Synopsis:
The crew explores a remote planet inhabited by humans who
were abducted by aliens in 1937.
When a pickup truck from the 1930's inexplicably shows up in
space, it's beamed aboard Voyager for closer inspection. Even
more peculiar, the truck's radio is picking up an SOS distress
call -- but from where? Kim traces the signal to a nearby star
system and Janeway orders the crew to lay in a course to the
signaling planet. An unusual amount of interference in the upper
atmosphere prevents them from beaming down, so Janeway tells
Paris to land the ship on the planet's surface.
The Away Team follows the SOS to the cockpit of an airplane
that was built during the same era as the truck. Beyond the
plane, the crew finds a chamber containing eight humans in
cryo-stasis units. All are dressed in 1930's attire, and one
unit holds famed aviator Amelia Earhart, who disappeared with
her navigator Fred Noonan on July 2, 1937. The eight humans are
revived from suspended animation.
Once awake, the humans demand to know where they are and how
they got there. After Janeway explains that they were probably
abducted by aliens 400 years earlier, a suspicious Noonan and
some of the others take the crew hostage. Hoping to convince
them of the truth, Janeway gets Earhart to venture outside the
chamber to see Voyager, but as soon as they do, they come under
fire by two snipers on a hill.
Janeway quells the attack and learns the snipers are two
humans who have mistaken the crew for the Briori: an alien race
that kidnapped more than 300 people from Earth in 1937 and
brought them to the planet as slaves. After a successful slave
revolt chased the Briori off, the humans created a colony.
However, they believed that the eight "37's" in
Earhart's group were dead, and they left them in their
cryo-stasis units for centuries.
The colonists offer the 37's and Voyager's crew the
opportunity to remain on the Earth-like planet, and Janeway
allows each member of her flock to choose for his or herself.
Although Neelix and Chakotay are sure they want to go with
Janeway, she can't be so sure about the other crewmembers, who
debate the merits of settling on the planet. Ultimately, Amelia
Earhart and the other 37's decide to stay with their "descendants,"
but to Janeway's relief, the entire Voyager crew opts to leave
with her.
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Cast:
Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway™
Robert Beltran as Chakotay™
Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres™
Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris™
Jennifer Lien as Kes™
Ethan Phillips as Neelix™
Robert Picardo as The Doctor
Tim Russ as Tuvok™
Garrett Wang as Harry Kim™
Guest Cast:
Sharon Lawrence as Amelia Earhart
David Graf as Noonan
James Saito as Japanese Soldier
Mel Winkler as Jack Hayes
John Rubenstein as John Evansville
Creative staff:
Director: James L. Conway
Written By: Jeri Taylor & Brannon Braga
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