To flush out a spy, Tom leaves Voyager.
Note from the Moderator: Last episode for Crewman Jonas.
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By Murray Leeder on Tuesday, February 09, 1999 - 1:24 pm:
Here's a good trivia question: Who's the only world leader who has been on Star Trek? And the answer - King Abdullah of Jordan, who had a cameo in this episode!
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By Chris on Tuesday, February 09, 1999 - 3:47 pm:
As who?
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By Richie Vest on Tuesday, February 09, 1999 - 6:36 pm:
Chris I believe Harry is talking to him at the beginning of the episode.
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By ScottN on Tuesday, February 09, 1999 - 11:41 pm:
I don't think he's listed in the official credits at ST Continuum
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By Richie Vest on Wednesday, February 10, 1999 - 6:14 am:
No but he is mentioned in the Star Trek Encolybida(sp) in the episode.
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By Annonymous no 1 on Wednesday, February 10, 1999 - 9:48 am:
you're kidding! Jordan's king is on this episode? how come?
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By Lee Jamilkowski on Wednesday, February 10, 1999 - 10:17 am:
He is a huge Star Trek, and from what I've heard particularly, Voyager, fan. He asked to be in an episode, so they gave him a uniform and put him onscreen. What a sweet deal!
Too bad that he's now a world leader. They could have him make an appearance and have the crewman stay behidn as the new leader of a planet or something. An easy way to get rid of a crewman there... and a fitting tribute.
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By Brad W. Higgins on Thursday, February 11, 1999 - 5:11 am:
That would rule! Lame pun intended.
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By Phillip Culley on Thursday, March 25, 1999 - 6:37 pm:
Here's more evidence of Voyager's IFOS: at one point, Hogan unlocks the subspace logs with an engineering clearance code. Afterwards, Neelix goes into Paris' quarters and tries to access his logs. The computer askes for an access code, and Neelix quotes the same code that Hogan used. Aren't the security codes voice linked as well? Shouldn't the computer say 'This code is not valid for this user' or something like that?
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By Mark Swinton on Tuesday, October 26, 1999 - 12:42 pm:
Biggest stardate nit ever and a possible reason why creators are slowly phasing out log entries with stardates (in fear of blooping up big time like they do here...)!
This episode happens on 49485 or thenabouts.
It is an almost direct sequel to the subplot in the previous episode, stardate 49507.
So on 49485 or thenabouts, Michael Jonas is uncovered as a Kazon spy by Tom (who replays a message we saw being sent in "Lifesigns" whilst on the Kazon ship) and shortly after is killed in Engineering.
A short time later on stardate 49507, Jonas sends the message and Tom is still acting hookey so as Janeway will eventually get rid of him to find the spy.
Eh? How can events be happening in reverse?
(Answer: the creators just don't have a head for stardates!!!!!)
Oh, and did anyone else spot that when Tom is returning to Voyager by Kazon shuttle, he is rocked by a massive weapons jolt; as he puts his hand out to save himself, it catches the window frame and then WRAPS AROUND IT (AS IF THERE'S NO GLASS IN THE WINDOW)!!!
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By Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Friday, July 28, 2000 - 1:15 am:
Why do recording devices of the future show resolution lines like 20th century cameras? I realize that TV was a fad that ended in 2040, but still haven't they heard of High Resolution, or do they consider those lines cute and stylish?
Kim tells Neelix, and Neelix repeats as a mantra, that a reporter must be independent. Silly me, I thought it was also important for a reporter to be Responsible.
The shirt that Paris wears for most of the episode, is that one of the original velour shirts that they used on Classic Trek?
Mr. Hogan helps Neelix discover that a signal was sent using the ship's power grid and he doesn't bother trying to notify Security? What possible reason could he have for thinking it was no big deal?
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By Anonymous on Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 4:13 pm:
Here is a nit: Seska tells Paris the baby will be born in a month. However, it is at least 2 months between this episode and Basics, Part 1. When was the baby born.
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By Lea Frost on Thursday, September 28, 2000 - 11:19 pm:
Harry says in this episode that he was editor of the newspaper at Starfleet Academy, or something like that. I'm shocked. He's not nearly snarky enough -- newspaper people are the snarkiest bunch of bastards there are! (I can say this, seeing as how I'm one myself... :-) )
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By Chris Thomas on Friday, September 29, 2000 - 2:05 am:
I'm one, too, and I feel you can't just can't paint everyone with the same brush. There are good and bad people in all walks of life.
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By Chris Booton (Cbooton) on Wednesday, April 18, 2001 - 11:30 am:
I rememer the promo's for this one. "Imagine an episode of Voyager so intence...." . And was expecting the entire episode to be fighting, as they made it look that way. Just gotta love the PAL syndrome.
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By goog on Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - 11:00 pm:
With Voyager in syndacation now, I have to say: I'd forgotten how good the early episodes were. They really had a lot of good ideas (casting wasn't one of them, though): the tension between the Starfleet and Maquis crews, the chance for redemption for several characters, a baby being born early on and growing up on a ship trying to get home; the Seska storyline, especially with Jonas secretly contacting her. Pity they got to the point where they tried to make each episode grander than the previous one.
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By Anonymous on Friday, May 30, 2003 - 6:44 pm:
And if you look real hard you can also imagine that you see 'future guy' in the mess hall laughing it up with Nelix
"Imagine of episode of Voyager so intence..... it must be seen to believed!"
and then they proceed to show battle at the end of the episode as if the entire show is battles!
Gotta love previews ;)
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By Anonymous on Friday, May 30, 2003 - 6:48 pm:
LOL, silly me. I pick the preview nit only to scroll up and see that another user already picked it a couple of years ago.
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By LUIGI NOVI on Friday, May 30, 2003 - 10:14 pm:
Geez, this is getting out of control. What's this, like 11 people now using MST-esque headings? Or are you one of the people I've already noticed doing so, Anon?
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By Alice on Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 9:41 am:
Um, I have asked this before, and apologise for my stupidity, but what is MST, as MSTing and MSTesque?
It drives me nuts not to know!
Thanks!
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By A Guess on Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 9:49 am:
Most Stup1d Teaser???
Must SEE Television????
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By ScottN on Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 11:23 am:
MST = Mystery Science Theatre 3000
MiSTing = to create "riff" scenes. Think about watching a bad movie and wanting to talk back to the screen. Example, if you've ever gone to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the audience does that.
MST-esque: In the manner of Mystery Science Theatre 30000
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By Sven of Nine on Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 11:37 am:
Luigi: What's this, like 11 people now using MST-esque headings?
Excellent, we can start a MST-ing soccer team.
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By Anonymous on Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 1:43 pm:
well, my usefull here is done. , you may proceed to throw me to my doom now.
Right before throws him over the railing and to his doom via the convienient plasma leak, why does Jonas run at him anyway? Sure he was aggistated, but his running at seemed very scripted.
And what was with that plasma leak? Isn't having a plasma condit that goes right through the center of engineering kind of a design? Voyager had only taken a handfull of hits at the time that it blew. What if there had been several people in engineering at the time? Several people could have been killed!
She read the scpipt and and found out that Seska captures voyager in a few episodes
Why does Janeway let Seska go anyway? Why not capture the Kazon ship or Beam Seska off and run like heck? If their worried about Cullah trying to get her back then after beaming her over they could always have destroyed the ship. Yes it would have been unsporting but this is the kazon their dealing with.
We thought he was only gonna play solitare, honest!
Gotta love the moron guards on Cullah's ship. Leave Paris alone in a room with a computer so he can hack it and learn the truth. Very bright.
The competent guards don't arrive until Tuesday
For that matter, why don't they search him? That hacking device he was carrying wasen't exactly compact! It was if they wanted him to escape!
He forgot to read the villans book of not giving away your guilt
When is investigating the com logs and finds the missing entires, Johnas gets very nervous and almost panics. Bad move Mr Johnas, getting very edgy and stressed out when someone is investaging a tratior on board and seems close to the answer is a great way to implicate yourself!
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By Sven of `Profit and Lace` on Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 2:02 pm:
What? We've got a Character Whose Name We Dare Not Speak?
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By Joe Blow on Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 2:28 pm:
A charater whose name is 5 letters long. Lets see,
Nelix
Phlox
Quark
Sisko
Spock
McCoy
Bones (same person, I know)
Leeta
Riker
anyone I missed?
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By Sven of Knee-Licks on Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 2:39 pm:
Neelix has six letters.
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By ScottN on Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 4:10 pm:
Harry
Paris
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By Alice on Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 4:23 pm:
Thanks ScottN! I realise now I have been MSTing for years!
But that I had known!!
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By KAM on Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 3:06 am:
I think Anonymous is using the word Stup‘d rather than a character's name.
Alice, if you've been MiSTing for years then you'll want to go to the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 topic, click on The Kitchen Sink Of Love, then click on MiSTings and you'll find a section where we MiST Star Treks, Misc TV shows, & Movies.
Always looking for new blood.
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By Crow on Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 7:58 am:
Also, you'll want to see if you can find either on TV or on DVD the show Mystery Science Theatre 3000
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By Chris Booton (Cbooton) on Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 1:07 pm:
So does this mean that the 5 minute voyager site is a type of MiSTing?
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By Sven of Nine Letters on Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 3:19 pm:
KAM: I think Anonymous is using the word Stup‘d rather than a character's name.
But that has six letters. Anonymous was using five letters.
There are four lights.
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By KAM on Wednesday, June 04, 2003 - 3:28 am:
To quote the great thinker, Barbie, "Math is hard!"
D'oh!
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By Rene on Wednesday, June 04, 2003 - 1:29 pm:
i d i o t, perhaps?
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By John A. Lang on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 7:55 am:
NANAJAO: This is the first episode to show "A Briefing With Neelix"
I'm a bit surprised that nobody has pointed out that when Janeway said to lock on Jonas' signal and beam him out his com-badge is transported. To my knowledge, this is the only time this has happened. Why didn't the transporter operator realize he wasn't connected to his com-badge? If signal locks are just the communicator why aren't they beamed off of people?
Tom distracts the two guards, gets one of their weapons, and just leaves. Did he think they wouldn't chase him? Shoot them, take Seska as a prisoner and take over the ship! Also, after his near fatal escape, Janeway leaves the Kazon ship adrift when she could've ended this little skirmish.
That graphic for the subspace signal hidden in the eps system has been used before. I'm not sure which ep but I'm positive I've seen it before, I think it was this season.
So Tom's recent behavior was just a setup to flush out a traitor, suuuuuure. It would've been funnier if it were real and Tuvok and Janeway just used it to their advantage.
Is the Doctor embellishing a little when he inadvertently saves Neelix from Jonas? How long could he really have been looking for Neelix? Couldn't he just ask the computer? Did he just travel from monitor to monitor in Engineering until he found him? (Actually, that's a pretty entertaining image).
quote:inblackestnight: I'm a bit surprised that nobody has pointed out that when Janeway said to lock on Jonas' signal and beam him out his com-badge is transported. To my knowledge, this is the only time this has happened. Why didn't the transporter operator realize he wasn't connected to his com-badge? If signal locks are just the communicator why aren't they beamed off of people?
Combadges were transported several times in TNG.
Say descentjs mind me askn can you remember what was yr first trek and how old?,and where you at? just curious.
Josh: It picks up people within extreme close proximity of what it's beaming.
Then why wasn't what it was sitting on get beamed, or my original question, the transporter person not realize he wasn't connected?
descentjs: Combadges were transported several times in TNG.
When was this? I don't know of a single ep where this happened. I'm not saying it didn't, I just don't remember one.
Pardon my ignorance, but what does IFOS mean?
Invader Friendly Operating System.