Star Trek: Voyager, Season 1, Episode 13 - "Cathexis"
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Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Cathexis," an alien force that threatens Voyager in a dark matter nebula has robbed Chakotay of his neural energy. When paranoia reaches a high among the crew, he may be the only one who can get them out.
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| 0:59.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry's Star Trek Podcast, a Rothenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 1:26.0 | And I'm Norman Lough. Each week on Mission Log, we take a look at each and every episode of Star |
| 1:31.2 | Trek hoping to find the morals, meanings, and messages |
| 1:34.4 | contained therein, if any, even when we look really hard for them and see if they |
| 1:40.6 | withstand the test of time. |
| 1:42.0 | This week, Cathaxis, the one where Chakote sits this one out, |
| 1:47.0 | as the crew is under siege by a race of disembodied aliens from a dark matter nebula, |
| 1:52.0 | maybe they were protecting their coffee stash? Who knows? |
| 1:55.6 | We'll get back to Kethexis in a moment right after I'll let you know how to stay in touch with us. |
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