Natural Law (Voyager episode)

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Star Trek: VOY episode
"Natural Law"
Episode no. 168
Prod. code 267
Airdate May 2, 2001
Writer(s) James Kahn
Kenneth Biller
Director Terry Windell
Guest star(s) Ivar Brogger
Robert Curtis-Brown
Matt McKenzie
Autumn Reeser
Paul Sandman
Neil Vipond
Tarik Ergin
Stephen Pisani
Year 2377
Stardate 54827.7
Episode chronology
Previous "Friendship One"
Next "Homestead"

Natural Law is the title of the 168th episode of the Star Trek spinoff series, Star Trek: Voyager.

[edit] Plot summary

While traveling in a shuttle to the planet Ledos for a conference on Warp Field Dynamics, Chakotay and Seven of Nine take a small detour to admire the natural landscape. There they scrape an ancient energy barrier that begins to break the shuttle apart.

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They are forced to transport to the planet's surface, where they find themselves in a lush jungle. In spite of Chakotay's leg injury, they decide to search for the shuttle's debris in hopes of constructing a distress beacon.

While searching for the debris, they encounter a tribe of primitive humanoids called the Ventu living in the jungle. Because of the Prime Directive, Chakotay and Seven agree to limit their contact with the Ventu as much as possible.

As Chakotay rests from his injury, he is found by two Ventu and taken to their camp, where he begins to communicate with them. It is believed that a higher intelligence on the planet has deliberately cut off the Ventu with an energy barrier. Unaware of this, Voyager attempts to rescue stranded Chakotay and Seven, but inadvertently disables the ancient energy barrier, opening up the primitive inhabitants to outsiders. After realising this, Voyager re-establishes the energy barrier.

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