
Season 3
Overview
As Capt. Janeway and her crew continue their journey home, they face many obstacles, including a time rip that sends them back to 20th-century Earth.
Episodes

1. Basics (2)
1996-09-04
Stardate: 50023.4. Voyager is captured by the Kazon and the crew are dumped on a planet in its early stages of evolution. As only Tom Paris and Lon Suder have evaded capture, it's up to them and the EMH to come up with a plan to retake the ship.

2. Flashback
1996-09-11
Stardate: 50126.4. After falling ill to what appears to be a repressed memory Tuvok must perform a mind-meld with Captain Janeway in order to survive. The meld takes them back to when Tuvok was a junior science officer aboard the U.S.S. Excelsior under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu.

3. The Chute
1996-09-18
Stardate: 50156.2. Paris and Kim are sent to an Akritian prison after being accused of a terrorist bombing.

4. The Swarm
1996-09-25
Stardate: 50252.3. Voyager must cross through the territory of a mysterious and fiercely isolationist species. Meanwhile, B’Ellana tries to help the Doctor when he begins losing his memory.

5. False Profits
1996-10-02
Stardate: 50074.3. The crew encounter a Bronze Age culture ruled by two “Sages” – a pair of Ferengi who arrived through a wormhole from the Alpha Quadrant.

6. Remember
1996-10-09
Stardate: 50203.1. After Voyager encounter a telepathic species, B'Elanna starts having powerful dreams that depict the life of a woman and her lover in a time of great political and social upheaval.

7. Sacred Ground
1996-10-30
Stardate: 50063.2. Captain Janeway has to undergo a rigorous ritual in order to save Kes' life when she is knocked unconscious.

8. Future's End (1)
1996-11-06
Stardate: Unknown. Voyager is attacked by a Timeship from 500 years in the future, but the two ships are hurled into the past and Voyager is stranded in the year 1996.

9. Future's End (2)
1996-11-13
Stardate: 50312.5. While trying to rescue Paris and Tuvok, Torres and Chakotay are captured by a gang of weapons smugglers who believe that they are from the government.

10. Warlord
1996-11-20
Stardate: 50348.1. A dying warlord transfers his consciousness to Kes’s body and uses her to stage a bloody coup on his home world.

11. The Q and the Grey
1996-11-27
Stardate: 50384.2. Q begins courting Captain Janeway, claiming that her having his child is the only way to end a civil war wracking the Q Continuum.

12. Macrocosm
1996-12-11
Stardate: Unknown. After returning from a first contact mission, Janeway, Neelix and the Doctor must retake Voyager from an infestation of microorganisms that grow to an alarming size.

13. Fair Trade
1997-01-08
Stardate: Unknown. Voyager arrives at the dangerous and uncharted Nekrit Expanse. Neelix, feeling useless now that he can’t guide them, reaches out to a shady contact to find the crew a map.

14. Alter Ego
1997-01-15
Stardate: 50460.3. Ensign Kim asks for Tuvok’s help controlling his emotions when he finds himself desperately in love with a holodeck character.

15. Coda
1997-01-29
Stardate: 50518.6. Captain Janeway and Chakotay are trapped in a time loop, reliving the same disastrous shuttle crash.

16. Blood Fever
1997-02-05
Stardate: 50537.2. Ensign Vorik expresses his desire to mate with B'Elanna during his Pon-Farr. After they get in a brawl over the matter, Torres begins showing signs of the Pon-Farr herself.

17. Unity
1997-02-12
Stardate: 50614.2. During an away mission, Chakotay discovers a Federation hailing signature coming from an alien planet. After landing, he learns that all is not peaceful, and those helping him have not been entirely honest about their true origins.

18. Darkling
1997-02-19
Stardate: 50693.2. When the doctor tries to improve his personality by incorporating the psychological profiles of famous and historical people, he is overwhelmed by their dark sides and begins exhibiting signs of a split personality, one the regular doctor, and the other dark and evil. Kes asks to leave Voyager when they encounter a race with vast knowledge of the region of space they are currently exploring.

19. Rise
1997-02-26
Stardate: Unknown. Neelix is pushed to the limits when Tuvok's attitude becomes too much to bear while the pair is on an away mission to help evacuate a Nezu planet, which is being bombarded with asteroids.

20. Favorite Son
1997-03-19
Stardate: 50732.4. Harry Kim experiences strong senses of deja vu in an unknown region of space. He soon learns that he is native to this region and that he is T'Karian, not human.

21. Before and After
1997-04-09
Stardate: 50973. Kes begins traveling backwards through time from the moment of her death. With each shift, she comes closer to a solution but she also grows months and years younger at a time.

22. Real Life
1997-04-23
Stardate: 50863.2. The Doctor decides he should create a holographic family in order to expand himself. When B'Elanna is disgusted by its unrealistic perfectionism, she alters the program to include random events and outcomes with interesting and devastating results.

23. Distant Origin
1997-04-30
Stardate: Unknown. An alien palaeontologist discovers a common ancestral link between his people and humans. He believes that this proves that his people (the Voth) evolved on Earth and migrated to the Delta Quadrant millions of years ago, but his government is not as willing to believe his interpretation of the evidence.

24. Displaced
1997-05-07
Stardate: 50912.4. Crew members are replaced one-by-one with aliens from an unknown race.

25. Worst Case Scenario
1997-05-14
Stardate: 50953.4. B'Elanna Torres discovers a holodeck program where Chakotay and the Maquis rebel against Janeway.

26. Scorpion (1)
1997-05-21
Stardate: 50984.3. Voyager finally enters Borg space, only to discover a threat more powerful than the Borg themselves.