Live Fast and Prosper
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 19 April 2000
- ON
- UPN
- STARDATE
- 53849.2
- DIRECTED BY
- LeVar Burton
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 242
WRITTEN BYWritten by Robin Burger
Credited on screen as Robin Burger (per Reactor and the Wikipedia episode article); the Wikipedia episode list gives the name as Robin Bernheim.
Someone is trading on Voyager's good name: a band of con artists posing as Janeway and her officers is swindling the locals, and the real crew must clean up the mess.
Red alert: the full plot, ending included. Haven't watched yet?REVEAL SYNOPSIS
A mining colony contacts Voyager to complain that Janeway and Tuvok never delivered the dilithium they promised in exchange for a cargo of bolomite. The real crew has never met the miners. The trail leads to a trio of impostors led by a woman named Dala, who earlier gathered information about Voyager by posing as a nun and her companion during a trade with Neelix and Paris aboard the Delta Flyer. After the swindlers strike again, Janeway gives chase and captures the fake captain. Dala escapes from the brig, steals the Delta Flyer and rejoins her accomplices at their hidden store of stolen goods. What she does not realise is that the Doctor, using his mobile emitter, has already infiltrated the gang in disguise. He overpowers the thieves and signals Voyager, and Tuvok takes them into custody. The stolen property is returned to the miners and to vessels from several other worlds.
- 01Robin Burger's final Star Trek writing credit. She left the production staff after this season.
- 02In a deleted scene, Dala also impersonated Seven of Nine.
- 03Guest stars Francis Guinan and Dennis Cockrum both later appeared in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “The Communicator”.