Talk:Message in a Bottle (Star Trek: Voyager)

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Sting and the Police - Vandalism?
haven't actually seen this episode, but I suspect that the part where Sting and the Police come out and sing with the crew is just vandalism. I'll let someone else who's actually seen this episode to take care of it. Threepointone31 (talk) 05:13, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Defiant Class
I removed the inaccurate comment at the end of the plot description. It said this episode was the first appearance of a Defiant class ship outside of a DS9 episode. The Defiant itself appeared in Star Trek: First Contact two years earlier. 99.240.191.134 (talk) 18:00, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

were they there for three or four years?
"After more than three years of being stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Seven of Nine uses the newly extended range of the starship Voyager's sensors to locate an unattended network of alien sensor stations."

"This is the first time Starfleet has heard from the vessel since it disappeared four years ago."

They disappeared four years ago but have been stranded out there for three years. Which is it?  D r e a m Focus  22:43, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

See also section
I am not sure why there is a link to Ship in a Bottle (Star Trek: The Next Generation) other than the similar title are there is nothing that substantially connects the two episodes other than they feature holograms. If it is just here in case anybody has confused the episodes due to similar titles, I wonder if would it not be better to have text at the start of the article in a similar manner to that at the start of First Contact (Star Trek: The Next Generation)? Dunarc (talk) 20:24, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Also, I would note that the "See also" section at Ship in a Bottle (Star Trek: The Next Generation) does not include this episode, but instead has another Voyager episode Projections which has more thematic similarities with it as well as sharing the character of Reg Barclay who is not in Message in a Bottle. Dunarc (talk) 20:59, 16 May 2022 (UTC)