Lineage (Voyager episode)

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Star Trek: VOY episode
"Lineage"
Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres discover she's pregnant with a girl, but B'Elanna's unresolved childhood issues make her determined to remove her child's Klingon DNA.
Episode no.	Season 7, Episode 12
Prod. code	258
Airdate	January 24, 2001
Writer(s)	James Kahn
Director	Peter Lauritson
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Episode chronology
Previous	"Shattered"
Next	"Repentance"

Lineage was the twelfth episode broadcast of the seventh season of the TV series Star Trek: Voyager, first airing in the winter of 2001.

1 Plot summary
2 Notes
3 Trivia
- 3.1 Guest stars

[edit] Plot summary

B'Elanna Torres is in a good mood, until she finds Seven of Nine and Icheb in Engineering, when she almost faints. Icheb scans her and thinks she has a parasite. Seven also scans Torres and comes up with a different diagnosis: B'Elanna is pregnant.

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The Doctor confirms Seven's diagnosis. The baby is perfectly healthy, except for a genetic defect that causes abnormal spine curvature in Klingon females. B'Elanna had surgery as a baby to correct this defect. The Doctor says that nowadays genetic resequencing is the preferred treatment. He performs the procedure the next day.

B'Elanna reminisces back to her childhood as a Klingon girl on Earth. She blames herself for her human father leaving her, and resolves to not let the same happen to her daughter. She proposes further genetic resequencing to delete various Klingon genes, but the Doctor and Tom Paris disagree.

When the Doctor suddenly changes his mind, Tom seeks a second opinion from Icheb. Icheb disagrees with the Doctor's new assessment and discovers that the EMH's program has been tampered with.

Tom stops the procedure in the nick of time, and he and B'Elanna have an argument after which they make up. B'Elanna asks the Doctor to be the godfather.