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 |
| 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 | Kes jumps back to 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 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. |
| 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 co-ordinates 18, mark205, mark 47. |
| The Romulan Commander orders attack pattern beta 47. | |
| Waking Moments | Torres calls on Paris at seven forty. |
| The Killing Game | The Coeur de Lion takes 1247 francs on the Saturday night. |
| Monitor displays Auxiliary Systems 0470 - Sickbay Security Field Disabled. | |
| Demon | Seven orders the transporter beam narrowed to point 4.7 terrahertz. |
| One | Seven has the computer adjust course by point 3.47 seven degrees starboard. |
| Hope and Fear | USS Dauntless was launched on 51472. |
| Admiral Hayes said it had forty seven successful trial runs. | |
| Night | 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. |
| 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 40.7 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 | The smart bomb checks the confirmation code on interface screen 047. |
| 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 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 |
| 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 series.) |
| Author, Author | 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. |
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