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THE 37'S
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When a pickup truck from the 1930's inexplicably shows up in space, it's
beamed aboard Voyager for closer inspection. Even more peculiar, the
truck's radio is picking up an SOS distress call — but from where? Kim
traces the signal to a nearby star system and Janeway orders the crew to
lay in a course to the signaling planet. An unusual amount of
interference in the upper atmosphere prevents them from beaming down, so
Janeway tells Paris to land the ship on the planet's surface.
The Away Team follows the SOS to the cockpit of an airplane that was
built during the same era as the truck. Beyond the plane, the crew finds
a chamber containing eight humans in cryo-stasis units. All are dressed
in 1930's attire, and one unit holds famed aviator Amelia Earhart, who
disappeared with her navigator Fred Noonan on July 2, 1937. The eight
humans are revived from suspended animation.
Once awake, the humans demand to know where they are and how they got
there. After Janeway explains that they were probably abducted by aliens
400 years earlier, a suspicious Noonan and some of the others take the
crew hostage. Hoping to convince them of the truth, Janeway gets Earhart
to venture outside the chamber to see Voyager, but as soon as they do,
they come under fire by two snipers on a hill.
Janeway quells the attack and learns the snipers are two humans who have
mistaken the crew for the Briori: an alien race that kidnapped more than
300 people from Earth in 1937 and brought them to the planet as slaves.
After a successful slave revolt chased the Briori off, the humans
created a colony. However, they believed that the eight "37's" in
Earhart's group were dead, and they left them in their cryo-stasis units
for centuries.
The colonists offer the 37's and Voyager's crew the opportunity to
remain on the Earth-like planet, and Janeway allows each member of her
flock to choose for his or herself. Although Neelix and Chakotay are
sure they want to go with Janeway, she can't be so sure about the other
crewmembers, who debate the merits of settling on the planet.
Ultimately, Amelia Earhart and the other 37's decide to stay with their
"descendants," but to Janeway's relief, the entire Voyager crew opts to
leave with her.
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