has a special place in the hearts of many die-hard Trekkers. It was started by Joe Menosky on TNG after his time at Pomona, and over the years it's regular occurrence in episodes has given it a cult status all of its own. Here are it's key vocal appearances in the Voyager episodes I have transcribed so far (and whatever visual instances I manage to spot) :-
| Caretaker | The interval between pulses of energy from the array to Ocampa decreased by 0.47 of a second |
| Parallax | The EMH says he has been designed with the experience of 47 individual medical officers |
| Monitor input 47 is the Emergency Medical Holographic channel | |
| Phage | The gas infuser will keep Neelix alive for another 47 minutes |
| Emanations | They discover the 247th element in the planetary rings |
| Cathexis | Paris's mind was taken over by Chakotay for 1 minute 47 seconds |
| Learning Curve | There are 47 reserve gel packs at the start of the story |
| Projections | The holograms of the crew are stored in memory block 47 alpha |
| Elogium | Shields fall to 47 percent. |
| Twisted | Kim counts the warp core pressure through 47. |
| Non Sequitur | Kim's office is located in the Main
Complex, level six, subsection 47 Kim graduated from Starfleet on 47918 |
| Cold Fire | Suspiria should answer Tanis's signal within 47 hours |
| Resistance | Kim recommends a heading of 219 mark 47 |
| Prototype | Automated unit 3947 |
| Dreadnought | Stardate 48447 |
| Lifesigns | The EMH has performed 347 medical examinations so far |
| Investigations | Hogan's engineering security code is Omega 47 |
| Deadlock | Torres tried remodulating the conn frequency carrier five times on 47 different frequencies |
| 347 Vidiians board Voyager | |
| Resolutions | Shields fall to 47 percent |
| Basics | The EMH receives Paris' message on Vessel Schematic 4747 (thanks, Matt.) |
| Flashback | Rand announces a hull breach on Deck 12, Section 47 |
| The Chute | Paris tells Pit that they killed 47 patrollers at Akritiri |
| False Profits | The Rules of Acquisition have 47 commentaries. |
| Future's End | The Hermosa Earthquake is in 2047 Rain's computer crash is Error 0047 SATCOM47 is used to search for Starling Starling aims to penetrate the time rift at 96 mark 047 |
| Q and the Grey | Harry detects a second supernova at 217 mark 47 |
| Macrocosm | The EMH makes his way along vector 147 in the mine |
| Alter Ego | Chakotay says shields down to 47 percent. (Sigh) |
| Fair Trade | Biomimetic gel is transported in
container L647X7 Bahrat arrests Tosin under Station code 4279 subsection B325 |
| Unity | Chakotay transports to module 47 omega on the Cube. |
| Rise | Neelix get the mag-lev chamber speed up to 47 kilometres per hour. |
| Before and After | The photograph of Kes holding baby
Andrew is taken on stardate 56947. The temporal variance of the chroniton torpedo is 1.47 microseconds. |
| Real Life | The anomaly bears down on Voyager on heading 047 mark 19 |
| Distant Origin | Humans share 47 genetic markers with the Voth |
| Worst Case Scenario | Insurrection Alpha is accessed
47 times by 33 different crewmembers. Tuvok reopens the programme using security clearance Tuvok 4774. |
| Scorpion | Species 8472 The EMH uses image enhancement 047 to demonstrate how the Borg assimilate, and what 8472 cells look like. |
| The Gift | Seven accesses communications node
59S47B. Annika Hansen was born on stardate 25479 |
| Nemesis | 4th and 7th Defence Contingents. |
| Scientific Method | Hull breaches on decks 4 and 7 (amongst others). |
| Year of Hell | Day 47 saw
Torres and Kim trapped in a turbolift. Seven discovers that the chronoton torpedo has a variance of 1.47, but we knew that already didn't we, children. |
| Concerning Flight | Voyager's main computer processor
has simultaneous access to 47 million data
channels. Tau's warehouse is 4.7 kilometres outside the city. |
| Message in a Bottle | Voyager is at coordinates 18,
mark 205, mark 47. The Romulan Commander orders attack pattern beta 47. |
| Waking Moments | Torres calls on Paris at
seven forty. The EMH's medical log is made on stardate 51471.3 |
| The Killing Game | The Coeur de Lion takes 1247
francs on the Saturday night. Auxiliary Systems 0470 is used to disable the Sickbay security field and the holo-emitters. |
| Demon | Seven orders the transporter beam narrowed to point 4.7 terrahertz. |
| One | Seven orders nutitional supplement 14beta7. Seven has the computer adjust course by point 3.47 seven degrees starboard. Seven and the EMH diagnose the problem with vessel schematic 4747 |
| Extreme Risk | Torres ran her programme Zeta One for 47 seconds after the massacre. |
| Hope and Fear | USS Dauntless was launched on 51472. Admiral Hayes said it had forty seven successful trial runs. |
| Night | The alien is suffering cellular
degradation of 13.47 with theta radiation levels
from 253.47 to 809.47 Paris announces that Voyager is 47 seconds from the vortex. |
| Drone | One assimilated 47 billion terraquads of information. |
| Extreme Risk | Torres ran holodeck programme Torres zeta one for 47 seconds after hearing about the massacre in the letter to Chakotay (Hunters) |
| In The Flesh | Chakotay's service number is 47alpha 612. (and Boothby says it as forty seven, too) |
| Once Upon A Time | Starfleet regulation 476-9. All away teams must report to the Bridge at least once every twenty four hours. |
| Timeless | The Delta Flyer detects the USS Challenger approaching on a bearing of 184 mark 7. |
| Thirty Days | The waterworld is governed by forty seven regional sovereigns. |
| Infinite Regress | Naomi knows all forty seven suborders of the Prime Directive. |
| Gravity | The time differential between Voyager and the planet is .4744 seconds per minute. According to Tuvok, that converts 30 minutes to two days, eleven hours, forty seven seconds. |
| The Fight | Micro Cellular Scan 407 on the Sickbay monitor. |
| Someone To Watch Over Me | Seven watched Tom and B'Elanna quarrelling on stardate 52647. |
| Relativity | The threshold of the H2 molecule is 14.7 electron volts. |
| Warhead | Interface 047 shows the smart bombs memory gaps. |
| Equinox | Burke contacts his EMH via Subspace Comm Protocols 047. |
| Alice | Kim tells Torres the power fluctuations are down to 4.7 percent. |
| Pathfinder | The
itinerant class B pulsar is at 227 by 41
mark 6. (How many permutations would you like with
that?) The travel tube outside Starfleet has sections 47 and 48 visible. The wormhole is directed to Sector 41751 |
| Fair Haven | The anomaly has Borg classification 34792. |
| Tsunkatse | Stardate 53447.2 |
| Collective | The pathogen is displayed on a Sickbay monitor as Micro-cellular Scan 407. |
| Unimatrix Zero | The
EMH monitors the mind meld on Neural/Synaptic Monitor 147 The assimilated away crew are monitored on Neural Circuitry Pattern 247 |
| Nightingale | Stardate 54274.7 |
| Prophecy | Klingon vessel type D7 (D=4th letter of the alphabet. Yes, it's a reach but there are so few references in these late seasons.) |
| Author, Author | Seven monitors the time alloted for calls home at
a console by Stellar cartography map 4733. The EMH writes his log on stardate 54740.8, Janeway writes hers on 54748.6 Photons Be Free is programme 47Beta at the dilithium mine |
| Renaissance Man | Fourier Analysis 714 on the Blue Danube music. |
| Endgame | There are at least 47 Borg in the nebula when Voyager first arrives there. |