Product Details

• Actors: Roxann Dawson, Tim Russ
• Directors: Roxann Dawson, Tim Russ, Gabrielle Beaumont, Kenneth Biller, Cliff Bole
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: July 11, 2000
• Run Time: 106 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000003K9Q
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #64,302 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Editorial Reviews

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Original airdate: 5/8/95. Stardate: 48784.2. Veteran makeup artist Michael Westmore does double duty for this episode, in which a Vidiian scientist--suffering from the deadly, hideously disfiguring "Phage" disease (from episode 5)--genetically engineers an all-Klingon version of Voyager's Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres, to prove Klingon resistance to the Phage virus and, hopefully, create a cure for his own infected species. The experiment results in two B'Elannas, the aggressive all-Klingon version and the skillful but comparatively weak and cowardly human version, now devoid of Klingon DNA. This provokes some debatable questions about stereotypical portrayal of Klingons and humans, but it's a fine showcase for series regular Roxann Biggs-Dawson, who convincingly portrays the separate halves of her bispecies character. The situation is played too broadly (echoing the original-series episode "The Enemy Within"), and a prison-escape subplot (requiring Chakotay's temporary transformation into a Phage-stricken Vidiian) is a bit too reminiscent of the penal-planet sequence in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Still, this is a fine episode for B'Elanna Torres fans, who will readily agree that Biggs-Dawson can shine when given the chance, and remains highly attractive with or without Westmore's Klingon prosthetics. --Jeff Shannon

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars B'Elanna Torres explored, July 17, 2001

By	B. Warrick "Flynnatic" (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Certainly, this episode is one of the most important to the character development of B'Elanna Torres. In this episode, B'Elanna discovers how important her Klingon half is...and comes to peace with the part of herself that she's always struggled with most.

I also feel that this episode is the real beginning of the friendship between the characters of B'Elanna Torres and Tom Paris...very important to the future storyline of the show.

Personally, I feel that it is a "must see" from Voyager season one.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 'Yam' erific!, November 19, 2000

By	Yammy (Yamatosa, WI USA) - See all my reviews

I can't believe some people didn't like this episode! (Or am I remembering the other reviews wrong?) I think this was one of the greatest episodes as far a characterization goes . . . . or that could just be me because B'Elanna's my favorite character. Anyway, I liked having a look at her Klingon side and her human side! Wow! She's actually kind of cute when she cries (what am I talking about? She's always pretty) and it's really sweet how Tom's always trying to comfort her (foreshadowing to . . . ah . . . Blood Fever, Day of Honor(my fave), Vis a Vis, Alice, Drive, etc, I could go on & on) Anyway this is a great episode and I think I'm gonna buy it so I don't have to wait for UPN to show it and it won't get taped over after a week!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars some missed opportunities, May 3, 2002

By	Chapulina R (Tovarischi Imports, USA/RUS) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

B'Elanna Torres, Voyager's Klingon-hybrid Chief Engineer, has resented and resisted her warrior heritage all her life. In this, the best Klingon episode of the series, she has an opportunity to reconcile with her two "faces". Torres and some of her crewmates are captured by the villainous Vidian, an alien species which has suffered for generations from a loathsome flesh-eating plague called the Phage. In their efforts to combat the disease, the Vidian have developed medical technology far in advance of the Federation's. But whatever morality they might have once possessed has been long abandoned, as they raid the Delta Quadrant "harvesting" other inhabitants' tissues and organs as replacements for their own. To the Vidian's delight, the Klingon physiology, with its exceptional hardiness and unique redundancies, promises new breakthroughs in finding a cure. So they separate Torres' Klingon half from her less valuable Human half. For a while there coexist two distinctly different B'Elannas, who must join forces to rescue their crewmates and escape their captors. The Klingon doppelganger is brawny and brave, but brash. The Human entity is brainy, but wimpy and annoyingly whiny. Unlike the Vidians, B'Elanna's comrades, (including her boytoy-to-be, Tom Paris) prefer the timid Torres over her volitile counterpart. Personally, I believe the writers missed their golden opportunity to dump the hybrid character altogether and keep the more impressive full-Klingon version. What they did not miss was the opportunity for some leering innuendo about Klingon females' indiscriminate sexual mores, which have provided a sophomoric source of titillation for the Franchise. And of course, the fate of the formidable warrioress was totally predictable -- Klingon women have replaced the unfortunate "red-shirts" in token Trek expendability. Ultimately, Klingon B'Elanna had little impact on the character, the series, or the Star Trek mythos. But for her sole episode, she was pretty terrific, and so popular with the fandom, that she even got her own collectable action-figure.