Warhead (Star Trek: Voyager)

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"Warhead"
Star Trek: Voyager episode
Episode no.Season 5
Episode 25
Directed by John Kretchmer
Story by Brannon Braga
Teleplay by Michael Taylor
Kenneth Biller
Featured music Jay Chattaway
Production code219
Original air dateMay 19, 1999 (1999-05-19)
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"Warhead" is the 119th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager , the 25th episode of the fifth season. It aired on UPN on May 19, 1999.

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In this episode, the USS Voyager, a spacecraft traveling through the galaxy in the 24th century, encounters an alien bomb with artificial intelligence. [1]

Plot

An away team on an uninhabited planet find a small spaceship, crashed and damaged. Upon finding that its programming is fully sentient and in distress, the Doctor asks that the crew rescue it and return it to its people.

The artificial intelligence's memory is damaged, and it cannot tell them even what its function is; however it is soon found to be a weapon of mass destruction. At the Doctor's behest, Captain Janeway keeps the missile aboard, but orders B'Elanna Torres and Harry Kim to disarm the warhead before it remembers what it is.

However, during the procedure, the warhead's intelligence takes over the Doctor's holomatrix, and traps Kim and Torres in sickbay. Threatening to detonate, the warhead orders the Captain to take it to its target. While the rest of the crew look for ways to disable the intelligence, Kim tries to reason with it. The bomb refuses to listen, insisting that it must be allowed to reach its target; it threatens to detonate and destroy the ship if the crew does not comply.

Voyager crew members attempt to reconstruct the warhead's damaged memory circuits. They determine that its creators, a race called the Druoda, halted all hostilities with their enemy and issued recall orders to its fleet of sentient warheads. Most complied, but a few warheads malfunctioned and could not receive the order. This warhead is one of those, and was forcibly crash landed by the Druoda (by remote) to prevent it from detonating. The warhead does not believe this, and thinks that the order to stand down was faked by the enemy.

However, Kim reasons that the recall orders are protected by a code that is nearly impossible to break. The warhead is eventually convinced that hostilities are over; however, over 30 of its fellow warheads are still out there, and have already found Voyager. They ignore the Druoda order to stand down, and the warhead realizes what it must do next. The warhead is downloaded back into its 'body' (freeing the Doctor) and returned to its companions - whereupon it detonates, destroying itself and the other smart bombs. [2]

Releases

This episode, "Warhead", was released on LaserDisc in Japan on June 22, 2001, as part of 5th Season vol.2. [3] The episode had two audio tracks, English and also Japanese. [3] This was the last season released on LaserDisc. [4] This set had 6 double sided 12" optical discs giving a total runtime of 552 minutes. [5]

The episode was released on VHS paired with "Equinox, Part I". [6]

On November 9, 2004, this episode was released as part of the season 5 DVD box set of Star Trek: Voyager. [7] The box set includes 7 DVD optical discs with all the episodes in season 5 with some extra features, and episodes have a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound audio track. [7]

The episode was released as part of a complete series DVD box set for Star Trek : Voyager in 2017. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ TV.com. "Star Trek: Voyager: Warhead". TV.com. Archived from the original on 2020-01-15. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
  2. ↑ "Warhead". StarTrek.com. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  3. 1 2 "LaserDisc Database - Star Trek Voyager: 5th Season vol.2 [PILF-2459]". www.lddb.com. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  4. ↑ "Star Trek: Voyager on VideoDisc". www.blam1.com. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  5. ↑ "LaserDisc Database - Star Trek Voyager: 5th Season vol.2 [PILF-2459]". www.lddb.com. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
  6. ↑ "Star Trek: Voyager 5.13 - Warhead/Equinox Part I". www.videocollector.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
  7. 1 2 "DVD Talk". www.dvdtalk.com. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
  8. ↑ Wright, Matt. "REVIEW: "Star Trek: Voyager" – The Complete Series on DVD". TrekMovie.com. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
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