The Rhythm

Episode Released: 31st August 2004 Vulpix's Rating: 8/10 Guide: The Voyager crew meet up in the Holodeck to discuss and make sense of their recent adventure. Title Meaning: It's a musical episode, and we couldn't call it Coda or something ^_^ Notes  + As The Rhythm was more ready for release than It's Your Duty, they both were swapped around. The first scene with the Weakest Link parody was meant to be the first scene of the season so it was originally in It's Your Duty. The online version is longer and ends differently to the original.  + After much persuading Marill decided to let us write a musical parody episode, just like what Buffy did ^_^ She wasn't overly keen on the idea for a long time. It will still be a challenge though.  + There are forty two songs in this episode, all of them have been written out in full but a lot of them don't even get passed their second verse in the episode itself.  + Zare appears as a Special Guest Star  + The song Coffee Delicious is the only song that has previously been sung in another episode.  + The episode's title was taken from the unreleased song by Lisa Scott-Lee, The Rhythm. Nobody really has the full version and the most you hear is thirty seconds.. Marill decided to rewrite what she heard and write the rest of the song for this episode.  + This was the first episode to have Desmond Harrington playing Damien. Eventually all the episodes with him in from B4FV Season One to Season One had the named changed in the credits to replace ??. Season Two+ he is jumping from one body to another so there's different actors.  + This series starts during a break between complicated and serious Season Four episodes.. The Rhythm was a welcome relief to do, so I'm calling it a break ^_^. Anyway there are several references in The Rhythm to the most recent additions. They are: Jessie commenting that she sometimes prefers the more serious episodes, James making up a punchline to a joke Jessie started involving Tom and Barbie's (Tough Love), and Janeway dreaming about some guy borrowing coffee (Closing of the Eyes).  + Some songs are parodies of other songs. You can expect songs like Toxic, Baby Don't Dance, Can't Fight The Moonlight and It's Your Duty to be covered, all of these are just for a laugh though.

It's Your Duty

Episode Released: 7th November 2004 Vulpix's Rating: 10/10 Guide: As Voyager heads for the planet Ligod and Zare need to be at, Ligod attempts to work out which one's the Chosen, Zare or James. Despite being unsuccessful he sends both Slayers down to stop a ritual, which needs a Chosens blood to start it. Meanwhile Janeway and Faye's shuttle gets lost. Title Meaning: It's hard to explain this really, I wont even try (yet), it is an obvious title though. Notes  + This episode was inspired just by listening to a song with the same name. The song itself is about something else entirely, it was just the title that give Marill the idea.  + Zare appears again as a Special Guest Star.  + In the normal seasons James and Jessie's story about what happened during this season, (if you are just reading the prequel seasons for now and don't want to be spoilt, go elsewhere ^_^) regarding the child that was killed all thanks to the Nutty Q differs almost everytime it is mentioned. Marill hadn't decided when exactly this was to happen so she used James and Jessie's secretive nature to explain why the incident in their story kept getting earlier and earlier (at first, Marill sorted it early Season Two ^_^)  + However, despite how it looks, she did make up the fake story for Jessie to tell in Interactions just to throw readers off for the time being and keep the whole thing a secret until B4FV began. Since the first season took so long to start Marill decided to slowly reveal the story to the readers in the normal seasons (we were still learning stuff in Season Three, so there you go).  + This episode starts off the James/Jessie pregnancy storyline, this is why all this stuff is in this episode's notes.  + Chakotay mentions in the episode Burnt out and Falling in Season Four, that Jessie acted all loved up with James for a while before breaking up.. you will start to notice what he's talking about from here on out.  + We took another big risk like we did when we revealed Janeway is James' mother in the prequel seasons, even though in the main seasons no reader should of known until Season Three's "New Earth". This time it's the episode "The Dark Page of the Book" that gets a spoiling for the prequel reading only readers. We see watcher Ligod Geenewell spying on James and Jessie in one scene. Also he does a "Ronnie" and confuses the hell out of James during two conversations.. you know he's telling him that being with Jessie is bad etc, but at times slips up cos he wants them to be together so he'll turn evil some day.. you'll see what I mean. Also Jessie gets a "telling off" too ^_^

Bring It On

Episode Released: 7th November 2004 Vulpix's Rating: 8/10 Guide: While Voyager heads back to drop off Zare and Ligod, the crew all take part in a week of sports to improve team spirit, and to get everyone off their lazy butts. Title Meaning: This title was chosen out of three in a User Involvement poll. All titles were silly sports day related titles. It got 100% of the votes.. the other two were pretty lame though: "Sport's Day" and "Play To Win" Notes  + The original title for this episode was Sport's Day, but there was a poll in User Involvement on the official site to decide the new official title.  + As this season has a lot of general episodes where there's a crisis involving the whole crew, there was a suggestion from either Marill or Raichu about there being an episode where nothing really important happens, instead the episode goes back to it's roots by just being silly. Recently one of the pair came up with an episode where the crew all gather together to do something to boost morale.. that's where the sport's day comes in.  + Despite it being a care-free episode, Ligod & Zare was leaving in it and one thing needed to be concluded: Zare had to be captured. You of course don't see what happens afterwards, the crew are obviously told but for the readers (well readers who are reading the prequel seasons first) they're not suppose to know what they did to her until Season Four.  + The only problem I can see with this episode is that Craig and James & Jessie aren't suppose to meet until the original first season, actually Craig's an outcast to Danny as well if I remember right. They don't really speak or notice one another, so it's easier to forget each other. That was ok done, I did expect some continuity mistakes. Well there was one.. see below.  + Zare and Jessie's last scene together was too friendly. Judging by how Jessie reacts to seeing her in Season Four, I was expecting a little iciness.. but there was none. All I can think of is that the events in Season Three's Put the Knife In and Deception made her a little more protective of James. Never mind, everything else about the episode was good.

Cherry Coke

Episode Released: 21st December 2004 Vulpix's Rating: 9/10 Guide: Janeway starts suffering from coffee withdrawal symptoms due to a replicator problem, the crewmembers who drink Cherry Coke start acting drunk. It isn't long before it's known that they are drunk. The few main castmembers left attempt to find a cure. Title Meaning: There is no meaning, the Cherry Coke gets spiked.. hmm. Notes  + This is one of the very few episodes that are in this season and was in the old listings back in 2001. Other survivors in this season are Grove of H'Taria, Blood Oath, Q and the Grey, Fantastical, and Deciding Fate. The last one was originally in Season Five or Six of the original seasons though, not sure where Blood Oath was originally but it wasn't this season as Kiara was in the old plot.  + James starts off this little on going joke where he distracts everyone in the room, so he and Jessie can kiss without being noticed in public.  + Janeway had a little childhood incident where she supposably got attacked by a Winnie the Pooh toy, Tom later decided to make her relive it with puppets while she babysat him. Then back on Voyager he does it again.  + Janeway's little lie about why she was butting in with James & Jessie's relationship in "Up in Smoke" is mentioned here. Marill forgot that the scene where she told him that lie was cut from that episode, and it needed to be mentioned again elsewhere.  + Jessie is already having her weird cravings.. right now she's craving coffee just as bad as Janeway does all the time. Why her baby needs caffeine is beyond me, in a serious way, the silly reason is that the baby IS related to Janeway ^_^  + Lee, Kes and Harry should get drunk more often, I know not a very important note but what you're going to do?

Too Far Gone

Episode Released: 1st February 2005 Vulpix's Rating: 10/10 Guide: Janeway decides to tell Chakotay that she's planning on telling James her secret before his baby is born. Tom's attempts to go out with B'Elanna makes him do something he'd never do usually, ask people like James for advice. Jessie, feeling guilty about keeping her own secret from James, decides to tell him it. However things start to pick up when the entire bridge crew lose their memories, and causes mayhem. Title Meaning: It's a memory episode, so it couldn't be called Memories ^_^ Simple enough title though, their life memories are gone, they're too far gone lol. Notes  + The title was taken from the song Too Far Gone, also sung by Lisa Scott-Lee.  + The talent night mentioned in the original episode Coda is already begun planning, Chakotay mentions it to Janeway.  + Jessie tells James about her pregnancy, but lies about when it happened. He pretends to be happy about it, but gets all "moody" once she's out of the room.  + Janeway decides to tell James who she really is, but of course loses the nerve and starts boring him to death while talking about irrelevant things, and then steals his coffee ^_^  + Despite us wanting to do a mass memory loss episode for ages, all episodes that have dealt with memory problems have been delayed or deleted. Look at Memories for example.. then again the episode True Memories in Season Four was going to be in Season Eight (there wont be a Season Eight, I'm sure Five is all you're going to get).  + Tom asks James for advice on how to get B'Elanna. He eventually suggests just being friends with her.  + Damien claims that the Fox Network did all the dirty work, but he did it really. But he gives them a cure for no real reason, what on earth is he up to?

Silent Scream

Episode Released: 28th March 2005 Vulpix's Rating: 8/10 Title Meaning: Silent scream is really just somebody "crying" out for help, but by causing trouble, getting attention, being different etc.. That's all really. Notes  + This episode was added to the listings to deal with characters Faye & Craig. Faye's had troubles in previous episodes, but had no follow up. Plus Craig had to start getting like he is in Season One.  + This episode also has the subplot from the deleted episode, Sirens. This subplot's incident was mentioned in the episodes The Moving Shadow and The Dark Page of the Book.. if you have read those (and my notes on the second one) then you'll know what it's about.  + Thanks to Raichu, this episode was delayed for a month and a bit and it delayed the already completed Blood Oath. During the time Bring It On was fixed. Supposably one of the problems was that there was so many things going on that intertwined with each other, and scenes were getting shifted around multiple times since it didn't make sense.  + During his b**chy phase, James gives B'Elanna the hint that she actually does like Tom. P/Ters rejoice, again.  + It's found out that it's Janeway's fault that Craig is so desperate to get a girlfriend. She tells him that he should. Boy she's going to regret that later.

Blood Oath

Episode Released: 28th March 2005 Vulpix's Rating: 10/10 Title Meaning: It's a bloody episode.. murders and vampires, that's all I can say ahem ^_^ Notes  + Originally the beginning plot was the whole story for this old episode, but since it was old it needed more fillings so  a plot that follows perfectly was added ^_^  + This episode follows on from what happened in Silent Scream, technically it's about a day or two after it.  + The original idea for this episode was to have an alien being jump into somebody, make them kill themselves and jump into the nearest host. It didn't really have much of an explanation in the end, and like the title suggests it was bloody as a lot of main characters got possessed.  + Frenit appears in this episode, and doesn't reappear again until Season Four.. which is based eight years later. He does outlive the Masters and survived what killed them in each encounter.  + James & Jessie's "split" doesn't last long, they're together again by the end of the episode.  + Frenit knows that Janeway is James' biological mother, this explains how he even knew who to um, attack in Season Four then. Vamps can smell blood, that's how he knows.

Deck Thirteen

Episode Released: 13th April 2005 Vulpix's Rating: 9/10 Title Meaning: There's something up with deck thirteen, and in this episode some more weird, but not supernatural, things happen there. Hence the title, easy. Notes  + Both Marill and Togepi had the idea of having an unlucky Deck Thirteen, but luckily their ideas are different in some ways. I wont tell you Togepi's as I don't have permission to spoil beyond that. After Paper Bag and Elogium we know Sid is it's only visitor and there is supernatural forces at work there.  + This episode was greatly inspired by the episode Retrospect and Vis a Vis. As those episodes are you can't make them crossover easily, so this is a lot different.. no worries.  + Kes helps James recover a memory that's been artificially blocked. On Deck 13 with Tom and other Security "buddys" Thompson and Foster, back in B4FV Season Two that is, one of them turns on him and the bad guys experiment on him. Investigation uncovers that the traitor was possessed, was he the whole time since the incident?  + Somebody else tries to experiment with the evil side of Slayers using James, why don't they just leave him alone damn it! Ahem..  + This and Yesteryear's second parts were delayed due to the spark being gone and other work that needed doing. Yesteryears was finished long before this one. Marill tells me that she was stuck in the same place for ages with this one, managed a few "easy" scenes, and eventually got the spark back months after the first part aired. Yikes.  + The alternate future that's spoken of by Sasha in The Chain Reaction is hinted at being the future the kidnappers are from, where Duncan turned evil thanks to his parents being murdered, and then wreaked havoc on their homeworld. The nicer one mentions that they can't let James remember a thing of what they told them, in case they alter it, if that happened they wouldn't come back at all to do the deed (don't you love paradoxes?). Instead he let him write himself a note telling himself to protect Jessie, Season Three readers will know that doesn't work out either way. But still it's worth thinking about that somebody different came back in time to prevent that future from happening, and succeeded.. though Deck Thirteen is still in this timeline.. does this mean Duncan still turns evil? Could of been, but that would be in Slayer X and by then they've been back on Earth for about a decade. FV does mix time paradoxes with the alternate dimensions thing (Lena being from another dimension for example) to explain away everything. The official explanation is that the aliens slipped into the neighbouring dimension. That way everybody (that we see anyway, the kidnappers and this dimensions' characters) wins. That took some writing.  + On an easier to explain note, James and Jessie decide to move in together, properly.

Yesteryear

Episode Released: 13th April 2005 Vulpix's Rating: 10/10 Title Meaning: It's a play on the word yesterday, Voyager does go back a lot of years so it seemed appropriate. Yestercentury is just, dodgy. Notes  + This is the FV version of Future's End, with a twist.  + Yesteryear and Deck Thirteen both were left unfinished when the spark fizzled out. This one was luckier, the second part was a good way through when it did, it was enough to let it grow slowly where Deck Thirteen stood still at the beginning of the second file. Both did strike it lucky when they did get the spark back, they're easily one of the two best two parters of the season, and only The Rhythm beats them in length - which also had similar problems funnily enough.  + Damien's ship is destroyed, so him and his crew are stuck on Voyager. You could argue that Braxton didn't destroy it cos he didn't go back in time in the end, but explain how Voyager remembers everything.. so there.  + There are a lot of deleted scenes from this episode, most of which were kept. This episode was challenging The Chain Reaction in length, and that is the second biggest episode. Considering that others in the top ten at the time were all important, story arc episodes like Closing of the Eyes, Dark Page, Burnt out and Falling.. and this one was just a fun time episode, it seemed a bit daft to leave it so big. Luckily there were a lot of scenes Marill wasn't 100% happy with, a few that went were good though. The first scene, that was online for a limited time, introduces Tim.. the old man from Season One. He's never really introduced again as the following four episodes were done & released before this was fully completed and edited.  + I've said it before and I'll say it again, Tom and James should always be in the same team. Heck if they had their own detective show thing or something like it (as long as it had the Slaying part of it included) then I'd watch it, buy the dvds.. etc.

Q and the Grey

Episode Released: 22nd May 2005 Vulpix's Rating: 9/10 Title Meaning: The original title is the same, except they spell grey, gray.. I'm guessing it's the American spelling for it lol. I don't get the title itself though, it's obviously one of those sayings that has a word replaced with Q you know like Deja Q. Notes  + The Nutty Q obviously has a crush on Jessie, two episodes have shown that he does.. so he tries to make her his mate. Pervert, she's already pregnant.. you can't expect much from him though, he does kill the kid in a fit of jealousy. (sorry prequel season readers, you're not suppose to know that until True Q in Season Two).  + This is one of the episodes that got Marill into the original series, and of course like others she wanted to see some mentioned scenes that were never shown. Q mentions to Tom and Harry how he wooed Janeway and failed, in this version we get to see the bridge filled with roses one.  + The flashback scene shown in True Q made it into this episode, but edited. If you read the True Q version and compare, you'll notice that it's more of a flashback style than before. It's shorter but still makes sense, though the Q and the Grey version makes more sense than it. I like it, I always thought Jessie's reaction to a comment like "I'm not pregnant with (James)/his child.." was a bit OTT since it was a flashback, if it were current season, like before Kiss of Death/Slayers I would of gotten it.  + We see Q and the Nutty one discussing Kiara, which is pretty neat as it doesn't fully give it away but does explain a bit flaw with this episode being in this series. Q wanted to mate with Janeway as she was human and humans in Star Trek are nice, peace loving weirdo's (ha, that'll never happen, why do you think we have characters to doubt that etc..), but Kiara existed as a human/Q hybrid already. Yeh I get that in the original timeline where Lena was born they didn't need a baby to solve everything, but they're discussing putting her there. I never thought that it would of been a bad idea for Kiara to be the saviour considering one parent is a crazy, loves himself, women stalking raper, and the other is a Chosen Slayer. Then again Janeway's off spring have proved that a child with Q wouldn't of been any better, there's Yasmin (obsessed with death, probably would kill for a coffee now), Lena (aggressive, easily annoyed Slayer - though Shattered Time / Stop or Die proved that she does have some good sense in her), and James (being a Chosen makes him naturally irritable, but with no training to stop turning evil like the others, and a few murders on his record.. hum, it doesn't look hopeful).  + I know it sounds pretty awful but the scenes I did love along with the scenes with all the Q's hitting on the girls (especially Nutty Q), was the ones where Jessie was bearing her soul to Janeway of all people. There was one aspect of her character I didn't get until then, it explains it all.. though it's still a little too over the top slow that it took her what, four/five years longer than James to figure out there was love between them. Oh well, it still explains it. Now we just need Unforgettable figured out, she knew then. The other scene was the "execution", which was changed a lot even though that was the last scene I thought would be changed dramatically. Jessie's ranting makes me laugh, but the part where she tells the gunmen to aim for her neck or head, so they don't shoot the baby gave me a lump in my throat. It's hard to believe this is the same girl that in four years threatens and thinks about aborting her next baby. Luckily he does turn out to be her favourite and she goes all out to protect him (not official but that's what I believe - she does have more of a weakness for little Duncan than she does have for Sasha and especially Sarah-Amy, James has that weakness for the both of them as you'll see).  + Interesting enough that the episode ends with the war ending, and doesn't go further than that.. so in theory you could skip the rest of the season and read Aggressions. I don't recommend it though, there's a lot of corkers to go yet.

The Grove of H'Taria

Episode Released: 22nd May 2005 Vulpix's Rating: 10/10 Title Meaning: It has a similar name as the episode it's inspired by, so we'll never know. It's obviously the place the ritual is done at. Notes  + I think the full episode title was taken from another fanfiction that is similar to this one. It probably was called Grove of something, it was an old fic. The original was very JC and extremely shippy, as 15 rated shippy maybe? It had a sequel involving Riley *shudders* This episode has a sequel too.. quite a few actually considering it continues an important storyline for two characters ^_^ This was an old episode idea though, that's probably why it's got a very similar title at the least but the title has been mentioned in normal Season Two so it can't be renamed.  + This episode is based mostly after the luau scenes in Aggressions, but as you can see the earlier scenes are extra scenes of the party.  + There are three versions of this episode.. if you are to believe James and Jessie. One is true, one is almost true and the third is sneakily fiddled with to make it seem true to people who don't know them, but it is a big fat lie. One is that the ritual had to be consummated.. and since those two were only good buddies at the time *cough* they didn't do it and had an argument. Number two is that they did do that and Jessie got pregnant then. How come Lena could tell she was pregnant in a Q and the Grey flashback when that ep is right before this one *cough* The third one is that they did finish the ritual while Jessie was still pregnant, there was an argument like in the big fat lie one as James has issues with sleeping with pregnant girls (see Voyager Nights.. ok Jessie was nine months and huge so take it anyway you want).  + Unlike Ian, Danny thinks the ritual was James and Jessie's first time together.. if you get my meaning. In Season Two she still thinks that and she thinks Ian knows just as much as she does. How come we didn't see her find out in an episode? ^_^  + Danny and Ian consummate their relationship in this one.

The Coming of Time

Episode Released: 31st May 2005 Vulpix's Rating: 10/10 Title Meaning: I think it's a fancy or old term for future.. I'm not sure exactly. Notes  + The original idea was to have two or three characters continually restart their day after they find a murdered crewman. They do try to solve the mystery and stop the murder.. but the day's short enough as it is. The up to date version does make more sense and it bares a little resemblance to the series Tru Calling, only because the loop is just a whole day until a body is found. I'm sure in that series the day hasn't restarted more than five times.. this episode loops probably about ten times and there's an even bigger twist that makes the episode a gem.  + A User Involvement poll was created to decide the third character to go through the loops. Chakotay and Harry were in a dead tie for yonks so the poll had to be kept open for a while. Finally one late vote for Chakotay ended the torment. He joins Tom and James, and can I say that's the best team for this episode.  + Janeway is now pregnant with Kiara, and at this moment in time she is suspicious of Chakotay about it.  + This is the second episode to be based during FV, not before. It's based sometime in between the Coda aftermath scenes and the Unity slaughter in Aggressions.  + Chakotay helps Jessie figure out that she is in fact in love with James, however it's a loop both of them forget as it's only James that remembers it. We also know that James plans to propose to her, but is put off after this one as Chakotay knew how it played out.  + This is first episode to show the demons (spoiler) that share the same space as the Voyager crew, but live in a parallel dimension. There are three more in this season (the Facing Fears saga), and a Season Five episode or two.

In The Eye

Episode Released: 13th June 2005 Vulpix's Rating: 10/10 Title Meaning: Not sure but it might have something to do with the infamous eye the girl has in The Ring when she's doing her thing. It probably is as the eye itself is described, and mentioned a few time.. so it must be. Notes  + This episode replaced Frost Bite as it was the least developed of the season, and after seeing two versions of The Ring a "parody" episode had to be done.  + This is the FVDA/FDA's final episode, well at least until late Season Four. Only Damien (and Tim) remains for now.  + The Season Five episode Death Corridor has a few scenes that have Duncan facing the same problem the affected did here. It's not really a sequel as it is caused by another anomaly, and was only a few scenes in a large two parter.  + This and Wrong Direction were going to be the token new episodes for Marill's birthday, this ep was the hyped best ep of the season and Wrong Direction was the even more hyped premiere of the fifth season. However Marill totally fell in love with this episode and basically wrote it to death, Wrong Direction was affected and only the first half appeared that day. The first half wasn't the best premiere in the world, but you can tell In The Eye took nearly every bit of time and attention away as the second half was a heck of a lot better than the first. When I say write to death, I don't mean was over written and too long for a crap episode - I mean it was written properly, no idea was dumped etc and it was huge as a result, huge but brilliant. Luckily the two episodes after Season Five more than made up for it's premiere, and the first ep wasn't meant to be the most brilliant thing ever on FV. Marill's said to me more times than I can count, Death Corridor was the proper premiere.. Wrong Direction was the build up to it. Plus she said it's meant to be probably the weakest material in Season Five, and I quote "it's just basically like reading a Season Five Cast Guide, but a long one with a few jokes in it'. Amen, it's a good thing In The Eye was the completed episode, too bad it wasn't working in full at the time of release.

Bad Coffee Week

Episode Released: 11th October 2005 Vulpix's Rating: 8/10 Title Meaning: Based on the song Bad Coffee Day. Don't get it really. Notes  + This was going to be two original episode parodies mixed into one. The main one: The Chute, and the subplot one "Latent Image - the prequel". However the only Latent Image stuff written was the first party scenes, and Marill decided to just write The Chute stuff first all together. She decided just to write the build up to James & Jessie's capture, their time in the prison, and the aftermath, then come back to the rest later. When it was completed she read through it and thought it was more effective without the scenes where Janeway and co find out about them, plan rescue etc.. Voyager fans would know what happens really, but it does give the impression that we've changed it so James and Jessie have to escape on their own. It of course looking a bit hopeless with Jessie being injured and delusional, and James losing his control, did make the episode work for me. The episode was long enough and time was running out so the Doctor stuff was scrapped.. only a few scenes with him snapping photos of Tom & B'Elanna, and later chatting with Tom were added purely for a change of pace.. try reading the episode without those scenes and you'll see it doesn't work. This episode does really open up more doors in style of writing though.. gone were the "meanwhiles", "later" and "the next day" once JJ were in prison. True it adds to the effect that you don't know how long they're there for, but it was purely done so the prison scenes are like one, and never seem to end until they're back home.  + I like the way some of the lines Jessie had were exactly or partially like "Suicidal" where she re-lives it. It isn't exact or in the right order there, and she's stabbed somewhere else. It's like her memory of it is fuzzy.

Facing Fears

Episode Released: 4th December 2005 Vulpix's Rating: 10/10 Title Meaning: Well basically the crew all get very close to being killed when the ship starts coming apart from the inside. The fear is the fear of death, and they all face it.. but there's more really. Janeway gets a scare twice when demons or whatever try to kill James, and who can forget the bit with the coffee. Jessie and her in the end face theirs, him dying.. or so it looks. We all know it's Jessie's worse fear from the episode In The Flesh, so there you go. Notes  + This episode is based after the Unity scenes but obviously before Scorpion.. Tom and B'Elanna got together in our version of Unity. The ep has the re-write of the first scene of Revulsion, which is fun really.  + This is the first episode of a four piece saga. You wont know why and how they're linked together until you've read this one.  + The episode does leave us with a cliffhanger: two characters with the same issues but react differently, one little "huh" moment (which is the last scene btw), and well, that's it. It's more exciting than the way I described it, I just don't want to spoil this.. it was broken when I last checked.

Phase in Time

Title Meaning: Like it says below, this one is a parody of Timephase, an old story Marill wrote. The words are changed around to make the FV title. In the original one of the Lillyia ships are launched, but it runs straight into trouble. It gets trapped in an anomaly where future Lillyia ships also got trapped, but every one of them appears in the same time and place. Kinda like TNG's Parallel ^_^ Notes  + You could call this a parody of one of Marill's old Kidz Trek mini movies called Timephase. When I say mini movie I mean it, a lot of Season One episodes are probably longer ^_^

Fantastical

Title Meaning: See below. Notes  + A lot of episode titles were created during an English lesson Marill was in. She claims that during a lesson involving Macbeth she looked up some Shakespearean terms/words and chose some of them for titles. Of course she has no idea what any of them mean now. Fantastical was one of the favourites.. it might of had something to do with visions of ghosts or something.  + "Last time on B4 Fifth Voyager" is used once again for the rest of the season. Well excluding the finale which is based in an alternate reality, that will have a recap of the whole season's activities (including Aggressions) up until Record Breaking.

End of the Day

Title Meaning: There's two meanings for the title. One is that the final threat the crew are faced with (spoiler) happens at the end of the day, they get a warning saying something like "24 hours". The other meaning is it's comparing a day to life, end of the day.. end of your life.. yeah I can't explain it. Or it's probably a play on the phrase "at the end of the day.. so on, etc.."

Special: Mind Games

Title Meaning: An alien tries to kill a crewmember by messing with his mind, so that's that. Notes  + Originally this was B4FV Season Two's special, it was called Images in the Mind and it was just a look at what would of happened to the crew, mainly James, Janeway, Jessie etc.. if Janeway hadn't of left James at the age of two. It didn't make much sense, continuity wise (woohoo, an episode of Enterprise ^_^ ) and despite it being fully planned Marill got stuck while writing it (and lost a few scenes mysteriously). It was cancelled and replaced with Mind Games, which was the same idea, it just made more sense. Since B4FV Season Two was suppose to be completed a month before this change and Marill didn't have time for it all thanks to Season Four's comeback it was scrapped all together. This made B4FV Season Two the shortest season, and it will be that way forever. Since it's cancellation a lot of new ideas have been developed so it should be worth the wait.  + So far Janeway, Ian, Chakotay, Kes and Neelix are the only ones who know about Jessie's pregnancy, and obviously James does too. Tuvok gets added to the list near the end of this episode.

Home Sweet Holodeck

Title Meaning: The title is a play on the term "home sweet home" ^_^ Instead of getting home, the crew get trapped on an alien holodeck simulation of it. Notes  + This episode is the "Father's Shadow" replacement. Nobody could figure out how to make that one work so it was scrapped.  + In this episode the crew are all kidnapped and put into a large holodeck which plays out them getting home etc. They have no memory of the attack which got them kidnapped so they all have no idea, well obviously not for the whole episode.

Decade

Title Meaning: A few members of the crew get ten years younger, a decade is ten years. Simple. Notes  + Originally called Out of Sight, Out of Mind.. not sure why though.

Loved Up

Title Meaning: A few of the girls fall for a guy, thanks to a spell.. so they're all lovey dovey. Do I need to explain it any further? Notes  + Title inspired by the song that Lisa Scott-Lee may release as a single, Luv'd Up (it's spelt stupidly like that ^_^)  + This episode has some of the girls that don't have any love interests or are already newly involved fall for an alien visitor, all thanks to a weird spell. So far there's Claire, Faye, and B'Elanna, but I doubt there's anyone else that can be used apart from Danny.  + Jessie and James' unborn kid dies all thanks to pig headed Nutty Q.. god I hate that guy. They both break up not long afterwards after a few stupid arguments. James does think at first Jessie isn't really bothered about the death but, the Season Four episode Shattered Time explains why he thinks that. She knew it was going to happen or she thought it may happen.

Worse Case Scenario 1

Title Meaning: The original of this is called Worst Case Scenario I think, not sure why it was changed to Worse.. it was probably an accident. Anyway the 1 is there because it's a prequel to the Season One episode, Worse Case Scenario 2 which was released February 2001. Notes  + This is the final episode of the B4FV saga, the actual finale is based in an alternate reality. After this episode you can just skip to Aggressions if you wish, but you may notice the difference in writing straight away.. it was written five years before this episode will be released.  + This episode really does wrap up everything so you can start reading the proper seasons straight after it. You will see from the below notes. It just isn't finale material in all honesty, this is why Alternate Scorpion is the finale.  + This episode explains why Jessie is reluctant to mention Danny in Test of Time.. obviously Jessie is telling those parts of the story.  + It also explains why James and Jessie are not even around for the first three episodes of Season One. Most importantly this explains why they're so childishly happy go lucky, friendly but not intimately friendly, hate people hinting at them being in a relationship and why James isn't as aggressive as usual for most of Season One.  + The other non Season One characters from this season aren't really explained but if you do think about it, Claire, Lisa, Faye and Lee are only teens who are still training, and Ian works in Engineering, but hangs with Danny and she is explained.  + Oh and somewhere in all of this the holoprogram in Worse Case Scenario 2 (isn't it weird how this was released years before this ^_^ ) is found and causes bother for the original cast.

Alternate Scorpion

Title Meaning: Alternate, well this episode is based in an alternate reality to Fifth Voyager. Scorpion, because that's the main episode focused on in it. Notes  + Originally titled Alternate Aggressions as Scorpion is one of the episodes Aggressions covers. It was renamed Alternate Scorpion as it's the only original episode covered by the alternate dimension part of the season.  + As there was barely anything from Scorpion in Aggressions it seemed a waste not to put a parody of it in this season. It was made into an alternate reality episode as one of the inspirations for Fifth Voyager was 'what if' series that started with Scorpion, which was lost.  + This alternate reality separated from the one we know because of Lena, yes indeedy prepare to be confused, especially if you've only seen Lena in two episodes (Tomorrow's Voyager and Do's and Don'ts). Nutty Q hasn't actually met with Voyager yet so he didn't kill of James/Jessie's unborn kid. Also since Lena is born in this reality, Janeway isn't pregnant with Kiara and James isn't a Chosen as he's about twenty odd years older than Lena here. God Janeway, get a pill or something ^_^  + Ever actually wondered why Lena's Borg Sphere was disconnected in the real version of events and in the fake version? What about when the ship that assimilated James and Jessie was disconnected, and crashed? The aftermath of Scorpion will explain a few things for you.

Movie 4: Dimension Rewritten

Title Meaning: The whole film is based in the same dimension as the previous episode, and it differs from the main season's dimension. The rewritten part of the title is there because the movie is basically Season One and a bit of Two written out again. Notes  + This movie will be different to the previous ones, it'll be several 'episodes' merged into one and it'll probably have more than four parts, which also vary in size.  + If you haven't read the title meaning then you wont know what this movie is about. It's basically another dimension's version of FV Season One and the beginning of Two. The dimension is of course the one where Lena is born.  + Year of Hell will be re-visited most of all.. this one will make more sense and most of it will remain part of the main timeline. Everything that happens after the time shield will be erased after Annorax's ship is destroyed. It didn't make much sense that the Krenim were so neutral to Voyager once everything had been restored.  + Other episodes that are definite's are: Resistance, Dark Frontier, and there will be a parody of Night.