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Resistance (episode)

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"Resistance"
VOY, Episode 2x12
Production number: 128
First aired: 27 November 1995
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Teleplay By
Lisa Klink

Story By
Michael Jan Friedman & Kevin J. Ryan

Directed By
Winrich Kolbe
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In order to free her imprisoned crew members, Janeway accepts the help of a delusional resistance fighter.

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[edit] Teaser

A USS Voyager away team is sent to a market place on the Mokra homeworld to purchase tellerium. After Captain Kathryn Janeway examines a sample, Neelix is told to purchase it and not to negotiate over the price. They need it badly. After Neelix has left, Tuvok notices some Mokra soldiers entering the market place, they seem to be looking for the away team. Although Tuvok is able to hit one of them with his phaser, he and B'Elanna Torres are captured. When Janeway has fought off a Mokra soldier and is about to contact Voyager, she is grazed by phaser fire in her neck and falls down. When the Mokra soldier removes her combadge, he is violently pushed against a wall by a man.

[edit] Act One

In engineering, Harry Kim and First Officer Chakotay are discussing the situation they are in. They are badly in need of the tellerium as the antimatter reaction rate in the warp core is approaching 9%. When this happens the plasma injectors will lockup, leaving them unable to reinitialize the nacelles and thus leave Voyager without warp propulsion. To save power, and keep the reaction rate above 9%, the only option left is to power down their shields. At this point they are contacted by Neelix, who informs them the away team has been captured by the Mokra, but that he has the tellerium. Neelix is beamed directly to engineering where Kim uses the tellerium to stabilize the anti-matter reaction rate. Chakotay tries to contact the Captain but gets no answer. He discusses the capture of the away team with Neelix, wondering how the Mokra knew that Voyager personnel were on the planet. Neelix suspects a Mokra informer, although the ship's only contact was with the Alsaurian resistance movement. Their conversation is interrupted by Harry Kim, who has brought the warp engine online, restoring the ship's warp capability.

On the bridge, helmsman Tom Paris is ordered to bring Voyager out from the moon behind which they were hiding and to set a course to the Mokra homeworld. Meanwhile Neelix informs Chakotay that the Mokra are paranoid and hostile, and have little use for diplomacy. While approaching the planet Voyager is detected by the Mokra orbital sensor net and is hailed by Augris, third magistrate of the Mokra Order. When Augris hears that some members of Voyager are on his planet, he is not happy with it and sends a copy of the Mokra regulations to them, for future reference. When he learns that Chakotay believes they might be detained by the Mokra, Augris tells them that he will look in to it. Neelix does not believe that Augris will help them as he is nothing like the Mokra he has met before.

Although Commander Chakotay wants to try a diplomatic solution first, he does order a continuous surface scan of the planet, just in case.

Meanwhile, in a Mokra jail, B'Elanna notices a control circuit, which might be controlling the force field at the jail's entrance. Tuvok warns her not to tamper with it and just wait but Torres gets a shock from the force field. As Tuvok has no idea whether any member of the away team made it back to Voyager there is nothing left to do but wait.

[edit] Act Two

Captain Janeway awakens in the home of her rescuer, Caylem, an older Alsaurian man who believes she is his long-lost daughter, Ralkana. At first she denies it, telling him her real name and that she is a starship captain, but he doesn't appear convinced. He gives Janeway a necklace that originally belonged to his wife, but Janeway is more interested in finding her crew members and escaping.

Janeway asks Caylem for a communications device to contact the Voyager, but the Alsaurians are prohibited by the Mokra from having them. While Caylem is showing Janeway the letters he wrote for his imprisoned wife, Mokra soldiers appear and demand entry. Caylem and Janeway escape the house before the Mokra break in.

The Mokra remove Tuvok from the cell with Torres to interrogate him. Torres puts up a fight, but Tuvok orders her to stand down.

[edit] Act Three

Caylem wants to join Janeway in her attempt to free her crew from prison, believing he can save his wife at the same time. Janeway is very resistant to the idea, but they approach a member of the Alsaurian resistance with connections to an arms dealer. The resistance member suggests trading the necklace Caylem gave Janeway for a weapon. She is reluctant, but Caylem encourages her to make the trade.

After a long wait, the weapons dealer appears wearing Mokra military boots. Suspecting a trap, Janeway walks away.

In the Mokra prison, Tuvok is returned to the cell with Torres, having been obviously tortured. While Vulcans can block out pain to a certain extent, this ability is limited. Torres wants to fight back and try to escape, but Tuvok cautions that physical resistance is ineffective in this situation and they can best resist by refusing to give information.

Aboard the Voyager, Chakotay's scans of and attempts to penetrate the sensor net around the Mokra prison are detected, and Augris gives the crew two minutes to leave before opening fire with the 85 ground-based phased ion cannons on the planet.

[edit] Act Four

Janeway comes up with another idea to infiltrate the prison. She entices one of the sentries, who drops his guard and is promptly struck over the head by Caylem. Janeway takes the guard's phaser and Caylem his knife. They and other resistance members enter the prison and free Tuvok and Torres. Augris arrives and tells the resistance members that Caylem had made other efforts to infiltrate the prison to rescue his wife... who had been dead for 12 years. They had been letting him go as a show of the futility of challenging the Mokra. Augris also tells Caylem that his daughter was killed. In a rage, Caylem stabs Augris to death and jumps in the way of a phaser aimed at Janeway. He dies in her arms, and she accepts the role of his daughter as he dies. The resistance members say that his actions will not be forgotten.

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[edit] Memorable Quotes

"Caylem!"
"Ralkana. He said you'd been shot."
"He was lying to you, father. I'm all right."
"And your mother?"
"Fine. She was so happy to get your letters. She wants me to tell you something. She forgives you. We both do."

- Janeway, assuming the role of his daughter to soothe the dying Caylem

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[edit] References

Alsaurian; Alsaurian resistance; metaphasic shield; magnetic storm; Mokra; Mokra Order; orbital sensor net; phased ion cannon; radion beam; Ralkana; talsa root soup; tellerium; Vulcan nerve pinch


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