Renaissance Man (Voyager episode)

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Star Trek: VOY episode
"Homestead"
Neelix and Dexa
Episode no.	170
Prod. code	270
Airdate	May 16, 2001
Writer(s)	Phyllis Strong Mike Sussman
Director	Mike Vejar
Year	2377
Stardate	54890.7
Episode chronology
Previous	"Homestead"
Next	"Endgame"

"Renaissance Man" is the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Voyager. It originally aired on May 16, 2001.

[edit] Plot summary

Captain Kathryn Janeway and the Doctor return from a conference aboard the Delta Flyer saying that they ran into trouble.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Chakotay is suspicious of Janeway's story that the Rakal ordered her to surrender Voyager's warp core and that she is giving in. It turns out that in fact the Doctor is impersonating Janeway. He impersonates several other crew members to get the core ejected and gives it over to two aliens who've defected from the Hierarchy so they will release Janeway, who they've held captive. The Doctor leaves Voyager disabled and with the Blue Danube Waltz playing over and over again in a distorted recording. Seven of Nine figures that the Doctor has left a clue as to where he was going. Tuvok and Tom Paris chase him in a shuttle.

The aliens do not release Janeway as promised. It is only by a clever ploy from Tuvok and Paris that Voyager is able to retrieve its warp core, shuttles and officers.

Back on Voyager, the Doctor, on the verge of a fatal malfunction, confesses many of his feelings about the crew: that he is in love with Seven, that he has kept a record of Janeway's command decisions which he thinks are mistakes, etc. B'Elanna Torres stabilizes him just in the nick of time, but the Doctor, embarrassed by all he has said, confines himself to sickbay for a week.