One (Star Trek: Voyager)
| "One" | |
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| Star Trek: Voyager episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 25 |
| Directed by | Kenneth Biller |
| Written by | Jeri Taylor |
| Featured music | Jay Chattaway |
| Production code | 193 |
| Original air date | May 13, 1998 |
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"One" is the 93rd episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 25th and penultimate episode of the fourth season.
This episode's plot was later re-used in Star Trek: Enterprise for the episode "Doctor's Orders" with Dr. Phlox playing the role of Seven, and T'Pol playing the role of the Doctor. The episode was based on a premise by James Swallow, based on an invitation to pitch after he submitted a spec script.
The crew of Voyager encounter a large nebula in their path towards home. As they start to enter it, the entire crew begins to suffer from intense pain, and one crewmember dies from burns on his skin; only Seven of Nine is unaffected. Realizing that they cannot withstand the subatomic radiation emanating from the nebula for the month it would take to cross, they consider travelling around it, which would take an additional year to clear. The Doctor proposes a novel solution: to place the crew, save for himself and Seven, in stasis, allowing them to cross the nebula safely. Captain Janeway agrees, and soon, the crew is safely stowed into stasis chambers.
Seven adopts a daily cycle to assure the ship maintains its course and the crew remains healthy while in stasis, at times dealing with Tom Paris's fear of small spaces and placing him back in stasis with the Doctor's help. The Doctor attempts to engage Seven in human activities such as a holodeck party with the virtualized crew, but Seven continues to try to keep working during these times. Suddenly, the computer reports failure in the anti-matter storage tanks, but when Seven arrives in engineering to eject them, there is no sign of problems. They discover the gel packs are starting to fail due to the nebula's radiation, but are able to reroute the computer processor to avoid these faults. The Doctor discovers his mobile emitter has started to fail as well, and is forced to stay in sickbay until the journey is complete.
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