 As Voyager transports a group of
Enarans to their homeworld, Torres begins having intense dreams.
Every night, she envisions herself as Korenna, an Enaran woman
who's in love with a man named Dathan, much to the chagrin of "Korenna's"
father Jareth, a military leader.
Torres shares her unsettling
visions with Chakotay, noting that each new dream seems to
advance Korenna's story. Chakotay wonders if there might be a
connection between the dreams and the presence of the telepathic
Enarans. Later, Torres passes out after having a waking vision
of Korenna's life.
When she awakens in Sickbay, the Doctor tells Torres that she
isn't dreaming; she's experiencing memories that have been
specifically implanted in her mind. In her next vision, Korenna
realizes that her father is forcibly "resettling" people like
Dathan, who are known as Regressives because they reject modern
technology. Korenna's face is accidentally scarred by a
Regressive attempting to flee Jareth's soldiers. When Torres
awakens, she goes to the quarters of an old Enaran woman named
Mirell, who has a scar like the one Torres saw in the dream.
Mirell admits she is Korenna, and that she planted her memories
in Torres's mind so the truth about the fate of the Regressives
won't be forgotten when she dies.
Mirell telepathically gives Torres the last part of the story:
the night Dathan told Korenna that Jareth was killing the
Regressives, not relocating them. Dathan urges Korenna to run
away with him, but Jareth tells Korenna that Dathan's lying to
her. Convinced that Dathan doesn't really love her, Korenna
betrays her lover, and Jareth has him executed as Korenna joins
the cheering Enaran mob. When Torres wakes up, Korenna Mirell is
dead.
As the Enarans prepare a farewell toast to the crew, Torres
bursts in and calls the group murderers. She accuses the Enarans
of whitewashing their past, but none of them are willing to
listen to her. Finally, a young Enaran woman that Torres had
befriended during the trip offers to telepathically link with
Torres to receive Korenna's memories. Torres gratefully accepts,
knowing that what happened to the Regressives will live on in
the Enarans' memories. |
