11:59 (Star Trek: Voyager)

January 2025 January 2025 Star Trek: Voyager 5 23 David Livingston * Brannon Braga Joe Menosky Joe Menosky 217 1999 05 05 * Kevin Tighe as Henry Janeway Bradley Pierce as Jason Janeway John Carroll Lynch as Gerald Moss Kristina Hayes as Marci Collins Christopher Curry as Automobile Driver James Greene as Passerby Someone to Watch Over Me Relativity Star Trek: Voyager season 5 List of Star Trek: Voyager episodes "11:59" is the 117th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, the 23rd episode of the fifth season. This television episode first aired on May 5, 1999, on the television network UPN and was directed by David Livingston.https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/star_trek_voyager/s05/e23 Star Trek: Voyager - Season 5, Episode 23 Rotten Tomatoes Kevin Tighe guest stars alongside a flashback version of a Janeway ancestor; the story was by Joe Menosky.Star Trek: Voyager - Season 5 Episode 23 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/star_trek_voyager/s05/e22 en 2021-05-17 Much of the story is set in a fictional version of Earth in the last few days of the year 2000, reaching a climax at 11:59 PM on December 31. Plot Neelix becomes interested in Earth history, spurring research about an ancestor of Captain Janeway named Shannon O'Donnell, who was alive at the turn of the 21st century, and whom Janeway believes single-handedly fought to complete the Millennium Gate tower project in 2000, and would later be part of NASA's missions to Mars.http://www.startrek.com/database_article/eleven-fifty-nine Eleven Fifty-Nine StarTrek.com en 2017-10-27 Neelix, prompted by Janeway, proceeds to track down further information on Shannon. Neelix and Seven of Nine discover that Janeway's information was incorrect: Shannon was a traveler who happened to have her car break down in the small town of Portage Creek in Indiana where the Millennium Gate was to be built. Set on December 27, 2000, the plan has caused most of the businesses in town to leave, save for a bookstore owned by Henry Janeway, who refuses to sell the store to make way for the project. Shannon joins Henry in the opposition, and learns that if Henry refuses to sell, the project would have to be moved to a new location. The two also develop a bond during this time. Shannon is offered a job by the company if she can convince Henry to leave before the 11:59 deadline on New Year's Eve 2000. When she tells Henry this, he asks her to leave. As she drives away, she turns around, and tries another approach to convince Henry to sell. He eventually relents at the very last minute, selling his bookstore to allow the tower to go forward.13 January 2004 Michelle Erica Green https://www.trektoday.com/reviews/voy/1159.shtml 11:59 TrekNation TrekToday Captain Janeway is disappointed to learn the truth about Shannon, who was never a NASA astronaut, as Shannon was her childhood hero and the stories about her convinced her to join Starfleet. However, Neelix has provided a surprise: a gathering of the senior staff to celebrate their ancestors, and presenting Janeway with a photograph of the elderly Shannon, after she had married Henry and raised their extended family together. Janeway realizes that the revelation about Shannon should not impact what she has done with her own life. Production Story-writers Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky developed the idea for the episode from a pitch from John de Lancie, who played Q in the series, which would have included Q and Guinan. Braga and Menosky wanted to create a more grounded story, and so a different direction was taken. Menosky stated about the writing, "Our original inspiration for this was to do an episode where we didn't see Voyager at all. All we saw was Kate Mulgrew playing a distant ancestor. The idea was to tell a quintessentially Star Trek story without any science fiction."Anna L. Kaplan https://archive.org/details/CinefantastiqueVol31No11Apr2000/page/n52/mode/1up Voyager Season Five Episode Guide Cinefantastique 31 11 April 2000 53–55 Internet Archive Reception In 2015, a Star Trek: Voyager binge-watching guide by W.I.R.E.D. suggested skipping this episode. McMillan criticized the episode, saying it was clearly intended to be a special episode looking at Janeway's ancestor and inspiration, but rather than showing "women can be important astronauts too, the episode instead detours into an awkward [...] morality play about big business crushing the little guy around the turn of the millennium".https://www.wired.com/2015/05/binge-guide-star-trek-voyager/ WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: Star Trek: Voyager McMillan Graeme 2015-05-27 Wired 2019-07-23 1059-1028 Jammer's Reviews gave it 3 out of 4 stars.https://www.jammersreviews.com/st-voy/s5/1159.php Star Trek: Voyager "11:59" Jamahl Epsicokhan Jammer's Reviews 1 April 2022 Tor.com gave it 5 out of 10.1 April 2021 Keith R. A. DeCandido Keith R. A. DeCandido Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: "11:59" https://www.tor.com/2021/04/01/star-trek-voyager-rewatch-1159/ Tor.com 2022-04-01 In 2020, The Digital Fix praised this for experimenting with storytelling by using the historical setting, and felt it "could have been great" but ended up as "somewhat dull Hallmark movie".2020-08-06 Baz Greenland Star Trek: Voyager Revisited - Season Five https://www.thedigitalfix.com/television/feature/star-trek-voyager-revisited-a-look-back-at-season-five/ The Digital Fix 2022-04-01 2021-08-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20210805170235/https://www.thedigitalfix.com/television/feature/star-trek-voyager-revisited-a-look-back-at-season-five/ dead TrekNews.net ranked this the 8th best episode of Star Trek: Voyager in 2016. They note that the character Captain Janeway remembers one of her ancestors in this episode, and it examines how our perceptions of people can change over time.https://www.treknews.net/2016/02/23/10-best-star-trek-voyager-episodes/ 10 Best 'Star Trek: Voyager' Episodes Michelle 2016-02-23 TrekNews.net 2022-01-11 Releases "11:59" was released on LaserDisc in Japan on June 22, 2001, as part of 5th Season vol.2, which included episodes from "Dark Frontier" to "Equinox, Part I".LaserDisc Database - Star Trek Voyager: 5th Season vol.2 [PILF-2459] https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/12256/PILF-2459/Star-Trek-Voyager:-5th-Season-vol.2 2021-02-19 www.lddb.com The episode had two audio tracks, English and Japanese.Star Trek: Voyager on VideoDisc http://www.blam1.com/startrek/Voyager.htm 2021-02-19 www.blam1.com This set had 6 double sided 12" optical discs giving a total runtime of 552 minutes. On November 9, 2004, this episode was released as part of the Season 5 DVD box set of Star Trek: Voyager. The box set includes 7 DVD optical discs with all the episodes in Season 5 with some extra features, and the episodes have a Dolby 5.1 Digital Audio track.November 9, 2004 Holly E. Ordway Star Trek Voyager: Complete Fifth Season https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/13167/star-trek-voyager-complete-fifth-season/ DvdTalk.com 2022-04-01 See also Carbon Creek (Star Trek: Enterprise) "Carbon Creek" (Star Trek: Enterprise) References External links 11:59 "11:59" eleven-fifty-nine "11:59" 5 Category:Star Trek: Voyager season 5 episodes Category:1999 American television episodes Category:Television episodes set in 2000 Category:Television episodes set in 2001 Category:Television episodes set in Indiana Category:New Year television episodes Category:Works about astronauts Category:Television episodes directed by David Livingston Category:Television episodes written by Brannon Braga Category:Fiction featuring the turn of the 3rd millennium