Parturition (episode)

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"Parturition"
VOY, Episode 2x07 Production number: 123 First aired: 9 October 1995
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Written By Tom Szollosi Directed By Jonathan Frakes
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A trip to "Planet Hell" proves therapeutic for Tom Paris and Neelix.

Contents 1 Summary 2 Memorable Quotes 3 Background Information 3.1 Video and DVD releases 4 Links and References 4.1 Guest Stars 4.2 Co-Star 4.3 Uncredited Co-Stars 4.4 References

[edit] Summary

After an altercation in the mess hall between Neelix and Tom Paris over Kes and involving hair pasta, Captain Janeway orders the two of them to go down to a promising planet in a shuttlecraft to search for food supplies. EM interference causes the shuttle to crash, stranding them on the surface while USS Voyager is stuck in orbit.

High levels of trigemic vapors cause Paris and Neelix to search for a cave in which to shelter. After sealing themselves in, they discover a nest of eggs. One of the eggs hatches, revealing a repto-humanoid creature.

Orbiting around the planet, the crew attempts to search for the crashed shuttle, but are attacked by an alien ship. The ship positions itself between the planet and Voyager.

Neelix and Paris discover that the baby needs food, and it is getting weaker without any. After rejecting the field rations, they find out that the vapors contain amino acids that should nourish the baby. Going back out into the open, the baby recovers.

Voyager disables the weapons of the alien ship, and descends into the planet's atmosphere, followed by the other ship. Voyager locates Paris and Neelix, just as the adult repto-humanoid reaches the baby and rescues it.

[edit] Memorable Quotes

"We lost communication with Voyager thirty seconds ago. You don't have to impress me with your technobabble."

- Neelix, to Paris

"Captain, I don't know what we'll find when we get to the surface, floura or fauna, friend or foe."

- Chakotay

"Set a course for Planet Hell, Commander."

- Janeway, to Chakotay

"Clogging someone's plasma injectors is a dirty trick!"
"Ah, yes well, I'm famous for my dirty tricks, you know?"

- Kes and Tom Paris

"You subclass genus!"
"I beg your pardon?"

- Neelix and Tom Paris

"I'm going to kill you!"
"Too late! I'm betting your hair pasta already did the trick!"

- Neelix and Tom Paris

"Oh Harry, I'm in trouble."
"What's new?"
"I think I'm in love..."
"What's new?"
"With Kes."
"Kes?!"

- Tom Paris and Harry Kim

"Play something."

- Paris, to Kim indicating Kim's clarinet

"Play something different."

- Paris, to Kim after he plays a melody from the first movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A Major, KV622.

"You should consider it a high compliment. Throughout history, men have fought over the love of a woman. Why, I can quote you autopsy reports from duels as far back as 1538."
"That's not funny."
"It's not meant to be. You've always been interested in autopsies."

- The Doctor and Kes

"On my homeworld, it's so much simpler. You choose a mate for life; there's no distrust, no jealousy, no envy, no betrayal..."
"Hm. Your homeworld must have very dry literature."

- Kes and the Doctor

"There is an old Chinese expression: 'Stay out of harm's way'."
"That's not a Chinese expression."
"If it works, use it."

- Kim and Paris

"The moment we came in here, it became our responsibility."
"And you expect to take care of this thing until what? It graduates from high school? College?"

- Neelix and Paris

"You know, if you skip lunch, the result might be a lower blood sugar level, which could... I'm sorry. It's in my program. I see something wrong, I must attempt to diagnose it."

- The Doctor

"I'm a doctor...not a voyeur."

- The Doctor

[edit] Background Information

• The ships featured in the holodeck simulation are Jem'Hadar attack ships from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In fact, the footage seen is from the DS9 season three premiere "The Search, Part I."
• Captain Janeway wears her hair more along the lines of her style from seasons four through seven in this episode as opposed to her traditional season one and two "bun."
• This is the first time that wet food was spilled on the costumes. Prior to this, only dry food was allowed to spill on the uniforms (as washing the costumes took a lot of time and money).
• The holographic wormhole that Tom Paris and Kes fly through in the holodeck shuttle simulation is a re-use of the interior of the Harry Kim wormhole from VOY: "Eye of the Needle".
• The script contains at least two lines of dialog that appeared in other sci-fi scripts. When Tuvok suggests a plan to combat the alien ship, he adds, "But, of course, I cannot guarantee its success," which is exactly what Spock said of his plan to find humpback whales in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. In addition, when the alien hatchling won't feed, Paris says, "Come on, kid, ya gotta eat," a line spoken to another fussy reptilian infant in the film Enemy Mine.

[edit] Video and DVD releases

• UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.2, 11 March 1996.

CIC Video released the four season 1 "hold-over" episodes in their production order, as part of the first season release. This is the third episode in the second season release. From this point, releases follow the normal broadcast order.

• As part of the VOY Season 2 DVD collection.

[edit] Links and References

[edit] Guest Stars

• There were no credited guest appearances in this episode.

[edit] Co-Star

• Majel Barrett as Computer Voice

[edit] Uncredited Co-Stars

• Richard Sarstedt as William McKenzie
• John Tampoya as Kashimuro Nozawa
• Louis Ortiz as Culhane
• Unknown actor as Repto-humanoid officer

[edit] References

Alfarian; Alfarian hair pasta; Pablo Baytart; clarinet; class M; "Concerto in A Major"; cordrazine; dermal osmotic sealant; deuterium flow; duel; dunghill bird; emergency medical holographic channel; Felaran rose; field coil; garnesite; hair follicle; high school; holodeck; inertial dampers; Jem'Hadar attack ship; leola root broth; Molière comedy; Mozart; Ocampa; Palliantyne pea; Paris, Owen; planetary geosciences division; "Planet Hell"; plasma injector; Potak III; Potak cold fowl; Repto-humanoid; Repto-humanoid vessel; Starfleet Academy; Tanzian flu; technobabble; trigemic vapor

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