False Profits

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Star Trek: VOY episode
"False Profits"
Arridor
Episode no.	47
Prod. code	144
Airdate	October 2, 1996
Writer(s)	George A. Brozak Joe Menosky
Director	Cliff Bole
Guest star(s)	Dan Shor as Arridor Leslie Jordan as Kol Michael Ensign as Bard Rob LaBelle as Kafar
Year	2373
Stardate	50074.3
Episode chronology
Previous	"The Swarm"
Next	"Remember"

"False Profits" is an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the fifth episode of the third season.

[edit] Synopsis

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While traveling through the delta quadrant Voyager encounters replicator technology on a pre-warp planet. when Chakotay and Paris beam down to the planet they discover two Ferengi are pretending to be prophets to the native people. When the Ferengi are beamed aboard Voyager they refuse to be returned to the alpha quadrant and are returned to the planet. Meanwhile a wormhole is detected and it is traced to the alpha quadrant, the only problem is that the entrance in the delta quadrant moves around erratically. Harry Kim and B'Elanna Torres work on a way to stabilize the delta quadrant end so that they can go home. Captain Janeway decides to disguise Neelix as a Ferengi and send him down to the planet to demand that the two false prophets return to the alpha quadrant. Eventually after Neelix is discovered as being a Talaxian the Ferengi try to kill him, when the natives discover what is going on they declare him to be a higher up prophet and demand that all the Ferengi (including Neelix) return home as was originally foretold and that they must be burned alive to reach their home, Neelix and the two Ferengi are beamed aboard Voyager just in time. Suddenly the Ferengi escape to their shuttle and are on their way back to the planet when they are sucked into the wormhole which returns the Ferengi to the alpha quadrant but destabilizes the wormhole which leaves the crew of Voyager stuck in the Delta Quadrant.