The Best Episodes Written By Brannon Braga

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.6/10(14 votes)

   #1 - Day 7: 10:00 A.M.-11:00 A.M.

   S7:E31/12/2009

   With Tony in custody, Jack leads his interrogation, but is shocked when a code word Tony whispers in his ear leads to old friends and a plot much deeper than anyone in the FBI anticipated. Jack once again takes the law into his own hands when he breaks Tony out of the FBI's custody to deliver him back to the terrorist faction. Renee asks FBI technician Janis Gold to try to uncover a possible leak in the agency, but Janis is terrified when her discoveries point to fellow analyst Sean Hillinger. Colonel Dubaku sends a message to President Taylor, insisting that the US withdraw its forces from Sangala or risk a terrible attack on their soil.

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   8.5/10(33 votes)

   #2 - Scorpion (1)

   S3:E265/21/1997

   Stardate: 50984.3. Voyager finally enters Borg space, only to discover a threat more powerful than the Borg themselves.

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   8.5/10(35 votes)

   #3 - Scorpion (2)

   S4:E19/3/1997

   Stardate: 51003.7. The Voyager crew, allied with the Borg, prepare to battle the sinister alien Species 8472. But can an alliance between opinionated individuals and a collective race of consumers survive such fundamental differences?

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4. 

   8.5/10(11 votes)

   #4 - Magic Without Lies

   S2:E94/6/2020

   Meet the man who stumbled on a hole in the reality of quantum mechanics and the still-unfolding technology that made it possible.

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   8.4/10(16 votes)

   #5 - The Fleeting Grace of the Habitable Zone

   S2:E23/9/2020

   There is no refuge from change in the cosmos. There will come a time in the life of the Sun when Earth will no longer be a home for us. The story of our ancestors who rose to a comparable challenge and a long-term vision of our future on other worlds.

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   8.4/10(57 votes)

   #6 - All Good Things...

   S7:E255/23/1994

   Stardate: 47988.0. Shortly after Picard is diagnosed with a long-term, potentially debilitating brain disorder, he starts experiencing bizarre shifts into three main time periods: 25 years into the future, a few days before the Enterprise-D is sent on its mission to Farpoint station, and the present. Picard realizes that Q is behind these shifts through time. Stardate: 47988.1. After his encounter with Q, Picard assembles the senior staff, and wonders if Q is actually giving him a chance to save humanity by showing him that the spatial anomaly also exists in the past. As they talk, the ship reaches the Neutral Zone, then Picard returns to the future, where Beverly's ship is also on the edge of the Neutral Zone. He convinces a reluctant Worf to accompany the group into Klingon territory, and then travels to the past, where he orders the crew into the Devron system.

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   8.4/10(14 votes)

   #7 - Vavilov

   S2:E43/16/2020

   In the first half of the 20th century pioneering geneticist Nikolai Vavilov traveled 5 continents assembling a treasury of the worlds seeds. He dreamed that science could be the means to end hunger. His refusal to tell a scientific lie cost him his life. The heroism of his colleagues and its direct impact on your life is one of the most stirring stories in the history of science.

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   8.4/10(12 votes)

   #8 - The Sacrifice of Cassini

   S2:E83/30/2020

   The mysterious untold story of the scientist who figured out how to go the Moon while fighting for his life in a WWI trench. He wrote a letter to fifty years in the future. It made the Apollo Mission possible. And the saga of the twenty-year long odyssey of a robotic explorer ordered to commit suicide on another world.

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9. 

   8.4/10(49 votes)

   #9 - Identity (1)

   S2:E82/21/2019

   Ed and the crew travel to Isaac's home planet, Kaylon.

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10. 

    8.3/10(13 votes)

    #10 - Day 7: 8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M.

    S7:E133/9/2009

    The siege on the White House reaches an explosive end after Jack and Bill work together to try and save President Taylor. Meanwhile, Jonas Hodges makes moves to cover his own tracks, starting with Ryan Burnett.

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    8.3/10(58 votes)

    #11 - Cause and Effect

    S5:E183/23/1992

    Stardate: 45652.1. While exploring the Typhon Expanse, the Enterprise is caught in a time warp in which they are repeatedly destroyed while colliding with another starship.

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12. 

    8.3/10(18 votes)

    #12 - Endgame

    S7:E255/23/2001

    Stardate: 54973.4 - Twenty-six years in the future, a regretful Admiral Janeway hatches an audacious plan to bring Voyager home sooner, rather than have it spend an additional sixteen years making its journey.

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13. 

    8.2/10(13 votes)

    #13 - Day 7: 7:00 P.M.-8:00 P.M.

    S7:E123/2/2009

    Juma and his men take the White House by storm, killing most of the Secret Service and trapping Taylor and Jack in the saferoom. His efforts to extract her are thwarted until he is informed that the President's daughter is in the White House as well. Renee and Larry try to convince Vice President Hayworth to let them rescue the President, but Hayworth will not budge until the FBI can produce proof that she is not in imminent danger.

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    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #14 - The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth

    S2:E73/30/2020

    A revelation of the hidden underground network that is a collaboration of four kingdoms of life, and a true first contact story between humans and beings who communicate in a symbolic language and have maintained a representative democracy for many tens of millions of years.

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    8.2/10(12 votes)

    #15 - Coming of Age In The Anthropocene

    S2:E124/13/2020

    A baby is born on the day the show premieres. What kind of world can she expect to grow up in? One of her possible futures is explored.

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    8.2/10(13 votes)

    #16 - Day 7: 7:00 A.M.-8:00 A.M.

    S7:E245/18/2009

    Presented with the evidence of Olivia's actions, President Allison Taylor is forced to make a decision between her family and the Presidency. Thanks to Kim Bauer, Janis, Renee and Chloe are able to save Jack and arrest Tony before he can kill Alan Wilson. With Wilson refusing to talk and Jack about to die, the fight is no longer in the field, it's for the hearts and souls of Jack and Renee.

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    8.1/10(36 votes)

    #17 - Year of Hell (1)

    S4:E811/5/1997

    Stardate: 51268.4. The Voyager crew finds its determination and morale challenged when trying to survive a brutal, long-lasting conflict with a race called the Krenim.

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    8.1/10(36 votes)

    #18 - Latent Image

    S5:E111/20/1999

    Stardate: Unknown. A gap in The Doctor's memory uncovers clues to a mystery involving the nature of his existence.

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    8.1/10(37 votes)

    #19 - Timeless

    S5:E611/18/1998

    Stardate: Unknown. In the future, Harry Kim attempts to correct a mistake he made 15 years earlier, which had resulted in the loss of Voyager during use of experimental engine technology.

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    8.1/10(51 votes)

    #20 - Parallels

    S7:E1111/29/1993

    Stardate: 47391.2. Worf returns from a Klingon competition to find that he is shifting through different realities.

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    8.1/10(11 votes)

    #21 - Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

    S2:E114/13/2020

    An exploration of human potential for change, concluding with the story of one of history's greatest monster and his virtuous transformation.

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    8.1/10(11 votes)

    #22 - A Tale of Two Atoms

    S2:E104/6/2020

    How a deadly embrace between science and state altered the fate of the world, and a gripping cautionary tale of mass casualty and unlikely survival.

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    8.1/10(35 votes)

    #23 - Domino

    S3:E97/28/2022

    The creation of a powerful new weapon puts the Orville crew — and the entire Union — in a political and ethical quandary.

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    8.1/10(34 votes)

    #24 - Living Witness

    S4:E234/29/1998

    Stardate: Unknown. 700 years into the future the Doctor must defend the crew of Voyager and set history straight when an alien race claims that the Warship Voyager was responsible for war crimes commited against their race.

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    8.0/10(32 votes)

    #25 - Deadlock

    S2:E213/18/1996

    Stardate: 49548.7. An accident in a plasma cloud duplicates Voyager after they are attacked by the Vidiians. During the aftermath, the ship is severely damaged, Ensign Wildman's baby dies and Harry Kim is sucked into space through a hull breach.

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