The crew of the U.S.S. Voyager is being brought down by a virus the likes of which no one has ever seen before in this episode of the sci-fi television series Star Trek: Voyager. Captain Janeway (
Kate Mulgrew) and Neelix (Ethan Phillips) return to the Voyager after a routine trade stop, only to make a startling discovery -- the crew appears to vanished, and a number of huge, insect-like creatures appear to have taken over the ship. Janeway and Neelix are both attacked by the creatures and fall ill, but Janeway happens upon the Doctor (
Robert Picardo), who informs her the strange creatures are actually an alien macrovirus. The Doctor thinks he's found an antigen that could protect the crew from the massive bugs, but they're not sure how to find them -- or how the giant virus itself will react to the new medicine. Star Trek: Voyager 54: Macrocosm first aired on December 11, 1996. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide