paints thinly disguised caricatures of the crew in a very bad light and causes friction on board the ship.

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YATI :

This episode offers an excuse for Kim's lack of promotion. In his talk with his mother he claims that there are only so many senior jobs on board the ship. But this makes no sense - Kim is already in a senior position, and has been since some of the senior officers were killed in the first episode. Sure Janeway can't go around giving everybody promotions or she'll end up with a ship full of Admirals, but Kim should have at least a Lieutenant or Lieutenant Commander rank to go with the position he holds. And in "Datalore" Data stated that he only spent three years as an Ensign, so really Kim should have been promoted long ago.

Great Moment :

The characters of the EMH's holonovel. I especially like Lieutenant Marseilles and the Tribble he balances on his lip.

Body Count :

Zero.

Factoid :

This episode gives a new figure for Voyager's crew - 146 including the EMH.

Quote :

"There must be millions of viruses in this quadrant that no one's ever encountered before. With my luck I'll probably end up catching half of them!" - Holo Kim bemoaning his bad luck.

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