"Star Trek: Voyager"
Year of Hell: Part 2 (1997)

Director:

Michael Vejar

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (creator: Star Trek)
Rick Berman (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Star Trek: Voyager" (1995)

Original Air Date:

12 November 1997 (Season 4, Episode 9)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

A year after Voyager encounters the Krenim time ship, a badly damaged Voyager with a skeleton crew leads an armada of interplanetary ships against them.

Plot Keywords:

Lost In Space | Wormhole | Interracial Relationship | Space Shuttle | Alien Contact

Cast

Kate Mulgrew	...	Captain Kathryn Janeway
Robert Beltran	...	Chakotay
Roxann Dawson	...	B'Elanna Torres
Robert Duncan McNeill	...	Tom Paris
Ethan Phillips	...	Neelix
Robert Picardo	...	The Doctor
Tim Russ	...	Tuvok
Jeri Ryan	...	Seven of Nine
Garrett Wang	...	Harry Kim
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Loprieno	...	Obrist
Peter Marx	...	Krenim Commandant (as Peter Slutsker)
Lise Simms	...	Annorax's Wife
Kurtwood Smith	...	Annorax

Trivia:

This episode (as well as "Year of Hell: Part 1" was inspired greatly by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea". The name of the character Annorax was derived from the main character of that story, Pierre Aronnax.

Quotes:

Annorax: Congratulations. You almost wiped out 8,000 civilizations.

Voyager at its gritty, beautiful best

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Star Trek Voyager series 4 would be blessed with many great episodes such as 'Scorpion part 2', fan favourite 'Message in a bottle', and 'The Gift'. By far the best episodes of the series were, however, 'Year of Hell' parts 1 & 2. It showed a nasty, dark side to star trek that had rarely been seen before, and was beautifully acted by nearly everyone. The premise is simple: A temporal ship tries to erase everything to rectify a mistake made in the past. Enter the 'Krenim', a wonderful new species full of temporal programmers, under the rule of a distraught captain trying to restore the glory of his species and bring back his lost wife. In entering Krenim space, Voyager will become critically damaged, eventually being evacuated apart from senior officers. This leads to a beautiful scene on the Bridge where Janeway evacuates everyone, with protest from Tuvok, and finally drives Voyager to its death into the Krenim ship. Obviously, Voyager cannot finish at this point, and the only thing letting down the episode is that fact that the ending comes far to quickly and easily, and is a let-down compared to the rest of the episode. However, the way this episode is shot, the sense of fear and terror that runs through it is magnificent and not something you would expect from Star Trek. A stand-out episode in a stand-out series.