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)
This is the first one with a tightly written plot and sharply drawn characters.
THIS is the kind of episode that I've been waiting for. A desperate situation. Wonderful acting by Roxann Caballero Biggs Dawson (can we just call her the most beautiful Klingon-Human hybrid since Susie Plakson?). If ever there's been a Star Trek race more deserving of extermination, it's the Vidiians--truly morally (and visually) repellent aliens.
It's rather amazing that an alliances of Delta Quadrant species hasn't banded together to wipe them out--given what a threat they are to every humanoid their sociopathic evolution of their culture presents. Every further encounter with them, with the exception of the Doctor's romance with the Vidiian hematologists Dr. Danara Pell, always results in an attempt to murder everyone aboard Voyager and steal the usable organs.
Whether this has been in the minds of the writers I don't know, but I'm led to think of the Chinese Communist government's execution of 10-15,000 "criminals" (the only "crime" many have committed is demanding freedom and an end to repression) and the subsequent sale of the victims' organs to foreigners who can bring the Chinese foreign currency--a must for their frenzied defense build up targeted against the United States and Japan. However sinister the end, it's the means that most disturb me--both with the fictional Vidiians the real life corollary in Red China. It's a scheme so repulsive its hard to imagine even the Ferengi participating in it.
This is Star Trek at its best: riveting story telling coupled with a look inward at the early 21st Century from the perspective of a fictional, Utopian future. As Nicholas Meyer, direction and writer of Star Trek II & VI and writer of Stark Trek IV, puts in the commentary to "Wrath of Khan" (on the now out of print "Director's Cut"): "The job of the artist is to ask questions. It's the job of the audience to supply the answers." If you're reading this what answers do YOU bring to Vidiians and their relevance to the societal crimes of our species?
- newsjunkie356-1
- May 3, 2009
Details
- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3