When I saw there was ANOTHER B'Elanna Klingon episode I was pretty pissed off. But this one turns out to not be about her deciding of she does or does not want to be Klingon. In fact that seems to have almost completely gone away as a thing she is worried about. Probably my favorite part is how the episode walks the line between saying the prophecy is true and that it is total crap. By the end it is literally true that B'Elanna's child was the one who saved them, but whether she will go on to save the Klingon Empire isn't a question that has been resolved.
We open with Voyager being attacked by a cloaked ship, but they technobabble their way to victory and are surprised that it is a Klingon ship attacking. After a sound thrashing they respond to hails and seem to not be aware that the Klingons and Federation aren't at war anymore. The captain though agrees to beam over and discuss things and is surprised to learn they have a Klingon on board. He meets Torres and immediately asks if she is pregnant and if she got pregnant in a holy month. She says yes to both and suddenly the captain is ready to go again and says they will stop attacking. Janeway is a little surprised, but sends him back to his ship which suddenly starts to explode. They beam the Klingons to safety as their warp core breaches. When she talk to the captain about it he admits he did it on purpose. It seems they are particularly religious Klingons who followed a prophecy to the Delta Quadrant four generations earlier and he seems sure B'Elanna's child is the one.
The other Klingons aren't so sure though, but they start to settle in. To make room the crew double up which of course means Tuvok and Neelix end up together. B'Elanna gets convinced to help talk the other Klingons into believing her child is the one but in the course of one of her stories Tom gets challenged to a duel to the death. Janeway and the Klingon captain talk things down to a dull bat'leth battle but the Klingon collapses part way through. It seems they all have some deadly virus, which, by the way B'Elanna and her child now have too. Realizing the messed up big time destroying their ship the Klingons decide to seize Voyager. They start by taking a transporter room and start beaming the crew to a planet they were scouting as possible home for the Klingons. They also beam to the bridge but Janeway out phasers them. In the end they dump the Klingons on the planetm, but not before Torres' child saves them all by providing the cure to the disease that has plagued them for generations.
Review: A solid episode with some enjoyable twists near the end. I skipped over Neelix destroying Tuvok's quarters by having rough sex with a Klingon in them, but that isn't really the best subplot.
6 out of 10
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