After 30 years, the Voyager Blaina episode is still wonderfully charged

Star Trek He was always fascinated by the idea of ​​the characters that were pulled between two worlds. Explore Spook His human heritagePlace Warf on Tng As an early example of the post -peace integration with the union, even the position of Sisko as a Starfleet officer pushes the simultaneous roles of the Tawjihi diplomat, the military leader, And spiritual emissionsThe chain has been withdrawn again and again to this original model of the character through sweat ideas and situation.

early Star Trek Voyager It was no exception to his interest in B’elanna Torres, one of the early characters of the exhibition. Maquis Rebel has turned into the chief engineer who tried this cup not only during its own journey as a former precedent, but also as a half-Longon-first-to-width attempt to explore the latter, 30 years ago today in “faces”, she should steal the floor, but it is controversial.

The “faces” were the fourteenth episode of VoyagerSeason for the first timeSee Vidiians returnA race from foreigners who were forced to harvest organs and body parts of other types to try to avoid exposure to terrifying plague. After arresting a handful of Voyager A crew while they are on an outside mission, including B’elanna, the world of Vidiian is eager to explore the potential impact of the regenerative elements in Klingon DNA in the fighting used by plague in the advanced medical technology of its people to reach an unconventional conclusion: the division of B’elanna into two people. He completely separated to the genetic level to two separate members of the human and the Klongon (both played by actress Torres Roxanan Dawson, with the help of a double -Kilpatrick Double image), both of whom eventually have to overcome their differences to find a way to escape from Vidiians alongside their family colleagues.

The idea makes the craftsman Star TrekThe above magic with characters that struggle to reconcile two very different backgrounds, but by exploring the real B’elanna of its random identity in the very literal show, “faces” must avoid some beautiful wild lines that can never be called. A lot of conflict between human skin and Klingon B’elanna is derived from what the episode ultimately presented as genetically derived features. Pillana humanity is physically and emotionally, and it is repeatedly unable to fear because it is struggling to adapt to the prisoner by Vidiians. Meanwhile, Klingon B’elanna Klingon Klingon is playing violence and anger, which is an essential arrogance you see seeking conflict before anything else.

It has become specially fraught with the aftermath-Tng Re -imagination klingons away from the original (and Likewise, racist charged!) Imaging and about a race of people with almost dark skin, along with other Afro -inspired features such as tight hair. Light human human image with light skin (for what it deserves, Dawson from The origin of Puerto RicoIt is its presence in the presence of a dark skin with dark skin over and over -skinned in the “faces”, as the two argue with each other about “cursed” with the negative features of the other, humans wearing their mood in Clingon as the cause at the end at the Starfelite Academy. Although by the end of the “faces”, the two reached an understanding, and Klingon B’elanna is allowed to sacrifice itself to protect the person who had been freed as less, but it is still being presented in a more brutal or brutal cup more than re -imagining the enlightened in particular.

But while “faces” ultimately concludes that B’elannas works better together, it does not completely interrogate the racist element in playing between them in presenting its internal struggle over its bone identity as external. Even the peak of the episode, when B’elanna reached this understanding above, Kellingon, she deals with it in a way that is at risk-her side has been re-formulated in Klingon as much as acceptable as much as it is the fact that she was told that she was He has To re -merge with Klingon DNA, without which you will not survive. The moments of the last episode are interestingly framed: B’elanna, which is still under humans, tells Chakuki sitting in VoyagerWaiting for Sickbay to undergo surgery that while aspects of Klingon are now estimated, she also counts to fight that version of herself for the rest of her life, before she reaches her smooth forehead in isolation for the last time before her financial reminder of her internal struggle.

For most of the rest VoyagerThe series will be explored for the racist identity of B’elanna through her damaged relationship with her mother Klingon, instead of her internal positions in being part of Klingon. This, with one important exception, is equal: the seventh season “Lineage” episode, which sees the recently B’elanna’s attempt to change her child genetically to ensure that he is completely human.

It is great that a lot of exploring the show of its identity is booked with these episodes that are widely in conversation with each other, and not necessarily in the best way. “The proportions”, while providing a level of understanding of B’elanna options, is at least more specific than his view that her hidden view is a misleading part, and that her behavior in the episode is wrong. Perhaps after that, “faces” walked so that he could run – and provide an opportunity to do more with a personality Voyager She was deeply interested in her first beginnings.

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