Series: Star Trek: Voyager
Season 3, Episode 9
Original Air Date: November 13, 1996
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The story begun in the last episode concludes. Janeway and company must stop evil tech baron Henry Starling (Ed Begley, Jr.) from going to the 29th century in his timeship to steal more future tech to adapt and sell in his own time. They must do so without corrupting the timeline and also preventing whatever future disaster Voyager was involved in to set all of this in motion in the first place.
Confused? Yeah well, the details are more complicated than the basic idea: cat and mouse game between the Voyager crew and Starling with Rain Robinson (Sarah Silverman) caught in between. Who? Rain Robinson is the scientist who first detected Voyager. Tom Paris and Tuvok have befriended her. Unfortunately, Starling fears she knows too much and wants to kill her.
Long story short: all works out, good guys win. Tom gets to kiss the girl. Voyager gets sent back to its own timeline - and back to the Delta Quadrant.
One important long-term development: Starling created a mobile emitter for the Doctor which allows the EMH an existence outside of sickbay.
Acting Notes
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Thirty years later, Sarah Silverman is a big star, a genuine A-list stand-up comic with a broad and lasting screen career to boot. In fact, I think it's fair to say that she's had a more successful career since "Future's End" than any of the other actors involved - possibly excepting Begley. Though I bet Silverman would win a name recognition poll. In 1996, she was just getting started.
Silverman was born in Concord, New Hampshire, December 1, 1970. She attended NYU for one year before dropping out to pursue a stand-up career in Greenwich Village. She got the big break in 1993 when she was hired by Saturday Night Live as a writer and performer. Unfortunately, it didn't work out. She was fired after one season. It set her back emotionally for about a year. She's been on a pretty good roll ever since.
Her own series, The Sarah Silverman Program, ran for three seasons on Comedy Central. She's had numerous appearances on high profile shows, including Seinfeld, Monk and Frasier. She was guest host of The Daily Show for a week in 2023. She's had two televised stand-up specials. Films include There's Something About Mary, School of Rock and The Muppets. Then there's the voice acting career: The Simpsons, Bob's Burgers, Wreck-It Ralph and Ralph Breaks the Internet among others. She adapted her autobiography, The Bedwetter, into an off-Broadway musical. She's had eight Emmy nominations, winning twice, and four Grammy nominations.
Seriously, she's everywhere - for over 30 years.
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