Keith R.A. DeCandido will be a guest at Pensacon 2020 this weekend, spending most of his time at Bard’s Tower alongside fellow scribes Brian Anderson, Kevin J. Anderson, Jim Butcher, Michelle Cori, Phil Foglio, Charles E. Gannon, JB Garner, Andrew E. Gaska, Marion G. Harmon, Kevin Ikenberry, Megan Mackie, and Jody Lynn Nye. "State of Flux" is the eleventh episode of Star Trek: Voyager, which was a science fiction television show that ran from 1995-2001. Watching it now, twenty-five years later, when I know full well that she’s the traitor, it’s also fun to watch as an acting exercise for Martha Hackett, who really sells the notion that she’s an innocent Bajoran who’s being singled out. Seska has some fellow Maquis distract Neelix so she can steal supplies to make Chakotay mushroom soup. Neelix informs Carey and Chakotay in graphic detail the violent allergic reaction people will have to kaylo fruit. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Tuvok admits being fooled as well, reassuring Chakotay. Half and half. Chakotay is annoyed that he had two infiltrators in his cell.

Torres retrieves the device, and it turns out to be a replicator from Voyager. Seska and Chakotay were a couple, but it didn’t work out.

[4] Both of those episodes had a rating of 8.7 surpassing "State of Flux" which had a rating of 8.5 as of 2018. She’s very convincing in her denials, right up until the EMH pours cold water on her Orkett’s Disease cover story, which probably would’ve been good enough for whatever mediocre medical treatment she might have gotten in the rough-and-tumble world of the Maquis, but doesn’t pass the smell test for a hologram programmed with all the medical knowledge available in the Alpha Quadrant. Chakotay and Janeway confront her, along with the EMH who explains that Orkett’s was ruled out before she even mentioned it—she’s definitely Cardassian. [2], "State of Flux" is noted in Star Trek and Sacred Ground: Explorations of Star Trek, Religion, and American Culture as an example of an episode that shocks the viewer by having a character go against the Federation's Starfleet. And as soon as she’s exposed, Hackett does a wonderful job changing her mode. This is also Carey’s last appearance in the present until the seventh season’s “Friendship One”—his appearances in “Relativity” and “Fury” are both in flashbacks that predate “State of Flux.”. Seska has an alternative idea that Torres had shot down as too risky, but she beams over and tries it anyhow, almost getting killed in the process. While on the ship, Seska is injured and is reprimanded by her superiors when she returns. [1], This had Nielsen ratings of 6.5 when it was aired in April 1995. The damage seems to have come from a device on the bridge that Torres identifies as a radically different technology than everything else—and it has elements that are only found in the Federation that they haven’t yet seen in the Delta Quadrant. It quickly becomes clear that Seska and Carey are the best suspects. Stardate: 48658.2. Several people were fused with the bulkheads, and there’s a ton of nucleonic radiation, which is being contained by a force field. Instead, they lose a crew member. Everybody comes to Neelix’s. Janeway asks the EMH privately if they can keep the survivor on the pretense that it would be dangerous to move him. There’s definitely a traitor on Voyager. Plus, the EMH has examined her, and he believes she’s a Cardassian altered to look Bajoran.