4x09 Year of Hell, Part II - Star Trek: Voyager Episode Guide

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- Episode 04x09

Episode: 04x09
Title: Year of Hell, Part II
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 177
First Aired: Nov. 12, 1997

Season 4 » Episode #09 - Year of Hell, Part II

Star Trek: Voyager - 04x09 Year of Hell, Part II

Summary: Stardate: 51425.4 With Chakotay and Paris taken by the Krenim temporal ship, Janeway and crew find themselves in a tenuous position. The continuous pummelling that Voyager has received over the last few months have taken its toll on the ship. The Starfleet crew has struggled through the unending attacks in order to survive. Finally, unwilling to give her crew a death sentence, the Captain orders her family to abandon ship. Giving them the directive to set their escape pods' flight path for the Alpha Quadrant, Janeway tells her crew to build new alliances in the hopes that someday they will be reunited again.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Chakotay	played by Robert Beltran
B'Elanna Torres	played by Roxann Dawson
Tom Paris	played by Robert Duncan McNeill
Tuvok	played by Tim Russ
Harry Kim	played by Garrett Wang
Annorax	played by Kurtwood Smith
Krenim Commandant	played by Peter Marx (II)
Obrist	played by John Loprieno
Annorax's Wife	played by Lise Simms

	Season 4 / Episode 9: - Year of Hell, Part II Annorax's Wife: Good morning. Annorax: Good morning. Annorax's Wife: Join me for breakfast? Annorax: In a little while. I still have a... few more calculations. Annorax's Wife: There are always a few more calculations. It's a beautiful day. Spend it with me. Annorax: I suppose I can make the time.
	Season 4 / Episode 9: - Year of Hell, Part II Annorax: I have collected artifacts from... hundreds of worlds. This vessel is more than a weapon. It's a museum of lost histories.

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TRIVIA

This episode (as well as "Year of Hell: Part 1" was inspired greatly by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea". The name of the character Annorax was derived from the main character of that story, Pierre Aronnax.
Main engineering is not seen through either part I or II. Neither is sickbay; to reduce the costs associated with preparing the sets to be seen as battle-damaged, the writers were asked to place the action on as few of the Voyager standing sets as possible. As such, the events aboard the ship take place almost entirely within the corridors, the bridge, and the mess hall.
Voyager is depicted as being severely damaged in this show. To achieve that effect without lasting damage to any of the permanent sets, acrylic sheets similar to those used when the sets are in storage was draped over most of the "clean" bulkheads, and were then sprayed with charcoal dust to simulate the effects of multiple explosions. Unfortunately this resulted in many surfaces having a "wrinkled" appearance.
Only time in the seven year run of Voyager where Janeway is relieved of command (albeit momentarily) by the EMH, on the grounds that she is suffering from Traumatic Stress Syndrome.
After leaving Star Trek, producer Ronald D. Moore used this script as an example of how Star Trek: Voyager should have proceeded all along.