Deadlock (18 Mar. 1996)

A "spatial scission" causes Voyager to be duplicated. One of the Voyagers is under heavy attack from the Vidiians while the other remains impervious. Both Captain Janeways work together and... See full summary »

Director:

David Livingston

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry, Rick Berman (creator),

Stars:

Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Kate Mulgrew	...	Captain Kathryn Janeway
Robert Beltran	...	Commander Chakotay
Roxann Dawson	...	Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres (as Roxann Biggs-Dawson)
Jennifer Lien	...	Kes
Robert Duncan McNeill	...	Lieutenant Tom Paris
Ethan Phillips	...	Neelix
Robert Picardo	...	The Doctor
Tim Russ	...	Lieutenant Tuvok
Garrett Wang	...	Ensign Harry Kim
Nancy Hower	...	Ensign Samantha Wildman
Simon Billig	...	Lieutenant Hogan
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Majel Barrett	...	Voyager Computer (voice)
Bob Clendenin	...	Vidiian Surgeon
Keythe Farley	...	Vidiian #2
Chris Johnston	...	Vidiian #1

Storyline

A "spatial scission" causes Voyager to be duplicated. One of the Voyagers is under heavy attack from the Vidiians while the other remains impervious. Both Captain Janeways work together and agree to sacrifice one ship to save the other. Before self-sacrifice, the doomed Voyager sends it's version of Ensign Kim and newborn Naomi Wildman to the other ship to replace the Kim that was killed in the attack and the baby who died from complications shortly after birth.

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Plot Keywords:

24th century

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Details

Release Date:

18 March 1996 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Television

Did You Know?

Trivia

4077-reference: The quantum analysis of the duplicated Voyager has the heading 'Scan Analysis 4077'. (4077 was the unit number on M*A*S*H and is another frequently referenced number on displays and computer readouts in Star Trek, most notably in TNG).

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Goofs

When Kes #1 and Janeway #2 go through the spatial rift to the Voyager #1, they both have to carry a phase discriminator as protection from the spatial transition. But when Kim later goes through with Ensign Wildman's baby, he doesn't take one with him, yet he passes without any trouble.

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Quotes

[Vidiians have boarded Voyager #2]
Captain Kathryn Janeway #1: We can't just stand by and let you all be killed.
Captain Kathryn Janeway #2: I'm not about to let that happen. I'll destroy this ship.
Captain Kathryn Janeway #1: I don't suppose there's any way I can change your mind. I know how stubborn you can be.

User Reviews

Two Voyagers!

As this episode opens Ensign Wildman is goes into labour and while she is giving birth Voyager comes across several Vidiian ships, in order to avoid detection the head through a plasma cloud but as the exit it something strange happens which causes a ship wide power drain just. Due to complications the Doctor has to beam the baby out of Ensign Wildman. Things start going even worse just before B'Elanna starts a process that should restart the warp drive. As systems across the ship start to fail the baby dies and while trying to repair a hull breach Harry is killed and another engineering officer is injured. Kes is sent to Engineering to treat him but just as she is bout to reach him B'Elanna sees her disappear. We soon learn that Voyager was somehow duplicated as it passed through the cloud, one is severely damaged but the other is fine. The people on the good ship realise that when a second Kes turns up and work to find a way to get in touch with the second ship. Attempts to recombine the ships fail and as it looks as if they will both be lost it is decided that the only way to save one of the ships is to destroy the other. As one is heavily damaged the captain of that one decides to make the sacrifice but before she can do anything the Vidiians attack, they enter the good ship and it turns out that this is the ship which must be sacrificed but not before its Harry can go back with the baby to replace those that had died.

This was a better episode that had a surprisingly bleak start; I certainly didn't expect to see the death of a baby and a main character on an episode of Star Trek, even if they did find a way for them to be back by the end of the episode. I was also rather surprised when it was the heavily damaged ship that was ultimately saved meaning that as the episode concluded they still had a lot of work to do. It was rather fun watching two Captain Janeways arguing about what should be done to solve the problem. While it might be seen as a cop out for Harry and the baby to escape the doomed ship to replace those lost I think it was the right thing as Harry is a good character and the baby will grow to be the least annoying Star Trek child.