JETREL
Episode 15
Part F

 

Janeway: "Lt Tuvok, activate the emergency containment field around the transporter pad."

before activation of field

Tuvok: "Aye, Captain. Emergency containment field activated."

during activation of field

Janeway: "We'll have to re-target scanners to the widest possible confinement beam. It's our only hope of achieving bond cohesion with such broadly scattered fragments." Tuvok: "Re-targetting scanners to wide beam." Janeway: "Energise." transporter Someone starts to materialise in the transporter chamber! "Phase transition coils to maximum." Tuvok: "Aye, Captain." Janeway: "Is the biogenic field operational?" Tuvok: "Affirmative."

Neelix: "It's incredible."

The figure can be seen to be a Talaxian.

Tuvok: "Atomic cohesion has dropped to 49 per cent, Captain." Janeway: "Pattern buffers to maximum power." Tuvok: "They are already at 100 per cent.." Janeway: "Take them to 120, Lieutenant." Tuvok: "Pattern buffers to 120 per cent of rated maximum."

Janeway: "We're losing him." Tuvok: "Atomic cohesion to 39 per cent.....22 per cent......14 per cent. His pattern is degrading rapidly." Jetrel: "You must increase the power to the pattern buffers, Captain." Janeway urgently to Tuvok: "We've got to stimulate cohesion. Is there anyway to augment the biogenic field?"

Tuvok: "The degree of fragmentation is simply too great. It will not work. We are overloading the system." Janeway: "Shut it down, Mr Tuvok."

The Talaxian disappears......

...... and with him, Neelix's hopes.

Jetrel collapses.

Tuvok and Janeway rush over to him. Tuvok checks his pulse.

USS Voyager travelling at warp speed. Janeway: "Captain's log, stardate 48840.5. Dr Jetrel's Metremia is now in its final stage. He's spending his remaining hours in Sickbay."

Neelix enters Sickbay to visit the dying Jetrel. standard doors

Jetrel: "Neelix. I suppose you think this is a fitting punishment for me."

Neelix: "Maybe the Cascade was a punishment for all of us, for our hatred, our brutality. There's something I need to tell you. I tried to tell you before, but...." Jetrel: "What, what is it?" Neelix: "I want to tell you that I forgive you."

Jetrel tries to say something. Neelix rests a hand on his. He dies.

Neelix goes to leave, but in the doorway turns back for a moment. Fifteen years after the war ended, in making his peace with Jetrel, Neelix has also finally made peace with himself.