Series: Star Trek: Voyager
Season 3, Episode 19
Original Air Date: February 26, 1997
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Always happy to make nice with the locals while they're passing through, the Voyager crew are helping protect a Nezu colony from an asteroid bombardment. But there's something fishy going on. The ship's torpedoes should be obliterating the asteroids and yet fragments are still making it to the planet surface. A Nezu scientist reports that the asteroids appear to be artificial. Our friends send down three shuttles on a rescue mission including one led by Tuvok and Neelix. They are forced to make an emergency landing and that's where the real fun begins.
"Rise" explores the difficult relationship between Tuvok and Neelix. It's well established by this point in the series that Neelix drives Tuvok crazy. Neelix is impulsive, moody, gregarious and seemingly unserious: everything that a logical Vulcan abhors. Now here they are, in a situation in which they absolutely have to work together in order to survive. For perhaps the first time, Neelix proves his value - as well as the value of his own particular strengths - to the Lieutenant. It's a big deal.
The story is based on the 1965 film, The Flight of the Phoenix.
Acting Notes
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Alan Oppenheimer played the role of a Nezu ambassador. It was his third of three Trek appearances on three different series. Oppenheimer was born in New York City, April 23, 1930.
Television work includes appearances on Hogan's Heroes, Get Smart and Happy Days. Film credits include Westworld and the narrator in The NeverEnding Story. He had an extensive voice acting career, beginning in the 1970s. He worked on several Filmation shows, including Flash Gordon, Ghostbusters and The Smurfs and yet, interestingly, never Trek's animated series.
