Memorial (Star Trek: Voyager)

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Star Trek: VOY episode
"Memorial"
A vision of Paris in battle
Episode no.	134
Prod. code	236
Airdate	February 2, 2000
Writer(s)	Brannon Braga Robin Burger
Director	Allan Kroeker
Guest star(s)	Scarlett Pomers as Naomi Wildman Lindsay Ginter as Saavedra
Year	2376
Stardate	?
Episode chronology
Previous	"Virtuoso"
Next	"Tsunkatse"

"Memorial" is an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 14^th episode of the sixth season.

[edit] Plot

Several crew members who returned from an away mission suddenly began to experience hallucinations and vivid nightmares about participating in an alien war they have no recollection about. The hallucinations that the crew were experiencing traced back to a planet called Tarakis on which a massacre of innocent civilians occurred centuries ago resulting the errant decisions from a military commander and some of his soldiers. The Voyager crew eventually traced the intermittent signals coming from an alien memorial, which transmits neurogenic pulses that attempts to re-create the experiences of the aliens, on the now-deserted planet.

Because the memorials transmitter were failing, it caused severe side-effects, and Janeway considered putting it offline to spare other travelers the psychological trauma to which the crew was subjected. After a heated discussion with her senior staff, she decided to repair the memorial instead, as they believed that the underlying message and experiences that the massacre were portraying, were simply too important to dismiss, even if they did not consent to undergo the experience.