7.8/102,079 votes#1 - Basics (2)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/1996
Stardate: 50023.4. Voyager is captured by the Kazon and the crew are dumped on a planet in its early stages of evolution. As only Tom Paris and Lon Suder have evaded capture, it's up to them and the EMH to come up with a plan to retake the ship.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Michael Piller
7.7/102,319 votes#2 - Flashback
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/11/1996
Stardate: 50126.4. After falling ill to what appears to be a repressed memory Tuvok must perform a mind-meld with Captain Janeway in order to survive. The meld takes them back to when Tuvok was a junior science officer aboard the U.S.S. Excelsior under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Brannon Braga
6.6/101,937 votes#3 - The Chute
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/1996
Stardate: 50156.2. Paris and Kim are sent to an Akritian prison after being accused of a terrorist bombing.
Director: Les Landau
Writer: Kenneth Biller
7.1/101,933 votes#4 - The Swarm
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/25/1996
Stardate: 50252.3. Voyager encounters a region of space owned by a mysterious race of aliens that would take 15 months to go around. Upon crossing the boundaries, a swarm of ships attach themselves to Voyager's hull - an act which drains the ship's power supplies and threatens to destroy it.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: Michael Sussman
6.5/102,093 votes#5 - False Profits
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/1996
Stardate: 50074.3. A pair of Ferengi is found masquerading as Gods to a culture still in its Bronze Age. It is discovered that they had arrived through the Barzan Wormhole, which leads back to the Alpha Quadrant, however, its Delta Quadrant end is highly unstable and always moving.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Joe Menosky
6.9/101,975 votes#6 - Remember
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1996
Stardate: 50203.1. After Voyager encounter a telepathic species, B'Elanna starts having powerful dreams that depict the life of a woman and her lover in a time of great political and social upheaval.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky
5.8/102,160 votes#7 - Sacred Ground
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1996
Stardate: 50063.2. Captain Janeway has to undergo a rigorous ritual in order to save Kes' life when she is knocked unconscious.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: N/A
8.2/102,500 votes#8 - Future's End (1)
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1996
Stardate: Unknown. Both Voyager and a 29th century Federation Timeship, the Aeon are pulled back in time to Earth in the late 20th century. The Timeship Aeon crashes in Arizona during the 1960's, while Voyager appears in orbit around Earth during 1996.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky
8.1/102,352 votes#9 - Future's End (2)
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1996
Stardate: 50312.5. While trying to rescue Paris and Tuvok, Torres and Chakotay are captured by a gang of weapons smugglers who believe that they are from the government.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky
6.6/101,983 votes#10 - Warlord
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1996
Stardate: 50348.1. An injured alien named Tieran transfers his consciousness into Kes' mind moments before he dies. He then gains control over her and begins using her abilities to steal a shuttlecraft and return to his home world to attempt a political coup.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: N/A
7.1/102,111 votes#11 - The Q and the Grey
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1996
Stardate: 50384.2. Voyager encounters several supernova in a small region of space. Time soon reveals that it is the after effects of a civil war within the Q-Continuum. Q appears and believes that the solution to the problem is for him to produce a child, and his mate of choice is Captain Kathryn Janeway. Matters are complicated when a jealous female Q appears claiming that Q was her boyfriend.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Kenneth Biller, Shawn Piller
7.2/102,025 votes#12 - Macrocosm
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1996
Stardate: Unknown. After returning from a first contact mission, Janeway, Neelix and the Doctor must retake Voyager from an infestation of microorganisms that grow to an alarming size.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: Brannon Braga
6.7/101,851 votes#13 - Fair Trade
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/8/1997
Stardate: Unknown. Voyager encounters a region of space named the Nekrit Expanse. Since Neelix has no knowledge about the space after this point, he tries to make himself feel useful to the crew by trying to obtain a map from an old friend named Wixiban, who uses him as a courier for illegal substances.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: André Bormanis, Ron Wilkerson
6.7/101,918 votes#14 - Alter Ego
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/1997
Stardate: 50460.3. Ensign Kim asks Tuvok to teach him Vulcan emotional control techniques when he falls in love with a holodeck character named Marayna. Kim soon becomes jealous when he sees Tuvok interacting with her behind his back as she tries to seduce him.
Director: Robert Picardo
Writer: Joe Menosky
7.0/101,999 votes#15 - Coda
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/29/1997
Stardate: 50518.6. Captain Janeway repeatedly dies after she and Chakotay crash into a planet in what appears to be a time loop. Soon, her deceased father appears and tells her that she is dead and must accept her situation and move on.
Director: Nancy Malone
Writer: Jeri Taylor
7.1/102,001 votes#16 - Blood Fever
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/5/1997
Stardate: 50537.2. Ensign Vorik expresses his desire to mate with B'Elanna during his Pon-Farr. After they get in a brawl over the matter, Torres begins showing signs of the Pon-Farr herself.
Director: Andrew Robinson
Writer: Lisa Klink
7.8/102,219 votes#17 - Unity
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/12/1997
Stardate: 50614.2. During an away mission, Chakotay discovers a Federation hailing signature coming from an alien planet. After landing, he learns that all is not peaceful, and those helping him have not been entirely honest about their true origins.
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writer: Kenneth Biller
6.2/101,844 votes#18 - Darkling
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/19/1997
Stardate: 50693.2. When the doctor tries to improve his personality by incorporating the psychological profiles of famous and historical people, he is overwhelmed by their dark sides and begins exhibiting signs of a split personality, one the regular doctor, and the other dark and evil. Kes asks to leave Voyager when they encounter a race with vast knowledge of the region of space they are currently exploring.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky
6.7/101,856 votes#19 - Rise
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/26/1997
Stardate: Unknown. Neelix is pushed to the limits when Tuvok's attitude becomes too much to bear while the pair is on an away mission to help evacuate a Nezu planet, which is being bombarded with asteroids.
Director: Robert Scheerer
Writer: Brannon Braga
6.0/101,923 votes#20 - Favorite Son
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/19/1997
Stardate: 50732.4. Harry Kim experiences strong senses of deja vu in an unknown region of space. He soon learns that he is native to this region and that he is T'Karian, not human.
Director: Marvin V. Rush
Writer: Lisa Klink
7.6/102,121 votes#21 - Before and After
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 4/9/1997
Stardate: 50973. Kes begins traveling backwards through time from the moment of her death. With each shift, she comes closer to a solution but she also grows months and years younger at a time.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Kenneth Biller
7.3/102,093 votes#22 - Real Life
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/23/1997
Stardate: 50863.2. The Doctor decides he should create a holographic family in order to expand himself. When B'Elanna is disgusted by its unrealistic perfectionism, she alters the program to include random events and outcomes with interesting and devastating results.
Director: Anson Williams
Writer: Jeri Taylor
8.5/102,615 votes#23 - Distant Origin
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 4/30/1997
Stardate: Unknown. An alien palaeontologist discovers a common ancestral link between his people and humans. He believes that this proves that his people (the Voth) evolved on Earth and migrated to the Delta Quadrant millions of years ago, but his government is not as willing to believe his interpretation of the evidence.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky
7.4/101,924 votes#24 - Displaced
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/7/1997
Stardate: 50912.4. Crew members are replaced one-by-one with aliens from an unknown race.
Director: Allan Kroeker
Writer: Lisa Klink
8.0/102,123 votes#25 - Worst Case Scenario
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 5/14/1997
Stardate: 50953.4. B'Elanna Torres discovers a holodeck program where Chakotay and the Maquis rebel against Janeway.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: Kenneth Biller
The Best Episodes of Star Trek: Voyager Season 3
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Basics (2)" is the best rated episode of "Star Trek: Voyager" season 3. It scored 7.8/10 based on 2079 votes. Directed by Winrich Kolbe and written by Michael Piller, it aired on 9/4/1996. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Flashback".