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Star Trek: Voyager - Episode 02x01
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Episode: 02x01
Title: The 37's
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 120
First Aired: Aug. 28, 1995
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Summary: Stardate: 48975.1 Voyager comes upon, to their surprise, a vintage 1936 pickup truck floating in space. To add to the mystery, the truck’s radio is receiving a distress signal, which Voyager tracks down to the source planet. The mystery deepens even more when they find people from Earth in frozen animation there.The crew learns the planet is also inhabited by human descendents of the frozen humans. The crew must decide if they want to stay on this lone Earth-like planet, or continue on the journey back to the Alpha quadrant. Will Janeway have enough crew left, after their decisions are made, to continue Voyager’s trip home?
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MISTAKES/GOOFS
- PLOT: SPOILER: Right before the 37's are taken out of suspended animation, Lt. Paris notes that one of them (the Japanese Officer) is armed with a pistol; Captain Janeway prudently orders him disarmed before awakening the group. Yet, minutes later, Fred Noonen, one of the awakened 37's, pulls a pistol out of his jacket and proceeds to hold the Voyager team hostage. Since Lt. Paris found a dangerous weapon on one of the sleeping 37's, it stands to reason that other members of this mysterious group of people might also be carrying weapons. It seems improbable that a trained Starfleet professional would not have searched ALL the sleeping 37's for weapons before they were awakened.
- FAKE: The 1936 model Ford truck found drifting in space for 400 years and beamed into the Voyager cargo bay not only has tires still perfectly inflated with air, but also has enough gas & oil in the engine, as well as a charged battery, so that Lt. Paris is able to start the engine on almost the first try. In the total vacuum of space, air would have almost instantaneously purged itself from primitive 1936 truck tires, as would oil, gas, etc., from the engine. In addition, a 1936 car/truck battery also contains water and is not going to retain water and/or an electrical charge in space for 400 years.
- PLOT: SPOILER: When Captain Janeway and Commander Chakotay are discussing how many crew members (out of the total of 152 aboard) would be necessary to operate the Voyager for the return to Earth, Chakotay confidently asserts "no less than 100" and Janeway accepts this without any questions. Yet, in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), which takes place more than 70 years before the events of this show, Scotty, with just a few days at his disposal (and working all by himself), converted the USS Enterprise NC 1701, a much more primitive Constitution Class starship, to be easily operated and flown all the way to the Genesis planet by a crew of just 5 people. It should also be noted that the original Enterprise normally required a crew of 430 according to the Star Trek creators, as opposed to Voyager's crew compliment of 152. It is highly improbable, therefore, that the much older and more heavily staffed Enterprise could be successfully run by a skeleton crew of 5 while the much more modern and sophisticated Voyager (with all it's advanced systems and computers - even a holographic doctor) requires a "minimum of 100" crew members to operate.
TRIVIA
- This script was produced in the first season, but was held back to air as the premiere of season two. In fact, this is the earliest season premiere in Star Trek history, August 28, 1995. Janeway states that the year is 2371, which is the same year as the first season.
- This is the first time the U.S.S. Voyager lands on a planet's surface.
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