The Sound of Her Voice

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Star Trek: DS9 episode
"The Sound of Her Voice"
Episode no.	149
Prod. code	549
Airdate	June 10, 1998
Writer(s)	Ronald D. Moore Pam Pietroforte
Director	Winrich Kolbe
Guest star(s)	Debra Wilson Penny Johnson Mark Allen Shepherd
Year	2374
Stardate	51948.3
Episode chronology
Previous	"Time's Orphan"
Next	"Tears of the Prophets"

"The Sound of Her Voice" is a sixth season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine first broadcast on June 10, 1998. The episode is about the crew of the Defiant receiving a distress call from Captain Lisa Cusak. A Starfleet officer stranded on an alien world by herself, after her ship has been destroyed by actively scanning a strange planet.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Capt. Cusak is forced to use medicaments to counter the effects of the barely breathable atmosphere, and to distract her from her own problems and the fact that she can not sleep due to the medicament the crew of the Defiant speaks in turns with the highly intelligent and sensitive woman. Despite never seeing her face, the crew grow very close to her. When Cusak’s medicament begins to run short, Sisko decides to increase the Defiant’s speed beyond Warp 9 by using the weapons energy reserve. Shortly after Cusak loses consciousness they arrive at the planet, only to find her dead body, which has been laying there for 3 years. Chief O’Brian suggests that the signal has been deflected through time in both directions through the anomalies of the atmosphere.