Flashback
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 11 September 1996
- ON
- UPN
- STARDATE
- 50126.4
- DIRECTED BY
- David Livingston
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 145
WRITTEN BYWritten by Brannon Braga
A nebula triggers a vivid, troubling memory in Tuvok, and to save him Janeway joins him in a mind meld that leads back to Captain Sulu's Excelsior.
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Near a nebula, Tuvok is overwhelmed by a vision of a young girl falling from a cliff, an event he insists never happened. The Doctor diagnoses a repressed memory that is damaging his brain, and Janeway agrees to a series of mind melds to help him face it. Together they relive Tuvok's days as a young ensign aboard the USS Excelsior under Captain Sulu, during the events of “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country”, as Sulu defies orders to help Kirk and McCoy and the ship comes under Klingon attack in a nebula. During the battle Lt Dimitri Valtane is killed, and the falling girl keeps returning. The Doctor and Kes realise the memory was never real: it is a disguise for a telepathic virus, passed to Tuvok by the dying Valtane, which is now spreading to Janeway. It is destroyed with thoron radiation, and Tuvok admits something close to nostalgia.
- 01Made for Star Trek's 30th anniversary, alongside Deep Space Nine's “Trials and Tribble-ations”. George Takei returns as Sulu and Grace Lee Whitney as Janice Rand.
- 02The Excelsior bridge set was rebuilt in under ten days. The original, for “Star Trek VI”, had taken twelve weeks to build.
- 03It premiered on 9 August 1996 at a fan convention at Birmingham's Britannia Hotel, screened from VHS tape, a month before its US broadcast.