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{{Infobox SimpsonsST episode|

name = Shattered|

| episode_name = {{PAGENAME}}

| image = [[Image:Treehouse of Horror XST-VOY_7_11.jpg|200px270px]]<br />Chakotay is out of phase|

series = VOY|

| episode_no = 230

ep_num = 157|

| prod_code = BABF01

prod_num = 257|

| airdate = [[October 31]], [[1999]]

date = [[January 17]], [[2001]]|

| show runner = [[Mike Scully]]

writer = [[Mike Sussman (TV series writer/producer)|Mike Sussman]]<br>[[Michael Taylor (screenwriter)|Michael Taylor]]|

| writer = [[Donick Cary|Donick Spooky]]<br>[[Tim Long|Terrifying Tim Long]]<br>[[Ron Hauge|Uh, An Ogre?]]

| director = [[PeteTerry Michels|Pete Scary Spice MichelsWindell]]|

guest = [[Manu Intiraymi]] as Icheb<br>[[Martha Hackett]] as Seska<br> [[Scarlett Pomers]] as Naomi Wildman<br> [[Martin Rayner]] as Dr. Chaotica|

| couch_gag = Each member of the family dresses up as something from a previous "Treehouse of Horror" special, save for [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]], who is an [[axe]] victim.

year = 2377|

| guest_star = [[Tom Arnold]] as himself<br>[[Dick Clark (entertainer)|Dick Clark]] as himself<br>[[Lucy Lawless]] as herself

stardate = ?|

| season = 11

prev = [[Flesh and Blood (Voyager episode)|Flesh and Blood, Part II]]|

next = [[Lineage (Voyager episode)|Lineage]]

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'''Shattered''' is an episode of the TV series ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', the eleventh episode of the seventh season

"'''Treehouse of Horror X'''" is the fourth episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki> [[List of The Simpsons episodes#Season 11|eleventh season]], as well as the tenth [[Halloween]] episode. The episode aired on [[October 31]], [[1999]], which was also Halloween, and as of [[2006]] is the last Halloween episode to have aired in time for the holiday.

==Plot summary (a.k.a. spoiler)==

Chakotay encounters [[Icheb]] and [[Naomi Wildman]] in Cargo Bay 2. Naomi is enjoying the puzzle they are playing with, as Icheb misunderstands it as a teaching tool. Chakotay tells Icheb of his cider stash and how he wishes Neelix will not find it. Icheb suggests storing it with the Borg spare parts as Neelix does not care to examine that section.

==Opening Sequence==

'''Announcer:''' Live from fabulous [[Century City|Centauri City]], it's ''The Simpsons Tenth Halloween Special''! ''(curtains reveal a pumpkin-shaped spaceship)'' Now, please welcome your hosts&mdash;if you haven't been probed by these two, you haven't been probed&mdash;[[Kang & Kodos|Kang and Kodos]]! ''(they emerge from the spaceship)''<br/>

'''Kang:''' Thank you, thank you.<br/>

'''Kodos:''' Yes, thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to our tenth anniversary show. Oh, we've got a great g-- ''(notices Kang lighting an [[acetylene]] torch)'' Kang, what are you doing?<br/>

'''Kang:''' You said we were going to warm up the audience. ''(cut to a shot of the audience, which is entirely consisting of [[extraterrestrial life|aliens ]]including one that resembles [[Abraham Simpson|Grandpa]])'' ''([[Laugh track|Canned laughter]] is played, but audience appear unamused)''<br/>

'''Kodos:''' Ladies and gentlemen, I have to apologize for my partner. He had to borrow a human brain. ''(more canned laughter)''<br/>

''(cut to [[Simpson family|Simpsons']] living room, where the family sits on the couch, with [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] appearing as the jack-in-the-box from "[[Treehouse of Horror II]]", [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] as the [[witch]] and [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] as the half-fly mutant from "[[Treehouse of Horror VIII]]", [[Maggie Simpson|Maggie]] as the alien/human mutant from "[[Treehouse of Horror IX]]", and Lisa as an axe-attack victim)''<br/>

'''Lisa:''' What do aliens have to do with Halloween?<br/>

'''Maggie:''' Silence! ''(she uses her [[ray gun]] to disintegrate Lisa)''

Later, an exploding nebula affects the warp core and Chakotay is hit with a blast of energy.

==Synopsis==

{{spoiler}}

===I Know What You Diddily-Iddily Did===

On a [[fog]]gy day in the countryside, Marge accidentally runs over [[Ned Flanders]] and kills him. The day after Ned's funeral, someone tells Marge that [[I Know What You Did Last Summer|the person knows what she did]]. Shortly afterwards, a mysterious figure begins terrorizing the family. After a confrontation, the Simpsons flee their house, eventually discovering that Ned Flanders was their assailant. Ned was not killed by the accident, he tells them, because he had just been bitten by a [[werewolf]]. As the moon rises, Flanders transforms and threatens to eat Homer.

He awakens in the Doctor's sickbay and is astonished to discover the Doctor believes it is now several years earlier. Chakotay explores the ship and realizes that it is fractured into many differing time periods. The Doctor's treatment of him, realigning his body with a chroniton serum, allows Chakotay to pass through the time barriers.

===Desperately Xeeking Xena===

Marge takes [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] and [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]] to [[Springfield Elementary School|Springfield Elementary]], where [[Chief Wiggum]] is running a portable X-ray machine to inspect children's candy. Whilst inspecting his son [[Ralph Wiggum|Ralph's]] candy, he tells them what the candy really contains, 'safe, safe, razor blade, syringe, oh white chocolate!' As [[Nelson Muntz|Nelson's]] extremely bulky pillowcase of goodies is being scanned, the X-ray machine inevitably explodes. The subsequent exposure to radiation gives Bart the ability to stretch his body like rubber, and Lisa gains extraordinarily strength. They become [[superhero|superheroes]], calling themselves "Stretch Dude" and "Clobber Girl". In their first "adventure" (presented as if they had their own television series), [[Lucy Lawless]] (dressed as [[Xena]]) addresses fans at a science fiction convention. [[Comic Book Guy]], who has styled himself as a villain called "The Collector", kidnaps her using a magnet to attract her armor. He takes her to his lair, where he puts her in an aluminized [[PET film (biaxially oriented)|PET film bag]] for "safekeeping" and imprisons her in a room of other similarly-captured celebrities (see Trivia section for list). Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl burst into The Collector's hideout, but he manages to incapacitate them. He suspends the duo over a vat of bubbling [[polymethyl methacrylate|Lucite]], slowly lowering them towards certain doom. Lawless, still in the bag, kicks The Collector into the vat; he clambers out and barely has time to strike a dramatic death pose (imitating [[Lorne Greene]]'s death in [[Battlestar Galactica]] before the plastic hardens around him. Lawless flies Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl home to safety on her back.

During his exploration, he finds Engineering is in control of Seska and Kazon forces. He is beaten and detained by them but manages to escape as the upper level of Engineering is in a different time period all together. The bridge of the ship is a few days before the Caretaker incident, so Chakotay is regarded as a spy. He is detained and taken to the brig. He escapes when the security men who arrest him do not follow him through time as they do not have the serum.

===Life's a Glitch, Then You Die===

On [[December 31]], [[1999]], [[Dick Clark (entertainer)|Dick Clark]] celebrates his ''New Year's Rockin' Eve'' in [[Springfield (The Simpsons)|Springfield]] instead of [[Times Square]]. Homer, the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]]'s [[Year 2000 problem|Y2K]] compliance officer, confidently declares that he fixed every computer at the plant. He is wrong, however, and the "bug" spreads rapidly to systems all over the world. As Dick Clark's New Year's ball drops and hits "2000", the computer display reads 1900. Within minutes, chaos breaks out as airplanes crash, appliances explode and mobs begin looting businesses. As the family roams the streets observing the damage, [[Krusty the Clown|Krusty]]'s [[artificial pacemaker|pacemaker]] sets itself to [[hummingbird]] speed and he collapses in front of them. A letter in Krusty's shirt states that a rocket is being populated with humanity's "elite" and will be launched shortly in an effort to preserve human civilization on another planet. Homer unsuccessfully attempts to bluff his way on board, but the armed guard recognizes Lisa as having a seat reserved on the craft. Lisa is only able to take one parent with her, and she quickly chooses Marge. Homer and Bart soon find a second, unguarded rocket nearby and climb on board just before it launches. They quickly notice, however, that this ship is filled with the likes of [[Dan Quayle]], [[Tonya Harding]], [[Al Sharpton]], [[Courtney Love]], [[Spike Lee]], [[Tom Arnold (actor)|Tom Arnold]], [[Pauly Shore]], [[Rosie O'Donnell]] and [[Laura Schlessinger|Dr. Laura]]; it is deliberately set for a collision course with the sun. Unable to bear the short trip to oblivion with the B-list celebrities, Homer and Bart eject themselves into the vacuum of space, where they sigh with relief as their heads swell up and explode.

He eventually gains more of the serum. He again finds Kathryn Janeway on the bridge. Janeway, a guard and Chakotay talk in her ready room. Despite his knowledge of her past, he is not implicitly believed. He manages to take Kathryn hostage and injects her with the serum. They pass through a time barrier, leaving Janeway's guard Andrews unable to see her. This convinces Janeway to help Chakotay.

==Quotes==

Lisa (looking at the destruction caused by the Y2K bug): So much for mankind's wonders.

Their efforts reveal they must inject the serum into the bio-nueral gel-packs on many areas of the ship. If successful, Chakotay will find himself in his right time and be able to stop the time-fracturing.

Homer: Wonders, Lisa - or blunders?!

In the process, he refers to several episodes from the past seven years. Janeway begins to second-guess decisions she hasn't even made yet, especially after learning her human doctor will soon perish. She knows she started with 153 crewmen and struggles with wanting to know how many more she will lose. After a close encounter with the macroviruses, she becomes convinced that entering the Delta Quadrant at all is wrong, as it is a 'gigantic deathtrap'. Chakotay convinces her not to alter the timeline to avoid stranding the ship in the Delta Quadrant.

Lisa: I believe that was implied by what I said.

During the course of this they visit many areas and time periods. Cargo Bay 2 is from when the Borg have formed an alliance with Voyager. They meet [[Seven of Nine]] who is still part of the collective. Astometrics, a section the younger Janeway did not know existed, is staffed by a much older Icheb and Naomi Wildman, both wearing Starfleet uniforms. Both are shocked as, according to their points of view, both Chakotay and Janeway had died long ago. Icheb reveals he had never exposed the ___location of the cider.

Homer: Implied, Lisa - or implode?!

Both Astrometics and Cargo Bay 2 have provided vital information to the problems, but the next few sections provide many dangers. The Transporter room is filled with angry Maquis, led by Torres, who do not trust the two. The holodeck, which is malfunctioning, is running a dangerous [[Captain Proton]] program, which Janeway must talk herself out of. Again, Chakotay must visit Engineering. He enters it alone. Seska decides to realign Voyager with her time period and use the knowledge of the future to guarantee she will keep control.

Lisa: Mum, make dad stop!

It does not work. Janeway had organized a resistance movement from all corners of time and ship. Borg-Seven, early Harry and Tom, the Maquis and future Icheb and Naomi, all injected with Chakotay's serum, help defeat Seska's forces and allow the plan to go forward.

==Trivia==

'''(NOTE: (A) indicates a celebrity who has '''appeared''' on ''The Simpsons'' before)'''

*Celebrities that the Collector imprisons:

**[[Yasmine Bleeth]] (as Caroline Holden on [[Baywatch]])

**[[Lucy Lawless]]

**[[Tom Baker]] (as the [[Fourth Doctor]] from ''[[Doctor Who]]'') (A)

**[[Matt Groening]] (A) (Groening later appeared, voicing himself, in "[[My Big Fat Geek Wedding]]")

**[[Jeri Ryan]] (as [[Seven of Nine]])

**The [[robot]] from ''[[Lost in Space]]'' (A)

**[[Bob Denver]] (as Gilligan from ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'') (A)

**[[Leonard Nimoy]] (as [[Mr. Spock|Spock]]) (A)

*People on the rocketship to Mars:

**A nurse

**[[Bill Gates]] (A)

**[[Ron Howard (director)|Ron Howard]] (A)

**[[Jimmy Carter]] (A)

**[[Stephen Hawking]] (A)

**[[Mel Gibson]] (A)

**[[Paul McCartney]] (A)

**An anonymous nerd with glasses

**[[Michael Jordan]]

**[[Stephen Jay Gould]] (A)

**[[Michelle Kwan]] (Kwan appeared in a later episode, "[[Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass]]".)

**[[Mark McGwire]] (A)

**[[Professor Frink]] (A)

**Lisa, Marge, and Maggie (A)

*People on the rocketship heading for the Sun:

**[[Ross Perot]] (A)

**[[Dr. Laura Schlessinger]]

**[[Spike Lee]] (A)

**[[Dan Quayle]]

**[[Courtney Love]]

**[[Tonya Harding]]

**[[Al Sharpton]]

**[[Tom Arnold (actor)]]

**[[Pauly Shore]]

**[[Rosie O'Donnell]]

**[[Homer Simpson|Homer]] and [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] (A) <br/>

In a few seconds the ship is back to the origanal time and Chakotay manages to stop the distarer. When Janeway asks him why he turned the deflector dish into a giant lightning rod he say he can't tell her because of the [[temporal prime directive]]. Later, Chakotay has dinner with the Janeway, who lets on that she knows the ___location of Chakotay's cider stash but can't tell him how she knows because of the temporal prime directive.

==Cultural references==

==Notes==

*"I Know What You Diddily-Iddily Did" is a parody of the slasher film ''[[I Know What You Did Last Summer]]''.

*The opening of "Desperately Xeeking Xena" is similar to the origin story of the [[Fantastic Four]]. The name of the sketch is a parody of the film [[Desperately Seeking Susan]].

*"Life's a Glitch, Then You Die" is based on the sci-fi film ''[[When Worlds Collide (film)|When Worlds Collide]]''. The name of the sketch is a parody of the saying: "Life's a bitch, then you die."

*The glitch that was spreading to appliances in the episode was a reference to the [[Y2K|Y2K glitch]].

As a final season episode, "Shattered" was intended as an affectionate look back at the series, referencing various earlier plot lines and bringing back long-gone alien threats like the [[Kazon]] and characters like [[Seska]]. The following past episodes are specifically referenced: "[[Caretaker (Voyager episode)|Caretaker]]", "[[Basics (Voyager episode)|Basics]]", "[[Macrocosm (Voyager episode)|Macrocosm]]", "[[Scorpion (Voyager episode)|Scorpion]]", etc. There are also moments humorously referencing recurring plot elements; in one scene, Chakotay finds the entire crew asleep, and notes that this has happened on a number of occasions.

==Goofs==

*The Collector refers to Tom Baker as 'Doctor Who'. He should know that this is incorrect, however, and that the character is simply called 'the Doctor'.

==External links==

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*[http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/VOY/episode/114111.html Episode summary from Startrek.com]

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