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Star Trek: Voyager Season 6 Episode 18

Ashes To Ashes

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AIRED: 3/1/00

Stardate: 53679.4
A mysterious female alien contacts Voyager, claiming to be Ensign Lyndsay Ballard, who had been killed on an away mission years earlier.

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Ashes to Ashes

7.5

By TrueTvWatcher, Oct 27, 2011

Ashes to Ashes was a good episode of Star Trek: Voyager and I enjoyed watching this episode because the story was interesting though it didn't really contribute to the seasons story lines but did bring up the past. It was interesting to learn what happened to Ensign Ballard and fun to watch her catch up with the crew. Over all this was just another filler episode but not the worst I've seen. There were some cool scenes where Seven was trying to control the Borg children, and they resisted. I look forward to watching the next episode!!!!

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Once again, Harry doesn't get the girl…

6.5

By tv-striker, Apr 30, 2009

Once again, Harry doesn't get the girl…

Not content to dish up another failed romance for Harry Kim, the writer's come up with a story where he loses the same girl twice. The backstory is that Lyndsay Ballard died three years ago. She and Harry were an item going back to his Starfleet days although based on watching Harry over the years, it must have been one sided. At any rate, she was buried in space but her body was found by an alien race that reanimates dead bodies as a means of reproduction. It sounds like the basic plot from "Plan 9 from Outer Space." She escapes and comes back to claim her place on Voyager which gets Harry all hot and bothered all over again. But, she soon finds herself slipping too much into her "new" identity and decides she can't stay. There's probably some great moral piece here about letting the dead stay with the dead but they don't quite to get there.

Other problem is, I really liked the character of Lyndsay Ballard as played by Kim Rhodes. It's too bad she really wasn't a part of the crew, with or without a Harry Kim romance. It would have given her "death" (either one I suppose), a lot more impact.moreless
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Alternate Title: "Return of The Redshirt"

7.0

By bashirgr, Apr 21, 2009

Poor Harry Kim... Another heartbreaking and unfulfilled romance. Good Performance by Wang though. I must say I have to overlook the mentioned problems of this episode. It was a nice moving story although nothing really original. Except from the fact that a "redshirt" returns from the grave and criticizes the captain! Kim Rhodes was very good at her role as Lyndasy Ballard. She built a good and strong character. I only wish they'd keep her as a recurring guest for the series. The finale left me with mixed feelings. She left Voyager alive and safe. Maybe it was better that way, because if she died again we would most certain had a tear breaking new eulogy by Harry Kim. Did I mention that we also had a funny subplot with Seven? She had put the Borg kids on a military style program...moreless
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plagued with plot errors (as per) But not a bad story

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By cage2377, Sep 13, 2008

its a good concept, an alien race that re-incarnates the dead to create new identities. Its a good concept

Its a shame they didn't use an old crew member that we all knew tho, they always bring in people out of the blue, the latter seasons miss out on this unfortunately. the early seasons had lots of side characters - seska, carey, Hogan, Jonas, Suder, Vorik, Wildman, Ayala, chell ,but the later seasons they have hardly any recurring cast and just tend to bring in people for the one episode then never use them again

Another Harry meets the wrong girl type episode, this one with a morbid twist tho!

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A tiny alien shuttle tries to escape a larger vessel. The pilot of the shuttle contacts Voyager. The pilot claims to be Lyndsay Ballard. How could it be? Janeway does not believe it is Lyndsay Ballard. Lyndsay Balllard died three years ago.moreless

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By Pink_Floyd_AL, Aug 29, 2007

A tiny alien shuttle tries to escape a larger vessel. The pilot of the shuttle contacts Voyager. The pilot claims to be Lyndsay Ballard. How could it be? Janeway does not believe it is Lyndsay Ballard. Lyndsay Balllard died three years ago. The alien pilot still claims to be Ballard. The pilot convinces Janeway. Janeway allows her to beam aboard Voyager. Ballard looks non-human. The Doctor confirms that is Lyndsay Ballard. She has DNA traces that are human and resemble Ballard's DNA patterns. The Kobali found her drifting in space and saved her. Now Ballard is a Kobali. runaway. I rate this episode a 9.5moreless
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Robert Picardo	The Doctor
Kate Mulgrew	Captain Kathryn Janeway
Robert Beltran	Commander Chakotay
Roxann Dawson	Lt. B'Elanna Torres
Ethan Phillips	Neelix
Tim Russ	Lt. Commander Tuvok

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Kim Rhodes	Lyndsay Ballard	Guest Star
Kevin Lowe	Q'ret	Guest Star
Scarlett Pomers	Naomi Wildman	Recurring Role
Manu Intiraymi	Icheb	Recurring Role
Marley McClean	Mezoti	Recurring Role

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- Nitpick: Azan and Rebi make two cubes out of clay, claiming that they're "exactly one one-thousandth of a Borg vessel". A Borg cube is approximately 3x3x3 km, and their replicas appear to have a side of approximately 1 dm, which is 1/30000 of a Borg cube.
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- Stardate: 53679.4
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- Nitpick: When Tom is recalling Harry's "loves" he misses Tal, the Varo from season five's "The Disease", with whom he had had a love affair, in spite of it being forbidden.
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- Goof: When Ensign Ballard explains to Janeway what happened to her, she says that she fell victim to a Hirogen trap three years earlier. However, Voyager's encounters with the Hirogen took place only two years earlier.
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- Janeway: Commander Tuvok finished his analysis of your shuttle and presented me with 37 different ways of repelling a Kobali attack.
  Ballard: Did he include your pot roast?
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- Kim: Vien'ke debala, Jhet'leya. (pause) I taught myself to speak a few words of Kobali.
  Ballard: That's very sweet of you, but you just told me, 'The comets are tiresome.'
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- Ensign Ballard: It's just too bad that beneath this beautiful red hair still lies the six-lobed brain of a Kobali.
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- Seven: Resume your disorder.
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- Seven: Fun will now commence.
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- Paris: Now, let's see. For those of us keeping score, Harry Kim has fallen for a hologram, a Borg, the wrong twin, now the dearly departed.
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- Lyndsay: The Doctor thought I should stick to my original colour, but this seemed more exciting.
  The Doctor: Hair is one of my specialties, despite evidence to the contrary.
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