A mysterious force puts the crew in a delusional state that causes their most deeply buried thoughts and desires to surface.
As Voyager readies for a potentially dangerous encounter with the Botha, the Doctor orders an exhausted Captain Janeway to take some "R&R" in the holodeck. Janeway tries to get into her favorite holonovel, but before long, she is called back to the Bridge for first contact with the Botha. The Bothan representative gives the crew a chilly reception, but sets up a rendezvous to determine whether or not they will allow Voyager to pass through their space.
Janeway puts Chakotay in charge of meeting with the Botha while she undergoes medical testing. Once again, the alien representative is hostile and this time, his ship engages the crew in a battle, leaving Voyager damaged. Leaving Sickbay, Janeway races to the Bridge, where the Bothan is on the viewscreen. She's stunned to see it's Mark.
At least, that's how it looks to her. But on the same viewscreen, Paris sees his disparaging father, Admiral Paris; Kim sees his girlfriend Libby; and Tuvok sees his wife T'Pel. Torres contacts Janeway from Engineering and reports that the crew seems to have fallen under some kind of psychoactive trance, the result of a bio-electric field emanating from the Bothan ship. But even as she begins working on a way to block the field, she falls prey to its spell.
It's up to Kes, whose telepathic abilities allow her to resist the field, and the Doctor to block the mysterious force that's disabling the ship. Kes manages to complete Torres' work and restore the crew to normal. A telepathic Bothan confesses to having caused the disturbance, but he disappears before they can learn any more from him. As they continue on their way, the crew reflects uneasily about what's lurking in the subconscious corridors of their minds.
CAST
CAPTAIN KATHRYN JANEWAY
KATE MULGREW
COMMANDER CHAKOTAY
ROBERT BELTRAN
LIEUTENANT B'ELANNA TORRES
ROXANN BIGGS-DAWSON
KES
JENNIFER LIEN
LIEUTENANT TOM PARIS
ROBERT DUNCAN MCNEILL
NEELIX
ETHAN PHILLIPS
THE DOCTOR
ROBERT PICARDO
LIEUTENANT TUVOK
TIM RUSS
ENSIGN HARRY KIM
GARRETT WANG
GUEST STARS
LORD BURLEIGH
MICHAEL CUMPSTY
MRS. TEMPLETON
CAROLYN SEYMOUR
MARK
STAN IVAR
ADMIRAL PARIS
WARREN MUNSON
BEATRICE
LINDSEY HAUN
HENRY
THOMAS DEKKER
BOTHAN
PATRICK KERR
T'PEL
MARVA HICKS
Written by: JERI TAYLOR
Directed by: JAMES L. CONWAY
HIGHLIGHT LISTING
STAR TREK: VOYAGER: "Persistence of Vision" -- A mysterious force puts the crew in a delusional state that causes their most deeply buried thoughts and desires to surface.
ADVERTISING HEADLINE
OUT OF THEIR MINDS?
Who - or what - is playing tricks with the minds of the Voyager crew?