Lineage (Voyager episode)
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| Star Trek: VOY episode | |
| "Lineage" | |
 A projection of Tom and B'Elanna's baby |
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| Episode no. | 158 |
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| Prod. code | 258 |
| Airdate | January 24, 2001 |
| Writer(s) | James Kahn |
| Director | Peter Lauritson |
| Guest star(s) | Manu Intiraymi as Icheb Juan Garcia as John Torres Jessica Gaona as Young B'Elanna Javier Grajeda as Uncle Carl Paul Robert Langdon as Dean Nicole Sarah Fellows as Elizabeth Gilbert R. Leal as Michael |
| Year | 2377 |
| Stardate | 54452.6 |
| Episode chronology | |
| Previous | "Shattered" |
| Next | "Repentance" |
Lineage is an episode of the TV series Star Trek: Voyager, the 12th episode of the seventh season.
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[edit] Plot summary
B'Elanna Torres is in a good mood, until she arrives at work in Engineering and almost faints. Icheb scans her and panics when he thinks she has a parasite within her. Seven of Nine also scans Torres and comes up with a different diagnosis: B'Elanna is pregnant.
The Doctor confirms Seven's diagnosis. The fetus is perfectly healthy, except for a genetic defect that causes abnormal spine curvature in Klingon females. B'Elanna, who is half Klingon, had surgery as a baby to correct this defect. The Doctor says that nowadays genetic resequencing is the preferred treatment. He performs the procedure the next day.
B'Elanna reminisces back to her childhood as a Klingon girl on Earth. She blames herself, especially her Klingon half, for her human father leaving her, and resolves to not let the same happen to her daughter. She proposes further genetic resequencing to delete various Klingon genes, but the Doctor and Tom Paris, B'Elanna's husband, disagree.
When the Doctor suddenly changes his mind, Tom seeks a second opinion from Icheb. Icheb disagrees with the Doctor's new assessment and discovers that the EMH's program has been tampered with. Tom stops the procedure in the nick of time, and he and B'Elanna have an argument. She tearfully admits what she fears will happen to her daughter, and Tom reaffirms his commitment to his growing family. B'Elanna asks the Doctor to be the godfather.
[edit] Notes
- Icheb's aptitude for genetics was first mentioned in "Child's Play."
[edit] Trivia
- In one argument with Tom, B'Elanna says Voyager has 140 humans aboard.
[edit] External links
- "Lineage" article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
- Episode summary from Startrek.com
