The Disease
- Episode aired Feb 24, 1999
- TV-PG
- 46m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
1.8K
YOUR RATING
Voyager encounters a group of xenophobic nomads, in space for 400 years, with serious ship-wide malfunctions. The offer to help leads to serious consequences.Voyager encounters a group of xenophobic nomads, in space for 400 years, with serious ship-wide malfunctions. The offer to help leads to serious consequences.Voyager encounters a group of xenophobic nomads, in space for 400 years, with serious ship-wide malfunctions. The offer to help leads to serious consequences.
Ivory Broome
- Engineer
- (uncredited)
Marvin De Baca
- Ensign Patrick Gibson
- (uncredited)
Linda Harcharic
- Voyager Command Officer
- (uncredited)
Grace Harrell
- Operations Division Officer
- (uncredited)
Tony Jones
- Command Division Officer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe shape of the silicon-based ship-eating parasite is that of Lambda phage, a virus which infects E. coli bacteria.
- GoofsWhen in the shuttle Tal tell Harry that she wants to see a nebula that with her own eyes and mentions that the nebula is 300,000 miles away. Even one of the the smallest nebulae is over 1 trillion miles across so at 300,000 miles away would be easily visible with the naked eye from any window facing it.
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Janeway makes a mountain out of a molehill
So, Harry falls deeply in love with an alien woman and Janeway gets all mad about him breaking Starfleet protocols and regulations. This is so stupid and doesn't suit her protective nature towards the crew at all.
They are stranded for five years in the delta quadrant, away from their loved ones. Crew members died in battle or pointlessly on alien planets. They constantly run into dangerous situations and it is just pure luck, that the ship hasn't been assimilated by the Borg already. Every day could be their last. And Harry is a young man. It is just natural that he wants to break free. Guess what happened back in the days when explorers traveled with sailing ships for years around the globe and landed on distant unknown shores with beautiful, half naked girls in the middle of a tropical paradise.
Also, I've never seen Riker being medically examined before and after he slept with alien women in every second episode of TNG. He never asked Picard for permission either and Picard never lectured him about 3 cm thick regulations on inter species relationships. It is a private matter of each crew member - the love life is none of the captain's business, especially not on an exploration vessel. Starfleet is not a military organization, Voyager is no war ship. It would have been one thing if Janeway and the doctor would have been concerned about an alien infection. But Janeway is mad about Harry falling in love! Not about him not using a condom to protect himself from alien diseases and viruses. She is disappointed in him because she feels like he is still the freshman from academy of day one of their journey and obviously has problems in accepting that he and others have changed over the past years. She is like a protective father that gets mad about his teenage daughter that has a boyfriend for the first time, because in his mind he still sees her daughter as this six years old pigtailed girl that needs her father to protect her.
And what is this talk about career and rank anyhow? They are far away from Starfleet headquarters. There is no court martial in sight. They don't know if they ever manage to return home. What career? The only thing that matters on this ship is that everyone stays healthy and happy and doesn't give up. If he has a black or golden pip more than before doesn't make any difference as long as they are still in the delta quadrant!
Janeway acts completely over the top. I bet many crew members didn't just enjoy the scenery on alien planets when they had shore leave for a couple of days in the past years. By the way, after five years away from home and tempted by new worlds, new species, new adventures, a new life... there would have been several crew members already that would have left Voyager and resigned their duty to start a new life on another planet with a new love they found there. This also is quite natural when people travel for a long time. It even happens to ordinary people today, that fall in love during holidays in another country and then burn the bridges and begin a new life there. It is quite weak at the end of this episode that neither Harry nor Tal even considered to leave their lives behind and join the other one on his or her journey just to be together. That deep love they had obviously isn't so deep after all.
The conflict on this generation vessel though is quite interesting. It basically portrays the same struggle that Harry faces. A ship that only travels but never sets anchor to settle somewhere has not much of a purpose. As those people on this ship want to live their lives where and how they choose, the same is true for the crew on Voyager.
They are stranded for five years in the delta quadrant, away from their loved ones. Crew members died in battle or pointlessly on alien planets. They constantly run into dangerous situations and it is just pure luck, that the ship hasn't been assimilated by the Borg already. Every day could be their last. And Harry is a young man. It is just natural that he wants to break free. Guess what happened back in the days when explorers traveled with sailing ships for years around the globe and landed on distant unknown shores with beautiful, half naked girls in the middle of a tropical paradise.
Also, I've never seen Riker being medically examined before and after he slept with alien women in every second episode of TNG. He never asked Picard for permission either and Picard never lectured him about 3 cm thick regulations on inter species relationships. It is a private matter of each crew member - the love life is none of the captain's business, especially not on an exploration vessel. Starfleet is not a military organization, Voyager is no war ship. It would have been one thing if Janeway and the doctor would have been concerned about an alien infection. But Janeway is mad about Harry falling in love! Not about him not using a condom to protect himself from alien diseases and viruses. She is disappointed in him because she feels like he is still the freshman from academy of day one of their journey and obviously has problems in accepting that he and others have changed over the past years. She is like a protective father that gets mad about his teenage daughter that has a boyfriend for the first time, because in his mind he still sees her daughter as this six years old pigtailed girl that needs her father to protect her.
And what is this talk about career and rank anyhow? They are far away from Starfleet headquarters. There is no court martial in sight. They don't know if they ever manage to return home. What career? The only thing that matters on this ship is that everyone stays healthy and happy and doesn't give up. If he has a black or golden pip more than before doesn't make any difference as long as they are still in the delta quadrant!
Janeway acts completely over the top. I bet many crew members didn't just enjoy the scenery on alien planets when they had shore leave for a couple of days in the past years. By the way, after five years away from home and tempted by new worlds, new species, new adventures, a new life... there would have been several crew members already that would have left Voyager and resigned their duty to start a new life on another planet with a new love they found there. This also is quite natural when people travel for a long time. It even happens to ordinary people today, that fall in love during holidays in another country and then burn the bridges and begin a new life there. It is quite weak at the end of this episode that neither Harry nor Tal even considered to leave their lives behind and join the other one on his or her journey just to be together. That deep love they had obviously isn't so deep after all.
The conflict on this generation vessel though is quite interesting. It basically portrays the same struggle that Harry faces. A ship that only travels but never sets anchor to settle somewhere has not much of a purpose. As those people on this ship want to live their lives where and how they choose, the same is true for the crew on Voyager.
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- Runtime46 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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