Emanations
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| Star Trek: VOY episode | |
| "Emanations" | |
 One of the bodies, in Voyager's transport room |
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| Episode no. | 9 |
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| Prod. code | 109 |
| Airdate | March 13, 1995 |
| Writer(s) | Brannon Braga |
| Director | David Livingston |
| Guest star(s) | John Cirigliano as Dr. Renora Jeffrey Alan Chandler as Hatil Jerry Hardin as Dr. Neria Robin Groves as Loria Cecile Callan as Ptera |
| Year | 2371 |
| Stardate | 48623.5 |
| Episode chronology | |
| Previous | "Ex Post Facto" |
| Next | "Prime Factors" |
Emanations is the ninth episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
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[edit] Plot
Voyager detects the signature of an as-yet undiscovered heavy element within the ring system of a planet, and organise an away team to investigate the cavern systems of one of the rocks. In doing so they discover numerous humanoid bodies, and conclude that the cavern system is a burial ground. They discover that the burial ground is still in use when a 'subspace vacuole' opens and deposits a dying body. Another vacuole begins to form and the away team is beamed out for safety reasons, but Ensign Kim disappears into the vacuole and is replaced by an alien body.
Kim has been transported to a mortuary on the aliens' homeworld, and finds himself in a pod-shaped device, which the aliens open to release him. They identify themselves as the Vhnori, and believe that Kim has come from the "Next Emanation", their name for the afterlife. While being confined to the mortuary building for the time being, Kim meets a man named Hatil who has been scheduled by his family to go to the Next Emanation. Hatil does not wish to, however, and the confusion surrounding Kim's arrival to the planet re-inforces his doubts about the nature of the afterlife.
Meanwhile on Voyager, the Doctor revives the woman who replaced Kim. She becomes hysterical when she realises that the afterlife is not as she had believed. Eventually she agrees to be transported into a forming vacuole in an attempt to be returned to her homeworld, but the attempt fails and she dies.
On the homeworld, Kim and Hatil agree to switch places, so that Kim can be transported back through a vacuole using the burial pod and Hatil can escape and live out his life in a rural village. Hatil wraps Kim in his burial shroud, and Kim is rescued by Voyager and revived after being transported through the pod.
[edit] Notes
- This episode formally introduces the character of Seska, after she was first seen in the episode "Parallax".
[edit] Trivia
- Both times Ptera is presumed dead in the transporter room, the actress is visibly breathing.
- When Hatil is wrapping himself in his death shroud, he says that his father has worn it and his father before him. This implies that the transportation device does not take the shroud with it. This theory is consistent with the bodies on the asteroids all being naked. However, when Kim is transported the shroud comes with him.
[edit] External links
- Emanations article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
