Faces
- Episode aired May 8, 1995
- TV-PG
- 45m
In an attempt to develop a cure for the Phage, a Vidiian doctor captures Torres and splits her into her 2 halves, one human - the other, Klingon.In an attempt to develop a cure for the Phage, a Vidiian doctor captures Torres and splits her into her 2 halves, one human - the other, Klingon.In an attempt to develop a cure for the Phage, a Vidiian doctor captures Torres and splits her into her 2 halves, one human - the other, Klingon.
- Lt. B'Elanna Torres
- (as Roxann Biggs-Dawson)
- Operations Division Officer
- (uncredited)
- Lt. Ayala
- (uncredited)
- Crewman Fitzpatrick
- (uncredited)
- Voyager Ops Lt. j.g.
- (uncredited)
- Vidiian Guard
- (uncredited)
- Starfleet Ensign
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhile Winrich Kolbe and other members of the production crew were studying a video playback of one scene, a bemused Nana Visitor, wearing civilian clothes, wandered onto the set by mistake. "Oh, my god," she laughed, "this is the Voyager set. No wonder I hardly recognized any of these crew people." After observing the goings-on for a few minutes, Visitor excused herself and went in search of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) set she was actually meant to be on.
- GoofsThe script does not explore the technology used by the Vidiians to separate out the human and Klingon strands of B'Elanna's DNA, but it is clearly some sort of replication or cloning technology because they create two physically separate B'Elannas where there had been one. This begs the question of how the technology cannot duplicate Vidiian bodies or organs for their use, so that as they decay from their disease they do not have to capture other species to harvest organs.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Human B'Elanna Torres: I do know that right now - the way I am... I'm more at peace with myself than I've ever been before. And that's a *good* feeling.
Commander Chakotay: But?
Human B'Elanna Torres: I'm incomplete. It doesn't feel like me. I guess I've had someone else living inside of me for too long to feel right without her.
Commander Chakotay: I'd have to say that you two made quite a team down there.
Human B'Elanna Torres: I know. I came to admire a lot of things about her. Her strength - her bravery... I guess, I just have to accept the fact that I'll spend the rest of my life fighting with her.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Star Trek: Voyager: Lifesigns (1996)
Apparently these Vidiians not only know about that process but they have perfected it beyond all Starfleet imaginations.
But there was another reason why I decided to write a review about this episode today.
"Organ Banks"
The Vidiians keep Organ Banks. Organ Banks where a gimmick thought up by Larry Niven in his stories about "Gil the Arm", A "belter" Who had lost his arm in a belting accident in the belt, where of course you would see such things happen. He had attempted to pick up a shot glass and he had forgotten he had no arm, but he picked it up with his mind, which started off that whole set of stories, he kept the telekinetic gift even after getting a replacement arm from an Organ bank, which had come originally from "Organleggers", bootleggers who kidnap people and take their body parts to sell on the black market. Which was what caused him to become a cop enforcing the laws of the "amalgamation of regional militias", which was the police "arm" of the UN in those stories. Actually those stories are related to what has become "The Expanse", except that the author of the Expanse books never included "Organ Banks".
In the Larry Niven books, organ banks were the standard punishment for all crimes going all the way down to traffic violations. But in the case of the books, it is because people wanted to live forever, so whenever they smoke too many cigarettes, they get their lungs replaced. Or their heart or liver or knees or skin or whatever body part they damaged due to indulgences.
The Vidiians do it because they are basically rotting away.
It is interesting that whoever thought up the Vidiian culture for Star Trek, tapped into classic science fiction to bring out something that was a big part of stories written through the 60s and 70s...
When you think about these Vidiians, they are just as criminal as the Organleggers from the Larry Niven books. And it was because Janeway had a conscience and standards that she did not punish the two original Vidiians that had stolen Neelix's lungs.
But even from that original introduction, we never knew how bad these guys were.
Now, we know.
Also it is an excuse to learn a lot more about Be'laana Torres, A character that I did not really like that much until this episode was originally broadcast.
It was the depth in which Roxanne Dawson plays her separate sides, that really started making me like the character from then on.
- XweAponX
- Jul 16, 2022
Details
- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3