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B'Elanna Torres receives vivid dreams from an unknown passenger aboard Voyager.
Summary
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- "Captain's log, stardate 50203.1. We're three days away from Enara Prime, home of the passengers we picked up from a colony in the Fima system. Our high warp capability has greatly reduced the time it takes them to make the journey home. In return, the Enarans have shared their energy conservation technology with us and, perhaps more importantly, their friendship."
- "Captain's log, stardate 50211.4. We're approaching Enara and preparing to host a farewell party for our guests. They've made every effort to help us understand their telepathic abilities but it's still a mystery why they've affected Lieutenant Torres so strongly."
The USS Voyager crew picks up passengers directed to their homeworld, Enara Prime, and learns of their telepathic ability. They are able to share their experiences through a telepathic link. To do so, they usually place themselves behind the other person and place a hand between their shoulders.
During a party, such a telepathic link is used by Jor Brel, the Enaran leader, to drive Captain Kathryn Janeway to play a traditional Enaran musical instrument. She is upset because she didn't expect such an intense contact but at the same time she appreciates the experience. Jor Brel apologizes and the incident is settled.
Before long, Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres begins having intense, sensuous dreams of herself as a Enaran young girl named Korenna Mirell involved in a forbidden romance with Dathan Alaris, a member of the Regressives, a subgroup which once resisted Enaran technology.
When one of these dreams catches her in daytime, she is brought to sickbay unconscious and The Doctor finds signs of telepathic activity. The Enarans are then questioned but they deny being the source of such activity.
The dreams turn haunting for Torres as the young girl's father, Jareth, participates in a resettlement of the Regressives - and eventually their total extermination.
Torres finds Jora Mirell, the old Enaran woman who is transmitting her those dreams, which are a summary of her personal experience as a young girl. Jora forces her to receive the last part of the story and dies immediately thereafter.
Strongly affected by the horrible visions, Torres realizes that the Enarans have concealed a part of their history from their descendants and that one of them aboard Voyager doesn't want her buried memories to die. She walks into the goodbye party organized for the Enarans and tells everybody about what she has discovered. The older Enarans refuse to admit that what she experienced was a true story, while the younger ones refuse to believe her. Torres also accuses the chief of the Enarans of having killed Jora Mirell.
After finding no proofs of murder, Janeway decides to let the Enarans disembark and takes no actions to force them to reckon their history. Torres reluctantly accepts that if they want to conceal a part of their history from themselves it is their right to do so.
Just before the Enarans leave Voyager, Torres meets Jessen, an Enaran engineer she has worked with during the previous days, who strongly refuses to believe her. Torres asks her to search her history when she returns to Enara Prime and wishes to be able to trasmit her the memories she has received from the old woman. Convinced by Torres' earnestness that she might be telling the truth, Jessen offers to establish the telepathic link and in turns she begins experiencing the same story herself.
Memorable Quotes
"Maybe he's right. The Enarans haven't shown any hint of subterfuge, any hidden agenda. They've been nothing but straightforward and honest. You're in no immediate danger. They'll be gone in another day. The situation will resolve itself."
"And yet, you fully intend to continue investigating."
"I wonder how long it's been since I did anything that surprised you."
- - Captain Janeway and Tuvok
"I wish... I had your abilities. I could just show you."
"You would do that? Share your experiences openly?"
"Of course."
- - B'Elanna Torres and Jessen
"So that's it? We just go on our merry way and nobody ever has to take any kind of responsibility?"
- - B'Elanna Torres to Captain Janeway
Background Information
- This episode is, at least according to Star Trek Monthly issue 21, a parable to the Holocaust.
- Both actress Roxann Dawson and director Winrich Kolbe were impressed by the script of this episode. Dawson enthused, "It was a brilliant script [....] I felt the show had something to say." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #12) Referring indirectly to the actress, Kolbe remarked, "The story they built around her for that show was very good, very creative." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #15)
- Roxann Dawson also enjoyed appearing in the episode herself, as well as the connections between her two roles of Torres and Korenna Mirell. The actress raved, "I loved having the opportunity to do that show [....] I loved being able to play the two characters, and how Korenna's life influenced B'Elanna's." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #12)
- Winrich Kolbe was impressed by Dawson's performance in this episode. At the end of Star Trek: Voyager's fourth season, Kolbe said of "Remember", "That sticks out because of Roxann. She did a terrific job and she's getting better and better." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #15)
- Another aspect of the episode that thrilled Dawson was the opportunity to perform alongside the actor who played Jareth. "Bruce Davison was extraordinary," Dawson commented. "I've always wanted to work with him. I had known of him since I lived in New York City, and he was just brilliant." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #12)
- Executive producer Jeri Taylor stated that both this episode and the previous one ("False Profits") were examples of episodes which "didn't work", yet maintains that Coda and Nothing Human did work. (Star Trek: Voyager - A Vision of the Future)
- In this episode, Janeway quips to Tuvok, "I wonder how long it's been since I did anything that surprised you." The longest this could have been, though, was only two episodes prior, in "The Swarm"; in that episode, Tuvok claims to be surprised by her decision to pass through the swarm's space.
- This episode has some echoes of TNG: "The Inner Light". (Star Trek Monthly issue 22)
Video and DVD releases
- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.3, 24 February 1997.
- As part of the VOY Season 3 DVD collection.
Links and references
Starring
Also starring
- Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay
- Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres
- Jennifer Lien as Kes
- Robert Duncan McNeill as Lieutenant Tom Paris
- Ethan Phillips as Neelix
- Robert Picardo as The Doctor
- Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok
- Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim
Guest Stars
- Eugene Roche as Jor Brel
- Charles Esten as Dathan Alaris
- Athena Massey as Jessen
- Eve H. Brenner as Jora Mirell/ Korenna Mirell
Special Guest Star
Co-Stars
- Nancy Kaine as Woman
- Tina Reddington as Girl
- Majel Barrett as Computer Voice
Uncredited Co-Stars
- Scott Leva as Fredick
- Jack Nolan as an Enaran cadet
- Richard Sarstedt as William McKenzie
- Paul Seymore as an Enaran soldier
- Pablo Soriano as Demelos
- John Tampoya as Kashimuro Nozawa
- Unknown performers as
Stunt double
- Leslie Hoffman as stunt double for Roxann Dawson
References
algae puff; Citizenship Award; communications interlink; cortical inhibitor; Danius Cliffs; Enara Prime; Enaran; Enaran musical instrument; EPS conduit; Fima colony; Fima system; frontal lobe; holonovel; hoverball; Jor; Kashimuro Nozawa; microfusion generator; power relay; radioseptic; Regressive; Talax; tarin juice; telepathy; terraforming; thermal sweep
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