• This is Marvin Rush's debut as a director on Star Trek.

• [[8/29]] Roxann Dawson:
  There was one that I wasn't heavily in but I absolutely loved was, um, you know, I'm so bad with the names of these because I read the name on the script and then I just do the show and I never remember the names. The one with the clown that Michael McKean played.
  "Thaw."
  "Thaw." I hated that name, it just didn't... [unintelligible] But I thought the episode was fantastic and [unintelligible], our DP, directed it and did some wonderful stuff at the end there. I thought that had a lot to say about fear and the presence of fear in one's life and it's control over you and I love stuff like that. I like those better. Maybe you guys like all of the action stuff. [unintelligible] and I like the effects and all of that too, but I so like when the show has something to say that really clicks in. I mean, that to me is what (applause) [unintelligible] of "Star Trek."

Michael McKean is a Special Guest Star in the remarkable Trek episode.

"The Thaw"--Voyager activates an automated messages from members of the Kohl settlement who, years earlier, survived an environmental catastrophe by submitting themselves into artificial hibernation. When the crew transports the Kohl's hibernation pods on board, they find humanoids in deep stasis with supressed metabolic activity--but with active minds and complex sensory systems controlled by a computer--and that is where the nightmare begins, on "Star Trek: Voyager" airing MONDAY, APRIL 29 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET/PT) on UPN. Michael McKean, a popular talent whose credits include "Saturday Night Live," "This is Spinal Tap," and "Laverne & Shirley", guest stars as an evil clown, the embodiment of Fear.

In an effort to help the Kohl people, Torres and Kim equip two pods with Starfleet technology and submit themselves into stasis. With their mental and physical activities closely monitored, they enter the environment created by the computer attached to the Kohl pods. Once there, Torres and Kim find that the humanoid's dreadful fears about recovery and survival have caused their computer program to manifest a devious, omnipotent clown--the idealization of their fear--and a cast of other nightmarish characters. Then, the clown holds Torres and Kim hostage while making increasingly unreasonable demands of Janeway.

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