Think Tank (Star Trek: Voyager episode)

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Star Trek: VOY episode
"Think Tank"
Kurros
Episode no.	114
Prod. code	214
Airdate	March 31, 1999
Writer(s)	Rick Berman Brannon Braga Michael Taylor
Director	Terrence O'Hara
Guest star(s)	Jason Alexander as Kurros Christopher Darga as Y'Sek Christopher Shea as Saowin Steven Rankin as Fennim
Year	2375
Stardate	?
Episode chronology
Previous	"The Fight"
Next	"Juggernaut"

"Think Tank" is an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 20^th episode of the fifth season. The episode has an average rating of 4.1/5 on the official Star Trek website (as of August 26th, 2007).[1]

[edit] Plot

Voyager is sought after by the Hazari, unyielding bounty hunters of the delta-quadrant. While debating methods of escape, a group of problem-solvers offers their services in out-witting the Hazari. They are inadvertently given the name "Think Tank" by Janeway. This motley crew is made up of a robot, a jellyfish, a whale, and a portly humanoid alien. They claimed that they cured the Vidian Phage among other accomplishments. The group spokesman Kurros (guest star Jason Alexander) proposes a payment method to Janeway: Quantum slipstream technology, a recipe from Neelix, an Olmec artifact owned by Chakotay, and Seven of Nine herself.

Janeway declines the payment and decides to continue to fight the Hazari on their own. Voyager later captures a lone Hazari ship. They were able to figure out from the ship's computer that the Malon put the bounty on them. However, after more unscrambling of an isomorphic signature, the payer was apparently Kurros.

With the Hazari, Voyager came up with a plan to use Seven as bait to get inside the Think Tank and disable the device that enables them to communicate. They pull a fake attack and had Seven go on a shuttle which was drawn to the Think Tank's ship in subspace. Seven was able to reveal the Think Tank ship to the Hazari, making the group vulnerable.