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ABOUT THE
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SHIPS & CHARACTERS
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When Voyager encounters a massive
energy wave, the ship receives a download of information. The
crew tracks the wave's ion trail and finds a stranded vessel
with a wounded alien on board. Once the creature is beamed to
sickbay, Torres finds that it uses biochemical secretions to
give commands. Suddenly, the alien attacks Torres, puncturing
her neck and secreting fluids into her bloodstream. Unaware of
how to extract the creature without harming Torres, the Doctor
and Kim create a hologram of a leading exobiologist named Crell
Moset — a Cardassian.
In order to crack the coded message downloaded to Voyager, the
databanks from the alien's ship must be accessed. However, the
vessel destabilizes and explodes before Seven of Nine can
retrieve them. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Crell determine the
alien is using Torres as a life preserver by co-opting her vital
systems. They re-create Crell's laboratory in a holodeck so he
can use his more advanced tools to help Torres, but she objects
to putting her life in the hands of a Cardassian.
Unable to decipher the alien's message, Janeway retransmits the
signal on all subspace bands hoping more of its species will
answer the call. In Crell's laboratory, he and the Doctor
operate on a hologram of the alien and find nodes suggesting the
creature is a highly intelligent being. Crell decides the nodes
are the best place to administer a neurostatic shock, which will
incapacitate the alien and probably kill it. Later, the Doctor
is shocked when a crewmember, Tabor, reacts violently to Crell's
presence on Voyager and calls the Cardassian a mass murderer.
Tabor reveals that during the Bajoran War, Crell used live
subjects for his medical experiments and killed hundreds of
Bajorans. Although barely hanging on to life, Torres refuses to
let Crell treat her. She believes if she benefits from his
research, she will be validating his atrocious methods. However,
the Doctor cannot remove the alien without Crell's help, and
Torres will die otherwise. Against many moral objections,
Janeway authorizes Crell to perform the procedure.
As the Doctor and Crell work to extract the creature, Voyager is
hailed by one of the alien vessels. They lock the ship in a
tractor beam, but Janeway senses they only want their friend
back and mean no harm. In surgery, the Doctor overrides Crell's
decision to kill the alien and instead administers a neural
shock that weakens its motor control without permanent damage.
As its tendrils withdraw from Torres, its metabolism is restored
and it is beamed to the waiting ship. Left to make a tough
decision, the Doctor decides to delete Crell's program from
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