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  Episode Information  
Title: Caretaker, Part I
Episode Number: 1
Season: 1
Season Episode #.: 1
Production Number: 101
Original Airdate: Monday January 16th, 1995
9/10 (1 Vote cast)
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Episode Crew
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Michael Piller
Jeri Taylor
Story: Rick Berman
  Episode Summary  
Stardate: 48315.6 While pursuing a Maquis ship in a region of space known as the Badlands, the USS Voyager and the Maquis ship are transported 75,000 light years from home into the Delta Quadrant.
 
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  Guest Stars  
Guest Stars
Bruce FrenchplayedOcampa DoctorRecurring (first appearance)
Gavan O'HerlihyplayedJabinRecurring (first appearance)
Jennifer ParsonsplayedOcampa NurseRecurring (first appearance)
Josh Clark (1)playedCareyRecurring (first appearance)
Majel BarrettvoicedVoyager ComputerRecurring (first appearance)
Scott MacDonaldplayedRollinsRecurring (first appearance)
Stan IvarplayedMarkRecurring (first appearance)
Alicia CoppolaplayedLt. Stadi 
Angela PatonplayedAunt Adah 
Armin ShimermanplayedQuark 
Bsail Langton (1)playedThe Keeper 
Jeff McCarthyplayedHuman Doctor 
Keely SimsplayedFarmer's Daughter 
Richard PoeplayedGul Evek 
Scott JaeckplayedCavit 
Uncredited
Mark Allen ShepherdplayedMorn 
  Episode Notes  
Scott MacDonald (Rollins) was also in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
 
Tom Paris was a member of the Maquis.
 
Like most television programs and films, sound is depicted to exist in this episode, outside a space ship. This is a deliberate mistake made by the creators, as in reality there would be no sound since space is a vacuum. One well known film to depict this accurately is the classic 1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
 
A light year is the distance that light travels in the vacuum of space in one year. Light travels at 299,792,458 metres per second. Interestingly, scientists have not only been able to slow light down, but they have actually succeeded in stopping it.

Reference: Light Speed
 
Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Tim Russ (Tuvok), and Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris) are the only ones to appear in every single episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
 
The first and final episodes have the same last line, "Set a course, for home," said by Captain Janeway.

 
Armin Shimerman (Quark) and Richard Poe (Gul Evek), who both appear at the beginning of this episode, share the distinction of reprising their character in three different Star Trek series with only four others. The other four are Jonathan Frakes (Commander William T. Riker), Marina Sirtis (Counsellor Deanna Troi), John de Lancie (Q) and Michael Ansara (Kang).
 
  Episode Quotes  
The Caretaker: Oh, why have you come back? You don't have what I need.
Janeway: I don't know what you need and frankly I don't care. I just want our people back and I want us all to be sent home.
The Caretaker: Oh, now, aren't you contentious for a minor bipedal species?
Janeway: This minor bipedal species doesn't take kindly to being abducted.
 
(Standing in front of a replicator)
Paris: Tomato soup.
Computer: There are 14 varieties of tomato soup available from this replicator: with rice, with vegetables, Bolian style, with pasta, with...
Paris: Plain.
Computer: Specify hot or chilled.
Paris: Hot! Hot, plain tomato soup!
 
Quark: Here am I, trying to be a cordial host, knowing how much a young officer's parents would appreciate a token of his love on the eve of a dangerous mission and what do I get for my trouble? Scurrilous insults. Well, somebody's going to hear about this!
 
B'Elanna: Our fuel line has ruptured. Attempting to compensate. Damn it! We're barely maintaining impulse. I can't get any more out of it.
Chakotay: Be creative.
B'Elanna: How am I supposed to be creative with a 39-year old rebuilt engine?!
 
Paris: Stadi, you're changing my mind about Betzoids.
Stadi: Good.
Paris: Oh, that wasn't a compliment. I've always considered Betazoids to be warm and sensual.
Stadi: I can be warm and sensual.
Paris: Just not to me.
Stadi: Do you always fly at women at warp speed, Mister Paris?
Paris: Only when they're in visual range.
 
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