In a message dated 1/6/02 1:09:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << There were three Janeway-historic episodes, but only know of one other: Learning Curve, #116, Tuvok tries to train the three Maquis to be 'real' crewpersons. >>
The third was Cathexis, #113, in which the holonovel was introduced and Chakotay became a ghost (how *did* that story get past the planning stages?) They never stated outright what the novel was (or if they did, I couldn't find it in a bunch of quick searches.) The authors were different in all three episodes, but Deltablues' Jim Wright notes that Jeri Taylor liked the holonovel concept and stuck with it for a while. >From the Deltablues archives of Cathexis: "Captain Janeway has decided she needs a break from the stresses of command, so she begins a new innovation in Trek: the Holo novel. Something you can return to again and again, a chapter at a time. (I'm writing this several years after the fact. As an experiment, this turned out not to be very popular. Nice concept, but it made one tragic assumption: that the MTV Age has not left the audience's attention span in tatters. This particular Holo novel spanned the first and second seasons, usually appearing anew when we thought it had been forgotten--or put mercifully to sleep.) So anyway, Janeway dons the garb of a British governess named Miss Davenport, arriving at the estate of Lord Bernie (I haven't read this particular novel, so I may be wrong on the details.) She has a starchy conversation in the stormy darkness of the sitting room with Mrs. Templeton, a librarian-from-hell who would make a Cardassian Gul wet himself spontaneously. They match wits briefly, and Janeway holds her own. Templeton leaves, Janeway allows herself to get spooked by the Gothic environs, shuts a window that the window has blown open, and is frightened by the sudden appearance of Lord Bernie's hand on her shoulder. He introduces himself with the standard infodump (I'm a widower with two kids, not a pleasant guy to be around, more so since my wife died; here are your responsibilities, and never ever ever go on the fourth floor), which Janeway takes in. She seems to like the aristocratic type." Deltablues is at www.treknews.com/deltablues and is mirrored at www.reviewboy.com They were supposed to also be reviewing Enterprise but only got through the series premiere. Jon
