The Cloud (Star Trek: Voyager)
6th episode of the first season of Star Trek: Voyager
"The Cloud" is the sixth episode of the television series Star Trek: Voyager. The teleplay was written by Tom Szolosi and Michael Piller, based on a story by Brannon Braga, and directed by David Livingston.
The USS Voyager spacecraft continues to search for supplies in the Delta Quadrant.
In this episode, Captain Janeway says: "There's coffee in that nebula" - a line an astronaut tweeted from the International Space Station in 2015.
This episode aired on UPN on February 13, 1995.
Plot
Captain Janeway's log states that several weeks have passed and the crew have become more like an "extended family". Neelix has been serving his special recipes to the crew, to help save replicator power, but Janeway has been cut off from her regular coffee and Neelix's alternative is unpalatable. After encountering a strange nebula with signs of omicron particles, which could supplement their rapidly depleting energy reserves, Janeway orders the ship to go into the nebula. En route, Janeway and Chakotay discuss the lack of a ship's counselor and the effect it could have on morale. As the ship goes through the cloud, it comes across a natural energy barrier keeping them 7000 km from the particles they need.
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