5MV: An anniversary and the return of a "lost" fiver

[Zeke]

Happy Voyagerversary! Today is the 30th anniversary of when "Caretaker" aired (remember, VOY's first season was shorter and started later in the TV year). A worthy occasion to celebrate -- and to cross a small VOY-related item off my to-do list!

A while ago, I was taking stock of the (very few) VOY episodes not yet covered here. Most of them are personal favourites that I reserved for myself early on. But one omission puzzled me: Season 1's "Heroes and Demons". I could have sworn we did have a fiver of that one. So I looked into it and made a startling discovery -- I was both right and wrong. We published a fiver of that episode by Kristina Runyeon-Odeberg on December 28, 2005. But then it disappeared!

I have no idea how or why this happened. All I know is that at some point between February 16 and April 3 of 2007, that fiver stopped being the "Latest addition" to the subsite, replaced by a VVS9 fiver I'd published six months earlier. The only clue I have is a reference to "thorough spring cleaning of the site" in a newspost around that time. My guess is that I reuploaded an old version of the subsite's main data file, but I'll never know for sure. Even on my hard drive, where I keep a current copy of the site and several old backups, this fiver was nowhere to be found. Only the Wayback Machine still had it!

High time to fix that. After 18 years lost in the Delta Quadrant, please welcome back Five-Minute "Heroes and Demons". Apologies to Kristina, and happy Voyagerversary to all!

[Nate the Great]

And don't forget to visit the retrospective thread!