Template:Realworld Harry learns that he is actually a member of a Delta Quadrant race, but his people don't want him to leave his new home.
Summary
Commander Chakotay suggests using a trinary star system as a focal map point for this system. Ensign Harry Kim asks if USS Voyager had been to this system before, only to believe that he was experiencing Déjà vu.
When Voyager encounters an alien ship they have never seen before (the Nasari), Kim instinctively fires without orders, claiming that a tetryon surge was a manner of charging weapons. Voyager takes heavy damage in defending itself from the Nasari vessel, forcing them to withdraw. Kim is relieved of duty, pending investigation of his overtly-hostile actions. Lieutenant jg B'Elanna Torres was severely injured during the attack and is brought to sickbay.
Kim then goes to sickbay on Captain Kathryn Janeway's orders to look at a cut on his forehead and to watch The Doctor and Kes treating B'Elanna's injuries. He feels extremely guilty over his actions and Kes comforts him, telling him that it was in the past and that he cannot change the past.
During the night, he has a strange dream and when he awakens, he has a rash on his head. The Doctor cannot find an initial cause.
Kim reports to the captain's ready room and admits fault about starting the last engagement. Janeway reveals that he was right about the Nasari ship charging weapons.
Tuvok alerts Janeway that there are three Nasari ships approaching them. Kim has a star chart pulled up on one of Voyager's computers and convinces Janeway to set a course to a nearby system. Upon arriving, Kim sees a planet and knows its name is Taresia. Prior to being attacked by the Nasari, Voyager is defended by an unknown ship which forces the Nasari vessels to retreat. Voyager answers a hail from the unknown ship which is from Taresia. The woman communicating with Voyager from the Taresian ship recognizes Harry as a Taresian and welcomes him home.
- "Captain's log, stardate 50732.4. The Taresians have escorted us back to their home world so we can continue to investigate their claim that Ensign Kim is a member of their race."
The Taresians tell a shocking story of how Kim was implanted with their DNA at birth. Kim decides to stay with the Taresians to learn more about them and himself. Voyager leaves orbit to attempt negotations with the Nasari. They learn from the Nasari that the Taresian males who return to Taresia never leave. Voyager returns to Taresia where they find a protective grid encircling the planet which also blocks communications.
Kim participates in the joining ceremony of another male Taresian, Taymon. After the ceremony, he tries to contact Voyager but is unsuccessful.
The Doctor meets with Janeway and Chakotay to inform them that he discovered something about Kim's Taresian DNA: it was implanted, possibly by a virus. The Doctor reviewed the transporter biofilter logs and found that the alien DNA made its first appearance on stardate 50698. Chakotay remembers that was the date of the away mission on the planet where Vorillium was found. (VOY: "Darkling")
After spending the night on the planet and experiencing more strange dreams, doubt begins to creep up on Kim. Two very "interested" females try to reassure him but their attempts to do so make him outright suspicious. Kim ties one of the women up and knocks out the other so he can escape. Kim makes it to Taymon's quarters where he finds his corpse in bed. Taymon's wife enters the quarters and Kim overpowers her. He learns what The Doctor discovered and that the Taresian reproductive process is fatal to the male, meaning that more males have to be repeatedly harvested from space. Two more Taresian women enter Taymon's quarters. Kim throws Taymon's wife at them to continue his escape.
Voyager finally finds a way to get inside the grid and beams Kim up as he is surrounded by more Taresian women who try to forcibly have him joined. When Voyager leaves the system, a Taresian ship fires at Voyager when three Nasari ships appear and also fire at Voyager and the Taresian ship. The Nasari later concentrate their fire on the Taresian ship allowing Voyager to leave.
Kim meets with Neelix and Lt. jg Tom Paris at the mess hall where Neelix says he misses the spots Kim had. Kim tells Neelix about the myth of the sirens. Where the captain of ancient ships ordered the crew to block their ears in order not to be seduced by the singing of the sirens. The sirens would cause the ships to crash, stranding the crew. Kim tells Paris that he wished he was more like Paris with women. Paris states he has tried to be like Kim since he joined Voyager's crew.
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Memorable Quotes
"Perhaps you are experiencing a paradoxical state-dependent associative phenomenon."
"Déjà vu."
- - Tuvok and Captain Janeway
"What's your next trick, Harry? Pull a shuttlecraft out of a hat?"
- - Chakotay
"Sometimes I wish I could be more bold, more confident with women, more like you."
"Like me? You might want to reconsider that, Harry. There may be prison time involved."
- - Harry Kim and Tom Paris
Background Information
- Jeri Taylor cited this episode and the preceding one ("Rise") as being among the weaker offerings of Season 3. (Star Trek Monthly)
- Deborah May previously played Haneek in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Sanctuary". Christopher Carroll also appeared in DS9, playing Gul Benil in DS9: "Second Skin".
- The costume worn by Garrett Wang as the Taresian Kim has a Deep Space Nine tag rather than a Voyager one.
- The Nasari starships were a reuse of the Romulan science vessel studio model previously seen in TNG: "The Next Phase". The Taresian starship was a reuse of the Miradorn raider that was originally designed for DS9: "Vortex".
Video and DVD releases
- The video sleeve gives this episode the title "Favourite Son", using the British English spelling.
- As part of the VOY Season 3 DVD collection.
Links and references
Guest stars
- Cari Shayne as Eliann
- Deborah May as Lyris
- Patrick Fabian as Taymon
- Kelli Kirkland as Rinna
- Kristanna S. Loken as Malia
Co-stars
Uncredited co-stars
- Elle Alexander as a Taresian woman
- Reba Shaw Alexander as a Taresian woman
- Cheryl Eckelberry as a Taresian woman
- Jennifer Ferdinand as a Taresian woman
- Noelle Hannibal as a Taresian woman
- Stacy Hawkens as a Taresian woman
- Kerry Hoyt as Crewman Fitzpatrick
- Linda Li as a Taresian woman
- Louis Ortiz as Culhane
- Julie Riley as a Taresian woman
- Rainelle Saunders as a Taresian woman
- Patricia Tallman as a Taresian woman
- John Tampoya as Kashimuro Nozawa
- Kenny Yee as young Harry Kim
References
Ashmore; binary code; bioscan; DNA; genetic engineering; genetic memory; hatana; Mendakan pox; microcellular scan; mood enhancer; Nasari; Nasari starship; Odysseus; paradoxical state-dependent associative phenomenon; plasma conduit; plasma injector; polaron grid; pulmonary regeneration; pulmozine; rikka flower; retrovirus; Sirens; tachyon; Taresia; Taresian; Taresian starship; Taresian system; targ; tetryon; transporter buffer; vorillium; warp field
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