Star Trek Voyager Season 4

#### November 5, 1997 (US): Episode 08 - "Year of Hell, Part I" (Stardate 51268.4)

A Krenim destroyer attacks and serves an ultimatum to leave Krenim space or be destroyed. The ship's weapons prove useless but a wave of temporal energy makes the Krenim vessel bigger and more powerful, and reduces Voyager to a severely damaged state. Voyager escapes but is forced to battle many Krenim ships, suffering heavy damages and casualties; Tuvok is severely burned and blinded. A temporal weapon is causing the temporal disruptions and its inventor, Krenim scientist Annorax (Kurtwood Smith) built it to erase events from history and strengthen the Krenim Imperium. However, it caused a plague killing millions of Krenim, including his wife. Annorax decides to destroy Voyager but it escapes using warp drive causing more damage leading Janeway to order all but the senior staff to abandon ship.

#### November 12, 1997 (US): Episode 09 - "Year of Hell, Part II" (Stardate 51425.4)

After a brief interval spent hiding from the "time ship" carrying the temporal weapon in a nebula, Captain Janeway makes an alliance with two species known as the Nihydron and the Mawasi to attack the Krenim time ship. With the help of a dissatisfied crew member, Chakotay and Paris take the time ship's temporal core offline, rendering it vulnerable to attack. Voyager is badly damaged when an allied ship crashes over the saucer section. Theorising that the true timeline will be restored if the Krenim ship is destroyed by its own weapon, Janeway rams Voyager into the time-ship. Voyager is destroyed causing the Krenim time ship's temporal core to destabilise and explode, erasing the time ship from history and resetting the timeline.

In the new timeline, Voyager ventures into Krenim space. This time, the captain of the Krenim warship is moderate advising that “this area of space is under dispute” and suggests they avoid it. In this timeline, Annorax is seen working diligently in his study. His wife (Lise Simms) enters and asks him to enjoy the day with her. Annorax hesitates for a moment, and then decides that he can “make the time” for her. They leave while his work remains behind on his desk, depicting the calculations for his original alteration of the timeline.

#### November 19, 1997 (US): Episode 10 - "Random Thoughts" (Stardate 51367.2)

Voyager is orbiting the Mari homeworld, a race of telepaths. While the ship's crew struggle to trade for supplies with mind readers, Tuvok, and the city's Chief Examiner, Nimira, talk about security and maintaining order. Captain Janeway and Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres are negotiating for a resonator coil when someone bumps into Torres, momentarily irritating her. Moments later the man who bumped into Torres beats another man bloody. The aggressor seems surprised at himself and says he does not know why he did that. After questioning the crew, Nimira determines that B'Elanna's angry thoughts transmitted telepathically to the aggressor, and thus she is guilty and sentenced to undergo memory modification to remove the thought, as is the aggressor. Janeway protests due to the risk of neurological damage. Another attack occurs with the same memory, indicating that it is still in circulation. Tuvok goes undercover and finds an illicit memory trade in which the salesman of the resonator coil is a key figure. He determines that B'Elanna's memory was goaded from her in order to be resold, but it was too violent for the illicit Mari tradesmen to contain. Torres is released due to this new evidence.