Good Shepherd (Star Trek: Voyager)

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
"Good Shepherd"
Star Trek: Voyager episode
Episode no.Season 6
Episode 20
Directed byWinrich Kolbe
Story byDianna Gitto
Teleplay byDianna Gitto
Joe Menosky
Featured musicPaul Baillargeon
Production code243
Original air dateMarch 15, 2000 (2000-03-15)
Guest appearances
Episode chronology
← Previous
"Child's Play" 		Next →
"Live Fast and Prosper"
Star Trek: Voyager season 6
List of episodes

"Good Shepherd" is the 140th episode of the

sixth season
. Set in the Star Trek science fiction universe, a 24th century starship must survive cut-off from the Federation on the other side of the Galaxy with a motley collection of Federation, Maquis and aliens for crew.

Captain Janeway goes on an away mission with three troubled crew-members in a shuttle.[1]

Plot

After a routine shipwide efficiency analysis,

light years
from Earth.

hypochondriac; Tal Celes, a Bajoran whose substandard work requires constant double-checking by others; and the asocial Mortimer Harren, who is interested only in cosmological
theories and has found an assignment where he can sequester himself on Deck 15 and pursue this subject between occasional duties.

During the mission, an unknown, invisible force strikes the Delta Flyer, knocking its propulsion offline and neutralizing 90% of its

photon torpedo
at the force.

Suddenly, Telfer begins to dematerialize and disappear. When he reappears, he collapses, with something writhing beneath his skin. Janeway fires a

phaser
.

Janeway takes the Delta Flyer to a nearby

warp core, but an unseen, invisible object begins displacing the fragments of the planet’s ring, cutting a swath heading straight for the Flyer. Janeway orders the others into the escape pods, but Celes and Telfer adamantly remain, while Harren heads his escape pod for the object in order to give the Flyer time to escape. Janeway beams him back with the transporter
, and then fires the Flyer’s phasers at a fragment of the ring in front of the object, igniting a chain reaction. A bright light explodes throughout the Flyer.

Janeway awakens in sickbay. First Officer Commander Chakotay explains that after receiving her distress call, Voyager found the Flyer drifting above the gas giant with all four crew members unconscious. Janeway observes that in looking for lost members of her flock, the Good Shepherd ended up running into a wolf, but that in the end, she did find them.

Casting

Musician Tom Morello made a cameo appearance as Crewman Mitchell.

Crewman Mitchell, who greets Janeway in Act One, is played by Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. In 1998, Morello, who is a fan of Star Trek, contacted series producer Rick Berman for a cameo in the film Star Trek: Insurrection. Berman, one of whose sons was a fan of Rage Against the Machine, agreed. Although Morello was one of many aliens in a crowd shot in that film, he was later hired in January 1999 to appear as a human in "Good Shepherd". While Morello has only a few lines as Crewman Mitchell, Berman commented: "He did a great job. It was a little pick-me-up for everyone."[2][3]

Releases

This episode was released as part of a season 6 DVD boxset on December 7, 2004.[4]

References

  1. ISBN 9781439117873
    .
  2. ^ Snierson, Dan (February 7, 2000). "Now 'Voyager'" Archived 2009-06-16 at the Wayback Machine Entertainment Weekly.
  3. ^ "Star Trek: Voyager: Characters" Archived 2012-02-10 at the Wayback Machine. startrek.com. Retrieved February 9, 2012
  4. ^ Holly E. Ordway (November 29, 2004). "Star Trek Voyager: Complete Sixth Season". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2021-02-19.

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Good_Shepherd_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)&oldid=1216699629"