One Small Step
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| Star Trek: VOY episode | |
| "One Small Step" | |
 In Astrometrics |
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| Episode no. | 128 |
|---|---|
| Prod. code | 228 |
| Airdate | November 17, 1999 |
| Writer(s) | Mike Wollaeger Jessica Scott |
| Director | Robert Picardo |
| Guest star(s) | Phil Morris as Lt. John Kelly |
| Year | 2376 |
| Stardate | 53292.7 |
| Episode chronology | |
| Previous | "Dragon's Teeth" |
| Next | "The Voyager Conspiracy" |
One Small Step is an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the eighth episode of the sixth season.
[edit] Plot summary
Voyager encounters a massive body of energy rolling through the galaxy. The crew suspects it may be the same phenomenon that caught and carried away an early Earth spacecraft in 2032, along with its lone human pilot, John Kelly.
They take the Delta Flyer into the energy body to investigate and hopefully find the long-lost spacecraft. Another spatial danger threatens the Flyer. Chakotay is ordered out but wants to bring the spacecraft with him. His disobeying of orders ends with the ship damaged, with no seeming way out before the Flyer is lost to Voyager.
Seven ends up beaming to the ancient spacecraft itself for spare parts. There she finds the body of John Kelly and footage of what he saw before he died. He had gone for several days, after the accident, living before his life support ran out.
In the end, the crew is rescued and so is Kelly's body. A memorial service is held and Kelly's body is respectfully launched back out into space.
[edit] Ares IV
The early spacecraft that is featured in the episode is the Ares IV
Ares IV is an Earth spaceship used during one of humanity's early manned missions to Mars, which takes place in 2032 under the command of Lieutenant John Kelly. The other members of the crew are Rose Kumagawa and Andrei Novakovich. The mission is run under the auspices of the International Space Agency.
Ares IV is 46 metres long, weighs 92 tonnes, and is powered by a third-generation ion drive. It is also equipped with a trans-spectral imager, a high gain antenna and large photovoltaic panels.
Mysteriously, the command module of the Ares IV, in which Kelly orbits Mars, vanishes whilst Kumagawa and Novokovich are on a surface mission. The surface team is later rescued, but no trace of Kelly or the Ares IV are found. This disaster almost leads to the abandonment of the Mars exploration program. In the following centuries the Ares IV mission is considered as a precursor for humankind's further exploration of space.
In 2376, USS Voyager locates the remains of the command module inside a graviton ellipse which appeared in the Delta Quadrant. The module's database, including logs recorded by Kelly after the module had entered the ellipse, are subsequently recovered.
[edit] External links
- "One Small Step" article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
- Episode summary from Startrek.com
