Prophecy (Voyager episode)
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| Star Trek: VOY episode | |
| "Prophecy" | |
 Klingons who left the Alpha Quadrant decades ago visit the U.S.S Voyager |
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| Episode no. | Season 7, Episode 14 |
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| Prod. code | 260 |
| Airdate | February 7, 2001 |
| Writer(s) | Mike Sussman, Phyllis Strong |
| Director | Terry Windell |
| Year | {{{year}}} |
| Episode chronology | |
| Previous | "Repentance" |
| Next | "The Void" |
Prophecy was the fourteenth episode broadcast of the seventh season of the TV series Star Trek: Voyager, first airing in the winter of 2001. The episode deals with religious belief and stem cells.
[edit] Plot summary
An antique Klingon ship attacks Voyager. The captain of the Klingon ship refers to the Federation as "sworn enemies of the Empire."
Naturally, Kolar doesn't believe Kathryn Janeway when she says that the Federation and the Empire have been at peace for almost a century. When he sees B'Elanna Torres, who is pregnant, he changes his mind. He has his crew fake a core breach on his ship so that all the Klingons aboard get beamed over to Voyager.
Kolar did this because he believes Torres's unborn child is the prophesied "Kuva'mach," the savior of the Klingon people, the one whom Kolar's ancestors left the Klingon world in a multi-generational voyage in order to meet. The elder Klingons are very skeptical, especially because Torres is only half Klingon and her daughter is only quarter Klingon. T'Greth challenges Tom Paris to a duel to the death, which Paris accepts. At Janeway's insistence, however, T'Greth and Paris agree to a non-lethal duel with blunted bat'leths. To everyone's surprise, T'Greth loses the duel.
Turns out that T'Greth suffers from a seemingly incurable disease which afflicts all Klingons, including Torres and her unborn child. The Doctor comes up with a cure by using stem cells from B'Elanna's baby.
The subplot concerns Harry Kim not wanting to mate with Ch'Rega, a Klingon woman he's not attracted to. Neelix asks Harry Kim to pretend to be beaten up by him so that Ch'Rega becomes interested in Neelix and leaves Harry Kim alone. It works, and Neelix and Ch'Rega copulate in Tuvok's quarters, leaving the place an utter mess.
The Klingons relocate to an M-class planet while Paris and Torres agree to consider "Kuva'mach" as a possible name for the baby.
[edit] Notes
The Klingons depicted in this episode have cranial ridges. Since they departed Klingon space at a point concurrent with the original Star Trek series, in which human-looking Klingons were seen, these Klingons were apparently not affected by the Augment virus as seen in the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes "Affliction" and "Divergence."
[edit] Guest stars
- Wren T. Brown as Kohlar
- Paul Eckstein as Morak
- Sherman Howard as T'Greth
- Peggy Jo Jacobs as Ch'Rega
