Barge of the Dead : Episode 123 Part B :: EPISODE GUIDES

Episode 123 : BARGE OF THE DEAD

Episode 123 : BARGE OF THE DEAD Part B

Torres awakens in Sickbay. Paris and the Doctor tell her they tractored her shuttlecraft back to Voyager, and she has just awoken from a coma. But she still has the wound on her right hand! The Doctor treats the injury...

...but Torres is deeply disturbed by what has happened.

Torres shows Paris an ancient Klingon scroll, whose eleventh tome relates the tale of Kahless returning from the dead "with a wound from the afterlife, a warning that what he experienced wasn't a dream, ... and the only reason that Kahless was in the afterlife was to rescue his brother from the Barge of the Dead and deliver him to Sto'vo'kor." Torres believes her mother is on her way to hell, rather than Sto'vo'kor, due to Torres' dishonour. "I found out why my mother is on her way to grethor. It's because I sent her there. ... The sins of the child. She's being punished for my dishonour. I turned my back on everything Klingon and now she has to pay the price."
Paris replies, "B'Elanna, you can't even be sure your mother is dead, much less blame yourself for what happens to her in some afterlife."

Torres prepares to return to the Barge of the Dead.
Paris: "I can't believe the captain is allowing this. One minute you're in a coma, the next you're a born-again Klingon? I,I just don't get it."
Torres: "I'm not sure I get it either. I just know this is something I have to do."
Paris: "There's got to to be an easier way. Surely there must be another way to explore your spirituality? Go to church or something?"
Torres: "It wouldn't be enough."
Paris: "Look, I'll read the scrolls. I'll learn Klingon. We'll figure this out. Together."
Torres: "Next time."
Paris: "Just hope there is a next time."

Torres and her mother end up having the same argument they had ten years ago, and how it drove them apart. Her mother explains she was only trying to give Torres honour.

When the helmsman tells Torres he knows her plan (to save her mother and be revived before they reach grethor), Torres volunteers to exchange places with her mother. Her mother vanishes and the mark of grethor appears on Torres' face.

The Barge of the Dead arrives at the gates of grethor.

Torres has the mark of grethor.

Torres finds that grethor is eternity on Voyager.

Janeway proposes a toast to Torres' dishonour.

Torres finds that her mother is in grethor too, when Torres thought she had released her to Sto'vo'kor. Her mother says, "You can't free me until you free yourself."
Torres is thrown a bat'leth and challenged by the crew. She demands: "Tell me what you want me to be - a good Starfleet officer, a good Maquis, lover, daughter? Just tell me what you want from me!"
Janeway: "We only want you."
Torres: "I'm so tired of fighting."
Janeway: "We know."
Torres hurls the bat'leth into the sea. This symbolic gesture ends Torres' mental journey. Her mother agrees they will meet in Sto'vo'kor, "or maybe when you get home".

Torres awakes in Sickbay and finds that she is alive.

THE END

Font in "The End" is Klingon Script.

	Torres has the mark of grethor.
	Torres finds that grethor is eternity on Voyager.
	Janeway proposes a toast to Torres' dishonour.
	Torres finds that her mother is in grethor too, when Torres thought she had released her to Sto'vo'kor. Her mother says, "You can't free me until you free yourself." Torres is thrown a bat'leth and challenged by the crew. She demands: "Tell me what you want me to be - a good Starfleet officer, a good Maquis, lover, daughter? Just tell me what you want from me!" Janeway: "We only want you." Torres: "I'm so tired of fighting." Janeway: "We know." Torres hurls the bat'leth into the sea. This symbolic gesture ends Torres' mental journey. Her mother agrees they will meet in Sto'vo'kor, "or maybe when you get home".
	Torres awakes in Sickbay and finds that she is alive.