Persistence of Vision (Star Trek: Voyager)

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"Persistence of Vision"
Star Trek: Voyager episode
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 8
Directed byJames L. Conway
Written byJeri Taylor
Featured musicDavid Bell
Production code124
Original air dateOctober 30, 1995 (1995-10-30)
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"Persistence of Vision" is the 24th episode of

Star Trek franchise, is several hundred years in the future in Earth's galaxy. A Federation starship is stranded on the other side of the Galaxy, and its warp drive will take decades to return. In this episode, the ship's captain is revealed to be quite stressed and takes some to time to relax in the holodeck
. But her experience, in a way typical of this franchise, explores illusion and reality aboard a spaceship encountering unknown aliens.

The episode aired on UPN on October 30, 1995.[1]

Plot

As

holonovel, a story in the fashion of Jane Eyre
.

Janeway goes to sick-bay, but The Doctor cannot find anything wrong with her brain. Janeway experiences another hallucination, which Kes sees, too. The hallucination bounces off of her and reflects back into Janeway. The Doctor orders Janeway to her quarters for rest until he can determine the source of these events. Later, another holonovel character attacks her in her quarters with a knife. Again, Kes confirms the event, but it is a hallucination—Janeway is still in sick-bay.

Janeway puts

the Doctor
remaining unaffected. Kes heads for engineering to block the psychic field; she starts hallucinating as well, but soon focuses herself and defeats the hallucination of burns by reflecting them back upon the intruder. Now it is he who is incapacitated by his own redirected power, while Kes manages to restore the crew to normal.

A

telepathic
Botha confesses to having caused the disturbance, simply because he could. Before they can confront him further, he disappears. As they continue on their way, the crew reflects uneasily about what is lurking in the subconscious corridors of their minds.

Casting

This episode includes several holographic characters, including reoccurring child characters Beatrice and Henry.[2]

Reception

When broadcast in 1995, "Persistence of Vision" received a

Nielsen rating of 6.1 points.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Star Trek: Voyager". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
  2. – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "WebTrek - Star Trek: Voyager * NIELSEN RATINGS". users.telenet.be.

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