Nemesis (Star Trek: Voyager)

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Star Trek: VOY episode
"Nemesis"
Chakotay in combat
Episode no.	72
Prod. code	171
Airdate	September 14, 1997
Writer(s)	Kenneth Biller
Director	Alexander Singer
Guest star(s)	Michael Mahonen as Brone Matt E. Levin as Rafin Nathan Anderson as Namon Booth Colman as Penno Meghan Murphy as Karya Terrance Evans as Ambassador Treen
Year	2374
Stardate	51082.4
Episode chronology
Previous	"Day of Honor"
Next	"Revulsion"

"Nemesis" is an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the fourth episode of the fourth season. The episode has an average rating of 3.6/5 on the official Star Trek website (as of April 27th, 2007).[1] In it, Chakotay helps a race of aliens wage a war.

[edit] Plot

Chakotay's shuttle has been shot down, and he is alone on a jungle planet. He is captured by the human-seeming Vori, lead by Brone (Michael Mahonen), but they (appear to) release him when they determine he is not of the "nemesis." Chakotay tries to find his shuttle the next day, and encounters one of these people known to the Vori as the "nemesis." They are called the Kradin and are fierce and non-human in appearance. Chakotay's shuttle is gone so he returns to the Vori. He bonds with them and immediately understands what they are up against. As he joins the Vori in the struggle against the Kradin he sees evidence of the evil of the nemesis: they mock the Vori's religious rituals and send a peaceful Vori village to death camps.

Meanwhile, Voyager is orbiting the planet, unable to locate Chakotay. They contact the Kradin, who are amicable and agree to lend a jungle warrior team to retrieve Voyager's first officer. The Kradin explain that they are battling a relentless force called the Vori, who they also refer to as "nemesis." Tuvok goes down to the planet and rescues Chakotay, who has actually been experiencing an elaborate training and brainwashing program to turn him into a Vori foot soldier. He has been thoroughly indoctrinated to believe the Kradin are monsters, and is disgusted by the sight of them. Once he is back on Voyager he is presented with the true evidence: the Kradin are friendly and have endured assaults by the ruthless Vori, who program "stray" aliens like Chakotay to become Kradin-hating soldiers. As they depart the planet, Chakotay must learn how to rid himself of the hate he has been trained to feel toward the Kradin.