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Cold Fire
Kes has a ritual with
Tuvok and tells her
the voices she is hearing are coming from the thoughts of
the crew. Kes turns up in sickbay
late and the Doctor
is not happy. They hear something and trace it down to a container,
the thing inside it is rattling. Opening title scene rolls.
The Doctor tells Janeway,
B'Elanna and Tuvok
that the rock seemed to come to life but the ceased. It starts
again and they think it might be the Caretaker. However B'Elanna
says the rock isn't alive, it is simply resonating off another
life source. Harry
detects life signs near the ship but is unable to get a fix.
They think that it might be the other life form similar to
the Caretaker who could get them home.
Tuvok suggests to Janeway they find some way to reduce the
power of the Caretaker. The life forms appear again and B'Elanna
tries her plan and manages to get a lock on the life form
co-ordinates. Voyager
heads off towards them. Voyager comes across a space station
which looks very much like the Caretaker's array but 1/10th
the size. Inside they pick up many life forms aboard - they
are Ocampa.
Weapons fire is opened on Voyager and they are told to leave.
Kes says she is the only Ocampa that is known to be off the
home planet. Until now. Kes talks to them and the alien leaders
come aboard. They tell Janeway that Voyager is known as a
ship of death. The tell the crew why but Chakotay
and Tuvok deny the accusations. Kes takes the alien leader
to show her garden.
The alien, Tanis, tells Kes that he is 14 but she says that
Ocampa can only grow to be 9. The alien tells them about Suspiria
who is the equivalent of their caretaker however Suspiria
helped them to develop and now they are much more powerful,
more so then they ever could on the Ocampa home world. Janeway
is happy that Kes feels good but tells her to be careful.
Back on the station, Tanis speaks to Suspiria and she tells
him that she wants Voyager.
They have dinner on Voyager and Neelix
asks about Tanis's people but the rest of the crew ask about
how he communicates with Suspiria. Later in the mess
hall, Tanis helps Kes to develop her mental abilities.
Neelix says he is proud of Kes and Kes talks about leaving.
Neelix says he would go with her.
Voyager heads into the area where Suspiria exists and Tanis
uses Voyager's communication devices to try and contact Suspiria.
Kes talks to Tuvok about what Tanis showed him and she heats
up a cup of water. However she breaks the breaks the up and
starts burning up Tuvok. He is taken to sickbay unconscious.
When Tuvok wakes up he says they can still continue with
their lessons. Later Tanis gets Kess to have new experiences
but afterwards all the plants are dead. Tanis tells Kes that
she has to come with him now she has experienced this. The
life form heads back near the ship. Tanis tells Kes it is
time to go. Tuvok tells Janeway he thinks that Suspiria is
here. Janeway heads down to meet them.
She arrives in main engineering but nobody is there except
a small girl who calls herself Suspiria. Kes feels that Suspiria
is upset and angry and wants to destroy the ship. Neelix interrupts
Kes and Tanis. Suspiria says they killed him and now she will
kill them. She grabs Janeway with her mind. Voyager begins
to lose structural integrity.
They manage to stop Suspiria but eventually free her. She
is surprised that they show her compassion and leaves without
doing any more damage. Kes stays on Voyager.
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