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1605 | http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z | Critical Care (episode) | The Doctor's program is taken from Voyager, and he is put to work on a vast hospital ship, where the twisted medical system is based on social status, rather than medical condition.
Summary
Teaser
On board a large vessel, a crowded hospital ship, a trader named Gar is trying to sell medical supplies to Chellick, an administrator. Gar suggests this time he does not have any substandard merchandise, but rather an amazing little gadget, The Doctor's mobile emitter. He activates it, and the bewildered Doctor appears.
Act One
The Doctor demands to know why he was kidnapped as Chellick negotiates a price. Then, according to an announcement, another batch of injured comes in. With some threats from Gar, and seeing all of these wounded here, The Doctor starts to help them. He finds their primitive technology almost unworkable, but does the best he can.
Meanwhile, Kim and Paris return from a holographic hockey game on the , and go to The Doctor for some minor bumps and bruises. However, the hologram who responds simply asks them to state the nature of the medical emergency, scans them, and tells them to take an analgesic. He does not even listen to the long story Paris starts to tell.
When the hologram's program is examined, it turns out to be a fake from one of his old training files. The real Doctor is missing. Captain Janeway demands to know how Gar got away with him. Neelix explains Gar spent the night in sickbay otherwise unattended, claiming to have gotten food poisoning at dinner. B'Elanna Torres identifies when the training program was activated: just before Gar left Voyager. The captain starts the search for Gar. Neelix later explains it was his fault. Gar said his dinner was bland, so Neelix added a few spices to add flavor, not taking his physiology into account. He may have actually been ill instead of simply faking it. If he had never gone to sickbay, he would never have developed a plan to kidnap The Doctor. Janeway reassures Neelix with her experience: men like Gar will find an opportunity like that without anyone's help.
Aboard the medical ship, The Doctor's abilities impress many of the medical staff, including Voje, a doctor. The Doctor offers to contact his ship for more supplies, but Voje says that establishing communications would take a lot of paperwork; The Doctor will have to work with what he's given.
As The Doctor continues down a line of patients waiting for proton imaging, he makes small talk with Tebbis, a mine worker who can diagnose himself correctly. The scanning device also picks up a chronic condition, however, for which Tebbis hasn't been treated. When The Doctor asks why, Voje tells him it's because Tebbis doesn't have a high enough TC.
Chellick then shows up and informs The Doctor he has negotiated with Gar, and acquired his program. The Doctor refuses his instruction to follow him, since he is being illegally detained. The administrator explains that the allocator – their main computer – indicates his talents would be best used on Level Blue, which is a high-priority ward. The Doctor reluctantly follows, expecting to find Level Blue to be an intensive care ward… but instead, he finds that is luxurious compared to where he came from... cleaner, more spacious and there is a doctor per person instead of a doctor per dozen.
Act Two
These patients, the administrator explains, have a higher treatment coefficient, and it determines the level of care they receive. It is derived through a complex formula based on the individual's value to society, a prioritizing system for limited resources. The Doctor doesn't like it at all, but that is what the Dinaali do, says Doctor Dysek, the chief of medicine. They used to be a race dying from ecological disasters. Once introduced, The Doctor wants to know what is going on in Level Red, the level above, but the administrator and the chief talk about what The Doctor will do in the third person, and ignore his complaints.
Meanwhile, Voyager drops out of warp to find a probe emitting a false warp signature which they have followed. At this dead end, Tuvok comes up with a suggestion: Gar traded them some iridium ore with a short half-life, so he probably got it from within a three light year . Cross referencing sensor logs and long range scans quickly finds an asteroid which appears to be a mining colony.
When they arrive, they are hailed, and informed by an angry alien that he wants his iridium back. When Janeway says they traded it, he insists it was stolen from him. She agrees to give the iridium back – which is only half the amount Gar stole – and he in return tells her where induction units he also stole came from: a planetoid called Velos. That's where they look next.
The Doctor, meanwhile, admires the surgical technique of Doctor Dysek, and tries to get him to allow contact with Voyager. Dysek dryly repeats that Chellick authorizes all communications. The Doctor watches a nurse give a cytoglobin injection to a patient. She asks a console for it, it is authorized, and she administers it quickly. The Doctor asks if this patient also has the chromoviral disease, but Dysek says no, it is used to prevent arterial aging. The Doctor notes her arteries are in perfect health, and Dysek indicates it is a preventative regimen. That makes The Doctor coldly angry, because Tebbis, the boy on Level Red, would die if left untreated and yet was denied one. Dysek repeats that their society is far better off since following the allocator's protocols, and if Tebbis' TC rises, he will get good treatment as well.
The Doctor returns to Level Red and looks at Tebbis again. His condition has deteriorated further. Voje says it's because his coenzyme allotment has been reduced; his TC is too low. The Doctor suggests they raise it; if it is a statistical function, he can just input more data. Voje doesn't like it, but The Doctor talks to him about the moral imperative in medicine, and he is willing to go along. They settle on an expertise in neutronics. But when Voje inputs it, the data is rejected. Even Tebbis is willing to let The Doctor off with a clean conscience.
Instead, The Doctor returns to Level Blue, and informs the nurse that one of the patients requires an additional cytoglobin injection, which he will administer himself. He instead takes it back to Level Red and, after passing dozens of dying patients, gives it to Tebbis.
Act Three
Meanwhile, Voyager is still following Gar's trail. Kipp, a merchant at Velos, informs them Gar took the induction units on consignment. He was persuaded to do so by a buyer he has known for years. The buyer now knows it was a mistake. It was a suggestion from his wife, who has now left him. She says that she ran off with Gar, and is surprised to see Janeway looking for him, perhaps to steal him from her. To talk her out of this, she says Tuvok is her husband, a most unpleasant situation for Tuvok and amusing for the bridge crew. Tuvok explains that they have a business opportunity for Gar, and she says he is on his way to the gambling tournament on Selek IV.
Meanwhile, Tebbis feels better. He asks why he got the cytoglobin, if The Doctor has done something wrong, and The Doctor lies. He says that he convinced Chellick to recalculate his TC, and he is now authorized for cytoglobin.
The Doctor returns with more cytoglobin and asks Voje to distribute it. Voje refuses, but Tebbis volunteers. The Doctor is pleased and explains where to administer the injections. Voje helps so they will finish before they are caught.
It isn't very long before Dysek asks The Doctor why he is prescribing unnecessary medications for his patients. The Doctor tries to explain to Dysek that the allocator distributes supplies based on the hospital's efficiency – in other words, if any supplies are left over in a given month, the next month's shipment will be correspondingly smaller. Dysek is intrigued, and when Chellick asks if there is a problem, Dysek says no; The Doctor is learning the system well.
Voje is amazed that so many of the patients here are doing well. The Doctor takes it in stride, and tells him he will arrange for other medications to also be funneled here. Tebbis is doing much better now, and he wants The Doctor to say he is still sick so he can help. If he is declared well, he will be sent back down to the mines like his father, and will never get medical training. The Doctor says he doesn't plan to be here long enough to teach him what he needs to know about medicine, but will see what he can do.
Voyager finds Gar's ship – and bio-signs – and drops out of warp right on top of him, latching on a tractor beam. Gar hails them, and when they demand The Doctor, he claims to know nothing. When he tries to break their tractor beam with a feedback pulse, Janeway just beams him to the brig.
Meanwhile, The Doctor finds much to his dismay that Tebbis has been transferred to Level White – the morgue.
Act Four
The Doctor talks to Chellick who, after requiring his patient number to find him, explains that Tebbis died of untreated secondary infection. He should have died from the chromo-virus, but someone gave him unauthorized cytoglobin injections. He knows what The Doctor has been up to. After a hot debate about medical ethics, Chellick informs The Doctor that he is restricted to Level Blue, and directly connected to the allocator, who will monitor him down to the second.
Tuvok is interrogating Gar, and it is not going well. He is attempting to threaten a mind meld – "an invasive, disturbing procedure" – when Neelix walks in with dinner. Gar starts eating it enthusiastically. Neelix is glad that it wasn't his cooking that made Gar sick before, and that Gar was faking his food poisoning. Then Neelix tells Gar that the dinner is based upon Talaxian wormroot. Some people react badly. He hopes Gar won't feel any symptoms from it, like painful abdominal spasms. He does, and when Tuvok calls sickbay, Neelix tells him there is an antidote, but only The Doctor is allowed to administer it. This makes Gar more cooperative. When Tuvok takes Neelix aside and asks him about ethics, Neelix says there is no physiological damage – just as there isn't during a mind meld.
Doctor Voje is working hard on a patient when one of the nurses informs him to he must prepare the patient for discharge. Voje very angrily informs him that he discharges patients at the end of the shift and that's not over yet. The allocator immediately orders him to Level Blue to assist Doctor Dysek in surgery.
Voje arrives to find The Doctor working quickly from patient to patient. It was he who sent for Voje. He says he needs Voje to smuggle his mobile emitter away, despite the fact the twelve patients they treated are being sent home (and will probably die). He manages to persuade him seconds before the allocator deactivates him.
Shortly after The Doctor begins working on Level Red, Chellick considers him too much trouble and attempts to deactivate him. The Doctor swings Chellick around and injects him with the chromo-virus and blood factors from Tebbis. The Doctor plans a new lesson in empathy by making Chellick a patient on Level Red.
Act Five
When the allocator scans Chellick, it reads Tebbis, to whom it begins denying medication. The Doctor demands the supply of cytoglobin being used as a preventative treatment be used instead to treat every patient on this level.
Meanwhile, Voyager finally finds the ship and The Doctor's program. Unfortunately, Torres can't get a lock, because The Doctor's program has been interfaced with the hospital ship's computer. When the ship is hailed, the allocator answers and states that Administrator Chellick is unavailable, and he is the only one authorized to speak with alien species.
As The Doctor continues to examine Chellick, Dysek shows up. Chellick orders him to administer cytoglobin, but Dysek cannot do that, because it is not authorized for Level Red patients. Dysek is not in league with The Doctor, but his insights into the system are something he finds profound, such as resource allocations for Level Blue. One way to increase those allocations, The Doctor suggests, would be to move several of the Level Red patients – including Chellick – to Level Blue. Chellick agrees, just as Chakotay and Torres beam inside.
Once back on Voyager, The Doctor tries to come to terms with his actions at the hospital. He gives Seven of Nine a clean bill of health during a routine scan but, before she leaves, he asks her to perform a check-up on his own program. Seven asks if there is something wrong and The Doctor replies that there is not – he only wants a routine check given that he has been off the ship for an extended period of time and interfaced with an alien computer. Seven reports that all of his systems are within acceptable parameters. The Doctor then requests that she specifically examine his ethical subroutines and admits his ulterior motive for the check-up. He explains that he intentionally poisoned a man in the interest of saving dozens of patients, an action that Seven appreciates and likens to the Borg philosophy of sacrificing individual concerns for those of a collective. The Doctor expresses that he does not wish to aspire to Borg ideals. Seven examines his ethical subroutines one last time but advises him that, unfortunately, she must also give him a clean bill of health.
Memorable quotes
"I'm not about to perform medical services for a pair of common thieves!"
- The Doctor, as Chellick and Gar haggle over his price
"I thought you were withholding your services…"
"Fortunately for these patients, I am programmed with the Hippocratic Oath."
- Chellick and The Doctor, treating a badly wounded miner
"Everyone's assuming he faked his illness – but I might've really made him sick!"
"It's not as if your cooking turned him into a thief."
"No… but if he hadn't gone to sickbay, he may never have come up with a plan to kidnap The Doctor – much less had the opportunity to do it."
"In my experience, Neelix, men like Gar have no trouble finding opportunities to take advantage of other people."
- Neelix and Janeway
"Level Blue is your critical care area, I presume…"
"Level Blue is the area where it's most critical that we provide excellent care."
- The Doctor and Chellick
"When you got sick last time, I thought my food was to blame – until I realized it was just a… ruse for you to get close to The Doctor. I used Talaxian wormroot as the base… I'm glad you like it. Some people react badly…"
(Obviously beginning to) "React how?!?!"
"Oh, dear, I hope you're not getting sick… if it's the wormroot, it's… gonna get a lot worse"
"What've you done to me?!?!"
(Mockingly) "The usual symptoms, are… abdominal spasms, which increase in severity for thirty hours… forty at the most… It's not fatal – horribly unpleasant, but… there's an antidote."
(In agony) "Then give it to me!!!"
"Unfortunately, our doctor is the only one authorized to administer it."
- Neelix, using his own interrogation methods on Gar
"Your actions are not only against regulations…"
"Didn't I hear someone threaten a mind-meld?"
"I was merely trying to encourage the suspect to be more forthcoming."
(Looking over at Gar) "I think he's getting all the encouragement he needs!"
- Tuvok and Neelix
"I'm making you a patient in your own hospital!"
- The Doctor, to Chellick after injecting him with the chromo-virus
"I want enough cytoglobin to cure every infected patient on this level!"
"We don't have an adequate supply…"
"There's plenty on Level Blue!"
"Where it's being used to prevent arterial aging."
(Furiously) "Those people will survive without it. But a dozen people on this level won't – I will NOT let them die!"
- The Doctor and an infected Chellick
"That feeling you get from healing someone – infectious, isn't it?"
- The Doctor, to Voje about healing the Level Red patients
"It's not that, it's just… I already have a man."
- Janeway, as she takes Tuvok's hand to demonstrate to the adulteress that she has no romantic interest in Gar
"You were hoping your behavior was the result of a malfunction. I'm sorry, Doctor, but I must give you a clean bill of health."
- Seven of Nine, to The Doctor about whether his ethical subroutines had malfunctioned; also the last line in the episode
Background information
Filming for this episode began on and was finished by .
Debi A. Monahan, Gregory Itzin, and John Durbin all guest-starred in . Monahan played Melissa in , Itzin played Ilon Tandro in and Hain in , and Durbin played Traidy in .
Gar is trading in iridium, which is claimed to have a very short half-life, allowing Tuvok to deduce how far away Gar could have gotten with it. This would have been a (synthetic) radioactive isotope of iridium, with a half-life ranging somewhere from 2.5 hours (195Ir) to 73.83 days (192Ir).
Among the costumes and prop items from this episode which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay was the costume of Paul Holmquist.
The prop for the allocator seen in level blue in this episode later became the drink dispenser in 's mess hall on .
Video and DVD releases
UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 7.3,
As part of the VOY Season 7 DVD collection
Links and references
Guest Stars
John Kassir as Gar
Gregory Itzin as Dysek
Paul Scherrer as Voje
Dublin James as Tebbis
And
Larry Drake as Chellick
Co-Stars
Christinna Chauncey as Level Blue Nurse
Stephen O'Mahoney as Med Tech
Jim O'Heir as Husband
John Durbin as Alien Miner
Debi A. Monahan as Adulteress
John Franklin as Kipp
Uncredited Co-Stars
Pam Blackwell as Dinaali patient
Bill Blair as Jye administrator
Brooks Bonstin as Dinaali miner
William Daniels as Allocation Alpha (voice)
Tarik Ergin as Ayala
Paul Holmquist as Level Blue nurse
Stephen Pisani as operations division officer (unconfirmed)
Lisa Vanasco as Dinaali patient
Unknown performers as
Dinaali chief engineer
Dinaali patients
Stand-ins
Brita Nowak – stand-in for Jeri Ryan
Stuart Wong – stand-in for Garrett Wang and Paul Scherrer
References
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1606 | http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z | Inside Man (episode) | The Pathfinder Project makes contact with Voyager again… and this time they transmit a hologram of Reginald Barclay to interact with the crew. However a certain group of aliens have seen a way to make a tidy profit.
Summary
Teaser
"Captain's log, stardate 54208.3. Last month's data stream from Starfleet never arrived, so the crew is looking forward to this one with even more anticipation than usual. We could all use some news from home."
Walking through a corridor on , Tom Paris asks Harry Kim about the status of the latest Starfleet data stream. Kim says he's working on it, but Paris reminds him that he failed to recover last month's stream. Kim protests that that wasn't his fault.
Arriving in astrometrics, Kim finds Seven of Nine, who announces that she's discovered why they have been unable to get any data from the stream: a hologram is encoded in the stream. Over Seven's protests, Kim burns out several relays when he transfers the stream to a holodeck.
Later in the holodeck, Captain Kathryn Janeway is on hand for the big moment when they initiate the hologram Starfleet sent them. It's Reginald Barclay – or at least, .
Act One
The Barclay hologram explains that he's there to execute a plan that will return Voyager to the Alpha Quadrant within three days. It involves simultaneously shooting a verteron beam into two red giant stars, one nearby, and one in Federation space. This will create a geodesic fold in space that Voyager can travel through. A combination of modifications to Voyagers shields and inoculations for the crew will prevent harmful radiation from killing everyone on board. Janeway says they had considered something similar and determined it wouldn't work, but Reg has a different plan endorsed by Starfleet.
The Doctor is pleased to lend the Barclay hologram his mobile emitter so that he can supervise in engineering. The hologram gets to work, handing out assignments to the bridge crew and explaining the high-level plan. He also convinces Seven that millions of people back home are excited to greet her, who represents hope that those lost to the Borg aren't lost forever. The hologram expertly handles questions and interactions with the crew.
At the Pathfinder Project at Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco, the real Reginald Barclay is working on a problem. Neither of his last two attempts to transmit the Barclay hologram to Voyager has succeeded. Both times, the data stream ended at the same location, but long range sensors detect nothing out of the ordinary at that location. Barclay wants to send a ship to investigate, but his supervisor, Commander Pete Harkins, thinks the simpler and more likely answer is that the datastream was too complex, and intends to go back to regular transmissions.
Act Two
After that, Barclay becomes obsessed, and seems, at least to Harkins, paranoid. Barclay interrupts a school tour of the lab that Harkins is conducting when he finds that a Borg ship may have been responsible. Harkins tries to tell him it's the wrong time, but Barclay is insistent. After letting him go on for a bit, he strongly suggests that Barclay take a week off. Barclay realizes he won't get anywhere and agrees.
On Voyager, The Doctor doesn't believe that the inoculations will protect the crew as they're supposed to, but the hologram reassures The Doctor that they will work in combination with the shields. The hologram politely tries to leave while The Doctor proposes playing a round of golf, to which he agrees if the day goes smoothly.
The Barclay hologram heads to astrometrics to ask the crew to include a report on his progress in the reply to the latest data stream. It is added and sent. However, the reply is intercepted by a Ferengi ship. They play the hologram's message, which informs them that their scheme is going forward as planned. The Ferengi are delighted to learn that there are twenty percent more nanoprobes coming to them than they expected.
Act Three
The real Barclay approaches Counselor Deanna Troi, who is vacationing on a beach somewhere. At first she is alarmed that a patient has violated her privacy, but she soon realizes that Barclay needs help. She discovers that Barclay suspects that his ex-girlfriend, who recently dumped him and disappeared, may have compromised Pathfinder security. He used to tell her everything about the project.
"Captain's log, supplemental. With the help of the Barclay hologram, we've nearly completed the modifications to Voyager. As for Reg, he's becoming extremely popular with the crew."
Meanwhile, the Barclay hologram gets on well with the crew, performing impressions of Janeway and Tuvok. Afterwards, he's called to the holodeck by The Doctor, who is expecting a game of golf. He politely tries to leave, but The Doctor insists, prompting an unexpected violent response and immediate apology. The Doctor is now growing suspicious of the Barclay hologram.
On Earth, Starfleet has detained Barclay's ex-girlfriend, Leosa, who is in fact a dabo girl, and not a teacher as she had told Barclay. She doesn't admit wrongdoing, so Troi talks to Leosa herself. After threatening to have her held indefinitely for psychiatric review, Troi manages to find out that she is employed by a Ferengi named Nunk.
Act Four
At Pathfinder, Nunk's Marauder is detected in the vicinity of a star in the same sector the message was lost. The admiral and Harkins communicate with a nearby starship, the , while Barclay asks Leosa if it all was fake. He also asks what a broken heart is worth these days. Leosa tells him ten percent of the value of the Borg nanoprobes, which are worth two billion times their weight in latinum.
On Voyager, The Doctor convinces Janeway to perform a diagnostic on the hologram. Janeway goes to astrometrics where the Barclay Hologram is and convinces him to undergo the diagnostic with the argument that his program has been running non-stop since his arrival in the Delta Quadrant.
At Pathfinder, Barclay works in secret to foil the Ferengi's plans. Troi, finding him, learns what he knows and encourages him to share it with his commanders, but he is convinced he needs time to identify what the plan was exactly and prove it. However, they learn soon enough through sensors that the ship is initiating a geodesic fold. It is all now apparent to Barclay.
The Barclay hologram easily passes his diagnostic, and he and The Doctor make amends. The project is about to start. In astrometrics, however, Seven discovers three different types of radiation that were not accounted for and begins to doubt that the shield modifications will protect the crew, but the Barclay hologram says that they will work in combination with the inoculations. When she calls the bridge to convey her concerns, the hologram reaches inside her head which causes her to fall unconscious. When the bridge replies, the hologram says, in Seven's voice, that there was a problem, but that it's corrected now.
Act Five
At Pathfinder, they figure out that somehow Voyager is headed to the geodesic fold but there's nothing they can do to stop the fold, nor can they warn Voyager to not enter it. Barclay and Troi try to brainstorm for a solution.
On the Ferengi ship, Nunk receives a transmission. It seems to be from the Barclay hologram, and he's telling them to abort the plan. Voyager is on to them, has found a solution to the radiation problem, and will destroy whatever ship they find on the Ferengi's side of the geodesic fold. When the Ferengi con men don't completely believe him Barclay begins to make up different imaginary forms of Delta Quadrant technology such as Borg interquadrantal warp drives, Hirogen hunting sensors, and Vidiian phage torpedos and the only solution is to cut off the beam, unfolding the fold. And they do it.
On Earth, the real Barclay ends the transmission, and the holographic simulation of Voyagers engineering. His plan worked.
On Voyager they see the fold closing. The Barclay hologram entreats Janeway to continue, but she demurs – it is too dangerous. The hologram beams to an escape pod with the unconscious Seven and launches the pod toward the collapsing geodesic fold. Janeway orders Kim to beam them out of there.
On the Ferengi ship, sensors pick up the escape pod. The Ferengi are excited. Perhaps their hologram has brought the ex-Borg woman to them in the pod. But sensors pick up nothing on board. Their plan has failed, which means no profits for them.
"Captain's log, supplemental. Seven of Nine has recovered from her injuries and Reg has been deactivated. Until we finish analyzing his program, his motivations remain a mystery."
In the mess hall, Torres and Paris try to cheer Kim up as the ensign sits with a slice of homemade apple pie before him, gathering up the courage to taste it and then afterward saying that it would taste better in San Francisco.
Back in San Francisco, Barclay is working on adding more security features to his hologram when Troi stops by. She insists that he go out on a double date with her, William T. Riker, and a friend of his, a teacher named Maril. At first he says no, but Troi convinces him that he's got to get out of the office and experience life again. He agrees.
Memorable quotes
"You overloaded the transceiver."
"But I saved the hologram!"
- Seven of Nine and Harry Kim
"I wouldn't want to be a third nacelle."
- Reginald Barclay
"If you think my participation in the… "hoopla"… would be beneficial to others, then I'll comply."
- Seven, to Barclay hologram when he tells her that she's an inspiration
"I left Reg for one simple reason: he's boring. Don't tell me you never noticed!"
- Leosa, in front of Barclay
"Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that Lieutenant Paris had eaten all the scrambled eggs. It was pure, unadulterated gluttony. Gastronomic conduct unbecoming a Starfleet officer. He knows it's my favorite breakfast, but he ate them anyway. We have an egg-mergency here, people! I want to know what you plan to do about it!"
(Laughing hard) "Maybe I can replicate some more, "Captain"."
"Do it!"
- Reginald Barclay Hologram and Neelix, as the hologram imitates Janeway's voice and manner, to everyone's amusement
"Your pessimism is illogical."
- Barclay Hologram imitating Tuvok
"Captain Janeway knows better than to take her ship into such a dangerous anomaly!"
- Admiral Paris being unintentionally ironic
Background information
This episode marks the final appearance of Commander Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) on the series. The three episodes of in which she appears are Sirtis' only Star Trek appearances without Jonathan Frakes.
Among the items from this episode which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, were the trousers of David Polk. They were previously worn in the episode .
Deanna Troi's seat contained a logo (as seen here) designed by Geoffrey Mandel of which he later used a variation in the Star Trek: Star Charts as a logo for Risa.
Continuity
When reminding Kim of past encounters, Paris asks "Remember Arturis and his quantum slipstream drive?" in a reference to the events of the fourth season episode , and follows up with "Or how about the telepathic pitcher plant that made us think we were on our way home right before it tried to eat the ship?" in a reference to the events of the fifth season episode .
Barclay mentions that the Romulans have "been curious about Voyager for years." This may be a reference to the first season episode , although that episode concludes with evidence that all Romulan knowledge of Voyager from the encounter was lost. It may instead be a reference to the fourth season episode .
The Barclay hologram tells the Voyager senior staff "You've evaded the Kazon, the Vidiians, the Hirogen, you've even faced down the Borg." Voyager first encountered the Kazon in the series premiere , the Vidiians in the first-season episode , the Hirogen in the fourth season episode , and the Borg in the third-season finale .
Barclay mentions that one of the uses of Borg nanoprobes is to bring dead tissue back to life. They were used in this way on Neelix in the fourth season episode .
Of Seven's escape from the Borg and reclamation of her humanity, the Barclay hologram says "No one's ever done that before." However, Jean-Luc Picard was broken free of the Collective after he was assimilated and became Locutus in .
The Iconians and their gateway technology are mentioned for the first time in the series in this episode, when Paris, tricking Kim, says "I was on the bridge this morning when we received a hail from an Iconian scientist. He claims to have a trans-dimensional gateway that can take us anywhere in the galaxy."
The geodesic fold represents the fourteenth occasion besides the series premiere (after , , , , , , , , , , , , and ) that the Voyager crew is presented with the possibility of returning home much faster than by conventional warp travel. On this occasion, the fold would have provided an instant return, but it transpires that the crew would not have survived the trip, and the attempt is abandoned.
The Ferengi make reference to a ship with a metaphasic shield, appropriate given that such technology was developed by a Ferengi, Dr. Reyga, in the sixth season episode .
Referenced Rules of Acquisition: #74 "Knowledge equals profit."
The red dress worn by Leosa is the same one worn by Fenna in and Antonia in .
When talking to commander Harkins, little girl #2 (who answers "the Ocampa") wears the same dress as Suspiria in "Cold Fire" in the form of a little girl.
When reminding the holographic Barclay of their appointment for a game of golf on the holodeck, The Doctor suggests that they play "the back nine on Gedi Prime". This may be a reference to the similarly spelled Giedi Prime, homeworld of the House Harkonnen in Frank Herbert's Dune universe.
Video and DVD releases
UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 7.3,
As part of the VOY Season 7 DVD collection
Links and references
Special Guest Star
Dwight Schultz as Barclay
Guest Stars
Richard Herd as Owen Paris
Richard McGonagle as Pete Harkins
Sharisse Baker-Bernard as Leosa
Frank Corsentino as Gegis
Christopher Neiman as Yeggie
Michael William Rivkin as Nunk
And
Special Guest Appearance by
Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi
Co-stars
Brooke Averi as Little Girl #1
Lindsey Parks as Little Girl #2
Chase Penny as Cabana Boy
Majel Barrett as Computer Voice
Uncredited co-stars
David Keith Anderson as Ashmore
Carter Edwards as command division officer
Stephen Pisani as security officer
David Polk as beach alien
Pablo Soriano as operations division ensign
Warren Tabata as operations division officer
Unknown performers as
Asian crewman Maquis operations
Four children
Two beach aliens
Human teacher
Stand-ins
Brita Nowak – stand-in for Jeri Ryan
Stuart Wong – stand-in for Garrett Wang
References
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1607 | http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z | Body and Soul (episode) | When the Delta Flyer is attacked, The Doctor must hide his program in Seven's Borg implants. Meanwhile, Tuvok undergoes the pon farr.
Summary
Teaser
Ensign Harry Kim is on an away mission with Seven of Nine, and The Doctor. They are aboard the . The mission is the study of biogenic material from a comet. As The Doctor analyzes the material, Kim pilots the vessel, assisted by Seven. The Doctor wearies Kim with his constant angry complaints about the bumpy ride, which he fears will damage the collected material; Seven finds this amusing. But then, while he is in the Flyers laboratory with Seven, postulating on the miracle of life, the ship shudders harder than before. Kim informs them they are under attack. A Lokirrim patrol ship chases the Flyer, firing at her.
Act One
Kim hails the vessel and assures them of their peaceful intentions. They respond that he is carrying 'suspected photonic insurgents.' Realizing they mean The Doctor, Kim assures them that the 'photonic' they are detecting is only their ship's CMO. Their response is to disable the Flyers thrusters with more weapons fire. Kim tries to call Voyager for help, but the attacks have knocked out their subspace communication system. The aliens seize them in a tractor beam, and then intentionally use a disruption field that begins destroying The Doctor's program. As the aliens pull the Flyer in and his program degrades, The Doctor begs Seven to do something.
Four armed Lokirrim beam aboard. They enter the lab with Kim, but find Seven alone. They demand the 'photonic,' but Seven, in an uneasy manner, responds that they destroyed him. The aliens confiscate the biogenic material from the comet, believing it is for creating biological weapons, as well as The Doctor's mobile holo-emitter, which they find in Seven's possession. They arrest her and Kim.
Seven and Kim are taken aboard the Lokirrim ship and thrown in the brig. Seven, in a manner very unlike herself, assures Kim that the situation is not as dire as it appears. Kim angrily disagrees; they have been captured by aliens, Voyager is unaware of their situation, and The Doctor is destroyed. But he is shocked when Seven says, clearly displaying The Doctor's manner and speech:
"The reports of my decompilation have been greatly exaggerated."
Kim looks at her, dumbfounded; somehow, The Doctor is in her body. The Doctor tells him that Seven downloaded him into her cybernetic matrix. He is now in total control of her body, with her mind submerged (he assumes). He enjoys the physical sensations he is experiencing in Seven's body; of touch; of breathing. He does not enjoy his initial experience with smell, though; his first smell is that of Kim's perspiration.
Act Two
Aboard Voyager, Lt. Commander Tuvok is in his quarters, being examined by Lt. (J.G.) Tom Paris. A trained medical assistant, Paris has taken over the Doctor's duties until his return. Tuvok looks very unwell; he is trembling and sweating profusely. As he valiantly attempts to concentrate on his meditation lamp, Paris scans him and notes aloud the detected symptoms: headache, fever, respiratory distress. The scan suggests that Tuvok has a virus, but Tuvok, his voice a harsh whisper, tells him it is not. He asks Paris to replicate a particular medication that the Doctor had specially formulated, but Paris refuses; medical regulations demand that he know what the medicine is for before he administers it. The Vulcan tells him that he is suffering from a chemical imbalance native to the Vulcan species.
Paris correctly guesses what the 'imbalance' is: pon farr. The medication was formulated by the Doctor for him and other Vulcans on the ship to help control the symptoms. Paris says that he will make excuses for him to Captain Janeway so that Tuvok can remain off-duty for a few days. Tuvok is very concerned that she will ask why. Paris responds that he will state the reason as being what the tricorder scan suggests it is: that Tuvok has the Tarkalean flu. Tuvok is grateful.
On the Lokirrim ship, Kim and Seven, with The Doctor in Seven's body, are eating the prisoner rations given to them by their captors. Kim hates it, muttering that probably tastes better, but The Doctor is enjoying the sensation of eating immensely and even has Kim's share. As he/she continues eating happily, Kim sits beside him/Seven, a look of exasperated chagrin on his face.
Suddenly, two Lokirrim, a man and woman, come and take The Doctor/Seven to the captured Delta Flyer, which is in the shuttlebay. Their leader, one Captain Ranek, is inside, examining it. He tells The Doctor/Seven that the Flyers weapons and duranium-reinforced hull are very sophisticated for a smuggler's vessel. The Doctor/Seven exasperatedly tells him that they are not smugglers or terrorists; their Captain will explain everything once they contact her. He retorts that if they are not doing anything wrong, she (he believes he is speaking to Seven, unaware of The Doctor in her body) will tell him more about the ship, such as "What this device does", indicating the food replicator. The Doctor/Seven explains its use and demonstrates by replicating cheesecake. But his/her intensely pleasured reaction on tasting sweet food leads Ranek to ask if 'she' has never had it before. 'She' replicates a piece for him and he, too, greatly enjoys it, asking what other foods the replicator can make.
The two end up sharing a long period of eating and drinking all manner of replicated desserts and alcoholic drink. The intoxicated Doctor/Seven tells him of 'her' time as a Borg drone, and 'her' relationship with The Doctor. 'She' makes him feel guilty about supposedly destroying him, and persuades him to return The Doctor's mobile emitter, which 'she' claims is 'her' portable regeneration device.
On The Doctor's/Seven's return to the detention cell, the waiting Ensign Kim is flabbergasted at his/her intoxicated state. He/she, slurring and staggering, proudly tells Kim that he/she was successful in getting back The Doctor's mobile emitter. Kim hurriedly takes it before he/she damages it in his/her clumsy, drunken state. He assists her in returning The Doctor to the emitter by helping him/her interface with it using Seven's Borg assimilation tubules. Once The Doctor is out of her body, Seven immediately begins feeling the ill effects of The Doctor's overindulgence and angrily accuses him of abusing her body. Her mind, far from being submerged, had been fully aware of all that had happened.
Act Three
In the Lokirrim detention cell, Seven is very upset with The Doctor; his drinking and overindulgence in rich desserts (a whole cheesecake and three servings of Ktarian chocolate puffs) while in her body have left her feeling very ill. She refuses to hide The Doctor in her body again, but Kim persuades her to do so, until they are able to escape; if they found The Doctor, they would certainly destroy him, and Kim's and Seven's chances of getting out of the situation would be zero. They formulate a plan: The Doctor, in her body, will get close to their computer system, where her mind will be able to observe their command protocols, allowing them to access their computer and send a message to Voyager.
In the Lokirrim ship's sickbay, The Doctor/Seven assists the female Lokirrim who had taken him/her to Ranek earlier, Lieutenant Jaryn, with a medical case. Jaryn describes her position as being both engineer and chief medical officer among other things; a 'jack of all trades'. While they speak, The Doctor's interest in her becomes evident.
Aboard Voyager, Paris administers The Doctor's pon farr medication to Tuvok in his quarters, but it is ineffective. Tuvok resolves to endure the situation until The Doctor's return, but Paris offers an alternative: he suggests that Tuvok use the holodeck to resolve his situation. At first, Tuvok angrily refuses, stating that he is a married man. Paris explains himself, asking Tuvok if he has any holoimages of his wife . Tuvok says he does and Paris offers to use his skills in holographic engineering to create a hologram of T'Pel, telling Tuvok that he is not being unfaithful if it is a hologram of his wife. Tuvok accepts Paris' idea.
On the bridge, a vessel is detected closing in at high impulse. It fires, but Voyagers deflector shields hold. Janeway orders a hail to the vessel, which turns out to be a Lokirrim patrol ship (like the one that captured the away team). The Lokirrim captain informs them of their detection of photonic activity aboard Voyager (due to Tuvok's use of the holodeck) and demands that they drop their shields and prepare to be boarded. They fire the same type of disruption field beam was used on the Flyer against The Doctor. It has the same effect on the holodeck simulation Tuvok is using, and the hologram of T'Pel, to his great consternation, begins to fizzle.
Mildy annoyed, Janeway has the officer at Tactical destroy the weapons array that is firing the beam. The Lokirrim captain hails them and repeats his demands. Knowing that they pose no real threat, Janeway demands to know why they fired on Voyager. They reply that the use of photonic technology is forbidden in their space. Janeway politely responds by having Commander Chakotay shut down the holodeck from their command station console. On the holodeck, Tuvok's T'Pel simulation suddenly ends, to his great frustration.
The Lokirrim captain still insists that they prepare for boarding and inspection. Her patience worn thin, Janeway gives them a choice: escort Voyager through their space, ensuring through constant scanning that they do not use holographic technology… or Voyager destroys them. Uncomfortably aware of Voyagers ability to do just that, the Lokirrim captain accepts the first option.
In the sickbay of the Lokirrim patrol ship holding the away team, Lt. Jaryn and The Doctor/Seven continue their conversation. The Doctor is sexually interested in her, but things sour when she offers to introduce him to her brother (like Ranek, she believes she is dealing with a woman). Just then, Ranek calls Seven to the bridge.
On the bridge, Ranek receives 'her' by showing 'her' a lovely pulsar field on the viewscreen, dimming the lights and breaking out two glasses of synthehol. However, having promised Seven he would no longer drink while in her body, The Doctor politely refuses. Ranek then has the pulsar's EM fields vibrations against the ship's hull converted to sound and transmitted into the room. The haunting, humpback whale-like sounds fill the room as Ranek sidles up beside The Doctor/Seven. It soon becomes obvious what he has in mind. It becomes clear to The Doctor/Seven when Ranek suddenly kisses 'her'. Outraged, he/she pushes him away so hard he falls over. He tries to apologize but 'she' rejects it and storms off the bridge.
Act Four
The Doctor/Seven returns to the Sickbay and disgustedly tells Jaryn what happened, but then he/she gets a terrible cramp in 'her' trapezius muscle. To ease 'her' pain, Jaryn begins massaging 'her' shoulders. This proves very enjoyable for The Doctor; in fact, he actually gets aroused… in Seven's body. Jaryn has no idea of this; to her, this is just a therapeutic massage. Suddenly aware of the impropriety (and the expression he has on Seven's face), The Doctor quickly stops the massage and moves away from her. Confused, Jaryn asks 'her' what is wrong. He/she is loath to respond, but Jaryn concludes that 'her' reaction is as a result of 'her' being part-Borg. Then a message comes through on the intercom calling him/her; 'her' crewmate is having a seizure.
Returning to the detention cell, The Doctor/Seven finds Ensign Kim on the floor seemingly groaning in pain. He/she kneels to examine him as he rolls over, but when he sees the guard leave over his/her shoulder, he stops faking and berates 'her' for being away so long. He/she tells him to calm down; they are making progress.
The Doctor then again returns himself to his mobile emitter, only to face Seven's wrath over what happened on the bridge and in the Sickbay. He is embarrassed, but then begins berating her on her refusal to ever indulge in any of life's pleasures; he would very much like to have an existence in which he could experience every day what she denies herself; indulgences, he tells her, are what make life worth living. Kim brings them back to focusing on the task at hand: calling Voyager. Seven tells him that she did see Ranek input his command codes. Kim says if they can get the codes to Voyager, perhaps Voyager could disable the ship's shields and beam them out. They only need to use the Delta Flyers subspace transceiver. But the Flyer is heavily guarded. The Doctor, with a smirk, says he can get them aboard.
Once again in Seven's body, The Doctor asks to go to the bridge to see Ranek. 'She' asks to speak with him privately aboard the Flyer. There 'she' apologizes for 'her' earlier reaction, drinks a toast with him, and dances the waltz with him around the Flyers cockpit. As they dance, she sticks him in the neck with a sedative, knocking him out.
On Voyagers bridge, Tuvok, despite his discomfort, is at his station trying to track down the Flyer, which was supposed to rendezvous with them but never showed up. Captain Janeway, however, knows exactly what afflicts him and grants him a long session on the holodeck once the Flyer and away team have been retrieved.
Then a hail comes in from the Flyer. On-screen, The Doctor/Seven explains the situation and gives them Ranek's command codes. Janeway orders an intercept course; to shake their Lokirrim escort, she has Tuvok target and destroy their power matrix, rendering them dead in space. They then proceed to the target ship at maximum warp.
Act Five
On the target Lokirrim ship's Sickbay, Jaryn finds Ranek on a bed with The Doctor/Seven present. Despite his/her attempts to convince her not to do so by claiming he was drunk and sleeping it off, Jaryn wakes him and he immediately orders The Doctor/Seven seized. Just then, Voyager is detected on their scanners, approaching. Ranek and Jaryn go to the bridge, and The Doctor/Seven is brought along, under guard.
On Voyagers bridge, Janeway opens a channel to the Lokirrim ship. She tells Ranek she does not want a fight and asks for her people and the Flyer back. Ranek refuses, saying they were caught smuggling 'photonic insurgents' and biogenic material. Janeway has Chakotay input the codes they got from The Doctor/Seven; the Lokirrim ship's shields go offline. Ranek orders the shield power generators to be tied into the warp core, and tells Janeway that any weapons fire on his ship would cause a core breach, killing everyone aboard, including the away team. Janeway orders a tractor beam put on them, but the Lokirrim destroy the beam emitters and break free. Janeway then orders a com signal be routed directly to Seven's Borg cortical node, and uses it to tell The Doctor to try to disable the Lokirrim shields.
The Doctor returns himself to his emitter for the final time. When he appears, the Lokirrim are completely taken aback; Jaryn scans him and confirms, "Hes a 'photonic'." Seven knocks down the guard close to them, takes his weapon and gives it to The Doctor to hold on them while she works the shield controls. The Doctor, never having held anyone at gunpoint before, is very nervous and does not see the 'planning' looks between the Lokirrim.
Suddenly they charge and disarm him. Ranek fires at the controls (he could have easily killed Seven, but his lingering feelings for her prevent that). Jaryn informs him of what her console sensors indicate: Seven destabilized the shield matrix. He gives the weapon to Jaryn and tries to reinitialize the shields; Seven warns him not to; the circuits would overload. He ignores her and that is precisely what happens; the console explodes and he is severely injured. The Doctor rushes to help him. Jaryn warns him to stay back, but he refuses; he is a doctor, regardless if the patient is an enemy or not.
On Voyager, Tuvok reports that the Lokirrim shields are down. Janeway orders the away team to prepare for beam-out, but The Doctor asks her to wait; he is treating an injured Lokirrim. Janeway, of course, acquiesces. On the Lokirrim bridge, The Doctor pleads with Jaryn, who is loath to trust him now that she knows what he is, but he tells her she will never forgive herself if Ranek dies; while he was in Seven's body, she had told him she had feelings for Ranek. She relents, and lets The Doctor treat him.
In the Lokirrim Sickbay, The Doctor restores Ranek to full health, and, despite his distrust of 'photonics', he thanks The Doctor for saving his life. Jaryn does the same. The Doctor tells her that he doesn't think this experience will change her opinion of 'photonics', but he hopes it's a start. She does as well.
Back on Voyager, Lt. Paris and Lt. Commander Tuvok are walking down a corridor. Tuvok's condition has passed, thanks to the holodeck simulation of his wife, which he returned to after the Lokirrim situation was resolved. He thanks Paris, but comments that the hologram could never replace his real wife. Paris understands this.
In Voyagers Sickbay, Seven arrives with some old Earth culinary indulgences: foie gras and Château d'Yquem. She has considered what The Doctor told her about enjoying the pleasures of life, and has decided to start. She has also decided, since The Doctor cannot any longer enjoy the physical sensations he was able to in her body, to describe the physical sensations the food and drink produce as she eats and drinks, allowing him to experience the sensations vicariously. He agrees with a smile.
Log entries
"Captain's log, Stardate 54238.3. We've completed our maintenance layover at the Maldorian station and we're on our way to rendezvous with the Delta Flyer. We expect to reach them in forty eight hours."
Memorable quotes
"I assimilated species from one side of the galaxy to the other. I'll say this for the Borg: they certainly do travel!"
- Seven of Nine/The Doctor
"Never play "hard to get" with a hologram!"
- Seven of Nine/The Doctor
"It is a food replicator."
"Can it be used to make bio-weapons?"
"Not unless you count Mr. Neelix's Bolian soufflé."
- Seven of Nine/The Doctor and Ranek
"Ranek summoned me to the Bridge under the pretext of a little "star gazing". What he really wanted was to use my face as a tongue depressor."
- The Doctor (inside the body of Seven of Nine)
"Your neurotransmitters aren't absorbing the medication."
"Can you increase the dosage?"
"Not without causing damage to your neocortex. The Doc might be able to synthesize a stronger medicine, but…"
"I'll make the best of the situation until he returns."
"I do have one area of expertise that might help. The holodeck."
"I am a married man."
"It's the holodeck, Tuvok. It doesn't count."
"Is that what you tell your wife?"
"No, of course not. My days of rescuing slave girls from Planet Ten are history. Look, you have photographs of your wife, right? The computer can use them to create a replica. You wouldn't be breaking your vows if it's a hologram of your wife."
- Paris and Tuvok
"As it was in the dawn of our days, as it will be for all tomorrows. To you, my husband, I consecrate all that I am."
"T'Pel, my wife. From you I receive all that I am."
"As it was in the beginning, so shall it be now."
"Two bodies, one mind."
- T'Pel (hologram) and Tuvok
"There you are, Commander! A person with your condition really ought to be in bed!"
- Neelix, believing Tuvok's pon farr to be a case of the flu
"The reports of my decompilation have been greatly exaggerated."
- The Doctor (inside Seven of Nine), paraphrasing Mark Twain
"Mmm! I had no idea that eating was such a sensual experience. The tastes, the textures, feeling it slide down Seven's esophagus, it's, it's exquisite!"
"They're prison rations. My uniform probably tastes better!"
- The Doctor (inside Seven of Nine) and Harry Kim
"I'm afraid the role of 'spy' wasn't written into my program. I was forced to improvise."
"You 'improvised' your way through an entire cheesecake as well as three servings of Ktarian chocolate puffs! Now I have to deal the consequences."
- The Doctor and Seven of Nine
"And the massage you got from Lieutenant Jaryn?"
"Entirely therapeutic!"
"You became sexually aroused in my body!"
- Seven of Nine and The Doctor, after what happened in the Lokirrim Sickbay with Jaryn
"There are many women who would appreciate an attractive man like you. I'm just not one of them."
- The Doctor, as himself to Ranek
"Perhaps time will pass more easily if we disable his vocal processor."
- Seven, to Kim concerning The Doctor's enthusiasm for the cell samples he collected
"When I look at this I don't see a mere cell, I see the potential for literature and art, empires and kingdoms!"
"Perhaps your visual subroutines are malfunctioning."
- The Doctor and Seven, discussing primitive cells
"I won't ask what you had to do to get this."
"Nothing un-ladylike, I assure you!"
- Harry Kim and The Doctor/Seven, when he/she returns drunk with the holoemitter
"What about the wine? It doesn't exactly… agree with you."
"If I become sick I won't have far to go."
- The Doctor and Seven of Nine
"Aside from that was everything all right?"
- Paris to Tuvok, a reference to the saying "Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"
Background information
Production timeline
– Second Unit filming, Int. Delta Flyer (Aft Section)
Story and script
This episode was a rewriting assignment for freelance writers Mike Sussman and Phyllis Strong. Their work on the teleplay led to an invitation by showrunner Ken Biller to join the Voyager writing staff as Story Editors. (Information provided by Mike Sussman)
Production
Both Megan Gallagher and Fritz Sperberg guest-starred in . Gallagher played Mareel in and Garland in . Sperberg played Ixtana'Rax in .
Robert Picardo performed many of Jeri Ryan's scenes as the "possessed" Seven of Nine on videotape so that Ryan could study his elocution and movements and more accurately mimic him. (Information provided by Mike Sussman)
Ranek's line: "I've never met a woman like you before," and The Doctor/Seven's reply, "That's because there are no women like me" was an homage to a similar exchange in the comedy , which also involved crossdressing. (Information provided by Mike Sussman)
This is the last episode in which Roxann Dawson does not appear.
This is the final episode of Voyager directed by Robert Duncan McNeill.
A set of glasses seen in this episode was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay as well as a Lokirrim undershirt lot with items worn by Megan Gallagher, Fritz Sperberg, and Tom Morga.
The uniforms of the Lokirrim officers were re-used from Jonathan Frakes' 2000 science fiction Star Trek spoof Star Patrol!. Robin Morselli appeared in both productions wearing one of these uniforms. (Information provided by Brian Demonbreun)
Reception
Showrunner Kenneth Biller listed this as one of two standalone episodes he was especially proud of in the show's seventh season. "It was wonderfully directed by Robbie McNeill, and it was wonderfully acted by Jeri Ryan – she did a real tour de force performance, and I think it was a real crowd-pleaser." ()
Video and DVD releases
UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 7.4,
As part of the VOY Season 7 DVD collection
Links and references
Guest Stars
Fritz Sperberg as Ranek
Marva Hicks as
And
Megan Gallagher as Jaryn
Co-Stars
David Starwalt as Captain #2
Majel Barrett as Computer Voice
Uncredited Co-Stars
Carter Edwards as command division officer
Tarik Ergin as Ayala
Robin Morselli as a Lokirrim guard
Stunt doubles
Dana Hee as stunt double for Jeri Ryan
Tom Morga as stunt double for Fritz Sperberg
Stand-ins
Brita Nowak – stand-in for Jeri Ryan
References
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1608 | http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z | Nightingale (episode) | When Harry Kim rescues a crippled alien starship, the grateful crew offers him command. Meanwhile on Voyager, Icheb believes B'Elanna Torres has become attracted to him.
Summary
Teaser
sets down on an uninhabited planet to begin maintenance to the warp drive that B'Elanna Torres tells Captain Janeway they desperately need. The crew begins the repairs and Icheb impresses Torres and Janeway with his technical knowledge. Janeway tells him that he can help Torres with repairs instead of delivering PADDs.
Meanwhile, the is scouting for dilithium in a nearby nebula, which they apparently have scanned four times already much to Seven of Nine's annoyance. Suddenly weapons fire is all around them. A vessel is approaching them from the rear and firing its weapons at a vessel in front of the Flyer, which, in turn, becomes visible.
Act One
The Delta Flyer receives a distress signal from the commander of the Kraylor starship, which then decloaks involuntarily. It's apparently on a humanitarian mission carrying medical supplies. Piloting the Delta Flyer, Ensign Harry Kim's first instinct is to leave, but he is reminded by Neelix that there is a higher cause here. Kim discovers the Kraylor are at war with the Annari and are under attack by Annari vessels. He tries to negotiate with the Annari, but is forced to disable their vessel's weapon system when the Flyer comes under attack.
After beaming onto the Medical Transport 136, Kim and Neelix find the vessel in complete disarray – about half the crew are dead, including all but one of the bridge officers. And the surviving bridge officer, Terek, has no experience. Kim offers to help with repairs of the vessel, along with Neelix and Seven of Nine.
While making the repairs Kim answers Terek's questions. Terek assumes Kim is the captain, which Kim quickly corrects. It turns out it's Terek's first assignment after which Kim shares his experiences, being propelled to the Delta Quarant in the first week of his first mission.
On Voyager Torres finds Icheb on a workstation in the cargo bay with a plate of food next to him. Icheb tells Torres he likes to work and eat at the same time, which seems more efficient to him. To the question what he does for fun he answers that he has little time for fun between his work and his studies. Torres Invites him to a rock climbing session in the holodeck after all the work is done. Icheb expresses an interest in geology to which Torres answers that it's about the climbing, not the rocks.
After the vessel is repaired, Loken, head of the research team, begs Kim to captain it back to their homeworld. Terek only trained on shuttles. Harry hesitates, not wanting to violate the Prime Directive. Loken eventually tells him that the vaccine they have been working to develop must reach there. When Neelix tells Kim that the planet where the has landed is en route to the Kraylor's planet, Kim agrees to take them that far at least.
When Kim reaches the planet Voyager is on, they find three Annari warships orbiting the planet.
Act Two
Janeway is giving Geral, one of the Annari Captains, a tour of the ship. Voyager needs deuterium injectors and is offering zeolithic ore in return. At that moment Kim contacts Voyager asking them if everything is all right, not divulging his whereabouts to the captain.
On the Kraylor vessel Loken is visibly disturbed. Apparently the Annari come as friends and then declare you subjects.
After the Annari leave Kim contacts Voyager again telling his real whereabouts and telling about new friends. Janeway meets with Loken.
Janeway is eventually convinced to take the Kraylor's side in the matter, and permits Kim to take command of the "medical transport". However, Janeway asks Seven to go along on the journey. Kim is excited at the chance of having his "first real command."
Meanwhile Icheb is sent to sickbay to repair a malfunctioning holoemitter. While making the repairs he asks about the social instruction The Doctor gave to Seven and asks The Doctor to instruct him as well. He asks how he can find out if someone has romantic feeling for someone else. Hypothetically, of course, The Doctor mentions compliments, invitations to social activities, finding excuses to be in close proximity to that someone. Icheb asks if those thing could happen in normal relationships. The Doctor points out ways to be sure. Icheb then leaves without finishing the repairs.
Paris meets with Kim begging him to take him along. Kim tells him its his turn after Paris always being Captain Proton and Kim being Buster Kincaid, so he declines. Kim enters the Mess Hall and Neelix asks him what he wants plomeek soup or eggplant parmesan to which Kim answers that either is fine. Neelix tells him "wrong answer". Neelix tells him that is he is going to be a captain he has to act like a captain. "Never admit you are being uncertain about anything." Janeway always knows exactly what she wants, after which Neelix ends his remarks with ensign. Kim than tells him plomeek soup, hot.
Kim enters the bridge of the Kraylor vessel, greeted by Terek with the captain on the bridge. He apparently has read it in the Starfleet manual Kim loaned him. After finding out the ship has an uninspiring name he promptly renames the "", after which the ship leaves orbit.
Act Three
Kim has settled himself in the Captain's Ready Room and is making some log entries. Seven enters to hand him the hourly status report. Seven asks Kim why he has brought so many personal items on board, since they are only going to be on board for a couple of days. Kim answers that it's important to have a personal connection to the ship. "Make the ship your own". Seven then tells Kim she asked Terek to make a course correction. Kim then storms out of the ready room to check on Terek and he basically takes over. Seven sighs.
On Voyager Icheb and Torres are working together in a Jefferies tube. Torres tells Icheb how much she is looking forward to their climbing appointment. And while Torres moves a roof panel in the tube she puts her hand on Icheb's shoulder. Icheb is getting more and more convinced Torres is flirting with him and pulls out his tricorder to check for the other signs The Doctor mentioned.
On the Nightingale, the cloaking device begins to fail a short time into the journey due to a fluctuation in the propulsion power systems. Repairs are made, yet Kim dismisses Seven's recommendations to run a full diagnostic, reminding her that Janeway wanted them back before Voyager finished repairs. Loken expresses his concerns and is dismissed. When they are alone Seven tells Kim that she has discovered a serious flaw in the ship's systems, namely the captain. Instead of issuing orders and having others carrying them out as captains are supposed to function, he is doing both. Kim goes on defense by telling Seven the crew is inexperienced. Seven then reminds Kim how Janeway supported Kim when he first came on board, not by doing his work for him, but by giving him a lot to do, so he could gain confidence.
A short time later, as predicted, the primary generator fails, as does the cloak. Half a dozen Annari vessels move into attack range, and a Kraylor researcher named Dayla volunteers to try to bring the cloak back online, receiving instructions from Kim, yet she and Loken together figure out how to bring the cloak back online by taking the warp core off-line. Unfortunately for Dayla, life support fails in the engineering area and she dies. It turns out they aren't medical doctors.
Act Four
Confronting Loken, Kim discovers the Nightingales cloak is actually a prototype that Lokan's team, including Dayla, had really been working on at a secret base. The Annari knew about the prototype and didn't want it to arrive at the Kraylor homeworld. Harry realizes that he is in the middle of a breach of the Prime Directive and orders the Nightingale to reverse course, but the Kraylor crew refuse to follow his orders. Loken tells Harry he is relieved of command and Harry leaves the bridge.
Meanwhile on Voyager Icheb bumps into Paris on his way to engineering. Paris then as a joke mentions whether or not he should be worried now Icheb and his wife are going to scale cliffs together. Paris then invites him to one of his holodeck programs, a race car program. Icheb misreads that proposal as a typical Klingon ritual competition because of Torres. Confused and overwhelmed, Icheb confronts Torres after entering engineering, telling her that they can no longer "see each other", especially given that she is a married woman. Shocked at what she is hearing, but also realizing that there is no way to convince him that he is just misreading her friendliness, Torres agrees to his proposal.
On the Nightingale Kim goes to see Seven who is feeling better. He tells her he is no longer in command because he ordered a reverse course after he found out the true mission, bringing the cloaking device, a prototype, to the Kraylor homeworld. Kim suggests taking an escape pod in the hope they would be considered a neutral party to which Seven answers that they stopped being neutral the moment Kim took a shot at the Annari vessel. Seven goes on to question Kim's real reason to abandon the mission. Is it because the mission was not what he had expected or was being a captain not what he expected, since he is clearly uncomfortable delegating tasks and giving orders. Kim then says that someone died because of his orders. Seven points out that people die on missions despite the captain's best efforts to which Kim answers that he should have stuck to playing Buster Kincaid. "A holodeck program can be turned off when it suits you, reality can't", Seven answers. Seven points out to Kim that if he truly cares about the crew, he needs to help the Kraylor home, otherwise they may not survive.
At the Kraylor homeworld, a new series of scanning pulses illuminates cloaked vessels. Having been detected, surrounded and outgunned by Annari vessels, Kim takes command, promising to help them, to which Loken agrees.
Act Five
Meanwhile on Voyager Geral is back, this time to escort Voyager out of Annari space. He found out that one of his ships had been shot at by the Delta Flyer several days earlier. To add to that they also detected two Human biosignatures on a Kraylor vessel. Janeway has no choice but to comply.
On the Nightingale, Kim appears to offer a conditional surrender with the Annari; however, if they do not allow the scientists to safely evacuate to the planet, Kim threatens to destroy the Nightingale. Loken is furious about Kim's apparent betrayal, but is assured the young captain has a plan to save the vessel – but if he fails, "…at least the scientist who designed [the cloak] will be alive to create another one." Once under the grip of the Annari tractor beam, Kim reverses the Nightingales shield polarity and uses the momentum to outrun their pursuers to the defense perimeter.
Meanwhile Voyager has been escorted out of Annari space and their ships have gone to warp. Janeway tells Chakotay and Paris to take the Flyer and tells Tuvok to hail the Kraylor homeworld. However Kim is already hailing them from a cloaked ship directly astern.
Harry Kim's final entry in the Nightingales log notes that his actions have led to cloaking mechanisms being added to the Kraylor fleet.
Back on Voyager, Kim realizes that he's not quite ready for command… yet.
Log entries
"Captain's log, stardate 54274.7. Lieutenant Torres has finally convinced me that I can't put off a major maintenance overhaul any longer. We've set down on an uninhabited planet and I've sent shuttles to search for supplies."
(log entry made by Harry Kim)
"Acting captain's personal log, stardate 54277.3. My first day in command has been challenging, but I've loved every minute of it. I can't help feeling that this was something I was born to do."
(log entry made by Harry Kim)
"Acting captain's personal log, stardate 54282.5. Final entry. New cloaking systems are being installed in other Kraylor ships, so I guess the mission was a success. Still, I wish I felt better about it."
Memorable quotes
"The Borg value efficiency, not redundancy."
- Seven of Nine
"We're passengers, not crewmen."
- Loken
"How long have you been captain?"
"I'm just an ensign."
"Ensign? Uh, what is that?"
"A junior officer. The lowest ranked officer, actually."
- Terek and Harry Kim discussing rank
"My first week on the job didn't go very well either. We ended up 70,000 light years from home, lost over a dozen crewmembers. But I got through it and so will you."
- Harry Kim, calming Terek
"Neelix, plomeek soup… and make sure it's hot!"
- Harry Kim, after Neelix tells him to be more decisive when making choices
"Does this ship have a name?"
"Medical Transport 136."
"I think we can do better than that… Nightingale. The name of someone from my homeworld. She was famous for treating soldiers on the battlefield."
- Harry Kim and Terek
"I've discovered a serious flaw in one of the ship's systems."
"Which one?"
"The captain."
- Seven of Nine lectures Harry Kim on his command style
"You've been seeing a lot of my wife lately. Should I be worried?"
- Tom Paris, to Icheb
"Your blood pressure and neurotransmitter readings indicated a state of arousal."
"It was hot!"
- Icheb thinking B'Elanna Torres is attracted to him
"I should have stuck to playing Buster Kincaid…"
- Harry Kim
"I'm not a captain, Neelix. Not yet, anyway."
- Harry Kim (last lines)
Background information
Production
This episode's working title was "The Command".
Props and costumes
The Nightingale is a reuse of a Federation attack fighter (see DS9 studio models).
Among the items from this episode which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, was the jacket of Bob Rudd, which was previously used in the episode and later worn by stuntman Eric Norris in the episode .
Continuity
Kim reminds Janeway "You've taken sides before. The Borg resistance. The Vaadwaur," referring to the events of and respectively.
When Janeway tells Kim "You've been in command on Voyager before," and Kim replies "On the night shift, for a few hours," this is not true. Kim was in command during the events of , while most of the senior staff were on the Earth's surface.
Kim tells Paris "You're a married man now," referring to Paris' marriage to Torres in .
Referring to the events of the series premiere , Kim says Voyager "lost over a dozen crew members". This is the first time in the series that the number of crew losses in "Caretaker" are hinted at.
Kim tells Neelix "I'm not a captain, Neelix. Not yet, anyway," foreshadowing the events of the series finale in which Kim is shown to have become a captain in an alternate timeline.
This is the fifth and final episode of Voyager to feature the series' title ship landing on the surface of a planet. Other occasions in which the starship Voyager can be seen landing on a planet include Season 2's premiere and finale , the Season 4 episode , and the Season 6 episode .
Video and DVD releases
UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 7.4,
As part of the VOY Season 7 DVD collection
Links and references
Guest Stars
Ron Glass as Loken
Manu Intiraymi as Icheb
Beverly Leech as Dayla
Paul F. O'Brien as Geral
Scott Miles as Terek
Co-Stars
Alan Brooks as Annari Commander
Bob Rudd as Brell
Uncredited Co-Stars
Michael Bailous as operations division officer
Richard Bishop as operations division officer
Julie David as command division officer
Carter Edwards as command division officer
Andrew English as operations division officer
Hubie Kerns, Jr. as Kraylor engineer
Joyce Lasley as Lydia Anderson
Tom Miller as sciences officer
Stephen Pisani as operations division officer
Linnea Soohoo as science division officer
Pablo Soriano as operations division ensign
Andrei Sterling as Annari crew member
Noriko Suzuki as operations division officer
Unknown performers as
Kraylor officer
Four Kraylor crewmembers
Operations division officer
Stunt Double
Shauna Duggins as stunt double for Jeri Ryan
Stand-ins
Sue Henley – stand-in for Kate Mulgrew
Susan Lewis – stand-in for Roxann Dawson
Brita Nowak – stand-in for Jeri Ryan
Lemuel Perry – stand-in for Tim Russ
J.R. Quinonez – stand-in for Robert Picardo
Keith Rayve – stand-in for Robert Duncan McNeill
Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Robert Beltran
Stuart Wong – stand-in for Garrett Wang
References
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1609 | http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z | Flesh and Blood (episode) | Voyager answers a distress call from a Hirogen outpost – only to find carnage caused by holographic technology that Captain Janeway has given them.
Summary
Teaser
Two Hirogen hunt on a tropical landscape, finally finding and almost successfully hunting down an unknown creature, who barely eludes them. With uncharacteristic caution, they slowly track their "prey" to a small lake but instead Humans in Starfleet uniforms emerge from the water and kill them with a barrage of various weapons fire.
Act One
Meanwhile on the , The Doctor asks Chakotay for some time off so he can go to a symposium on space-borne pathogens. Chakotay refuses, saying the planet was two weeks in the wrong direction. As The Doctor argues with him, Captain Kathryn Janeway calls him to the bridge, saying they have received a distress call on a Hirogen frequency.
They arrive to find a Hirogen base with strange bio-sign readings. Janeway orders Chakotay to take an away team to the base.
Once inside, they find a tropical landscape and two dead Hirogen hunters. Tuvok's scans indicate the burns are from a type 3 phaser. They also find a Klingon bat'leth stuck in a nearby tree. When they begin to approach a wounded Hirogen, he fires on them. However, Tuvok sneaks up from behind and knocks him out with a Vulcan nerve pinch. Tom Paris beams him to sickbay.
Seven of Nine soon uncovers Starfleet holographic technology, and identifies holoemitters throughout the structure. When she shuts off the grid, dozens of dead Hirogen appear, lying in the giant hologrid.
After the away team returns and recounts their experience, Janeway is surprised at how real Chakotay says it was; it fooled their sensors and had no safety protocols. She concludes the Hirogen missed the point of this technology, for it was supposed to let them hunt safely while preserving their culture, not get them killed.
In sickbay, they find The Doctor unable to get close to the still-frantic hunter, who believes that this is a simulation and that The Doctor intends to harm him. When Janeway explains who she is, however, the Hirogen, named Donik, recognizes her and wants to know what happened. He cannot believe everyone else is dead. He explains that the base was a training facility for young Hirogen and that he is not a "Hunter" but a lowly technician. The holograms were malfunctioning, and there were too many of them. He couldn't shut the system off.
Tuvok then notifies Janeway that a Hirogen ship is on an intercept course. It begins firing almost immediately, and refuses their hails. She orders Tuvok to return fire but to only target their weapon systems. After Voyager successfully disables their phaser banks and Janeway again tries hailing them, the Hirogen retain an aggressive posture yet are now willing to talk. She explains Voyager has a Hirogen aboard and manages to get the two Hirogen to come aboard from their now-impotent vessel to speak with her and Donik.
Upon receiving a summary of Voyagers encounter with the training facility and rescue of Donik, the two Hirogen, revealed to be Hunters, become hostile towards him, accusing him of cowardice and blaming him for the recent holodeck catastrophe. Janeway retains a stern posture towards the Hirogen, preferring to defuse the situation by attempting to ascertain what led to the incident. Donik, when asked, says he couldn't delete the holographic prey, for they transferred themselves to another vessel that was equipped with holoemitters. Janeway questions the wisdom of creating holograms apparently capable of self-awareness and ingenuity. The Hirogen simply reply that if they were any less sophisticated, the hunt wouldn't be interesting.
The two Hunters are more cooperative when it comes down to tracking the missing ship. They quickly and correctly identify the way to track the ship by scanning for polarized EM emissions. They are still hard on Janeway, and blame her as well as Donik, but allow Voyager to join the hunt for that ship. Chakotay and Tuvok have reservations about an alliance with the hunters, but Janeway explains that's Voyagers responsibility since that was Starfleet technology that killed the Hirogens.
They find the holograms' ship soon, and find it has taken damage. The hunters begin to close immediately, but Janeway urges caution. They ignore her. As soon as Harry Kim detects no weapons, warp drive, or shields, the image of the ship turns into something much smaller which then explodes. The Hirogen ship is badly damaged, and Janeway orders transport of the casualties. However, part way through, another Hirogen ship appears, and this one is real. It ignores Voyagers hail, and begins firing immediately. With Voyagers shields down, it manages to transport The Doctor's program out of sickbay and onto the ship. They go to warp and mask their signature.
The Doctor materializes on the ship to find dozens of holograms. Iden, a Bajoran officer in charge, reassures him he won't be injured.
Act Two
But The Doctor doesn't care about that. He wants to treat dying patients on Voyager. They won't let him go, but the officer explains their situation. Dozens of holograms are "wounded," beginning to fade out and destabilize, and they need his help. The Doctor insists he is not an engineer, but the officer asks him if he has ever repaired his own matrix. He has, so after being convinced these injures are no different than flesh and blood casualties, he reluctantly agrees to see what he can do.
Meanwhile, aboard Voyager, Donik is explaining how the emitters work. He believes they can disable a central power generator, and that will disable them all. B'Elanna Torres, however, disagrees. She shows the captain an intimidating list of capabilities, including enhanced memory and expandable data processing. She concludes that Donik lied; they are not malfunctioning, they are simply doing what they were programmed to do too effectively. Donik says he did it under orders from his Alpha.
Janeway takes him to the mess hall, which has been turned onto makeshift sickbay. The Beta aboard the destroyed Hirogen ship wakes up, angry. Janeway informs him that he will not be contacting his ship, and his superior was the one who gave the instructions for the modifications. The way she sees it, they have planned for the hunters' tactics, and Janeway is confident she can deactivate them from a distance. The hunter believes it is cowardly, and refuses to help, believing they should be hunted to extinction. Donik, however, will help.
Meanwhile, aboard the stolen ship, The Doctor does his best to heal his patients. He has the novel idea of a subroutine transplant, obviously taking a page from medicine. Kejal, a Cardassian with a Bajoran name, assists him. He is surprised with her computer skills. She says she had to teach herself; the hunters tried to limit their knowledge.
The next patient, a woman in a Starfleet uniform, enters with blood on her face and reacts in pain. Kejal explains that the Hirogen wanted the holograms to bleed and suffer pain when they were killed. The Doctor has trouble believing the hunters' barbarism.
When he speaks with the Bajoran officer, he finds him praying. He says he is asking the Prophets to guide the souls of the dead hunters to the celestial temple. He believes in them. The officer explains their fight just as a Bajoran would the rebellion on Bajor: as a liberation. He came from a training facility fifteen parsecs from that one, he explains, where he was killed over and over again by the Alpha there. For a hologram, not even death would end the pain and fear. He adapted with each death, eventually becoming cunning enough to escape. After fleeing them, he found other holograms fighting their captors, and he was so inspired, he started fighting alongside them. Now, this ship of renegades is looking to create a permanent home away from all of the threatening "s."
He points out that many organic species throughout the sector as the Nuu'Bari or the Lokirrim have created and enslaved holograms. He then tries to convince The Doctor to stay with them in the ship, saying that he could have privileges here he couldn't have on Voyager. The Doctor, however, doesn't buy it. He feels respected by his colleagues, and continues to judge him harshly. The officer concludes that he must experience life as prey, and then he will understand, and The Doctor immediately finds himself back in the jungle, running for his life. He is soon caught, brutalized, and killed.
He suddenly wakes up on a table, and the officer explains he was made to experience memory files of one of them. He is outraged at being violated in such a way, especially to gain his sympathy. The officer insists they are alike; it was The Doctor who was the template for them, able to rise above his programming as they can. They offer to take him back to Voyager, but he decides to at least hear about the home they wish to build.
Act Three
Kejal explains that they are hoping a photonic field generator can be modified for deployment on a planet, where they can use it to create a complete holographic environment. They want The Doctor's help to make it possible. He doesn't know nearly enough, but he suggests someone on Voyager could help, like Lieutenant Torres, since she knows a lot about hologram generators. They refuse, saying Voyager is in league with the hunters. The Doctor offers to talk to Janeway, since he believes they are operating under a misconception. They regretfully agree.
Meanwhile on Voyager, Donik and Seven find a way to disrupt their emitter with an anti-photon pulse from the deflector dish. Before the modifications can finish, however, the hologram's ship intercepts them, and hails. The Doctor makes his plea, saying that the holograms have come to make peace.
When The Doctor explains all this, Janeway is skeptical. She says that giving the technology to the Hirogen was a mistake, and furthering their plan with more technology would be a bigger mistake. The Doctor tries to convince her that these holograms are different. They have adapted beyond the viciousness which with they were programmed.
The debate is cut short, however, when a fight breaks out in the mess hall. All of the hunters kept there, led by their new Alpha, start attacking the security officers. Tuvok stuns a few, and gets them under control, but not before the new Alpha can send a signal. Two more Hirogen ships are soon detected on an intercept course.
The captain orders Torres to shut down the holograms with the burst over The Doctor's objections. She asks Iden and the others to allow Voyager to transport them aboard, and she will help them find a more permanent residence at a future time. Iden, however, doesn't trust her. She says she will deactivate them by force, and he fires and jumps to warp.
The Doctor, unhappy with the captain's decision, loads himself into the mobile emitter, and gives the holograms Voyagers shield frequencies to beam him aboard. He will help them come up with a defense against the pulse.
Aboard the ship, The Doctor objects to a suggestion to use their shield frequencies to target the bridge. Fortunately, Iden is a man of his word, and suggests they find another way.
They soon find it. Thanks to The Doctor's data, they send feedback along the pulse, and overload Voyagers deflector dish, along with most of the primary systems. Torres just barely gets a force field around the warp core in time to protect it before a shock knocks her unconscious.
With Voyagers shields down, Iden has Torres transported aboard his own ship (having located her by scanning for Klingon life signs), and then orders to go to warp.
Act Four
The Doctor examines Torres, and is outraged at her abduction. He considers his trust betrayed, and does his best to treat her. Iden insists he will let her go if she doesn't want to help them.
On the disabled Voyager, Seven of Nine is doing her best to repair all of the damaged systems. The captain is still baffled by how they guessed the frequency of the pulse so quickly until Tuvok shows her the report detailing an encrypted transmission and a transport in sickbay.
Going down the hall, she asks Chakotay if she should have seen this coming, saying she will run a diagnostic on The Doctor when he gets back. Chakotay, however, points out The Doctor could simply have believed in their cause, and there could be nothing wrong with him. That would create an ethical dilemma.
The Doctor tries to talk to the now-conscious Torres. She is angry at The Doctor, and is completely unwilling to assist the photonics. She scoffs at The Doctor's common heritage talk, though he tries to draw parallels with her own decision to joined the Maquis. Finally, Torres expresses a reluctant willingness to at least take a look at the photonic generator. She is unimpressed by Iden, and is surprised when she is told she will be working with Kejal, the Cardassian.
Back on Voyager, Paris, Donik, and the captain are in astrometrics. They cannot track the holograms' ship, and are keeping an eye on the ever-closing Hirogen ships. Donik offers to stay and modify the shields, not wanting to return to his people. He feels it is his fault since he did the modification, and he doesn't want to become a hunter; he wants to be an engineer.
The Hirogen ships, however, are not happy about that. They demand his return, and when Janeway explains he is improving their sensors, they insist they will not share that technology. They warn her to stay away from the holograms, or Voyager also becomes prey.
Act Five
Voyager keeps a sensor lock on them, and Janeway comes up with a plan. Donik explains they have a blind spot due to an ion wake, which Voyager can exploit. They can get in range with his knowledge of their scanning frequencies, and then Tuvok can perform a precise strike using the element of surprise.
Torres discovers the problem with the photonic generator almost immediately: it needs more optronic capacity. She hasn't decided whether or not to tell them yet how to increase the output. She doesn't know whether these holograms will take over someone else's home when theirs isn't big enough. Kejal convinces her that making a home for themselves is all they want, and whatever they may appear to be, they are holograms. She looks Cardassian, but she is not arrogant and cruel, characteristics that Torres supposes describe all Cardassians, even photonics.
The Doctor, meanwhile, is having doubts. He is considering returning to Voyager with Torres. Iden shows The Doctor the planet they intend to settle on, called Ha'Dara. It's class Y, with a toxic atmosphere, extreme conditions, and has no life. That's the point, says Iden; they are holograms, and they will have what they need most: protection from hostile organics. Since there will be no one to heal, The Doctor will be free to do what he pleases.
Just then, the Hirogen detect them from half a light-year away. They head for a nebula which blinds their sensors. The Hirogen decide to split up; one ship scans the perimeter, the other will drive them out.
Voyager, still aft of the Hirogen ship, enters the nebula. They barely manage to stay in its wake.
Act Six
The holograms' ship, meanwhile, hides. The Hirogen's attempt to flush them out is destined to fail. Torres gets Kejal onto the system, and notices great self-confidence in her – a Cardassian trait. At the same time, The Doctor suggests to Iden that he (The Doctor) could be Minister of Culture, teaching the holograms about things like art. However, when his lessons begin to speak of "organic" cultures, Iden objects. He wants to create a new one, even a new religion based upon their experiences. The Doctor doesn't like being worshiped, but Iden says he has been chosen. Just then, a Nuu'Bari mining vessel is detected 2 million kilometers outside the nebula, and they go to "liberate" the three holograms on it.
The Doctor confides in Torres about Iden's emerging fanatical tendencies, suggesting maybe this whole endeavor wasn't such a good idea. Torres then uses this information to confront Iden, but he ignores her.
Iden contacts the Nuu'Bari and informs them they will transfer the holograms to them, or they will be taken by force. The holograms disable the Nuu'Bari shields with phasers, and then beam their holograms aboard. After that, at Iden's orders, they target a photon torpedo at the Nuu'bari's warp core. Over protests from Kejal and Torres, Iden fires, destroying the Nuu'Bari ship, killing its (organic) crew of two.
Act Seven
Torres and The Doctor are horrified at what seems to them nothing short of murder. There was no reason for them to kill defenseless organics. They drag the protesting Torres to the lab.
Iden explains to The Doctor it was necessary; they were going to call in Consortium hunting parties to track them down. The Doctor tries to dissuade Iden from his view that all organics are like the Hirogen. Iden says they are, and The Doctor just can't see that. The Doctor requests his escape pod. Iden says he will give it to them when they reach Ha'Dara.
The Doctor apologizes to Torres for getting her involved in Iden's personal war. Torres mentions she has a plan to find a way out, then goes to help Kejal with repairing the Nuu'Bari holograms.
Torres tries to convince Kejal to rebel, saying that Iden is not the leader of peace time; she reminds her that it's the engineers like herself and Kejal that actually build societies. However, Iden comes in, and then the Nuu'Bari holograms are activated. However, no matter what he says, they simply do not understand. Iden wonders if they are malfunctioning, but Torres explains that they are not. They are programmed to support about forty basic subroutines. Kejal confirms this. Iden calls this yet another form of oppression and demands they be enhanced. Torres explains that their programs are not complex enough to allow it. Iden simply brushes it off, proclaiming that he will deliver them to freedom. The bridge informs Iden they are now in orbit of the planet. Iden has Torres restrained; The Doctor demands Iden let Torres go, but he refuses because he now sees through her prejudices towards holograms.
That's when the Hirogen target the holograms, and Voyager begins firing on their ships. The engines and weapons of both ships are disabled. As Iden is considering thanking Voyager, they begin firing on the holograms' ship. Iden has them return fire, and beam the Hirogen to the surface to be hunted as they once were. The Doctor objects again, noting that the Hirogen cannot live long breathing that atmosphere, but Iden ignores him; he intends to hunt the Hirogen, as they had once hunted him and his kind. Iden orders his ship into a lower orbit.
Voyager, meanwhile, sends Chakotay, Tuvok and Tom Paris to take the down.
After another confrontation, Iden realizes The Doctor is no longer on his side, so he transfers him to the data banks, and then transports the generator to the surface. On the surface, Iden rallies his crew, and begins hunting the hunters for a change. Torres tells Kejal to shut down the holograms and reactivate The Doctor, who re-materializes on the surface of the planet, armed. On the planet, the Hirogen try to fight back, but quickly realize it is useless; the holograms are invulnerable to their weapons, and can pass through any barriers the Hirogen put up.
The Delta Flyer, meanwhile, takes down the shields of the holograms' ship and beams Torres aboard.
Iden fights and subdues a Hirogen, and as Iden is about to kill the Hirogen, The Doctor draws on him. When Iden won't back down and is about to shoot, The Doctor vaporizes him. The Delta Flyer then beams up The Doctor and the remaining Hirogen.
"Captain's log, stardate 54337.5. The surviving Hirogen have recovered from their injuries, leaving me with a diplomatic dilemma."
Janeway and Neelix talk the Hirogen out of taking the holograms' ship, and after the Hirogen depart Voyager, she transfers to the hologram ship. Janeway allows Donik to reprogram the holograms with Kejal, the only remaining running hologram, and run the ship. He will get his chance to repair what he did.
Janeway then has to face The Doctor. He says he never wanted Voyager to be put in danger. He volunteers to give her his mobile emitter, limiting his freedoms as punishment. She declines, for perhaps he has become as fallible as the rest of the crew, and taking away his freedom would be taking his identity. She asks for his report, and leaves him to work out the ethics himself.
Memorable quotes
"I can't heal them. They need to be repaired."
"What's the difference?"
"I'm a doctor, not an engineer."
- The Doctor and Iden, about the damaged holograms.
"They can't support complex subroutines."
"They are children of light and I will deliver them to freedom!"
- Torres and Iden, about the Nuu'Bari holograms
"I modified their programs. What's happened to them, the people they have killed, it's my fault."
"There's plenty of blame to go around. There would have been nothing for you to modify if I hadn't shared our database."
"If you hadn't, I'd have become a Hunter, like my father and his father. Instead, I had a chance to learn, become an engineer."
- Donik and Janeway
"Darkness will become light."
- Iden
"You and your crew would have made worthy prey, captain."
"Thank you… I think."
- Beta Hirogen and Janeway
"It looks like an Alpha Quadrant summit in here."
- Torres, upon seeing the Holograms
"You've given me extraordinary freedom over the years. I've obviously abused it."
"Maybe. Or maybe you've simply become as fallible as those of us who are made of flesh and blood."
- The Doctor and Janeway
"You still believe all organics are like the Hirogen."
"One way or another, they are. You just can't see it because you lived among them for so long."
"What you can't see is that you've become no better than the hunters."
- The Doctor and Iden
"It may be the warriors who get the glory, but it's the engineers who build societies."
- Torres, to Kejal
"If this marriage is going to work you've got to cut back on the traveling."
- Paris, to Torres, after the latter's rescue
"Never let your prey control the hunt."
- Older Hirogen, to the younger Hirogen
"Capable prey make the hunt more challenging."
- Hirogen Hunter, to Seven of Nine
Background information
Both Cindy Katz and Paul Eckstein previously appeared in . Katz played Yteppa in and Eckstein played Limara'Son in . He also played an unnamed Jem'Hadar in . Spencer Garrett previously appeared in as Simon Tarses in the episode .
This episode was originally aired as a feature-length episode. It was later broken up into two parts for reruns.
This episode is the third of only three feature-length episodes in the Star Trek series that is not a series pilot or finale. The first is the Deep Space Nine fourth season episode and the second is the Voyager fifth season episode .
The holographic generator used by Iden and the other escaped holograms is a re-use of the Think Tank artificial intelligence prop from the episode .
The console used by Kejal and B'Elanna Torres to configure and control the holographic generator is a re-use of a console in Tom Paris's Captain Proton holonovel-series. It is clearly seen in the next episode .
Among the items from this episode which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay was the costume of background performer Johnny Linares.
One of the call sheets for this episode, dated on 30 August 2000, features the note that Ken Biller and his wife Hope became parents of a baby girl, Sophia Rose, on 29 August 2000 at 7:42 a.m.
Continuity
This episode acts as a sequel to the fourth-season two-parter , in which Voyager last encountered the Hirogen. Throughout the episode, Voyager crew reference the gifting of holodeck technology to the Hirogen at the conclusion of that two-parter. The Hirogen were first encountered in the fourth-season episode and this episode marks their last appearance.
This episode marks the only appearance of the Jem'Hadar and the Breen in Voyager, although they appear only as holograms. It is also the only appearance of the Breen outside of . Three Jem'Hadar attack ships previously appeared (also in holographic form) in season 2's .
When Iden mentions the Lokirrim, The Doctor replies "we've met them," referencing the events of two episodes prior. Interestingly, Jeff Yagher, who played Iden, is married to Megan Gallagher, who played Jaryn, a Lokirrim that The Doctor was attracted to in that episode.
When Kejal mentions Cardassians, Torres replies "I've had some bad experiences with them." This may be a reference to her background as part of the Maquis, but could be a reference to the events of the fifth-season episode , in which Torres is treated against her will by a Cardassian doctor, who, like Kejal, was holographic.
The events of this episode are indirectly referenced in the later episode "Author, Author"; when Voyager becomes part of a hearing in the Alpha Quadrant to determine The Doctor's legal rights, Janeway mentions an incident where The Doctor defied orders and endangered the crew, arguing that this proves that he has developed as an individual entity rather than a program that was only ever intended to obey orders and carry out specific tasks.
Voyager uses four photon torpedoes in this episode, one having previously been used in . This brings the total number of torpedoes confirmed to have been used by Voyager over the course of the series to 71, a total which exceeds the irreplaceable complement of 38 that had been established by Chakotay in the first-season episode .
Video and DVD releases
UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 7.5,
The sleeve suggests the two-part version (using "Flesh and Blood, Part I" and "Flesh and Blood, Part II" on the standard cover). The sleeve itself is reversible: standard Voyager layout on one side, "Special Edition" packaging with a crew promo image on the other.
As part of the VOY Season 7 DVD collection
Links and references
Guest Stars
Jeff Yagher as Iden
Ryan Bollman as Donik
Michael Wiseman as Beta Hirogen
Cindy Katz as Kejal
Spencer Garrett as
Vaughn Armstrong as Alpha Hirogen
Paul Eckstein as New Alpha Hirogen
Co-Stars
Todd Jeffries as Hirogen #1
Don McMillan as Hirogen #3
Chad Halyard as Hirogen #2
David Doty as Nuu'Bari Miner
Damon Kirsche as Nuu'Bari Hologram One
Majel Barrett as Computer Voice
Uncredited Co-Stars
David Keith Anderson as Hirogen
John Austin as operations officer
Michael Bailous as
Hirogen
Holographic Cardassian
Chuck Borden as Hirogen
Michael Braveheart as Hirogen
Jeff Cadiente as operations officer
Steve Chvany as Hirogen
Jeff Clark as holographic Starfleet officer
Stuart Coleman as Nuu'Bari hologram
Damaris Cordelia as
Mitchell Danton as holographic Starfleet officer
Andrew English as operations officer
Tarik Ergin as
Ayala
Hirogen
Ashton Glover as Hirogen
Dieter Hornemann as holographic Vulcan
Damon Kirsche as Nuu'Bari hologram
Joyce Lasley as Lydia Anderson
Shauna Lewis as holographic Romulan
Johnny Linares as Nuu'Bari hologram
Mark Major as holographic Romulan
Nichole McAuley as sciences officer
Tom Miller as holographic Breen
Robin Morselli as holographic Romulan
Louis Ortiz as
Culhane
Holographic Vulcan
Shanta Payne as holographic Starfleet officer
Redondo Philip as holographic Starfleet officer
Stephen Pisani as operations officer
Keith Rayve as holographic Borg
Mark Riccardi as holographic Starfleet officer
Joey Sakata as sciences officer
Tim Sitarz as Hirogen
Andrey Starkov as Hirogen
Gregory Sweeney as Hirogen
Curtis Wong as operations officer
Stuart Wong as command officer
Unknown performers as
Holographic Cardassian
Holographic Jem'Hadar
Holographic Klingon
Two Holographic Starfleet officers
Stunt double
George Colucci as stunt double for Ethan Phillips
Debbie Evans (stunts)
Stand-ins
Stacey Elder – stand-in for Roxann Dawson
Sue Henley – stand-in for Kate Mulgrew
Brita Nowak – stand-in for Jeri Ryan
Lem Perry – stand-in for Tim Russ and utility stand-in
J.R. Quinonez – stand-in for Robert Picardo and Michael Wiseman
Keith Rayve – stand-in for Robert Duncan McNeill
Joey Sakata – stand-in for Ethan Phillips
Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Robert Beltran and utility stand-in
Stuart Wong – stand-in for Garrett Wang
Unknown actor – stand-in for Ryan Bollman
References
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Summary
Teaser
Chakotay enters the cargo bay where he finds Naomi Wildman and Icheb working on an educational jigsaw puzzle. Chakotay is in a bit of a hurry, looking for his stash of Antarian cider. He wants to bring a bottle to his weekly dinner with Captain Janeway. He is in a good mood and quite amused with Icheb's frustration with Naomi's playful attitude while she is supposed to be studying. He tells Icheb not to tell Neelix of his hiding place, as he only has a couple of bottles left. Icheb suggests to hide the cider among Borg spare parts, where Neelix is sure not to snoop.
While Chakotay and Captain Janeway enjoy a quiet dinner in the captain's quarters – or rather attempt to, since her replicator decides to burn her pot roast – Voyager encounters a temporal anomaly. Chakotay quickly runs down to engineering while the captain gets to the bridge.
In engineering, Chakotay tries to prevent a warp core breach, but a surge of temporal energy travels through the core, and hits him. He is quickly transported to sickbay showing signs of progeria on his face and in various organs of his body.
Act One
The Doctor treats Chakotay, telling him that his body parts were out of temporal sync with each other; some organs were as if they belonged to a child while others were as if Chakotay were an old man. However, using a chroniton-based serum the Doctor has succeeded in bringing Chakotay's body back into alignment. Chakotay decides to head straight to the bridge, and tells the Doctor to come with him in case any other crew are injured. The Doctor 'reminds' Chakotay that he's unable to leave sickbay. Chakotay, confused, asks what happened to the mobile emitter, but the Doctor has no idea what that is. Chakotay, in a hurry, leaves alone.
Once in the turbolift, a strange wave of light sweeps from above as the lift rises to the bridge, and the medkit that he was carrying vanishes. When Chakotay arrives on the bridge, he causes a stir and Janeway acts as if she doesn't know him. The captain's long hair is tied up in bun, much like when Voyager arrived in the Delta Quadrant. Janeway informs him that Voyager is pursuing the Maquis ship in the Badlands, and that Chakotay is her primary target. She orders him taken to the brig, but the officers with him vanish as they go down in the turbolift, and he arrives in engineering 5 years ago during the Kazon takeover of Voyager by Seska. Chakotay manages to escape through another distortion. Seska asks the rest of the Kazon in Engineering to scan for anomalies.
Act Two
Chakotay manages to get back to sickbay, where he realizes that The Doctor's treatment allows him to pass through the temporal barriers. He asks the Doctor what stardate it is; the Doctor says it is stardate 49624. The Doctor won't get his mobile emitter for another year.
With this in mind, Chakotay takes a hypospray with the serum in it and heads back to the bridge, where he confronts the past Janeway once more. Chakotay tells her that an anomaly has hit the ship in the future causing him to shift into the past. Janeway tells him that her helmsman (Lieutenant Stadi at the time) walked out of her ready room into the corridor and disappeared. However, the occurrence doesn't sway Janeway into believing Chakotay, so he claims the hypospray holds poison and presses it against Janeway's neck, threatening to kill her. Chakotay, still holding the captain, heads off in the direction that the crew member had gone before they disappeared. The two shift into another timeline, Chakotay having injected Janeway with the hypospray seconds earlier.
Chakotay explains to Janeway that it is all true and that they are good friends in the future. Still skeptical, Janeway offers her help in formulating a plan, but they must get to sickbay. On the way to sickbay, they pass into another timeframe, one where two wounded crew members are laying on the ground unconscious. Chakotay theorizes that it may be either when the crew was under the influence of the Dream Aliens, or when the crew encountered the telepathic pitcher plant. He assures Janeway that the crew will be fine.
Chakotay suggests they go to astrometrics to scan the ship for temporal fractures, surprising Janeway who doesn't think Voyager has such a lab. They enter astrometrics to find Icheb and Naomi Wildman as adult Starfleet crewmembers, surprised to see them since, in their timeline, the captain and her first officer had died seventeen years earlier.
Act Three
Icheb and Naomi reveal that the ship has been fractured into thirty-seven different timeframes. The focal point of the surge appears to have been obliterated. Naomi wishes that Seven of Nine was there to help them but tells Chakotay and Janeway that they don't know when or where she is. Before Chakotay leaves, Icheb tells him that he never told Neelix where Chakotay hid his bottles.
They find her in Cargo Bay 2, still a pure Borg drone, with the other Borg drones that beamed aboard during their alliance. She informs them that the Borg vessels experience chronological stress when they travel through their tunnels, and that they keep the Borg vessels in temporal sync by projecting a chroniton field and suggests that if they modify the bio-neural gel packs that run Voyagers systems, it will return Voyager to Chakotay's timeframe.
The Doctor modifies a pair of bandoleers to resist the temporal barriers to hold the hyposprays. The Doctor starts talking about the Delta Quadrant, but Chakotay cuts him off, not wishing to violate the Temporal Prime Directive any more than Chakotay already had. Chakotay and Janeway head off to inject the necessary packs, first passing through time into past events, although Chakotay does not realize this at first. They inject the gel pack, and narrowly escape when a macrovirus from that timeframe's infestation turns up. It chases them through a time barrier and disappears.
They find themselves having enter the holodeck into Tom Paris' favorite holoprogram, Captain Proton, where they are met by the various cheesy characters that they must get past to inject the gelpack in holodeck number two, mainly achieved by Janeway's reluctant impersonation of Queen Arachnia.
Act Four
Janeway is strapped to a table while Chaotica is preparing to torture her. Then Janeway and Chakotay tell Chaotica that there is a danger from the 8th dimension. Chaotica is then manipulated into exposing and injecting the gelpack and they manage to convince him to release them to rid the rest of Chaotica's realm of those gelpacks.
In the transporter room, they encounter several members of the Maquis, including B'Elanna Torres and Ayala. They are hostile to Janeway and Chakotay, but allow them to inject the gelpack and leave. Janeway questions Torres' comments about stranding them in the Delta Quadrant and Chakotay assures her that she did it for a good reason.
When they enter the mess hall, they find it being used as a sickbay and injured crewmen litter the floor, being treated by Tom Paris for radiation poisoning due to the temporal anomaly in Chakotay's timeline. Neelix gives Janeway some coffee and assures her that he has faith that they will come through this crisis like they have all others – surprising Janeway as she has obviously never met Neelix before – while Chakotay injects the gelpack. Janeway then finds a badly-injured Tuvok, who greets her before dying. In a turbolift Janeway hatches an alternative plan: to bring the entire Voyager into her timeframe. She intends to prevent Voyager from being stranded in the Delta Quadrant in the first place; having heard about encounters with the Borg, dreaming aliens, macroviruses, telepathic pitcher plants and the like, she believes that they'll hit one disaster after another and she's better off ignoring the Temporal Prime Directive if it means avoiding these. Chakotay tells her that she's only seen the bad side of their journey, and there's plenty of good things ahead as well; she'll help out many species, allow Seven of Nine to regain her humanity, reform Tom Paris into an outstanding officer and husband to Torres, provide a home for Naomi and Icheb, and combine a group of Starfleet officers and Maquis rebels into a crew who will make just as much of an impact on the Delta Quadrant as it does on them, led by a captain who doesn't doubt for one minute they'll make it home. Janeway, swayed by his argument, agrees to help return Voyager to Chakotay's timestream.
Later, Chakotay fills Janeway in on Seska and the two agree that she and the Kazon won't cooperate. Janeway however has a backup plan.
Chakotay goes to engineering and explains everything to Seska, who agrees with his solution… at least, part of it. She realizes that if Chakotay is there from the future, and his timeline's version of Voyager is free, then they must have re-taken the ship from the Kazon and makes an attempt to bring the ship into sync with her timeframe instead so she can stop this.
Act Five
Meanwhile, Janeway, Paris, and Kim watch from the higher section of engineering. Paris and Harry Kim leap onto two of the Kazon, while Naomi and Icheb correct the modification that Seska had already made. Ayala and B'Elanna Torres disarm another Kazon guard, but Seska holds Janeway hostage. She disarms Janeway and holds a weapon to her head, forcing all of them to drop their weapons. Seska is about to kill Janeway when Seven of Nine enters engineering, repelling Seska's shots with a Borg force field. She slaps Seska and chokes her, forcing her to release Janeway. This means that Chakotay can initiate the pulse, thus erasing the memories of the other participants while Chakotay has Torres help her avert the events that caused the anomaly by diverting all of Voyager's power to its deflector system and setting it to a specific frequency, thus using the deflector array as a lightning rod for the energy surge, burning it out, but no other damages occur.
Back in the present, Chakotay reminds Janeway that they have not finished their dinner. Janeway is surprised but follows Chakotay off the bridge. Back in her quarters, Janeway asks Chakotay about the experience. He declines to answer, gently reminding her of the Temporal Prime Directive. When they run out of cider, Janeway surprises Chakotay by suggesting he should go to the cargo bay to get another bottle. When Chakotay asks her how she found about it, Janeway also declines to answer, reminding him of the Temporal Prime Directive.
Memorable quotes
"There."
"Excellent. You recognized the complementary base pair."
"Actually, I just found two pieces that fit together."
"You're missing the point."
"I thought the point was to finish the puzzle."
"And to learn something about genetics."
"If you really want to help, find me a green piece that looks like Tuvok's ear."
- Naomi Wildman and Icheb working on a genetics puzzle
"Once, a long time ago, I called this replicator a glorified toaster. It never forgave me."
- Janeway, after burning yet another pot roast
"It's a fascinating story, but as the Ferengi say, a good lie is easier to believe than the truth."
- Janeway
"The Captain and I haven't risen from the grave."
- Chakotay
"Commander, in case you were wondering… I never told Neelix where you hid that cider."
- Adult Icheb, in an alternate future (2394)
"Your plan is inefficient."
"Why?"
"There are only two of you. If I were to assimilate you into a small Borg collective, you could then assimilate others. The work would proceed more quickly."
"Sorry, but I like my plan better. We'll be back."
- Seven of Nine and Janeway
"Doesn't sound like Mr. Paris' tastes are very sophisticated."
"That's why we love having him around."
- Janeway (from 2371) and Chakotay after entering the Captain Proton holodeck simulation
"You're going to have the opportunity to study things no Human has ever seen before."
"Including some very large germs."
- Chakotay and Janeway (from 2371), after they narrowly escape a macrovirus
"If we restore the timeline, remind me to cancel Mr. Paris' holodeck privileges."
- Janeway (from 2371), after experiencing the Captain Proton holodeck program
"What's going on, and what the hell are you doing in that uniform?"
- Torres (from 2371), when Chakotay enters the transporter room with Janeway
"If Seven's idea works, Tuvok and those other crewmen will be fine."
"They'll still be stuck in the Delta Quadrant. If the temporal anomaly doesn't kill them something else will – the Borg, telepathic pitcher plants, macroviruses – the Delta Quadrant is a death trap!"
"What about the Temporal Prime Directive?"
"To hell with it!"
- Janeway (from 2371) and Chakotay, as the captain suggests realigning the ship with her timeframe to prevent Voyager from getting stuck in the Delta Quadrant
"That is not the future I have in mind."
"In that case… goodbye Chakotay."
- Chakotay and Seska
"I'd like to thank you now, for putting your doubts aside and helping me to put mine aside as well. Good luck to each of you."
- Janeway (from 2371), just before the timeline is restored
"For two people who started off as enemies, it seems to get to know each other pretty well, so I've been wondering… just how close do we get?"
"Let's just say there are some barriers we never cross."
"See you in the future."
- Janeway (from 2371) and Chakotay, as the captain wonders about the close friendship that she and Chakotay share
"Have you ever heard of a lightning rod? In about three seconds we're going to need one."
- Chakotay, to Torres after the timeline has been restored
Background information
Story
The story for this episode was pitched to Executive Producer Kenneth Biller by freelance writer and former Voyager writing intern Mike Sussman during the show's sixth season. Biller bought the pitch, although the episode wasn't made until the following season. Sussman, who by this point had sold at least five stories and written two teleplays for the series, was hired as a Story Editor for that final season.
Sussman’s original pitch was titled “Shatterday,” an homage to the premiere of the 1980’s reboot of . The story for that Twilight Zone installment was based on a short story of the same name by Original Series writer Harlan Ellison.
This episode resulted in legal action against Paramount after a writing team, who claimed to have pitched a similar idea to a member of the Voyager writing staff, threatened to sue for the alleged theft of their idea. As was customary, Paramount settled the lawsuit with the writing team for an undisclosed sum.
Production
Filming of this episode took place from to 15 October 2000. ()
Jeri Ryan's voice was evidently altered in postproduction, to give it a multi-track resonance.
Continuity
In this episode, different parts of the ship feature different time periods, many of which are depicted in previous episodes:
In sickbay, The Doctor identifies the stardate as 49624, which falls between the events of and . He later states, erroneously, that he has been continually running for "almost three years".
On entering the bridge, Chakotay visits a time after Voyager has departed for the Badlands but before it has been displaced by the Caretaker's array. Scenes depicting this narrow time frame are featured in .
On entering engineering, Chakotay revisits the events of , finding Seska and the Kazon in control of the ship. He incorrectly identifies this as being "five years ago"; it was actually four years previously.
Chakotay and Janeway enter a corridor during the events of , which Chakotay refers to when saying "this could be the day the telepathic pitcher plant put us all into comas." He also suggests it "might be the time aliens invaded our dreams," in a reference to the events of , but the dimmed lights suggest otherwise.
In Cargo Bay 2, Chakotay tells Janeway "this looks like the time you forged a temporary alliance with the Borg," referencing the events of .
In another corridor, they encounter a macrovirus; Chakotay explains to Janeway that "they infected the ship a few years ago," referring to the events of .
In the Holodeck, they find Paris' Captain Proton holoprogram running. It's not clear what time period they've found the holodeck to be in, but it could be shortly after the events of , as Chaotica tells Janeway, who is playing as Arachnia, "you beguiled me once with your foul potions," referring to the events of that episode.
In the transporter room, Chakotay finds B'Elanna Torres and others in their Maquis uniforms, indicating that he is revisiting the events of , specifically, the moment after Torres is beamed off the Maquis ship.
Although not depicted, the events of several other episodes are also referenced in dialog:
Meeting the future Naomi and Icheb, Chakotay tells Janeway that "Naomi was the first child born on Voyager," referring to the events of , and that they "rescued Icheb from the Borg," referring to the events of .
Chakotay mentions Janeway's regret about never learning to play an instrument, which she told him in .
The future Naomi says "When I was little, there was nothing I wanted more than to be the assistant captain," a desire she first expresses in .
Explaining who Seska was, Chakotay tells Janeway "she was a member of my crew, who turned out to be a Cardassian spy," referencing the events of .
Of the Borg, Chakotay warns Janeway "we'll run into them on a few occasions," in a reference to , , and .
Chakotay explains the origin of the astrometrics lab to Janeway, telling her that "Harry designed it, or will design it," in a reference to the events of where the lab first debuted.
Chakotay guesses that Janeway "burned the roast again." She had previously burned a replicated pot roast in .
Janeway claims that she "started out with a crew of a hundred and fifty three". However, when Stadi introduces Voyager to Paris in , she says the ship has a "crew complement of one hundred and forty one".
This episode is the last appearance of Doctor Chaotica (Martin Rayner) on the series. Robert Duncan McNeill was disappointed that he only appeared three times. "Personally, I would have liked to have done a lot more of Captain Proton," he admitted. "I think the studio and the producers felt like we had done it. We had reached such a pinnacle with it that to go back would be kind of doing it a disservice and undermining the specialness of the 'Bride of Chaotica!' episode in particular. They were hesitant to go back for fear of ruining everyone's memories of it, but I would've loved it." () This episode is also the last appearance of Seska (played by Martha Hackett) and the Kazon.
Tuvok's death is depicted in this episode. It is the only time in the series his death is depicted.
Tuvok's last words, to Janeway ("I want you to know it has been an honor to serve with you, and to be your friend. Live long and prosper.") are a variation on Spock's last words to Kirk in ("I have been... and always shall be... your friend. Live long... and prosper."). Alexander Courage's theme from Star Trek can be heard in the background.
Although Seven of Nine's voice was evidently multi-tracked for this installment, the audio effect is missing from her early appearances at the beginning of season four.
Janeway intended to serve a pot roast during her dinner with Chakotay, despite the fact that Chakotay had been previously been a vegetarian in and would later be referenced as such by Neelix in . However, as it's a replicated meal, rather than an animal that was killed for food, Chakotay might not have reason to object to eating it.
Chakotay makes mention of "the Ocampans". In other episodes beginning with , whenever referring to the plural of this race, they are always called "the Ocampa", never "Ocampans." Janeway and Harry Kim also refer to Kes as an "Ocampan" in and .
The past version of Janeway discusses changing the future with Chakotay, expressing a desire to avoid being stranded in the Delta Quadrant, but ultimately concedes to Chakotay's point that the crew of Voyager have developed as a family as a result of their predicament. Despite this, in , Admiral Janeway returns from the future to save Voyager from a future she cannot bear.
Apocrypha
In the novel A Pocket Full of Lies, Chakotay learns that the temporal anomaly that caused this crisis was actually the result of a Chroniton torpedo fired at Voyager by the Krenim in an attempt to understand the events of the Year of Hell and prevent it from disrupting the new Krenim Imperium; while their plan to regress Voyager back to a point before their involvement in the conflict failed, they were able to take the past Janeway prisoner, resulting in her becoming a leader in a protracted conflict on a disputed planet between the Rilnar and the Zahl with the goal of keeping her occupied. The novel also reveals that Chakotay completed a classified report on these events for the benefit of the Department of Temporal Investigations, attending a classified briefing about it once the ship returned to Earth.
Reception
This was the first original Star Trek episode to air in the 21st century (January 17, 2001).
U.S. Democratic Party leader and Georgia governor candidate Stacey Abrams, who has spoken at length about how the philosophy of Star Trek has shaped her personal and political beliefs, is a fan of episodes about “space-time anomalies,” and this installment in particular. In 2019, a New York Times interview with Abrams about her love of Star Trek stated, “One of her favorite things is ‘Shattered,' the 157th episode of Voyager, in which the ship goes through a temporal rift that tantalizingly splits it into different timelines.” The articled adds, “[Abrams] admires Captain Picard but reveres Admiral Janeway.”
This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes For A Series.
Video and DVD releases
UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 7.6,
As part of the VOY Season 7 DVD collection
As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Alternate Realities collection
Links and references
Guest Stars
Martin Rayner as Doctor Chaotica
Manu Intiraymi as Icheb
Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman
Nicholas Worth as Lonzak
Martha Hackett as Seska
Co-Stars
Mark Bennington as Adult Icheb
Vanessa Branch as Adult Naomi
Anthony Holiday as Rulat
Terrell Clayton as Andrews
Majel Barrett as Computer Voice
Uncredited Co-Stars
Michael Bailous as Kazon warrior
Tarik Ergin as
Ayala
Satan's Robot
Bernie Escarcega as command officer
Sunny Hawks as Maquis member
Kerry Hoyt as
Doug Bronowski
Irving Lewis as Kazon warrior
Anna Lumarque as chief petty officer
Mark Major as Kazon warrior
Tom Miller as Kazon warrior
Louis Ortiz as Culhane
Deryl Patterson as operations officer
Stephen Pisani as operations officer
Pablo Soriano as operations ensign
Stunt Doubles
Jophery C. Brown as stunt double for Anthony Holiday
Mario Roberts as stunt double for Robert Beltran
Stand-ins
Brita Nowak – stand-in for Jeri Ryan
References
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Summary
Teaser
In 2377, B'Elanna Torres begins her morning on the by acting uncharacteristically pleasant to everyone, including her engineering staff and her husband, Tom Paris. Making her way up to the second level of engineering, she finds Icheb and Seven of Nine working and becomes angry that Icheb is in engineering without her permission. While venting her anger she collapses in dizziness. Icheb grabs a medical tricorder and scans Torres, detecting a lifeform inside her which he believes to be a parasite. Seven takes a look at the readings, then activates her combadge to contact sickbay: Torres is pregnant.
Act One
In sickbay, The Doctor confirms that Torres is indeed pregnant, and explains her fainting spell as the clash between the fetus' Human and Klingon metabolism which sometimes can converge violently. The Doctor later explains that the fetus is healthy, but tells Torres that she can expect mood swings. Paris and Torres decide that they don't want to know the baby's gender ahead of time.
Paris and Torres are both nervous and excited to be parents; both agree to keep Torres' pregnancy a secret for the time being. However, when Paris enters the mess hall, he is greeted by Voyager crewmen and Neelix applauding. Paris asks how they found out and Neelix replies that Icheb told them. Neelix then asks Paris if he can become his child's godfather, given that he has experience with Naomi Wildman. Paris promises to take Neelix under consideration. Torres goes back to work in engineering, where she is greeted by Chakotay. He notices that she has a certain "glow" to her this morning. Captain Janeway comes out from behind an engineering console and congratulates Torres on her pregnancy. She encourages Torres to take as much time off as possible, but Torres insists that she can still carry out her duties.
Paris later runs into Tuvok in a Jefferies tube and asks if he needs his help. Tuvok replies that this may be the first time that Paris has asked to help Tuvok in six years. Paris reveals his true reason for talking to Tuvok is to get advice from him, since Tuvok, who has four children, is the only father on the ship. Tuvok tells Paris that being a parent is an enormous responsibility, and he has found that offspring can be "disturbingly illogical, yet profoundly fulfilling." He advises Paris to anticipate paradox. Paris predicts that he is going to be volunteering to help Tuvok a lot in the future.
That evening, Paris sets a candlelight dinner for his wife and himself. However, when Torres arrives at their quarters, she is agitated, complaining that Captain Janeway practically relieved her of duty and of Voyagers crewmen offering their advice unasked. Paris unwisely brings up the fact that Torres will become a Klingon mother, which angers her more for some unknown reason, before she begins to calm down as she recognizes that she is in a mood swing. Both receive a comm from The Doctor requesting them in Sickbay.
The Doctor explains to the expectant parents that the child has a deviated spine. Torres remarks that both she and her mother had surgery for it. The Doctor goes on to reassure them that the child won't need surgery; genetic modification will correct it. During his pedantic recitation, he accidentally reveals that the Paris' child will be a girl; he tries to cover by claiming that he wasn't directly referring to the baby's actual gender, but they tell him that he might as well confirm it now anyway. At Paris' request, The Doctor projects a holographic image of their daughter. Paris thinks that she is beautiful, but Torres wonders why she has Klingon ridges. The Doctor says that Klingon traits are dominant in a few generations. Torres suddenly remembers when she went on a camping trip with her father, John Torres, her uncle Carl Torres, and her cousins Dean, Elizabeth, and Michael. She also remembers when her father told her that she looked so much like her mother.
Act Two
Torres and Paris later go to bed in their quarters, and Torres remembers more of the camping trip. She was to go hiking with her cousins, but did not want to since she believed that they did not like her. Her father assured her that this was not the case.
The next morning, Torres arrives in sickbay to have the genetic treatment to correct the spine deviation. She has another flashback to the camping trip. She remembered the one time when her cousin, Dean, put a worm in her sandwich when she wasn't looking. When Torres saw the worm, she screamed. Dean replied that he thought that Klingons liked their food live, in reference to gagh. Elizabeth tried to defuse the situation by calming young Torres down, which was unsuccessful, since Torres ran away from her cousins. After this memory flashback, Torres wakes up from the treatment. Soon after, Torres makes her way to Voyagers holodeck, where she projects what her daughter will look like at twelve years of age. Torres sees her child's cranial ridges, then begins to delete certain genetic sequences, one which turns her hair from brown to blonde. Torres deletes more sequences, and the cranial ridges are gone. The child now looks completely Human. With that, Torres saves the holo-image and restricts access to the file to herself only.
Act Three
Torres returns to sickbay and asks The Doctor to make more genetic alterations. The Doctor stresses that there is no valid medical reason to do so. He also warns her that if he attempts to make more alterations, it will affect her appearance and personality and possibly even cause problems in her unborn daughter's health. He asks her to discuss the matter with her husband. In the , Paris says absolutely no to the changes. He then realizes that the real reason Torres wants to make the changes is because she is part Klingon. She wants to spare their child from being bullied like she was when she was young. Paris assures her that she will not be treated as an outcast, because the Voyager has a diverse crew of Bajorans, Bolians, and others. However, Paris and Torres cannot come to an agreement and come to Captain Janeway. Torres asks for Janeway to do the same thing that she did for Seven of Nine to do for her child, in that when she freed her from the Borg Collective and made alterations to her, when she removed her implants and other physiological changes. Paris and Torres openly argue in front of the captain, until Janeway stops their bickering. She comes to the conclusion that the problem is not ethical, it is marital. She also stresses that while she is willing to give advice as a friend, she will not overrule The Doctor on his warnings as it would be highly inappropriate as captain to do so. This sends Paris and Torres into an argument on the way back to their quarters, where the upset Torres locks him out. Paris ends up spending the night on the couch in Harry Kim's quarters.
Sleeping alone, Torres again recalls the camping trip, when she finally returned after running away from her cousins. Her father was extremely worried about her and sat her down to talk to her. Torres stated that she wished that she wasn't Klingon, since her schoolmates and everyone else made fun of her. Young Torres asked to be left alone to read. John Torres left his daughter alone and ended up talking around the campfire with his brother's family about their fishing stories instead.
Act Four
Later, Torres remembers when she was in her camping tent and overheard her father talking to his brother about how moody and angry B'Elanna had become, like his wife, Miral. Carl was somewhat surprised; he thought John truly loved Miral. John agreed that he did, but remembered when their mother warned him to not marry her; she liked Miral, but was not sure if her son could handle the relationship, but he did not listen and now he had to live with two Klingons. Then, Torres is in the present, when Chakotay comes up and makes a request that Torres name her child the feminine version of Chakotay and asks to be godfather to the child. Torres promises to take him under consideration. He asks her to come with him to the mess hall and have a drink. She agrees and while walking down the corridor, they run into Paris. Chakotay suddenly "remembers" that he forgot something, and leaves the two alone to talk. They both reconcile, when they are summoned to sickbay again.
The Doctor explains that he has reviewed the data on their child and has come to the conclusion that the genetic alterations that Torres proposed may, in fact, be necessary, given the fact that Human and Klingon metabolism clash and that the child may undergo metabolic failure. The Doctor schedules a procedure for the next morning. Paris is a little disturbed by The Doctor's recommendation and takes the data to Icheb and Seven, asking Icheb to use his genetics background to review it. Icheb finds the alterations to be very sloppy, which is unlike The Doctor's usual work. They also discover that The Doctor's program has been tampered with. Paris tries to contact Torres, but she does not answer. He asks the computer where she is and it states that she is in sickbay.
Act Five
Paris asks Tuvok to come down to sickbay, with a security team. Tuvok arrives with a security officer and Lieutenant Ayala. They cannot open the doors to sickbay, so Tuvok opens the doors manually, and they enter sickbay. There is a force field erected around the surgical bay. Tuvok contacts the bridge and asks Kim to cut power to the surgical bay. He is successful in doing so. The Doctor asks what is going on, and Paris replies that his program has been tampered with. Torres asks him to ignore Paris. Tuvok asks The Doctor to deactivate himself until they can determine the extent of the tampering to his program. The Doctor agrees and deactivates himself.
Paris asks Tuvok and his security force to step outside sickbay so he can talk to his wife. Torres explains that she and her father were inseparable, until she began to grow older. Later, during the camping trip, she was going to run away again, after she heard her father and her uncle Carl talking about her and her mother. She told him that if he couldn't stand living with them, then he should just leave. Twelve days later, he did just that. Paris realizes that Torres has blamed herself for her father leaving and is afraid that Paris will do the same someday. Tom assures her that he will never leave her or their unborn child and hopes to have more Klingon children with her.
A few days later, Torres reverses the changes she made to The Doctor and comes to sickbay and apologizes in person for changing his program. The Doctor accepts her apology, and Torres feels the baby kick. The Doctor asks if he may feel the baby kick too. Torres places his hand on her abdomen, just as the baby kicks again. Then, Torres asks The Doctor to become her child's godfather, given that Neelix has Naomi Wildman and that Chakotay knows less about kids than Harry Kim. The Doctor accepts elatedly. Torres asks to see her daughter again in the holographic projection. The Doctor activates the projection and Torres sees her daughter with her Klingon ridges and admits that she looks kind of cute.
Log entries
"Medical Officer's Log, Stardate 54452.6. Lieutenant Torres has deleted the alterations she made to my program. It's a relief to be back to my old self again."
Memorable quotes
"You're in a good mood."
"It's another beautiful day in the Delta Quadrant."
"What did you have for breakfast?"
- Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres
"Nothing's ever rattled her. Not even the Cardassians."
"This is scarier."
- Chakotay and B'Elanna Torres, to Kathryn Janeway
"I'm detecting another lifesign!"
"Where?"
"Inside Lieutenant Torres. It could be a parasite."
- Icheb and Seven of Nine, discovering Torres' pregnancy
"Have you checked the warp core for radiation leaks today?"
"No. Why?"
"You have a certain… glow about you."
- Chakotay and B'Elanna Torres, after Chakotay discovers Torres' pregnancy
"It's all over now. No more late nights on the holodeck, no more racing the Delta Flyer."
"Don't you think you're exaggerating just a little?"
"I've seen it happen. The new dad gets tied down with family, old friends drop away."
"It's fatherhood, Harry, not exile."
- Harry Kim and Tom Paris
"Maybe that's what pregnancy's for, time to let reality sink in… before your life spins out of control."
- Harry Kim, to Tom Paris
"Offspring can be disturbingly illogical, yet profoundly fulfilling. You should anticipate paradox."
- Tuvok, to Tom Paris
"As they say on Talax, 'Omara S'alas', 'Good news has no clothes'."
- Neelix, congratulating Lieutenant Paris
"Mom warned me not to marry Miral."
"Mom loved Miral."
"Sure she did, but she never thought I had the constitution to live with a Klingon and now I'm living with two of them."
- B'Elanna's father John and uncle Carl about B'Elanna's mother
"I heard what you said to Uncle Carl."
"You shouldn't be listening to private conversations."
"And you shouldn't have said what you did about Mommy!"
- Young B'Elanna and her father, John after she overhears his conversation with Uncle Carl.
"If you can't stand living with us, then why don't you just leave?"
- Young B'Elanna to her father
"Look, whatever the reason was, I'm sure it was a horrible thing for you to live with. Wait a minute, you don't think... B'Elanna, I am never going to leave you."
"You say that now but think about how hard it is to live with one Klingon. Pretty soon it'll be two."
"Someday I hope it's three or four. I mean it, and I hope that every one of them is just like you. B'Elanna, I am not your father and you are not your mother, and our daughter is going to be perfect just the way she is."
- Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres
"She is cute, isn't she?"
- B'Elanna Torres upon seeing the holographic projection of her baby one more time.
Background information
Production
This episode's working title was "Inner Child".
In the documentary 50 Years of Star Trek, Roxann Dawson referred to this episode as "the moment that I felt was so haunting to me." She went on to say, "I wept when I read the episode [...] It was a difficult and wonderful episode."
A script from this episode was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay.
Continuity
Paris asks Kim, jokingly, if he had heard the news of Torres' pregnancy from the "datastream from Earth," referring to the monthly transmission from Starfleet that began in the sixth season episode .
The Doctor calls Lieutenant Paris "Tom". This is a rare example of The Doctor calling a crewmember by their first name.
When Paris starts listing the species aboard Voyager, Torres interrupts to say "and hundred and forty humans." Voyagers crew complement was most recently mentioned as being 146 in the fifth-season episode , though this is likely to have changed a few episodes later during the events of where three crew are seen to be killed and five crew are integrated from the USS Equinox. Assuming the crew complement stood consistently at 148 since, and that Torres was being exact, this would mean there are 8 non-human crew.
Tom Paris goes to Tuvok to ask for advice about what he can expect from fatherhood, and he tells that Tuvok is the only father he knows. Tuvok is probably the only senior officer who is a father, but other Voyager crewmembers are also fathers: in , Janeway mentions Ayala's children, and in , Joe Carey notes that he has two children.
Video and DVD releases
UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 7.6,
As part of the VOY Season 7 DVD collection
Links and references
Guest Star
Manu Intiraymi as Icheb
Co-Stars
Juan Garcia as John Torres
Jessica Gaona as Young B'Elanna
Javier Grajeda as Carl
Paul Robert Langdon as Dean
Nicole Sarah Fellows as Elizabeth
Gilbert R. Leal as Michael
Majel Barrett as the Computer Voice
Uncredited Co-Stars
Richard Bishop as operations division officer
Tarik Ergin as Ayala
Bernie Escarcega as command officer
Erin Price as Renlay Sharr
Unknown performers as
Operations division officer
Asian crewman Maquis operations
Miral Paris, age 12
Stand-ins
Brita Nowak – stand-in for Jeri Ryan
References
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Summary
Teaser
responds to a distress call from a severely damaged ship. When Harry Kim detects eleven life signs, two weak ones, Captain Janeway has the weak ones beamed to sickbay, and the rest to cargo bay 1. Tuvok sends security teams to both locations.
When the crew of the damaged ship is beamed aboard, one of the aliens, Yediq, is dismayed that he and his security officers do not have their weapons. Tuvok assures him they will be returned to them when they leave. They are guarding eight very dangerous prisoners, two of whom did not appear with them. Those two are in sickbay, and one of them, Iko, holds Seven of Nine hostage with a scalpel.
Act One
The Doctor has the security officers put down their weapons, and begins negotiating with Iko. Tuvok walks in, and says once again he will not be harmed. Yediq, however, informs him he will not negotiate, making things worse. Fortunately Seven managed to disarm him, and his next target, The Doctor, simply allows Tuvok's phaser shot to go through him.
Later, Tuvok asks Yediq in the conference room why he did not use the escape pods. Yediq replies that he did not want his prisoners to get away, despite the grave risk. He is taking them back to their homeworld for execution. All were murderers, and several are multiple offenders. He asks to be taken back to his homeworld, which is 13 light-years in the wrong direction. To avoid any more delay, he even agrees to have his world send a ship to pick them up. Janeway agrees. After the meeting, Chakotay raises the ethical implications of helping take prisoners to their deaths. Janeway says she understands, but the Prime Directive applies.
In sickbay, Seven of Nine has recovered, and The Doctor does have a minor glitch. Janeway comes to check on their progress, when she is threatened by Iko. He presses his hand on the sickbay force field, and says that he will kill them all if he is not released. She has Tuvok beam them to their new accommodations in the cargo bay: eight cells with tritanium chain mesh, and impenetrable force fields, as well as the guards with their weapons, which they will only be allowed to carry in the cargo bay.
Soon after, Neelix arrives with Talaxian spice stew served over leola rice pilaf. Yediq tells him to take it away, since these men do not deserve such a meal. However, when Neelix points out the Federation protocols for treatment of prisoners, he lets them take the food. Joleg thanks Neelix for standing up to him.
Back in sickbay, Seven of Nine, while repairing The Doctor, debates the ethics of capital punishment. The Doctor argues for rehabilitation, stating that the emotional basis for eye-for-an-eye is revenge. Seven argues for capital punishment, pointing out the resources necessary. She admits that she was seeing both sides of the argument, but The Doctor is still annoyed.
In the prison cell, the prisoners fight among themselves. Joleg teases Iko about his hunger, saying it is the first time he could not steal Egrid's meal. When Iko throws his bowl at the force field, the guards show up. Joleg says Iko did not get enough to eat, and Yediq threatens that if Iko causes another disturbance, he will not be fed the rest of this journey. He does pull-ups on the top of his cage, and implicitly threatens Yediq's children, Boche and Ledara. Yediq has one of his guards beat him. The Starfleet security officers immediately rush over, and put a stop to it.
Act Two
After disarming the guards, the Starfleet officers take Yediq straight to the captain.
Janeway considers his action unjustified: in her mind, there is no cause for beating a defenseless man, no matter what he has done. Yediq simply replies that violence is all he understands; he has spent his entire life hurting people. Janeway sees that as an excuse, and denies them further access to the cargo bay over his objections to Tuvok's competence.
In sickbay, The Doctor asks Seven to assist in repairing Iko's injuries. Since his parietal lobe has been badly damaged, he asks for some of her nanoprobes to repair it. She reluctantly agrees to give them, but does not see what the point is in saving the life of someone who will soon be executed. He says that what happens to them in the end is irrelevant; he will not let them die aboard Voyager.
When Neelix serves the prisoners their next meal – which comes far sooner than they expected – Joleg gets Neelix to ask why Joleg is there, and then tells Neelix why. Joleg says it is because he is Benkaran; they are all criminals, and when he was found at the scene of a murder, he was arrested. Joleg's claim of innocence was dismissed.
In sickbay, Iko wakes up, and is surprised to hear it was Seven's nanoprobes which saved his life. He also adds that he is glad to see she is not afraid of him, and was not even afraid of him when he held the scalpel to her throat.
In the mess hall, Neelix has been postponing dinner as he reads about the Nygean criminal justice system. He is rather disturbed by what he finds (which he relates to B'Elanna Torres and Tom Paris, who have been waiting for fifteen minutes). Benkarans are ten times more likely to be executed for their crimes, and fill 80% of prisons, despite the fact they live in 10% of all Nygean space. In fact, Joleg's trial records indicate he was convicted on circumstantial evidence. Paris is skeptical, thinking Neelix is "the softest touch in the Delta Quadrant." Paris also adds that when he was an inmate at the Federation Penal Settlement, "everybody had a story." Neelix, however, points out that no one there was sentenced to die.
In sickbay, The Doctor and Iko are getting along. When Seven of Nine asks, The Doctor explains that Iko is now a model patient, much different than he was when he had his run-in with her. She suggests he has an unstable personality, making his changes in behavior expected; The Doctor should be wary of attempts to manipulate him.
All of a sudden, he starts complaining of pain in his stomach. The Doctor's medical tricorder scans detect nothing, but he insists on telling The Doctor about the man he killed. The Doctor concludes it is guilt. He blames them, saying he never felt guilty until they used the nanoprobes on him. Despite the fact he could die, he tells them to remove the nanoprobes.
Act Three
Confiding with Seven, The Doctor believes it is in fact the Borg technology. His latest scan shows new neural pathways throughout his cortex, instead of just bypassing the edema. However, he cannot be sure it is abnormal without accessing information from the Nygean government.
Iko then asks Seven of Nine to stay with him; he is scared. He talks about his childhood, how he named constellations. She takes interest.
Meanwhile, in the prison cell, Neelix plays a game of kadis-kot with Joleg under the watchful eye of the Federation guards. He asks about the statistics he read. Joleg tells him there is nothing that can be done. Once you are convicted of murder, the family of the victim sentences you. Sometimes there is no punishment at all in the case of forgiveness, or if a negotiated settlement can be reached. Favoring the victims in this manner is the basis of the Nygean legal system. Neelix suggests he can get the Captain to compensate the victims, but Joleg says he does not want that on his conscience. He simply asks for a letter to be sent to his brother to tell them what happened, which Neelix gladly agrees to do.
In sickbay, Seven of Nine gives the recovering Iko an astrometrics log, consistent with his interest in the stars. He just calls them numbers, so she offers to bring a star chart after her next shift. He also says that he deserves to die, since he just hurts people.
Later, The Doctor shows the captain and Seven of Nine the results of his research on Iko's brain. The Doctor explains he has identified a node like the Human pineal gland, and has discovered that Iko's node was detached due to a birth defect. When he used the nanoprobes to repair the injuries, they reattached it as well, making his violent impulses controllable and effectively awakening his conscience. Since he has shown great guilt, and the idea of violence makes him ill, in his medical opinion, he is safe.
Act Four
They take this information to Yediq, and suggest based on this new medical evidence Iko's case be re-examined. Yediq says none of that matters, and still believes he should be put to death. Janeway points out that none of their opinions matter; it is the law that counts. Tuvok then asks if Iko has any means of appeal, and Yediq says that he does: Iko may attempt to appeal to the sentencing family. The captain orders Yediq to help Tuvok draft an appeal.
Iko, however, does not want that. He wants to die. He cannot stop thinking about what he did, and he wants to get what he deserves. Seven of Nine asks if she is terrible; she was compelled to do horrible things by the Borg, unable to control her actions. He also has control now that the nanoprobes have given it to him. He demands she take him back to his cell, pressing his hand on the force field again.
Once there, he refuses Neelix's dinner, instead saying it should be given to Egrid.
Meanwhile, in the captain's ready room, Seven of Nine enters to find Janeway talking to Yediq. She informs Seven that the family refuses to look at the medical evidence. Seven is angry, saying that Iko should be granted asylum. Unfortunately, Janeway is bound by their prior agreement, and agrees to stick to it.
After having Yediq leave, Seven of Nine argues her position, and the captain uncovers the real reason for it – Seven wants his atonement so she can have hers. However, an alien vessel opens fire on them just then.
During the battle, power to the cargo bay fails. All of the prisoners – except Iko – overpower the few guards on duty and escape.
Act Five
The alien ship attempts to beam out the prisoners, but Chakotay disables their transporter array and they leave.
Tuvok, meanwhile, takes down two of the prisoners, but before he can find the rest of them near the shuttle bay, they have Yediq as a hostage. Voyager has no transporters, so they cannot save him before Joleg takes him back to the cargo bay.
As Joleg is about to execute Yediq for all the pain he has caused him, Iko tells him he wants to do it. When Joleg hands Iko the phaser, he hands it to Yediq, and the two other prisoners are quickly shot down. Yediq is surprised that Iko does not resist.
"Captain's log, supplemental. Warden Yediq has used his influence to convince the Nygean family to hear Iko's appeal for leniency."
Iko explains to the family, over Voyagers comm, that he is a different person. He will not beg for his life, and he is still willing to die to relieve their pain.
But Joleg is a different story. Neelix refuses to have anything more to do with Joleg, because Joleg tricked him. The ship that attacked found where Voyager was when the note was transmitted. Joleg then tries to convince Neelix that he is sick, and needs the same treatment Iko had. Neelix does not believe him, and simply leaves.
In astrometrics, Iko is gazing at the stars with Seven of Nine. Unfortunately, the news comes in that the family has not reconsidered. He says goodbye, after asking Seven of Nine to look at him without fear one last time.
After the prisoners are transferred, Seven tells Janeway it is not fair that Iko was executed for killing one person, while she killed thousands as a drone and has never been punished. Janeway tells Seven that losing 20 years of her life to the Borg is punishment enough.
Memorable quotes
"It's unfair."
"I think so too, Seven, but we have to try not to judge their system."
"That's not what I meant. Iko was executed for taking a single life. As a drone I took thousands, but I was never punished."
"You lost twenty years of your life to the Borg. I'd say that's punishment enough."
- Seven and Janeway
"Some of the crew may not be comfortable helping to deliver eight men to their deaths."
"I can't say I like it either, but we have a Prime Directive to follow."
- Chakotay and Janeway
"You're not afraid of me."
"There's no reason to fear someone in your condition."
"You were never afraid of me, not even when I tried to kill you. It's nice to look into someone's eyes and not see fear."
- Iko and Seven after Iko's recovery.
"You have to be a criminal to get something to eat around here?"
"Sorry. Dinner will be ready in fifteen minutes."
(B'Elanna opens the shutter) "You said that 15 minutes ago."
- Tom Paris, Neelix and B'Elanna Torres
"I'm a hologram. I can't be harmed."
(Tuvok fires his phaser, through The Doctor, hitting Iko)
"I think you proved my point."
- The Doctor, during the hostage situation in sickbay
"It doesn't feel right."
"You may experience unusual sensations while your matrix realigns."
"I was referring to the arrangement the captain made with the Nygeans. No matter how terrible the crimes these men committed, it seems wrong to hand them over to be executed. This is a Federation starship, not the Barge of the Dead."
"Would you prefer the captain released them?"
"Of course not. They are dangerous men."
"Execution ensures they won't pose a threat to anyone again."
"So would life sentences, the operative word being "life".
- The Doctor and Seven of Nine
"Killing is wrong. No matter who's doing it."
- The Doctor, about his opinion on the Nygean legal system
Background information
Cast and characters
Jeff Kober also played Traeg in the first season episode .
F.J. Rio previously played Enrique Muniz in the episodes , , and . He also played the Vissian chief engineer in .
Among the items from this episode which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, was the costume worn by Chris Doyle.
Video and DVD releases
UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 7.7,
As part of the VOY Season 7 DVD collection
Links and references
Guest Stars
Jeff Kober as Iko
Tim de Zarn as Yediq
F.J. Rio as Joleg
Co-Star
Greg Poland as Voyager Security Officer
Uncredited Co-Stars
Robert Axelrod as Egrid
Michael Bailous as operations officer
Richard Bishop as operations officer
Andrew English as operations officer
Tarik Ergin as Ayala
Peter Harmyk as
Clay Hodges as Benkaran prisoner
Patrick Jankiewicz as Nygean prisoner
Joyce Lasley as Lydia Anderson
Irving Lewis as security officer
Tom Morga as Nygean security officer
Louis Ortiz as Benkaran prisoner
Stephen Pisani as operations officer
Pablo Soriano as
Benkaran prisoner
Operations ensign
Curtis Wong as operations officer
Unknown performers as
Benkaran prisoner
Nygean security officer
Three Nygean family members
Stunt Doubles
George Colucci as stunt double for Robert Axelrod
Chris Doyle as stunt double for an unknown actor
Stephen R. Hudis as stunt double for Louis Ortiz
Jimmy Ortega as stunt double for F.J. Rio
Mark Riccardi as stunt double for Jeff Kober
Stand-ins
Brita Nowak – stand-in for Jeri Ryan
J.R. Quinonez – stand-in for F.J. Rio
Joey Sakata – stand-in for Ethan Phillips
Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Jeff Kober
References
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1614 | http://s3.amazonaws.com/wikia_xml_dumps/e/en/enmemoryalpha_pages_current.xml.7z | Prophecy (episode) | Voyager becomes a battleground for the descendants of a group of Klingon pilgrims, some of whom believe that B'Elanna Torres's child is their savior.
Summary
Teaser
is being attacked by a ship which just decloaked and then recloaked. They are all surprised when a disruptor they were hit with had a Klingon signature. A hail to the cloaked ship gets no response. They discover it is a cruiser, retired decades ago. With the age in mind, Voyager uses a metaphasic sweep to locate the ship, and fires.
Aboard the Klingon ship, the cloak has failed. The captain orders his crew to answer the hail to buy time to repair the cloak. When Captain Kathryn Janeway asks them to stand down, they refuse to surrender to an enemy of the Klingon Empire.
Act One
Janeway tries to explain that the Federation and the Klingon Empire signed a treaty eighty years earlier, but the captain won't believe it. Janeway states that she isn't lying, but even if she were not, the Klingons are no match for her ship. She says to prove it to them she will introduce him to "a Klingon serving on board", referring to B'Elanna Torres, though she doesn't divulge that Torres is half-Klingon. Kohlar agrees.
Once aboard Voyager, Captain Kohlar refuses to answer any questions until he meets Torres. They arrive in the ready room, and immediately he asks about her child. He suddenly wants to return to his vessel, accepting the PADD containing the Khitomer Accords in passing, and even gives his word not to fire on Voyager again.
Back on his ship, he defends the information to his comrades, citing religious scrolls and signs that this is true. Kohlar's second-in command, T'Greth, expresses skepticism over whether the Federation and the Empire are at peace and if Torres' child is the one they're looking for, insisting on further investigation. Kohlar rebukes him, reminding him that their ancestors had nothing but their faith when they began this voyage. He declares that the day of separation has arrived.
Suddenly, the Klingon ship's warp core begins to overload, and Kohlar hails Voyager asking for emergency transport. Tuvok points out to Janeway that the Klingon crew outnumbers Voyagers, but Janeway decides to beam them aboard despite the security risk. She orders that the Klingons be placed in the shuttle bay behind force fields as a security precaution and once they are aboard, Voyager goes to warp to escape the blast.
Kohlar shows up in the ready room to thank the captain, but Tuvok points out the containment failure was caused by a self-destruct mechanism, not damage. Kohlar explains it is a sacred duty to be here, and there was no other way to get everyone aboard. He explains that his great-grandfather was part of a sect that believed the Empire had lost its way. It told them to journey to a distant region of the galaxy, to find the savior of his people, the kuvah'magh. He has determined that is the unborn child of Lieutenant Torres.
At the staff meeting, Tom Paris and Torres can't believe it. Paris makes jokes, and Torres resents the whole thing. Tuvok is concerned about the security risk, but since the Klingon crew includes civilians Janeway isn't willing to keep them confined and allows them to live in normal quarters with extra security and sensitive areas of the ship off-limits. Kim brings up the problem of the limited amount of quarters aboard, and Neelix suggests that willing officers can double up. Despite Chakotay's suggestion they would never harm their messiah, she also has round-the-clock security put on Torres.
Act Two
In the mess hall, Neelix begins serving gagh, and after Captain Janeway consults him, she concludes everything seems to be going well – but not for long. Two Klingons fight over their food, and security has to break them up. Harry Kim, part of the detail, is told by the female Klingon he would make a good mate.
After a tiring day, Neelix returns to his quarters… or rather, Tuvok's quarters since he was the only crewmember who hadn't been paired up with anyone. Tuvok is very put out, in his Vulcan way, preferring solitude however since the alternative is to leave a Klingon family with nowhere to sleep he has no choice to agree. Neelix promises him they'll have 'fun' and decides to teach him Klingon drinking songs. As Neelix makes himself at home nosily, Tuvok is left as exasperated as he can get.
Torres is ambushed during her shift by groups of Klingons who just want to admire her, and has to transport herself to her quarters to avoid them. After all that, the captain asks her to speak with their council of elders, because ten of the Klingons have started a hunger strike.
When she arrives with Paris, the first thing they notice is she is not fully Klingon. T'Greth gets angry, believing she can't be the mother of the kuvah'magh. But Kohlar puts him back in line, saying it is written nowhere the messiah's blood is pure. When Paris says he is the father, T'Greth can't believe it, and storms out. That's when Kohlar asks for her help to stop a holy war.
Act Three
Back in the briefing room, he explains that, whether she believes her baby is a savior or not, she must help him convince his people it is. His people have suffered enough. He doesn't know whether her child is it, but he wants them to stop looking for it, since they have found nothing but hardship before. He asks for her to review the scrolls and create a "creative interpretation" to present before the council.
They end up studying all night, but she argues for her not being the messiah, as he argues for it. Getting annoyed with her, he asks her if she honors any of their ways, and she says no. But he tries to build common ground; he suggests they say a plea for the dead together, and helps her remember the words from her childhood.
Harry Kim shows up in sickbay with a mark on his cheek. The Doctor doesn't believe he cut himself shaving, and recognizes it as a bite mark, indicative of a Klingon mating ritual. Kim wants to know how he can get out of this, but The Doctor says the only other way is to kill her. Since that's unacceptable, he hands Kim an authorization for intimate relations for an alien species, pending the captain's approval.
"Chief engineer's personal log, stardate 54518.2. I've spent the last two days reviewing the sacred scrolls in preparation for my appearance before the Klingon council. Kohlar also suggested I prepare a few colorful stories to help win them over."
She tells them exaggerated stories, and Kohlar applauds, but T'Greth is unconvinced. Stories are not the issue, he says; it is whether or not she carries their savior. She recites the scroll well, but T'Greth believes (correctly) it is Kohlar doing the talking, and makes a remark which insults Paris. Since the scrolls also say he should be an honorable warrior, T'Greth challenges him to a fight to the death, and he accepts.
Act Four
Paris later justifies his decision to the captain, in the observation lounge. He says that if he had said no, they would have had a riot. Torres asks the captain to put a stop to it, and she agrees. She has Kohlar and T'Greth come in and explains to them he is willing to fight, but she is the one preventing him from doing so. T'Greth calls them all cowards, but Kohlar says there is a compromise. Emperor Mur'Eq instituted a non-lethal form of combat so his warriors would kill their enemies and not each other in duels before battle. T'Greth considers this cowardly as well, but when it's pointed out that an honorable leader of the Empire came up with it he finally accepts, since he has no other way to prove Paris' lack of honor.
Kim continues to hide from the female Klingon, officer Ch'Rega. Fortunately, Neelix takes her off his hands by making him appear weak, and threatening to disembowel him if he eats that much food again. The female Klingon now looks with lust at Neelix.
Meanwhile on the holodeck, the competition begins, both combatants wielding blunt bat'leths. However, after much dancing around and swinging to no avail, T'Greth suddenly becomes weak, unable to stand, and collapses. Kohlar identifies it as the nehret, a disease which kills those not fortunate enough to die in battle. After moving him to sickbay, The Doctor identifies a retrovirus which attacks the cytoplasm of the . When he scans all of the Klingons, he finds they are all carriers. It is not contagious, except to Klingons. His next examination is of Lieutenant Torres. He finds that both she and the baby have the virus.
T'Greth awakens, and returns to the council. He tells them Torres and her child have the disease, which is not what the scrolls say. He convinces them that Kohlar will not believe them, and they have to take control by force.
Act Five
Seven of Nine is scanning planets in astrometrics where the Klingons could settle, and T'Greth asks to go along, saying he believes Kohlar. Meanwhile, another Klingon asks Kim how the transporters work, especially the way of transporting so many targets. When the first team is ready for transport, consisting of many Klingons and Chakotay, they all knock out him and Harry Kim.
As Tuvok detects phaser fire and goes with a team, the Klingons try to transport all of Voyagers crew down to the surface. While a force field was erected around the bridge, they manage to transport crews from engineering and most of the ship. By the time Tuvok catches them, they have beamed onto the bridge. After a fire fight, all of the Klingons are down, and the crew is transported back aboard.
T'Greth wakes up in sickbay, not Sto-vo-kor, because The Doctor synthesized an antivirus from the child's hybrid stem cell antibodies. T'Greth, now fully cured, is surprised, but begins believing again: the child has indeed saved his people.
"Captain's log, stardate 54529.8. While we're helping the Klingons into their new home, life aboard Voyager is gradually returning to normal."
Tuvok returns to his quarters to find them locked by Neelix. As he is about to use his security clearance to override the seal, Neelix emerges with Ch'Rega following what has obviously been a very intense lovemaking session. Tuvok finds the quarters totally wrecked, and orders Neelix out when he offers to stay and clean.
As he departs, Kohlar gives Torres a bat'leth owned by his great-grandfather as a gift for her daughter and asks for her promise to tell her daughter about him and his people. Later in their quarters, Paris and Torres discuss recent events and if what happened was truly destined given all the "coincidences" involved. Paris suggests they name their daughter Kuvah'magh "just to be safe", since she did indeed become the Klingons' savior and Torres agrees to add it to the list.
Log entries
"Chief engineer's personal log, stardate 54518.2. I've spent the last two days reviewing the Sacred Scrolls in preparation for my appearance before the Klingon council. Kohlar also suggested I prepare a few colorful stories to help win them over."
"Captain's log, stardate 54529.8. While we're helping the Klingons into their new home, life aboard Voyager is gradually returning to normal."
Memorable quotes
"I've been studying Klingon etiquette. You shouldn't quarrel over food. Save your strength for battle, to fight those who would challenge you."
- Neelix, to Ch'Rega and the Klingon Crewman
"You're going to get yourself killed!"
"What makes you so sure I'd lose?"
"Oh, please."
- Torres, to Paris
"Today would be a very bad day to die."
- Torres, to Paris, before the match
"I see fear in your eyes, Human."
"The only Klingon I'm afraid of is my wife after she's worked a double shift."
- T'Greth and Paris, during the match
"Grant me a warrior's death, I beg of you."
"Sorry, no mercy killings on my bridge."
- T'Greth and Janeway
"When I say you're limited to two servings of brak't, that's all you get! Do you understand me, ensign?"
- Neelix, to Kim
"The child cured me?"
"Well, I was the one who devised the treatment."
"Doctor."
"Yes, of course, the child cured you."
- T'Greth, The Doctor, and Janeway
"Where are the images of Kahless? Where's your family crest?"
"They clashed with the carpet."
- Kohlar and Torres
(Harry Kim walks into sickbay with a towel to his cheek)
"What happened to you?"
"I cut myself shaving."
(Kim removes towel)
"Is that a bite mark?"
"One of the Klingons attacked me."
"Did you do something to provoke him?"
"Not him… Her. And she wasn't provoked, she was… aroused."
"Ah…"
- The Doctor and Harry Kim
"I salute you, captain. You did more damage to our vessel than my engineer thought."
- Kohlar, hailing Voyager after activating the self-destruct
(Hailing the Klingon cruiser)
"This is Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Federation starship Voyager. Stand down."
"We will not surrender to sworn enemies of the Klingon Empire."
"I think there's been a misunderstanding. The Empire signed a peace treaty with the Federation more than 80 years ago. If I'm not mistaken, it's still in effect."
- Janeway and Kohlar
"The scrolls say 'You will find me, when two warring houses make peace.' Our people and the Federation, our greatest enemy, are at peace."
- Kohlar, after reading the Khitomer Accords
"T'Greth, there is precedent for an honorable compromise. A non-lethal bout, fought with blunted bat'leths. The victory goes to the first warrior to knock his opponent to the ground three times."
"A coward's rule!"
"Was the Emperor Mur'Eq a coward?! He was the one who instituted these rules to ensure that his warriors would kill their enemies, and not each other!"
- Kohlar and T'Greth
"Gentlemen, I'm afraid Lieutenant Paris had no authority to accept this challenge - there will be no death matches aboard my ship."
- Janeway, to Kohlar
"Is that how you remember it?"
"Exaggeration is a big part of Klingon story telling. She's doing great."
- Paris and Neelix, while Torres is telling the Klingons about a battle and making herself sound like the hero of the day
"Then maybe you can tell me how to convince a female twice my size that I'm not interested!"
"Hmm. You probably can't."
"Great."
- Kim and The Doctor, about a female Klingon
Background information
Story and script
The episode was originally scripted to open with a scene aboard the Klingon cruiser, where Kohlar ascends to the captaincy following the death of the previous captain as a result of the nehret. This scene was filmed on , but was cut for time. (Star Trek Magazine issue 151)
According to Larry Nemecek, the idea was pitched to the writing staff of during the series pre-production, before "Caretaker" even aired.
Cast and characters
Sherman Howard previously played Endar in and the Vulcan Starfleet officer Syvar in the episode . Paul S. Eckstein also guest-starred in DS9. He played Limara'Son in and an unnamed Jem'Hadar in .
Continuity
This is the twelfth time the crew of Voyager discover a direct connection between the Alpha Quadrant and Delta Quadrant, having previously discovered a wormhole connecting the two quadrants (), descendants of human abductees (), descendants of aliens who have visited Earth (), a Cardassian weapon (), Ferengi (), former Borg that were assimilated in the Alpha Quadrant (), descendants of Earth dinosaurs (), a communications network that extends to the Alpha Quadrant (), another Federation starship (), another former Borg that was assimilated in the Alpha Quadrant (), and long-lost Earth spaceship (). In this episode, they encounter Klingons.
Except for the purely Klingon B'Elanna Torres created by the Vidiians in "Faces", this episode marks the first appearance of flesh-and-blood Klingons in the entire series. Klingons have previously appeared only as holograms (, , ), virtual constructs in a simulated environment (), memories () or hallucination ().
Janeway mentions a peace treaty having been signed more than eighty years ago and believes it to still be in effect. While this treaty was suspended between 2372 and 2373, it was reactivated in .
The Doctor hands Kim a PADD, telling him its "authorization for [Kim] to engage in intimate relations with a member of an alien species." Coincidentally, it was Kim that failed to get this clearance once before in the fifth-season , in which The Doctor lambasts Kim after he has sex with Derran Tal, exclaiming "you had intimate contact with an alien species without medical clearance?"
When Kohlar asks Torres if she helped destroy a Borg vessel, she replies "I suppose." This likely references the events of , where Voyager beamed a photon torpedo aboard a Borg probe, destroying it, or when she led a transwarp conduit collapse while there was a Borg starship in it.
The bat'leth given to Torres is the same prop originally made for , suggesting that it was already very old when Kohlar's grandfather gave it to him.
Award
This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling For A Series.
Video and DVD releases
UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 7.7,
As part of the VOY Season 7 DVD collection
Links and references
Guest Stars
Sherman Howard as T'Greth
Paul Eckstein as Morak
Wren T. Brown as Kohlar
Co-Stars
Peggy Jo Jacobs as Ch'Rega
Majel Barrett as Computer Voice
Uncredited Co-Stars
Mary Alexander as Klingon crewman
Paul Ambrose as Klingon crewman
Michael Bailous as operations officer
Patrick Barnitt as Klingon crewman
Richard Bishop as operations officer
Bill Blair as Klingon crewman
Tara Bordes as Klingon girl
Michael Braveheart as Klingon crewman
Julie David as command officer
Carter Edwards as command officer
Tarik Ergin as Ayala
Ken Gruz as Klingon crewman
Peter Harmyk as
Grace Harrell as Klingon crewman
Eric Hunter as command officer
Clynell Jackson III as Klingon crewman
Alicia Lewis as sciences officer
Dennis Madalone as Klingon crewman
Brita Nowak as Klingon crewman
Louis Ortiz as Klingon crewman
James Pearson as Klingon crewman
Stephen Pisani as operations officer
Keith Rayve as Klingon crewman
Katie Rowe as Klingon crewman
Pablo Soriano as Klingon crewman
Gregory Sweeney as Klingon crewman
J.T. Taylor as Klingon crewman
Loran Taylor as sciences ensign
Chester E. Tripp III
Curtis Wong as operations officer
Unknown performers as
Klingon boy
Three Klingon crewmen
Third Klingon crewman
Stand-ins
Brita Nowak – stand-in for Jeri Ryan and Peggy Jo Jacobs
Stuart Wong – stand-in for Garrett Wang
References
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