Memorial
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 2 February 2000
- ON
- UPN
- STARDATE
- None given
- DIRECTED BY
- Allan Kroeker
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 236
WRITTEN BYTeleplay by Robin Burger; story by Brannon Braga
Credited on screen as Robin Burger. Wikipedia's episode list gives her as Robin Bernheim, the name under which she wrote TNG's “The Hunted”.
Returning from a long away mission, Chakotay, Paris, Kim and Neelix begin suffering vivid memories of a brutal battle they cannot remember fighting.
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After two weeks away in the Delta Flyer, Chakotay, Paris, Kim and Neelix return to Voyager and are soon haunted by flashes of combat. Piece by piece they recall a military operation to evacuate colonists from a planet called Tarakis, led by a commander named Saavedra. The colonists resisted, the soldiers panicked and opened fire, and 82 civilians died. Saavedra then destroyed the bodies to hide what had happened. The memories spread through the crew, causing real distress. Voyager traces them to Tarakis, where it finds a memorial: a device that transmits the memories of the massacre into the minds of anyone who comes near, so the atrocity will never be forgotten. The device is failing. Despite the pain it causes, Janeway decides it should continue, and she restores its power and leaves a warning beacon.
- 01Based on a pitch by James Swallow, who received no on-screen credit, as with the earlier Voyager episode “One”.
- 02Paris says the replica 1950s television shouldn't have a remote, but the prop remote copies a real 1956 Zenith model.
- 03On the replica set, the crew watch a Merrie Melodies cartoon, a hockey game and an episode of The Untouchables.