[Voyager] "Message in a Bottle" Mission Log

Message In a Bottle

Production Number: 181 (STV414)
Original air date: 1/21/98

Written by: Lisa Klink
Directed by: Nancy Malone

In an attempt to communicate with Starfleet, The Doctor is transmitted thousands of light years to an experimental prototype Starfleet vessel overrun by Romulans on Star Trek: Voyager airing Wednesday, January 21 at 7:00pm CT/MT, 8:00pm ET/PT on UPN.

Guest Stars:

Andy Dick (NewsRadio) as the Dr. Bradley (Emergency Holographic Doctor, version 2.0 beta)
Judson Scott as Rekar
Valerie Wildman as Nevala
Tiny Ron as Idrin
Tony Sears as a Starfleet Officer

Shuttle Count: unknown

Notes:

Voyager discovers a subspace relay network that allows them to detect a Starfleet vessel in the distant Alpha Quadrant. They cannot make contact, but realize that the Doctor's Holo-Emitter can be transported through. The Doctor beams over to find himself on the USS Prometheus, a vessel that looks like a cross between the Voyager (pointy forward section) and the Stargazer (four nacelles). He must work with that ship's Emergency Medical Hologram (who is a version 2 model, but is still in beta testing) to save the Prometheus.
TV Guide Description:
An alien relay station enables Voyager to contact the Prometheus, a Federation ship, but when the Doctor is transmitted aboard, he finds the crew has been killed and the ship taken over by Romulans.