Sunday 18 December 2011

Episode 123: Barge Of The Dead




Today Torres imagines she’s in Klingon hell. Well it’s either that or Voyager, I know what I’d choose.

Returning from an away mission where she has lost control of the shuttle Torres just manages to make it back. She is found to have a concussion and in her quarters Chakotay brings her a metal with a Klingon symbol on it that was apparently stuck in the shuttle’s port nacelle. He tells her this like he’s informing her what he had for breakfast. But then once you’ve seen the Borg, Federation, Ferengi etc in the Delta Quadrant what’s another? After he leaves the metal begins bleeding and she can hear Klingon voices. She brings it to Harry to examine. Him? He can find nothing. Tuvok suggests it’s because she hates her Klingon half. Who doesn’t? She then attends a Klingon party that Neelix has organised. Which is a bit like the Amish organising a Viking raiding party. They all start singing Klingon songs apart from Torres. Wheres the Klingons to beat them to death? There she hallucinates that the entire crew has been killed by Klingons. Ah that’ll be them. She appears on a Klingon barge, of the dead, if you will, where she is being taken to the Klingon equivalent of hell. Her mother is also there because she has been dishonoured by Torres’ shunning of Klingon ways. After she wakes up in Sickbay she asks to be put back in the trance to free her mother and Janeway reluctantly agrees. Back on the barge, Torres takes on her mother’s dishonour. But being Klingons it’s never that easy. A version of the Voyager crew appear on the barge and they fight. Torres mother is freed before she herself returns to the sickbay.

No, I don’t really know either.

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